The Allies defeated the entire Axis Powers, and now Europe is dominated by the Allied military group headed by Germany.
In Southern Europe and the Balkans, two countries that had not yet made a choice finally faced the problems they had to face.
According to the agreement, the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria have joined the Central Powers, and Hungary has become a province of Germany earlier.
However, Reinhardt did not exert pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Iron Alliance Treaty as he had done historically. Therefore, Prince Paul, the regent of Yugoslavia, did not sign the treaty, but he suffered because the treaty was not recognized by the military.
After a military coup, King Peter II took charge of government affairs instead of Prince Paul.
Reinhardt, who knew the complex internal situation of Yugoslavia, did not force Prince Paul to sign a treaty with him and join the Allied camp at the beginning.
On the contrary, Reinhard has been adopting a tepid policy, maintaining relations with the pro-German regime of Yugoslavia on the one hand, but on the other hand, he has not conducted in-depth exchanges and cooperation with Yugoslavia at all, and only maintains nominal friendship.'
No politician in any country would suggest having more nominally friendly countries. Although this kind of friendship is not strong, at least it does not require any remuneration or price. It is equivalent to giving away a friendly diplomatic ally for free.
This state lasted until Britain was defeated and the governments of the United Kingdom announced their surrender. The strength of Germany and its allies was undoubtedly exposed!
At this time, Yugoslavia should seriously consider its future diplomatic relations with Germany.
Originally, many countries in the Balkan Peninsula, including Romania, were the little brothers of Britain and France. But now Britain and France have followed Germany, and the Balkan Peninsula is also full of Allied member states.
If you haven't expressed your attitude now and want to fight with Germany, when will you wait?
What's even more terrible is that Greece, which has always been pro-German, has recently begun to take a significant step further and started negotiations on joining the alliance's water bloc.
This was not an accident in the first place.
It has been a fact that the Greek government is pro-German for a long time, and it is nothing new.
Almost all of the top Greek government officials are representatives of the pro-German faction, and their authoritarian ruler Giannis Metaxas has established close economic ties with Reinhardt's Germany. The two countries have deep economic ties.
Cooperation and friendship.
On the other hand, Italian politicians and diplomats under Rossi have been buying off Greek politicians a few years ago in the hope of controlling Greece's political direction.
Originally, Rossi and his colleagues in Italy made this arrangement under the instruction of former Prime Minister Mussolini, in order to use these bribed personnel as an internal response when attacking Greece in the future.
However, Mussolini's "New Roman Empire" plan had not yet been realized, and he himself had already gone to see Caesar.
Even before the day when Britain surrendered, Mussolini, who had been seriously ill for a long time, suddenly vomited blood after an infusion arranged by Rossi, and finally died.
Obviously, there is something weird in the medicine that was injected this time, but no one in the Italian top management went to investigate. After all, capable people have perished in the previous infighting among Italian high-level officials. The only powerful faction left is Rossi.
Support the "pro-German faction".
Under Rossi's arrangement, these Greek officials bribed by Italy changed their mission from responding to the Italian invasion force to a low-risk, low-difficulty task of persuading the Greek dictator Giannis Metaxas to join the Allies.
The Greek government was already pro-German, and with a bunch of internal agents who had been bought off early to fan the flames, Giannis Metaxas made the decision to join the Allies very naturally.
However, in his consultation with German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, he made it clear that the Greek troops did not have the courage to fight the Soviet army directly and were unable to undertake the task of a frontal battlefield.
Of course, he also agreed that after Greece joined the Allied Militant Group, the Greek Army could send about two divisions of troops to assist the German army in managing the occupied areas in the rear.
If we clean up the list of Soviet guerrillas, they still dare to take it.
As a result, the entire Balkan Peninsula, with the exception of Yugoslavia, basically all countries with some military strength have confirmed that they will bear the mark of the Allied Powers.
Then, the rest of Yugoslavia is in the middle, either being excluded or being targeted, and it will definitely not have a good outcome in the end.
It is really difficult for a country surrounded on all sides by the members of the Allied militant bloc to develop without circumventing the Allies.
In this way, although the Yugoslav military is still reluctant to join a foreign-dominated military group, many knowledgeable people within the country have spoken out and urged Yugoslavia not to stay out of the matter.
If this continues, if Yugoslavia gets into conflict with any of the Balkan countries in the future, the other side, backed by powerful allies, will eventually overwhelm Yugoslavia.
Sometimes, the resolution of conflicts does not necessarily depend on who has the right, but also on whose background is greater.
When the time finally came, Reinhard also extended an invitation to Yugoslavia to join the Allied family.
At this time, even if the Yugoslav military was reluctant, it could not refuse.
Looking around the world, the Axis Powers group formed by the powerful forces of Britain and France have even bowed before Germany's proactive Allies.
Yugoslavia can't count on the rest. They are afraid that the Soviet Union will come to help them fight against Germany before it's too late, right?
Moreover, Germany's conditions for joining were very easy. As long as nothing went wrong, Yugoslavia would only need to provide two divisions of infantry to the Allies to help manage the Allies' occupied areas in the Soviet Union.
After the war is over, the lands in these areas that Yugoslavia assisted in occupying will also be appropriately divided to the Yugoslav government and distributed to it as war dividends.
The Yugoslav military could still reluctantly accept this level of request. They were afraid of the Soviet Union, and as long as they did not have to fight the Soviet army face to face, they could actually tolerate the pressure.
Of course, Reinhardt did not count on how effective the four infantry divisions provided by Greece and Yugoslavia would be.
In the final analysis, this was just an auxiliary force he obtained to garrison in the rear, and its function was only to free up troops for the main Allied forces.
Reinhardt's real purpose in wooing Greece and Yugoslavia was that he did not want to be enemies with these two countries like in history. In the end, after wasting a lot of time and troops, he divided his troops to occupy these areas to deal with the constant flow of troops.
of guerrillas.
Now, instead of dividing its troops into the Balkan Peninsula to deal with the troublesome Balkan guerrillas, the German army is now using these original enemies to help it deal with future Soviet guerrillas.
