The Third Reich in Desperation

Moreover, Italy also sent a powerful air force and a transport convoy accounting for nearly 70.00% of the country to attack with the expeditionary force.The value of these additional supports other than pure military strength is immeasurable.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Kingdom of Italy has the opportunity to regard this war with the Soviet Union as Italy's own main war.

Italy, which has worked so hard, is no longer equivalent to being an ally of Germany, but should be called a part of Germany, just like being integrated with Germany and taking the interests of the Third Reich as its own.

Rossi did this, naturally, because he was a loyal Reinhardt, and he was doing things for Reinhardt.It's just that he happened to achieve the incredible high position of the Italian dictator and became the "super spy" with the highest status in history.

However, this does not mean that Italy is full of idiots. It is impossible to see that Rossi did this, and the effort is not proportional to the gain.

The reason why the Italian top management followed Rossi's footsteps and allowed him to fully support the war between Germany and the Soviet Union was that the Rossi family was dominant and Ciano's bones were not yet cold.

In today's Italy, the Mussolini faction must have collapsed, and Mussolini's mantle has also been inherited by Rossi.And the ambitious Ciano has become a victim of the king's command, and his death is extremely ugly.

After killing Ciano, the Italian king who exposed his strength was completely suppressed by Rossi who had been recharging his energy before.In Italy, all the armed forces of the sea, land and air have become Rossi's supporters. The Italian king, who only has the royal guard, dare not provoke Rossi, the new dictator, at all.

The reason why Rossi is so dedicated to Germany, in the eyes of many senior officials in Italy, is nothing more than trying to embrace Reinhard's golden thigh and use the external force of the Third Reich to consolidate his position in Italy.

It's no secret that Rossi is a well-known German-philanthropist in Italy.In addition, since the more famous example of Norway's Quisling is in the front, it is naturally not easy for Italian high-level officials to suspect that Rossi is a German spy.

Thinking about it from another angle, if an ordinary person doubts the supreme leader of his own country, it turns out to be a spy from another country.This is how it would be difficult for someone with a big brain to think of such a whimsical and bizarre truth.

As far as the nature of Italy is concerned, their unification is not as magnificent and earth-shattering as Germany's iron-blooded rise. Even if it finally relied on the power of Prussia to complete the reunification of the north through the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, that would not be the case. Let the Italians add too much national pride and strong national consciousness.

This led to knowing that Prime Minister Rossi's excessive support of the Germans was not in Italy's best interests, but most Italian senior officials still believed that this was justifiable and did not stop Rossi's behavior.

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The reason why Rossi is so dedicated to Germany, in the eyes of many senior officials in Italy, is nothing more than trying to embrace Reinhard's golden thigh and use the external force of the Third Reich to consolidate his position in Italy.

It's no secret that Rossi is a well-known German-philanthropist in Italy.In addition, since the more famous example of Norway's Quisling is in the front, it is naturally not easy for Italian high-level officials to suspect that Rossi is a German spy.

Thinking about it from another angle, if an ordinary person doubts the supreme leader of his own country, it turns out to be a spy from another country.This is how it would be difficult for someone with a big brain to think of such a whimsical and bizarre truth.

As far as the nature of Italy is concerned, their unification is not as magnificent and earth-shattering as Germany's iron-blooded rise. Even if it finally relied on the power of Prussia to complete the reunification of the north through the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, that would not be the case. Let the Italians add too much national pride and strong national consciousness.

This led to knowing that Prime Minister Rossi's excessive support of the Germans was not in Italy's best interests, but most Italian senior officials still believed that this was justifiable and did not stop Rossi's behavior.

Text Chapter 653 A gift to Antonescu

The allies that Reinhardt found, in addition to Spain's Franco and Italy's Rossi, are more direct allies, including Romania's Antonescu and Finland's Mannerheim.

Compared with Mannerheim, who finally decided to join the counterattack army, the Romanian high-level officials who were close to Germany because of the unreasonable occupation of the northern provinces by the Soviet Union earlier, naturally had closer ties to Germany.

In Romania, their leader is no longer the king, but General Antonescu.

In fact, Reinhardt had long paid attention to Antonescu, the general who was destined to become the dictator of Romania.

The other party had already served as the Romanian Minister of War in 1938.Before that, although Antonescu had always been considered an Anglophile in Romania, he had a very good personal relationship with Reinhardt.

And with the subsequent defeat of France, Antonescu's thoughts have also undergone tremendous changes.

In his view, Germany will win the war, and only by standing with Germany can Romania be protected.

The successive seizures of Romania's territories under Soviet pressure, far from shaking Antonescu's ideas of unity, deepened them.

And Reinhardt, who has always had a good personal relationship with Antonescu, obviously also took a fancy to his "excellent" old friend.

In public, Reinhardt praised more than once: "General Antonescu has a high influence in the army, and he was also evaluated in the Romanian military as having a 'strong will and decisive decision', etc. Waiting for quality.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Antonescu, the Romanian general, is very popular with the German head of state.

With Reinhardt's explicit or implicit support, Antonescu became prime minister on September 1940, 9 without any suspense. On the 4th, he forced King Carol to abdicate, dissolved the Romanian parliament, and put him under The Iron Guard led by him is the only legal political party in Romania.

This is similar to the event in Germany when Ebert dissolved and reorganized the parliament and the National Socialist Party led by Reinhardt became the largest legal political party in Germany.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Antonescu's actions were somewhat influenced by Germany.

Subsequently, with Antonescu's nod, Reinhardt ordered the German army to quickly enter the country for reasons such as assisting Romania in training the army, and tied Romania tightly to the Allies and to the German chariot.

This is not finished.

The Romanian army was quickly remodeled according to the German army's organization and standards.And Antonescu quickly lost patience with the Iron Guard's arbitrary actions in the country.

On the other hand, Antonescu has no intention of establishing a "pure" Romania as demanded by the Iron Guard, because this will not only mean massacres, but may also mean economic collapse and loss of support from party leaders and the army.

This is simply the same as Reinhardt's dismissal of the stormtroopers under the name of the National Socialist Party, and he has no intention of building a "pure" Germany like the stormtroopers.In order to gain the support of the army and oppose the slaughter of Jews, Reinhardt destroyed the SA in Germany by means of thunder.

Antonescu, who had long admired Reinhardt's way of doing things, had his first bilateral meeting with Reinhardt as a national leader on November 1940, 11.

Antonescu showed the world public without any suspense that he won the favor and recognition of Reinhardt, the dignified German head of state.

In order to release goodwill and win over the Romanian dictator, Reinhardt really did what Antonescu wanted, declaring that the Third Reich attached great importance to Romanian oil, and the leader of the Iron Guard was considered It's a group of incompetent people.

Reinhard did this partly because he decided to rely on Antonescu to stabilize German rule over Romania.

On the other hand, Reinhardt also knew how reliable Antonescu was, a historically tested ally.In the eyes of Reinhardt, the Iron Guard is very incompetent and not worthy of support.

Then, in April 1941.At the same time when the Anglo-German war was at its climax, the Romanian Iron Guard decided to fight this dictatorial general who had "betrayed" their beliefs in order to realize their illusory "ideal".

Because of the war with Britain and the defense against the Soviet Union, Germany has no energy to manage the civil war in Romania.

Antonescu did not rely on any external force, and used his loyal Romanian Army to deal a severe blow to these Iron Guard rioters.

Iron Guard, although it has a domineering name.But they are essentially a civilian terrorist organization, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the regular Romanian army.

What's more, it was a new type of army trained with the help of the Germans!

As a result, the Iron Guard was beaten to pieces within a few days, and their leader, Horia Sima, abandoned his "ideal" and fled to Germany in desperation.

Meanwhile Antonescu continued to build his order: on April 1941, 4, all political parties in Romania were outlawed.The self-proclaimed "chief" soldier can finally assume power with almost no hindrance.

But for the former old Romanian politicians, he followed Reinhardt's advice and made up his mind to carry out mass arrests that he had not carried out in history.

In this way, although Antonescu's reputation was a little bit bad, it completely prevented future troubles.

May 1941, 5 was a big day for the Romanians. On this day they went to war with the Soviet Union, but they had a powerful ally - the German Third Reich!

On June 6, Antonescu and Reinhardt met to sign an agreement. Reinhardt generously stated that in addition to assisting Romania in recovering the areas occupied by the Soviet Union, the Allied Forces could also help Romania recover areas beyond the Transnistria River. Dongbang Romania asked for compensation from the Soviets.

Hearing that he could get a larger territory than before, Antonescu, the Romanian "chief", immediately shouted to Reinhardt happily in the conference room: "Of course I will support you from the first day. If you want to fight the Slavs, you can always rely on Romania."

On the afternoon of June 6, the Luo army and the German army of more than 1 divisions launched a counterattack on the southern front together, and fought fiercely with the two most elite group armies in Zhukov's "Mars Operation".

And at the same time that the Luo army has gone all out and is fighting side by side with Germany at full speed.

As a reward for Antonescu’s support for the Allied camp and his dedication to assisting Germany in the war against the Soviet Union, Reinhardt prepared a separate gift for Antonescu himself in Berlin...

Text Chapter 654: Gift from the Führer to the Chief