Chapter 390: Voting and Surrender

“…… Indeed, if 46 million Britons demand to rule over 40 million square kilometers of land, then, "in the Grand Chamber of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, on the rostrum, the German leader and Chancellor Adolf . Hitler was speaking in a very gentle, conciliatory tone, palms outward, hands raised. "It is understandable that 10,000 Germans demand the peaceful cultivation of 900,000 square kilometers of land that has historically belonged to them."

"900,000 square kilometers" is about 900,000 square kilometers based on the original territory of the Second German Reich (excluding Alsace-Lorraine) and the annexation of part of the Austrian Imperial Territory (Austria, Bohemia, Western Ukraine, Slovenia) plus the Baltic State (excluding Lithuania) plus Luxembourg. This was the Third Reich's current territorial claim in Europe, and in Hitler's mouth, it was, of course, Germany's "final claim."

However, in addition to these "900,000 square kilometers", Hitler and Hersmann also opened a "back door" for the German Empire to expand its territory - the republican alliance. At present, Germany has formed a re-monarchy alliance with four countries. They are the Kingdom of Poland (including Russian Poland and Western Galicia), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Galicia-Ukraine (Western Ukraine) and the Grand Duchy of Slovakia, which will have separate parliaments, governments and defense forces (militias) that will retain their own language and culture (German is a second language).

But at the same time, the four countries did not have their own central bank, the mark (or European mark) was the only legal currency in circulation, the citizens of the four countries were obliged to join the Reich Army (German army), and the governments of the four countries were also required to pay a certain amount of defense taxes to the Reich Center. In addition, citizens of these four countries were free to enter and leave the German Empire, and to work, study, and live in the German Empire.

In fact, these four countries that are monarched by the German Emperor can also be considered part of Germany. Including them, the German Empire would have more than 1.2 million square kilometers of land and a population of 130 million.

In addition, there were millions of Jews holding the passports of the State of Israel in the lands of the German Empire (including the four confederations).

According to the Racial Law of the German Empire, they could not have the nationality of Germany (including the four reconfederations). Unless converted to Christianity (Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox are acceptable), and is fluent in German, and willing to fight for Germany.

However, Jews with Israeli passports were not sent to concentration camps, let alone slaughtered as livestock. According to the plans of the Nazi Party and the German military, most of these people will be sent to the state of Israel in the future to establish a state on Palestinian soil. But that was in the future, and now there is a shortage of labor in Germany, so these are "restricted" (limited jobs) of foreign workers.

"Virtually everybody knows the fact that our demands, the order we want to restore, are legitimate. The territorial and political landscape of Europe before the First World War was shaped by the historical evolution of more than a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Although this pattern allows people of different nationalities to live in one country, and to unite and depend on each other, it may not seem right to some New Worlders and Islanders who pretend not to know the history of Europe, but this is the reality of Europe, and it is a reality for all! ”

Hitler's words grew faster and faster, and he seemed a little agitated, and he shook his fists sharply and said in a mocking tone: "But while these ancient European countries that have existed for 800 to 1,000 years under the guise of national self-determination, they themselves are enslaving hundreds of millions of dark-skinned, brown-skinned, and yellow-skinned human beings."

Does national self-determination apply only to whites in Europe, and not to other races? I think Prime Minister Churchill and the late US President Wilson must have thought so, this is their way of thinking, this is imperialism!

This is the imperialism that we are forced to wage war against! It is also the imperialism that will end at the Geneva Peace Conference! ”

As soon as Hitler's opening speech ended, thunderous applause erupted in the conference hall of the Palais des Nations. Hopkins, deputy head of the United States delegation to the meeting, was one of the few in the room who did not applaud, and he was carefully surveying the delegations attending the meeting.

Now British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has publicly questioned the control of the League of Nations in Geneva by Germany, and has called on the members of the League of Nations to convene a conference in Toronto, Canada, to move the headquarters of the League of Nations to Canada.

Therefore, not all League of Nations member countries sent representatives to the Geneva Peace Conference, but there were still many delegates from various countries in Geneva!

Not only the two heavyweights, the USSR and Japan, ignored the "admonitions" of the British and sent delegations to the Geneva Conference (Japan not only came on its own, but also brought an Annam man in strange clothes, who said it was the legitimate emperor of French Indochina). Moreover, many second- and third-rate countries outside Europe, such as China, Siam, Brazil, Argentina and Iran, ignored the British Empire and sent delegations.

And Turkey, which is half European and half Asian, also sent a huge delegation, again led by their prime minister, Refik. Saddam personally led the team - this is obviously a very bad sign! Once Turkey is co-opted by Germany, the Germans will be able to drive overland into the Middle East and get the oil they want.

There is no doubt that the British Empire is in an unprecedented crisis!

At the time of Hitler's speech, the draft of the Geneva Peace Treaty was distributed to all the members of the delegation at the Palais des Nations.

Harry. Hopkins took a closer look, and he found something very interesting on it.

That night, Hopkins wrote in his debriefing:

The Germans did an interesting thing by asking the defeated French to choose the terms of surrender by democratic vote. They gave several options in the draft of the Geneva Peace Treaty - each of which, of course, was very difficult for France. Now the Germans are demanding a one-person-one-vote referendum for the French people, choosing between a bunch of imposed and unjust conditions of surrender. This is an insult to democracy and the referendum, but it is in German nature.

By the way, these proud Germans also gave the French the option to say 'no'. They can vote to take up arms and continue to resist! If I were French, I would definitely vote for the country to continue fighting.

And among the harsh peace conditions given by the Germans, there was also a combination that looked milder in the cowardly. I suspect that the useless French will most likely vote for such conditions.

First of all, the Germans were not going to occupy large swathes of mainland French territory. With the exception of the necessary cession of Alsace-Lorraine, the Germans in mainland France occupied only three places on the Brittany peninsula, Brest and Calais, and Dunkirk, as bases for their war against the British.

These three parcels of land were to be temporarily ceded to Germany in the name of "leased land" until Germany defeated Britain and then returned. The rest of the land in mainland France can be administered by the French government itself.

Secondly, Germany could conditionally exempt France from the obligation to return reparations and "plundered materiel".

The condition is that France joins the European Customs Union and the European Monetary Union (not immediately, of course, but there is a process of joining) - which means that France loses its tariff and monetary autonomy forever, and the Banque de France will merge with the central banks of European countries such as the Deutsche Reichsbank, the Central Bank of Belgium, the Central Bank of Poland, and possibly the Central Bank of Hungary, as well as the European Development Bank in Switzerland, to form a unified European Central Bank. The ECB's headquarters are now planned to be located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...... If the Netherlands is also willing to join the European Customs Union and the Monetary Union!

Again, Germany demanded part of the French fleet - either on Lend-Lease or by the French People's Volunteers!

What Germany wanted was the battleship "Richelieu", "Jean. The battleships "Bar", "Dunkirk", "Strasbourg" and a dozen more cruisers and destroyers. So that they will be able to form a powerful Mediterranean fleet.

It should be noted, however, that the Germans did not ask for them right away. According to the provisions of the draft Geneva Treaty, the French were to modernize and overhaul their warships at the request of the German Navy (at the expense of the French Government) before they were to be delivered, and to provide them with volunteers.

Volunteers will be recruited from the French Navy and will be able to operate and command the ships after a six-month "National Socialism education." And will fight for Germany under the name of "volunteers". And France itself can continue to maintain "neutrality", and the vast majority of French people can continue to live a comfortable and comfortable life, which I believe is very attractive to French voters!

The last attractive condition is the disposal of Alsace-Lorraine, which will become the capital of the future European Community, which will belong neither to Germany nor to France, but to the whole of Europe.

I think the inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine will definitely vote in favor (they can, of course), so that their hometown will never again become a major battlefield of a world war, and will also receive a lot of investment. In addition, the capital of the European Community is likely to mean many good job opportunities.

At the end of the report, Harry. Hopkins told Roosevelt with great certainty: I have no expectations for the results of the French referendum, and it is clear that the Germans have taken the first steps towards European integration, and they are doing quite well! (To be continued.) )