Chapter 71: Between the Peace and the War (17)

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Ribbentrop's second negotiating demand was that the countries of the European Union should write off their old debts to the United States, and at the same time they must return the gold reserves and other national assets transferred to the United States and Canada by Britain, France, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

Dulles expressed difficulty in accepting the request, protesting: "This has nothing to do with Germany, this is a bilateral relationship between the United States and other European countries, is Germany going to use the European Union to interfere in the internal and foreign affairs of European countries?" ”

Ribbentrop obviously also has some "truth": "Your country's claims on the European continent are mainly aimed at helping Britain, Russia, and other countries to deal with Germany, and in essence they support the extremely outrageous behavior of Europeans in killing Europeans. The claims against the USSR were mainly given to Stalin, and Vlasov was not the successor of the USSR, so it is clear that he would not approve of this debt; As for the claims of the British government, the British side has provided reciprocal assistance in cooperation with operations, warships and technical assistance; As for the amount of compensation and the confiscation of the original American property, it is a claim for the American acts of war in Western Europe, and there are no less civilians who died under your bombers. ”

Dulles held back his anger: "What Germany means is that you will confiscate the American property in Europe, and your property in the United States will be returned."

Ribbentrop nodded: "It doesn't matter if your country insists on reciprocal restitution, we can make a new claim for compensation separately, such as $200 billion."

"Bastard!" Dulles was furious, "This is blackmail." ”

Ribbentrop shrugged disappreciatively: "I can understand other politicians saying such things, but you say that I can't accept it." Don't forget, in the last war, didn't you preside over the legal documents that presided over the claims against Germany, and I still remember very well the reasons for the compensation listed in them, do you want me to make a new copy and use it? However, I will not pay the royalties, and in the last peace talks, your country first tricked Germany into laying down its arms under the guise of a 14-point peace opinion, then instigated internal unrest, and finally broke its promise to put an extremely harsh treaty on Germany. In contrast, Germany and the Führer are much more open-minded, and we can negotiate all the conditions at one time, and we don't want to engage in a face-to-face approach and a behind-the-scenes approach. ”

Dulles was speechless, of course he could have said anything about Germany as an aggressor country, but it was of little use to Ribbentrop, it was a pure waste of time.

"Compared with your Atlantic Declaration, our tone is much more conciliatory, we do not see your country defeated in the war, nor do we see the need for your country to surrender unconditionally, but only demand the signing of a peace agreement and an armistice, and we still recognize the United States as an influential power in the world and the leader of the North American region." Ribbentrop teased, "The magnanimity we give to Germany is something that the US government cannot give to Europe, but this does not mean that we are afraid of the United States, let alone that we cannot fight, and your country insists on not stopping the war, we are not unable to do so, the high command and the coalition command have formulated a strategy to land in North America and completely defeat the United States, and mobilize the forces of the 48 Axis to jointly realize it, and I believe that you should have heard the news of this plan, and on May 8 we will hold a grand joint exercise, if this talk is good, You can even invite some of your country's military attachés in Europe to come and watch. Don't you want to see it? The Führer has generously invited you to come and see it, so that you don't have to be sneaky."

"What does that mean?"

Ribbentrop laughed: "Wouldn't it be clear if you sent a telegram to the country?" ”

The telegram was sent quickly, and after reading the long telegram, Dulles's face was ugly: first, the plan that Ribbentrop said did exist, and the entire "Strange Man of the High Castle" plan would be carried out in the name of "United **", led by the German president, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff judged that there were many truths in this plan; Second, after the intervention of the General Security Bureau of the Imperial Security Bureau, three Italian lieutenant generals and one major general who were directly involved in the leak were secretly executed, and a group of figures in the cabinet and fascists who were dissatisfied with Ziano were dealt with under the pretext of "Tongmei", and the US espionage system in Italy suffered heavy losses; Third, judging from the examination and pursuit of the people in the past 10 days, although Hoover investigated nearly 20 confidants and people with relevant peripheral relations, he did not find any special clues, which made Dulles feel heavy and unconsciously feel a psychological weakness.

In fact, this kind of thing has not only appeared in Italy, but also in Britain, France, and Spain, and the United States has received more and more comprehensive information, and the 6th, 9th, and 14th drafts have all set off a bloody storm, and the Imperial Security Bureau has carried it out as a killer weapon to sabotage the US spy network, and has purged a large number of hidden spies and dissidents, which is probably the only harvest of the "Strange Man of the High Castle" at present.

What made Dulles even more frustrated was another telegram: in the process of tracking down the Doomsday Trial commandos, the FBI had clear clues, not only knew that they had infiltrated from Mexico, but also found Juan's body, and even learned about the existence of "ice" from the American underworld, and found the person who traded with the German side in the first place, and even sketched a portrait of Skolkzny according to various explanations and information supplements, although Skorzny was not the organizer on the surface, But his size and the scars on his face are so impressive that it's hard not to think of this man. The U.S. side sorted out and screened the bodies of the commandos, and did not find the typical big man mentioned by many people in the intelligence, and traced the cave at the time of the rendezvous, and judged that there were still people on the run, but they reacted too late, and Skorzny and Alfred retreated by submarine arranged by Worrall.

The final retreat was typical of the commando team: the two men took off from the vicinity of New Orleans in a seaplane, landed in the Caribbean Sea, relied on Alfred's radio technology to guide the submarine to locate, and finally slipped away at night, and the United States not only banned guns, but also allowed private owners of aircraft, all of which greatly facilitated the retreat of the commandos.

This is probably the source of Ribbentrop's confidence: the Americans are not only unable to defeat the axis on the frontal battlefield, but also have the upper hand on the secret battlefield, and this disadvantage is very serious for the psychological impact of the negotiators. He, like everyone else, believes that Germany should have at least once had in the top echelons of the United States!

High-level spies, high-level strangers, and joint exercises constitute a trilogy of "strategic blackmail" against the United States, and even such a calm and rational figure as Dulles panicked before the continuous bad news. The scene he originally designed could not be introduced, and the conditions he thought he had talked about were directly beaten to death with a stick, which made him restless and didn't know where to break through.

It was in this psychological torment that he received even greater bad news, starting in the early morning of the 12th, the island of Hawaii was violently attacked by Japan.

ps: This time from Kunming to Hangzhou to take T382 completely blundered, the child said that he wanted to sit in a sleeper and did not want to take a plane, but he was dumbfounded after getting on the car, the huge carriage has 3 charging ports, dozens of people robbed, poor I grabbed a day to get a little electricity, fainted, next time I don't sit in this car, what age is there such a backward wagon.

No. 3 Hangzhou, about to resume normal updates, inconvenience, please bear with me, the new January, continue to ask for strong support.

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