Chapter 46 Blumberg (6) Resources

Although the Axis alliance seemed invincible in the original time and space, when Xu Jun sat in the driver's seat of this chariot, he realized that in this magnificent and tragic war, Germany has actually been fighting alone from the beginning to the end, and has been fighting against the entire Allied alliance with the strength of one country.

Why did this happen, Xu Jun once did some research for this.

In the course of his research, Xu Jun gained a deeper understanding of the stupidity and short-sightedness of Hitler's Nazi government. Xu Jun once wondered that it was a miracle that Germany was able to confront the Allies for four years under the leadership of such a stupid government, and even in the middle and late stages of the war, it was able to inflict heavy losses on the other side in the local theater.

When Xu Jun came to this world, he found the answer, the German army was so good, so good that even if it was consumed and wasted by a group of Nazi idiots, they could still persist in completing their mission.

The German ** team continued to fight until the eve of the collapse of the country, and the soldiers were still fighting to the end for the motherland, just for the order of the commander to resist to the end, while the noble, shiny, and Nazi leaders who talked about honor and loyalty every day were planning how to make peace with their enemies, how to profit from that kind of naked betrayal, and all for the sake of the German people.

Xu Jun will not let that tragic history repeat itself in this world, not only for his own safety, but also for the soldiers who have been deceived, fooled, and betrayed.

Throughout World War II, Germany's national policy was chaotic, with the Nazis not specifying a clear direction for Germany to develop, nor did they formulate a policy that was truly in line with Germany's position and situation at the time.

Hitler painted a beautiful picture of German global control for his men, but history has shown that he set Germany the most unrealistic of goals.

The German government's decrees were constantly changing in the course of World War II, not to mention the people of the occupied countries, and even the Germans themselves were somewhat overwhelmed by the whims of the government orders.

It was not until the last two years of the war that the German government really learned how to deal with an intercontinental war, but it was already too late, and the German government had already paid too much tuition in the course of this study, and he was no longer in a position to complete the final defense.

Fortunately, now that history has changed, Xu Jun has come into this world, and he already has that expensive graduation thesis in his hand.

Germany's stupid occupation policy was the root cause of all troubles, and the extremely short-sighted and selfish spirit of narrow nationalism and inexplicable over-pride of the commanders of the occupied territories led to a series of terrible tragedies that indirectly led to the final and complete defeat of Germany.

Historians have given a whole host of answers to why Germany failed.

Someone once said that the key to winning or losing a war is how to make fewer mistakes than the other side, and Xu Jun deeply believes that Germany has made too many mistakes in this war. One of the biggest mistakes was the aforementioned German approach to the defeated countries.

Hitler was a paranoid nationalist who despised all losers and all non-Germanic peoples. His occupation policy has left a deep mark on him personally.

He is a very suspicious person, he does not believe in the subjugation of those occupied countries, he wants not the surrender of the other side, but the entire country of the other side.

Although in order to show the world his posture as a conqueror, he has done a lot of superficial things, such as giving the other party appropriate self-control. However, he could not restrain his obsession with rights, and when he thought that the other party had challenged his absolute control over the land, he would immediately tear up the agreements and treaties he had signed and would not hesitate to trample them under his feet at the first opportunity.

This self-slapping was not a big deal for Hitler, and in his mode of thinking, only a pact that he was willing to abide by was a valid entent.

However, it was his almost outrageous behavior that deprived Germany of the opportunity for mutual understanding with the occupied countries and the last ounce of hope that the people of the occupied countries could expect from the Germans. As a result, when Germany was mired in a quagmire on the Eastern Front, the Allies who found that they had an opportunity to take advantage of it were slightly instigated, and the underground resistance organizations of those countries sprung up everywhere, and the German occupation forces were exhausted, wasting countless valuable manpower and resources in vain.

Although Germany occupied most of Europe, it never really controlled Europe and did not really take advantage of Europe's rich resources.

The guiding ideology of German occupation policy turned out to be plunder and extermination, which was one of the most incredible problems for Xu Jun.

The short-sightedness of the leaders of the Nazi Party is best demonstrated here, when this group of idiots should take advantage of the occupying countries on the grounds that Germany is the leading nation, without taking into account the feelings of the people of the occupied countries.

The mentality of this group of guys is similar to that of a bandit rather than a state official, and the victory has carried away the group, and they only think about how to fill their huge wallets in the shortest possible time, and use the occupied country as their private warehouse and bank.

Xu Jun could not tolerate this kind of thing happening again in his hands, and he had to adjust Germany's occupation policy so that Germany could truly mobilize the power of the whole of Europe, so that he could have the confidence to win the difficult battles in the future and fulfill the promises he had made to his subordinates.

Many historians believe that one of the fundamental reasons for Germany's defeat in World War II was Germany's lack of war resources, and some people directly pointed out that the reason for Germany's defeat was the lack of rare metals, and Xu Jun agrees in principle with these arguments.

But is Germany really so short of resources?

In this regard, Xu Jun reserved his personal opinion.

He believes that Germany's resources are indeed a little strained in this war, but not as serious as it is rumored.

Xu Jun believes that the reason why Germany's resource crisis broke out in the later period, despite the external reason of the Allied air force bombing, was mainly because most of those precious resources were wasted by the government's erroneous thinking.

After the surrender of France, the Germans began to waste their resources, believing that the war was over and that they could enjoy the fruits of victory with peace of mind.

A large number of factories in the occupied countries were completely dismantled and sent to Germany. A large number of production enterprises were devastated, especially the military industrial complex, which was considered useless to Germany and was forcibly closed down or forced to switch to some simple military products that were not profitable.

Germany had dealt a heavy blow to the industrial system in the occupied European territories with looting and blackmail, and the vital interests of the Jews had been harmed, arousing the resentment and hatred of the remaining workers of the enterprises. The companies that were ordered to serve the Germans disobeyed the orders of the Germans, and the production efficiency was jaw-dropping, and the rate of defective products was once so high that they could not bear it, and a large amount of valuable raw materials were consumed in vain in this silent confrontation.

This, combined with the fact that the Germans were frantically squeezing and withholding the work of the workers of the occupying country, was a grave mistake, and when the workers found that they could not support their families no matter how hard they worked, they did not hesitate to choose passive sabotage as a form of protest. When a French aircraft manufacturer could not afford to assemble a fighter aircraft for a month, it took two weeks to repair a tank, and a simple gear scrap rate reached 100 percent, the Germans were not far from their defeat.

The Germans were so indifferent to the losses caused by this confrontation that they even thought it was proof that the other nation was inferior to themselves, believing that they would never be able to meet the German standards of precision machining. As a sign of the Germans' tolerance, they tolerated the continuation of this waste, allowing the factories of the occupied countries to continue to drag on the production of inferior munitions and weapons.

In addition, there was another incident that made Xu Jun almost unable to believe the authenticity of the information, and this incident made Xu Jun start to suspect that the Germans might have a talent for wasting resources.

The Germans were willing to transport raw materials such as ore back to Germany for smelting by train, rather than to transport finished raw materials to Germany after smelting and processing on the spot at the mining site. This made Xu Jun feel really incomprehensible, the guy who made this suggestion must have had a difficult birth at birth, so that his head was broken by forceps.

Local smelting and processing of minerals is the most resource-saving and manpower-saving method, even if Germany needs to do it domestically, which is more cost-effective than transporting raw materials or semi-finished products and transporting raw ore, this account can be calculated by idiots, but the Germans, who are famous for their rigor and pragmatism, have come up with the kind of genius that loses money and effort and has serious losses. German interior officials seem to be fascinated by the constant flow of raw ore into German warehouses, insisting that only those that have been processed and smelted by Germany itself are qualified raw materials, without considering the price that Germany will pay for transporting and processing the ore.

But the worst waste did not take place in these occupied territories, but in Germany itself. The waste of resources and private appropriation in Germany has even reached appalling proportions.

Vicious competition and rivalry between the various branches of production in Germany, combined with chaotic production management and terrible bureaucracy, the Germans frantically squandered precious resources that would determine their future.