This is a huge amount of money, and historically this money was returned to the original country that held the gold, which is basically a division of the countries exploited by the Nazis, and there is not much to spread out from a dozen countries.

Of course, this is history, and now Li Xiaofeng is not ready to return this money, and of course it is not a private embezzlement, after this money is deducted, it can be returned to countries that are willing to follow the baton of the Soviet Union in the form of loans.

But the money was still too little, at least a fraction of the wealth that the Germans had plundered. The main reason is that the Germans hid a lot of wealth when they were defeated, and it was the above one that the Allies found.

In this time and space, Li Xiaofeng has been paying attention to this issue for a long time, after all, this money is very important to post-war Europe, and with this money, not to mention completely solving the economic difficulties of Central and Eastern Europe, at least it will not make inflation so bad.

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng has actually been staring at the wealth plundered by the Nazis, setting a point to mark this wealth, and just looking for it according to the map after occupying Germany in the future.

It's just that when Li Xiaofeng really understood the trend of these wealth, he couldn't help but be a little angry. Because a considerable part of this wealth went to Switzerland and Sweden. The two countries received a large number of orders from the Nazis, which were paid for by the Nazis with looted gold. That is, a considerable part of the wealth went into the pockets of Switzerland and Sweden.

Especially after the end of the war, this loss of wealth showed an increasing trend, and the Nazis shipped a large amount of gold to Switzerland. Between 1939 and 1945 alone, the Swiss Central Bank obtained more than 300 tons of gold worth 1.7 billion Swiss francs from Germany, of which more than 100 tons worth 500 million Swiss francs were looted by the Nazis from the Central Bank of Belgium.

With the "help" of the Swiss bank, Hitler received valuable foreign exchange to buy on the world market important materials for sustaining the war, such as chromium, a precious metal indispensable for the manufacture of armor-piercing shells, and tungsten, which improved the strength of tank armor. In 1943, Nazi Minister of Economy Funk emphasized: "Without Switzerland as a foreign exchange channel, Germany will not be able to sustain the war for more than two months." The Vice-President of the Imperial Bank simply put it bluntly: "It is politically important for Switzerland to allow free foreign exchange trading, and it is a fundamental principle that we still keep it independent." ”

In addition to corporate transactions, UBS was also responsible for helping high-ranking Nazi officials preserve their private property. At the end of World War II, Nazi leaders saw the future of the empire and transferred their looted ill-gotten gains to the vaults of Swiss banks, in a vain attempt to escape the Allies by relying on the protection of the Swiss Bank Secrecy Act after the war. After the war, we can see that Hitler's Air Marshal Goering, Minister of Economy Funk, and Foreign Minister Ribbentrop all had anonymous accounts in Swiss banks -- of course, Swiss banks would not take the initiative to confess this.

Let's put it this way, in the impression of the world, the US imperialists are the ones who ate the pot-bellied poop in World War II, but to be honest, the Americans paid a huge price for the benefits of World War II. People. Needless to say, the importance of the main national arsenal was that after the end of the war, the United States still paid real money to save Western Europe, regardless of its purpose.

Compared with the United States, Switzerland nominally remained neutral, but in fact it was secretly in tune with the Nazis, standing on the side of the ******, and after the war, it did not repent at all, and used all kinds of rogue means to refuse to hand over immoral profits, thus earning huge economic benefits.

Why was the welfare and per capita standard of living so high in Switzerland in later generations? It was very important to make a fortune as Germany's right-hand man in World War II.

Some comrades may ask, if Switzerland is so hateful, why did the Allies not hold it accountable after the war? Quite simply, first, Switzerland's behaviour is egregious, but it is carried out within the limits of the rules, and its banking protection laws and special neutral status make it difficult to get caught. Second, the Cold War broke out soon after the end of World War II, and in the special environment of East-West confrontation, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had the energy to clean up Switzerland for the time being. This allowed Switzerland to eat large pieces of fat into its mouth unharmed.

However, Li Xiaofeng will not let go of Switzerland, a considerable part of the wealth of the whole of Europe has been eaten by this girl, and in the end, those of us who are desperate for justice only have a mess, how can it be so cheap!

Switzerland also wants to pay only 250 million Swiss francs, as it has done historically, which is simply not possible. To say the least, Switzerland has to spit out at least 1.5 billion Swiss francs of gold, and also hand over all the secret accounts of the Nazis and the property that originally belonged to the Jews.

You must know that in history, the Americans let Switzerland go out of consideration of their own interests, and France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries at that time were eager to tear Switzerland apart. The main country's voice in the international arena was greatly reduced, and the British were not concerned about their own affairs, which made the Americans help Switzerland fool over. Anyway, Li Xiaofeng doesn't mind helping France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries to get ahead, even if he uses the strong, he has to squeeze out the money.

With this money, the financial situation in Europe is much better, and the financial stick of the Americans is not so powerful. In other words, Europe will re-emerge earlier than in history, and presumably at that time the nationalists, led by Charles de Gaulle, will be desperate to get rid of American influence.

And independent Western Europe will greatly reduce the international influence of the Americans, and it will not be so easy for the Americans to tie Western Europe to their chariots as they have historically. In other words, under the general pattern of the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union, if the Soviet Union behaves less aggressively and releases enough goodwill (financial assistance), Western Europe will be more neutral, and without the flag-waving cry of Western Europe, the global strategy of the United States will not say that it will completely withdraw from Europe, at least it will not be able to dictate to Western Europe as it has historically.

In this way, the danger of both cold and hot confrontation in the Western European direction is greatly reduced. Without sharp confrontation, the economy of Europe as a whole will not be as distinct as it was during the Cold War in history, and the agricultural and sideline products of Eastern Europe and Central Europe can enter the markets of Western Europe, and the industrial products of Western Europe can also flow into Central and Eastern Europe normally.

Stabilizing this end will allow the Soviet Union to devote more energy to the direction of the Middle East, not to mention turning the world upside down, at least it will make it difficult for the oil bosses in the Middle East to make money with peace of mind. If the oil industry in the Middle East is not as strong as it was historically, then the energy consumed by the economy of Western Europe will inevitably depend on the Soviet Union.

Li Xiaofeng's plan is perfect, but whether it can be realized really depends on the performance of the Red Army on the battlefield. So how exactly did the Red Army behave on the battlefield? Let's talk about it one by one from north to south.

The northernmost point is not the Baltic Sea, but Scandinavia. The Snow Army under the Northern Front went all the way south from Narvik, and the German army pointed out by the soldiers was fleeing in despair, and it would not be possible if they did not escape. As far as the small number of troops that Germany deployed in Norway were concerned, they were really no match for the Red Army, and this road was almost a flat push. By mid-August 1944, the remaining German troops could only hold Oslo, and it was optimistically estimated that Norway would be recovered in ten days and half a month at most.

Further south was the Jewish war, and with the German Army Group North being redeployed, the Jews and the Red Army in East Prussia had begun a counteroffensive on a limited scale, and although not much progress had been made, it indicated that the Baltic theater, which had been passively defended for three years since the beginning of the war, could finally be blocked by the Germans.

According to the plan of the Military Commission, a full-scale counteroffensive will be launched in this area in September, which will force the Germans to transfer troops from the central and southern fronts to relieve the frontal pressure on Rokossovsky, Zhukov, Vasilevsky, Konev and others.

Further south is Warsaw, where Rokossovsky and Zhukov's troops arrived on the banks of the Sva River almost simultaneously in early July. The slight difference was that Rokossovsky's main forces were basically in order, while Zhukov was only in the vanguard. The competition between the two-seater carriages seems to have been won by a little bit by Rokossovsky. It seemed that Rokossovsky was about to become the liberator of Warsaw.

Of course, Zhukov was a little unconvinced by this, who doesn't like honors and medals, especially in a large city of great significance like Warsaw, and being able to liberate such a large city not only means military honor, but also political status. Who doesn't want fame and status?

So at one time Zhukov was lobbying everywhere, not to mention completely monopolizing the title of liberator of Warsaw, but at least he also got a piece of the pie, didn't he? It's just that to Zhukov and Rokossovsky's disappointment, Li Xiaofeng vetoed their proposal, and a certain immortal suggested that they should not fight Warsaw! Besiege for a few months.

Why did Li Xiaofeng make such a suggestion to make peace with the mud? There are several reasons for this, first, although Warsaw was the first major city on the way of the Red Army's advance into Germany, and it has a strong symbolic meaning, but to tell the truth, this is just a symbolic meaning. There are also more symbolic cities such as Berlin and Amsterdam, so what is a mere Warsaw?

The second reason is very practical, a large city like Warsaw, with a population of one million, is definitely a huge logistical burden. Once the city is liberated, millions of people will have to eat and clothe, which is a huge burden. The logistical support of the Red Army was originally reluctant, and how could it be carried out with such a burden?

In Li Xiaofeng's view, a big city like Warsaw is simply a loss-making business, and taking it is just a good face, but the inside is a clean loss. It is better to bypass it and continue to develop in depth in Poland to conquer cities faster.

As for the last reason why Li Xiaofeng did not intend to take Warsaw, it was that he knew very well that the Poles would soon revolt and die. It was a pleasure to watch Polish footcloths being killed by the Germans, who in history killed 200,000 footcloths in Warsaw. If you can save a little trouble, you can reduce a little burden, that is, a little, the post-war materials are very tight!

Some comrades may want to say that you are inhumane and that you are cruel. Anyway, Poland is also a victim of World War II and contributed to World War II, so it's too unkind to make people like this, right?

Is it kind? The Poles were not kind, okay or not. A year earlier, on April 19, 1943, when the Jews in Warsaw had revolted, what did the Poles choose? Not only is it a soy sauce onlooker, but it also helps to make it inferior, why can't Li Xiaofeng be the fifteenth when you are the first year of junior high school?

Anyway, he was not used to the stinky virtues of the Poles, and when he talked about World War II, he was a handful of snot and tears, saying that Hitler was not a good thing, and that the Soviet Union was also cheating them (Katyn tragedy). Not to mention the Katyn massacre, how did you deal with the Red Army in 1921? Some debts that come out of the mix must be repaid, and you can't always selectively forget, right?

Besides, Hitler's enslavement of Poland, are the Poles really that miserable? It may seem quite miserable, but Poland has lost about 5.6 million to 5.8 million people. But we can't just look at the data, we have to analyze carefully, are all these 5.8 million people "Poles"? They are indeed "Poles" in terms of nationality, but in terms of ethnicity, a considerable part of these 5.8 million people are Jews!

During World War II, 5.7 million Jews died in the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland, although there is no specific data on how many Jews died in Poland. But we can extrapolate from the death data in Hungary and the Netherlands about how many Jews died in Poland. In World War II, 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded in the Netherlands, and 580,000 soldiers and civilians were killed or wounded in Hungary, which means that the total casualties of soldiers and civilians (including Jews) in these two countries were less than one million. One can imagine what percentage of this would be Jewish.

Even let's use the greatest malice to estimate that the deaths in the Netherlands and Hungary are all Jews, and then apply the 5.7 million Jewish casualties data of the three countries, how much is left after subtracting? 4.82 million! Looking at the Polish military and civilian casualty data, the total is only 5.6 million to 5.8 million, which means that less than a million Poles have died, and the rest are all Jewish souls.

What's more, we still estimated the data of the Netherlands and Hungary with the greatest malice, in fact, it is impossible for all the deaths in these two countries to be Jews, so you can imagine how many casualties of the real Poles can be?

So were the Poles good to the Jews in World War II? Did they really regard the Jews as their own people? The answer is no, the Poles were the worst offenders in the large concentration camps in Poland, and they did not really feel that these poor creatures were their own countrymen when they slaughtered the Jews. Looking at the attitude of the Poles towards the Jews after the war, it was still shouting and shouting to kill, and after the war, Poland set off an upsurge of deportation and persecution of Jews, and more than 63,000 Jews were expelled from Poland from July to September 1946 alone.

So the Poles are really not worthy of sympathy, the sincerity is very fake. Naturally, Li Xiaofeng is not interested in rescuing them, so you can continue to die, the more you die, the better!

In Li Xiaofeng's planning, Poland can directly crush the past, and it really doesn't need to pay too much energy. Anyway, even if there are too many benefits for this group of foot wipes, they will be white-eyed wolves in the future. Think back then, the Soviet Union was really the first in Eastern Europe to Poland, but what happened later? Look at who is the most powerful anti-Russian in later generations, and it is Poland!

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng exerted his influence to let Zhukov and Rokossovsky, the two major attack spearheads, bypass Warsaw and go straight forward. As for the German army in Warsaw, didn't there be a second line of the Central Front as a reserve behind it, and the second-line troops fought a tough battle, and it was quite easy to encircle a city.

Further south, Czechoslovakia was Vasilevsky's dish, and both Bratislava and Prague would have satisfied him. As for Konev, there are also Budapest and Vienna on the offensive route, and he should also be able to be satisfied. As for who will go to Berlin in the end, it will depend on who moves faster between Rokossovsky and Zhukov, and this goal will make them full of energy. As for the loser of the two, Li Xiaofeng is also ready to appease him, Constantinople is probably more significant to the Slavs than Berlin!

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng has already distributed the benefits after the war, not to mention that the generals of the Red Army are satisfied, but everyone must have a share, and everyone is happy!

On 25 August, when Rokossovsky and Zhukov received an order from Li Xiaofeng to encircle Warsaw and hand over the work of encirclement of Warsaw, which had just caught up, to prepare for the westward advance of the whole army, the Warsaw Uprising broke out.

According to the leader of the Warsaw uprising, Bor. What does Komorowski mean that Germany is already on the verge of collapse, and if the Poles do not rise up quickly, in the future the power of Poland will fall into the hands of the Soviet Union, which is not equivalent to the First World War in vain?

Bor. Komorowski believed that an uprising must be launched first, and if it succeeded, it would welcome back the government-in-exile in London, so that Britain and the United States would inevitably support Poland, and then Poland would be able to drive out the hated Russians.

Truth be told, this is naïve, because the Soviet Union could never sit idly by and watch Poland get out of its control, let alone let Poland fall into the arms of Britain and the United States. It can only be said that Bauer. Komorowski was thinking too simply, and of course there was also credit to the British, especially Learvine and MI6...... (To be continued.) )