The Rise of the Third Reich

The current Prime Minister of the British Empire is Oswald Mosley, Chairman of the Fascist League. He and the Queen's husband, Prince Friedrich, are the two most powerful men in the UK. At the same time, they are probably the most supportive of integration in the entire UK. European politicians.

However, Britain is still Britain after all, and being at a distance from the European continent is what most British people want.

Neither truly becoming part of Europe, nor leaving Europe forever, are what these British islanders want.

The Rolls-Royce sedan in which the Prime Minister was riding left Buckingham Palace and headed towards No. 10 Downing Street. It is still the official residence of the Prime Minister and the political center of Britain, but Britain is no longer the empire on which the sun never sets.

The streets of London looked depressed, most of the shops were closed, and there were not many pedestrians, but people wearing black lightning armbands and brown military uniforms could be seen everywhere - they were volunteer members of the Fascist Alliance, dressed and dressed like Rome. The Blackshirts are somewhat similar to the early German stormtroopers.

The fascist vigilantes were distributing leaflets of the Fascist Alliance, which was preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Now that the Soviet Union was about to be defeated, and the United States had sued for peace with the European Community, the war seemed to be over soon. And when peace comes, the British "National Defense Authorization Act" will naturally expire.

Without the National Defense Authorization Act, the Queen would theoretically not directly appoint Mosley to form a cabinet without the approval of the House of Commons. However, if Queen Elizabeth believes that the National Defense Authorization Act is still valid, no one in the UK would dare to propose it at the moment. Dissenting...

However, the Fascist Alliance is still preparing for the general election. Mosley hopes that his party can win the election in the near future and control the lower house of parliament.

However, British public opinion was not very favorable to the fascist alliance.

First of all, the Fascist Alliance was unable to do anything about Britain's dilapidated economy, and it did not show the governance level of the Italian Fascist Party and the German Nazi Party at all. Even worse than the French Socialist Party (not the White Left Socialist Party, but a socialist party imitating the Nazis) and the People's Party (imitating the German Fatherland People's Party) in France.

At least France's economic situation is now much better than that of Britain, and it has also successfully turned the vast Algeria and French Morocco into French native provinces and forced Christianization there.

Secondly, the European integration policy of the British Fascist Alliance is not accepted by the people. Unlike the French across the Taiwan Strait, the British people are generally opposed to joining the European Community, and they are unwilling to participate in the German war. Therefore, the British government So far, no troops have been sent to the Soviet Union, nor have the small fleets left on the mainland been allowed to go to sea to fight the U.S. Navy.

In addition, the British public's hatred of Germany's ally Japan also affected the support rate of the Fascist Alliance.

The third thing that put the fascist alliance in trouble was the war in India. The Germans, who looked so powerful elsewhere, somehow became inactive on the Indian battlefield. Their troops watched helplessly as the Indian Red Army and the Soviet Red Army entered Lahore. Now almost all of northwest India has become a sea of ​​red flags.

Britain's rule on this most precious colony has become precarious!

The Prime Minister's Rolls-Royce stopped at the heavily guarded entrance of No. 10 Downing Street. Before 1943, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the British Empire was almost undefended, with only an unarmed policeman standing guard. Now, the entire Downing Street is a military restricted area, guarded by officers and soldiers of the Royal Guard with guns.

Seeing the Prime Minister getting out of the black Rolls-Royce, the officers and soldiers of the Royal Guards at the door of No. 10 Downing Street all stood at attention and raised their hands in salute: "Long live the Queen!"

"Long live the Queen!" Mosley also raised his hand in return.

Because of her tough performance in suppressing the revolution in London, Queen Elizabeth is now the true leader of Britain. Even the stormtroopers of the Fascist Alliance shouted: "Long live the Queen!" when saluting each other.

The military uniform bust of the young Queen of England hangs in the lobby of No. 10 Downing Street. There is no smile on her beautiful and delicate face, her brows are slightly frowned, and she seems to be watching everyone who enters the house with a cold gaze. .

After Mosley entered the gate of No. 10 Downing Street, he stood at attention again and raised his hand to the Queen's photo: "Long live the Queen!"

"Mr. Prime Minister," one of Mosley's personal secretaries came over and whispered to him, "Marshal Alexander is waiting in the cabinet meeting room and said he has something important to do."

"Is it important?" Mosley nodded, "Okay, I'll go see him right away."

He quickly followed his secretary into the conference room and met Marshal Alexander, the Imperial Chief of Staff in military uniform. The two of them first raised their hands and saluted each other.

"Harold, is there anything important?" the Prime Minister asked.

"Yes." Marshal Alexander breathed out, "Marshal Hersman invited me to be a guest at Zossen's manor from May 31st to June 1st."

"This is..." The British Prime Minister was a little confused. Is it an important matter to visit Hessmann's house?

"It's Project U!" Marshal Alexander took a breath, "They have achieved success and are ready to show it to us... just before the European Community Leaders' Meeting!"

"What? Project U?" Mosley asked, "Information from MI6?"

"It's news from the French!" Marshal Alexander said, "It's absolutely reliable, because the German U-project will be tested in the French province of Algeria."

"Do you know how powerful it is?" Mosley asked again.

He knew what the U project was about. The British intelligence agency had long discovered that Germany was researching atomic bombs! Efforts were also made to carry out sabotage, but without any success.

"I don't know." Marshal Alexander shook his head, "Maybe it will fail, maybe it will blow a big hole in the earth."

"Then go take a look," Prime Minister Mosley said, "and report to me the status of the test as soon as possible."

"Yes, Mr. Prime Minister."

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Marshal Maxime Weygand, the 77-year-old French Army Minister, also received a personal letter from Hessmann. However, he was not invited to Zossen, but directly informed that the "Heisenberg Device" would be launched on June 1. test, and hoped that he could come to Vargla Oasis to observe the test explosion process.

He received the letter on May 30. After consulting President Pétain and issuing an order to impose martial law throughout Algeria, Marshal Weygand flew to the capital of Algeria on a Bloch MB.220 transport aircraft on the 31st. Algiers.

The Bloch MB.220 is a transport aircraft developed by France before World War II. It can't carry many things or passengers. It is small and crude. The noise in the cabin is extremely loud and it flies very slowly. It cannot compete with the best transport aircraft in Europe today. Compared to Fokker 42. The flight from Paris to Algiers made the elderly Marshal Weygang suffer a lot.

However, the old marshal is still unwilling to fly on German high-end passenger planes, because in his opinion, if all French people fly on German planes, France will lose its aviation industry in a few years!

And a truly powerful country cannot do without the aviation industry... Well, starting from June 2, the "Heisenberg Device" will probably become the standard equipment of big countries, right?

But when will France have its own "Heisenberg device"?

When he got off Bloch's plane with a sore back, Marshal Weygang thought about France's own atomic bomb project - which of course has not yet started because Germany refuses to provide technical support and has also expressed its opposition to France's independent development of nuclear weapons. !

The European Community will be a unified federal state in the future, so the nuclear weapons Germany currently possesses will belong to the European Community federation in the future. Therefore, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Croatia-Hungary and other countries no longer need to invest in the development of nuclear weapons.

"marshal!"

Just when Wei Gang was thinking about how to secretly develop nuclear weapons, someone was already raising his hand to salute him. That person was Lieutenant General Tassini, commander of the Algerian Military Region.

"Li Rang." Wei Gang did not return the other party's hand, but just called him by his nickname, and then asked about the situation in Algeria. "How's the situation here? Has anyone been throwing homemade bombs at our people lately?"

Because the Pétain government, with the support of Germany, forcibly implemented the Christianization policy, it aroused strong resistance from the Algerian indigenous people. First, a riot broke out in the port of Constantine in northeastern Algeria. It was bloody suppressed and then transformed into various factions. kind of bomb attack.

In order to deal with this underground resistance movement, the Pétain government mobilized France's "SS" Frank Legion to station in Algeria and Morocco, and also set up a "Fascist Reformatory" in the Sahara Desert to transfer captured Saints or Saints. Families of the fighters were sent there to be soul-touched with fascism. It is said that the results of the reform are very good...

"There are very few people dropping bombs now," Lieutenant General Tasini smiled bitterly. "Although those people (referring to the Frank Army) are all madmen, I have to admit... some people just accept this trick. Sometimes a crazy person Fascists are better than ten thousand loving Frenchmen!"

"Yes!" Weigang sighed, "It's a pity that the French fascists shouted: Hi! Darlan (the leader of the Frank Army was Darlan, not Pétain or Reynold)..."

Lieutenant General Tassini shook his head and said: "Marshal, now the 'Black Feet' (referring to French immigrants) in Algeria are also shouting: Hi! Darlan."

"Why?" Wei Gang was stunned again and again.

"Because if you shout, you won't be hurt by the indigenous rioters... No one dares to do that. Everyone in Algeria is afraid of fascist madmen."