As the Middle East changes, all the Turkish politicians in power lament that the country's small life is beginning to be unstable.

Turkey, which had always adhered to its neutral stance, was in a very comfortable position, and the Axis wanted to buy minerals (especially chromium), agricultural products, and other urgently needed materials from Turkey, but the Soviet Union temporarily put away its usual aggressive attitude because it was worried that Turkey would fall to the Axis, and Britain and the United States also wooed Turkey in many ways. Although Britain and the United States opposed Turkey's supply of minerals to Germany, they could not come up with a good solution if Turkey ignored it.

In addition to the war profits, the Jewish trade that began a few months earlier also made a lot of money for the Turks. Istanbul became a transit point for Jewish trade, with large numbers of Jews who could pay the ransom being transferred from Germany to Turkey, and large quantities of goods being transported from Turkey to Germany. Turkey can not only earn money for transit, transportation, but even a middleman service fee. The Turk's heart is not dark, generally only 10%, compared to 20% in Spain and 15% in Switzerland, it is the cheapest, and Turkey's own geographical location determines that it will soon be able to send Jews to India or Australia and New Zealand, and even want to go to Jerusalem is very convenient.

With the expansion of the scale of the transaction, steel, gasoline, aluminum, gold, rubber, grain and other materials that Germany offered at the price flowed in like a trickle, among which grain and gasoline were the most, on the one hand, Turkey's agricultural products were relatively rich, and on the other hand, because Persia was a ready-made source of refined oil, gasoline was cheap to buy and more convenient to transport.

Although the British and American authorities have explicitly stopped this kind of material trade, the problem is that the Jews have so much energy in Britain and the United States that the officials have to turn a blind eye, and some people even think that it would be a good way to rescue the Jews by economic means alone. In particular, a very small number of Zionists who are eager to restore the country even whimsically believe that the fact that the Führer has sold even Jews means that he has changed his mind about exterminating the Jews, and that economic factors have replaced political factors as the essence of the problem. If the Jews could be sold, would so many Germans be willing to sell them? If there is a suitable territory for the Jewish people to survive, as long as the Führer asks, the figure of 1 billion, 2 billion dollars, or even a little more - there is a reliable source and figure, and the Jewish organization will not hesitate to provide it. After all, it is easiest to buy it with money, and in Germany it is said that a few people can settle the whole thing, and in a democracy, you can try it? It's not so easy to buy from Britain and the United States.

Thus, in the Jewish trade, Turkey was the largest transit point, and only the very wealthy went to Switzerland - less than 100 of them, and most of them went to Spain to Portugal, and the number did not exceed 500, but the total number of Jews handled by Turkey exceeded 10,000, and the demands and lists were still being put forward to Germany, and the goods for exchange were already ready to be hoarded in Turkey - there were already shrewd bankers who set up special mortgages for this purpose, as long as someone was willing to guarantee them, Even if the Jew was penniless, the bank would be able to help with it.

Now everyone knows that anyone can get the Jews out of the SS as long as they are willing to spend money or materials, provided that there is no experience of espionage or sabotage, and there is never a problem of not being able to find or refuse to let go, so that Jews who have relatives and friends in Europe and the United States, Jews who have industries abroad, and Jews who have a certain status and status can escape the clutches of the SS - although the price offered by the Germans is not cheap, compared with the price and waiting time that had to be paid to buy the Nazi top brass in order to rescue people, It's been a lot better now, and there's no risk.

The news of the Jewish concentration camps became known to the outside world with the exodus of Jews, but Germany's international reputation had long been portrayed as a mess by the Allied media, and they did not care about it now, but it was clear to everyone that the situation of the Jews had actually improved substantially, that the Jewish concentration camps had been closed one after another, that the search for Jews in Western European countries had been stopped one after another, and that the Jews controlled by Germany did not have to worry about the danger of losing their lives, and that they could either have to pay for their lives or serve three years of hard labor in peace. German officials clearly stipulate that freedom will be granted at the end of the service period, and everyone believes that the war cannot be fought for another three years, so the actual service time will only be shorter, or it can be regarded as a special compulsory military service.

As a result, in the mines in Finland and Eastern Europe, the construction of fortress fortifications and air defense systems on the Western Front, and the cultivation of Polish collective farms, organized Jews can be seen everywhere laboring, and the SS and Gestapo will not kill people casually.

In the final analysis, it is a historical tradition to exclude Jews, which European power has not excluded Jews? Tsarist Russia, France, and Poland have been ruthless in their history in killing Jews, and Germany has only reached a new, higher level - who made Germany suffer so much after World War I, and the Jews are so rich? The Third Reich once developed the anti-Jewish to the point of reaching its peak, and now it is also shrinking? This is the law of history.

But the Turks know very well that once they take a stand and abandon neutrality, this kind of comfortable life will be gone, and now the headache lies in the fact that the Germans have not only beaten the British and the United States severely in North Africa, but also that the Middle East is about to be occupied, and Turkey's external environment has undergone earth-shaking changes. The most influential and consistently pro-German and anti-Soviet newspaper in Turkey, La Repubblica, has been reporting on the progress of the German army and its great victories in the war, and although it has never expressed its opinion on what the next step should be, the underlying tendencies are very clear.

According to the statistics of the press department, the sales of this newspaper have increased by 30% since the German fleet put pressure and strikes on the Soviet Union through the two straits of the Black Sea.

Looking at the planes gradually landing in the air, Turkish Foreign Minister Sarajolu who came to greet him was very worried: If German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop came alone, he would still be sure to delay time, play Tai Chi, and use diplomatic rhetoric to spy on the real thoughts about Germany; But what does it mean that Marshal Keitel, Chief of the General Staff of the German High Command, came together? Demonstrate? Intimidate? (To be continued.) )