"Who are you! This is German territory! You can't enter at will!" a Wehrmacht soldier with a rifle on his shoulder stared at the judge standing in front of him. Behind him was German territory, and the French army in front of him did not seem to have any intention of stopping.

The judge pressed the pistol on his waist and looked triumphant: "Get out of the way! We have been ordered to come and collect the war reparations owed by Germany to France, and if you dare to obstruct it, we will open fire!"

As the officer's words blurted out, more than a dozen French men behind him took off their rifles and stared at the only three Wehrmacht on the roadcard in front of him.

The Wehrmacht, which had only three people, was also unambiguous, and also raised his rifle and pointed at the French officer motionlessly: "Sorry! No order is given! No army is allowed to enter German territory!"

"Don't give me the way to look at death as if it were home! I don't believe that there are people who are not afraid of death! If we don't dodge again, we'll open fire!" the chief magistrate shouted a little inwardly, but anyone could hear a tremor in his voice.

"Whoa!" did not speak, and the three German soldiers replied to the crisp sound of the bailiff pulling the bolt, the bullets had already arrived in the court, and they were going to defend their country with their lives.

"Bell, bell, bell. At the outpost next to the roadcar, the phone rang, and a German soldier with a gun ran over and picked up the phone: "This is the 76th post on the border! The alarm was sounded by us! We are holding our position! Yes! Sir! The enemy has not entered the territory even a single step! Yes! Sir! Execute it immediately! Repeat! Lay down your arms and let it go! I will execute it immediately! Long live Big Germany!"

Somewhat helplessly, he put down the phone and walked back to the roadcard with tears in his eyes, and the soldier gave a humiliating order loudly: "Let go!"

The Frenchman breathed a sigh of relief, and walked even lightly as he walked past the three German border guards, who were still standing straight with tears on their faces and hatred in their eyes, as if they were three poplar trees, tall as a fan, impassable.

This happened at several border roadblocks, and the Wehrmacht, because of its own weakness, did not put up any resistance to the invading French team. The whole country was in shock, and the temptation seemed to have gone wrong from the start.

"Smack!" a beautiful glass was shattered. A small middle-aged man stood in front of the flames and gasped angrily: "They thought they had won? If it weren't for the officers and politicians who were greedy for life and death, how could we have been so humiliated?"

"Calm down, Father. A young man sat on the couch, shaking the wine glass in his hand, and didn't care: "Whatever they want, they can do as they want." It's not like we don't have enough money to spend. ”

A noble lady stared at the young man who was talking, and slapped the armrest of the sofa: "Shut up! Your father has worked hard for this family, if it weren't for him, our mountain villa would not have closed half of the rooms now, and we would all go bankrupt and sleep on the street." ”

"The Krupp factory will not perish in my hands!" said the man who threw the cup viciously: "Butler, tell me to go down! Get the car ready! Tomorrow! I will go to the factory myself!"

"Yes!Krupp Master!" the butler nodded and exited the room.

Not long after, however, the butler returned to the hall and whispered in the ear of the head of the house, Gustav Krupp: "News from our Wehrmacht that the Wehrmacht will support our passive resistance and will be willing to pay compensation for the losses we have suffered." ”

"Well, with the support of the Wehrmacht, that's fine! The government, on its part, should also make Ebert suffer for them. I, Gustav, am not something that anyone can manipulate and bully!" Krupp said confidently: "The colonel named Accardo who sent the plan is still very interesting, I will meet with him when I have the opportunity, you can arrange it." ”

"Yes, the head of the house!" said the butler respectfully, "my subordinates will do it." ”

March 22, 1923. The workers of the Ruhr industrial area went on strike, and some of the workers who did not participate in the Ruhr industry also stopped producing munitions for the French occupation forces, and more than half of the chimneys in the entire Ruhr industrial area no longer smoked, and the black smoke that had plagued the Ruhr area for many years disappeared.

As the strike expanded, the workers even started sabotage, because of the secret promises of the factory officials and the strong support of the Wehrmacht, the workers began to destroy some old industrial equipment and block the attempts of the French * to continue the production of military supplies.

Frustrated, the French retaliated in retaliation, arresting a large number of workers' leaders and sentencing some of them to death. Far from deterring the patriotic German workers, these actions intensified the frequency of sabotage.

Saturday, March 23, 1923, is Easter. Large-scale conflicts inevitably erupted.

A group of French soldiers stormed a warehouse at the Krupp factory and demanded an inventory of the vehicles inside, but the inspection did not go as smoothly as expected.

Just as the French soldiers entered the gate of the warehouse of the Krupp factory, a worker of the Krupp factory spotted the group of soldiers, so he quickly ran to the anti-aircraft siren and sounded the siren.

"Woo......!" The shrill siren immediately echoed, and the entire Krupp factory seemed to hear this long, high-pitched sound.

"The French are here to rob again! Brothers, we will defend the fruits of our labor to the death! We must not let these vampires go!" shouted a middle-aged worker with a scar on his face, raising his sledgehammer in the air.

An old worker wearing a monocular lens and suspender pants angrily raised his wrench and shouted loudly behind the middle-aged worker in his old voice: "Don't let these vampires go!"

"Can't let these Frenchmen go!" more voices rang out, in all directions, continuously.

People flocked from all directions to surround the French team, and at this time Gustav Krupp was sitting in his office not far away, listening to the siren and calmly reading the newspaper, not trying to disperse the angry crowd.

The French soldiers were frightened, they didn't know that this time to come to check the vehicles of the Krupp factory was such a difficult task, so they were completely out of proportion, so they hastily occupied a building, set up a machine gun at the door, hoping to scare off the excited crowd around them, but they did not expect that more people gathered around.

Apparently they underestimated the anger of the people, and several Krupp factory workers climbed onto the roof of the building occupied by the French and opened the steam valves on the pipes above, so that the scorching steam immediately filled the building.

The sudden steam completely confused the French, who began to open fire on the surrounding crowd, killing 13 innocent Krupp workers and wounding at least 50 others on the spot.

Not far away, a German officer stood on a high tower, put down the binoculars in his hand, and looked at his adjutant: "Look at these French soldiers, this is still their main force, bicycles, horses, one regiment of the Wehrmacht can easily defeat this army! Give me two regiments, I even dare to annihilate them!"

His adjutant pursed his lips and said confidently: "Major Guderian, you are too conservative! If you follow Colonel Accardo's thinking, one armored regiment can take out this French * team, and there will not even be any losses except for artillery shells!"

Guderian smiled: "That's all for the observation of the French team, if they can't make any tricks, it is estimated that they will pack up and go back to France in a few months!"

The next day, the infamous bloody Saturday Easter massacre was immediately the front page headlines of the world's major newspapers, and the United States and Great Britain were on the side of Germany, not wanting to see Germany accused by France, so they supported the German Ebert government and condemned France.

The deceased of this tragedy were nationally hailed as martyrs, received large pensions from the German side and the Krupp factory, and all of them were given a thick burial, and Krupp absenteeism wore three-breasted dresses and top hats decorated with feathers, escorting the hearses of the dead to burial. The hearse was covered with flowers, and people were in the middle of the road to say goodbye.

Although public opinion was in favor of the victimized Germany, the French still stubbornly refused to give up and tried the Krupp factory Gustav Krupp, which they considered guilty, a move that made the little man Krupp also become an idol and hero of the German people, and the story of Gustav who challenged the French invaders with his short body became a household name in Germany for a while.

The French sentenced Gustav Krupp to 15 years in prison, but it was immediately condemned by the world's public opinion, and the British ambassador campaigned between the various political parties in France for this matter, and the pressure on French Prime Minister Poincarre was immediately great.

In the end, the French failed, and Krupp, as stated in the plan provided to him by Accardo, only squatted in a cell for a short time, and was released by the French government, which had been attacked by public opinion to the fullest, for a "Christmas amnesty", and he only sat in the cell for 6 months.

In the past six months, even the Pope has exonerated him, many international dignitaries have called on the French government to release him, and in the face of such powerful cries, Krupp's detention is almost child's play, his cell is unlocked, and family and friends can visit him at any time.

At the same time that Krupp was in prison, the French side had already begun to discuss the proposal to withdraw troops from the Ruhr industrial area in Germany.