Chapter 160 160 Multiple Choice Questions

If you have a map of Europe, you will see that Germany under Führer Accardo is already like a giant with a bloody jaw, encircling Poland's poor neighbor on both sides. On the other hand, Germany has the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, and its four neighbors are staring at their backs.

So now the question arises - excavators...... Well, we're not kidding. Let's get down to business.

Now there is a problem in front of the German high-level, the war is coming, they have also used their own efforts to gain the advantage and have time, they have struck at the Junker aristocracy and the monopoly plutocracy, and raised the value of industrial output to an exciting value...... But in the end, they have to make a difficult choice: which side should they fight first.

Because of its geographical problems, Germany has always been faced with a tragic situation of fighting on two fronts. To the east is Poland, which had just been propped up by Britain and France, and to the west is France, which is known as the largest army power in Europe. It so happened that France was again an ally of Poland, and if they fought one or the other, they would immediately come to the aid - nothing annoyed the Germans more than this.

This situation led to a split within the Wehrmacht, which divided into two factions and annoyed Accardo.

Many generals, including Manstein, Rundstedt and others, were in favor of attacking France first, concentrating superior forces, crossing the German-French border to kill the French neighbors in one go, and then commanding armored troops to rampage through French territory and win the war. The plan is pretty much perfect. And for the Germans, the temptation to defeat France was high.

However, this will undoubtedly set off a world war, and Poland, an ally of France, will inevitably declare war on Germany, so that Germany will fall into the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts at the first time. Moreover, a direct attack on France would put pressure on the German Navy, and if a world war broke out in 1935, the unprepared German High Seas Fleet was likely to be wiped out in the North Sea.

So the Führer launched war in 1937 so that the navy could pull up a huge fleet of at least five aircraft carriers, so that a decisive battle with the British Royal Navy in the North Sea would be more certain, and the submarine force would be large enough to strangle Britain's fragile sea transport lines - of course, this was a big pie drawn by the navy itself.

The reality is that the Air Force Commander-in-Chief General Catherine is not optimistic about the optimistic estimate of the German Navy, and it turns out that Britain has begun to guard against Germany's naval expansion plan, once the German Navy has signs of losing control, then the British Navy will definitely start in advance, and at that time, the German Navy blocked in the harbor by the British Royal Navy will definitely have to be completely wiped out.

Therefore, Catherine was more supportive of Manstein, Rundstedt and others' plan to use all their strength to defeat the French before the British could react. He assured the generals of the army that the air force was sufficient to deal with the French air force, and that within 72 hours of the start of the war, he would be sure to crush the French front-line air force and gain air supremacy. He also promised to provide the Army with 300 Do-217 bombers and 670 Stuka dive bombers in support of the war in 1936, so it seemed that the French were no match at all.

The temptation to kill France as soon as it came up is not small, so that the three countries of the steel axis, Germany, Italy and Spain, are connected, and the control of the Mediterranean Sea can also be more secure, and the Italian Navy has lost the French fleet as an opponent, and can block the Strait of Gibraltar, which is also beneficial to suppressing Britain.

It is a pity that Poland will not be idle when Germany invades France, and it will definitely stab Germany in the back - the end will be very tragic, the heavy industrial areas such as Czechoslovakia, which Germany has just controlled, will be destroyed by the war, the oil routes from Romania will be affected, and Germany's war capability will collapse within a few months. So the plan required that the Wehrmacht must crush France within two or three months and force Britain out of the war. This gives the plan a touch of gambling.

As a result, this plan was not supported by another group of people: generals, including Army Commander-in-Chief Brauchitsch, Chief of Staff Bock, Rutz, Guderian, Rommel, and others, believed that Germany should concentrate its forces on Poland and end the fighting on the Eastern Front before Britain and France could react.

This plan had two great advantages over attacking France, that is, there was a forged Siegfried line on the German-French border, and it took time for the French to test this line, which also bought time for the German troops attacking Poland. Another advantage was that Britain and France had been inducing Germany to advance eastward, and a German attack on Poland could be said to be an outcome that Britain and France would be happy to see, so it was very likely that France would not attack Germany immediately.

However, no one expected Britain and France to sit idly by while Germany attacked Poland, because Poland, England, and France all had an alliance agreement that explicitly agreed to help each other in the event of an attack. The German Foreign Ministry reminded the Führer not to be overconfident about Britain and France standing by as soon as Germany attacked Poland.

However, this plan was supported by the German Navy, which wanted to evade the British Royal Navy at the beginning of the war, so Raeder and Dönitz preferred a plan that did not strongly provoke the British. The Air Force was also not interested in attacking Poland, because the Polish Air Force was inferior in quantity and quality compared to France, and it was exciting to deal with such an enemy that clearly did not defeat its old enemy, France. But the Air Force was not opposed to attacking Poland - for whichever side had the highest mobile ability could be thrown into battle at any time.

Germany prepared a large amount of oil and munitions for this war, Farben and Krupp have quietly increased the production of military products, and Mercedes-Benz and BMW, which are under the Bailanhua Group, have even carried out partial war mobilization and began to produce airplanes and automobiles day and night.

The naval dockyard is also working overtime, hoping to rush to produce two more aircraft carriers before the start of the war, which will be used to replenish the German Navy's high seas fleet, in order to avenge the sinking of the German high seas fleet more than ten years ago.

After careful discussion, the German General Staff came up with a more pertinent timetable for the battle plan, which Accardo did not comment on after reading it. The German General Staff drew up a plan that determined that Germany would start war in early 1937, but Accardo was full of fear of this time.

The Second World War seemed to be ahead of schedule, and now Accardo's judgment of the outbreak of the war was not accurate, and the various historical turning points from his previous memories could no longer help him, and he was no longer sure whether Britain and France would stand on the sidelines when Germany attacked Poland, so now he could only objectively analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the two plans.

The stubborn old British man named Winston Churchill is still struggling in the corners of British politics, and Churchill's predecessor, Mr. Chamberlain, the pinnacle executor of appeasement, has not yet come to power, and only God knows how King George of England will choose.

If the attack on Belgium and Luxembourg in the Netherlands failed to attract the French and British into the famous encirclement of history, the German battle plan would have completely failed, and he, the Führer, would have come to an end......

Of course, theoretically, Accardo was more in favor of the plan of killing Poland first, because he hoped that the war against Poland would attract Britain and the French so that he could complete the grand plan of encirclement and annihilation. And doing so would also buy the German Navy some time. One of the more important reasons is actually unknown to anyone: because historically, Germany has been victorious step by step after the invasion of Poland.

However, there is indeed a great temptation to attack France, as long as it can prevent Poland from stabbing in the back, it is more cost-effective to kill France first, and then invade Poland before the Soviet Union can recover its senses: first Poland, then France, then the Soviet Union, compared to France and then Poland and then the Soviet Union, the latter plan obviously omits a step of mobilizing troops.

Some generals wanted to start the war as soon as they were ready, that is, in 1936, others wanted to start the war in 1937, so that they could expand their navy and air force, and some generals even decided that Arcardo would start the war again in 1938, but many felt that starting the war too late would be bad for the country that was ready first.

Accardo had to abandon his intention to start a world war first, and let the intelligence and foreign services start to deal with the problem of Hungary. Supporters of the Greater German Party broke out in Hungary into a non-cooperation movement, plunging the whole of Hungary into chaos.

The Hungarian government was forced to recognize the legitimacy of the vote, and then an international farce began - the majority of the people voted for the continued independence of Hungary was cancelled, the result of the vote was still the case, the vote was cancelled, and the third time Hungary decided to annex it to German rule, the vote was cleared, and Hungary became another province of Germany.

Immediately after the German troops marched into Hungary, the territory of Germany was once again expanded, and in the midst of the scolding of Great Britain, the United States, and France, the German Führer Accardo Rudolf continued to emphasize that Germany was a peace-loving country, that he himself would be married on March 1, 1936, and that he would continue to contribute to world peace after marriage. As for whether to attack France or Poland first, and in which year the war would be waged, he decided to wait until he became a family.

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