The Rise of the Third Reich

"Mr. President, Mr. President..." Hopkins, who currently lives in the White House, knocked on Roosevelt's bedroom door before dawn, waking up the sleeping president.

"Harry, you know what?" Roosevelt said in a half-joking tone when he got dressed with the help of the black maid McDuffie and appeared in front of Hopkins in a wheelchair, "You just disturbed the United States. The president's dream... it was really a dream. In the dream, American planes filled the European sky and bombed the German mainland into ruins. The American army also landed in France, and then together with the Soviet army, they attacked from two places. The enemy invaded German territory, but the German leader Hitler was helpless, just like Churchill in reality!"

"President, what happened to Hersman in your dream?" Hopkins asked with a smile, "Hitler doesn't care much about the military. Hersman is our biggest enemy."

"Hirschman...there was no such person in my dream." President Roosevelt smiled and said, "It's just a dream. By the way, Harry, what do you want from me?"

"The King of England has accepted the invitation," Hopkins said. "He will leave as soon as possible, first to Iceland and then to the United States."

"Great," Roosevelt laughed, "I knew Churchill wouldn't refuse... Now he has to curry favor with the United States!"

"Now the only thing left is to convince the King of England," Hopkins said thoughtfully. "As long as he is willing to cooperate with us, the British mainland will become a sad place for Germany."

"Of course he will cooperate with us!" Roosevelt said, "These monarchs always value the crown above all else. If George VI wants to secure his throne as King of Canada, he must get my support. Yes. Without my support, does he still need Churchill?”

"Of course not," Hopkins said with a smile. "The people who really need Churchill now are the 46 million British people."

"Yes, we cannot let the British people get rid of this brave and determined Prime Minister." Roosevelt smiled and asked, "By the way, is Ambassador Kennedy already on his way to the White House?"

"President, I called him," Hopkins replied.

Roosevelt nodded and said, "Okay, I want to have breakfast with him and discuss whether the United States can reach a decent and beneficial peace treaty with Germany."

…

"Comrade Beria, please, please come in."

Near Arbat Street in Moscow, in an apartment reserved for ministerial cadres, Hersman's old friend Mrs. Kollontai was speaking calmly to the visiting Beria.

The "Glass of Water Lady" has been prepared to be arrested at any time since a long time ago... because there are too many reasons to arrest her.

She was once a Menshevik and participated in the activities of the Workers' Opposition (Trotskyist) within the party in 1922. Stalin was responsible for investigating Kollontai's crimes before Lenin's death. In 1923, she got into a lot of trouble for writing an "H novel". Not only was she criticized, but she was also ordered to close the book.

During the Great Purge, one of her ex-husbands and several of her lovers were found to be anti-G activists and lost their lives. As for those who worked with her in the early years, few were still alive during the Great Purge era. Even Lenin’s wife, Krupskaya, died in February 1939 after eating a cream cake sent by Stalin.

But Mrs. Kollontai seemed to have received special favor from Stalin—perhaps Stalin had a crush on this charming and beautiful woman in his early years—and was able to escape the catastrophes of the revolution time and time again. Even after returning from Nazi Germany (she was previously ambassador to Germany), she was not arrested for espionage or other crimes.

So until now, Kollontai didn't look too scared. She thought to herself: Beria's visit today was probably not to arrest anyone.

"Comrade Kollontai, the General Secretary sent me to talk to you." Beria is indeed not here to arrest Kollontai - this woman is not high enough for Beria to arrest her personally.

After sitting down in Mrs. Kollontai's living room, Beria sent all his entourage and Kollontai's maid out, and then said to her: "Comrade General Secretary is going to appoint you as ambassador to Switzerland. You Do you know why?"

"Appoint me to be ambassador to Switzerland?" How could Mrs. Kollontai not understand the meaning? How come she has been a revolutionary for many years and has never seen anything?

"Are we going to make peace with Germany?" Kollontai asked.

Beria nodded slightly and said: "The situation of the world revolution is very serious... We must pay attention to strategy."

"Conditions?" Kollontai asked.

She knew that since Beria came to talk to her, the matter of making peace must be a secret—otherwise, Molotov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, should have told her about it!

Moreover, Stalin would definitely not tell him this personally. Otherwise Beria wouldn't have come.

"There will be no reparations or territory ceded, the border will be restored to the pre-war state, and India will be placed under the Soviet sphere of influence." Beria said, "At the same time, the Tripartite Guarantee Treaty between Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union will be signed to maintain the balance of the post-war world."

"This...isn't possible?" Kollontai frowned. The current situation seems to be very favorable to Germany. Needless to say, on the Soviet-German battlefield, even Britain can hardly hold it anymore. In order to support the fleet sent by Britain, the United States was almost completely annihilated by the European Combined Fleet and German aircraft.

Under such circumstances, even if the Germans did not cede the Soviet Union's land, they had no reason to give India to the Soviet Union.

Moreover, the "Triple Guarantee Treaty between Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union" is obviously unfavorable to Germany, because the United States and the Soviet Union are now allies and will probably join forces to deal with Germany in the future.

"There are certain difficulties," Beria smiled, "but this is the bottom line we can accept... Maybe we can bargain on the Indian issue, and we can give in half. But there must be something gained, so that the Soviet country can End the war as a winner."

Kollontai understood that becoming a winner was very important to Stalin! Because the victor is not condemned. As long as he can eat half of India without losing any land on the Western Front, then Stalin will be a winner who has expanded the territory of GCism.

But how could the Germans accept such a peace?

Seeing that Kollontai was worried and hesitant, Beria added: "Comrade Kollontai, diplomacy is always based on strength! Although the Germans have a temporary advantage on the battlefield, the combined strength of the Soviet Union and the United States is still Far more than Germany. If there is a long world war, the Soviet Union and the United States will definitely win the final victory."

…

"How long will it take before the island of Ireland is fully controlled?"

In the Ministry of Defense building at 73 Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, Adolf Hitler stood in front of a huge sand table with his arms folded. Next to him was a group of beaming German generals. The Minister of Defense, Reichsmarschall Hersmann, was also among them.

Hearing Hitler's question, Hessmann immediately replied: "Except for the vicinity of Belfast, the rest of the island of Ireland will be completely controlled by us within a few days. Now the British army has given up resistance in most areas and is moving in. Retreating to Belfast."

In fact, the British army did not put a few divisions on the central defense line of Ireland - after the N21 fleet's transportation mission "succeeded 20%", the British high command knew that it could not hold on. So they immediately adjusted their deployment and shrank their troops around Belfast.

"Will a Warsaw-style bloody battle break out in Belfast?" Hitler suddenly became worried again.

The British have hundreds of thousands of troops in Ireland, and it will be difficult to fight if they all shrink around Belfast. Siege is always a big problem. It would be a pity if the German army lost 200,000 to 300,000 casualties in Belfast - after all, victory is in sight now, and there is no need to kill so many blond German supermen. .

"No." Hessman shook his head and smiled, "Why should we fight Belfast? We don't want it there. Once we compress the British army around Belfast, most of the northern part of the island of Ireland With the northern part of Ireland as our base, our navy and air force can basically encircle the British mainland. In fact, Britain may soon sue for peace.”

"Peace?" Hitler asked. "Is the information reliable?"

"It is public information," Hersman said. "The President of the United States sent an invitation to the King of England yesterday. Roosevelt wants to discuss major issues of the world's anti-Nazi war with George VI."

"Hahaha, this lame president is really going to let people down." Hitler laughed.

His joy was not unreasonable. Roosevelt's invitation to George VI was obviously to give the British king a reason to escape.

Ireland is lost (basically lost), and the king is gone. How can Britain be beaten? Who can afford to die for a king who abandoned his country and fled?

Moreover, as the victor, Germany was quite magnanimous and did not intend to severely punish the British.

"Then we should also consider making peace with Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, the British Regent Princess." Hitler said with a smile, "We can ask the Queen of the Netherlands to come forward, and maybe Princess Juliana can accompany Prince Friedrich to London. ”

"I think Princess Juliana would be happy to go," Hersman said.

"The British Empire can continue to possess India," Hitler said. "We do not need to liberate India. Princess Elizabeth should be the Queen of India and Prince Friedrich will be the Emperor of India."

Hitler suddenly lowered his tone: "In addition...Japan can no longer attack Australia and New Zealand, because that is also the territory of the British Empire. We have an obligation to help the British maintain this land and cannot allow the yellow-skinned Japanese to get their hands on it!"