On the night of June 15, 1940, Hitler's new stronghold, Wolf Gorge, in the French town of Brülly-de-Page near the border between Belgium and France. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Hitler was still angry that Mussolini had taken advantage of the fire and declared war on France against his will: Germany had badly needed Italy to declare war last fall, but this time Italy had clearly come to pick up the bargain.

At least Germany could still count on this "paper ally" to cause some trouble for the British Mediterranean fleet, but apparently the Italians were not as strong as Hitler had hoped - they had lost a mess on the Italian-French border for a few days, and the French had lost their armor here, but it was more than enough to pack up the Italian troops that had entered the French border area!

After just three days of fighting, the Italians chose to passively avoid the war, and it is really difficult for people to figure out which side of the attack was the first to declare war?

"Negative or not, at least it will restrain Mussolini's appetite for France."

Keitel, Yodl, Bowman, and Hawell in command agreed.

At this point, Hitler's personal aide-de-camp, Otto Kingsher, walked into the conference room: when Hitler summoned others, the only ones who could enter his conference room or office without notice if necessary were the Kingsher and his butler Heinz Ringer.

"Allow me, my Führer, to express to you the highest respect!" The tall and handsome Kyosha looked excited: "The chargé d'affaires of the French government in Madrid contacted our ambassador to Spain, von Stoller, and the French government asked for an armistice. ”

"My Führer, congratulations on leading the German nation to the greatest victory!"

Everyone in the room congratulated Hitler, and at this moment Hitler felt like the king of the world!

The news of France's request for an armistice spread lightning throughout the camp, and everyone congratulated each other, all repeating the same phrase that Hitler had uttered after receiving the Kinsha report: "The carriages in the Compiègne forest, where we requested a ceasefire in 1918, will now be the place of German victory!" ”

The Wehrmacht command immediately drew up an armistice agreement with France, the basic idea of which was to demand the complete surrender of France, to plan to occupy all of France, to disarm the French army, to arrest soldiers and officers, and to hand over all the equipment of the French army to Germany as trophies.

Hitler's political sensitivity and unconventional political literacy were not comparable to Keitel's peers, and he looked further than mere military victory, which he vetoed.

On Hitler's direct instructions, Keitel and Jodl redrafted a draft of the terms of a ceasefire with France. Hitler made the suggestion that Britain would try to prevent the French government from concluding a cease-fire agreement and mobilize France to continue fighting.

If the first option is followed, it is exactly in line with Churchill the Fatty's suggestion: Britain and France to create an Anglo-French alliance on the basis of a broad legal union. Therefore, the most important thing for Germany is to drive a wedge between England and France, and demanding that France surrender unconditionally and occupy all of its territory will not achieve this goal.

That would be very dangerous, and the French government might refuse to sign a cease-fire agreement and flee to the North African colonies to continue the war with the British.

Give the French government a step down so that the French can recognize the terms of the ceasefire.

The whole purpose of this was to lead France and its colonies out of war - to isolate Britain.

Give the French government an unoccupied area, in the south and southeast of France, ostensibly free to govern by the French. This would not only divide France geographically and administratively, but would also make it difficult, if not impossible, for a French government-in-exile to be formed; And it would dispel any plans of the politicians in Bordeaux to move the government to North Africa.

Hefaler understood that the group of men who currently controlled the French government in Bordeaux (Petain, Weygand, Reival and their supporters. ) is the enemy of France's so-called democracy, and these people can be expected to cooperate with him and help him establish a new Nazi order in Europe.

On June 18, Hitler returned to Germany and arrived in Munich, where he had an ally with too much appetite to deal with.

Hitler's talks with Mussolini ended quickly, and as soon as the talks were over, Hitler sent Mussolini to the train station, where he left for Italy.

Hitler wasted no more time in Munich and set off that evening to return to the base camp.

The Italian lion opened his mouth and demanded that the French Savoy, the area around Nice, Corsica, and ****** be ceded to them, in order to guarantee Italy's superiority in the Mediterranean.

"I don't have much strength, but I want a lot of benefits!"

Hitler, of course, could not agree to the demands of his allies, and the talks succeeded in thwarting Mussolini's spirit and getting Mussolini to make reasonable concessions.

At noon on 19 June, Hitler arrived at his base camp in Brülly-de-Pecchi, where he immediately ordered Keitel to set up a "cease-fire site" in the Compiègne Forest for the forthcoming negotiations with France.

Keitel's men carried out Hitler's orders very well - German sappers were demolishing the museum wall of the old sleeping car in which Field Marshal Foch was still kept, and where the 1918 armistice was signed.

Hitler would conclude a new cease-fire there, in the same place where Germany had been forced to recognize surrender 22 years earlier, and thus publicly declare the 1918 act null and void.

The next day, the ceasefire agreement was drafted, and Hitler personally dictated the preface to it.

Hitler's "Preface" showed great respect for France's "bravery" and "heroic fighting" in order to make the French heartily agree to accept Germany's conditions.

Hitler also explained in the preface the necessity of Germany to fight Britain, so that the treaty was not directed against France, but against Britain.

Open your eyes and tell nonsense? Probably this is one of the arts of politics.

That night, Kyosha and Ringer received orders from Hitler that both would participate in the negotiations in the Compiègne Forest: the butler Heinz Ringer (note that the role of this butler is like that of Leonov next to Lin Jun, a good officer, not a British butler. will be arranged at the entrance of the carriage where the negotiations will take place. And the adjutant, Otto Kingshe, would be responsible for Hitler's personal security.

Hitler asked Kyosha to stand next to the glass-walled door that divided the carriage into two parts, so that everyone could see his nearly two-meter-tall body from all directions, and Kyosha could clearly see everyone's every move.

The central order was: if any member of the French delegation dared to behave rudely to Hitler, he would shoot him immediately.

On the afternoon of June 21, the sun shone warmly on the magnificent trees—elms, oaks, cypresses, and pines—casting a refreshing shadow on the forest leading to the small circular clearing**.

The carriage in which the armistice agreement was signed with the French after the defeat of Germany in 1918 has been placed on the track in the center of the station, where it was located in November 1918.

There was only one difference from 18 years - the tracks on which the carriages of the German delegates were located were empty.

At 3:15 p.m., Hitler arrived in a car, accompanied by Goering, Brauchitsch, Keitel, Raeder, Ribbentrop, and Hess, while the fat Goering still had his Field Marshal's Scepter in his hand.

Everyone stepped out of the car in front of the statue of Alsace-Lorraine, which was covered with a German flag, about 100 meters from the clearing, so that Hitler would not see the great sword: a great sword of the Allies who had won victory in 1918, and it was stuck in the body of a feeble eagle representing the German Empire of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Hitler glanced at the statue and continued to stride.

Hitler's face was serious, solemn and full of revenge, the demeanor of a victorious conqueror and a challenger to the world. And the proud joy of his heart, because he had witnessed the earth-shaking change of fate, which he had personally created!

When Hitler reached the small glade, his flag of supreme commander was raised in the center of the clearing. Hitler's attention was now drawn to a large one-meter-high granite monument.

Hitler and Goering read the inscription: "On November 11, 1918, the German Empire surrendered on its knees - defeated by the free people it had tried to enslave." ”

Everyone was silent.

Hitler's face burned with contempt, anger, hatred, revenge, and victory. Hitler did not trample on that monument with his Prussian high boots, such a move was completely unnecessary! While Hitler had extreme contempt for this present place, it was an extreme contempt for what this place stood for in the 22 years since it witnessed the humiliation of the German Empire.

Everything that the Coalition did to Germany here 22 years ago, Hitler will return to them with interest! Today he is the winner!

A camp of German sappers was nearby, and when the negotiations were over, the sappers would erase all signs of humiliation. (To be continued.) )