The Third Reich in Desperation

Glancing at the angry Schuschnigg, the confidential secretary was at a loss for words for a moment, so nervous that he couldn't speak.

"Say it!" Schuschnigg slammed the conference table and roared angrily.He has already made up his mind to let this annoying confidential secretary go out tomorrow.

Because Schuschnigg used too much force, even the coffee in Reinhardt's cup rippled in circles.

At this time, Reinhardt, who was watching the excitement, played the role of Mr. Good, and kept comforting the confidential secretary: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous...Speak slowly."

The onlookers knew it, and the members who came to the meeting with Reinhardt knew it well.The news that made the confidential secretary so nervous was probably related to the head of state's revelation just now.As for Schuschnigg's anger, it was just because he didn't dare to show dissatisfaction with Reinhardt, and instead used the confidential secretary as a punching bag.

As expected, after taking a few deep breaths, the confidential secretary calmed down and quickly reported in fluent German: "Just received the report, our border garrison received many confusing orders, and most of the orders required the frontier troops to give Gu Derian's armored forces clear. Troops in many sectors have abandoned the standoff, allowing more than 5 German troops to pour across the border."

"How dare you...!" Schuschnigg finally couldn't bear his dissatisfaction with Reinhardt, turned around and held Reinhardt with trembling fingers and exploded.

"What about me!" Reinhardt interrupted Schuschnigg's emotion, sneered and sarcastically said: "I am not satisfied that I bypassed you, the former Austrian Prime Minister, and directly ordered Guderian to march into Vienna? Why are you dissatisfied? Since you have been used to being an Austrian dictator for the past few years, you are used to the feeling of being eloquent, and you can't bear to see someone more arrogant than you."

Schuschnigg, who was said to be shortcoming, clenched his teeth with all his strength, and swallowed back the harsh words that were squeezed out of his mouth.

What Reinhardt said is true. Schuschnigg has been in the past few years since he planned to remove the former deputy prime minister, Prince Ernest von Stalemberg, from the leadership of the Fatherland Front party. A large number of cronies were installed, relying on a set of nepotism means to unify the leadership of the country in one fell swoop, and became the head of the only political party in Austria.

From the first day he climbed to this position, no one in Austrian politics dared to raise the slightest objection.Schuschnigg was also intoxicated by his dream of becoming the uncrowned king of Austria.

In order to guarantee his dictatorial rights in Austria, Schuschnigg did not hesitate to curry favor with the tyrannical leader of Italy, Mussolini, and secretly signed many agreements that were detrimental to the national interests of Austria.

As long as the German-Austrian merger can be avoided, Schuschnigg is willing to do many shady things.Relax taxes on imported products from Italy, and buy high-quality timber and other resources produced in Italy at low prices.He also served as Italy's "follower" internationally, making Austria appear internationally as an Italian younger brother.

Schuschnigg's shameless behavior did earn Mussolini's favor and Italian aid.Italy has also stated more than once that it will guarantee the independent existence of Austria through military assistance if necessary.

It is a pity that all his secret transactions with Mussolini were transferred to Reinhardt's desk by Rossi, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister who was Mussolini's "right-hand man".

Reinhard hated Schuschnigg's shameless behavior from the very beginning, which reminded him of the former Major General Umegawa Kuko who left him with an unpleasant influence, and then he was very angry with the Austrian leader. malicious.

However, Reinhardt did not inform Sickert of this scumbag behavior that ignored the wishes of most of the Germanic people and deliberately blocked the merger of Germany and Austria.

Compared with the enemies of Britain and France who weaken Germany on the bright side, this kind of people who continue to drag the nation back internally for their own interests are even more abhorrent.

For the sake of benefit, do everything!It shows the ugliest side of human nature to the fullest.

Compared with upright and noble Germans like Sickert, Schuschnigg is definitely the moth of this nation.

Since 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was defeated in World War I, was divided by the victorious countries, and Austria, the German-speaking region that originally belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, wanted to unify with Germany.

If we say that at that time, Germany and Austria failed to merge because the "Treaty of Versailles" and "Treaty of Saint-Germain" formulated by the victorious countries prohibited the merger of Germany and Austria.

In the past three years, after Reinhardt led Germany to completely tear up the "Treaty of Versailles", the "Treaty of Saint-Germain" has long been ineffective.

The reason why the people of Germany and Austria have not been able to unify is entirely due to the resistance of the Schuschnigg group.For the sake of their existing rights, this selfish little team flirts with Italy and bows to Britain and France.

"Needless to say!" Reinhard snorted viciously at the dictator who once ruled Austria: "I know what you are thinking, I will give you the position of Governor of the Eastern Province. Now you only need Sign the German-Austrian Agreement and then make a public statement. Understand?"

"Understood, understood..." At this moment, the mighty Austrian tycoon was obsessed with Reinhardt, the former nerd who had traveled through time.

If it was placed 10 years ago, Reinhardt might have spent several days and nights on this.But now, he found that there was no wave in his heart!

Body 1 Chapter Sixteen

During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Cong, the land snake in Jingzhou, surrendered to Cao Cao.He was appointed as the governor of Jingzhou by Xu Nuo, and he was in charge of Jingzhou for generations.

Cao Cao fulfilled his promise, and later named Liu Cong the governor of Jingzhou, but brought him back to Xuchang himself.

Today, Reinhardt has made the same promise to the Austrian dictator Schuschnigg, and has made the same plan as Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China.

For Schuschnigg, who has never watched The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he probably did not expect Reinhardt to direct the East.

Besides, Reinhardt doesn't even intend to keep a scum like Schuschnigg by his side.

The purpose of Xu Yi's high-ranking officials and rich salary is to let this matter set an "example" for future enemies.It is also beneficial to let more people know that surrendering to Germany can be taken.

Such a move has a great influence on most people.

In particular, many leaders will reduce their enthusiasm for resistance because of the "benefits" of surrender, and thus surrender more easily.

Yu Gong, it is better to find a chance to end the war decently than to suffer endless reprisals after resisting to the end.

In private, as a surrendered person, life will definitely be more comfortable than a failed recalcitrant.

However, these are superficial propaganda.In private, people like Schuschnigg would be secretly sent to "labor camps" for labor reform.

Are you not enlightened enough?That's ok, cleanse your filthy heart with great physical labor.

As a result, Schuschnigg was politely invited to the "labor camp" by a squad of soldiers from the SS special operations team 10 minutes after he issued the complete national statement, and together with more than 300 prisoners of the Childe family Carry out glorious labor reform.

On the other hand, shortly after the announcement of the merger between Germany and Austria, a German artillery column received a warm welcome in the small town of Kufstein on the Austrian border.

Journalists from Britain, France and other countries were led to Kufstein in large numbers, and "coincidentally" visited this German army team towed by horses.

Behind the glamorous and glamorous image of the German army, it is regarded by Britain, France and other countries as a feature that is not up to the times.

After seeing the photos of the German cavalry, a senior British army officer said contemptuously in private many times: "The German Wehrmacht has fallen behind the times for too long. When the British Empire has begun to deploy a large number of cars, their The army is just getting started, and it relies on a large number of livestock to maintain its transport capacity."

However, the general underestimation of the British side did not arouse the approval of their future ally, the French government.

For the German Army, which openly used the Wehrmacht to support Spain's political allies and deliberately projected its strength and prestige.Observers in France had a hard time believing the British government's rhetoric that Germany was not yet strong.

Compared with the British army called "old soldiers", the French army, which has the title of Europe's first army, has a better say.

In the Battle of Ruhr 13 years ago, when the French army had the upper hand, they were beaten to shame by the German SS, which was only a militia at that time.

Today, the Germans have further strengthened their image with brilliant victories on the Spanish battlefield.

The self-confidence of the British, the self-confidence of the British Army, is simply arrogant ignorance.

Not to mention Germany, which is now called the Third Reich by Reinhardt.

Even the Second German Empire established by Pi Bismarck at the beginning, how could it be the object that the British Army could despise.

At the beginning, a reporter once asked Bismarck at a ball: "What if the British Army landed to cooperate with the invasion of Germany?"

Then, then Prime Minister Bismarck made a famous answer that has been passed down to this day: "That's easy, just let the German police arrest them."

It is not difficult to see from this story that the incompetent British army was never looked at by the Germans from the beginning to the end.

As a result, the British are full of confidence now, and they are full of plans to use Germany to balance the power of France, and even use it as a watchdog against the Soviet Union.

The most direct product of this kind of thinking of the British is the "appeasement policy".

The main manifestation of the appeasement policy is to support the defeated Germany, and at the same time support Japan to provoke the Soviet Union, making the two countries act as a barrier against the Soviet Union and thugs to suppress the people's revolution.

In fact, this policy has already made its appearance in the Dawes Plan, the Younger Plan, and the Locarno Convention that reduced Germany's reparations and canceled economic controls on Germany.