The stubborn Churchill stubbornly insisted on the war in order not to leave the British Empire "nothing" after the armistice.

But the civilians of the middle and lower classes, as well as the nearly 200,000 British soldiers who were captured, many of them could no longer hold on.

"Cheers, to Churchill, the dog!"

On 10 July, in a prisoner of war camp on a farm in Kiel, Germany, Major Wink celebrated his thirty-third birthday.

This prisoner camp in Kiel, which was once a dormitory for Chinese students studying in Kiel, and also housed a large number of imprisoned members of the German Communist Party, has now become the "new home" of British prisoners of war.

Major Winck, a British pilot captured at the Battle of Dunkirk, landed in the French-controlled area and was rescued and received by his own troops, but sadly, the Anglo-French forces were surrounded by the Germans. Then, with the annihilation of sixteen divisions of the British Expeditionary Force, the hapless Major Winck was taken prisoner for the second time.

Historically, Germany has always treated British and American prisoners of war much better than the Soviet Red Army prisoners of war on the Eastern Front, and they enjoyed better treatment in this plane. Lin Han believed that treating the opponent's prisoners of war well was an important means to end the war as soon as possible, and that mistreating the opponent's prisoners of war was unnecessary and would only have the opposite effect.

Because Major Wink himself was a major officer, he enjoyed certain preferential treatment in the German prisoner of war camp. Able to live in a prisoner of war camp for officers in better conditions, the Germans even arranged for him a British orderly.

The captured British prisoners of war, although imprisoned and subjected to daily forced labor on farms and mines, were paid by the Germans at the local price level - the French francs printed by the Germans in the French printing press. Prisoners of war can write letters to their families and receive parcels forwarded by their families to the International Red Cross.

On his thirty-third birthday, Major Wink received a package forwarded by his family to Guò Netherlands, in addition to household items such as clothing, razors, and shaving cream. And a bottle of wine.

So Major Wen used this bottle of wine to entertain a group of colleagues who had become prisoners of war with him. Knowing that today was Major Wen's birthday, the German warden who managed the prisoner of war camp even sent him a birthday cake made especially for him. In times of war, the cake was naturally very shabby, with a phrase written on it with margarine: Long live peace.

"Be kind to British prisoners of war, and then use the voices of their families to put more pressure on the British government. Forced the British out of the war. ”

The reason why these British prisoners of war were so good was entirely because of this perception of Lin Han. Including the Norwegian campaign, the German army captured nearly 180,000 British soldiers in a few months of war, and behind the number of 180,000, there were several times the number of military families.

The current top brass of the British government, for the sake of the arms dealers and their own interests, can grit their teeth and forcibly continue the war, but the families of these captured soldiers. They certainly only wanted the war to end as soon as possible, and to make good use of it, which was of great significance to ending the Anglo-German war as soon as possible.

In war, propaganda warfare, psychological warfare are equally important. The so-called good fighters do not have outstanding military exploits, and the kung fu outside these battlefields is as important as the war itself. Lin Han and Hannah also want to know when the people's anti-war sentiment is boiling more and more. Can the stubborn John Bulls continue the war regardless of the situation?

Major Wink in a prisoner-of-war camp is a prime example of this.

News of the surrender of France came in June. At that time, Major Winck also thought that the British government would soon sign an armistice agreement with Germany, and in his opinion, the German official armistice demand was not too much at all, neither the British war reparations, nor any demand for British armaments after the war, but only the return of some wild lands that had been cut off after the First World War.

But. Churchill rejected the offer from the Germans, and even the possibility of sitting down at the table to negotiate a price was blocked. On the evening of 25 June, Major Winck read the radio in the prisoner-of-war camp and heard Churchill on the radio to Germany stating that the British Empire would negotiate with Germany only on one condition, and that was at the table when Germany surrendered to Britain.

After hearing this statement. Major Wink was so angry that he almost smashed the radio, as were many of his fellow prisoners of war in the camp.

Since then, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has become the most resentful person of many British prisoners of war, such as today's birthday party of Major Wink, and the verbal toast is "Churchill who is a dog girl".

Although the Germans treated these captured British prisoners of war well, they were prisoners of war after all, and no matter how good the food standard was, it was only relative. Where is a bottle of wine enough for a dozen drunkard officers, and after cursing the "war madman Churchill", the little food and wine at the birthday party are quickly swept away.

At the end of the banquet, there was a knock on the door of the officers' quarters, and when the door opened, the chief of the prisoner camp entered.

"Major Wink? It's your birthday, and this is my birthday present to you, and you're going to love it. ”

The warden handed him a key with a number plate on it that read the number 403.

Soon Major Wink was taken out, and he was taken out of the prisoner of war camp and into a hotel-like building built on the side, which was specially used to receive the families of prisoners of war from abroad.

In room number 403, he saw his German wife, who had entered from England and the Netherlands, and Major Wink, who had been away from home for nearly half a year, was so excited that he hugged his wife.

The German soldier who escorted him over said in stiff English:

"You have a night to do anything interesting."

"Thank you!"

The German soldiers closed the door, and Major Wink was so moved that he kissed his wife passionately, when there was another knock on the door.

"Do you need this to prevent you from causing death? Ten francs apiece. ”

It's the same German soldier just now, with a condom in his hand.

"No, we're trying to make life."

The German soldier of the bad guy and good deeds was stunned for a moment, then smiled and took out another thing from his pocket, two pairs of nylon stockings.

"How about this? Your wife must love it, and it's going to be fun to do things in this one."

In the end, Major Wink traded his watch for four pairs of nylon stockings.

He didn't suffer. In times of war, nylon has become an important strategic material. And because the original inventor of nylon was killed, only Germany currently has the ability to produce nylon, and in the United States and the United Kingdom, nylon stockings are also extremely in-demand commodities, and can even be used as hard currency. (Nylon stockings were used as hard currency during World War II.) This is a historical fact, there is an old World War II movie with a similar plot of exchanging nylon socks for things).

The events of Major Wink's thirty-third birthday were made up the next day and broadcast on the German radio. For the purpose of protecting Major Wink and his family, a pseudonym was used in the broadcast.

"Churchill who is a good dog girl!"

When this toast was heard, in 10 Downing Street, Churchill's secretary, Miss Maggie, secretly squinted to observe the expression on Churchill's face, who had lost a lot of weight.

It's a pity that both politicians and politicians have a special presence in the main armor of battleships, and Miss Maggie can't see anything interesting.

"Damn Hitler!"

Churchill smoked a cigar. cursed him in his heart.

In the days after France's surrender, there was no single indiscriminate German bombing of Britain that he expected, and the few night bombers that broke into British airspace dropped only lethal leaflets.

Britain is being bombed, nothing more than "peaceful" propaganda bombing. Although the British media, at the behest of Churchill, disdained and ridiculed the olive branch of the peace talks offered by the Germans, the German Führer on the other side of the strait was as thick-skinned as Churchill and completely ignored the ridicule. He is still unrelentingly launching an "offensive for peace talks" and using propaganda to stir up public opinion. They wanted to use public opinion to kidnap the British government and Germany for peace talks.

Needless to say, the Labour Party, which has the nickname of a "traitor", even within the Conservative Party, there are also voices that want peace talks. Churchill was not afraid of the Germans' indiscriminate bombardment of Britain, but he was afraid of their propaganda offensive.

After the defeat and surrender of France, the reason why the British government can still hold on to the present is partly because of the continuous support of the Americans. He even sent special envoys to lobby members of Parliament and military wage earners to encourage the British government to continue the war. On the other hand, there were "insightful people" like Churchill in the British military who saw the tragic future prospects of the British Empire once the war ended like this.

In the previous war, the British government, which had already lost badly. has reached the miserable situation where if you don't gamble hard, you will lose and you can only ask for food.

In less than a month since the Battle of Dunkirk, Churchill has lost a full twenty pounds, and if this rate continues, his nickname "Qiu Fat Man" will soon become "Qiu Thin Man".

The Germans' high-profile propaganda of "peace talks" certainly troubled Churchill, but at present Churchill's greatest troubles were not in Germany, but in France, a former ally, which had surrendered in battle, or more precisely in the French Navy.

After the fall of France, the French had as many as 6 battleships, one of which happened to stay in England at the time of the surrender of France, and was seized by the British government. The remaining five are now in North African ports.

Before France signed the instrument of surrender, the French navy had actually broken away from the control of the Pétain government. The French navy, led by Darlan, did not want to be under the orders of the Pétain regime, nor did it want to join Churchill in leading the British army, which was historically the world's largest on paper, and did not want to join them when France was defeated. Not to mention the current era in which the number of capital ships of the British Navy is even worse than that of the French Navy.

Churchill's headache now was that once the French Navy joined the German Navy in the British landings, it would be an absolute disaster for the British government. (To be continued......)

ps: Regarding the question of chapter 317, at 5:20, the content of chapter 317 will be placed at the end of chapter 318 to facilitate the reading of the book on mobile phones. Because of the dot mother here,There is a lag when reading books on the phone.,A simple refresh can't see the new chapter R1292 after the change.