Similarly, the German Navy has done its part in the past year, defeating the British Navy and taking on the mantle of the British Navy as the most powerful naval force in the world.

It received several battleships and aircraft carriers from the British Navy, and in terms of the number of capital ships, it was already able to compete with the world's major naval powers.

If it were not for the lack of personnel in the German Navy, which could not digest the entire legacy of the British Navy in a short time, it would have been the first navy in the world half a year ago.

Germany now had seven battleships, including the Bismarck, Tirpitz, King, Warrior, War Weyer, Barham, and Ramirez. The battlecruisers were the Counterattack, the Scharnhorst, and the Gneisenau.

The number of cruisers was somewhat larger, including 25 ships of various types, including the Prinz Eugen, the Nuremberg and the Lützov.

Among them were 10 heavy cruisers surrendered by the British, 12 light cruisers, 4 older cruisers that were sold to Japan as supplies, and 5 were compensated to the Italian Navy under various names.

There are 7 aircraft carriers: Zeppelin, Ark Royal, Dreadnought, Radiance, Elbe, Danube, and Europa, which are of a variety of types, but there are quite a few of them.

At present, most of the naval forces of the Third Reich are concentrated in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and they are training while fighting in real combat, and they are not in the Atlantic.

After all, they have no actual combat experience and cannot immediately devote themselves to high-intensity ocean operations, so they can only watch the bloody rain and wind on the Pacific side.

However, this is not a bad thing, this naval force can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, watching the Japanese and US navies fight in the Pacific, while secretly developing and accumulating strength, which is obviously in the fundamental interests of the Third Reich.

In the coming 1942, the German Navy will have a qualitative upgrade, from a destructive navy to a protective navy.

During this year, the German Navy will launch at least five aircraft carriers, giving the Navy the ability to fight decisive battles at sea.

The reason why the two of them sat in this position, and did not let the officials of the National Socialist Party sit in the front, was because the content of this meeting still revolved around the military.

Then, farther away sat the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, and opposite him sat the Minister of Industry, Speer.

Dr. Goebbels has been really proud lately, and he has reached the pinnacle of propaganda in his favorite way of publicity.

The Berlin Film Festival in 1941 was successfully held, and Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Romania, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, the Middle East and other countries and regions sent people to participate in this grand event.

The technical and artistic innovations of German cinema have amazed the world. Although the United States did not send people to attend, it did not prohibit stars and directors from traveling to Berlin in their personal capacities.

Therefore, around the time of the festival, many Americans also came to Berlin and saw with their own eyes this cosmopolitan city, which had been built by the National Socialist Party for a year.

Goebbels deliberately made the city a paradise where everything had nothing to do with war, with romance movies in cinemas and sleepless bars and lights that were as carefree as Hollywood in the sixties.

Outside of Berlin, on the German Eastern Front, Goebbels' war propaganda was still going on frantically.

Like a schizophrenic patient, Germany on the Western Front seems to have forgotten about war, while Germany on the Eastern Front has the strongest atmosphere of war preparedness in the world.

The streets are reception desks encouraging men to sign up for the army, movie theaters are showing documentaries of the indomitable progress of the German tank forces, and hot air balloons in the sky are covered with slogans of the glory of joining the army......

Thanks to the efforts of Goebbels and his propagandists, Germany added 1 million troops on the Eastern Front, mostly from Belarus and Ukraine......

Speaking of these soldiers, one has to mention the man who armed these recruits - the organizational genius promoted by the Führer himself: Bertold-Conrad Hermann Albert Speer.

This man's abilities are fully worthy of his lengthy name, and the chaos he inherited from German industry, after a year of presiding over it, the huge German industrial machine is now as capable as the United States.

He supplied the German army with countless shells and ammunition, transforming outdated weapons into state-of-the-art equipment.

In 1939, the German army was generally armed with the No. 2 Mauser 98K rifle, and in 1941 the German army already had the Tiger tank and the STG-44 assault rifle.

Although there is credit to the Führer, it is Speer who organizes production. He made great efforts to double the number of production workers in Germany, and to rationalize the distribution of all raw materials, and to squeeze out all the resources that could be squeezed out for rational use.

Then, in the end, the result was that the German military industry put all its energy into production without enemy bombing.

In the course of this year, the living needs of civilians in the rear and the combat needs of front-line soldiers have been basically satisfied, and Speer can really be said to have contributed a lot.

Further down sat Reinhardt Heydrich, the representative of the SS, who, after a year of hard work, had almost replaced the dead Himmler, who was supposed to be sitting in this position.

The fact that he was able to achieve such a dazzling result proves that Reinhardt Heydrich is also a very good talent.

He was a practical bureaucrat and had excellent abilities. In the past year, while avoiding following in Himmler's footsteps, he has also tried his best to run the SS into a force satisfactory to the Führer, which can be regarded as racking his brains.

The good news is that he succeeded, and he succeeded in converting more than half of the concentration camps into labor camps, an achievement that he now appreciates with the Führer.

The Waffen-SS, with his support, was well supplied and became the Führer's second most trusted military force after the Wehrmacht.

Opposite Heydrich, nicknamed the blonde beast, the Reich's foreign minister, Ribbentrop, was also in his place.

At the helm of the German diplomatic service, Ribbentrop also had a remarkable record. Germany signed a series of cooperation agreements with Great Britain and France, which are the result of his efforts.

With these agreements, Germany has deepened its cooperation with France, Great Britain and Italy, and Europe has been united as never before.

Speer once praised Ribbentrop's achievements to the Führer: "It is because of his efforts that I have been able to integrate European industry so easily." ”