Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 330: Lunch (Each skill-Part 2)

The urgency of re-arming the army has become the consensus of the French government. The first thing that must be done is to re-establish the people's confidence in the French army and to cheer up the morale that fell to the valley due to the defeat.

The French government has done a pretty good job in this regard. Petain and his cabinet members are very familiar with guiding the local public opinion in France. The government of the Republic used all propaganda methods to try to convince the French people that the reason for the defeat was not France. Soldiers do not fight or are not brave enough, but because of the incompetence of the previous government, the country was manipulated by a group of international war brokers and forced to fight a completely avoidable nightmare without being prepared for war. The tragic war.

The previous cabinet and members of the parliament were successively investigated by the Ministry of the Interior, and even some of them were arrested and tortured. All the "evidence" seemed to point to a "conspiracy" hidden in the French government for a long time, and the former prime minister Paul Reynolds is the agent in front of this organization.

Renault’s previous attitude towards the establishment of the “French-British Alliance” has become the most difficult to rebut the major “criminal evidence”. In the plan proposed by Sir Robert Van Stadt, a consultant to the British royal family, he suggested that the United Kingdom and France It can be merged into one country, united as one to fight the German threat, and the price is that the Third French Republic will cease to exist, and all overseas colonies and national sovereignty will be lost.

This proposal was strongly opposed by the French cabinet at the time, and as a fuse, it triggered a series of subsequent political defeats by Renault. His attitude towards Britain inspired a large number of political allies, including The dissatisfaction of the French left-wing workers' group that supported him, coupled with the fact that the French army was retreating on the battlefield, the prime minister’s previous promise became a lie. Renault’s personal credit was almost destroyed, even to the point where all the people resigned. In the political game with the Petain group, he was completely defeated, and he was finally forced to resign from the post of prime minister and transfer the power in his hands to the French marshal (the official rank of Petain is actually the French lieutenant general, and the French marshal was awarded to him by the Congress. Honorary title, so when he was tried by the military court after the war, the court could only deprive him of the rank of lieutenant general and other honors, and could not deprive him of the title of French marshal, so Petain was the French marshal until his death.).

Now Renault and his remnants are still active everywhere. His left-wing allies have discovered the mistakes they made before, but it is too late and there is no way to remedy them.

The French workers' organization suffered heavy losses in the war, and now they dare not head-to-head with Petain, who holds the military power, especially when the opponent is backed by foreign allies. If it is said that after the previous street politics, they still have the opportunity to form a group to exile abroad, then this road is completely unworkable now, because all European governments no longer accept this type of exile unless they have a way to drag them. The family fled to the Soviet Union, otherwise the usual result would be to be locked up in a concentration camp on the outskirts of Paris.

Before the war, the left-wing forces in French politics were once very strong. When the French were tired of appeasement and conservative clichés, and the French economy fell into a global depression, Renault proposed to relax the country’s control over the economic field and reduce The exploitation and oppression of workers by entrepreneurs, and the comprehensive shift of national strategy to pro-Soviet and anti-German political slogans have won the welcome of most French leftists. As a result, a large number of French workers and political parties voted for this high-spirited middle-aged man. Politician, in one fell swoop pushed him to the throne of the Prime Minister of the Third French Republic.

Relatively because of Renault’s political ideas, it caused widespread dissatisfaction and hostility among French conservative forces and right-wing political groups. They believed that France’s biggest threat came from the Soviet Union, not Germany, and represented the French consortium system of bureaucratic capital. It strongly opposes Renault's free economy and labor policy.

These contradictions caused a serious crisis in Renault's cabinet. The government and the parliament left and right sides were fighting each other endlessly, and policy making would often fall into endless wrangling.

In history, after the German army broke through the French border, the French government and the war cabinet showed the kind of dullness and confusion, which has never been without such factors.

Now that Petain has finally found an opportunity to legally combat potential political opponents, he has acted mercilessly. All the mistakes made by the government during the war have now become the crimes of those "conspirators and traitors". , There is no more suitable candidate for the culprit than these politicians in the opposition. This defeat is the greatest sin of all.

What made the French government and Petain a little unexpected is that at the time when the conspiracy theories in the society were tumultuous, the spearhead seemed to deviate from the government's direction and gradually pointed to the Jewish ethnic group in France.

French Jews have been angered and attacked by the entire French society as they have encountered in history. The difference is that there is no pressure from Germany this time, so it is no longer the Gestapo and party guards wearing leather jackets that rushed into the house. military.

France’s Jewish communities and left-wing workers’ organizations have become the center of popular attacks. It seems that countless "evidences" about these people and groups have been betrayed for the benefit of the Republic. What is interesting is that the French also understand this. It was impossible for a group of people to cooperate with the Germans, so the object of their betrayal of the motherland became the Soviet Union and the British for a century.

The French believed that these people colluded with the British warmongers Churchill and the Red Soviets in the East to sell French national interests and intelligence to each other, and ultimately led to France's defeat on the battlefield.

For example, one of the most popular rumors in Paris now is that when the Battle of Dunkirk broke out, the British wanted to escape, so they put the French army on the periphery as cannon fodder, and used the lives of French officers and soldiers as a price in exchange for it. They can safely escape back to their island. The French cabinet must also be aware of this plan that is equivalent to the murder of French soldiers. Prime Minister Renault may be one of the masterminds, and the French Army Command is also his accomplice.

Another rumor is that traitors within the French government sold important information about the French Army to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union gave these combat plans and intelligence to their allies, the Germans, which eventually led to the great expansion of the Western Front. Crash.

The paranoid self-esteem of the French nation has gained some kind of catharsis here. Proud French citizens have lost the most basic logical thinking ability on such issues, and they can’t hear any objections. Of course it’s impossible. I can tell them any truth.

Regarding the chaos in French society in the past two months, the German side received Petain's announcement early and knew the goal of the marshal. At the same time, the German side was actually optimistic about certain issues.

Don't think that the Jewish policy of the German head of state will be eased, and the German people will have a good impression of the Jews. How can the hatred accumulated by the two sides over the past few decades be over.

Germany was set up in a concentration camp in Poland and still housed more than 100,000 Polish Jews, all of whom were so-called purebred "Hebrews."

The land and property of these people have been divided up by Germany and their Polish collaborators, and many of them have fallen into the hands of local civilians in Poland. Therefore, if these Jews are returned to their original places, they are likely to be even one Can't survive the night.

How to relocate these Jews has become a thorny issue. Apart from Poland, this ethnic group is almost universally enemy in Eastern Europe. There are really few outlets for these people. Xu Jun is going to find a suitable time to transfer them to Germany. These people are generally well-educated and can become qualified industrial labor with a little training.

Now let’s talk about the problem between France and Spain. The most direct conflict between the two parties at the moment is not about the ownership of the Port of Ceuta. Franco actually knows that the place may not be taken back unless he can get support from Germany. .

The problem that makes Franco feel depressed and even crazy now is that his Interior Ministry staff discovered that the French are quietly reaching into Catalonia.

Catalonia was born as a regional state for the first time during the Franconian dynasty, and then in five long centuries, through several marriages between monarchs, it eventually became an important autonomy in the Spanish kingdom. Province, and the entanglement between this territory and the Madrid regime began.

In the history of the Catalans, France once played a disgraceful role. In the War of the Spanish Succession, the Catalans stood on the opposite side of the Spanish Bourbon royal family. China was also betrayed by allies, so that they suffered the most fierce retaliation and blows from the Madrid regime. Not only did they lose the most important autonomy, but even the Catalan language passed down by their ancestors was banned.

At that time, these orders were issued by Felipe V, who was born in the French Bourbon royal family, and the rule of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty was also initiated by this person.

A few centuries later, the Catalans once had a chance. The Spanish revolution broke out in 1931, which overthrew the dictatorship of General Rivera at that time and also drove the Spanish royal family out of power.

The revolutionaries established the Second Spanish Republic ~IndoMTL.com~, and as a symbol of royal oppression, Catalonia regained its status as an autonomous province.

But the good times did not last long. The tragic Spanish Civil War broke out. The Catalans stood firmly on the side of the Republicans. As a result, with the defeat of the People’s Front, the dictator Franco came to power and Catalonia Being deprived of autonomy again, Catalan continues to be banned, and everything seems to be back to square one.

The value of France to Catalonia is very clear. After all, there is only one border between the two sides, but it is a bit wrong to say that the Gauls have the idea of ​​annexing this area.

The French never thought about conquering Catalonia at all. This is ridiculous. These people have fought Madrid for 150 years for autonomy. The French ask themselves but don’t have that much patience.

Furthermore, besides the relatively rich agricultural products, other resources of this land can be described as barren. Industrial raw materials must be deployed from other provinces. Production and commercial development are far below the level of France. Why is it necessary for the Gauls? Take up this burden and trouble.

France’s involvement in the Catalonia issue was mainly due to its distrust of Franco’s regime. Even if Spain is not a threat to the Republic, it is at least one of the unstable factors within the region.

In order to find other things for the dictator to do, the French intelligence agency began to secretly support the Catalan independence movement, not only providing funds for the activities of those underground organizations, but also secretly transporting a lot of them. Retired standard weapons.

Franco was unable to leave Madrid to participate in the New Year's parade this time. The main reason is that the situation in Catalonia is trending towards riots. He must be in Madrid to control the overall situation.

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