On the night of May 23, 1937, Francisco, the commander of the Republican Army, launched a coup and overthrew the government of the Second Spanish Republic.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on May 24, 1937, the newly formed Spanish Republican Army government announced its dissolution and ordered all Republican Army and People's Guard soldiers on the islands of Menorca and La Palma to surrender to the National Army. Tens of thousands of Republican soldiers
With nearly a thousand members of the Popular Guard surrendering in some cities, the Spanish Civil War ended for nearly a year. Spain's second attempt to go public failed.
The next day, Franco proclaimed the unification of Spain and renamed it the Kingdom of Spain.
Since Franco has always emphasized the need to maintain order with an iron fist, and he has always believed that as long as the ultimate goal is to "restore order," killing in the process is a necessary means.
After Franco took over the country, the massacre began immediately. Starting from the complete surrender of the Republican Army on May 24, cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, and La Palma, which had once been the capitals of the Republic, were attacked basically every day.
More than three figures were shot.
In the same month that Spain delivered 50,000 prisoners of war to Germany as laborers as promised, more than 3,000 Spanish left-wingers voluntarily went to German labor camps to take on the role of laborers.
After Reinhard discovered this phenomenon, he promptly sent a report to Franco, requesting that 50,000 people be selected from those planned to be executed and transported to Germany. Germany would guarantee that these people would never be allowed to return to Spain.
, causing a negative impact on Franco's regime.
After using the additional 50,000 people to mortgage part of the National Army's debt to the German government, Franco, the new dictator of the Kingdom of Spain, nodded in agreement with Reinhardt's request.
Even so, Franco's regime still massacred more than 50,000 people in one month, and persecuted and imprisoned more than 400,000 Spaniards. In contrast, the "workers" who were about to go to German labor camps to perform high-intensity work
In the middle, there were actually many people who were full of gratitude, glad that they had saved their lives and escaped to a safe environment.
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The end of the Spanish Civil War had a huge impact on the international community.
First of all, the newly established Kingdom of Spain signed the "Spain-German Support Force Attribution Agreement" at Reinhard's prior request. In this agreement, Spain promised to provide 10 German weapons to Germany in a state of war in the future.
The "Volunteer Forces" of the infantry division and a German light armored division, collectively known as the Blue Corps, were placed under the command of the German Army Headquarters.
Secondly, this war dealt a major blow to the forces of the Communist International. It lowered the status of the Soviet Union in the minds of the communist forces in various European countries, but improved the image of the new German Wehrmacht.
Rommel's story of "one division quelling the Spanish Civil War" was embellished by the German Propaganda Department and turned into a legend, inspiring the confidence of the people at home. This was the first expeditionary operation of the new German Wehrmacht, and also the Wehrmacht's first
The sharp blade is unsheathed.
Fight and become famous!
This victory directly laid the foundation for the promotion of the current German Chancellor Reinhard to the presidency. With the efforts of the Greater Deutsche Propaganda Department, Reinhard left an image in the hearts of the German people of leading Germany out of desperation after World War I.
, won the hearts of the people.
In the midst of the celebrations for the German victory in Spain, Reinhard announced in one fell swoop that Gustav would retire as president and that he would be promoted to president and concurrently serve as prime minister. Amid the celebrations, the president and prime minister of the Third Reich merged
As a position - the head of state. At this point, Reinhard's title of head of state is finally well deserved.
In his presidential inauguration speech on June 1, 1937, Reinhard declared on the radio in front of the whole world that "we must shoulder the great responsibility of the rejuvenation of the German nation and let the Germans who were divided by foreign countries in the last world war
The gathering areas have returned to the embrace of Germany."
One stone stirred up a thousand waves! The day after Reinhard delivered his speech, the Sudeten German Party headed by Konrad Hanlein held a congress and proposed the "split" of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
"Autonomy" program.
Afterwards, Reinhard quickly used this as an excuse to gather five divisions of troops on the German-Czech border and threaten war.
On June 5, the Czechoslovak government announced partial mobilization and mobilized troops to the border. For a time, the situation on the German-Czech border was tense, and there was a great danger of war breaking out.
On July 12, Czechoslovakia had completed pre-war mobilization in some areas. The total number of troops reached 1 million, of which the field army accounted for 800,000. This was equivalent to the entire number of troops deployed by Reinhardt on the Western Front at that time. And Reinhardt
Since Hart transferred the German troops to the German-Czech border, they now only have 5 divisions.
In addition, the Czechoslovak army was one of the few equipped with tanks and armored vehicles at that time. Its economic level was also ranked fourth in Europe at the time. It owned the second largest arsenal in Europe, the Skoda Arsenal, and the third largest arsenal, the Czech Brno Arsenal.
And a complete military industry system.
At this moment, the local military advantage of the German army can be said to be completely non-existent.
In terms of war endurance, Czechoslovakia has more than 18 tons of gold reserves and nearly 300,000 tons of oil reserves. Once the war drags on, the German army will pay a huge price. Even if the Germans in the Sudetenland are eventually merged, Germany will suffer losses.
It will also be far greater than the harvest.
However, Reinhard acted extremely tough in front of the public, showing that the Sudetenland must be captured for the sake of national unity.
Since France in Western Europe signed a mutual assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia, the French cabinet, which had been responsible until now, quickly held a meeting to seek countermeasures. That night, French Prime Minister Daladier made the decision to invite the British Prime Minister
Chamberlain intervened.
The idea of the French cabinet is very simple. It is better to get an ally to break up the fight than to have one country break up the fight. Unfortunately, the leader of their ally happens to be the largest supporter of the "appeasement policy" in British history.
On the night the French government issued the invitation, British Prime Minister Chamberlain sent an urgent telegram to Reinhardt, hoping that the two sides could "peacefully resolve" the issue through a meeting.
Two days later, having arranged his domestic affairs, Chamberlain immediately took a flight to Germany. He tried sincerely to discuss a peaceful solution with German Head of State Reinhardt.
"Head of State, British Prime Minister Chamberlain has arrived in Berlin on a private plane. At this moment, he is outside your Chancellery, waiting to meet with you." As Reinhardt's confidential secretary, he has worked for Reinhardt for 13 months.
Parker, a member of the Socialist Workers Party, seriously reported the news of Chamberlain's arrival to the head of state. In his view, this was an important diplomatic meeting. Before this, Chamberlain had never been to Germany once, and even the slightest
None of the people who visited Germany behaved like this.
"Well..." Since he knew the purpose of Chamberlain's trip, Reinhard naturally had no intention of negotiating with him. How to negotiate? Is it possible that he would agree to withdraw his people and resolve it peacefully?
After thinking for a long time, Reinhard decided to fool Chamberlain like the head of state in history.
Since you have decided to deceive your anxious opponent, you must disrupt the opponent's rhythm first. Aren't you anxious to see me? Then be anxious enough, I'm not in a hurry anyway.
Thinking of this, Reinhard smiled and said sternly to his confidential secretary Parker: "Go and tell him, just say I have a stomachache and ask him to wait a little longer."
Facing this head of state with a somewhat twisted and bastard personality, Parker stared at Reinhardt with a strange expression for a long time, deeply afraid that he had heard wrong just now. Stomachache? What kind of excuse is that?!
"Go quickly, just say I have a stomachache. Do you understand?" Reinhardt repeated the request empathetically.
"Obviously...I understand." Parker replied with sweat on his forehead, but secretly thought in his heart that this time, the British Prime Minister had enough to endure.
