81_81266 As Borol stood in front of the recruits he was in charge of, there was a sudden urge to remember, he missed the acquaintances he could no longer find, the burly Balu who always liked to shout around him.

"My name is Borol, and I'm your company commander. I jumped from an airplane to an enemy position for the first time in Poland, then to the Netherlands, then to Denmark for a tour, and the other day to England. So I only have 3 more combat experience than you, and there's nothing to brag about. He whispered his words to the expectant recruits.

To everyone's surprise, he said something that surprised everyone: "It's a nice day, it's cool...... Everyone, stand for 3 hours. ”

After he finished speaking, he shouted loudly, "Baru! Whoever moves will kick their ass." ”

Then he was stunned and didn't speak for a long time, and after a moment of silence, he finally corrected his mistake softly: "Donner, it's up to you to do it!"

"Yes, sir!" replied a young soldier who was not as tall as the original Balu, but rather a little emaciated.

From this moment on, Borroll's image among the recruits became a conglomerate of the words forgetful, cold, approaching, rigid, sluggish, and unresponsive.

There were 11,000 paratroopers in the Netherlands, about 3,000 were withdrawn from the front, and 8,000 were the second group of airdroppers who were not invested. The German Airborne Troops, which were originally going to commit 15,000 airborne paratroopers and 10,000 airborne soldiers in one go, were finally abandoned in Britain as high-ranking infantry because of the Führer's reluctance.

So in fact, the German paratroopers parachuted in Britain were smaller than those of the Netherlands and Belgium, but the losses were much greater, and only more than 3,000 of the 7,000 paratroopers in the first batch survived, and more than 400 were wounded. For the first time, they also experienced a truly brutal battle and became even more valuable talents.

More than half of the German soldiers who were sent to Britain were recruits who had not experienced combat, and under the leadership of a small number of veterans, they participated in the fierce battle for the British mainland, because of which the German casualties were also high, and only a little lower than their British counterparts.

On the morning of 18 February, the German flag was finally planted on the roof of the Norwich Municipal Building, and around the square in the center of the city, young German recruits, who had learned how to kill and save their lives from their predecessors, sat next to the walls of the buildings, enjoying the rare leisure time after the cruelty of last night and this morning.

The good news was that the British defenders had all but been driven out of Norwich, a line of defense that was now in ruins. The German armored forces had bypassed the city from both flanks and stormed towards Bunge and other areas, and in the field, the German ** team seemed to immediately regain the feeling of a quick victory, and it only took two hours to hit the city of Bunge.

The bad news was that the weather was a bit grey today, and the bad weather that the British had been waiting for seemed to be coming soon, when the German troops would be in an unprecedented state of passivity, but their hands clenched their steel guns, and the dirt and dust and blood on their faces seemed to prove that they had never flinched.

At the forefront, when the outcome was uncertain, Accardo met Speer, a genius in production organization that he was familiar with, in Rotterdam.

This Speer is an architect, a wizard of the integration of industrial forces, and in the history of another time and space, even if it was 43 years before he was appointed Minister of Industry by Hitler, and then the period of the highest production efficiency of Germany's military industry was not in the 39th, 40th, 41st, and 42nd years when Germany was the strongest in the early days of the war, but in the 44th and 45th years of the thin West Mountain!

In the memoirs of later Nazi generals, many people praised Speer's organization of military production, believing that Speer had little responsibility for Germany's final defeat, on the contrary, if Hitler had appointed Speer earlier, perhaps Germany might have been defeated a few years later!

In another time and space, throughout World War II, with the exception of Czechoslovakia, Germany was not able to use the resources and industrial facilities of the occupied territories in a rather inefficient manner. And the problem that Accardo is facing now is much the same. In order to repay the huge economic black hole created by the Mifu voucher and the government national debt, Germany adopted the method of transferring the war to the occupied territories. This inevitably involved the big capitalists and chaebols who bought government bonds and subscribed to rice and fortune bonds in the distribution of post-war profits.

This distribution is inefficient and detrimental to the local industrial base. Short-sighted small and medium-sized enterprises will plunder resources and divide up manpower, and use the fastest way to return their own funds, but they have invisibly caused immeasurable losses to the German industrial system.

Originally, Germany's industrial productivity and production efficiency were originally lower than those of the United States, but Germany's industrial level in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and other countries in the occupied areas of Western Europe was relatively developed, so why did the Germans not make use of these precious resources, but constantly demolished the industrial facilities in the occupied areas and pulled a large number of skilled workers to Germany to work as coolies? The reason is very simple -- Germany's racial policy, short-sighted war planning, and more important economic fundamentals.

Hitler and his generals had always thought that World War II would easily end in two years: the German army conquered Denmark in one breakfast, annexed the Netherlands in five days, killed Belgium in 18 days, destroyed Poland in less than 20 days, turned France from rooster to Vichy in six weeks, and so when Germany's million-strong army broke into the Soviet Union, everyone thought the war would be over in 1942.

The final results proved the short-sightedness and "wishful thinking" of the Germans: Churchill of England on the ruins stretched out his index finger and made a V-shaped gesture with his middle finger and did not surrender; Stalin, who had exhausted 5 million troops, also did not have the slightest intention of peace talks; of course, the lame man who had been sitting in a wheelchair and then jumped out to mend his knife after making enough money should not mention it again -- blame the Japanese, what kind of Pearl Harbor to go!

The issue of race is too esoteric and too bloody to be dissected here, and such a heavy topic does not fit the usual style of the book (who lost the tomato? So let's talk about the specific reasons why the Germans were forced to do so economically.

As we all know, Germany was a defeated country in the First World War, and it itself did not have the economic capacity to expand and rearm. However, after Hitler came to power in history, he was able to expand the army without resistance, develop advanced weapons and equipment, build a transportation network, and restore production in an instant.

To put it simply, he was borrowing money - he was in arrears with war reparations and borrowing heavily from countries such as the United States and Great Britain. The most important and fundamental thing is that he borrowed money from all the industrial enterprises in Germany by relying on national bonds and "Mifu coupons". That is, the government made a blank slip, first bought the artillery and aircraft and gave the equipment to the army, and then repaid the money after a few years.

Where does the money come from? Poland, robbery, Holland, Belgium, robbery! Denmark, Norway, robbery! France, robbery! In fact, the German economy has always been developing in a cycle of borrowing money to fight wars, winning and repaying the money. What are you robbing? It is nothing more than strategic materials and personnel and equipment -- these are not the capitalists who the government does not want to take over, but the capitalists who have promised to give money and contribute before the war has even begun.

This brutal and inefficient behaviour was able to barely sustain itself when the war was won, but once the war reached a stalemate stage, it dragged Germany into a vicious circle: the capitalists had no benefit or no return, so production began to stagnate in chaos, the front line lost blood, and as a result, it lost more quickly...... It was an important reason for the eventual defeat of Germany in real situations!

The problems facing Accardo now are slightly stronger than those of Hitler, but they are not much better.

At least the Krupp company, which he controlled himself, and the Krupp company that could exert influence would not cause trouble, the Jews also came up with funds to support his aggressive plans, and the operation of bottom-buying capital before the financial crisis also saved him a lot of money, and the more efficient production process and the large amount of resources saved could barely maintain the expansion of the empire, which was his advantage over Hitler.

However, he also lost a little bit of the racist fanaticism that was mobilized, did not get more money for the extermination of the Jews, issued more Methan Hitler, and the war went on a faster and larger scale than before.

So Accardo was ready to use Speer, hoping that he would be able to take up the burden and be responsible for the integration of the industrial forces throughout Germany and the occupied territories. If the industrial facilities and workers in France, Belgium and the Netherlands can be fully utilized, and Germany still has relatively abundant reserve resources, then around 1940, it will be possible to mass-produce a large number of Leopard tanks and Tiger tanks like the Soviet Union in another time and space, and defeat the Soviet army with absolute superiority in armored forces while the Soviet T34 tank is still on the drawing board.

Speer had been a deputy to Jaylin Nike for a number of years, and since about 1936 he has been one of the de facto controllers of the White Lanhua Group. Mercedes, the undisputed hostess of the Bai Lanhua Group, is naturally extremely powerful, but this Speer, who only does things and does not speak, is not despised at all.

Krupp once did not shy away from commenting on his father-in-law, Jelyn Nike, in front of the Führer: "My Führer, Jelyn Nike's outstanding contributions to the empire are concentrated in two points, the first is that he raised a good daughter for the empire, and the second is that he wisely left all his own work to Speer." ”。