Hamilton now fully understood that Reinhardt had no intention of having a good talk with him.
"Mr. Führer, have you considered the consequences of doing this?" What he can do now is to remind the other party that death may not be a good outcome for Germany.
"You could have chosen to get a lot of unearned benefits from Britain without spending any money." Hamilton tried to persuade Reinhardt: "But now, you want to choose to sacrifice countless soldiers.
Cause more casualties and turn future occupied areas into ruins."
"You can choose between the benefits brought by the peace talks and the continuation of the war." Hamilton tried his best to induce Reinhardt to make peace.
After all, if the war continues, Germany will have to bear more wars, which is not a good thing for Germany, which is already at war with the Soviet Union.
"Then I have made my choice." Reinhardt laughed, and said word by word while Hamilton looked at him like a madman: "Since peace talks can bring so many benefits, then after winning the war, we will get
Will the benefits soon be greater?"
He raised his right hand, stretched out his index and middle fingers, made a classic gesture like Churchill in history, and said with a bright smile on his face: "I want to get all the benefits, and I also want to destroy your regime."
.This time, you will definitely not be able to escape your fate of national subjugation!"
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Scotland, Castle of the Two Rivers.
Hidden beneath a farm here is a secret Scottish bunker covering an area of 24,000 square feet. A large meeting was secretly held by a faction independent of the militant Churchillites and the pro-Democrat Mosley faction.
This bunker was built in 1938 and was part of the Royal Air Force's secret combat headquarters and coastal radar for the defense of the Luftwaffe.
The bunker can accommodate 300 people to work and live, with complete facilities and even a chapel.
This is a secret bunker built during Chamberlain's administration. Although Churchill also became aware of the existence of the bunker after he came to power, almost all of the people in the Twin Rivers bunker were the cronies that Chamberlain had originally deployed.
That’s right, this faction in Scotland is not an unfamiliar party. It is the appeasement faction led by former Prime Minister Chamberlain!
As the Battle of London progresses, the British have realized that they are bound to lose, so they have considered for a long time who they should choose to surrender and who will receive better treatment.
Finally, some people thought of Mr. Chamberlain, the former Prime Minister who had a fairly good relationship with Reinhardt and who abdicated.
Ironically, it was precisely because of the huge pressure from the militants that Chamberlain felt that if he continued, he might be assassinated unknowingly on the road one day, so he took the initiative to give way to Churchill in 1940.
Forced to step down, the belligerent Churchill became the new British Prime Minister.
As a result, now that the war is going unfavorably, many people have rediscovered the reviled "Mr. Eberlin" Chamberlain, hoping that the former prime minister who stepped down because he was exploited by Reinhardt will use himself to be exploited by Reinhardt.
of affection, play the bitterness card to seek peace.
How ironic!
The old prime minister who had driven him out of office was invited back again. This was no longer just a slap in the face, it was a violent beating!
It's a pity that these people are only now thinking of Chamberlain.
What's even more pity is that Gott, who is presiding over the work in London, has not thought of the old man Chamberlain until now.
Few people know that Chamberlain, in a sense, had abilities and levels that were far beyond the reach of Churchill.
He and Churchill are two completely different types of people and two different types of leaders.
Compared with the bellicose Churchill, Chamberlain actually longed for peace. But he failed to achieve the goal. He participated in the First World War and saw the economic crisis caused by the war in various countries and the people's deprivation of life, so he decided to
The world cannot be allowed to have another war. Subsequently, he participated in the election as a conservative representative. During the period, he actively held speeches across the UK, promoting positive phrases such as "voting for him will bring more peace", inciting people to vote
Soon, he ranked first in the number of votes. Soon, he ascended to the throne of Prime Minister. Under his leadership, Britain began to rebuild, changing the atmosphere passed down from the First World War, and Britain became a colonial hegemon and a maritime hegemon.
The dream of hegemony may even come true again.
But this dream is based on an assumption - if there is no Reinhardt!
In fact, Chamberlain implemented a policy of appeasement, but at the same time he never relaxed his vigilance and secretly prepared for war.
He faced pressure from two sides at the time. Churchill criticized him for not paying attention to strengthening defense spending, but the Labor Party called him a warmonger.
In the end, after the 1935 election, he proposed to levy a national defense contribution tax to subsidize military industry with taxes. This resulted in fierce criticism from all parties. Although he was criticized, other economic policies of Chamberlain were effective. He adopted a so-called
In order to "rationalize" the policy, during the economic depression at that time, the government purchased old factories and mines and closed them down, so that new factories could be established. Due to this policy, by 1938, the United Kingdom already had the world's largest
The factory is equipped with the latest technology and equipment and has the ability to produce the latest weapons.
It can be said that many of the favorable conditions that Churchill later used were developed for him by Chamberlain. Churchill was just standing on the shoulders of the giant Chamberlain, that's all.
During Chamberlain's reign, Ireland hoped to be completely independent and become a republic, and formulated a new constitution that only recognized the British Crown as the supreme head of state and managed its own external affairs, while remaining completely independent. Taking into account the situation in Europe at the time, Chamberlain hoped that in the event of war, Ireland would
Ireland would not join the hostile side of Britain and therefore made many concessions.
In particular, Chamberlain and Ireland's first president de Valera maintained a good personal relationship. In the agreement reached by the two at that time, Ireland took back the three ports controlled by the United Kingdom, but paid Britain 10 million pounds in compensation. This agreement
It provoked some opposition in the UK, especially from Churchill, but the Conservative majority did not support Churchill, and later commentators believed that the agreement paved the way for Ireland to support Britain in wartime.
If it weren't for Chamberlain's efforts, Gort's current strategy of moving the capital to the island of Ireland to unite Ireland would not have been carried out!
Moreover, after Chamberlain came to power, the proportion of British government expenditure in GDP soared from 7% in 1938 to 18% in 1939. Although this proportion was still lower than the 23% of Reinhardt's Germany, it was still a significant improvement for the country that had just emerged from Germany.
It is already difficult for the UK, which is suffering from economic recession.
But who would have thought that just a few years ago, the British Air Force was weakened due to lack of funds and found it difficult to compete with the rising Third Reich.
And if we say who was the hero behind the "rebuilding of the Royal Air Force" in the mid-to-late 1930s, former British Prime Minister Chamberlain, who has been denounced by later generations as "aiding the evil", is probably the hero who truly deserves respect.
The traditional view is that Chamberlain's appeasement policy was a manifestation of weak-mindedness, but ignored Chamberlain's actions, true intentions and the historical background in which he lived.
In order to raise and increase military spending, Chamberlain once submitted a draft to Congress, intending to impose an excess profits defense tax on the military industry giants who had made huge fortunes due to rearmament. However, almost no one among more than 600 members supported him. At the same time, Chamberlain launched 4 more
The issuance project of 100 million pounds of defense bonds also failed to receive response from the capital community.
It can be said that Chamberlain has exhausted every method he could think of and used within the system to strengthen his country's war preparedness.
This is the real reason why Britain can persist to this day!
Incited by Churchill and his followers, many people accused Chamberlain of being cowardly and cowardly, and only knew that the policy of appeasement was conniving with Germany.
But no one can point out how the outcome would have been different if Britain had not implemented a policy of appeasement.
At that time, France was unwilling to go to war, Italy joined the Axis Powers, the United States maintained isolationism, and Britain actually had no allies among the major powers at the time. Chamberlain used this time to accelerate the British rearmament plan, improve the radar defense system and
The renewal of the Air Force played a key role in Churchill's subsequent initiation of the war.
The most annoying thing is that Churchill also wasted Chamberlain's countless efforts and was pushed all the way to London by the Allies.
To be fair, if Chamberlain was allowed to lead Britain to continue fighting, the results would not necessarily be worse than Churchill's.
At least in terms of strategic vision, Chamberlain was ten times better than Churchill!
