Chapter 202: The Turning of December (12)

Hoffman believes that the Danes and the Czechs add up to only 10 million people, exactly 10% of the population, and as long as it takes 30-50 years, they can basically be completely assimilated. As for the Poles, he had no interest in assimilating them, and simply gave them a small Poland to fend for itself.

Little Poland was equivalent to the former Russian Kingdom of Poland, and at the same time returned to Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, which had been seized by Pilsudski's government in Poland in the 1920s, which was Stalin's main goal in sending troops to Poland in 1939. Germany's move immediately brought Belarus and Ukraine together, and together with Romania and other countries that had already benefited from Poland, Poland was surrounded by a circle of enemy countries.

Although the area of Little Poland is not large, the population is more than 20 million (the original Poland has a population of more than 34 million), Germany tried every means to keep all the Germans in it, and returned the Ukrainians and Belarusians to the two countries, plus the war losses and the Polish Jews who migrated to Africa, there are still so many people left in Little Poland, which is also Hoffman's concern not to assimilate the Poles in the end, the population is too much - more than 80 million Germans assimilated 10 million Danes, Czechs are still so-so, Assimilating more than 20 million Poles is bound to happen.

He managed to concentrate all the Poles in Little Poland, and at the same time formed a pro-German government, leaving behind a garrison of 200,000 troops to prevent the Poles from making trouble in the future—though he had little interest in interfering in Polish internal affairs for the time being.

Hoffmann had a clear vision for Germany's future – in the future, Germany would surpass any two of the three great powers, Britain, France, and Italy, in terms of territory and population, and at least 75 percent of the three countries combined.

In terms of population, Great Britain has a population of about 44 million (excluding Northern Ireland), France 41 million, Italy 45 million, and Germany 97 million - this is satisfied;

In terms of land (excluding colonies and overseas territories), 320,000 square kilometers of Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland but including Newfoundland), France 540,000 square kilometers, Italy 200,000 square kilometers, Germany nearly 900,000 square kilometers (more than 550,000 territories in World War I, nearly 200,000 in the Czech Republic + Austria, 100,000 in Iceland, and more than 40,000 in Denmark) - this is also satisfied.

In this way, even if Britain, France, and Italy are united, Germany will be able to deal with them and will always occupy the leading position in the EU. As for economic and military strength, he demanded that it must surpass the combined strength of Britain, France, Italy, and Western Russia, and only in this way could Germany's position as a world power be relatively stable.

According to the plan, Denmark would hold a referendum in January 1945 to decide whether to abandon the name "Denmark" and "restore" the glory of the Germans as the Northern Province of the Third Reich. Himmler, Baumann, and Goebbels were all sent by Hoffmann to settle the matter, suggesting that they could use all means to "escort the ballot", and the three had promised before him that they would "satisfactorily" complete the voting mission.

The shock of the South African campaign made American spies, British (Hill Kee) agents, and other troublemakers who wanted to make trouble in Denmark realize that Germany was too powerful to confront it head-on, and they took advantage of the special situation in Denmark to fan the flames.

In order to create a favorable environment for Denmark to vote, Hoffmann also instructed the Axis allies to publicly express their support and for the Foreign Office to attack neutral countries on all sides. Ribbentrop worked very this, and made frequent trips in three days, and the communiqué sent back always included the following "The XX government insists that Denmark is an integral part of the German state and nation", and then these countries successively converted their embassies to Denmark into consulates.

In order to prevent the Americans from obstructing them, Ribbentrop also sent a note to the Americans through the Swiss side, threatening them: Denmark is the thing that the Führer values the most, and if you still want to strive for better peace conditions, don't obstruct Denmark!

He even took advantage of his visit to Switzerland to personally call the US ambassador to Switzerland: "...... If you continue to dwell on Denmark, Germany will sell rockets to Japan and test them in the Hawaiian Islands! We do what we say! ”

The news was conveyed back to Washington as it was, and it is said that Dewey was so angry that he slapped the table in the White House office on the spot, but no matter how angry he was, he couldn't beat the Germans on the battlefield, so he didn't speak loudly, knowing that selling rockets was an out-and-out threat, but he didn't dare to take the risk, what if the Germans really put up rockets to hit Pearl Harbor as soon as their brains were hot? Sending a fleet around Cape Horn to Hawaii would take more than one month for Germany, and even if the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not know that Horiyoshi had ordered a plan to seize the island as soon as possible, it would not be possible to turn a blind eye to the dangerous situation in the Hawaiian Islands.

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This is not self-deception, after the South African campaign means that at least 4 million German troops have fallen into a state of idleness all of a sudden, the United States is very well informed, knowing that Germany has adopted a normalization strategy in many areas, and the troops are also shrinking, which shows that Germany is really thinking about armistice and peace, and it really annoys the Führer, what should I do if I let these more than 4 million troops rush to the North American continent? - The dictator must not dare to guess!

So there was a very strange scene, when it was clear that Germany was still fighting to the death on the battlefield with the United States, and that it was an enemy who shared the sky, but the support of the American foreign service, the military, and the intelligence system for the resistance groups on the European continent had been greatly reduced, and the State Department was ready to use the method of appeasement of Germany's European policy to obtain a little détente for itself.

Eastern Russia was also striving for a détente in relations with Germany, Stalin followed the advice of others, disbanded the women's soldiers as scheduled, reduced the size of the bearded soldiers and grandfather soldiers, and then everyone saw that Germany really began to withdraw troops on the Eastern Front, and then let the SS American division be forcefully inserted into the front line to prevent Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

Stalin's father also didn't like the American soldiers and the SS, but he had to admit that the American Army Group was still reliable in doing these things, and then East Russia launched the second phase of disarmament as promised, preparing to further reduce the size of the army, and then expected Germany to abide by the agreement, and within a few days Molotov received the news: Germany's infantry division in the Eastern Front 35x was about to be dismantled on the spot, and 6 air wings were withdrawn at once. However, the number of German troops has decreased, but the combat effectiveness has skyrocketed - there is a feat of sweeping 1 million square kilometers and swallowing 300,000 troops in 10 days on the battlefield in South Africa.

In this regard, both Stalin's father and his close colleagues were quite dumbfounded, believing that the situation and the combat effectiveness of the German army should be reassessed, and Comrade Voroshilov even privately sadly believed that "it is impossible for our generation to take revenge, and can only hope that the Young Pioneers and Komsomol members will witness the revolutionary red flag planted on the Reichstag in Berlin in the future......", but on the bright side he was as high as Stalin's father, believing that the red flag of Bolshevik ideology would eventually burn all over the earth, and even summed up "a year of restoration, Three years of preparation, five years of counteroffensive, and ten years of success" - this smooth passage was deeply praised by my father, who thought that it greatly boosted morale.

At the Politburo meeting held on December 12, Voroshilov first made a long report on the military industry and internal affairs, which was summed up in two sentences: the gradual restoration of social order and people's lives, and the rapid development of industrial and agricultural production.

These two sentences are not completely empty words, on the contrary. Any unbiased observer has to admit that there is no other organization that can do it better than the Bolshevik Party. The influx of nearly 10 million people, life, housing, and food are all great problems, except for some people who are solved by the original housing, most of them rely on their own hands to build shacks for the winter; The food ration was reduced to a very low level, and Father Stalin and Voroshilov used all means to plan food, selling oil to Japan for food, selling industrial products and some equipment for food, using machine guns and cavalry to go to Mongolia to "raise" food and livestock, and forcing even B2 diesel engines and tank chassis to be produced and sold to Japan for food.

In the Urashan industrial and mining areas, in the Far East and in the Baikal region, after the announcement of the implementation of the "New Economic Policy" by the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, all sorts of new things have sprung up (the tail of capitalism), and after 12 or even 14 hours of hard work, the workers often have to spare another two hours for voluntary labor or reclamation. There are even cooperative workshops (in fact, small private factories) and combined transport teams (in fact, they are speculative inverted).

Due to the clarification of the relationship between owners, the distribution of products, and the attribution of interests to circulation, all people were very interested in actively devoting themselves to the initiative of making a fortune and supporting their families, and in order to embody the party's leadership and the people as masters of the country, they also demarcated the "hierarchical fields" and "contribution fields" with Bolshevik characteristics -- party cadres, advanced elements, and exemplary figures could be given more than one piece as a reward, and the revolutionary soldiers were to be solved by the local government as a whole.

The Bolsheviks formally established the people's ownership of small plots of land in internal documents, and at the same time advocated in radio, newspapers, and documents, that this move was not only not a retrogression of private ownership, but on the contrary, it was in line with the new thinking of building "collective farms" under the new situation, a new way of "common labor and distribution according to need", the only way to go in the "primary stage" of socialism, the soul and essence of Marxism-Leninism, and the embodiment of Comrade Stalin's consistent holding high the great banner. The theoretical leap that combines the universal truth of Marxism with the concrete practice of the Soviet revolution and construction is the latest theoretical achievement of the scientific theory of "building socialism in one country" and the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the whole party!

However, Voroshilov pulled down these words after saying a few casual words, and his focus was on the estimation of industrial and agricultural production and the report on the state of war readiness in the next year......