With the total surrender of the three major governments in the United Kingdom, that is, the three major British governments, the Allied forces soon entered major cities in England, Scotland, and Ireland, occupying the transportation hubs of the United Kingdom.
In Africa, Montgomery's Commonwealth troops submitted surrender applications to the German, French and Italian commands of Rommel, Berante, and Garibaldi, and formally contacted all armed forces on the Egyptian border.
After the Atlantic Wall was officially formed, Reinhardt suddenly became much busier.
For example, many things that I have never been able to do before are now piled up again.
First of all, in this time and space, the great powers such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and Italy all used sacks to transport loose materials and piled them messily in the cabin. Reinhardt had actually wanted to make a big change for a long time.
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With a background in the navy, his first thought was to use containers, one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, to increase shipping capacity and simplify the construction of transport ships.
Unfortunately, before Britain completely surrendered, inventions such as containers were easier to crack and imitate, which actually made it more conducive for the United States to deliver aid supplies to Britain.
But after the British surrender, Reinhardt, who was eager to connect and improve shipping efficiency on the east side of the Atlantic, was finally able to boldly come up with the "golden idea" invention of the container.
On the second day after the United Kingdom announced its surrender, which was also the day Montgomery surrendered in Africa, Reinhard made a special trip to summon Speer and used his engineering drawing skills that he had almost forgotten in his previous life to sketch the drawings in pencil on the manuscript paper.
It looks like a container in its previous life.
Then, Reinhardt also carefully marked some details that need attention, such as stipulating the size of containers according to the width and length of cars and train carriages, using containers of different colors to formulate classifications, etc.
The advantage of a container is that it can be transferred directly without moving the goods in the box. It also speeds up the loading and unloading, and can be directly and conveniently transferred from one means of transportation to another. In this way, the goods
It is very convenient to fill and unload.
In addition, containers have the advantages of large volume, large amounts of cargo, and unified specifications. They can be stacked in ports and ships, saving a lot of space, and can be used repeatedly for a long time. This is equivalent to allowing Germany to transport ships without adding another ship.
In the case of ships, the transportation efficiency has been improved by more than 10% in vain!
The UK has always been a big maritime country. Germany, which inherited its maritime heritage from the UK, has more than doubled its shipping efficiency with the addition of container technology!
The most direct benefit is that the huge amount of winter clothing needed by the German army on the Eastern Front battlefield has been further solved.
Historically, in Germany's first winter in the Soviet Union, it used 400,000 sets of fleece clothes and trousers seized in France, plus its own emergency production of winter clothes, to ensure that those who evacuated still had fighting capacity.
In this life, the German army still seized 400,000 sets of velvet clothes in France. Later, after the German and French governments signed a peace treaty, French factories and some small factories under the German Rhine Consortium jointly undertook 200 sets of velvet clothes.
Orders for 10,000 sets of fleece pants.
But these 2.4 million sets of fleece clothes and trousers are far from enough on the Eastern Front battlefield.
In addition to the German army, even the Allied troops sent by Romania, Bulgaria, and some Italian and Spanish troops also had to be helped by Germany to purchase winter clothing.
The troops sent by Norway and Finland are not bad. Their troops are not large in size, and they can also provide winter clothing for the dispatched troops.
Now, the Allies have seized a large number of fleece clothes and pants in Britain, and preliminary statistics indicate that the number is more than 500,000 sets.
With containers, these winter clothes can be quickly transported from the British Isles to the European continent, and then relied on the developed railway networks of Germany and France to be promptly transferred to the eastern frontline troops.
Of course, the Allies were not alone in making unilateral demands for Britain. In order to stabilize the security in the occupied areas and restore production capacity to Germany as soon as possible, and to promote the atmosphere of goodwill between Britain and Germany, Reinhardt also ordered the launch of the
food aid to the UK.
In the past, due to Dönitz's wolf pack tactics, a large number of transport ships sank to the bottom of the sea every day on the Anglo-American shipping routes, resulting in a wasteful loss of supplies. The British government, which was unable to be self-sufficient, in order to import as many weapons and ammunition as possible, to a large extent
The proportion of food in the US aid list has been reduced.
As a result, most people in the UK have not had a full meal for a long time and are in a state of hunger all day long, receiving only a small amount of relief food distributed by the government.
Anyway, the transport fleet has to go to the UK to transport back winter clothes and some precision equipment, as well as better weapons and ammunition (used to equip some small countries' troops in the alliance), so when the transport fleet goes to the UK, take some lunch with you.
Canned meat is not a waste of transportation capacity.
At the same time, it was not easy for Germany alone to feed British refugees. Reinhardt also summoned his most loyal British puppet government Prime Minister Mosley and instructed him to promote a single-stern row trawling technology. This technology
The efficient fishing technology that was supposed to be created by the Danes eight years later was developed by Reinhardt in advance to help Mosley solve the food problem.
When Mosley led the English government to promote single-stern row trawling technology, not only did the British Isles no longer have the problem of famine, but they were able to deliver a considerable amount of canned fish to Germany, providing a supply of fish and meat.
Since Germany has already developed its northern oil fields, and the Romanian oil fields have also been working hard to supply, the German army is not short of gasoline supplies on the eastern front. In addition, the British Navy has already failed, and Germany's "big oil users"
The warships were also able to save some oil, so Reinhard was not in a hurry to transport the oil reserves seized from Britain back to Germany.
In addition, Germany's large-scale buses have also been replaced by charcoal-burning buses under government control. Although the speed is a bit slower, a lot of fuel is saved. Therefore, Germany's oil reserves have become abundant.
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When France's Algerian oil fields return to Europe, Germany will have a larger import channel.
In this way, it would actually be more appropriate for Britain's oil reserves to remain in the UK and be used as oil reserves for the Atlantic Barrier, and to be extracted by the Imperial High Seas Fleet.
As for the rest, there is the most representative emergency combat ration, chocolate. According to the statistical arrangements of the German logistics department, chocolate has enough calories, but the quantity cannot meet the demand at all, and Germany has to import all its cocoa.
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Therefore, the capture of Britain on the Western Front actually brought the greatest benefit to the officers and soldiers on the Eastern Front - their chocolate rations were guaranteed.
