Chapter 125 Recruitment (Asking for Monthly Passes, Subscriptions)

"For propaganda work, it is necessary to emphasize the traditional relationship between Hanover and the British, and try to make it clear to the German citizens of the British occupation that the British have come to their aid, and to reduce the hostility of the Germans towards the occupying forces."

"This matter can drag other countries into the water, the French are going to annex the Saarland, the prisoners of war in the American Rhine camp have not yet been released, as for the USSR we make it up casually, the Germans will believe everything. Other countries are a puddle of mud, and the gentlemanly demeanor of the British Empire is compared. ”

"Sir Edward has high hopes for our plan to restore Germany, and there are risks and opportunities, gentlemen."

"The British occupation zone is close to the sea, roads, railways, and fishery resources are to be included in the plan first, and the Military Council is equally worried about famine in Germany, and we need to prepare for winter. Coal production in the Ruhr area must resume immediately. ”

"For the large German companies in the Ruhr area, we immediately organized people to investigate, maybe some of the owners have been imprisoned, but production still has to continue. I'll take this matter myself! ”

Alan Wilson volunteered to travel all over the Ruhr to restore production in the British-occupied areas, which he had long wanted to do, and when he first arrived in Germany, he had the idea of panning for gold in dung, but he was only delayed by the trivial matters of the Potsdam Conference.

"Administratively, our plan is to add the divisions of the Military Council of the British Occupation to the Board of Trade."

"Our plan in the big cities is to quell the rampant black market trade, and if this is not possible for the time being, to clean up the garbage in the city first, which can help the German soldiers who have already been released."

"As for the trade plan, now draw up a price list that is close to the reality of Germany, and report it to London, and establish a system of trade between British India and British Occupation and British India, and Allen Liaison has worked in British India, so he has bothered a lot."

Alan Wilson nodded, "I believe that with the support of many colleagues, the restoration of the British occupation zone will be a big surprise, and this certainly cannot be separated from the support of British India, we are in a community, although on opposite ends of the earth, but the heart of serving the British Empire is the same." ”

Plan, plan, plan! The gentlemen attending the meeting of the Council of Trade, one by one, plan to do this, plan to do that, if those who do not know if they do not see the flag of the British Empire outside, and the authentic London dialect in the conference room, as soon as they come in and see this scene, they may think that the Soviet Committee for Planning and Economy is formulating a five-year plan.

If it were the Americans, they might be surprised, could it be that the British Empire had changed color?

And the civil servants of the British Empire, who did not shy away from it at all, simply deserved it, and seemed to be no stranger to the means carried forward by the Soviet Union.

Of course, it is no stranger to the wartime system itself, not to mention the fact that the new prime minister, Attlee, himself called himself socialist. Of course, civil servants should respond to the call and maintain a high degree of consistency with the organization.

Has the UK had a planned economy? Of course it did. Not only the United Kingdom has practiced it, but also European countries have basically implemented a planned economic system, in which resources are allocated by the state, products are covered by the state, and costs are set by the state.

Treat the people simply with the most extreme system of the planned economy: rationing!

At present, Britain itself is still rationed, and the civil servants who came to the British-occupied areas of Germany naturally came over and showed no less professionalism than the Soviet Planning and Economic Commission, and made plans for the recovery and development of Germany.

The group of speculative cigarette dealers in the Americans, how can they know such high-end things, the meeting in the British occupation zone is only the tip of the iceberg, and the new Prime Minister Attlee, who is preparing to nationalize major industries, is shocked when the news comes.

Leaving the headquarters of the Trade Commission, Alan Wilson pondered whether to visit the port or the headquarters of a well-known German company first, as if both things were important.

Europe has begun to heal the wounds of the war, and the world is far from calm. Japan, as one of the members of the Axis powers, was still holding on, clamoring for a decisive battle on its own soil.

Seeing that the Soviet Red Army had gained a foothold in Hokkaido and was not driven into the sea by the Japanese troops. The Americans were anxious in their eyes, American GIs were not as obedient as Soviet soldiers, and the expected casualties were indeed unbearable.

President Truman, who returned to the United States, finally decided to let the Japanese taste the latest achievements of the United States after discussions, and at the same time, it was also to deter the Soviets, and only by really applying nuclear bombs to war could the Soviets calm down.

Conducting experiments in one's own country lacked a kind of shock, so now let the Japanese do it.

"We can't wait for the occupation of the whole of Japan next year, and as soon as the Soviets throw the fleet they got from Germany into the Far East, we will have to face the same situation as Germany, if not worse. This is intolerable for the United States, which has an insoluble hatred with the United States, and if the whole world knew that Japan was the initiator of Pearl Harbor, but was to be divided in half by the Soviet Union, the leadership that the United States wanted would be lost. ”

In that case, in the eyes of other people, the United States is just an ordinary country with money but not a strong military. Not even able to defeat an island nation of Japan on its own, what qualifications does such a country have to lead the world? ”

Compared to his time in Potsdam, President Truman, who had already attended important international conferences, had already changed a little in his thinking, and he really began to think broadly.

"I know the Air Force is ready, let's get started!" At the military conference, Truman made a decisive decision.

The only way to force Japan to surrender is to pin its hopes on the nuclear bomb, a secret weapon that has just been introduced.

It was the "509 group" that dropped the nuclear bomb. For ten months, Team 509, like other B-29 bombers based on Tinian Island, participated in air raids on Japanese cities.

The only difference is that they still carry only one bomb at a time, and each bomb is required to maintain a certain height; As with previous training sessions, the impact point is required to be accurate and explode within visual range.

After actual combat, their technology has been greatly improved, and they are familiar with flying in complex meteorological conditions. At this time, there was only one person in the group who knew why he wanted to rehearse this action repeatedly, and he was Colonel Tibes, who led the team.

The first American operational atomic bomb was divided into four parts, delivered by three aircraft and a cruiser to Tinian Island, where it was assembled. It will be dropped by a B-29 bomber with serial number eighty-two.

In the short period of time before the atomic bomb was dropped, either for psychological reasons or for some other reason, the well-trained "509 Team" had one accident after another, and four B-29 bombers were damaged or completely scrapped during take-off and landing.

Colonel Tibes, who received a domestic telegram, announced for the first time that the reason why the "509 team" had been training for ten months was to drop a bomb in Japan, but it was not an ordinary bomb, but a nuclear bomb equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT energy.

The B-29 bomber will be piloted by Colonel Tibbes, with Robert Lewis as the co-pilot.

None of the crew knew anything about the construction of the atomic bomb, and Colonel Parsons, a technical expert, was ordered to fly randomly, and if he failed to complete his mission and was arrested, he was to commit suicide immediately.

And just before the nuclear bomb fell, the base camp of the Japanese Empire was still rejoicing in containing the Soviet offensive in Hokkaido.

The Soviets, who swept across Europe, could not take advantage of the island nation of Japan, not to mention the US military, which was not particularly combat-effective, and once the US troops landed, they would inevitably be left without bones under the blows of the heroic imperial soldiers and civilians.

The members of the group, who had received the domestic military order, knew that the next action would go down in history, and with uncontrollable tension and excitement, the team members boarded the plane one after another, and a moment later, the B-29 bomber with a five-ton nuclear bomb rose from the ground and disappeared into the night sky in an instant.

Hiroshima is an army city, from which generations of Japanese soldiers boarded ships, and during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the World War, countless men of the Yamato nation went forward to overcome obstacles for the Japanese Empire.

As the headquarters of the Second Army of the Home Defense Force, Hiroshima has been under complete militarized management, and the streets and alleys are covered with slogans such as Seven Lives to Serve the Country and Fight to the Death.

With the complete severance of overseas shipping, there has been a shortage of food in various parts of Japan, but at the time of national crisis, the Japanese people everywhere still gritted their teeth and persevered, and were mentally prepared for a decisive war with the United States.

"Target Hiroshima!" On the B-29 bomber, Colonel Tibbes named the bombed city.

As they got closer to their targets, the two escorts were no longer able to move on, and the rest of the journey belonged to the B-29 bomber named Inoaghey. At eight o'clock in the morning, the Innoagye was already approaching Hiroshima.

Colonel Tibbes gave the order for all crew members to wear aviation sunglasses to protect their eyes from the intense light of the nuclear bomb.

At 8:16 a.m., the B-29 bomber Inuo Gay over Hiroshima opened its magazine, and the little boy landed with a smile.

A blinding light appeared over Hiroshima, and countless Hiroshima citizens looked up in bewilderment, this was the last time they saw the light in their lives, and then there would be endless darkness, and even if they survived, their eyes would be permanently damaged.

What followed was a violent shock wave, comparable to any earthquake in history, and a huge mushroom cloud bloomed over Hiroshima.