Chapter 827: Germany Surrenders

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Although the Pacific War was not completely victorious, the success of the peace talks allowed the United States to concentrate all its forces on fighting Germany and at the same time competing with the Soviet Union for Europe. However, because the German army had to reserve enough troops to prevent the Allies from landing in France, the number of troops that could be sent to the Iberian Peninsula and Italy was limited, and the decline in oil and steel production caused the German army's mechanization to begin to regress and seriously affected the combat effectiveness. However, under the stubborn resistance of the German army, the Allies crossed the Pyrenees and headed north to France in August 1950

At this time, the manpower of the United States and Germany was on the verge of exhaustion, but after all, the United States had a large number of people and many younger brothers to provide cannon fodder, so after killing millions of people (including about 400,000 American troops), the American army still rushed to the city of Paris before the winter of this year. During this period, the two countries also dropped some atomic bombs on each other in the old way, but because the United States produced more than three times more atomic bombs than Germany, and the air-dropped atomic bombs were much more lethal than nuclear torpedoes (Note 1), the losses caused by a nuclear attack to Germany were much greater than those of the United States.

In the case of the continuous defeat of the front, the number of people who oppose Mustache in Germany is increasing, and the American and British governments have also launched a propaganda offensive to declare that as long as Mustache is still the head of Germany, they will never negotiate peace with the German government, which further arouses the determination of anti-Greek people in Germany to get rid of him.

December 1950. Although Mustache was assassinated and fortunately escaped for a while, the generals in the army, who had become completely disillusioned with him, took advantage of the chaos to mutiny, and there were many generals who remained loyal to Mustache, which quickly turned into a situation of civil war, bringing unprecedented trauma and pain to the German people.

In the spirit of "taking advantage of his illness to kill him." The Soviet Union and the Balkan coalition took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Eastern Front, the German army that was shaken by the military spirit collapsed on all fronts, and the Soviet Union's steel torrent quickly exerted its advantage in mobility after breaking through the defense line, and rushed all the way, taking East Prussia, the birthplace of modern Germany, before the Allies acted. and soon surrounded Berlin, the capital of Germany. Under the onslaught of Soviet officers and soldiers regardless of sacrifice. Berlin, which had become an isolated city, had finally fallen, and the mustache had committed suicide in despair

It was only by this time that the Allied High Command gave the order for a full-scale offensive to the troops at the front, but in the end it was still a step too slow. They had just liberated the Low Countries and a small swath of southwestern Germany. The rest of German territory was already occupied by the Soviets. The young master soldiers of the U.S. military may also be brave. However, in the difficult environment of ice and snow, the combat effectiveness is far from being comparable with that of the Soviet army.

The land was occupied, and the Germans could not surrender even if they did not want to. The official surrender ceremony was already in mid-February 1951. Although after the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces fought hard in various battlefields, but because of this time and space, China rose ahead of time and became a-stirring stick that the world powers hated, and the Second World War, which ended in 1945, was fought until 1951, and the damage and losses caused to all countries in the world were naturally much greater than in history

According to the rough statistics of the governments after the war, if the Spanish Civil War (the Chinese government hopes to take the "77 Incident" as the starting point of World War II, but Western countries cannot deny that the War of Resistance against Japan was an important part of World War II out of the idea of "Western-centrism", so the Spanish Civil War is set as the starting point of World War II. More than 120 million people died during World War II, and the total military expenditure amounted to $2.6 trillion, and if you include the property damage in the war, it is close to $6 trillion, and the indirect economic losses are even more difficult to calculate

As in history, the Soviet Union suffered the most during World War II, and both the data and the actual situation fully reflect that the Soviet Union was far more severely injured than in history, with more than 40 million soldiers and civilians killed (about 26.6 million in history) and no less than $500 billion ($200 billion in history) in direct economic losses, and tens of millions of square kilometers of territory in the East, which at first glance seems to have completely lost the possibility of becoming a superpower. But if the Soviet Union was able to fully absorb the three Nordic countries that it annexed in the war, its development potential would not be inferior to that of history, although this would not be easy to do

Although the absolute value of the losses is certainly the largest, the increase compared with the historical losses, the Soviet Union is relatively small, and the United States, which has successfully become a fisherman in history, has not been able to pick up any bargains in this time and space. The total number of military and civilian deaths (including "missing") exceeded 7.2 million (historically more than 400,000), and the number of immigrants who poured into the United States during World War II was no less than 3 million in the same period in history, which is a high-quality population that has greatly contributed to the post-war development of the United States. The heavy cost of direct economic losses of more than $1 trillion (historically $350 billion) would have been a recipe for national demise if it had been put on the head of any other country, but the United States had become the world's only superpower after the war, and its abundant capital was amazing.

The United Kingdom and France, with the former losing nearly 6.5 million people (historically less than 400,000) and more than $500 billion in direct economic losses (historically $150 billion), and France, which lost more than 5.8 million people (historically less than 600,000) and more than $300 billion in direct economic losses. Other countries with huge losses include the Arab Federation (more than 8 million deaths), the Balkan Federation (nearly 7 million deaths), Spain (no less than 6 million deaths), etc., while the two most important members of the Axis powers, Germany and Japan, suffered particularly heavy losses, the former killed nearly 9 million soldiers and civilians, and the direct economic losses were as high as more than 800 billion US dollars (300 billion US dollars in history), while the latter also had about 7 million deaths. Direct economic losses of no less than $300 billion (historically $100 billion)

Note 1: Although the probability of interception is much higher, with the depletion of German reserve pilot resources and the continuous improvement of the performance of American jet aircraft, Germany's domestic air supremacy has been shaky, and the success rate of the Americans in dropping atomic bombs has increased significantly. (To be continued......)