Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 29: Paris (5)
After the initial commotion, in the next three days, Paris became unexpectedly calm.
It seems that the citizens of Paris have accepted the fact that they have been abandoned.
Although a little reluctant, they still adapted to this rapidly changing world at a staggering speed.
This is a Parisian, full of the reservedness and pride of the citizens of a big city, but when the living environment changes, they will immediately show unparalleled smoothness and marketability.
This may also be a survival instinct of the French nation, after all, they have been ruled by the barbaric foreigners they despise more than once.
What makes the Germans unable to understand is that at the same time the German army began to set up a tight encirclement outside Paris, life in Paris was restored to the level of prosperity before the war overnight.
Since I have declared myself to be an undefended city, I no longer have to worry about being attacked by the Germans. Since it will be occupied and managed by Germany immediately, there is no reason to be bound by the standards of wartime. Yourself.
The resentment caused by the ruthless abandonment of his government, coupled with the unwillingness of becoming a resident of a world-class metropolis into a resident of the occupied territories, and a bit of contempt for the brutal and rude Germans. It was just such a dead dog mentality that Paris began to completely indulge himself.
The light control and curfew have been lifted for more than a month. The citizens of Paris lighted up the lights in all the rooms like children. That day, the whole night of Paris city was full of stars, which became a real night City.
The curfew was lifted, and the rich and luxurious nightlife of Paris was reawakened with the city.
Various bars and restaurants started night business that had been closed for a month. The lights at the entrances of nightclubs and brothels began to flash again, theaters and concert halls resumed performances, and even movie theaters that can only play some news films during this time The feature films were also resumed that evening. Although they were only old films, the audience was still eager.
On this night, the citizens of Paris who had been depressed for more than a month due to this **** war finally got a complete liberation and satisfaction.
The next morning, the streets of Paris restored their former tranquility. Residents took trams and subways to work just like every morning in the past. Shops and various service industries continued to open for business. While promoting the goods they stock, the noisy and lively scene makes people almost forget that there is war.
The citizens of Paris try their best to keep their pace of life intact.
Most of the companies and enterprises in Paris have stopped functioning, but these employees and workers still behave very busy. Maybe they don’t even know what they are doing, but if they have If they are doing work, they won't think about other things. Although they know that everything is an illusion of emptiness, it can bring a sense of security to their minds.
The Parisians are waiting for the German army to enter the city. In the hearts of all Parisians, this is destined. It is only a matter of time.
The citizens who fled from outside the city and returned to the city brought news that the German army had appeared outside of Paris. This meant that the Germans had already arrived. Maybe in the next minute there would be a German tank at the corner of the street.
The citizens of Paris are waiting for this moment with ambivalence, and there is a trace of anticipation in their fear, looking forward to the end of this nightmare. At least a large part of the citizens think so, as long as Germany takes over the city, Then Paris has nothing to do with this war.
How will Paris develop in the future is not a question they are considering. Life has to go on, even if you start to speak German tomorrow.
The citizens of Paris covered their uneasy mood with a calm and meaningless look. No one noticed that there are countless undercurrents slowly surging behind the peaceful and quiet Paris surface.
Three days have passed, but the moment the Parisians are looking forward to has not arrived, which makes the shrewd Parisians feel a little puzzled.
Why don’t the Germans enter the city? Why don’t they take over the capital as soon as possible and obtain this rare glory?
What prevented them, or the Germans have other plans, is there any conspiracy by the Germans?
The illogical actions of the German army have caused countless questions in the hearts of the citizens of Paris, and various rumors have also been introduced with the increase in questions.
After three days of calm, the city of Paris began to commotion again. Various kinds of internal news sprung up from dark corners like bamboo shoots after a rain, and Parisians began to be a little impatient with this embarrassing situation. Up.
"The Germans are preparing to enter the city. They are relatively poor and it takes a long time to make a dress."
This is really a stupid speculation, but the irony is that it is the most truthful of all street rumors.
"The Germans are making plans. They are preparing to bring all Parisians to Germany to do coolies. Otherwise, why would they spend so much effort to siege Paris, in fact, to prevent any Parisian from fleeing. "
Very imaginative rumors, and more logical, I really don’t know it came from the brain of that genius.
"The Germans are going to blow up Paris. They are going to kill us. These savage Germans are inhumane, just like what they did to Rotterdam. They destroyed the whole city. How about my relatives there? Easily escaped a life, the Germans burned it there and killed millions of people."
This is a naked alarmist. It sounds a bit scary, but after a little thought, people think this is really absurd. Apart from scaring ignorant women and children, not many people will really believe it. The guy who made this rumor must have worked as a tabloid reporter.
"The Germans are negotiating with the French government. France has lost the war. The French government is trying to use Paris as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Germans, so German talents did not enter Paris. The government abandoned us, just like all capitalist governments do Their interests have abandoned us laborers. We cannot just be traded as commodities by them. We must unite and fight against these dirty capitalist politicians and fight for our freedom.
We must take up arms to defend our homeland and dignity, just like the Paris Commune. We must fight the invaders to the end and never accept the fascist rule of the German Nazis. Free Paris citizens, stand up and fight Well, victory belongs to the people. "
This. . . . This is a stark incitement, and it sounds very familiar. It might be more perfect if you can chant a few more Soviets Long Live or Ullah.
This is just a small part of the various gossips and exclusive inside stories spread on the streets of Paris at that time. During that time, there were countless rumors of various types and parties on the streets of Paris.
The Parisians are a bit at a loss. For a time, countless small forums appeared on the streets. On each forum, there would be a frothing guy hoarsely spreading his most accurate news and teachings to the surrounding citizens. How should citizens respond now?
Countless legal and illegal small, large and diverse small organizations and small groups suddenly appeared in front of the citizens of Paris just like popping out of a rock.
There are many fancy names for their names, such as the Black Hawk Lily Cross Alliance composed of French who supported the German occupation of France and advocated the Germanic spirit to save France, and called for the Parisians to unite and fight the Germans to the end. Free Federation of Paris, France.
The National Self-Defense Force of the Third Republic, which is determined to use violence and destruction to deal with the German occupiers, and the French Peace and Liberal Party, which appeals to the people to use non-resistance and peaceful means to maintain the survival of the French nation, are preparing to unite the proletarian and working people in Paris. The Red Steel Alliance to bring down the capitalist system and fascist invaders.
There is even a Doomsday Inquisition group filled with religious colors from head to toe. Although the citizens have never figured out what this organization is doing, they are often seen gathering in the cemetery at night. What sacrificial activity.
The ideas advocated by these groups are different, and some of them are still contradictory. When the competition becomes fierce, these conflicts inevitably evolve from verbal friction to physical confrontation.
first started with scolding each other, and finally developed into small-scale armed fighting.
The citizens of Paris watched the performance of these farce with cold eyes. However, when something involved their own interests, the citizens also joined the performance involuntarily. For a time, you could see handhelds everywhere in Paris. Slogans and sticks chanted the slogans of the parade.
But after all, the activities of these organizations have not affected the order and operation of the city of Paris. The Paris police, who had no morale, did not deliberately interfere. At most, they stopped some armed fights and arrested some who took advantage of the fire. Troublemakers.
This chaotic situation makes some Parisians feel a little worried, but most Parisians still hold the mentality of watching white theater, and tolerate this chaos to continue until the day when a large-scale riot occurs.
This was the first Sunday morning after the German siege of Paris. Most of the citizens of Paris slept at home with a rare lazy sleep. Then they were awakened by the sudden intensive gunfire over the city.
At that time, most people thought it was the Germans who entered the city. They didn't understand why the Germans shot. Paris had already announced that it had given up resistance.
But at least they have finally come, and I no longer have to wait in fear as I did a while ago.
Many people have a sense of relief, and at the same time they also feel a bit of sadness. This day has finally arrived.
But when they carefully opened the curtains to watch the street, they found that things were not what they thought.
Those who appeared on the street with rifles and fired indiscriminately into the sky were not German infantry in gray uniforms, but French soldiers in yellow-brown coats and blue Adriatic helmets, mixed with some ordinary dressed The citizen in the coat.
What happened to , the witnesses were completely confused by this scene. But when they saw those French soldiers and citizens holding blood-red flags and everyone wearing blood-red armbands on their sleeves, they immediately understood what had happened.
That is the symbol of the Red Steel Alliance. It seems that these noisy guys finally launched an armed uprising.
The uprising that Renault has been hanging on has been launched in Paris surrounded by Germans. I really don't know what the brains of those uprising organizers are.
Not a single Parisian ran out of the house to show support and support to those enthusiastic guys who shouted slogans loudly, saying that it’s okay to be backward in thinking or low in consciousness. At this time even idiots can see that this uprising will definitely happen. It ended in a farce, everyone stayed quietly at home drinking tea and waiting for the performance to end.
This farce was quickly suppressed as expected by the citizens of Paris. Perhaps the word suppression is not appropriate.
The organizers of the uprising spent a few days inciting the soldiers of the two battalions of the Paris Army to start an uprising.
Although more than 500 soldiers and more than 100 armed citizens are not very powerful, the leaders of the uprising insisted that as long as they raised the red banner, they would be full of revolutionary The Parisians will support them accordingly.
And as long as they have the support of three million citizens of Paris, they will be able to win the final victory.
It is a pity that they overestimated the revolutionary nature of the Parisians and underestimated their survival wisdom.
When they were surrounded by two whole regiments of soldiers who had arrived in the center of Paris when they heard the news, they did not see a cute laborer coming out to respond to them.
The uprising was moderately suppressed. Compared with the previous suppression of similar uprisings in history, this suppression can really be described by the word moderate.
Only three people died from the beginning to the end of the whole farce, which is truly unprecedented.
The officers and soldiers who participated in the uprising all put down their weapons under the shouts of their superior commanders, and the members of the Red Steel Alliance who participated in the uprising also wisely chose to surrender. After all, no one wants to be in a battle that looks mortal. Lost his life for a victory that now seems very vain.
The three people who died in this farce were all the core organizers of the uprising. They watched this great revolution as being strangled in their infancy, in order to express their firm beliefs and to give to future revolutionaries. To set an example, they chose to commit suicide without hesitation.
In the broadcasting studio of the Paris radio station that they occupied, they originally planned to read here a letter to the citizens of Paris after the success of the uprising. These three core leaders rang the prepared zha medicine and completely destroyed this The last well-equipped broadcasting studio in Paris.
The scene was in a mess, and there was blood and blood everywhere. The tragedy at the time made all the French soldiers who rushed into this room vomit. At the same time, the only channel in Paris to spread news to the outside world was cut off.
General Danz was furious about this~IndoMTL.com~He pointed at the nose of the acting chief of police and the commander of the group army in Paris, General Herring, for an hour.
The directors and generals who were scolded by their bosses screamed as soon as they left the house and issued orders to their subordinates to ban illegal associations.
The sirens that hadn’t been heard for a week sounded again over the city of Paris. The Paris police and the French army showed the efficiency that they had never had since they put on this uniform. It was only one night in Paris. Organizations large and small were swept away.
Due to the sudden increase in the number of prisoners in the prison, a series of wars for living space have been triggered, but this is no longer a problem for police and military officers to consider.
When the sun shines over Paris on Monday, the city of Paris once again restored its former calm. If there is any difference, it is only Paris citizens who expect the Germans to end the siege of the city, immediately The expectation of coming in and occupying Paris has become stronger.
During this time, the Germans knew nothing about these farces in Paris.
On the twelfth day of the siege of Paris, when the German front-line troops were too bored and began to build the 47th wire barrier on the outskirts of Paris, the French, who could not bear this situation, finally let go. With their reservedness and pride, they began to actively seek dialogue with the German army~IndoMTL.com~Book friends are welcome to visit and read. The latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at~IndoMTL.com~