"What? What the? Are we going to join the Locarno Convention of the East? It was a convention to tie Germany's hands and feet! ”

"It's not all about tying us up, the Soviet Union is also restricted. Moreover, Austria was not invited, and the union of the Baltic Republic with our Germany would not require the use of force. As for Poland...... Isn't Mr. Prime Minister sure that he will reach an agreement with Pilsudski? ”

"What about the Czech Republic? And the Czech Republic! ”

"Czech? Sudetenland? ”

"Yes, there were 3.5 million Germans in Czechoslovakia...... All German-speaking people should live together, and we can't forget about them! ”

"That does not contradict the Locarno Pact of the East, and the Czech question can be resolved by peaceful means...... As far as I know, in Czechoslovakia, more than 25% were Germans, 15% were Slovaks, and there were quite a few Poles, Hungarians, Carpathian Ukrainians, and the Czechs probably made up less than 50%. ”

In the Chancellery at 77 Wilhelms, Hersmann, Schleicher, and Hitler were arguing in a large and luxurious office about whether Germany should join the Eastern Pact.

The three had apparently taken Austria as something that Germany had in their possession. Because Austria mixed worse than Germany in the days of the whole 20s!

Germany has the Juncker Wehrmacht as a pinnacle, and domestic politics are generally calm, with political parties still relying mainly on votes rather than guns to decide on the ownership of power. Moreover, there was Soviet-German cooperation and the Keynes Plan to ensure economic development.

And Austria has been a gun + democracy for more than ten years after the defeat! The three major parties in the country, the Christian Socialist Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Bolshevik Party, all have partisan armed forces. The Christian Socialist Party had the Security Corps, the Social Democrats had the Republican Defence Union, and the Bolshevik Party had the Red Brigades.

From the mid-20s to the present, skirmishes between the three major parties in Austria have not stopped. In 1927. It also led to a large-scale street shootout in which more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded, and the Palace of Justice in Vienna, the capital of Austria, was burned.

On May 18, 1930, the armed security corps of the Christian Socialist Party proclaimed the "Fort Corneuve Oath", openly calling for the overthrow of parliamentary democracy: "We reject Western parliamentary democracy and the party state!" ”

Armed conflict ensued. Although it didn't fight much, it was not as good as peace. In this case, Austria's economy and people's livelihood are in shambles. When the people saw that their brother Germany in the north was developing day by day, they naturally longed for it, and the German-Austrian merger was naturally the trend of the times.

And at the time of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austrian politicians who truly represented the will of the people, rather than bent to the will of the Entente, chose to allow Austria to join Germany rather than become independent.

In fact, the biggest obstacle to the German-Austrian merger was later the "loyal ally" of the German Empire, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, who was now supporting Austria to maintain its independence. But Hersman knew that the Italian leader would invade Ethiopia in two or three years. Then it will also be involved in the Spanish Civil War with Germany. At that time, the Italian leader would have turned into an ally of Germany in support of Germany's annexation of Austria.

However, Austria's neighbor Czechoslovakia, a country that inherited most of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's industry, was not so easy to deal with. The industrial power ranks among the highest in the world, and it also has such an Austro-Hungarian military-industrial giant as Skoda.

In addition, Czechoslovakia had two rather difficult political leaders, Eduard Edward. Benes and Thomas. Masaryk.

Both were Czechs, and Milan, who had become French nationals before the World War, had achieved a great deal of success as French pilots in the war. Restislav. Stefanik was also known as the "Three Founding Fathers of Czechoslovakia" -- Stefanik served as Minister of Defense in the early years of Czechoslovakia's independence. However, on May 4, 1919, he mysteriously died in a plane crash.

And at that time. It was during the Hungarian War that a Slovak Soviet Socialist Republic emerged on the territory of Slovakia.

This thing. and the subsequent purge and suppression of the Bolsheviks in Slovakia by the Czech army have always been two sharp thorns in the heart of the Czechoslovak Republic.

In addition, the Czechs, the main ethnic group of Czechoslovakia, and neighboring Hungary also had a deep blood feud. During the years-long Hungarian war after World War I, the Czech army did not miss the blood of the Hungarians. Moreover, Slovakia, occupied by Czechoslovakia, has been part of Greater Hungary "since ancient times" - once the only part of the Kingdom of Hungary!

And Poland, another neighbor of Czechoslovakia, was also very unhappy with the Czechs. Because the Hungarian war was actually won by the Polish army, but after the victory in the war, out of the need to limit Poland (Poland seemed too powerful at the time), Poland did not get the Cesin region and the Carpathian Ukraine, where the main population was Poles and Ukrainians.

"Mr. Prime Minister. You continue to play the role of a good person internationally though. "The Czechoslovak problem is very easy for us to solve, because it is an artificially cobbled together country, and it has very bad relations with the surrounding countries." And the dominant Czechs have never been known for their prowess. ”

"What are you going to do?" Hitler hesitated, looked at Hersmann and asked. "I'm Prime Minister. You should have the right to know, right? ”

"Of course!" Hersman smiled and whispered, "Stasi has always had close ties with the Hungarian Bolshevik Party and the Slovak Bolshevik Party...... We can first publish the truth about Stefanik's death and incite the discontent of the Slovaks. Then send Slovak assassins to kill Czech President Thomas. Masaryk. ”

"Assassinating the president of a country?" Hitler hesitated, "Are you really sure?" ”

"There's no problem with that," Hersman nodded, "and we have the ability." ”

"Won't it be found?" Hitler thought for a moment and asked, "If it is found out that it has something to do with us, I'm afraid there will be trouble, right?" ”

"Only the Third International will be traced!" Hersman paused, "The Czechs will only find out that it was the Slovak Bolshevik Party, the lackeys of the Soviet Union, who killed their founding father!" ”

Hersmann, of course, would not have told Hitler that he would have to deal with the Hungarian Bolshevik Party leader Kuhn. Bella conspires.

Kuhn. Béla did not return to the Soviet Union after the defeat of the Hungarian revolution, but persisted in leading the guerrilla war in the mountains of Hungary. Therefore, the Hungarian revolution was not a complete failure, and the Hungarian Bolshevik Party still controlled a number of partisan units in Hungary and Slovakia.

And for the past few years, these Hungarian Bolshevik partisans have secretly received financial, weapon, and intelligence support from Stasi. So now let Kuhn. There was no problem that Bella's men would come out and be blackened - and it was not for nothing, because the Slovak Bolshevik Party (in fact, a branch of the Hungarian Bolshevik Party) had a chance to revolt in Slovakia as soon as the Soviet Union and the Czechs were seriously opposed.

And once Slovakia is in chaos, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, and even Romania will have to stick to the bar.

Hersmann shrugged, "Then it may be our Wehrmacht to defend Czechoslovakia in accordance with the Locarno Convention of the East!" ”

"We're going to defend Czechoslovakia?" Hitler's eyes rolled, and he already understood what Hersmann meant, "Sounds good!" That's it...... Indeed, we should sign the Locarno Convention of the East. ”

Schleicher added: "Mr. Chancellor, we cannot sign an agreement unconditionally, and we should ask France to recognize the legality of our return to compulsory military service and our presence in the Rhineland." ”

……

"What? Did German Chancellor Adolf Adolf Hitler agree to sign the Locarno Pact of the East? ”

In Geneva, where the Soviet delegation to the League of Nations was located, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Litvinov, who was negotiating with the French Prime Minister in Geneva, heard news that surprised him.

"Isn't this Hitler a militarist?" Litvinov looked at Mrs. Korentai, an expert on German issues, head of the Soviet delegation to the League of Nations.

"This ...... Hitler was indeed a militarist when he did not become chancellor. Colontai thought for a moment and said with a wry smile, "But he is now the prime minister, so he no longer shouts and kills." I think he did something very clever. ”

"Yes," Litvinov nodded, "the French will certainly meet Hitler's demands......"

Acknowledging what has happened in exchange for tangible benefits is something politicians with brains will do.

At this moment, a telephone set on the desk suddenly remembered. Litvinov picked up the receiver and said in a light, soft female voice: "Please Mrs. Kollontai listen to the phone, I am Natalie. Lesinskaya. ”

"It's Lesinskaya!" Litvinov handed the earpiece to Kollontai. The voice on the other side of the line continued: "Madam, Admiral Hersman is very pleased to hear that the Soviet Union has become a permanent member of the League of Nations, and he has invited me to call to congratulate me. At the same time, we have decided to accede to the Locarno Convention of the East, which is an event of great significance for peace in Europe and even in the world...... We hope that Comrade Stalin and Chancellor Hitler will be awarded the Nobel H Prize for the 1933 year. And when receiving the award, we will meet in Sweden. (To be continued.) )