"This is not a new war, this is just a continuation of that Ruhr war of 1923!"

In Germany, Reinhardt gave a national radio mobilization speech in the early morning:

"In 1923, the French and Belgian armies brazenly invaded the Ruhr industrial region, which belonged to Germany. At that time, they provoked a war.

Since that day, the war has been there and has never ended.

In the days when we were weak, we were bullied and trampled on us by even the weakest country (Belgium). At that time, we could only cry out to express strong indignation and protest.

Today, it's May 10, 1940. Today, we make the original invaders tremble with the deafening sound of a cannon earthquake! Today, we crush their unreasonableness and domineering with iron and blood, and let them know that we are not a bunch of cowards who only know how to protest!

We have the great ideal engraved on the German flag, and we have countless heroes who have fought for this ideal to this day! President Ebert, General Hindenburg, and Reinhardt Heydrich, their successor, will continue this ideal for the sake of Germany!

In Berlin today, nothing can save our homeland, except this ideal! Fortunately, we now have the opportunity to implement this ideal, and we are not as powerless as we were when the Treaty of Versailles was signed 20 years ago.

The Treaty of Versailles, a great shame! We have the determination and the reason to refuse to carry it out!

Do what we want to do, and if you want to fight, then fight! Then I will be able to see if you are 70 million slaves or 70 million unyielding Germanic people!

This time, we are fighting for honor, for reclaiming our freedom, dignity, glory and justice.

The Treaty of Versailles was unequal, an unjust treaty imposed on Germany by the Great Powers, a clause created by the British, French, and even Belgians to enslave us.

They want to take away our freedom, and we won't say yes!

Unlike what they once did, we don't fight for enslavement. We will fight for freedom, for justice that reshapes the world!

We must let the English, who have always been proud, let the conceited and invincible French, and let the Belgians who take advantage of the fire to know that the Germans are not machines, not cattle and horses, we are people! It's the Germanic people who never gave in!

No one can conquer us, no one can enslave us, and no one will be allowed to despise us. My compatriots, the decisive battle with France's old enemy has begun in full swing from today!

Last time, we fought with the French for four years. And this time....... Not more than 4 months, I promise.

Let us defeat Belgium, which likes robbery, France, which implements hegemonism, and Britain, which promotes colonialism, and bring justice to Europe and the world.

Long live Germany and the German people! Justice, long live! ”

In the name of justice, Reinhardt occupied the moral high ground from the very beginning.

This time, the Third Reich did not attack the Netherlands, which had been neutral since World War I, nor did it invade Norway, a neutral country in northern Europe.

Reinhardt pointed the spearhead of the German army at the real aggressor. Britain invaded Narvik, Norway, and France, Belgium, Germany, Ruhr. Reshaping world justice, this illusory slogan, is extremely appropriate for Germany today.

At the moment when the Kingdom of Norway announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations and its membership in the German-led anti-colonial Allied Powers, more and more countries began to sympathize with Germany.

International public opinion has begun to favor Germany, a country that has risen from the desperate situation of the First World War with great difficulty, and has now begun to make practical guarantees for the neutrality of other small European countries.

The United States, for its part, has adopted a silent attitude toward this war.

On the one hand, the United States does not seem to have any reason to support Britain in public. Their work of public opinion is really poor.

Although the Admiralty Chancellor, named Churchill, was in no way inferior to Reinhardt, the German Führer, his actions gave people a complete sense of the bad sense of an aggressor, and did not deserve praise.

On the other hand, a Europe in civil war is fully in line with the interests of the United States. Just like the First World War, it would be nice to smash Europe to pieces again. At that time, the United States only needs to finally declare that it is on the side of the victor and send troops to help the already dominant country win the war, and then it will be able to sit at the negotiating table and enjoy the benefits of the victor.

Do not doubt how shrewd the Americans are. In the Second World War, they used some old warships and surplus materials to exchange a large number of overseas military bases from the British, and subtly took over the property of the British Empire.

Now that European countries can have civil wars, it is simply a situation that the US government thinks about day and night. Expecting the United States, which most wants this to happen, to stand up and call for restraint on both sides is tantamount to expecting all politicians across the country to be stupid with negative IQs.

Moreover, even if the U.S. government calls on both sides to exercise restraint, it will have no effect. On the current battlefield on the European continent, the armies of various countries are like arrows from the string, and there is no turning back. No one will allow the other side to maintain its strength and withdraw from the war, leaving behind troubles. Germany will not allow it, and neither will Britain and France!

In contrast, the Italian side is much more active. Mussolini, the Italian "contemporary Caesar" who had long cooperated with Reinhardt, on the one hand, demanded that Britain and France export more materials to Italy at low prices as a thank you for maintaining Italy's neutrality. On the other hand, he asked Reinhardt for strategic supplies as a military guarantee for Italy's upcoming war.

In response to Mussolini's request, the British and French sides cautiously agreed to export some cotton, grain, machine tools and other non-strategic materials. Britain and France hoped that these things would stabilize Italy, but they were also unwilling to allow Italy to buy strategic materials such as oil from them, so that they might use these materials against themselves in the future.

Reinhardt's performance was going to be a little too strange. On the one hand, he politely rejected Mussolini's proposal to import a large number of coal mines, but on the other hand, he offered to provide Italy with Germany's advanced fighter technology as compensation, and expressed his willingness to provide German technical personnel and drawings to jointly develop a new fighter for the Italian Air Force.

As for Italy's entry into the war, Reinhardt unexpectedly showed not very zealous, and vaguely, seemed to have a sense of reluctance.

Mussolini wondered, didn't he know that with the support of Italy, the fourth largest country in Europe, Germany would reduce a lot of pressure militarily?!