Chapter 75: The Wealth of the German Army in 1943

The next day, as soon as he returned to the Berlin Chancellery, Chen Yanlong immediately called to inquire about the handling of the Jews and prisoners, and whether he had done what he had instructed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

His inquiries were quickly and satisfactorily answered, and he also sent Keitel, the head of the German High Command, a general of the German army; Alfred, Chief of Operations of the German High Command? Yodel, to his office; and ordered them to give orders to the military headquarters to stop the massacre of prisoners, and strictly forbade the soldiers to burn, kill, loot, and plunder.

Because Chen Yanlong's account has been mentioned in many articles on the Internet in later generations, especially an article by an author named Slimmmm once said: "Although Hitler's Nazi regime promulgated laws prohibiting the German army from having sexual relations with inferior races (Gypsies, Jews and other "inferior" "peoples)."

And because of the existence of this law, many historians have taken it for granted that the Germans would not rape Jewish women.

It is true that the law says so, but whether the Nazi soldiers can actually enforce it is another matter.

In the camps, German soldiers were able to rape Jewish women with arbitrary control.

However, there are not many of these soldiers, only a small number, and in the later Czech movie "Kolet", there is a plot of a Nazi officer sleeping with a Jewish heroine. ”

In stark contrast, thousands of Russian female nurses and doctors in Russia have been raped and often killed.

German soldiers often wrote slogans on captured Russian women, "Hitler's Army*** and *** Some captured German soldiers often vividly described how they committed rape and rape in a boastful tone."

So when Chen Yanlong remembered these comments on the Internet in later generations, he decisively wanted to stop these atrocities, because he hated the most hated thing in his life; It is to let his subordinates be like the Japanese devils, or the American army that later captured Germany, and the Soviet army and other troops to carry out rape everywhere.

After he gave the order in a stern tone, Keitel and Yodel departed to carry out the order.

In fact, they didn't know the purpose of Chen Yanlong's doing, in addition to hating the atrocities against women, he also planned to improve the image of the German army from now on; and to be prepared to divide the land in the occupied areas at that time, in order to sell the public opinion of the people in these occupied areas; Let them follow Germany to fight against Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries, as well as the forces that divided the Soviet army.

It didn't take long for Chen Yanlong to be the only one left in the entire room.

Then he paced around the room, as he was waiting for Finance Minister Schwering? Feng? Krosik, along with all sorts of German financial reports and financial returns, brought him a clear picture of the current financial situation in Germany.

This is because money is needed to do a good job in the army's weapons and equipment construction and other economic and people's livelihood construction, but his mobile phone exchange system does not have the function of exchanging money.

And he knew that after Hitler came to power, in order to win over the hearts of the Germans, he set the personal income tax threshold at 6,000 yuan; actively create jobs, subsidize children, and increase workers' pensions; Provide affordable housing and low-rent housing for families in need, collect property tax from landlords, and prohibit them from raising rents without authorization; promised to give people cheap cars and pushed compulsory car insurance; raising tariff barriers and subsidizing domestic agriculture; issuing government bonds, paving highways to create jobs; tax increases for capitalists, high-income earners; confiscate the property of the Jews and the occupying power and distribute it to the soldiers, and the people......

These social benefits that Hitler gave to the German people were better than those of Bismarck, and the general performance was derived from the later German scholar Gertz? Arley can see this in Hitler's National Reich: Looting, Race War, and Nazism.

However, if it is to do some social welfare in peacetime, it is not a big thing, or even a good thing; It's just that it is the most unfavorable thing to continue to engage in wars during the war, and to intensify them!

Especially now that they are suffering defeat on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front.

Although the later generations of German scholars Goetz? Alli's sources of war income for Hitler are summarized in two ways: first, at least two-thirds of the war income was stolen from foreign countries or races; Second, low-income and average earners in Germany bore 10 percent of the war expenditures, and Germans with higher incomes bore 20 percent; The rest was divided between foreigners, forced laborers, and Jews.

But Hitler's practice of grabbing new land and new financial resources, and then "redistributing" them to help the toiling masses to quench their thirst; It looks good in the short term, but once it is implemented in the long term, I am afraid it will be a dead end.

For this reason, Chen Yanlong must know how much money he still has in his hands and can use it.

About two hours later, Chen Yanlong was dismissed from Finance Minister Schweilin? Feng? In the various financial statements that Krosic sent him, it was probably clear how much money he had left to use.

About 60 billion marks ($15 billion) were squeezed from France, at least 104 billion marks ($26 billion) were squeezed from the Belgian, Dutch, Polish and other occupied territories, at least $1 billion were squeezed from the Soviet Union, and more than $1 billion was also from the Jews.

In addition to money, there was a large amount of grain, pigs, cattle, sheep and other supplies.

Of course, there is also a large number of works of art, and artifacts, as well as machinery and equipment......

When Chen Yanlong saw that he also had at least $10 billion in finances, his heart still relaxed a little.

At least he doesn't have to worry too much about the lack of money now, at least for a few short months.

After understanding his financial situation, he was ready to take over the Luftwaffe and prepare to regain air supremacy in Sicily in order to win the Battle of Sicily.

Of course, there is also the task of local air defense, which he must also do well.

Finally, on the issue of the reserve of air force pilots, he also has to find a way to train more reserve pilots, otherwise there are not many advanced aircraft that no one can use to fight.

Then the question of who will take over the Luftwaffe is who will take over the Luftwaffe.

Is it to make Kesselring good, or is it one of the field marshals Wolfgang? Feng? Richthofen will do the good, or will someone else?

Regarding this issue, Chen Yanlong was still entangled for a while.

But if one of the air marshals Wolfgang was chosen? Feng? Richthofen's words, Chen Yanlong was worried that the other party would not live long.

It is known in later history that this man was discharged from the reserve in 1944 due to brain cancer, and then died in Austria on July 12, 1945.