Chapter 135: Currency Wars V
"Mr. Hitler, I don't think you're interested in participating in a coalition government, are you?"
Hersmann was dressed in civilian clothes at this time and sat in Adolf. In Hitler's office, I watched his performance quietly until the other party's mouth was dry and he had nothing to say, and then he smiled and asked questions.
"No, of course I'm not going to join any coalition government." Hitler's gray-blue eyes stared at Hersmann, and suddenly burst out laughing, "Ludwig, are you testing me?" Don't worry, I'm a German soldier and I know how to obey the orders of my commander-in-chief, and now Admiral Seckert is my commander-in-chief! ”
I really know how to pretend!
If Hersmann had not known what Hitler had done in history, he would probably have been fooled by him.
"I know, I believe in you, Adolf." Hersman didn't bother to break it, but continued to smile, and took out the cheque from his pocket that had already been filled out and signed, "This month's allowance is 1 million marks. ”
This is the funding given to the Nazi Party by the Military Intelligence Service, at first 50,000 marks, now 1 million marks - the funding has not actually increased, but now the marks are not worth much. The current 1 million is the same as last year's 50,000, and the super-inflation in Germany has already begun inevitably as soon as the number of reparations determined by the Entente was made public.
"1 million ......" Hitler took the check, looked at the large pile of zeros on it, and shook his head, "Before the war, this was a huge amount of money!" ”
"Yes, at that time I couldn't save more than 1,000 marks a year, and 1,000,000 had to work for 1,000 years." Hersmann shook his head, "The German people have become proletarians in a short period of time, and this is really a human tragedy!" ”
Countless Germans, who have worked hard all their lives to save some money, could have bought a house and land, but now it is only enough for a good meal. Historically, by 1923, a loaf of bread would cost hundreds of millions......
"It's a war, right? This war against the German people? Hitler was speaking from Hersmann, who explained to Hitler what a "currency war" was during the days of the Munich election.
According to Hersmann, the essence of the super-inflation that Germany is now facing is, in fact, a war, a war aimed at destroying the credit of the mark! Reparations or something, but the weapons used by Britain, the United States and France to wage this war were not the real purpose - in fact, Britain and the United States did not want to persecute Germany to the point of selling a piece of bread for hundreds of millions, they only needed Germany to lose the ability to find paper money and the currency to completely lose its credibility.
From this point of view, it makes no difference if the value of the mark falls by 90% or 99%, or by 99.9999%.
It's just that the French right-wing Pai had to take the villain to the end - so historically the Germans hated France quite a lot, but they had little hatred for Britain and the United States, which really profited from the devaluation of the mark.
However, in this time and space, because of the emergence of the "currency war" theory, the Germans' view of this superinflation is different from that of history.
"Whoever has the right to issue money will control the whole world!" Hersman stood up and said in a cold tone. "The suffering of the German people now is not because of the defeat and reparations, but because New York and London want to take away our right to issue money!
Adolf, you see, at the Hot N Asian meeting, they will definitely propose to regulate our treasury and the Imperial Bank. When we can't resist the hyperinflation, they will lend us money to make reserves and issue new marks...... In this way, how much money they lend us, we can only issue the corresponding marks. The Mark becomes a vassal of the dollar or the pound, and then they can use some printed matter to control our economy, manipulate our finances and prices, and thus plunder our wealth. ”
"That's right! You have a point! Hitler praised Hersmann, and there was a slight wonder in his heart: how could this lieutenant colonel speak like an economist? If he becomes prime minister in the future, should he let Hersman be the chief of the general staff, or should he become the president of the Imperial Bank?
"So what should we do?" Hitler asked again.
"We have lost most of our gold reserves, and Mark has lost its credibility...... It is very easy to lose credibility, and it is very difficult to rebuild it. I don't think we can rebuild Mark's credibility by conventional means in a few decades. Therefore, we can only use extraordinary means to regain our right to issue currency. ”
"Extraordinary means?" Hitler did not understand.
"It's the means of war," Hersman said. ”
"To rob someone else's gold?"
"It's not that simple," Hirschman shook his head, "because what we need is not gold, but the right to issue money." Therefore, we have to defeat the two countries that have the power to issue money in the world, and take over the power to issue money. ”
"Is it the United States and the United Kingdom?"
At present, there are two recognized "reserve currencies" in the world, one is the pound sterling, because Britain is still the world hegemon, and the sun never sets on the empire. Moreover, Britain has now decided to return to the gold standard, and will also set the parity of the pound against gold at the pre-war level.
The U.S. dollar, on the other hand, is recognized by the world because of the strong national power of the United States and abundant gold reserves (most of the world's gold is stored by the United States).
As for the franc, its fate was certainly better than that of the mark, but it still depreciated a lot, and not many people would believe in the legend of the golden franc.
Therefore, if the Mark wants to become the world's reserve currency, the enemy is the pound and the dollar.
"Yes, we must bring them down!" Hersman replied in the affirmative.
He was brainwashing Hitler with the ideas he had wholesaled in "Currency Wars". Later, Mr. Hitler also wrote Song Hongbing's views into "Mein Kampf", declaring that he wanted to make the mark the world's reserve currency......
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"Lieutenant Colonel Hersman! Are you Lieutenant Colonel Hersman? ”
Hersmann and Hitler talked for half a morning, and then prepared to go out for a meal of a few hundred marks. But as soon as he walked out of the office, someone shouted for Hersman. It was a tall, fat, hairless man in his fifties, dressed in a well-made suit, surrounded by a few young men dressed as secretaries.
Hersmann and Hitler turned around at the same time, and all three frowned at the same time. That man was the Val T. Rathenau whom Hitler had just scolded. Leader of the Democratic Party, member of Congress, new Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was also a wealthy Jew, a manager and director of Germany's General Electric Corporation, Germany's second-largest power producer.
The guy was also a man who liked to make striking opinions, and he wrote in the Vienna Free Zeitung of December 24, 1912: "Three hundred men (Jews), who knew each other, ruled over the fate of the whole continent and chose their successors from among their followers. ”
Hersmann didn't like this man, but he quickly smiled and went up to shake his hand, "Mr. Minister, I am friends with Hitler's parliamentarians, and I have come here to invite him to lunch. ”
"Oh, let's go together, then." Val T. Rathenau smiled and said, "There is an important matter for you. ”
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