Chapter 413: Hitler

In 1938, exactly twenty years had passed since the end of the First World War in 1918.

Twenty years is exactly the time of a generation.

Twenty years on, the former victorious powers of Britain, France, and the United States may have forgotten the story of the war and the ecstasy it felt when it was won.

For the Germans, however, the humiliation of defeat was something they had not forgotten over the years...

At the Paris Peace Conference, which lasted more than four years, Germany was not even allowed to participate in treaty discussions at the Paris Peace Conference.

The Treaty of Versailles, which was later concluded at the Peace Conference, consisted of 15 parts and 440 articles. Under the terms of the treaty, Germany lost 13.5% of its territory, 12.5% of its population, all of its overseas colonies (including German East Africa, German South-West Africa, Cameroon, Togoland and German New Guinea), 16% of its coal producing land and half of its steel industry.

In addition, the territory on the west bank of the Rhine (Rhineland) was occupied by the Allied forces for 15 years, and the German army was not allowed to defend within 50 kilometers of the east and west banks.

The Army was limited to 100,000 men and was not allowed to have tanks or heavy artillery, and the German General Staff was abolished.

The navy was limited to 15,000 personnel, and only six 10,000-ton battleships, six cruisers, and 12 destroyers were allowed on the naval side, and submarines were not allowed.

The Air Force must not be organized.

Arms may not be imported or exported.

Chemical weapons shall not be produced or stockpiled.

In order to limit the number of people receiving military training, conscription was abolished, and the length of service for non-commissioned officers and soldiers was extended to 12 years and 25 years for officers, and the number of officers could not exceed 4,000.

Germany must admit full responsibility for the war and the crimes committed against the civilian population of the Entente countries.

Former Kaiser Wilhelm II was tried as the first perpetrator of war crimes.

Part of the German army was tried for war crimes, and some of them were sentenced to death.

According to the decision of the Entente Compensation Commission, Germany had to pay a total of 226 billion marks (about 11.3 billion pounds) in compensation, which was later reduced to 132 billion Reichsmarks. In 1921 the amount of compensation was set at £4,990,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Historically, the reparations, plus interest, were not repaid by the Federal Republic of Germany until 2010.

When Germany learned of the treaty, anger and humiliation quickly spread in Germany, and Chancellor Scheudmann refused to sign the treaty, but the situation was stronger than people, and Army Commander-in-Chief Hindenburg said that the German army could no longer fight. On June 28, 1919, the Allies issued an ultimatum to Germany, and the President of the newly established Weimar Republic, Friedrich Brown. Albert decided to accept the treaty.

Then royalists, nationalists, and former army generals began to question the treaty. The politicians, SPD, Communists, Jews of the Weimar Republic were regarded by them as traitors, because these so-called "November criminals" were the vested interests of the Weimar regime and who "stabbed Germany in the back".

This argument had a large market after the surrender of Germany, which had already won the Eastern Front and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Russian Bolshevik regime, while the German forces on the Western Front remained in France and Belgium. But in fact the spring offensive of the German army on the Western Front was halted due to insufficient provisions, and in the eyes of critics this defeat was blamed on strikes in the rear, especially by the Jews. They ignored the fact that the belligerents were already involved in a general war, and that the local tactical superiority of the front could not reverse Germany's strategic defeat.

Nevertheless, this argument resonated widely in Germany and was exploited by the Nazi Party.

Naziparty, a German political party, was formerly known as the German Workers' Party founded on January 5, 1919 by A. Drexler and C. Haller. On 30 September 1920, the party was registered in Munich under the name of the German National Socialist Workers' Union. On June 29, 1921, Adolf? Hitler was the head of the party.

In the early autumn of 1919, Hitler became a member of the German Workers' Party. On February 24, 1920, the party published a 25-point program he had drafted in collaboration with Drexler, which was later renamed the German National Socialist Workers' Party, and was banned after the failure of the beer hall riots in 1923 and re-established in February 1925. After the Reconstruction, the German people's discontent with the Treaty of Versailles was used to stir up Germanic nationalist sentiments, and the number of party members soared from 100,000 in 1928 to 1.4 million in 1932. In the 1930-1932 parliamentary elections, the party's seats increased from 12 to 230. …,

The world economic crisis of 1929~1932 provided the soil for the development of the Nazi movement, and more and more monopoly capitalists supported the Nazi Party. In November 1932, the big bourgeoisie and the big landowners jointly wrote to President Hindenburg of the Weimar Republic, demanding the appointment of Hitler as chancellor, and finally on January 30 of the following year, Hitler was put to power, and the Nazi Party became the ruling party. After Hitler came to power, he preached pan-Germanism, cracked down on and banned other political parties, and established the Nazi one-party system.

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"Nazis? Hitler? ”

In 1933, just as Xu Shichang's term of office was coming to an end, news came from Germany that Hitler would become the new chancellor of Germany...

When they learned the news, Xu Shichang and the others had strange expressions, so much so that they didn't even notice Yan Guang's complicated expressions.

Germany...

The friendship between the Kuomintang and Germany had been established during the time of the Sichuan Military Government, and on the eve of World War I in 1914, the relationship between the two countries had reached that of quasi-allies.

Although in World War I, the Nationalist government decided to join the side of the Entente against the Central Powers, since the two countries did not have the opportunity to face each other directly, this confrontation did not damage the relationship between the two countries too much.

And then...

The end of the First World War...

After the end of World War I, Germany became a defeated country, and because the relationship between the two countries was still very good at that time, the German government specially sent many people to China, hoping to use the connections accumulated in the past to enable China, which had become a world power, to speak for Germany at the Paris Peace Conference.

It's just that because China occupied a lot of territory in Russia and Turkey at that time, it couldn't echo Wilson's "Wilson Peace Fourteen Articles" at all, so in the end, the delegation of the Nationalist government failed to speak for Germany at the "Paris Peace Conference", because the relationship between Germany and China was low for a while—————— in fact, the most important reason why Yan Guang did not come forward at that time was that if Germany had not been pitted at the "Paris Peace Conference", Germany, which had not been defeated and humiliated, would not have launched World War II at all. Yan Guang has no chance of breaking the monopoly of white people on the world.

His plan proved to be successful.

After the Paris Peace Conference, the Germans were indeed enraged by the humiliation of the Allies.

However, Yan Guang is not a despicable and shameless politician after all, nor is he the kind of cold-blooded and ruthless warlord, he is just an ordinary time-traveler who knows a lot of "truths", and he has created his current foundation through the history he knows.

So after seeing the tragic situation in Germany after the Paris Peace Conference, a strong sense of guilt soon rose in Yan Guang's heart.

In fact, it's not just Yan Guang, everyone else is similar.

After all, before the war, the relationship between China and Germany was very good, but at the time of the Paris Peace Conference, not only did they not stand up for Germany, but they fell into the ground...

Because of this incident, the relationship between the two countries has been very low for a while.

After the conclusion of the Washington Conference, the world was almost established, and it was at this time that the Communist government began to propose help and compensation to the German government at that time.

In the early years, almost everything in the Kuomintang government was trained by Germany, such as the army and arsenal during the Sichuan military government, and after the establishment of the Kuomintang government, this influence spread in all directions. Although this help from the Germans was not gratuitous, the influence of the Germans on the national government remained.

It was also for this reason that when this proposal was proposed, it did not take long for it to be fully adopted.

At this time, several oil fields in the Middle East began to come into production, large quantities of dollars, pounds and silver dollars flowed into the national treasury, and the first interest-free loan of five million pounds was given to the Weimar Republic as a gift to repair relations. …,

Five million pounds, or more than 50 million Chinese dollars...

Compared with the billions of fiscal revenues of Britain, the United States, and China, more than 50 million Chinese dollars is indeed not a large amount, but it is indeed not a small amount of money. Because before the First World War, 50 million Chinese dollars was enough to buy two super dreadnoughts with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons and a main gun caliber of 380mm.

What's more, the situation of the Germans after the defeat was not very good, so the five million pounds was somewhat of a charcoal in the snow, not to mention that it was still interestless...

At this time, in addition to the fact that the relationship between the Nationalist government and Germany during the First World War did not have much conflict, the relationship between the two countries, which had been depressed for a long time because of the "falling into the well", naturally eased a lot, not to mention that Germany during this period was in great need of funding from other countries.

How bad was the situation in Germany during this period?

In 1923, the republican government said it had failed to pay the war reparations under the Treaty of Versailles, and therefore defaulted on the reparations. Thus, on 11 January, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr area, taking control of Germany's richest industrial town, as well as the mines and manufacturing companies in the area. The German government encouraged workers to strike back and did not take the initiative to deal with the problem. The strike, which lasted for eight months, only made the economy more depressed and imported goods more expensive.

Since the government was responsible for subsidizing the striking workers, it had to print more banknotes to cope with it, leading to hyperinflation. In August 1923, the mark fell from $4.2 to $1,000,000 per dollar. On 20 November, the value fell to 4.2 trillion yuan (4.2 trillion yuan). On December 1, the Weimar government introduced a rentenmark for every 1 new mark. In the end, Germany succeeded in continuing to pay reparations, and the Ruhr area was returned to Germany.

4.2 trillion marks can be exchanged for 1 dollar, how much did the fiat currency depreciate that year?

So at least for the Germans, the £5 million is a drop in the bucket—————— although it's a drop in the bucket compared to Germany's current state.

As for Yan Guang and others? In the face of the gratitude of the Germans, there was something strange in my heart.

Why?

Putting aside the reparations that have been cancelled, before the First World War, the Nationalist government had passed a 10 million pound purchase plan to purchase a very comprehensive range of industrial equipment from Germany to enhance China's industrial strength, and of course, to exchange this 10 million pounds of orders for the then Jiaozhou Bay lease...

It's just that Yan Guang played a trick at that time, claiming that he had insufficient liquidity, hoping to pay five million pounds first, and the other five million pounds through a loan from Deutsch-Hua Bank.

At that time, considering Yan Guang's ability to pay, the German minister Marzan agreed to Yan Guang's conditions after asking the German government.

And then...

Just when all the equipment had already arrived at the port, and Yan Guang had just handed over five million pounds to the Germans, the First World War broke out...

Although China did not directly declare war on Germany at that time, it was obviously impossible to continue to hand over the remaining five million pounds to the Germans at that time, and when the Nationalist government officially joined the Entente a year, the five million pounds would not need to be mentioned...

So, in the eyes of Yan Guang and others, the five million pounds are just owed to the Germans...

After the money owed is repaid through an interest-free loan, the remaining money is naturally a loan in the true sense of the word.

At that time, the fiscal revenue of the national government was like GDP, which was growing at a rate of more than 10 percent every year, plus several oil fields in the Middle East...

Although the government had invested in the construction in all directions at that time, there was still a large fiscal surplus every year.

Soon, the government of the Republic of China came up with hundreds of millions of dollars to finance Germany, and unlike the five million pounds, these hundreds of millions of Chinese dollars were interest-bearing loans, although they were interest-bearing loans, but the interest rates on these loans were unimaginably low compared to loans from other countries. …,

At the same time, the government provided a large sum of supplies to help the Weimar government curb rising prices.

Although not long after, the U.S. government adopted the "Dawes Plan" to restore the stability and sustainable development of the German economy, but the first step of the national government still won the favor of the Germans, and the originally low relations between the two countries also returned to the original level...

Even the Treaty of Raballo with the Soviet Union was accompanied by another treaty with the Communist government.

It's a pity that the good times don't last long, and if it had continued like this, maybe Germany would have been able to return to its old glory. However, in 1929, not long after the German economy stabilized, the economic crisis in the United States reached Germany...

In the midst of an economic crisis, if there is one country that has not been affected, it is only one...

"USSR"

In addition, even China has been affected, but due to the different political systems of the country, the national government has not been affected as much as in other countries, but even so, it took Xu Shichang almost half of his term to free China from the economic crisis.

This is not the case in China, not to mention Germany...

At that time, China was also affected by the economic crisis, and there was no way to help Germany, let alone help even if it wanted to, after all, it was nothing else, but an economic crisis that occurred once in a century...

So naturally, Germany once again fell from the ground into the abyss.

Before the economic crisis, countries had already begun to prepare for the Younger Plan, which replaced the Dawes Plan, but before the plan was implemented, the Great Depression of 1929 caused a lot of problems: American banks urgently needed to get cash back from Europe, and the trade recession caused a lot of resistance; Recession leads to economic nationalism and hinders trade recovery; Unemployment remained high in Germany, from 33.7 per cent in 1931 to 40 per cent in 1932.

In view of this, US President Herbert Hoover proposed the issuance of a Hoover moratorium, which was supported by the fifteen countries by July 1931, but this did little to alleviate the economic decline in Europe, especially the German economy, which was severely damaged by the banking crisis.

It was at this time that the Nazi Party, which had been active in Germany, began to officially step onto the stage of history.

The Nazi Party, also known as the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, was also translated as the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (National Socialist Party for short).

As mentioned above, the Germans were grateful for the actions of the Commune government in the face of the economic crisis, and for this reason, relations that had been depressed by the First World War also warmed up a lot.

But the Communist government had a different attitude towards the Nazi Party.

Yes, relations between China and Germany are good, but the Nationalist government has little affection for the Nazis, a racist party.

The reason is simple, because in the Nazi concept, the Chinese no longer know how many ranks they are in. Moreover, China is a multi-ethnic country, there are 56 ethnic groups in China in another world, and now when the territory has expanded to Europe and the Middle East, there are even more ethnic groups than Yan Guang himself.

At this time, the Germans were promoting Nazism, and it would be strange if Yan Guang and others felt comfortable in their hearts.

What's more, China has never been a seriously racist country, Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty once said. "Confucius's work "Spring and Autumn" is also, the princes use Yi Li to raze it, and Yi enters China into China."

There are many ethnic groups in this world, so many that Yan Guang himself does not know how many, but at least in Yan Guang's view, as long as other ethnic groups are willing to follow Chinese culture, then they are Chinese.

What's more, there are still so many ethnic groups in China, and the road of expansion in the future will not stop, what kind of "Han nationalism" ...... preach at this time,

"Heh..."

It is for this reason that although relations between the Nationalist government and the Weimar government have always been good, relations between the Nazi Party, which has many supporters, have always been discordant. So when Xu Shichang and his entourage saw that the current Germany was actually governed by the Nazi Party, their faces became complicated...

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After the Nazi Party came to power, it should be said that the economic situation in Germany has improved, at least the high and frightening unemployment rate has turned around a lot, the people's living standards have also improved, and the legitimacy of the Nazi Party in Germany has naturally been much more stable.

Due to the friendship between the former government, the friendship between the Nationalist government and the new German government was quite good, but it was significantly lower than that of the Weimar Republic in the past.

And everyone understands that after the Nazi Party came to power, the world is clearly not going to be calm.

Things were indeed as Xu Shichang and others expected, and in 1933, Germany withdrew from the League of Nations. In 1934, Hitler became the head of state, bringing together president, chancellor, and supreme commander of the army, strengthening the fascist dictatorship. In 1935, Germany openly tore up the Treaty of Versailles and let go of the expansion of the army, the rebuilding of the air force, and the construction of warships. In 1936, Germany entered the Rhine Demilitarized Zone, further violating the Treaty of Versailles.

At this time, Hitler had already begun to consider expanding the living space of the Germanic people, but Hitler also knew that Germany alone could not change all this, so he found Italy, a pig teammate...

Of course, it is not enough to have such a teammate as Italy, although Hitler himself was very confident in Italy - _-!

It was at this time that Hitler set his sights on China, which had always had good relations with Germany.

Of course, China will not only be targeted because the relationship between the two countries is good, but the most important thing is that China has enough strength to fight the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time.

It's a pity that Hitler preached Pan-Germanism, and this kind of doctrine has been preached for many years, even if he adds a China to it, it is useless.

Moreover, China is still a multi-ethnic country, although the Han nationality accounts for the vast majority of it, China is not a country with strong nationalism, and many Chinese oppose the theory of the supremacy of a single ethnic group.

In China, there are still many people who like Han Yu's theory of "the princes use Yi Li to raze it, and Yi enters China and enters China", not to mention that today's China has a vast territory, and many regions need the cooperation of local ethnic groups to rule stably, if they really preach a single nationalism like Germany, China will die without a place to bury—————— Germans don't care, after all, their territory is so big...

As for what yellow people are preached? Although in the eyes of foreign devils, yellow people all look the same, but you must know that even yellow people are divided into many kinds...

It was in this situation that Hitler approached the Japanese.

Of course, this does not mean that Hitler took a fancy to the strength of the Japanese, and seriously said that Japan at this time was stronger than him in the other world in all respects because of the good relations with China, but it was much inferior to China at this time.

What Hitler really looked at was the relationship between Japan and China, the relationship that Yan Guang had worked hard to build in the past ten years...

"Through Japan, we may be able to tie China to the German chariot..."

It is for this reason that the German government sent an invitation to Japan.

As for China?

Hitler didn't forget it, at least Goebbels himself didn't have much hope

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ps: Actually, I think it's okay to have a small country, but a country like China, which has a large population, a large number of nationalities, and a very vast territory, still pursues a certain concept of national supremacy, which is really some-u-c-t-x-t-[UC e-book] The end of the text [UC e-book]-u-c-t-x-t