On the night of May 23, 1937, Francisco, commander of the Republican Army, staged a coup d'état and overthrew the government of the Second Spanish Republic.

At 8 a.m. on May 24, 1937, the newly formed Spanish Republican Junta announced its dissolution and ordered all Republican and People's Guard soldiers on Menorca and La Palma to surrender to the Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Republican troops and nearly 1,000 members of the National Guard surrendered in some cities, and the Spanish Civil War ended for nearly a year. Spain's second attempt to go public failed.

The next day, Franco proclaimed the unity of Spain and changed its name to the Kingdom of Spain.

Since Franco had always emphasized the need to maintain order with an iron fist, and he had always believed that killing in the process was necessary as long as the ultimate goal was to "restore order".

Immediately after Franco's victory, the slaughter began. Since the complete surrender of the Republican Army on May 24, more than three digits of people have been shot almost every day in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, La Palma, the cities that once served as the capitals of the Republic.

Within a month of Spain's commitment to deliver 50,000 prisoners of war to Germany as laborers. More than 3,000 Spanish leftists volunteered to take up labor roles in the German labor camps.

Reinhardt discovered this phenomenon and sent a timely telegram to Franco, requesting that 50,000 men be selected from the other side to be executed and shipped to Germany. The Germans would ensure that they would never allow these people to return to Spain and have a negative impact on Franco's regime.

After using the additional 50,000 men to mortgage a portion of the Nationalists' debt to the German government, Franco, the new dictator of the Kingdom of Spain, nodded and agreed to Reinhardt's request.

Even so, Franco's regime slaughtered more than 50,000 people in a single month and persecuted and imprisoned more than 400,000 Spaniards. In contrast, among the "workers" who were about to go to the German labor camps to do high-intensity work, many of them were full of gratitude, glad that they had saved their lives and escaped to a safe environment.

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The end of the Spanish Civil War had a huge impact on the international community.

First, the newly established Kingdom of Spain, at Reinhardt's prior request, signed the Agreement on the Ownership of the Support Forces between Spain and Germany. In this agreement, Spain pledged to provide Germany in the future with 10 German armored infantry divisions and one German armored light armored division in the future "volunteer units", collectively known as the Blue Corps, under the command of the German Army Command.

Secondly, the war dealt a major blow to the forces of the Comintern. The Soviet Union lowered its position in the eyes of the communist forces in Europe, but raised the image of the new German Wehrmacht.

The story of Rommel's "one division to quell the Spanish Civil War" was added to the fire by the German Propaganda Department and rendered into a legend, inspiring the confidence of the people at home. This was the first expeditionary operation of the new German Wehrmacht, and the first time that the Wehrmacht was unsheathed.

World War I, fame!

This victory directly laid the foundation for the current German Chancellor Reinhardt's presidential promotion, and with the efforts of the Greater German Propaganda Department, Reinhardt left an image in the hearts of the German people to lead Germany out of a desperate situation after World War I, which won the hearts of the people.

In celebration of the German victory in Spain, Reinhardt announced Gustav's retirement as president and his own promotion to president and chancellor. Amid the celebrations, the president and the chancellor of the Third Reich merged into a single post – the Führer. At this point, Reinhardt's Führer was finally well deserved.

In his inaugural speech on June 1, 1937, Reinhardt announced on the radio in front of the whole world that he would "take up the great task of rejuvenating the German nation, so that the Germans, who had been divided by foreign countries in the last world war, will return to the embrace of Germany." ”

One stone stirs up a thousand waves! The day after Reinhardt's speech, Conrad? Hanley, led by the Sudetenland-Germanic Party, held a congress and proposed a program of "autonomy" to separate the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.

Reinhardt then quickly used this as an excuse to amass five divisions on the German-Czech border, threatening war.

On 5 June, the Czechoslovak government announced a partial mobilization and also mobilized troops to the border. For a time, the situation on the German-Czech border was tense, and there was a great danger of war breaking out.

On 12 July, Czechoslovakia had completed the pre-war mobilization of local areas, and the total number of troops reached 1 million, of which 800,000 were field troops. This was equivalent to the entire number of Reinhardt's forces deployed on the Western Front at that time. Reinhardt, on the other hand, transferred to the German-Czech border, now has only 5 divisions.

In addition, the Czechoslovak army was also one of the few armies equipped with tanks and armored vehicles at that time. At that time, it was already the fourth largest economy in Europe. It has the second largest arsenal in Europe, the Skoda Arsenal and the third largest arsenal, the Czech Brno Arsenal, as well as a complete military industrial system.

At this moment, the local military superiority of the German army can be said to be completely non-existent.

In terms of war endurance, Czechoslovakia had more than 180,000 tons of gold reserves and nearly 300,000 tons of oil reserves. If the war drags on, the Germans will pay a great price. Even if the Germanic lands of the Sudetenland were eventually merged, Germany's losses would be far greater than its gains.

However, Reinhardt was extremely tough in front of the public, and he had the image that for the sake of national unity, he had to win the Sudetenland.

Since France in Western Europe had signed a treaty of mutual assistance with Czechoslovakia, the French Cabinet, which had so far been in charge, quickly convened a meeting to find countermeasures. That night, French Prime Minister Daladier made a decision to ask British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to intervene.

The idea of the French cabinet is very simple: it is better to bring together an ally to persuade than to persuade a country to fight. It's a pity that the leader of their allies happens to be the biggest supporters of "appeasement" in British history.

On the night of the French government's invitation, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Reinhardt an urgent telegram hoping that the two sides would "resolve the issue peacefully" through a meeting.

Two days later, Chamberlain, who had arranged his domestic affairs, immediately flew to Germany. He tried in good faith to negotiate a peaceful solution with the German Führer Reinhardt.

"The Führer, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, has arrived in Berlin by private jet. At the moment, he is outside your Prime Minister's Office, waiting to meet you. Parker, a member of the Socialist Workers' Party who had been working for Reinhardt for 13 months, as Reinhardt's confidential secretary, solemnly reported Chamberlain's arrival to the Führer. In his view, it was a major diplomatic meeting. Before that, Chamberlain had never been to Germany once, and he had not even come to Germany to visit **.

"En......" Because he knew the purpose of Chamberlain's trip, Reinhardt naturally did not negotiate with him. How to talk about it? Could it be that he promised him to withdraw the people and settle it peacefully?

After thinking about it for a long time, Reinhardt still decided to fool Chamberlain like the Führer in history.

Since you have decided to fool the opponent who is in a hurry, it is even more important to disrupt the opponent's rhythm first. Aren't you in a hurry to see me? Then it's enough to hurry, I'm not in a hurry anyway.

Thinking of this, Reinhardt smiled and said to his confidential secretary Parker: "You go and tell him, just say that I have a stomachache and ask him to wait a little longer." ”

Facing this Führer, whose personality was a little distorted to the point of being a bastard, Parker stared at Reinhardt with a strange expression for a long time, deeply afraid that he had just heard it wrong. Stomach ache? What kind of reason is that?!

"Go ahead, just say I have a stomachache. Do you understand? Reinhardt sympathetically repeated the request.

"Ming....... I see. Parker's head was full of sweat in his answer, but he secretly thought in his heart that this time there was enough for the British Prime Minister.