After Kristallnacht, a violent wave of anti-Semitism began in Germany. All the Jews were ordered to pay a hefty fine of 1 billion marks, and their property and wealth were forcibly transferred to the Aryans, and the only compensation they received was a security that did not allow the use of principal, but only interest. Whether the Jews should be deported from the country after being deprived of all their property or sealed off in ghetto for forced labour will be examined later by a special committee.

Faced with this sick situation, Fang Yan's heart was heavy and depressed; Although he had learned about the evil deeds of the National Socialist Party through various channels in his previous life, when it really happened in front of his eyes, Fang Yan still felt a strong shock that went straight to his soul. For Hitler and his racial ideas, Fang Yan suddenly developed an unprecedented disgust and hostility. Gradually, he came to the clear idea that he must eradicate the extreme rule of the National Socialist Party before it made a big mistake.

Fang Yan was fortunate and relieved that his family and relatives did not express the slightest approval of the Kuomintang's fierce anti-Semitic moves. Walter has lived in the United States for nearly 10 years, and his mind has long been influenced by the surrounding environment to become rational and open-minded; There was also obvious racial discrimination, but it was nowhere near the barbarism of the National Socialist Party. Fang Yan's cheap father Rudolph and his blood brother Freya are not extreme nationalists, and their biggest source of support for Hitler and the National Socialist Party is only the latter's economic policy, which can provide ideal support for the development of their own families.

After some consideration, Fang Yan finally decided that now was not the time to rebel. This was not only because Hitler was at the height of his personal prestige at this time, and the conspirators who had suffered a heavy setback were simply unable to overthrow him, but also because there were many external threats to Germany at present, and the whole country needed to unite to defend against the enemy. In this case, Fang Yan could only bury this idea deep in his heart for the time being, what he had to do now. It was to prepare the German Navy for full-fledged war preparation.

On November 20, the heavy armored aircraft carrier Zeppelin was officially completed and put into service; A team of more than 3,000 men boarded the ship and, under the command of its commander, Colonel Schubert, sailed to the depths of the Baltic Sea for training in personnel and equipment. For the German Navy, which has a weak background, every large warship joining the battle sequence is a manifestation of its own strength to a new level. Only a few months later, her sister ship, the Richthofen, completed its final construction; This has increased the number of active aircraft carriers of the German Navy to 5, making it the strongest carrier-based aviation force in Europe on paper, second only to the United Kingdom and on a par with the United States and Japan!

After more than half a year, the two Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers will form a complete combat strength; By that time, with the hardware superiority of the aircraft carrier itself and carrier-based aircraft. The German Navy will have the most powerful air fleet in the world, which is only comparable to the United States Navy, which combines two oceans. With such a strong force, Fang Yan also began to study specific methods for applying them to warfare. The Imperial Navy, which had only focused on building warships and completely neglected the fatal flaws of warfare, was now unlikely to be repeated in the new navy. Unlike Tirpitz's original intention of building a fleet of risks, Fang Yan, who joined the navy, never wanted or wanted to coexist peacefully with Britain; He has only one goal, and that is to completely remove this country from the throne of the overlord of the seas through battle!

The wind was bitterly cold, frost and snow were flying, and the drift ice was floating and sinking throughout the winter of 1938-1939. Fang Yan, who did not have a mission to go to sea, was concentrating on formulating his private war plan against Britain. In order to make the plan as rigorous and perfect as possible, Fang Yan also humbly consulted many senior people in areas that he was not good at. Among them are front-line generals such as Dönitz and Machar, as well as ordinary old fishermen who have been making a living in the North Sea for many years. Gradually. A complete plan took shape in Fang Yan's hands; Less than a month later, the project had its remarkable moment from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

The affair began with the liquidation of the remnants of Czechoslovakia by Germany in the early spring of 1939.

After the Munich Conference, Czechoslovakia, which had ceded the Sudetenland, was already surviving. The newly formed pro-German government curryed favor with Hitler in the hope of preserving what was left. However, Hitler, who was determined to eliminate the country. But he didn't have the slightest idea of letting the other party go. He also resorted to his tried-and-true trick, which he had tried and tested in the past, to provoke trouble in Eastern Europe, where the problem was already a mess, and to give himself a legitimate excuse to intervene directly.

This time, however, Hitler did not go into battle in person. He skillfully leveraged the legacy of history to push the Czech government into a desperate situation in just five months.

This time, it was the Hungarians in the south-east of the Czech Republic who acted as Hitler's pawns. The kingdom, once one of the masters of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was forced to cede 18,000 square kilometers of land to the Czech Republic 20 years ago, and caused 1 million Hungarians to lose contact with the capital of Budapest. This time, the Hungarians, seeing that Hitler did not fire a single shot, "took back" the Sudetenland into Berlin's control; This undoubtedly made them very excited, and realized that their great cause of recovering their land had taken an unprecedented turn!

With the tacit support of Germany, the Hungarians wielded a long-lost stick, calling for Lucinia to follow the Sudetenland story and return to Budapest. At the same time, the national leader of Slovakia was warmly received by Hitler, and the former immediately set off a powerful independence movement upon his return. After several months of brewing, the situation in the Czech Republic was in chaos: Lucinia broke away from Prague control, and Slovakia declared its independence on March 14, 1939. Due to the suppression of the Czech counterinsurgency army, the latter immediately sent a telegram to Berlin, asking for "protection" from the German armed forces.

In the face of an unprecedentedly grim situation, the Czech government finally could not hold on after nearly a year of painful devastation. Czech President Hacha, who suffered from heart failure, met with Hitler in the early hours of March 15 and met all the demands of the other party in an extremely emaciated state of mind under the latter's torture of both soft and hard forces. In a short period of time, the two sides issued a joint communiqué declaring: "In order to preserve the tranquillity, order, and peace of the land of Central Europe, the President of Czechoslovakia has confidently placed the fate of the people and the country in the hands of the German Führer." ”

In the early morning of March 15, German troops entered Bohemia and Moravia in large numbers. They did not meet any resistance. Within 24 hours, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist entirely.

For Germany, the benefits of annexing the former world's eighth-most industrial nation have exceeded even their original estimates. In the hands of the Czech army and in warehouses, the Germans captured a large amount of equipment sufficient to arm 35 modern divisions, including tens of thousands of machine guns and more than 2,000 artillery pieces. Nearly 400 tanks of the Czech Army were also received by the Germans, of which more than 300 were 35T and 38T tanks that had only been created in recent years and were fully capable of carrying out blitzkrieg missions. The world-famous Skoda military factory has also become a German enterprise, and its participation has undoubtedly made the German Army's equipment research and development and production capacity reach a new peak.

However, Hitler's conquest was no longer as connived at by the outside world as before.

On March 17, two days after the former annexed all of Czechoslovakia, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who had demanded Hitler at the Munich Conference, suddenly woke up from a big sleep because of strong protests at home. He finally saw that Hitler had deceived him. In his speech in the House of Commons, Chamberlain condemned Hitler with unprecedented force. He reiterated Hitler's assurances that the latter had said that the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim in Europe and that he did not want a single Czech. And now Hitler broke his word - "he is a lawless man".

"Now they tell us that the annexation of this land was forced by the internal turmoil in Czechoslovakia. If there is unrest there, isn't it instigated from the outside? Is this the end of an old invasion or the beginning of a new one? Will this be the last attack on a small country, or will there be another attack to follow? Is this in fact just a step in a plan to conquer the world by force? Chamberlain's voice was like a golden stone, exposing Hitler's plans and ambitions to the world without reservation.

Chamberlain also issued a grave warning to Hitler about the future policy of Great Britain: "It would be a grave mistake to think that our country, having lost its bloodiness by believing that war was a needless and cruel thing, would not do all its best to resist it together with other nations when it was challenged." ”

This time, Chamberlain no longer had the hesitation of the past, but really wanted to put his will into practice. He had no trouble seeing which small country was the next target on Hitler's "timetable". On 31 March, Chamberlain declared in the House of Commons: "The British Crown will consider it incumbent upon it to give the Polish Government its full support forthwith, in the event of an action which manifestly threatens the independence of Poland and which the Polish Government deems necessary to resist with all its might." It has already given the Polish Government the same assurances. (To be continued.) )