Chapter 60: The Dark Tide Under Calm
As soon as the MI6 agents brought by Karl learned that the Vatican Bank was willing to cooperate, they immediately took out the gold and gems stored by the Croats, and then transported them directly to the military transport plane and left Italy.
The whole process was not in the slightest mud, of course, so as not to be discovered by the American troops in Italy. The occupation of the four countries by Germany is certainly more noticeable, but it does not mean that Italy, which is also a defeated country, is a calm mess.
The United States, Britain and France are happy in Italy? This is certainly not possible, and the division of Italian heritage is equally polar.
The United States and Great Britain have lent a lot to Italy, and the United States alone has lent Italy a billion dollars. Italy had to pay reparations to the victorious powers, especially the Soviet Union, only with loans from the United States. Of course, the United States did not agree, saying that Italy could pay reparations to the Soviet Union, but it must not use American money to borrow flowers and offer Buddhas to the Soviet Union in vain.
The Soviet Union's move to dismantle machinery in Germany while replenishing its own industry has aroused alarm among the Americans. The United States, in the case of Italy, was categorically opposed to compensating the USSR with industrial machines. In the end, a compromise was reached, and Italy paid with the product, but only after Italy recovered.
Italy also had overseas colonies, and the colonial issue became a battlefield for the confrontation between the United States, Britain and France. Italy had many colonies in Africa, and Britain wanted to occupy Italian Somalia, which Italy had previously controlled, and threw out a plan for a greater Somalia, annexing Italian Somalia to British Somalia.
France did not want Britain to take too much advantage, believing that it could not easily change the Italian colonies, after all, Italy was not as sinful as Germany.
The attitude of the United States towards the Italian African colonies is that they should not be easily divided, but should be entrusted to the United Nations, which is already being established, for trusteeship. The UN headquarters would certainly be in the United States, and the United States could take advantage of this to exert influence in favor of the United States in the Italian African colonies.
At this stage, the United States, Britain, and France are in Rome, while jointly forcing the Soviet Union to make concessions, they are also frequently firing artillery at each other. The contention over the identity of Germany and Italy as the defeated countries. This naturally has nothing to do with Alan Wilson!
As he was directly responsible for the discovery of Croatian stolen money, Alan Wilson was told that the operation had been successful after MI6 had taken the treasure, but he did not know what the value of the wealth was.
But it doesn't matter, he himself has not been tempted by this money, Britain now urgently needs money from anywhere, no less than the possession of the king of thieves, this money to London, there is always a certain credit to him as a liaison officer.
While MI6 was on its way to Rome to administer justice and recover the money from the victim countries, Mihajlovic had already arrived in Munich and met him to find his liaison with General Patton, German Army General 2nd Class and commander of the 11th Panzer Division, Hermann Balk.
During the Battle of Stalin, the commander of the 11th Panzer Division, Hermann Balk, was in the Don River, fighting in the north and south in the entire defensive zone of the German defense line on the Don River, and successively assaulted, and dealt a heavy blow to the Soviet army with rapid and rapid action, causing huge casualties.
In May 1945, at the surrender ceremony held by the Allied forces in Bavaria, Germany, a German armored division that voluntarily surrendered was given special courtesy by General Patton of the Third Army of the US Army, who had always been known for his arrogance. Patton unexpectedly said to the commander of the armored division: "We have a draw, your troops can fight well, and they are world-class troops." ”
Hermann Balk then came to live in Bavaria, and was considered by General Patton to be a professional soldier who carried out the policies of the Third Reich, and the two men often talked about the current situation, and the common point was that both were very dissatisfied with the Soviet Union.
Hermann Balk fought bloody battles with the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front for several years, and Patton believed that the Soviet Union had become an enemy of the United States' dominance of the world order, and that he would take advantage of the current opportunity to eliminate the Soviet Union.
It was at this time that Mikhailovich met Hermann Balk and tearfully pleaded, "The time has come for us, the troops who fought alongside the German soldiers, to turn to you for help." On the Austrian border, the British prevented us from surrendering to the British, and might even send us back to Yugoslavia, and once we returned to Yugoslavia, everyone would be purged, Admiral Herman, you know the Soviet style, Tito is the same as the Soviets. ”
"Aren't the British former supporters of the Fatherland Army?" Herman Balk frowned and asked, "Why are they so ruthless and just give up on you?" ”
"Admiral Herman, the British have always been like this." Mihajlovich had been repeatedly indoctrinated by Alan Wilson, and because he would inevitably be purged by Tito once he was repatriated, he mercilessly cursed the British with Herman, "I understand that the only opportunity now is in the case of General Patton, the military and political chief of Bavaria, who has heard that he is very tolerant of many German soldiers." ”
"Admiral Herman, once the war breaks out in the Soviet Union, I believe that the Allies will also need the strength to attack Yugoslavia." Mikhailovich pleaded with a sad look, "Can you let me meet him?" ”
"This?" Hermann Balk fell into deep hesitation, and if he was to say that he was not satisfied with the current situation of Germany being occupied by the four powers, he was of course also dissatisfied with the German second-class general.
Once the pattern of occupation by the four powers was determined, Germany would be divided and could never be reunified. These were the reasons why a group of German soldiers did everything possible to encourage the Americans to directly join forces in the east to attack the Soviet Union.
As soon as the war resumed, German soldiers in prisoner of war camps everywhere would be released and Germany's autonomous position would be restored during the war.
"I'll find a private occasion for you to meet with General Patton. But I won't say anything, you yourself and him. After a long period of thought, Hermann Balk seemed to have made up his mind and promised to create an opportunity for Mikhailovich.
The Bavarian manor scene is always enchanting at night, although Europe has regained calm, the secret fighting continues, the German partition occupation, the Italian colony division, the refugees on the Austrian border. Further afield, there was an armed confrontation in Greece, not to mention the resistance of Japan in the Far East.
In the first half of 1945, the whole world was not yet at peace, and some people wanted the war to continue.
"Unless Patton and Eisenhower are reversed." Alan Wilson shook his head, probably by coincidence, and he was also wondering if it was possible for the United States to continue the war, but still thought it was almost impossible.