The Rise of the Third Reich

Stalin's request was quickly brought back to Berlin by Count Schulenburg, the German ambassador to the Soviet Union, and discussed at a high command meeting.

"What? What? He didn't participate in the world war, but he will participate in the partition of the world?" Hitler almost jumped up when he heard Stalin's conditions.

"Leader, we are not trying to carve up the world, but to liberate all mankind!" Marshal Hessman reminded, "The era of carving up the world has passed, and now we should use the word 'liberation'."

How reactionary does "carve up" sound? Where can "liberation" win people's hearts?

"Liberation?" Hitler glanced at Hersmann and asked half-jokingly, "The kind of liberation that requires a fee?"

Hersman shrugged and said seriously: "There is a fee for sure! Liberation is a paid service, but you don't have to pay the entire fee at once, but you have to allow installment payments."

After hearing this, a group of Nazis and militarists in the No. 1 conference room of the Ministry of National Defense almost laughed out loud. How could a dignified marshal and chief of general staff speak so humorously?

Jiefang is a paid service, and you can actually pay in installments, just like buying a car or real estate...

Seeing everyone suppressing laughter, Hessman said in a very serious tone: "I'm not kidding! There is no free lunch in the world, let alone free liberation!"

When a serf was liberated, he would probably have to pay a huge ransom, and then other exploitation would be added to him. If he wants to live the same life as before as a free man, he must work harder! There are many people in this room whose ancestors were serf owners, right? Whose ancestors freed serfs and did not exploit them in other ways? "

Upon hearing this explanation, the Junkers in the conference room all nodded slightly in agreement - the Junkers were all noble landowners, so they naturally knew what liberating serfs was about.

Hersman continued: "And an enslaved nation must pay the blood of generations of revolutionaries for its own liberation, and finally the flowers of freedom can be watered. Then this nation must preserve for them the freedom they finally obtained. , and work hard!

If this liberation comes from the gift of others, then there is no doubt that this nation must pay for its own liberation with hard work from generation to generation. "

His view, of course, also comes from the experience of later generations. There have been two "liberation service providers" in history, one is called the American Liberation Company and the other is called the Soviet Socialist Liberation Company.

However, there is not much impression of the "Soviet Liberation Company" in Hersman's memory, because this "Soviet Liberation Company" closed down in 1991 due to poor management. But he knew a little about how the American Liberation Company charged. Among those countries that "purchased" the liberation services of the United States, such as Japan, South Korea, European countries, and the wealthy countries in the Middle East, which one has not been sheared over and over again? Even those countries that have not purchased America’s liberation services cannot escape the fate of being sheared by the United States!

In this time and space, Hersmann, as the Marshal and Chief of General Staff of the German Empire, is of course obliged to make Germany the largest liberation service provider in the world.

"Then how are we going to charge for liberation?" Adolf Hitler asked.

This is probably why Germany is inferior to the three world empires of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union! After all, Germany is only a "middle power". Although it once owned colonies, it did not operate for a long time and did not get any big profits from the colonies. Although he had little experience in exploiting and controlling foreign countries, Hirschman had heard many words of wisdom from liberators in later generations.

"Ocean, oil, food and currency!" Hersman said. "Whoever controls these four things controls the entire world, and whoever can tax the entire world, in disguised form or directly."

He paused, looked at Adolf Hitler with burning eyes, and said: "If the liberation of mankind is regarded as a business, then now is the time to compete for the market... compete for the market of liberation services! And Germany must compete in this competition. grasp the most valuable market.

The first is control of the sea. This does not mean how many battleships and aircraft carriers you have, but control of maritime navigation hubs, such as Suez, Gibraltar, the Panama Canal, Singapore, Hawaii, and of course the English Channel! We must control these key points as much as possible, either by directly liberating them, or by supporting pro-German regimes to liberate them.

Second is oil. The next few decades to a hundred years will definitely be the era of oil. Oil will become a necessity for the world. Whoever controls the most oil available for export in the world will be able to turn their own currency into Become a world currency! Judging from the current situation, the oil export destination that can be controlled by Germany is the Middle East... That is the territory that Germany must liberate!

Food again, no one can survive without eating, so food will always be a necessity, so Germany must master the territory that can export large amounts of food. I think that Germany should provide all possible help to the liberation cause of the South American people and free them from the control of US imperialism.

Finally, there is currency. The value of the right to issue world currency is unquestionable, and we are already working hard to seize it. As long as we can liberate the Middle East and South America in the future, we can price oil and grain trade in Euromarks. Then the right to issue world currency is undoubtedly ours! "

Hirschmann was deciding the direction for Germany's expansion, no, for Germany's cause of human liberation.

This must also be determined before the Riga Conference. Because at the Riga Conference, in addition to issuing a lofty declaration of liberation, the main task was to determine the respective market shares of the German Liberation Company and the Soviet Liberation Company. Historically, the reason why the Soviet Liberation Company finally went bankrupt was Hess It seems that Mann has a small market share and does not control the most profitable markets in the Middle East and South America!

"The Middle East?" Adolf Hitler frowned, "I'm afraid Stalin won't give it to us, right? The Russians have always wanted to occupy Constantinople and then move south in a big way!"

"The Russians not only want the Middle East," Hersman added, "the Balkans have always been the direction of Russian expansion. In addition, Stalin must have been very unhappy with the loss of Finland, Russian Poland and the Baltic provinces."

"The Baltics, the Balkans, Poland, Finland and the Middle East?" Hitler snorted, "No one can satisfy the Russian ambitions!"

"Of course it's impossible," Hessman smiled bitterly, "but we still have to maintain relations with the Soviet Union, because there is no chance of winning in a war on two fronts."

"But we cannot satisfy the Soviet Union!" Adolf Hitler pointed out seriously. "Even if we gave Stalin the Baltics, the Balkans, Poland, Finland and the Middle East, he would still betray us!"

"Yes," Hersman smiled, "but we can still maintain relations with the Soviet Union until we defeat Britain and France."

"Is this possible?" Adolf Hitler shook his head in disbelief.

"Of course!" Hessman said with certainty. "Actually, Stalin, the Red Czar, was a very cautious man. And the fundamental reason why he was able to defeat Trotsky and become the leader of the Bolsheviks was not because he had extraordinary abilities. His courage was due to the cautious line he pursued, which was supported by most Bolshevik cadres. The line advocated by Trotsky at that time was world revolution, which would bring the risk of collapse to the newly born Soviet country. The one-country socialism advocated allows those Bolshevik cadres to enjoy the fruits of revolutionary victory with peace of mind...at least that's what they thought at the time."

"But I think Stalin will betray us in the end," Hitler said gloomily. "In fact, he already betrayed us once during the Polish campaign!"

"Maybe," Hessmann smiled indifferently, "but it doesn't depend on how much we give to the Soviet Union. It depends on how much Britain, the United States and France can give to the Soviet Union, and how much the risk of the Soviet Union betraying us is. If Britain, the United States and France give enough , and the Soviet Union’s chances of winning are large enough, then Stalin will defect because the distance between the Soviet Union and Germany is too close, and the benefits of defeating our Soviet Union are too great.”

This analysis is based on Hirschman's understanding of the history of the rise and fall of the Red Empire. The Red Empire in history once made the Western world tremble, but it did not provoke the world revolution and the fearless spirit of liberating all mankind. Instead, it took a path of Cold War confrontation that looked safe, but was actually doomed to failure—the economy, industry, population, and resources of the Warsaw Pact camp headed by the Soviet Union could not compare with the capitalist camp headed by the United States. Therefore, the Cold War was quite unfavorable to the Soviet Union. It could be said to be a slow suicide strategy, but the Soviet Union still carried out it unswervingly for decades.

"So we just stick to our principles at the Riga meeting and don't need to make any concessions on issues such as the Baltics, the Balkans, Poland, Finland and the Middle East," Hersman said. "And we should clearly state our firm position on the liberation of the Middle East! The Soviet Union can liberate India, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, but it cannot liberate the Middle East. That belongs to Germany!"

"But what if Stalin sends troops to Turkey and the Middle East while we defeat Britain and France?" Adolf Hitler suddenly asked, "This is very possible, isn't it?"

"Leader," Hessmann smiled, "Currently the only one we can defeat is France. After defeating France, we will unite with Italy to go south to the Balkans and the Middle East to liberate that land before the Soviet Union!"