The Third Reich in Desperation

But after Britain surrendered, Reinhardt, who was eager to connect to improve shipping efficiency on the east side of the Atlantic, was finally able to safely and boldly come up with such a "golden idea" as the invention of the container.

On the second day after Great Britain, the United Kingdom, announced its surrender, that is, the day Montgomery surrendered in Africa, Reinhardt specially summoned Speer, and using his engineering drawing skills that he had almost forgotten in his previous life, he personally sketched with a pencil on the manuscript paper. It looked like a container in the previous life.

Then, Reinhardt also carefully marked some details that need attention, such as specifying the size of the container according to the width and length of the car and the train carriage, and using different colors of containers to formulate classification and use, etc.

The advantage of the container is that it can be transshipped on the way without moving the goods in the box, and it can be directly reloaded.And the speed of loading and unloading is accelerated, and it can be directly and conveniently changed from one means of transport to another means of transport.This makes filling and emptying of goods easy.

In addition, the container has the advantages of large volume, a lot of goods, and uniform specifications. It can be stacked in ports and ships, saving a lot of space, and can be used repeatedly for a long time. This is equivalent to allowing Germany to transport without adding a container. In the case of a ship, the transportation efficiency has been increased by more than [-]% in vain!

The United Kingdom was originally a big maritime country. Germany, which inherited the maritime heritage from the United Kingdom, and after receiving the addition of container technology, the efficiency of sea transportation has more than doubled compared to before!

The most direct benefit is that the huge number of winter clothes that the German army needs on the Eastern Front has been further resolved.

Historically, during Germany's first winter in the Soviet Union, it used the 40 sets of cashmere trousers seized in France, plus the winter clothes it had urgently adjusted its production to ensure that those who were withdrawn still had combat effectiveness.

In this life, the German army still seized 40 sets of fleece pants in France. Later, after the German and French governments signed a peace treaty, French factories and some small factories under the German Rhein Group jointly undertook 200 An order of [-] sets of fleece pants.

But these 240 million sets of fleece clothes are far from enough on the Eastern Front.

In addition to the German army, even the allied forces sent by Romania, Bulgaria, and some Italy and Spain had to be helped by Germany to purchase winter clothes.

The troops sent by Norway and Finland are okay. Their troops are small in size, and they can also undertake the winter clothing configuration of the dispatched troops.

Now, the allied powers have seized a large amount of cashmere underwear in the UK, and preliminary statistics show that there are more than 50 sets.

With containers, these winter clothes can be quickly transported from the British Isles to the European continent, and then transferred to the eastern frontline troops in a timely manner relying on the developed railway networks of Germany and France.

Of course, the Allies are not the only ones who unilaterally demanded from the United Kingdom.In order to stabilize the law and order in the occupied area, restore the production capacity in the occupied area to be used by Germany as soon as possible, and also to promote the atmosphere of goodwill between Britain and Germany, Reinhardt also ordered the launch of food aid to the UK.

Due to Doenitz's wolf pack tactics, the British and American routes used a large number of transport ships to sink to the bottom of the sea every day, losing supplies in vain.The British government, which cannot be self-sufficient, has greatly reduced the proportion of food in the US aid list in order to import as many weapons and ammunition as possible.

As a result, most people in the British mainland have not had a full meal for a long time, and are in a state of hunger all day long, leading the little relief food distributed by the government.

Anyway, the transport fleet has to go to the UK to bring back winter clothes, some precision equipment, and better weapons and ammunition (for equipping some small country troops in the alliance), so when the transport fleet heads to the UK, bring some lunch by the way Canned meat is not a waste of transport capacity.

At the same time, it was not easy to rely on Germany alone to feed the British refugees. Reinhardt also summoned his most loyal prime minister of the puppet government of England, Mosley, and instructed him to promote a set of single-stern lane trawling fishing technology.This efficient fishing technology, which should have been created by the Danes eight years later, was developed by Reinhardt in advance to help Mosley solve the food problem.

When Mosley led the English government to promote the single-stern row trawling fishing technology, not only would the British Isles not continue to have the problem of famine, but they could send a very considerable amount of canned fish to Germany to provide fish and meat supplies.

Since Germany has long developed the northern oil fields, and the Romanian oil fields have been working hard to supply them, the German army is not short of gasoline supplies on the Eastern Front for the time being.In addition, the British navy has already failed, and the warships of Germany's "big oil consumers" have also been able to save some oil. Therefore, Reinhardt is not in a hurry to transport the oil reserves seized from the United Kingdom back to Germany.

Coupled with the large-scale buses in Germany, under the control of the government, they have also been replaced with charcoal-burning vehicles.Although the speed is a bit slower, it saves a lot of fuel.Therefore, Germany's oil reserves have been abundant to a certain extent.

When France's Algerian oil fields feed back the European continent, Germany will have a larger import channel.

In this way, it is actually more appropriate for the British oil reserves to remain in the British mainland as an Atlantic barrier and turn to oil reserves for the extraction of the Imperial High Seas Fleet.

As for the rest, there is one of the most representative emergency combat rations, chocolate.As far as the statistical arrangement of the German logistics department is concerned, the calories of chocolate are enough, but the quantity cannot meet the demand at all, and all cocoa in Germany has to be imported.

Therefore, taking down Britain on the western front actually provided the greatest benefit to the officers and soldiers on the eastern front—their chocolate rations could be guaranteed.

Text 712 New Allies in the Balkans

The Allies beat the entire Axis Powers, and now Europe is dominated by the Allied military bloc headed by Germany.

In southern Europe and the Balkans, two countries that have not yet made a choice are finally facing the problems they have to face.

According to the agreement, the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria had joined the Allied Powers, and Hungary had earlier become a province of Germany.

However, for Yugoslavia, Reinhardt did not put pressure on Yugoslavia as he did in history to make Yugoslavia join the Iron Alliance Treaty, so there is no such thing as Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul who signed the treaty, but was rejected because the treaty was not recognized by the military. Until the military coup, King Peter II replaced Prince Paul in charge of government affairs.

Reinhardt, who knew the complicated situation in Yugoslavia, did not force Prince Paul to sign a treaty with him and join the camp of the Allies from the very beginning.

On the contrary, Reinhardt has been adopting a tepid policy, maintaining relations with the pro-German regime in Yugoslavia on the one hand, but on the other hand, he has not conducted in-depth exchanges and cooperation with Yugoslavia at all, and only maintained a nominal friendship. '

Politicians in any country would not suggest more nominally friendly countries.Although this kind of friendship is not strong, at least there is no need to pay any reward or price, which is equivalent to a diplomatic and friendly ally given away for nothing.

This state lasted until Britain was defeated and the governments of the United Kingdom announced their surrender. The strength of Germany and its allies was undoubtedly revealed!

At this time, it is time for Yugoslavia to think carefully about its future diplomatic relations with Germany.

Originally, many countries in the Balkans, including Romania, were younger brothers of Britain and France.But now Britain and France are mixed with Germany, and the Balkan Peninsula is also surrounded by member states of the Allies.

If you don't express your attitude yet, if you want to fight with Germany, when will you wait?

What's more terrible is that Greece, which has always been pro-German, has recently begun to go a step further, and has started negotiations on joining the Allied Army Water Group.

This was no surprise at all.

The fact that the Greek government is pro-German has almost long been a fact, nothing new.

The high-level government of Greece is almost all representatives of the pro-German faction, and their dictator Ioannis Metaxas has also established close economic ties with Reinhardt's Germany. The two countries have deep economic ties. Cooperation and friendship.

On the other hand, the Italian politicians and diplomats under Rossi have been buying Greek politicians as early as a few years ago, hoping that they can use this to control the political direction of Greece.

Originally, the Italian Rossi's arrangement was instigated by the former Prime Minister Mussolini, for the purpose of using these bribed personnel as internal responses when they attacked Greece in the future.

However, Mussolini's "New Roman Empire" plan had not yet been realized, and he himself had already gone to see Caesar.

He didn't even insist on the day when Britain surrendered. Mussolini, who had been seriously ill for a long time, suddenly vomited blood after an infusion arranged by Rossi, and finally died.

Obviously, there are some strange things in the medicine infused this time, but no one in the Italian high-ranking officials went into it.After all, capable people have all fallen in the previous high-level Italian infighting, and the only remaining powerful faction is Rossi, the "pro-German faction".

Under Rossi's arrangement, these Greek officials bought by Italy changed their minds, and the task was changed from responding to the Italian invasion army to the low-risk and low-difficulty task of persuading the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas to join the Allies.

The Greek government was originally pro-German, and there were a bunch of insiders who had been bought early to fan the flames. Giannis Metaxas made a logical decision to join the Allies.

However, he made it clear in his consultations with German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop that the Greek troops did not have the courage to fight directly with the Soviet army and could not undertake the task of the frontal battlefield.

Of course, he also agreed that after Greece joined the military group of the Allied Powers, the Greek Army could send about two divisions of troops to assist the German army in managing the occupied areas behind.

Clean up the list of the Soviet guerrillas, they still dare to take it.

In this way, except for Yugoslavia in the entire Balkan Peninsula, countries with some military strength have confirmed that they want to be stamped with the mark of the Allies.

Then, the rest of Yugoslavia will either be excluded or targeted, and there will definitely be no good results in the end.

A country surrounded by members of the military group of the Allied Powers is really not easy to bypass the Allied Powers and develop.

In this way, although the Yugoslav military is still reluctant to join a foreign-led military group, many people of insight inside have already stood up and spoke out, striving to keep Yugoslavia out of the matter.

If this continues, once Yugoslavia has conflicts with any of the Balkan countries in the future, the other party with the backing of a powerful ally will definitely overwhelm Yugoslavia in the end.

Sometimes, resolving conflicts does not necessarily depend on who is in charge, but on whose background is bigger.

When the time finally came, Reinhardt also extended an invitation to Yugoslavia to join the family of the Allies.

At this time, even if the Yugoslav military was reluctant, there was no way to refuse.