Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Attitude of the Imperial Family
Cars, trucks, horse-drawn carriages, all means of transport were used, the road to Bremerhaven was full of Jewish refugees, and the Red Cross set up a water point every other section, where not only boiling water, but also some doctors who were pro bono to treat the sick and wounded among the refugees free of charge. There was a makeshift concentration camp in the German-controlled area outside Bremerhaven, a small concentration camp full of Jews, and according to German custom, Jews entering the area controlled by the Bremerhaven Refugee Committee were not allowed to bring their belongings, except for a few sets of change of clothes, everything else had to be left to the Germans.
Tian Jing had no choice about this regulation, this was the condition for rescuing these Jews from the hands of the German army, the tragedy that happened in the city of Warsaw, Tian Jing still often remembered that if the arrogant German army forcibly detained these Jews, even if Zhao Zhi came, there was no way. All the means of transportation could only reach the temporary concentration camp of the German army, and the remaining 3 kilometers had to be walked by the Jews themselves, Tian Jing also gave up the jeep, which was crowded with Jewish children.
"Bah, damn German doglegs" A Jewish woman who walked past Tian Jing spit a mouthful of phlegm on Tian Jing's boots, and the yellow-green thick phlegm made Tian Jing almost vomit the half of the bread that she had eaten in her stomach in the morning. "Forget it, let her go" Tian Jing stopped the mercenary who followed him, signaling the mercenary who was holding the woman's neck to let go, Tian Jing's SS uniform became the target of some Jews' anger, and those Jews who did not dare to resist the German army could get some comfort here in Tian Jing.
Wiping the thick phlegm from her leather boots with a handkerchief, Tian Jing held a Jewish child in her arms and walked slowly to the refugee camp 3 kilometers away in the queue of refugees. The number of Jewish refugees is increasing day by day, not only is the refugee camp not enough to use, but even the large amount of food prepared by Zhao Zhi at the beginning is almost consumed, if it were not for the small ships from Britain on the other side of the river to keep transporting food here, just starvation could have put down a third of the Jews in the refugee camp.
"Tian, this can't be done, there are not enough medicines in the camp, and many sick people cannot be treated" Tian Jing had just returned to the camp with the new batch of Jewish refugees, and Sister Demi from the Red Cross came to her. The medicine in the camp came from the batch of supplies that Zhao Zhi had brought with him when he retreated from Poland, and with the explosion of Jews, Sister Demi, who was in charge of the supplies, was already stretched thin, and if there were no more supplies, the wounded Jews would die in the camp because they could not be treated.
"I have contacted the British side, their port control is very strict, the food is better, the medicine cannot be shipped out at all, the port of Southampton has been detained by the British several ships, because they want to transport medicine to us, I heard that the owner of the ship has been arrested and put in prison" Tian Jing, the news about the port of Southampton was told to her by the captain of the food transport, Tian Jing, who is dedicated to kindness, will not suspect these captains who selflessly help the refugee camp, She didn't know that the Italian captains were all members of the Krim gang, and the news revealed to Tian Jing was all at the behest of Zhao Zhi.
Sister Demi from the Red Cross is also a good person, and after listening to Tian Jing's words, she turned around and left, she was going to find the temporary head of the Red Cross in Bremerhaven. She asked the interim head to contact the British Red Cross and ask the British authorities why they were withholding the medicines that the well-meaning shipowner had brought to the camp. The German Red Cross has been struggling to support the refugee camp until now, but the British Red Cross and the adjacent French Red Cross across the Channel have been slow to lend a helping hand.
Contacts with the British government were of course fruitless, and telegrams were sent across the Channel, and Mother Demi received replies that negotiations were ongoing, and that when Britain and France were at war with Germany, no one would have noticed that there were hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees waiting to be treated on the other side of the Channel. Desperate for what to do, Sister Demi came up with a solution during an inadvertent conversation with a mercenary, and soon a letter in the name of the Jewish refugee camp in Bremerhaven was sent across the channel to a speedboat carrying food, and a few hours later, the letter from Sister Demi was sent to Buckingham Palace by a devout believer in London.
Far away across the Channel, Sister Demi had no idea that her letter would be sent to Buckingham Palace, and her initial idea was to send the letter describing the actual situation in the camp to the newspaper, hoping to use the newspaper propaganda to arouse the British politicians and tycoons to lend a helping hand. Elizabeth? Angela? Margaret? Bowes-Leon is the queen of the current King George VI, she is not only the queen of the royal family, but also a very enthusiastic and charitable mother, and the letters brought back by the lady-in-waiting who went out to church were delivered to Queen Elizabeth as soon as possible.
"Oh my God, these children are pitiful," Sister Demi's letter contained several photographs of Jews waiting in line in the Jewish refugee camp in Bremerhaven to receive food. The skeletal Jewish children huddled in the queue with the adults aroused Elizabeth's sympathy, especially the eager eyes of the children as they looked at the food, which made Elizabeth weep bitterly.
"Birdie, come and see this letter, it's from the Jewish refugee camp in Bremerhaven, these children are so pathetic" Albert? Frederick? Arthur? George? Windsor, the current King George VI of England, had just returned to his bedroom when he was frightened by tears on his wife's face. As the current King of England, he knew a little about the German expulsion of the Jews from the occupied areas, but he just didn't know that Germany would open a port for the Jews to be used as an evacuation.
"Bertie, can you help them? They just need some medicine and food," Elizabeth handed the letter she had just read to her husband, "This letter was written by Sister Demi of the Red Cross, the Germans set up a Jewish refugee camp in Bremerhaven, but the camp has run out of medicine, Sister Demi said that our port does not allow those speedboats that are kind enough to carry food for them to deliver medicine, and the port of Southampton has caught several shipowners who are secretly delivering medicine to them, if there is no medicine sent to the refugee camp this week, Thousands of sick people will die."
For his wife's request, King George VI was also very embarrassed, "My dear, we are at war with Germany, once those medicines are sent across the channel, maybe the Germans will use them to treat their wounded soldiers, and the cabinet will not agree to provide them with medicines" Elizabeth actually knew that her husband was right, across the wide channel, Britain could not regulate the use of those drugs at all, even if the people sent to the British Red Cross, the politicians in the cabinet would not agree to such an approach.
Elizabeth cried for a while, but finally relented in her husband's kind words, "Bertie, I have heard that the shipowners in the port are very sympathetic to these Jewish refugees, and they will not stay here for long anyway, so we might as well choose a suitable port as their temporary stopover." What do you say about not letting them enter the UK, just letting them have some food and water in the transit station, and letting the doctors treat their wounds, so that they can help them, and not let the medicines we aid go to Germany? Elizabeth, snuggled in George VI's arms, looked at her husband expectantly, she really wanted to help these poor Jewish children.
The relationship between George VI and his wife Elizabeth is very good, especially George VI still has a stuttering problem, and his wife has been silently supporting him behind his back, so in the face of his wife's expectations, George VI can't help but refuse. It was a sleepless night on this ordinary night for the British King and his wife at Buckingham Palace and Sister Demi in the Jewish refugee camp in Bremerhaven. Early the next morning, George VI, with red and swollen eyes, walked out of the bedroom quickly, but the queen, who usually accompanied George VI to breakfast, was still lying on the bed today, with the same red and swollen eyes, and the personal maid who handled Elizabeth's daily affairs even thought that the king and queen were quarrelling.
After a hasty breakfast, George VI instructed his chamberlain to call the current Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and summon Chamberlain and several cabinet ministers to Buckingham Palace. Although Britain retains the royal family, the royal family has long become a symbol of Britain, and George VI, as king, does not actually have the power to influence the cabinet. For some reason, Chamberlain and the cabinet ministers entered Buckingham Palace, I don't know what George VI said to them, and the attendants who have been guarding the door only know that after the prime minister and cabinet ministers left Buckingham Palace, George VI, as the king, actually ran all the way back to his and the queen's bedroom regardless of his identity.
"Tian, my letter to the church has been answered, the British royal family has promised to open a port for us as a temporary transit point for refugees, where they will provide refugees with humanitarian aid including food, medicine and free medical treatment" Sister Demi was completely unaware of the smile on the mercenary who gave her the idea. Sister Demi, who only wanted to help the Jewish refugees, did fall for Zhao Zhi's calculations and try her best to create difficulties in the refugee camp, and it was Zhao Zhi who gave the task to the mercenaries who stayed in Bremerhaven, and only in this way would the Red Cross personnel in the refugee camp follow Zhao Zhi's train of thought and consider asking the British for help.
Once Britain really opened its port to Jewish refugees, Zhao Zhi only needed to use a trick to send the elite troops that the German army had already assembled into Britain among the refugees, and with the help of the increasingly powerful Klim gangs, the elite German army that entered British territory could go all the way to London, so the kind-hearted Sister Demi did not know that because of her own letter, the empire on which the sun never set would be destroyed.