663 Unintentional peace talks
"Dear German Führer, the conditions you have offered are simply not acceptable to our government!"
If you want to ask what it feels like to be unable to beat and not be able to kill the other party, then the Duke of Hamilton, as the British ambassador for negotiations, is now in this state.
Reinhardt obviously had no intention of making peace talks, which can be easily seen from the terms he gave Hamilton for peace talks.
Unlike Hitler, who desperately preached that the Saxons and Germans were a family that loved each other, Reinhardt, the Führer of the Third Reich, never regarded the British as allies who could join forces against the Soviet Union.
Normally, both sides of a peace negotiation will initially offer a relatively high price to bargain with. This is not a new phenomenon.
The key is that Reinhardt's horse this time is no longer a problem that can be solved by bargaining!
When the Duke of Hamilton arrived in Berlin and finally met with the head of the Third Reich and declared that he hoped for peace talks, Reinhardt did not hesitate to casually offer his own peace terms.
What does it mean to casually prescribe conditions?
This means that you don't even have to think about it, you don't have to worry about the possible scenarios of various negotiations, you just need to ask for a price!
As for whether to say yes or not, that's not something Reinhardt has to worry about.
To be honest, he was really afraid that Hamilton would have a short circuit in his brain, so he agreed to all his conditions. In that case, napalm that has already been shipped to the makeshift airfield in Britain will not be able to be dropped for tomorrow.
In order for Hamilton not to agree, Reinhardt's peace conditions were more than harsh!
Reinhardt proposed that the peace demands that Britain now wanted and needed to agree to was that the British Navy could only keep one-tenth of it, and that it was not allowed to have cruisers or more tonnage, and that the remaining British naval capital warships were to be given to the German Navy.
That's right, this is what the British made unreasonable demands on the German Navy back then!
Reinhardt, who made his fortune with Operation Rainbow, certainly doesn't forget the reasons for Operation Rainbow.
Although he had no intention of making peace, he would not give the British a chance to make a rainbow operation. However, he did not mind using the tragic experience of the German Navy after the end of World War I to treat him as a human being, and ridiculed and provoked the Duke of Hamilton.
At the same time, Reinhardt also proposed that all shipyards and heavy industry bases in Britain must be assigned to Germany, and production should be arranged in a unified manner, and all its patented technology should be handed over.
Such excessive demands were a hundred times more stringent than the surrender negotiations faced by the French at the beginning.
After all, no matter how dependent the Vichy French government was on Germany, Petain at least controlled the French navy, and, because of the recent active participation of Vichy France in major military operations within the Allies, Petain's army was agreed to be slightly expanded.
Reinhardt, on the other hand, now demanded the surrender of the Duke of Hamilton: the Third Reich and its allies should keep the number of troops in Britain at more than 200,000.
On the other hand, the British overseas colonies, with the exception of the nominal ownership of Great Britain, were all assigned to Germany for the exercise of governing power......
In this way, Montgomery and Wavell don't have to hurt each other with Rommel, Beronte, and Garibaldi on the African side, and they just surrender with their homeland.
As for the war reparations, the surrender of weapons, and other clauses, there is no need to mention them.
Anyway, the previous clauses are already fatal, and adding other content is just a repeated whipping of the corpse.
"Mr. Hamilton, I can tell you responsibly that you have every right not to accede to Germany's demands." Reinhardt didn't care about it, and smiled at the red-faced Hamilton through the translator: "To be honest, I really don't want you to agree to my terms." After all, if you wait a little longer, the Allied armies will be able to get these things, and you will not be able to leave anything. ”
"Think about it, if your army, like the Empire's army, has been fighting so smoothly and almost never defeated. If it were you, would you be willing to give up the last game at this time? Reinhardt continued to taunt without hesitation.
"You won't, and neither will Mr. Churchill! If that were the case, you would have turned my Führer's mansion into your spoils of war and Berlin into ruins at all costs! ”
"But speaking of which, I don't think I've heard much of Mr. Churchill's rhetoric lately." Speaking of this, Reinhardt suddenly remembered and said: "Why, Prime Minister Churchill is unwell, and like the Italian Prime Minister Mussolini before, he fell ill and went to the hospital?" ”
"This ......" Hamilton was really not able to respond to this question, and he could not tell the head of a hostile country about the recent madness and delirium of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
As the saying goes, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized.
Now the affairs of London are basically handled by Gort, who has been promoted to duke, as the prime minister, and the London government has also become a military government to a certain extent.
These things are not inside stories that should be revealed casually.
"Honorable German Führer, I think we should talk about peace. Through your recent public speeches, I am sure that you also hope for peace. Then, please work with us to make some concessions, in order to reduce more unnecessary casualties, in order to prevent more innocent people from being involved, for the sake of peace, and serious negotiations! ”
After thinking about it, Goth still tried to pull the topic back to the point.
Here, he also made a point of quoting Reinhardt's previous speech to remind the Führer that he had publicly declared his desire for peace.
Unexpectedly, Reinhardt didn't eat this set at all.
I saw Reinhardt say to Goth with some standing and talking without backache: "First of all, I think I can kindly remind you. If your Prime Minister is already in the hospital, then I suggest that you find a new Prime Minister as soon as possible. Italy's last prime minister, Benito Mussolini, is the best example of this, you know, these prime ministers who go to the hospital, it seems that they don't live long. ”
"Second, who said I was going to fight for peace." Reinhardt blatantly played tricks on Hamilton without grace or inflection: "How can you believe those beautiful words for the public and the world?" All I wanted was to actually occupy the whole of Britain! ”