Chapter 433: France Doesn't Face

Facing Mussolini, who knew at a glance that he was here to carve up France and ask for the spoils of war. Seriously, Reinhardt felt like he couldn't handle it.

It's not that his face is not as thick as Mussolini's, and he suffers more from communication.

On the contrary, Reinhardt, who thinks he has the thickest skin in the world, is really worried about whether Mussolini's skin will be too thin to face the current facts.

In the case of Reinhardt's private plan for the imminent unfolding, at this moment, it was absolutely impossible to further offend the Italians against France.

You said that if you win the French army, then I will give you some spoils and some land, which is understandable.

But if you Italy loses more than less, you simply lose. If Germany had not signed an armistice with France in time, perhaps Berente would have pushed all the way into your Italian territory.

In this case, if Mussolini's demands were won and the south of France was given to him, not to mention what the Vichy regime, which was driven to the south, would think.

Even ordinary French people probably can't accept such an outcome emotionally, and let a garbage who has been completely abused by their own army come to carve up their own land.

Moreover, if Italy carved up France too much, wouldn't it also make the victory created by the French national hero Belonte meaningless?

You must know that the reason why Petain was able to send an important figure like Bérente, who was already famous, to Africa and establish overseas power under the nose of Germany, if it weren't for Reinhardt turning a blind eye and choosing to pretend to be confused, I'm afraid that Petain's small abacus would not have been so easy.

Helping Vichy France develop Algerian oil fields and allowing Petain to send a famous general and three divisions of his native army to Algeria were a huge trap that Reinhardt had calculated.

In order to rebuild the League of Nations and win World War II, Reinhardt had to use more power than the historical Third Reich.

Before the French War, Reinhardt chose to win over Norway, turning this enemy of the Third Reich into a hardcore ally today.

For this, Reinhardt gained more than just an ally. He also lost a large number of naval capital warships less than in history, and did not let go of the Anglo-French expeditionary force, which further weakened Britain's original home defense.

And now, Reinhardt's next ally that he wants to win over has also appeared.

That was Pétain's Vichy France, and France's mighty navy, the French colonial army under Berente's great potential!

It is conceivable that when France, the world's fifth-largest navy, joined the camp of the German version of the Allies, the British home fleet, which was already incomplete, could almost be said to have no chance of winning the defensive battle in the English Channel.

And once the French Afrika Korps under Berente chooses to cooperate with the German version of the Allies, then the allies Rommel can count on in Africa in the future will not only be the unreliable Italian allies, but also the French army of the famous general Berente.

You know, in every way, offending the seemingly decadent Vichy regime in order to satisfy Mussolini is contrary to Reinhardt's wishes.

Although Reinhardt has temporarily stabilized Japan, is France, which even Japan dares to bully, really like they think, just like the foreign powers?

If we only look at the outcome of the German-French War in World War II, then we may be deceived by the wishful thinking of the French.

In fact, France's comprehensive strength during World War II was not weak, but it was too afraid of war, which led to repeated tolerance of Germany and its own poor preparation for war.

You must know that in the First World War, France was riveting and fighting with Germany, and the whole country hated the enemy, and the battle of Verdun was against each other, which was to avenge the Franco-Prussian War.

Although France also suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Verdun, they eventually won the war.

But is such a victory worth it?

The French had lost almost a generation of their young people, and the war had left nothing to reach.

For France at that time, the revenge had been avenged, and what they wanted next was to live in peace.

In addition, France suffered heavy losses in World War I, a basic generation of young people died on the battlefield, the people were very painful for the loss of their loved ones, and the whole country generally fell into war-weariness, which led to the instability of France's internal politics, so neither the French government nor the French people were willing to get involved in the war again, because the cost of the war was too great.

But the French knew very well that the German power was not destroyed, but only temporarily restrained, and that they could break out again at any time, plus the United States and the Soviets fueled it, so the French had to find allies to ensure their own security.

Come to think of it, although France already has a group of weak countries behind it, it is better to find a big brother to be safe.

So France became on par with the superpower of the time, with Britain.

As for the United States secretly helping Germany, this is not groundless.

As early as the end of World War I, the United States set aside the Versailles Treaty and established the Washington system on its own, which was to strengthen its own strength, and even forcibly equalized itself with Britain in the tonnage of naval ships.

Subsequently, the United States wisely did not strangle Germany, but supported it with loans, allowing it to act as a spark on the European continent, which could ignite the continent at any time.

The United States, on the other hand, will not worry about Germany's Mars affecting itself, and it has lent a large amount of money to Germany and allowed its army and air force to develop, and the reasons must be guessed one or two.

Even if Germany turned Europe upside down with its army and air force, if it did not have a strong navy, what would Germany do against the United States, relying on their tanks to drive across the Atlantic and land on the east coast of the United States?

The countries secretly supported Germany, and after the defeat of the Ruhr in the First World War, France once again felt that it was wise to go toe-to-toe with Germany, so their attitude began to change and they began to build the Maginot Line with the secret of the success of the First World War.

It doesn't matter if you can't beat me, as long as you can't beat me, this is France's little abacus.

Unfortunately, the Germans crossed the Maginot Line, directly copied the French army's rear road, and destroyed their main force, so there was the later surrender of France.

But did France really lose in reality?

Not really!

France was in fact betting entirely on both ends, with Petain's government following Germany's Vichy French government on the one hand, and De Gaulle's Free French government following England on the other.

In this time and space, they even created a third force, that is, the Algerian army of Belante.

So, no matter what the end of this war, who will win and who will lose between Britain and Germany?

France, will be the victorious power!

It is not so much that the country is too weak, but that they have not made up their minds to face World War II with the greatest strength.......