Hoffman planned a state visit to the United Kingdom in October, hoping to accelerate the implementation of the European Union and the United Nations on the one hand, and to promote reconciliation between Britain and Germany on the other hand. As soon as he expressed his idea, he was unanimously opposed by both inside and outside the Kuomintang, and it was generally believed that the Führer's visit to Britain was too hasty, and the minimum security atmosphere had not yet been formed, so how could he go to such a dangerous place as Britain? Even if you can bring the guard flag team, you can't stop the premeditated attack.

Himmler persuaded: "Führer, although we have won in Europe, although we are suppressing the Americans, it does not mean that the world is at peace, who knows if the United States has spies and squads hidden in Britain?" They were able to kidnap three chief military officers of the British army, which shows that the United States has deeply infiltrated Great Britain; Who knows if there are any latent Churchillians in the British? As long as a small group of people with different motives are connected together, you will face a deadly threat. Your visit to England now is very different from that of Paris—Paris would have been under the control of our troops, but we obviously cannot control London now! ”

Bowman slapped a sycophant first: "...... The Führer is the soul of the Party, the supreme leader of Germany, the only brain leading us to the final victory, the immortal symbol of the creation of a thousand-year-old empire, and the surging heart of the unity of the whole German nation......"

Then he changed his mind and said: "With the Führer, the German people have light, glory and victory." At such a special moment, you must not take risks in person - this is an attitude of being responsible to the party and the people, to the country and the future. It is also a highly responsible attitude towards comrades! ”

No one agreed to Hoffman's visit to Britain, and even Ribbentrop, who was bent on going to London to show off, shook his head and said he did not approve, and in order to express his fierce loyalty and to prevent Hoffman from being unable to come to power, he expressed his willingness to visit London first to pave the way for the Führer's visit to Britain -- if there are any problems, we will communicate well before we talk about them.

In the face of resistance from all the top leaders, Hoffmann had no choice but to back down, and finally the top level reached an agreement: Ribbentrop would visit Britain first, and the Führer's visit would be postponed for the time being, depending on the situation.

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Since November, after Ribbentrop's visit to the UK, Anglo-German relations have accelerated towards détente:

The weapons and equipment that Britain was supposed to deliver under the armistice, including the most important semi-finished battleship Savage (which Germany was preparing to transform into an air defense battleship), were delivered in accordance with the regulations; The native army, which was scheduled to be dismantled and demobilized, was also being cleared in an orderly manner; Beginning on November 9, the 150,000 German troops who landed in Britain according to the regulations set out one after another, and finally completed all the work by the end of the month.

The British had rejected the condition of the German troops stationing in the country, but after the final finalization, they still showed sincerity and cooperated greatly: not only to cede the evacuated barracks to the German troops, but also to clear out all the British troops around the German garrisons as much as possible, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and frictions. The choice of commander of the cluster in Britain ultimately fell to the 51-year-old Hermann-Balke, who was known for his bravery in the Eastern Front War, and had recently been promoted to the rank of general.

There are a total of 150,000 troops stationed in the UK, including 6 army divisions, 2 marine brigades, 3 aviation wings and some logistics units, the hardest fist is of course the Greater German Panzer Division, a full set of 1944 troops, and 100,000 German troops (including navy, logistics, and air force) stationed in Iceland, and more than 20,000 German troops stationed in Northern Ireland and Ireland are also under the unified command of Balk - collectively known as the North Atlantic Cluster.

The North Atlantic Cluster Command is located in an interesting location on the Isle of Man between the United Kingdom and Ireland, which is considered a royal domain. Balk believed that this place could not only monitor the British, but also not give the British people a sense of suppression, and could also get assistance from the Irish direction, in case of immeasurable turmoil in the United Kingdom, the command center on the Isle of Man would not be breached at the first time - the British must land on the Isle of Man to seize the Isle of Man, and now that the main force of the Royal Navy is lost, how can they be qualified to fight a landing campaign?

The Supreme Command highly recognized his consideration, and the British side was also relieved - they were most afraid that the Germans would set up an occupation headquarters outside London, which would be a naked slap in the face, and now it seems that the Germans are still saving face.

The rest of the German divisions were also not stationed in London, but were scattered in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Portsmouth, the last of which was the closest force to London.

Originally, Balke's initial choice of location included Coventry, but when he heard that Coventry had been bombed, in order to avoid recalling the bitter memories of the British, he temporarily replaced Coventry with Nottingham, and the same applies to the city near Dover, which had been bombarded by train shells and rockets not long ago, and he didn't want to touch the mold, so he finally chose Portsmouth.

All in all, the location of the German army generally choked the connection between Scotland and England, and at the same time prepared for the rapid deployment of forces from the European continent to Great Britain (Port Portsmouth), from the arrival of the German army to the completion of the deployment, although there was a commotion in Britain, but in view of the good military discipline of the German army, especially the spirit and murderous spirit displayed by these elite troops are obviously different from the ordinary British troops, naturally no one dares to provoke.

The British side is so cooperative, and Germany is certainly not ambiguous.

By the eve of Hoffman's visit in December, more than 90 percent of the prisoners of war had been repatriated, and the remaining 10 percent were either far away (there were a number in Africa) or in poor physical condition. In addition to prisoners of war, British nationals and British sailors (captured during the Break-Diplomatic Campaign) who had been taken prisoner at the same time also returned to Britain in this wave.

Compared with the situation that the British people were a little malnourished because of the food problem, the British officers and soldiers in the prisoner of war camp generally ate well, looked very ruddy, and had not heard of being abused or suffering inhuman torture (of course, escape and killing could not be avoided), so the British mainstream media thought that the war with Germany was a decent knightly war, and the Germans and Italians were still quite personable, so they had a more positive attitude towards reconciliation with Germany.

In the process of stationing, the German army did not stop the British flight to Canada and the United States as usual, in fact, there is no point in blocking or not stopping, the people who want to flee and can escape from Canada have basically escaped, and the government may not let the remaining people flee even if they want to flee - such as scientific researchers in key fields.

In addition to speeding up the repatriation of prisoners of war, the German blockade of war materials against Britain was also completely lifted, and large quantities of daily necessities were transported from the European continent to Great Britain. The ability to pay for the material goods did not bother the British government, and Germany placed an order for the construction of ships, and then advanced the vast majority of the material costs for the British in the form of an advance payment, which eventually became the national debt of the European countries to Germany.

The first batch of ships to be built were mainly civilian, including a large number of oil tankers and cargo ships, and the High Command was ready to wait for the British side to complete the remaining four Giant-class aircraft carriers before entrusting them with the construction of Axis-class aircraft carriers.

Hoffmann has instructed Speer to draw up a package to help European countries recover their economies as soon as possible, to be led by Germany and implemented in the name of the European Development Bank.

In this time and space, because Germany and Britain had a tacit understanding not to bomb each other, except for the last stage of London was bombed by rockets and lightning, the rest of the British towns caused little damage by the war attack, the same reason, France, Belgium and the Netherlands also had relatively little damage to the cities, it is relatively easy to recover, the biggest problem is how to smoothly realize the comprehensive transformation of the war economy, and there is also a key issue is how to achieve reasonable employment.

Reasonable employment is a very important goal, as most of the military is now demobilized and returned home, facing the problem of competing for jobs, and it is obviously unrealistic to completely dismiss women workers and replace them with demobilized soldiers, and the failure to guarantee employment will cause social unrest, so reasonable employment is a very important goal.

Speer's prescription is to use Germany as the general lender and general coordinator, and then promote the joint mutual aid and rescue of European countries, and the specific package is still being drafted, ready to wait for the complete end of the war with the United States to launch it, but many measures can be implemented in the short term.

For Britain, the first step was to dismantle the general mobilization system and abolish the three-shift manufacturing industry, so that society could relax from the tension of military mobilization and gain a sense of calm;

secondly, Germany and European and Middle Eastern countries placed a large number of orders from the United Kingdom, promoting the transformation of the British military industry into a civilian industry and ensuring the stability of employment for a period of time: the restoration of infrastructure in Western Russia and the change of railway gauge required British industrial products; The Middle East requires British industrial products for oil exploration, extraction, oil transportation and even tanker transportation; South American countries need British industrial products and equipment to develop their economies.

In addition, Britain also signed a trade treaty with Japan, in addition to trading a bunch of military products for Pakistan, and also reached an additional agreement on the exchange of military products for agricultural products and other materials, which can also stabilize the British production system and avoid the collapse of the economic system directly due to the cutting off of military orders - although the war industry is deformed, there is still a logical system that can maintain operation and solve employment, if the war economy is destroyed immediately and replaced by other economies, It can only bring about the destruction of the entire country's economy.