Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 9: Arrival
[Title: combat resurrection of the Third Reich in the body of Chapter IX of arrival: Fengrui]
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Under the guidance of Chinese pilots, three German warships and two transport ships carrying British and French flags sailed into the Huangpu River in turn. When this kind of sight appeared last time, Wilhelm II was the German Emperor.
At that time, Germany also had a small gathering area in the Shanghai Public Concession. The number of expatriates once reached more than 1,500. They were mainly engaged in printing and dyeing and pharmaceutical businesses. The Ministry of Industry also reserved a board seat for Germany. The German flag on the badge of the concession was once placed with Britain, the United States and France.
But with the end of the First World War, Germany, as a defeated country, was deprived of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry. The original position of the German flag on the badge was deleted and changed to a blank. The number of German expatriates quickly dropped to three digits. Most of the rights and interests in the public concession were ceded to Japan. As mentioned in the previous article, one of Japan's seats in the Ministry of Industry was inherited from Germany.
However, when Hitler came to power, the number of German expatriates in Shanghai began to grow rapidly. The main reason was related to the Nazi’s anti-Semitism policy. Because of Shanghai’s international status and the guidance of international Jewish organizations, a large number of Jewish Germans Carrying the only remaining property, they flocked to take refuge in this magic capital.
Because of the unique characteristics of the Jewish nation, many Jewish businessmen have long been operating in the Far East. Coupled with their racial talents, these people live quite well in Shanghai. Most of them have good academic qualifications and skills. They can easily find jobs in factories and foreign firms in Shanghai. Many of them are still marrying wives and having children in Shanghai. In less than two years, a large-scale and hierarchical Jewish community system has been established. It was formed inside the public concession in Huxi.
As a nation, it is impossible for the Jews to obtain the management right in the public concession. In order to infiltrate the management of the Ministry of Industry, the Jewish community began to fully support the Japanese. They tried to rely on the power of the Japanese to manage the public concession. Go up and speak for yourself.
As a group of taxpayers in the public concession, the Jews held a lot of votes in the general election of the management of the Ministry of Industry. So in the general election in April this year, the Jews voted all the votes for the Japanese candidates. If the British hadn't won the wind ahead of time, this time the Japanese would have almost succeeded. Because according to the Japanese plan, they launched five candidates at the same time. If all of them are selected, the balance of management will be completely broken.
Several Jews who were dissatisfied with the Japanese sold their own people to the British, so the British immediately launched countermeasures to fight back. They lowered the taxpayer standard, and a large number of Chinese in the public concession also obtained the right to vote. . As you can imagine, the final election ended with an overwhelming victory in Britain and the United States. Playing election tricks with the British, the Japanese can only be regarded as a group of primary school students who have not yet graduated.
In the original history, the three countries of Germany, Japan and Italy had already signed an alliance at this time, so the situation of the Jews in the public concession became embarrassing, and the Japanese were notoriously turning their faces in denial. Had it not been for Japan's scruples about the international reaction at the time, the Jews had indeed given Japan a lot of benefits, so the Japanese had their eyes closed in the Japanese-occupied area, and they had not embarrassed them too much.
It is the German Jews who reacted the most to the visit of the German mission at this moment. They have not yet learned that the anti-Semitic policy in Germany has changed. They thought that the Nazis were sending people to Shanghai this time to prepare. Kill them all. What makes this group of people even more desperate is that countries around the world have so far refused to accept Jewish refugees, and they have nowhere to escape on this earth. A group of high-level Jewish leaders are discussing whether they can pool some money to bribe the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to hide the existence of the Jewish community in Shanghai from the German mission as much as possible.
This time, the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Public Board of Directors are rarely united to form a spectacular welcoming team. This is the first time a diplomatic mission has visited the city since it became an island.
Even under the rule of the state government, missions of this level are not common. Under normal circumstances, senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are sent to greet them in person. However, Shanghai has been occupied by Japan, and all government agencies have been withdrawn to the mainland. The current Wang puppet government has not been recognized by any European country.
Germany even the consulate in Shanghai was revoked. The consul general ran to Chongqing with a salute. Now Germany does not even have a representative office in Shanghai. This time the special envoy suddenly visited Shanghai and asked the puppet Nanjing government to deal with Germany. The attitude is somewhat inaccurate.
Nanjing dispatched a diplomatic reception team that considered itself a heavyweight. All the people in Yishui were high-level traitors. The leader was Chen Gongbo, the pseudo-Legislative President, and the deputy was the pseudo-Foreign Minister Chu Minyi. What was left was the pseudo-Jiangsu Province. Chairman Gao Guanwu, the pseudo-Shanghai Mayor Zhou Fohai, Li Shiqun, Ding Mocun and the like, together with a group of spy thugs and the like, brought together more than 300 people.
Because they were worried that the public concession would get in the way, they were mixed in the welcome team of the Japanese organization. Originally, Wang Jingwei wanted to come in person, but he was worried that he might encounter the cold eyes of the Germans, and he was also worried about his safety in the concession, so he finally handed over the task to Chen Gongbo and let the buddies declare his existence.
The Public Board of the French Concession is very real. Because the consul-general fully supports Petain, he has long clearly ordered that no anti-German public opinion is allowed in the concession, especially the left-wing media in the French Concession. Who dares to publish Articles that hurt the friendship between France and Germany are waiting for patrols to shut down the museum and arrest people, and then thrown into the Masnan Road Prison for months of food. In the eyes of the consul general, friendship between France and Germany is the most important national policy.
The situation in the public concession is more complicated in comparison. Although the British occupy the main voice in the concession, the sources of diaspora in the public concession are diverse, and all European countries have them. In addition to the United Kingdom and the Americans, there are also a large number of Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, Italian, Danish and Norwegian, and even many Poles and Russians. In other words, Germans almost treat public The countries in the concession were hit all over again.
For example, Denmark and Norway are still under German occupation, Belgium is even more half-divided, and the country of Poland no longer exists, and the hatred of the country and the family has all been gathered together.
However, the strength of the German Empire is obvious to all. Even if these European expats are unwilling to the situation of their country, they dare not express it publicly on this occasion. Not only that, but they have to watch their companions around them, especially those Poles and Danes. They are afraid that some people will be happy for a while, but they will get involved in their homeland and bring unnecessary problems to relatives who are still in the country. Trouble.
The rest are the Chinese residents in the two concessions. Shanghai residents are originally very curious. They usually like to form a circle on the street to watch the excitement. I heard the radio tells us that a German mission entered the Huangpu River on a warship today. , As a result, almost half of the idle people in the concession rushed over.
At that time, the Bund did not have the kind of breakwaters of later generations. There was a row of iron chain fences along the bank. When the Huangpu River was flooded, there would often be landscapes where the river water passed the embankment and was flush with Nanjing Road.
At this moment, the tide is replaced by the tide. From Shiliupu to Baidu Bridge, there is a sea of people along the coast. According to preliminary estimates by the inspection room of the Ministry of Industry, the number of people gathered from Nanjing Road to Bund Park alone has exceeded 50,000.
[Prince Eugen] turned at the mouth of the Suzhou River, and the battleship was hung with a full flag to pay tribute to the city, and on the top of the heavy cruiser's main mast, a black eagle cross with a white background was raised , This is the German naval flag of the Second Empire, heralding the return of the German navy after twenty-six years.
The German fleet and the British, French, Japanese and other ships parked on the Huangpu River sounded siren to greet each other. At the same time, they sounded twelve-gun salutes, which caused a burst of admiration and exclamation from the people on the shore. The voices of thousands of people gathered in one place, and they could be heard clearly even in the bridge of the Jiangxin warship.
The [Prince Eugen] dropped its anchor on the river directly opposite the HSBC Bank. This was the berth that had been prepared for her a long time ago. Two German destroyers parked alternately and escorted both sides of the cruiser.
The remaining two transport ships continued to move forward~IndoMTL.com~ and finally docked at the pier at Shiliupu, followed by a line of heavily armed soldiers walking off the springboard and landing at the pier.
When the war broke out in Europe a year ago, in order to maintain order in the Southeast Asian colonies, the United Kingdom drew away two battalions of infantry originally stationed in the public concession. This caused the Ministry of Industry and Engineering to completely lose the confidence in frontal confrontation when faced with Japanese military threats. So this time the British transferred a whole colonial infantry group directly from the Singapore base. Their task is to maintain the stability and security of the public concession for a period of time.
The French transport ship also carried two battalions of French Foreign Legions. Although the number of infantry was not as good as that of the British, they had half the armored units of the battalion more than the British, and a full 15 Soma s. -35 tanks, plus a company of Haqikes anti-tank guns. This is the first regular tank unit in the concession, and it can already be regarded as a strategic deterrent force in the magic city.
Just when the French foreign infantry began to gather and line up on the side of the road outside the pier, an uproar erupted from the crowd. The startled patrolmen quickly looked up, only to see a group of gorgeously dressed The infantry in black uniforms were in a neat line, striding off the steel springboard.
Immediately, the Chinese patrols knew why the citizens were making noise. They may not know the identity of this unit, but they could recognize the m35 helmets worn by these foreign soldiers. Because just three years ago, on the banks of the Suzhou River not far from the Bund, the lone soldiers of the government stationed at the Four Lines Warehouse, with this helmet on their heads, fought a desperate battle with the Japanese invaders.
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