PS: There is a change later, sorry......

On July 5, 1944, Eden went to The Hague to negotiate an armistice agreement with Germany, and before the negotiation of the armistice agreement with Germany, Britain had taken the lead in reaching an agreement with France and Italy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In order to form mutual trust, the two sides also fulfilled part of the agreement: Britain and Germany stopped air raids on each other (in fact, Britain ran out of fuel, so Germany agreed to stop air raids), Britain delivered two newly completed Grudge-class aircraft carriers (Grudge and Indefatigable) and repatriated more than 300 captured German pilots, Germany repatriated the first batch of 50,000 British troops and agreed to open food purchase permits.

These measures greatly demonstrated the détente between Britain and Germany, and British society began to stabilize after the Black Cat's speech and the arrival of the relevant food ships in the UK, but there were still three problems between Britain and Germany:

The first is the question of Pakistan. This is what the British are most concerned about, and although the British side is quite tempted by the conditions proposed by Japan, they still hope that Germany will come forward to help suppress the price.

The second is the issue of American prisoners. The British side believed that this was not a German prisoner of war, but because of the American troops who were seized because of the involvement of the American army in the internal affairs of the United Kingdom. The implication was that the group of men and horses would be interested in exchanging benefits from the United States, but Hoffman would obviously not agree to let the 100,000 people return to the United States.

The third is the issue of a package of overseas territories such as South Africa, Newfoundland, and British Guiana.

On 9 July, news came from Tokyo that the Japanese base camp was willing to make appropriate concessions on the Pakistani question, and after Kohl's mediation, the conditions were revised as follows:

1. The 5 Axis-class aircraft carriers were changed to 4 Giant-class aircraft carriers (Britain started construction of a total of 6 aircraft carriers, of which 2 were stipulated for Italy and the remaining 4 were for Japan), but Japan demanded alternating payments with Italy (i.e., the first to Italy, the second to Japan, and the third to Italy...... and so on);

2. 10 million tons of steel was changed to 5 million tons, but the proportion of special steel increased to 60%;

3. 5 million tons of oil were cancelled (because Britain does not produce oil) and replaced by the delivery of 300 Lancasters and 200 mosquito bombers;

4. The delivery time of all equipment, warships, and materials was shortened from 3 years to 2 years, and the time was calculated from August 15, 1944.

Aiden wanted to make a bargain, but Ribbentrop told him very strongly: "This is the last condition of the Japanese side, and it cannot be changed, otherwise they will immediately seize Pakistan - there is enough gold, silver, and other supplies stored on it for Japan to buy these supplies from us." ”

Aiden had no choice but to agree.

With regard to the second article, there also seems to be some incomprehension. Because the 100,000 American troops were not captured by the Germans, it was neither proper nor reasonable to hand them over to the German army - the United States had threatened not to allow Britain to hand over the American troops in Britain to Berlin, otherwise they would face retaliation from Washington, but it would be a problem to let them back. Attlee had hoped to exchange the POWs for a little practical benefit from the United States, but that didn't seem ideal now.

Hoffman finally put forward his opinion: These American prisoners of war are still held in Britain, and they are under the dual management of British troops and the German troops who are about to be stationed in Britain, and they will not be handed over to the United States or Germany, and after the German-American peace is realized, Britain and the United States will continue to negotiate the release method and decide on the ownership of interests.

After much discussion, this opinion was finally accepted.

The last one is not a big trouble. At present, there are 100,000 U.S. troops, nearly 30,000 British troops and 150,000 South African troops in South Africa, adding up to 300,000 troops. As a result of the US coercion, 30,000 British troops in South Africa had sworn allegiance to the British government of Yau Kee, and the Federation of South Africa, represented by Jan Christian Smortz (the rank of British Field Marshal), had refused to recognize the legitimacy of the London government.

So Hoffman's decision was simple: take South Africa down.

At the beginning, due to the shortage of troops and logistical resources, the German army did not continue to advance after taking Madagascar, so it gave the South African government a chance to breathe, and also asked the American army to transport 100,000 troops and step up arming the South African troops, but with the end of the Eastern Front campaign, the German army could free up its hands.

Ribbentrop was entangled in only one main question: how should the government of London behave in the campaign against South Africa?

He said to Aiden: "If South Africa is defeated by German troops, and it is the German boys who die, and the strategic resources that Germany has consumed, how can the Führer explain to the people at home? ”

"Didn't you not occupy the countries of the East after driving out Stalin's forces?"

"But the government there is attached to or following our line, or are we doing the same in South Africa?"

"This ......" Aiden did not dare to take over this stubble, once it was taken, South Africa would become a German vassal rather than under British control, but it was unrealistic for Britain to send troops to attack and occupy South Africa itself - the British army did not have such a strong strength, nor could it withstand such protracted attrition.

In a word: it is impossible for Britain to get South Africa from Germany without paying a price.

In desperation, he could only ask, "Do you have any constructive suggestions?" ”

Ribbentrop's first proposal was to expand the territory of French Rhodesia: the German side and the French government would communicate properly and would relocate more than 2 million African natives from the island of Madagascar to French Rhodesia.

Rhodesia is divided into two parts, Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia, and Northern Rhodesia basically includes Zambia and Malawi. Germany took all of Malawi and the northeastern corner of Zambia and incorporated them into German East Africa. Then part of Zambia became a Jewish state, and Jews from German territory were relocated to settle in the Jewish state.

At the same time, in order to combat British power, Hoffman put forward the slogan "March to Rhodesia" to the countries of Europe.

The major European powers, except for Germany, began to seize the territory of Rhodesia: Portugal grabbed about 100,000 square kilometers of southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), near Mozambique, to form Portuguese East Africa; Italy used Ethiopian troops and the passage opened by Germany to grab nearly 70,000 square kilometers of land, forming a scale of 150,000 square kilometers in negotiations with Britain, forming Italian Rhodesia; Belgium seized about 50,000 square kilometers of land in the northwest corner of Zambia and annexed it to the Belgian Congo; France used French troops from West and Central Africa to seize nearly 70,000 square kilometers of land in the south, and now Germany supports it to expand it to 180,000 square kilometers, almost half of the remaining southern Rhodesia -- this is also one of the conditions of the Anglo-French armistice

After this division, the remaining Southern Rhodesia is about 120,000 square kilometers of land.