The Rise of the Third Reich

"Mussolini, the executioner! Mussolini, the executioner! Mussolini, the executioner..."

On September 10, 1944, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was in a car passing through Broadway in New York and heading to Wall Street when he once again encountered a crowd of protesters. This was the third parade he encountered on his way from his home at 740 Park Avenue in New York to Wall Street today.

"Father, are they all Bolsheviks?" Nelson Rockefeller was sitting in a large car with his father today. Seeing the red flags held by the parade, he frowned and asked. He came from Washington to New York to arrange for the visit of Mussolini, the European dove of peace who loves the United States, but he did not expect to encounter a protest of astonishing scale in New York - Mussolini had not come yet, and the wave of protests in New York was about to boil. If he really came, he didn't know what would happen!

Nelson Rockefeller thought to himself: These Americans who are making trouble really don't know good people.

"Not entirely," John Rockefeller Jr. smiled, "The protest march was indeed organized by the Bolsheviks, but most of the protesters took our subsidies to the streets."

Of course, subsidies are needed for protest marches, otherwise where would such a big momentum come from? This is not the Great Depression, and the American working people are starving at home, so it doesn't cost much to come out to protest. Now is an unprecedented period of prosperity, and there are not enough people everywhere, and everyone has to work overtime. If no one gives subsidies, how could the American working people not want dollars to make things difficult for Mussolini, who is determined to help them get rid of the threat of atomic bombs?

And subsidies, how could the Bolsheviks afford them? Now there is no Third International to sponsor them.

"We give them subsidies?" Nelson Rockefeller was the Assistant Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration and was always busy with official duties. He didn't know what his father, other Wall Street tycoons, and billionaires in other parts of the United States were doing now.

"Why?" Nelson Rockefeller was surprised, "They are Bolsheviks! And... Mussolini is our friend!" Nelson Rockefeller turned his head to look at his son, and said in a low voice: "Of course it is to bring down Roosevelt's Democratic Party! Otherwise, why would we give so much money to the Bolshevik Party and Foster, the villain (the presidential candidate of the Bolshevik Party of the United States)?" "Bring down Roosevelt's Democratic Party?" John Rockefeller Jr. nodded heavily, "And his damn New Deal! It's his fault that the United States has fallen to the current state. It's all the fault of the New Deal. In order to save America, the New Deal must end!" "End... the New Deal?" "Yes! End the New Deal and take back America!" Nelson Rockefeller certainly understood his father's idea. Although Roosevelt's New Deal "saved" the American economy, it also took America away from billionaire families such as the Rockefeller family, the Morgan family, and the Mellon family. Before Roosevelt's New Deal was introduced, the US government had little power, the power of the trade unions was also very small, and the power of the American financial tycoons was very large. The capitalists could even hire armed security guards to deal with striking workers. However, after the New Deal was introduced, the chaebols suffered a great blow, the business tax rate rose sharply, and the government power "expanded infinitely". What the capitalists could not tolerate most was the alliance between the Democratic Party led by Roosevelt and the labor unions, which made the American labor unions protected by the highest power for the first time in history. With the protection of the highest power, the labor unions and labor union leaders were no longer the targets of the thugs hired by the capitalists.

"Now is the opportunity!" John Rockefeller Jr. gritted his teeth and said, "Roosevelt's navy just suffered a shameful defeat in the Bermuda Islands. It seems that he has to kneel down to Europe for peace. And in early November, there will be presidential and congressional elections... If Roosevelt's Democratic Party can be packaged as a failure and a sinner who betrayed American interests, then Roosevelt's New Deal coalition will collapse in the election. At that time, the United States will be back in our hands!"

Nelson Rockefeller took a breath. He knew that the "we" in his father's mouth did not refer to the Rockefeller family, but a large number of well-known chaebol families in the United States. Before the Great Depression, the United States actually belonged to these tycoons. The government had little power, and those in power were agents of the tycoons. Sometimes the tycoons would even take power in person. For example, Andrew Mellon, the head of the Mellon family, served as Secretary of the Treasury for 12 years and served under three Republican presidents, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The 12 years from President Harding to President Hoover can be said to be an era when Wall Street giants called the shots. If it weren't for the Great Depression and the subsequent Roosevelt New Deal, the good times would definitely continue.

"Father," Nelson Rockefeller still couldn't fully understand the ideas of his father and other tycoons. He asked, "If we mess up the peace talks, even if Mr. Dewey becomes president, the United States will not be able to turn the tide of the war... By then, the cost of peace will be even greater."

Nelson Rockefeller is an assistant secretary of state and an insider in Washington. He is very familiar with the current war situation.

Now the United States and Germany have a technological gap in military power! This cannot be compensated by relying on numerical advantage. Moreover, how much numerical advantage can the United States have when facing the production capacity of most of Europe?

"The price of peace?" John Rockefeller Jr. smiled coldly, "The price of peace is that we become the true masters of the United States of America again... If we can have such a result, for us, this world war will not be a real one. Failed."

In fact, the large financial groups in the United States are not really anti-war, otherwise Roosevelt would not be able to bring the United States into the war (the Rockefeller family is relatively pro-German, and is an exception). However, the calculations of the consortium must be shrewd. Whether the world war is won or not, they have ways to make profits.

If the world war is won, then the American consortium will be able to use the national power of the United States and the hegemony of the US dollar to expand globally.

If the war is lost, then we will take the opportunity to oust the war criminal Democratic New Deal coalition, bring the obedient Republican conservatives to power, and then introduce a bunch of bills restricting trade unions, turning the United States into a world of capital again!

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USA, Washington, White House.

In a bedroom arranged as a hospital room, President Roosevelt was lying on the bed, and his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, was sitting in the chair next to her.

Truman and Dewey, who were running for president, also appeared in the ward. They came to visit Roosevelt, who had suffered a stroke and was bedridden, and brought flowers and sincere greetings. Both men sincerely hoped that Roosevelt would recover and devote himself to cleaning up the mess of the war.

To be honest, the war situation facing the United States now is really too bad. America's enemies possess weapons capable of "destroying the world" and possess superiority on land, sea and air. Therefore, the option before the President of the United States does not include ending the war victoriously. The question now is just how much will the United States lose?

Neither Truman nor Dewey wanted to take responsibility for the defeat. They both wanted to be American presidents who could lead the United States out of the plight of defeat and become great again.

But when they saw Roosevelt lying dying on the hospital bed, the clouds in their hearts became even stronger.

"What a pity," Roosevelt smiled bitterly at the two of them. "We lost the battle of Bermuda again. We lost very completely. Moreover, this defeat also revealed to us a cruel reality. Compared with Europe, we in the United States have many advantages. If we are backward in one aspect, we will be beaten if we fall behind! Never in history has a country that is completely backward in military technology been able to defeat a country that is leading in all aspects with its own strength and military means. We are going to lose the war. Lose! So one of you will lead a failed America for the next 4-8 years, which is very, very difficult!”

After hearing Roosevelt's depressing remarks, Dewey and Truman, who were determined to lead a failed United States to success, were relieved at the same time.

"Mr. President," asked Truman, the Democratic presidential candidate who was close to Roosevelt, "are you saying... that the United States needs to reach a peace agreement with Europe as soon as possible?"

As soon as possible... preferably before the transfer of power between the old and new presidents in early 1945, this damn war can be ended. Then let Roosevelt, the dying old president, bear the responsibility for the defeat.

Roosevelt did not answer Truman's question, but instead turned his attention to another presidential candidate, Dewey.

"Mr. President," Dewey said, "I believe that if the United States is certain that it cannot win, the sooner peace is obtained, the less the United States will lose."

Dewey's statement cannot be made in public, otherwise the American people who do not know the truth will definitely punish him with their votes. However, it is one thing to deceive voters on the podium during an election. It is another thing to actually become president and take power.

If the United States really cannot defeat Europe, then it can definitely save a little less by suing for peace early while it still has some capital. If the Germans are really allowed to use some kind of missile to launch an atomic bomb into the United States, 500 billion European marks will definitely not be able to buy peace.

And Roosevelt now made it clear that he wanted to be accused of being an American traitor, and Thomas Dewey was certainly happy to see it happen.

Roosevelt nodded and said: "The compensation of up to 500 billion European marks will make us go through a long and painful period in the future. The United States is likely to decline to the level before the last world war and no longer possess huge amounts of gold. Without reserves and huge overseas assets, the world's financial center will also shift from New York back to London and Paris...

This is a quite painful process. Many people will be dissatisfied, and many will have illusions about a more decent peace. And...I'm an outgoing president! Do you understand what I mean? "