494 Retaliation and punishment
Li Xiaofeng is so practical, he doesn't care whether you are forced to board the Axis chariot or not, as long as you do evil in the Soviet Union, then you must pay the price. How can you follow the Germans to eat and drink spicy food, and now that the German ship is sinking, it is ready to be pushed cleanly? It's not that simple!
Whether it is liquidation or punishment, this account must be calculated, and it must not be vaguely fooled. Therefore, the Central and Eastern European countries will either agree to the post-war revival plan of the Soviet Union and obediently hand over one-third of the shares, or they will follow the historical practice of the Soviet Union, beat the big stick and tie it up with iron chains, depending on how you choose!
To tell the truth, Li Xiaofeng is not pleasing to the eyes of these grandsons in Central and Eastern Europe. Typical milk is a mother. I think that when the Soviet Union collapsed later, these grandsons were quite happy, and they did a lot of bad things, and they thought that if they took refuge in the West, they would become rich and noble next.
The result? More than 20 years have passed, and I am really rich, no, how many families should be said to be well-off? That is, because Poland is close to Germany, it has become well-off by exporting human resources. The rest of Czechoslovakia is a rotten sore in Europe, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary are more recessionary than before the upheavals in Eastern Europe. As for Yugoslavia? The country is gone, falling apart like a piece of glass.
To put it simply, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe thought that by turning to the West, they could get rid of economic shackles and become developed. But what they didn't expect was that not only in the East but also in the West, the little brother would only be cold and cold, and there would never be a gluttonous feast. Even in Central and Eastern Europe, which has been thrown under the door of the West, not even everyone has enough to eat, and the once industrial system has been completely destroyed, and it has fallen to a point that is not even as good as the Soviet era.
As for what overthrew the privileged class, it is even more of a joke, after the full westernization of the Soviet Union, there is no political privileged class, but instead it is replaced by various oligarchs who control the lifeblood of the country, is there an essential difference? Anyway, the life of the little people is still sad, and the magnates are even more unscrupulous to start the carnival.
This fully illustrates that no matter what system or era, there is no way out when a dog is sincere, and it can only be **** forever.
Of course, these words are still a bit far away, and according to Li Xiaofeng's estimate, it will take two more years to complete the mess of Central and Eastern Europe according to his plan. After all, the Red Army had to destroy its original system first, and then liquidate the remnants of its Axis powers, and only after all this was done and the situation in Central and Eastern Europe could it negotiate a deal with the US imperialists. Otherwise, you yourself won't be able to gain a firm foothold, and the US emperor will fall down with a light squeeze on you, which is called a tragedy.
Li Xiaofeng paid more attention to the liquidation of the remnants of the Axis powers, which is a very crucial task, and it should be said that historically, whether in the East or in the West, the liquidation of racism against the Nazis and others has not been thorough.
There may be comrades who want to put forward different opinions, and it is generally believed that Germany has done a good job in liquidation and reform, and the only thing that makes people suspicious in this regard is the devil! No, Germany's liquidation for various reasons is not complete, and as for Austria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and France, it can only be said that they have gone through the motions.
Not convinced? Let's use the data to speak. Let's start with Austria, another home of the Nazis. According to the common perception of later generations, it seems that Austria was forced to be tied to the Nazi chariot and was innocent. Is this really the case? How many Nazis were there in this country of 7 million people? Up to 700,000! That is, one out of every ten Austrians is a damned Nazi. Even at the end of the war, there were 536,000 Nazis "registered" in the country. During the war, 1.2 million Austrians served the Nazis, and Austrians were proportionally large in the SA, SS, and notorious concentration camp administrators!
In Austria, Nazi sympathizers were widely distributed in public life and in high-level cultural circles. To give a simple example, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has 45 Nazi members out of 117 members, while the Berliner Philharmoniker has only 8 Nazis out of 110 members!
See, this is the very "innocent" Austria, after the end of the war, as Hitler's "first victim" it was let go, and it was easily exonerated of its guilt. Only 130,000 Austrians were investigated for war crimes (just investigations), of which 23,000 were tried, but of the 13,600 convicted, only 43 were sentenced to death, and only 30 were actually put to death!
Could it be that there really were only 30 damned Nazis in Austria? Apparently more than that, but even more stunning, in 1947 the Austrian authorities passed a law that classified Nazis who committed crimes into "high" and "low" categories. Half a million of the latter were granted amnesty in 1948. In the former, about 42,000 people were also granted amnesty in 1956.
After this, the Austrians completely forgot all the ugly crimes they had committed in the war, and forgot that they had colluded with Hitler. The conservative People's Party (formerly the pre-war Christian Socialist Party) tried every reason to prove that the party, as well as Austria, was "non-Nazi" and "non-Germanic" in order to deflect the fact of the all-round cooperation they had established with the Nazis in 1934. Even the less controversial anti-Nazi Austrian Socialist Party did everything possible to erase the historical record of the 1933 call for reunification with Germany.
Why is that? Because there are so many Nazis in Austria that they make up more than a tenth of the population, and these guys also belong broadly to the country's elite. It is impossible for any political party to offend these elites. On the contrary, they need the advocacy of these elites, and they need the votes of these elites. Appeasement, flattery, and covering up the disgraceful record of these elites is the way to go.
Not only Austria, but even Germany, which had been educated very "successfully", was afraid that the punishment of the Nazis would be the same thing. For example, the world-famous Nuremberg Trials were not as effective as imagined. In the initial trials of the camp commanders and guards, a large number of demons escaped punishment. The lawyers, who took advantage of the common law adversarial system, cross-examined and intimidated and humiliated witnesses and concentration camp survivors during the trial, and finally walked out of the courtroom with dignity under the pretext of "being forced to carry out the order". Do you want to say it's fair?
As for the re-education of those ex-Nazis to a lesser extent, to be honest, education has an egg when the law doesn't work. For example, the Americans came up with an educational method: German citizens had to visit concentration camps and watch documentaries about Nazi atrocities. Teachers of the Nazi era were purged.
But for these measures, the Germans were quite resistant. On 5 May 1946, Konrad, who later became Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. In a public speech, Adenauer openly opposed denazification measures and demanded that Nazi "fellow travelers" be brought to peace. Two months later, in a speech to his newly formed Christian Democratic Union, he again expressed the same view – that denazification had lasted too long and was unbeneficial. He also argues that leaving Germans to face the crimes of the Nazis, whether trials, courts, or re-education programs, would provoke nationalist antagonism rather than remorse. Silence should be allowed and even encouraged at this time.
See, this is a well-educated German, a German who repents of his sins. Writer Stephen. Hermlin described a scene in a Frankfurt theater showing a documentary about Nazi atrocities. At that time, Germans were required to watch this type of documentary before receiving their ration cards, and "in the flickering light of the projector, I saw that from the beginning of the film, most people turned their faces away, and then until the end of the screening." Now I think that these turned faces were the real attitude of millions of Germans at that time......"
Obviously, it's one thing for Germans to watch documentaries, but it's another thing for them to watch them or not, and whether they actually reflect on them. Even with the advent of the Cold War, this kind of pretended re-education activities were canceled, who let NATO need the Germans to be cannon fodder!
In 1946, about half of the German secondary school teachers were dismissed because they were all Nazis, but it took only two years for the gang to be reinstated. According to statistics, in 1951 in Bavaria, 44 per cent of judges and prosecutors, 77 per cent of officials in the Ministry of Finance, and 60 per cent of civil servants in the regional Ministry of Agriculture were Nazis. In 1942, a third of the officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn were Nazis, and 43% of the diplomatic corps were former SA members and 17% were Gestapo!
And that's not all, Germany's universities and legal profession are the hardest hit, the vast majority of whom were sympathizers of the Hitler regime. Rhineland-Palatinate Police Inspector General William Brown. Hauser was an SS officer during the war and was directly responsible for the Belarusian massacre.
What do you ask the attitude of the German population, haha, that's even more ridiculous! At the end of the Nuremberg Trials in October 1946, only 6% of Germans admitted that the Nuremberg Trials were "unfair", and four years later, in 1950, a third of Germans held this view? Strange? Shocked? Not necessarily, because the Germans did not repent at all, and in those years the vast majority of Germans always believed that "Nazism was a good idea, but it was implemented that something went wrong." In November 1946, 37 percent of Germans surveyed in the U.S.-occupied zone believed that "a survey of Poles, Jews, and other non-Aryans was necessary for Germans."
Let's put it this way, a third of Germans at the time believed that "Jews should not have the same rights as those belonging to the Aryan race." This is not the most surprising thing, what is even more surprising is that six years later, in 1952, the Federal Republic of Germany conducted another poll and the proportion of Germans who believed that "it is better to have no Jews on German soil" even increased! In the same year, 25% of Germans openly admitted to having a favorable opinion of Hitler.
Isn't it shocking! Isn't it subversive?
The war ended, and those who committed crimes were not punished, but refused to repent. Isn't it surprising that this seems to be completely different from what we knew after the war, and that sometimes we have to look back and think about it?
Anyway, Li Xiaofeng is not surprised at all, you only have to look at the living conditions of the German people in 1945 to know that they could not fundamentally oppose Nazis and racism. During this long war, the Nazis took extraordinary care of them, enjoying the dividends of the war plundered from the countries of Europe. It was the Allies who were carpet-bombing who really hurt them, and it was clear that the Germans were afraid that they were the victims.
This can also be seen in the social trends in Germany that are still one of the most racist countries to this day. After the war, Germany was forced to eliminate the flags, totems, and rituals of the Nazi Party, and the kind of visceral discrimination still existed. Germany's radical transformation can only be called formalism, and it has only stripped away the Nazi showmanship.
Sometimes you have to think about it, Comrade Iron connived at the robbery of the Red Army and forced women to do so, which seems to be a very good way to relieve hatred. For these bastards who enjoy the dividends of the war, and suck the bones of the Jews and the Slavs, they must be beaten until they cry out in pain. Why should you be polite to these demons?
In any case, the Jews would probably approve of this approach, because, unlike what we know, after the end of World War II, the living conditions of the Jews did not improve substantially. Maybe they were released from the concentration camps, maybe they regained their freedom, but they gave more.
Simply put, the wealth of the Jews before the war was reduced to ashes. The houses and real estate of the Jews were all divided. When these poor people tried to return home, they found that their houses had been occupied, and the robbers who had taken possession of their property refused to leave, but instead threatened and abused the poor creatures who had just been rescued, and drove them away.
This is not an isolated phenomenon, but a universal phenomenon, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, from Northern Europe to Southern Europe. Why were the British not in a hurry to implement the Balfour Declaration before the war, but after the war they were given the green light. Because millions of Jews were homeless, and as victims of war, the Allies could no longer raise their butcher's knives against them, as the Nazis did. can only send these people to their hometown in disguise.
Others may refer to German reparations to the Jews, often as a sign of German repentance. Isn't this Nima, you killed millions of Jews in World War II, and after the war, you seized the property of the Jews and didn't give it, shouldn't you lose money? It is natural to repay debts, is it normal to ask creditors to be grateful to Dade?
So why did these people, who had contributed to the atrocities of the Nazis during the war, go unpunished? One reason is that there are too many of them, and there will not be a few clean people in the whole of Germany in 1510, so will they be killed? The second reason is that these people are still useful, whether it's to maintain rule or create value, they can use it, can't they?
Remember what Patton said about the Nazis in a previous chapter? The four-star general may be a big mouth, but sometimes he just tells the truth. If you want to dominate the occupied territories as quickly as possible, then these Nazis are really useful. To cite a simple example, in 1941 Germany took control of occupied Norway with only 806 officials. The Nazis ruled France, and it only took 1,500 of their own men to ensure that a large country with a population of 35 million obeyed its orders. The same is true in the Netherlands.
Seeing this, you don't know whether to admit that the Germans are indeed efficient, or whether countries like France and the Netherlands are all scum. It is conceivable that these efficient Nazis are so good at managing foreigners, and they are naturally more powerful in managing their own people.
Naturally, after the Allies had taken over the entire Axis powers, it would be a shame not to make use of these valuable talents. And if you want to take advantage of these guys, you naturally can't chase after their old mistakes and fight hard, you can only open the net.
However, Li Xiaofeng doesn't like this kind of open side, in the final analysis, he is still a simple and direct enough person, and a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye is called a happy grudge. Let him watch this group of German debris enjoy life during the war, and easily pass the test after the war, it is better to directly remove the frontal lobe of his brain.
Therefore, punishing the defeated country is his inevitable choice, thinking that he will not dare to start if there are many people, then you really underestimate the iron heart of a certain immortal. According to his vision, all Nazi diehards were to be executed, except for scientific and technological personnel, and it was especially necessary to kill hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people to set an example. In any case, after the war, the food and housing problems were very tense, and the burden of hundreds of thousands of mouths was much lighter.
As for you saying that he is brutal, hehe, the Nazis are not brutal? It is the right thing to fight violence with violence, let him repay his grievances with virtue, and a certain immortal will spray you in the face directly. These hundreds of thousands of Nazis must be eradicated, racists must be given a taste of blood, or they will turn their faces and pretend that nothing happened, just like watching a documentary. It is only when they bleed themselves or their loved ones shed blood that they know what pain is and what repentance is.
Of course, this is Nazi hardcore, and they must be shouted and killed. As for ordinary Nazis, there is no need to kill their heads. Of course, this does not mean that they should be spared, ordinary Nazi centrist elements, that must also be well educated, such as what SS, what Gestapo and bastards who committed war crimes in the Soviet Union, let them go to Siberia to repair the earth, reclaim the wasteland and build infrastructure, it should also be atonement.
This group of labor is quite a lot, not to mention millions. These millions of free labor are not in vain. Why do you say it's too brutal and too big? This Li Xiaofeng is going to slap the table again! (To be continued.) )