Chapter 162: Before the War: Blood Debt and Blood Repayment
Therefore, Poland is a very "brave" country, and Germany alone cannot intimidate him.
Unfortunately, he did not know that Lyon had negotiated with Stalin how to divide Poland, and he was not the only country he had to face.
In March 1939, Polish President Ignazi Mościtchi traveled to Paris to meet with French President Le Brun and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
At the tripartite talks, French President Le Brun and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain again assured Mościtchi that Britain and France would declare war on Germany as soon as possible if Germany dared to attack Poland.
Having received a definite answer, Mošičitzky returned to Poland and addressed all of Poland, informing the Polish people of the British and French assurances, saying that such German actions were meaningless and that the Polish people were never afraid of provocation and war.
The Poles became even more arrogant when they heard the news, and they began to smash the shops and houses of German residents, and even carried out premeditated massacres in some areas.
According to the Gestapo in Poland, more than 8,000 ethnic German residents were killed between mid-March and early April alone.
Lyons was so angry that he gave a speech to the world at the Reichstag about the massacre of German inhabitants in Poland.
In his speech, Leon angrily denounced the Poles as a herd of beasts, and said that the mighty German army would avenge the slaughtered German inhabitants and that the Poles would get their due.
The Poles did not care about the threat of Lyon, and even tried harder to massacre the Germans.
On April 11, a large number of Polish civilians, under the protection of Polish troops, attacked a small town of Germans called "Brownberg", located near the Danzig corridor, and brutally murdered all 5,500 Germans inside, an event that came to be known as "Brownberg Scarlet Sunday".
And the reason why the Poles went so far was because they believed that with the help of Britain and France, Germany would not have been able to fight Poland at all.
When the news of the Brownberg tragedy reached Germany, the whole country was boiling, and everyone was asking the government to send troops to save their compatriots who were struggling in the clutches of Poland.
Lyon, like the whole German people, thought the same thing, and immediately after learning of the massacre, he ordered the Third Army under Army Group A to advance to the attack positions on the German border.
The Third Army had an elite armored corps and two infantry corps, with a total of 994 tanks and 144,000 soldiers.
The Poles were not deterred by the German moves, and after a round of expansion, they increased the total number of troops to 600,000, of which more than 400,000 were deployed on the German-Polish border, ready to teach German soldiers who dared to enter Poland.
Just when the two sides were tense, Poland's other neighbor, the Soviet Union, also began to act, they did not participate in the scolding war, but silently mobilized three multi-arms combined army groups to the Soviet-Polish border, and the total number of these three armies combined reached more than 530,000 people.
Only then did the Poles realize how dangerous their situation was, and they had always thought that Poland was following the path of the founding of the Polish dynasty.
However, now they realized that Poland was not following the path of the founding of the Polish dynasty, but of the last days of the Polish dynasty (the joint Soviet-German attack on Poland was exactly the same as when Poland was destroyed).
Britain and France saw that the situation went on like this, and their Polish little brother wanted to play, so they hurriedly jumped out to persuade the three parties to stay calm.
In addition to Britain and France trying to persuade each other, there is also a Swede who is also running for peace talks.
His name is Bilgel D'Aleluth.
D'Alelus was a Swedish merchant with extensive connections in Berlin, Germany, and London, England, and he even knew and befriended Heydrich, the commander of the Gestapo.
D'Ahlierus believed that the only way to stop the Germans, who were already wielding the war machine, was to persuade Britain and France to make some concessions to Poland in order to appease the enraged Germans.
He began to travel back and forth between England, France, and Germany for this goal, and also met with Chamberlain and Lebrun.
Chamberlain and Lebrun promised Poland that Britain and France would declare war on Germany as soon as it dared to attack Poland.
However, these two people were very unoptimistic about the war between Britain and Germany and France and Germany, so after hearing Dalelus's suggestion, they agreed very much and immediately appointed him as a special envoy of Britain and France, responsible for dealing with the two "time bombs" of Debo and Subo.
After receiving the appointment of "Anglo-French envoy", D'Alelus rushed to Berlin again, hoping to meet Lyon under this name.
However, Lyon did not sell the face of England and France, and in the end, Dallierus still relied on his relationship with Heydrich to meet Lyon.
"Honorable Führer, I am a special envoy sent by England and France to settle the contradictions between your country and Poland." D'Alelus introduced himself succinctly, "Both Mr. Lebrun and Mr. Chamberlain have asked me to convey to you on their behalf that whatever contradictions there are between your country and Poland, they can be resolved through negotiations, and I hope that your country will withdraw your troops from the German-Polish border for the sake of world peace." ”
"So, you're here to persuade you?" Leon looked at Dallerus with interest and said.
"Uh, yes." Dallelus nodded.
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't grant you this request." Leon spread his hands and said, "If you don't have anything else to do, I think we can say goodbye." ”
"Wait." When Dalelus heard that Leon was going to drive people out, he hurriedly said, "Yuan Xiansheng, if you declare war with Poland, then Britain and France will definitely declare war on you, and then Europe will be reduced to a scorched earth!" I hope you can think about the people! ”
"Let me think about the people?!" Leon sneered, "I just want to ask Chamberlain and Lebrun, where were they when the Poles massacred the Germans?" Have they ever thought about those poor people? ”
Leon, who had been in a high position for a long time, had a majestic aura next to him, and his anger made Dallelus sweat profusely, and he replied, "This ...... The tragedy had already happened, and Britain and France offered to help Germany put pressure on Poland to give reparations that would satisfy Germany. ”
"No, thank you Messr Chamberlain and Mr. Lebrun for me, but I think it would be better for us to get back what they owe us." Leon said coldly.
"Is it really necessary to fight?" Hearing this, Dallelus lowered his head and said in frustration.
"Guards, send off!" Leon didn't want to talk nonsense with Dalelusdo anymore, and to be honest, if it weren't for his friendship with Heydrich, Leon wouldn't have wanted to see the "Anglo-French envoys".
"That's right." Leon stopped Dalelus, who had walked to the door, and finally said, "Give me a word for Chamberlain and Lebrun." ”
"What words? You say, I promise to bring it for you. Dallelus nodded in reply.
"This is an old Chinese saying, this sentence is called." Leon finally said in Chinese, "Blood debt and blood payment!" ”