During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Cong, a local leader in Jingzhou, surrendered to Cao Cao. He was promised to be named the governor of Jingzhou and would be in charge of Jingzhou for generations.
Cao Cao fulfilled his promise and later made Liu Cong the governor of Jingzhou, but brought Liu Cong himself back to Xuchang.
Now, Reinhard has made the same promise to the Austrian dictator Schuschnigg, and has made the same plan as Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China.
For Schuschnigg, who had never seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he probably would not have thought of Reinhard's oriental command.
Besides, Reinhard didn't even intend to keep a scum like Schuschnigg around.
The purpose of promising high-ranking officials and generous salaries was to set an "example" for future enemies. Let more people know that there are benefits to be gained from surrendering to Germany.
Such a move has great influence on most people.
In particular, many leaders will reduce their enthusiasm for resistance because of the "benefits" of surrender, making it easier to surrender.
Mr. Yu, it would be better to find an opportunity to end the war with dignity than to suffer endless revenge after resisting to the end.
In private, as a surrenderer, life will definitely be more comfortable than that of a failed resister.
However, this is all superficial propaganda. In private, people like Schuschnigg will be secretly sent to "labor camps" for reform through labor.
Aren't you aware enough? It doesn't matter, then use great physical labor to purify your dirty heart.
As a result, 10 minutes after Schuschnigg issued the declaration of national independence, he was politely invited to the "labor camp" by a squad of SS Einsatzgruppe soldiers, together with more than 300 Child family prisoners.
Carry out glorious labor reform.
On the other hand, shortly after the Anschluss was announced, 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 "happened" to visit this German troop team drawn by horses.
Behind the glamorous image of the German army, the tall and majestic image is regarded by Britain, France and other countries as a characteristic that is even more out of date with the times.
After seeing photos of the German cavalry, a senior British army officer said contemptuously in private on many occasions: "The German Wehrmacht has lagged behind the times for too long. When the British Empire began to install a large number of cars, their
The army has just started and relies on a large number of livestock to maintain its transportation capacity."
However, this British view of generally underestimating the enemy did not arouse the approval of the French government, their future ally.
For the German Army, which blatantly used the Wehrmacht to support Spain's political allies and deliberately projected its strength and prestige, French observers found it difficult to believe the British government's rhetoric that Germany was not yet strong.
Compared with the British army, which is known as the "old army", the French army, which is known as the first army in Europe, has a more say.
In the Battle of the Ruhr 13 years ago, where the French army had the upper hand, they were beaten to disgrace by the German SS, who had only been a militia at the time.
Today, the Germans have further strengthened their image through their glorious victories on the Spanish battlefield.
The self-confidence of the British and the self-confidence of the British Army is simply arrogant ignorance.
Not to mention the Germany that Reinhard now calls the Third Reich.
It was the Second German Empire founded by Bismarck. How could it be an object that the British Army could despise?
At the beginning, a reporter once asked Bismarck at a dance: "What if the British Army lands and cooperates with the invasion of Germany?"
Then Prime Minister Bismarck at the time gave 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 British incompetent army was never taken seriously by the Germans from beginning to end.
As a result, the British are now full of confidence and are planning to use Germany to balance the power of France, and even use it as a watchdog to resist 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 was to support the defeated Germany and at the same time support Japan in provoking the Soviet Union, making the two countries act as a barrier against the Soviet Union and as thugs to suppress the people's revolution.
In fact, this policy has already appeared in the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, and the Locarno Convention, which reduced Germany's reparations and eliminated economic controls on Germany.
In fact, even if Reinhardt had not played a word game and released Nucker, Germany would not have paid much more World War I reparations after 1932.
In other words, the reason why Reinhardt was able to evade reparations through word games was essentially based on the appeasement policies of European countries, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, rather than his ability to exploit loopholes.
In addition to the Soviet Union, capitalist countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, and the United States have all more or less participated in this policy of preventing the Red Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was also conducting large amounts of war material transactions with Germany.
Almost all the powerful countries in the world are conducting transactions with the Germans, and the purpose of the transactions is actually to deal with the other party.
China purchased German armorers to deal with the Japanese army, Japan purchased Panzerfaust rocket launchers to contend with the Soviet army, the Soviet Union purchased German military technology to confront capitalist countries, and the Spanish Republican Army and the National Army purchased weapons from Germany respectively in an attempt to eliminate each other...
Countries such as Romania, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, which are not too concerned about the excitement, have allowed Germany to import a huge amount of oil.
What could be happier than a day like this. People all over the world are trying to please themselves and win over themselves. They eat both sides and have their way, so what more can you ask for...
Only after sitting in such a position and being in such an environment, Reinhardt understood how happy the geographical advantages of the United States as the "Chosen Country" in history meant.
Germany's current transcendent status is short-lived and can easily be broken. However, the special geographical advantages of the United States have destined it to maintain its transcendent status in the next 10 or even 20 years.
However, at least today, when the appeasement policy is in vogue, Germany under Reinhardt is still quite popular.
The two armored divisions led by Guderian took a small road to Vienna. All the tanks were decorated with German flags and bouquets of flowers, and they received a warm welcome from the Austrian people.
This long-distance march also exposed problems with the T3 tank's engine and other aspects, and many breakdowns occurred on the path to Vienna.
R&D experts from various departments in Germany also held an emergency meeting to discuss improvement measures.
A week after the Anschluss, other countries responded mildly to the incident, as Reinhardt expected.
Although the Allied Powers of World War I, especially Britain and France, had the responsibility to uphold the Treaty of Versailles, especially the clauses prohibiting the merger of Germany and Austria, they only carried out diplomatic protests and did not take practical actions to prevent the merger.
In the referendum hosted by Reinhardt half a month later, 99.7% of Austrians approved of the German-Austrian merger. Internationally, this greatly demonstrated the Germans' desire and joy for the merger.
Afterwards, the German head of state Reinhard, who stayed in Austria in order to create an advantage in public opinion and leave a pro-people influence, sent a telegram to Sickert in Berlin.
The telegram contained only one sentence: "From today on, no one dares to look down on the will of the Germans!"
