The crazy action of the mustache completely shocked the world, no one dared to imagine that the Germans dared to take the initiative to attack Britain and France, as a defeated country in the First World War, although Germany has danced happily in recent years, but in the eyes of many countries, it is still a weak country. No one believes that Germany can recover its strength so quickly under nearly two decades of sanctions and blockades by Britain, France and other countries.

Foreigners don't believe it, and the Germans themselves don't believe it, but the mustache proves to everyone with facts that the Germans have stood up, and the German nation wants to fulfill the last wish of Kaiser Wilhelm, and they want to build the huge empire they want.

In fact, the Germans should be grateful to Hitler, but also to the Americans, under Hitler's plan, Germany for the United States long-distance and close attack has achieved very good results, with the support of the United States on April 9, 1924 the American Dawes drew up a plan to solve the problem of reparations, known as the Dawes plan.

The reason why the United States wants to help Germany is not how sympathetic the Americans are, but that the Americans have to do it. As we all know, the United States was the victor of World War I, and at the same time, it was also the biggest beneficiary of World War I. It was precisely because of the four-year-long World War that the United States turned from a debtor country into a creditor country, and both Britain, France, and Germany owed a large amount of debt to the United States, and became the richest country in the world.

However, the First World War was a huge damage to Britain, France and Germany, although Britain and France were the victorious countries, but the victorious countries had no ability to repay their debts, and could only hope for war reparations from Germany, the defeated country. At that time, however, the situation in Germany was much worse than in England and France; The two countries are even more miserable, and the huge war reparations are just a long series of numbers on the paper. The annual reimbursements paid by Germany to Britain and France were very limited. In order to recover the large debts owed by Britain and France as soon as possible, the Americans had to help the Germans develop their economies.

The plan sought to secure the payment of reparations by means of restoring the German economy. The main contents were: The Entente countries should supervise the reorganization of the Deutsche Bank, carry out monetary reform, and have the Entente countries borrow 800 million gold marks (equivalent to 190 million US dollars) to stabilize their currency system, and stipulate the annual limit of Germany's reparations, that is, starting with 1 billion gold marks in 1924~1925, and increase year by year, to 2.5 billion gold marks in 1928~1929; Issued 11 billion gold mark railway bonds and 5 billion gold mark industrial bonds; Germany's financial foreign exchange, railway operations and tax collection are internationally regulated. Germany made the withdrawal of French and Belgian troops from the Ruhr a condition for accepting the reparations plan.

The implementation of the Dawes plan played an important role in the recovery and development of the German economy in the second half of the 20s. In 1924~1929, Germany paid reparations of 11 billion gold marks. However, Germany has received about 21 billion gold marks in various foreign loans through various channels. Dawes's plan not only put an end to the chaos in the German economy. A series of technical problems in Germany's continued reparations have been resolved, and the contradictions, struggles, and stalemate between the United States and France over the issue of German reparations have been greatly alleviated. Another issue is that the issue of Germany's war reparations to the Allied countries in the 20s was linked to the issue of repaying the war debts of the Allied countries to the United States after the war.

In fact, the Americans did a very successful job, and the "Dawes Plan" not only ended the dominant role of France and its controlled compensation committee on the German reparations issue, but also established a multinational domination mechanism dominated by the United States. At the same time, it created the conditions for the inflow of American private capital into Germany and the effective recovery of war debts from other Entente powers.

September 1924 to July 1931. Germany paid a total of 11 billion gold marks ($2.7 billion) in reparations. In the same period, Germany received about 21 billion gold marks (about 5 billion US dollars) in loans from the United States, Britain and other countries. Of this amount, the United States provided $2.25 billion to Germany. It was also during this period that the United States recovered about $2 billion in principal and interest on war debts from the Entente powers. In this way, batch after batch of dollars flowed into Germany from the United States. It then flowed into the Allied countries in the form of reparations, and finally back to the United States in the form of war debts, forming a cycle.

From today's point of view, it seems that Germany's multi-billion dollar bonds are not so much, but we can see that before the gold standard broke in the 70s, an ounce of gold was $35, and immediately after the break, it rose to $800 an ounce, and the depreciation of the currency can be seen to some extent. After World War I, gold was about 20 US dollars an ounce, the price of gold and silver was 1 to 10 to 20, the weight of the ounce was about the same as our city two (a pound of gold is 16 taels), our Xinchou treaty was only 450 million taels of silver, equivalent to about 500 million US dollars, and the military expenditure of the warlords during the Republic of China was tens of millions of US dollars.

So don't underestimate the role of these billions, which were worth far more than we could have imagined. At the same time, the Yingyang in the silver dollar in circulation in China was a silver coin of one dollar, and the dollar at that time was comparable to our silver tael or two, so you will know what the concept of these billions of dollars flowing into Germany is! The sum of all the modern indemnities in China is still far behind!

The key to the success of Germany and Hitler himself lies in the systematic analysis and positioning of the forces of all parties in the world, and it is definitely not the madness like a madman as we say, and at the same time, like a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, just encountering an appeasement government in which all countries in the world have surrendered. Just like the founding of our country is the same as the article "Analysis of Social Strata" back then. It successfully transformed the country's debt into a debt to international financial capital, integrated Germany's development with the interests of global financial capital, and at the same time used the influence of these financial capital in each country to lead the appeasement of Germany by various countries, giving Hitler room for expansion.

Hitler did it, and after nearly a decade of lying on the back, Germany's strength has far exceeded the expectations of Britain, France and other countries. A powerful Germany is not terrible, but what is terrible is the grievances and grievances that have accumulated within the entire German nation for more than 20 years, and this is a huge spiritual strength and a high degree of cohesion of the national will. Just like the Chinese people after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 49 years, it is precisely because of the rational use of that national spirit that they were able to complete the agrarian revolution, complete the suppression of counter-revolution, complete the three-anti-five anti-movement in a very short period of time, and even defeat the invincible US empire, resulting in the United States signing an armistice agreement without victory for the first time.

In the same way, this powerful spiritual power was enough to destroy the world, but it is a pity that the master of the German nation was a war maniac, who used foreign expansion as an outlet to vent national grievances, and the result was to cause a world war in Europe that was far larger than the First World War.

The German attacks on France, Belgium, Portugal, and Luxembourg quickly became the most eye-catching event in 1940, when the Japanese were quiet, the Soviets were quiet, and the Chinese were also quietly waiting for the final change in the European war situation.

However, neither Britain nor France, the United States and the Soviet Union nor other countries did not expect the German attack to be so sharp, when Germany's powerful armored forces suddenly came out of the Ardennes Mountains, the British and French coalition forces, which were not ready for war at all, were completely stunned, Luxembourg, a small country with a population of only 300,000, announced its surrender on the same day, Portugal also announced its surrender after holding out for a few days, and the most important thing is that France, which has always been favored by people, broke everyone to the ground with glass balls this time.

This German blitzkrieg proved to the Europeans once again that Guderian was a military genius, and his 19th Panzer Corps easily broke through the loose resistance of the Belgian army, and it took only two days to cross the 110-kilometer gorge of the Ardennes and penetrate the French realm. And Guderian's 3 armored divisions soon crossed the Maas, opening the way to Paris and the English Channel.

The German armored clusters drove straight in, and their power and speed were unheard of in the history of warfare. France was in a panic. In the early morning of March 2, French Prime Minister Paul . Renault frustrated to give only 5 days ago to replace Neville. Chamberlain as British Prime Minister Winston. Churchill called and said, "We're going to lose this battle." ”

The pace of Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps not only caught the Allied forces off guard, but also unnerved the German high command, and Kleist twice ordered Guderian to halt his advance, but he did not hesitate to resign in protest. After the ban was lifted, the 19th Panzer Corps was moving faster than before, so much so that when they encountered a group of scattered French soldiers on the road, they did not want to delay the time to get out of the car and take prisoners, and the Germans only shouted with loudspeakers: "We have no time to take you prisoners, you must lay down your arms and leave the road, so as not to get in the way." ”

On 3 March, Guderian urged his three Panzer Divisions to move westward, aiming to reach the Dunkirk area on the eastern shore of the English Channel. Four days later, Guderian swept Amiens and reached the English Channel near Abbeville. At this time, the German high command did not expect that the battle in France would go so smoothly, so it did not know how to deploy troops for a while. It was not until the next day that they gave the order to the tank troops: to advance north from Abwehr, with the goal of capturing the ports of the strait.

As soon as Guderian received the order, he immediately decided: the 10th Panzer Division would advance towards Dunkirk; The 1st Panzer Division advanced towards Calais; The 2nd Panzer Division advanced towards Boulogne.

Guderian knew that the offensive line formed by his Army Group A from Sedan to the west coast of France had cut off the retreat of the French army from the north to the south. To the north, Bock's Army Group B had captured the Netherlands and eastern Belgium, and the left flank of the main force of more than 700,000 British and French troops was actually under deep encirclement by the Germans. The only hope of escape is in the northern French seaports, including Dunkirk. Therefore, he must quickly occupy these seaports in order to completely cut off the other side's sea retreat. (To be continued......)