Chapter 032: Germany's Strength
And on the German side,
After World War I, due to the establishment of the Versailles-Washington system, Germany's army was forcibly compressed to 100,000, prohibiting the construction of submarines and disbanding the air force, but Germany embarked on the road of elite soldiers, their 100,000 army was the elite of the elite, they replaced the air force with the pilots' club to cover people's eyes, they built high-level submarines in Spain, and brought the technology back to Germany, at that time the European form was: the French owned the land, the British owned the sea, and the Germans could only have the sky in their dreams, so on the surface, The French Army is the first, the British Navy is the first, and the strength of Germany seems to be far below Britain and France.
But in fact, after Hitler came to power, he frantically expanded his armaments and warfare, and the original 100,000 army troops became officers as soon as they expanded; The people of the pilots' club changed into air force uniforms, and all of them became excellent pilots; Their formidable technology quickly assembled a formidable navy; Every German man received strict military training from a young age, and took the opportunity to conduct a field military exercise in the Spanish Civil War, when World War II had not yet broken out, but in fact, Germany's military strength, especially the army, was definitely the first in the world.
During World War II, more than 90 percent of new modified weapons came from Germany; Germany's 26 Reich Marshals were all able to take charge of their own and were extremely popular; More than 90% of the pilots who shot down more than 100 enemy planes during the war were Germans, 23 of the 26 epoch-making weapon inventions during World War II were invented by Germany, the naval record was relatively poor, but it did not lag behind other countries, before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Hitler had occupied 14 countries in Europe, Field Marshal Rommel was also dominant in North Africa, and the Third Reich reached its peak, all thanks to Germany's strong military strength,
If it weren't for Wang Hanzhang's efforts to turn the tide, Germany would have ended in defeat, because Hitler made a fatal mistake: he declared war on the Soviet Union before solving Britain, which made Germany fall into a situation of fighting on two fronts or even three fronts, and as a result, the Soviet Union withstood the German attack under Stalin's high-pressure policy, and launched a counterattack in winter, two dead fill four, dragged on until winter, dragging Germany to death, at that time, other battlefields also reversed, Germany began to retreat, the United States is in the Americas, far from the European continent, so it is relatively safe, otherwise it may have been destroyed by Hitler a long time ago,
Although Germany was later defeated by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, Germany's losses were far below those four countries, so the military strength during World War II was undoubtedly the most powerful, the quality of their soldiers was the highest, their officers were the smartest, and their weapons and equipment were also the best, Germany lost the war, the biggest reason was that Hitler made a fatal mistake at a critical time, Hitler was not without strategic talent, maybe he was too arrogant, in Chinese terms, the sense of small farmers was too strong, if World War II broke out, The leader of Germany is replaced by Napoleon, then maybe we will all have to speak German today,
About Germany before defeating Britain, Hitler launched the Barbarossa plan, many people think that Hitler is brainless, of course, this is also Wang Hanzhang's idea in later generations,
However, after coming to this life, after understanding, experiencing, and fighting World War II, Wang Hanzhang did not think so, Wang Hanzhang now has a good understanding of Germany, knowing the situation at that time, the United States has been secretly and actively supporting Britain, it can be said that in addition to not directly declaring war and sending a large army to attack, the Americans did everything for the British, not only supported a large number of aircraft, but even many pilots were Americans, although everyone knows, but that is an open secret, and the German government headed by Hitler is very clear about the strength of the United States, The Americans suffered in World War I, and they will try their best to avoid it in World War II, so although the Germans are extremely angry at the behavior of the Americans, they can only knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.
And the reason why Germany wanted to attack the Soviet Union was to see that because of wrong decisions, such as Goering's willfulness, etc., the defeat of Britain became something that could not be done in the short term, and the Soviet Union and Germany were very friendly on the surface, but in fact Stalin and Hitler were also very ambitious people, Stalin always wanted to unify Europe, and Stalin always regarded Germany as his biggest stumbling block to unifying Europe,
If you want to ask Hitler how he knew, this is actually very simple, in view of the lessons of the First World War, that is, to find Italy, Austria-Hungary, the Turkish Empire such garbage teammates, Hitler has always wanted to find himself a few decent allies, Britain and France are old imperialist countries, most of the world's colonies are theirs, Germany is to re-divide the world, expand the living space, so these two countries will naturally not ally with Germany,
The market of the United States itself is extremely huge, and it has a blood relationship with Britain, and the whole of America is his sphere of influence, so it can be regarded as the world's old imperialism, and Britain, the United States and France are definitely the same thing, and they will definitely help each other to suppress the emerging countries.
In addition to Britain, the United States and France, there is a little strength left in China, Japan and the Soviet Union, Sino-German relations have always been relatively good, Germany is actively courting, Japan is also a spare tire, but Germany does not have much hope for Japan, and there are even rumors that the Japanese want to join the Axis powers, the Germans don't want it, and later the Japanese bribed the Italians, and the Italians pulled the Japanese in, as for why the Italians have so much face,
This is said that Mussolini is the founder of fascism, in 1922 marched into Rome to seize the rule of Italy, Hitler once admired Mussolini very much, and later in the beer bar riots in 1925 was to imitate Mussolini, but unfortunately failed,
A long time before Hitler came to power, Hitler looked up at Mussolini, of course, after the start of World War II, he despised Mussolini, but at that time Japan had joined the Axis powers,
Talking far, saying that in addition to China and Japan, Hitler valued the Soviet Union the most, when the ignorant Tsarist Russia beat Napoleon's more than a million expeditionary forces only a few tens of thousands fled back to France, although they generally did not have the upper hand in the war with Germany, but the German army did not help them,
After the end of World War I, the relations between the two countries were friendly, Germany because of the economic sluggishness, all overseas colonies were lost, so a large number of industrial raw materials were needed, Britain and France would definitely not give Germany, China and the United States were too far away, so the Soviet Union, which was close at hand, was the best choice,
The Soviet Union's vast territory and abundant resources, as well as the fact that the red country was being crowded out by the capitalist countries of Europe, and the eagerness to get rid of it became the basis for cooperation.
Since the October Revolution, the nascent Soviet power has been hostile to the Western countries, and the economy has been tightly blockaded to prevent any advanced equipment and technology from flowing to the Soviet Union, for the Soviet Union, although the NEP has achieved great results, its modern industry is still very backward, not only the production of iron and steel and electricity is far from meeting the needs of the national economy, but the large industries such as automobiles, aircraft manufacturing, chemical synthesis, and large-scale machinery and equipment manufacturing are even more blank, and the relevant data show that until 1928, The industrial output value of the Soviet Union is less than half of that of Germany and 1/8 of that of the United States, there are less than 30,000 tractors in the country, and 99% of the cultivation has to be completed by people and animals.
In such a difficult situation, the Soviet Union naturally will not be willing to sit and wait for death, even if the economy does not develop, even if the enemy is defeated at this time, it will definitely come after the enemy recuperates, so rapid industrialization has become inevitable,
Looking at the capitalist countries of the world, Germany can be looked down upon by the Soviet Union if it is powerful, and this is naturally because of what happened to Germany, so at that time Germany was very much in need of the sympathy of others, and in this way, the Soviet Union and Germany came together.
Later, the Soviet-German cooperation was carried out in various aspects, the two sides worked together on tanks, aircraft, etc.,
After Hitler came to power, the relationship between the two countries was also good, and they partitioned Poland together, at this time Hitler had already discussed an alliance with Stalin, but as he got to know more and more, Hitler found that Stalin's ambitions were too big.
The Soviet-German alliance was entirely due to Stalin's ambitions being too great, and the big one would subvert Germany, so they did not form an alliance,
Later, when World War II broke out, Germany easily destroyed Western European countries, and Britain was protected by the English Channel, and under the blind participation of Goering's mistakes, it finally missed the opportunity to destroy Britain and the plan to eliminate Britain failed.
The Soviet Union will attack Germany at any time, and the Soviet Union's population, economic scale, and other aspects are much stronger than Germany, and it is the second in the world.
After the blitzkrieg was proven countless times, Hitler planned to take advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union was not ready, launched a surprise attack, dealt a fatal blow to the Soviet Union, and defeated the Soviet Union, but the plan could never catch up with the changes, the Italians in North Africa were beaten by the allies, Mussolini asked for help from Hitler, Hitler had to send troops, and then he competed with Greece, and was turned again, Hitler had to send troops to support the Italians again,
Then did not occupy Moscow before the harsh winter came, defeated the Soviet Union, and then Germany went downhill, and finally the initiative of the war was taken away by the Soviets, if it wasn't for Wang Hanzhang coming, Hitler would have committed suicide in the bunker, Germany also surrendered, and Germany was divided into two Germanys,
Of course, the Soviets did not die several times to destroy a large number of German troops on the one hand, and on the other hand, the strategic bombing of Germany by Britain and the United States, including the areas under its control, destroyed the military machine that Germany waged war.