Chapter 91: The Feelings of the French
The Lassi family lived in the eastern part of Paris, a predominantly working-class area where many people worked in factories and businesses.
Before the outbreak of the war, France had not yet come out of the Great Depression, and France was not spared from the Great Depression that swept the world, and until the outbreak of the war, all the workers in France were not doing well.
The Great Depression began in 1929 in the United States, and this unprecedented economic crisis quickly spread around the world, with France and the United Kingdom bearing the brunt of the blows.
By 1933, the United States was the first to emerge from the Great Depression with a large amount of real money from World War I, while Britain and France were still slowly recovering, and even Germany, the defeated country in World War I, was quickly restoring its economy to pre-war levels by selling arms to the world.
However, the economic recovery of Britain and France is not ideal, and under such a large environment, it is impossible for a worker like Lassi to have a good life, and it would be good to be able to ensure a basic life.
When the Second World War broke out, Lassy's automobile factory suddenly received a large number of orders from the French government, which made the entire Lassi factory excited.
As long as there is an order, the boss will not lay off employees, Lassi and they will have a job, and then they will have money to buy bread and rent a house.
Lassi's automobile factory began to implement three shifts and produce trucks at full capacity, but the good times did not last long, since the German invasion of Poland, in just a few months, Germany directly hit Paris, the capital of France, and France surrendered in a blink of an eye.
The order for the Lassi car factory was canceled, the trucks that had been produced were also backlogged in the warehouse, the factory owner was forced to take a long vacation, and the Lassi factory was almost completely shut down.
Lassi is sad now, there is no way to survive without a job! Lassy, who is unemployed, also wants to find a job, but at this time Paris is full of closed factories and enterprises, and there are still places to find a job!
Lassi is not a bachelor, he has a wife and two children to support, and if Lassi loses his job for more than two months, the family will have to sleep on the main road and beg for a living.
Lassy's family began to find a desperate situation, and even though Paris had just been occupied by the Germans and some places were not peaceful, Lassi risked his life to find work.
Lassi ran in Paris for more than ten days in a row, but he was still greeted by a wall again and again, at this time, Lassi was really desperate, he hated his own incompetence, he hated the incompetence of the French government, and he hated the aggression of the Germans.
But Lassy's hatred can't change his fate and situation, the two children who are waiting to be fed still need him to feed, and Lassy, who originally wanted to die, must grit his teeth and persevere.
Just when the Lassy family was in complete despair, a new ruler came to Paris, the French governor Rommel.
After Governor Rommel took office, he ordered all kinds of factories and enterprises to resume work immediately, and if factories and enterprises could not resume work due to lack of funds, as long as there was a pledge and guarantee, they could borrow money from major French banks.
The vast majority of the shares in the French banking industry are in the hands of the Rothschilds, and now Rommel also has half of the Rothschilds' assets in France.
By this time, the franc was already depreciating, which was caused by the shortage of goods and materials after the war, not because Rommel looted the gold of the French Central Bank.
Rommel's looting of France was only gold from the French Central Bank, and Rommel did not touch a dime of French banknotes. Gold is a bank margin that is not fake.
Rommel just moved the gold to Germany and Switzerland, and it didn't have much impact on ordinary people.
As long as production resumes and commodities are abundant, the value of the franc will remain the same as it was before the war.
In a word, money must be linked to commodity substances, which can reflect the value of money, and it does not matter where gold is placed.
Therefore, the first thing Rommel did when he became the governor of France was to order the resumption of production, and at the same time, Rommel used the Rothschild family wealth in his hands to take the lead in providing financial assistance to factories and enterprises.
The Rothschilds originally started in finance, of course they know how profitable finance is, as long as France remains peaceful and stable, the dowry given by the Rothschild family to Rommel will be earned back soon, so they will definitely cooperate with Rommel's arrangement.
When factories and enterprises reopen, workers will have wages, they will consume, the goods produced can be sold, and then the government will have taxes, and the whole process is a big cycle, Rommel used the lever of finance to activate the French economy.
At the same time, Rommel also asked the German Ministry of Defense to produce some less important items in France, such as military uniforms, towels, military boots, etc., so that Germany would have more factories and labor to invest in the production of weapons and equipment.
Germany never had enough labor force in World War II, and in order to solve the problem of labor shortage, Germany had to use a large number of prisoners of war, the total number of which was between several million.
Rommel's policy in France was a good thing that all sides could do what they wanted, so his policy met with little resistance, and even Hitler supported Rommel's policy.
Hitler really didn't want France's economy to collapse, a France with an economy collapsed would definitely become a burden to France, this was not the France that Hitler wanted, Hitler wanted a France that could help Germany.
In desperation, Lassi suddenly received a notice of the resumption of work at the automobile factory, and mailed the wages owed before, which made the Lassi family overjoyed and desperate.
Lassi is in the automobile factory, but he is a senior mechanic, and his monthly salary is quite a lot, and the life of a family of three is more than enough. As soon as Lassi could return to work at the car factory, the family's predicament would be solved immediately.
That night, Lassy's wife specially cooked a few dishes and bought a bottle of red wine, and the family had a happy meal.
Lassi and his family drank a few more glasses of wine, and this became more and more talking:
"Husband, who do you say this General Rommel is?"
"Some time ago, I read in the newspaper that this German general was very good at fighting.
At the beginning of the French campaign, he led the German Seventh Panzer Division out of the Ardennes Forest, and was immediately invincible...... Hiccup......"
After a wine burp, Lassi continued with a flushed face:
"We, the taxpayers' money, even if we have a dog, know how to bark a few times when we see strangers, but what about our army?
As soon as Germany arrived, it immediately collapsed, and General Rommel led the German German Seventh Panzer Division from the Ardennes Forest to Dunkirk in five days and six nights, and more than one million Anglo-French troops were dumpled.
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