Chapter 47: Iron and Blood (8)
"Adolf! Adolph! We did it! We've won! β
"Herman, you command really well, I think you can be a marshal in the future!" Hitler excitedly patted Goering on the shoulder, "Deliver the good news that the revolutionary Provisional Government has defeated the reactionary government attack, which shows that the German people are behind us!" This shows that the party's cause is bright and promising. β
Ludendorff, who accompanied Hitler and others to inspect the position, pouted: If you win so many thousand people, you will be a marshal in the future? I commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to annihilate millions of Russian troops on the Eastern Front and still haven't mixed with the marshal, where do you get your confidence? But now he also scoffs at Sickert, what about the 100,000 Wehrmacht elites he said? What about the Berlin garrison that is said to be the most capable of fighting? Why did you retract it after hitting it so suddenly? Throwing in the towel? Alas...... The iron-blooded Germany was really hopeless, and the regular army was not even able to fight the militia.
Only Strassell's face was very bad-looking: before the start of the war, he repeatedly persuaded Hitler not to Meng Lang and to act cautiously, which was good, but not only did the one-sided scene he expected not appear at all, but the government army was actually defeated by the stormtroopers and commandos, which was equivalent to slapping his face, and now Goering and RΓΆhm, the two old enemies, basically did not look at him seriously, if Hitler had not taken the overall situation into account and said that he wanted to unite, these two would have been able to hand over themselves as surrenderers.
"Chief, chief...... Message from Berlin that Sickert has increased his troops......"
"Where did he get so many soldiers?"
"Railway workers say there are a lot of troops in the Ruhr area that are starting to be pulled out."
"Bastard! Bastard! Sickert is Germany's No. 1 traitor! Hitler retorted angrily, "Instead of sparing up troops against the French and Belgians who occupy our land, they will come against the revolutionary regime, and the reactionaries are indeed traitors without shame!" β
The others were stunned, like falling into an ice cave, don't look at the excitement of everyone now, in fact, they also have some drums in their hearts, and they know that they are in trouble when they hear that two divisions are coming-those heavy artillery alone can't cope with it. The Berlin garrison was not so much defeated by the armed forces of the National Socialist Party as it was defeated by underestimating the enemy, being arrogant, and not adapting to street fighting.
Goering did not expect the Wehrmacht's attitude to be so resolute, was there no room for political compromise at all? - Look at the Italians? When Mussolini entered Rome, the Wehrmacht did not intervene at all! Is Sickett's head full of? Didn't the Wehrmacht claim to have always opposed democracy and supported the monarchy? Little did he know that the Wehrmacht, while hating the Weimar government, was equally hostile to the rebellious workers at the bottom, and that Hitler and the National Socialist Party were now acting in the same way as the conservative Junkers had done in the eyes of the Socialist Left and Spartacists of the November Revolution a few years earlier.
The Berlin garrison's jokes were not only watched by political commentators in Germany, but also by the international community: the German army, which was once known as the number one force in Central Europe, could no longer suppress even a small local rebellion? It seems that the Germans are degrading faster than they think! The French press was jubilant, and the "Treaty of Versailles" did a good job! The anti-German small Entente, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Belgium, and the Netherlands, were all rejoicing.
The reaction of the British was very different: Britain did not want Germany to be weakened too much, especially after France became the dominant force in Europe, they urgently needed other forces to balance the influence of France, and the offshore balance of Great Britain was aimed at the Germans, and now it should be changed to the French according to local conditions, so they really felt worried about the performance of the Wehrmacht in Weimar - it was just that the Germans did not dare to resist when France and Belgium marched into the Ruhr area, and now they couldn't even suppress a local rebellion, and the Germans actually instigated this?
Is the limit of 100,000 Wehrmacht too strict? The British were muttering about doubling the German standing army - the German navy was completely finished anyway, and a stronger German army would not threaten Great Britain, but would only make the French uncomfortable.
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In the eyes of this group of veteran gentlemen, if Hitler came to power, the nature of his government would be almost the same as that of Italy, and once Germany and Italy joined forces, the balance of power in Central Europe, especially Southern Europe, would be broken, and this situation could not arise in any case, so Greece must be persuaded as soon as possible to accept the Italians' terms - the Italians' request for $30 million is certainly a lion's mouth, but the Greeks bargain for $3 million is even more ridiculous, Could it be that Italy is now spending only a measly 3 million on this?
On December 20, the British government officially summoned the Greek ambassador to inform the British decision that in the event of a war between Greece and Italy, Turkey or Bulgaria over the current dispute, Great Britain would remain silent! The meaning of this phrase is quite clear, the Mediterranean Fleet and the British forces cannot be expected to pay for the stupidity of the Greeks.
This decision was stabbed out by the press the next day, and Curzon was furious, but the social response actually exceeded expectations: the people unanimously applauded it, believing that the government had done the right thing, so that the shaky election results actually rose by a few percentage points, and directly gave a shot in the arm for next month's general election.
Now he knows how war-weary the people have become!
The decision of the British government and the reaction of the British society reached the ears of the Greek government word for word, and in the face of the schadenfreude of France, the British did not support it, and the situation of Italy, Turkey, and the small encirclement of Italy and the Republic of China was approaching step by step, the Greek authorities began to panic and were ready to raise the offer.
Calais...... Good news for you. On December 24, Christmas Eve, Mussolini actually took the initiative to call Contini with a spring breeze on his face, "The Greeks relented, and they asked us for 15 million reparations through the British, and I added another 2 million, and the final price was 17 million!" As a concession, we promised not to sell another 3 Queen-class battleships to Turkey, other conditions remain the same! β
Contini laughed: the Turks couldn't afford the next three $6 million worth of warships! The reason why I said I wanted to buy it was to pretend to scare the Greeks, Kemal and Mussolini understood this truth, and everyone had a great time playing these games!
"Then I'm going to congratulate the leader! You have led the Italians to raise morale, show prestige, and lay the foundation for a strong country, and have proved with facts that the Socialist Party is a group of clowns who have jumped off the beam, and it shows that you said that the road you adhere to is the only correct path for Italy's development, and that the party is the fundamental magic weapon for all victories and the general line of the new period. "The newspaper El Youth is ready to publish an editorial after the dust settles on this matter, pointing out that unity is the only way out for the Italian people, and that unity has a specific connotation - at present and for a long time to come, the whole Italian people will be further united around the Party Central Committee with you as the leader, and further raising the 'three banners' is the only organizational, ideological and institutional guarantee for Italy's continuous progress and victory!" β
Mussolini laughed: In the end, he was a top student at the University of Rome, and his remarks were very effective -- what was the "general line", what was the "fundamental magic weapon", what was the "three banners", and what was the "sole organization, ideology, and institutional guarantee", and when he heard it, he was a revolutionary theory with profound skills, and he was ******** than the old subordinates of the black-shirted party who only knew how to flatter their "wisdom and martial arts".