It was in this year that the Allies began a massive bombardment of Germany. Speer offered Hitler a proposal to bomb Britain's overloaded ports, the coal industry, and the Soviet Union's large power plants to change the tide of the war. But he was powerless to influence the Air Force, and Hitler was hesitant to suggest it.

In September 1943, Hitler handed over to Speer the management of all arms and production problems in Italy. Under his organization, armaments production in Germany was on the rise. In the autumn of that year, the Allies carried out a large-scale bombing of Germany, which caused difficulties in armaments and civilian production.

As a result, Speer proposed and implemented the mass production of civilian goods such as clothes, shoes, textiles, and furniture in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, while converting similar factories in Germany to military use. In this way, the ills of forced requisition of foreign workers to Germany, which caused them to flee their factories and affect production, were avoided, and the potential of German arms production was brought into full play.

In directing the production of armaments, Speer created a comprehensive system of "industrial self-responsibility", which led to the unexpectedly rapid development of armaments production.

He set up three "steering committees" and "business associations" linked to them according to different weapons systems, and turned the handicraft mode of arms production in the early days of the war into an industrial process of assembly lines.

Half a year after Speer became Minister of Armaments, the total output of armaments production increased by 60 per cent. By July 1944, labor productivity had doubled at a rate of only 30 per cent increase in the labor force.

He trusted the heads of industry to be proactive, responsible, and ideological. At work, he prefers uncomfortable people to work with and dislikes tools that are obedient.

Rommel definitely needed such a talent, and there is also a very important point, that is, Speer was one of Hitler's close friends, and Hitler was still a relatively suspicious person.

Rommel is now in France, which can be described as a small prince, and in order not to arouse Hitler's suspicion, Rommel should also send Speer to France as deputy governor.

Immediately after completing the looting of France, Rommel sent a cordial telegram to Hitler, in which he asked Hitler to appoint Speer to France as deputy governor.

When Hitler saw Rommel's telegram, he readily agreed to Rommel's request.

In order to thank Hitler for his promotion, Rommel specially sent dozens of world-class famous paintings such as the "Mona Lisa" in the French Museum to Hitler.

Gifts from other high-ranking German leaders, his father-in-law Emerson provided a list to Rommel, and Rommel only had to follow the list to give gifts.

You must know that Rommel scavenged an extra 10% of his wealth alone for gifts this time, and these riches were specially used for gifts.

Don't underestimate this 10 percent wealth, there are more than 60 tons of gold alone, hundreds of tons of silver, and thousands of works of art. Of course, Rommel looted twice that wealth for the veterans' fund.

The position of Governor of France is stared at by countless people, and if you don't know how to be a man, you are sitting on a crater. Rommel, of course, understood that countless people were staring at the wealth of France, and Rommel was now a small lieutenant general, and he had to spend money on connections and connections, it was as simple as that.

After the rest of the wealth looted in France was counted by Rommel, it was immediately transported back to Berlin, Germany, by carriage and handed over to Hitler, and as for what Hitler did, it didn't matter to Rommel.

Rommel, the governor of France, had created a false identity for his father-in-law's family, and they were now Moroccans, as long as the Gestapo did not keep an eye on them.

Elsa's dowry is some of the Rothschild's assets in France, which looks like a lot of 5 trillion US dollars, but in fact, many of them are real estate, such as factories and real estate.

Rommel is definitely not good at doing business, and he doesn't have time to do business, so he handed over all these businesses to his new wife Elsa and the old housekeeper Davide, anyway, these assets are people's dowry, and Rommel is relieved to hand over these assets to Elsa to manage.

As long as the heart of the Rothschild family is stable, all industries in France will also be stable, and the Rothschilds have such strength in France.

Rommel can't meddle in some of Germany's military production now, but he can meddle in France's military production! There are Rothschilds secretly supporting Rommel, and what Rommel wants to do, it only takes one sentence for Rothschild to do everything he can to help Rommel get it.

This is the benefit that his new wife Elsa brought to Rommel, from ancient times to the present, political marriages have been criticized, but there are still many important families who choose political marriages? That's the truth! Who will do what is not beneficial.

Soon the official order for the expansion of the 7th Panzer Division into the 7th Panzer Corps arrived, and Hitler was really good to Rommel, and he transferred the 5th and 15th Light Panzer Divisions.

At this time, the Seventh Panzer Army directly became Germany's A-class Panzer Army, although Hitler transferred two light armored divisions, but these two units are not rookies, they have already participated in the Polish campaign and the French campaign, these two light armored divisions can be regarded as troops that have experienced actual combat.

These two divisions are now in the mountains of southern France, and they cannot be reorganized into the Seventh Panzer Corps for the time being.

Rommel, of course, knew what tanks the German light armored divisions were equipped with. Because the predecessor of the 7th Panzer Division was a light armored division, the entire division had more than 60 obsolete No. 1 and No. 2 tanks.

Rommel did not have the authority to return the two divisions at once, but he sent a telegram of inquiry, in which Rommel asked how many tanks the two divisions had and what model.

As Rommel expected, the 5th Light Panzer Division had 46 tanks No. 1 and 2, and the 15th Light Panzer Division had 58 tanks No. 1 and 2.

How rubbish tanks No. 1 and No. 2 were, of course, well known to Rommel, if Rommel did not get tanks for these two divisions, then these two divisions could only be considered infantry divisions.

Germany doesn't have many tanks for light armored divisions now, Rommel can only think of another way, can Rommel get tanks? All the German troops were asking Hitler for tanks, and of course Rommel could get them.

France is an industrial power, the performance of tanks and aircraft engines produced in France is quite good, and the best mass-produced tank in France at this time, the Soma 35, is a medium tank with very good performance in the early days of World War II.

The Soma 35 has armor of 20-56 mm, cross-country speed of 37 km, and is armed with a 47 mm 34 times diameter tank gun. These performances are almost on par with Tank Four, with the only difference being that the Soma 35 tank has a slightly weaker firepower than Tank Four.

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