On May 3, 1940, the third day of the implementation of the "Red Plan" by the German army on the Western Front, the French army was facing collapse on various battlefields. The three main army groups on the French Northeast Front were either annihilated or surrounded in the April battles, resulting in an acute shortage of qualified officers and non-commissioned officers in the newly formed units, as well as few experienced veterans. With the exception of a very small number of units (a few divisions under the 10th Army), most of the troops collapsed in the moment of the surprise attack of the German Panzer Division. Therefore, on May 3, Admiral Weygand recommended that the government evacuate Paris and declare it an undefended city.

His proposal was approved by the government on May 3, and the retreat was well planned. The new seat of the French government was Tours, 200 kilometers southwest of Paris, but Tours was not the center of French resistance, but the capital of capitulation and fugitives. The option now before the French government is no longer to insist on resistance on its own soil.

The current French top is divided into two factions: capitulators and fugitives, and the leader of the capitulation faction is Marshal Pétain, the hero of the last world war.

He believes that the French have lost the courage to "sacrifice their lives for the country with a smile" after the last world war, and that even if the government flees overseas, it is impossible to command the French to continue to resist.

After the French government fled, the Germans were likely to adopt the strategy of the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, with France voting for a new president and parliament, so that French politics would be divided. Moreover, the French government, which has retreated abroad, is likely to face the embarrassing situation of denying the legitimacy of democratic elections.

Moreover, it was not only military politicians with right-wing Pai and French fascist backgrounds like Petain who advocated surrender, including the center-left Socialist pacifists and the center-right "pacifists" of the Democratic Union. Even the semi-banned French Bolshevik Party (which had been banned after the Batumi air raids for advocating the defense of the Soviet Union) became active after the defeat at the front, seeking to form a Soviet government to make peace with Germany, and trying to sabotage the country's defenses. By the end of April, hundreds of Bolshevik Party members had been arrested, and four of them had been shot for sabotaging an aircraft factory, becoming revolutionary martyrs who had dedicated their lives to the cause of human liberation.

In this case, Henry. Marshal Pétain believed that once the French government left, it would be immediately abandoned by the French people, reduced to a tool of Britain for the French empire and fleet abroad, and turned into a French rebellion!

The leader of the camp that advocated the flight was Prime Minister Paul Brown. Renault and Deputy Secretary of War Charles de Gaulle. Where Paul. On May 3, Renault also wrote a letter to Roosevelt asking for help, in which he imitated Churchill's tone: "It will be in front of Paris, behind Paris...... Fighting in the provinces, in North Africa, and if necessary, in the Americas". However, at the same time that this credit telegram was sent to the United States, Renault ******** announced that Paris was no longer fortified.

The French prime minister, who is now clearly suffering from schizophrenia, shouts for resistance, and then orders here and there to be no defenses - in the end, all cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants are left unfortified, and this is a kind of resistance.

While the political and military circles in France were in turmoil, the French people also did not show enough will to resist. In addition to the refugees, who always caused severe road congestion, they did not want to let the flames of war reach their homeland - after the declaration of war in Italy, the inhabitants of many parts of southern France even pulled their wagons and wagons to the airport to prevent the British and French bombers there from taking off to bomb Italy, because they were afraid that the Italian bombers would retaliate!

On May 5, just when France was in disarray, the vanguard of the attack on Paris, the "Greater Germany" banner and the "Adolf. Thousands of officers and men of Hitler's banner team, accompanied by assault guns and armored vehicles, marched into the undefended French capital Paris.

Gustav. Schwarzenegger also led his platoon into the city, and after more than twenty days of fierce fighting, only eighteen men remained in his platoon (the rest were either killed or wounded). But each of them was in high spirits at the moment, and it was one of the happiest days of their lives.

"But the citizens of Paris were not happy at all, and no one welcomed us with flowers and applause, and the content of the history textbooks was nonsense, and we attacked France, how could they welcome it?" After the war, Gustav returned to Austria and became police chief. That's what Schwarzenegger later said to his hunk son.

"We actually entered the city in a cry, and I found that every Frenchman in the street was crying, crying very sadly. But apart from crying noses, these useless French had no other act of resistance. If crying was resistance, they were resisted, and in fact it was the only resistance in Paris.

In the days that followed, we were stationed in Paris and had a very good time. Delicious French food, comfortable room, and lots of beautiful French girls...... Arnold, girl can't tell your mom or anything, you know? All in all, it was a very happy time, the most comfortable day we had in World War II. ”

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"My dear, I adore you so much, you are greater than Count Moltke, being able to marry you and have children for you is the greatest happiness of my life, I must have two more children for you......"

On May 6, 1940, while traveling to the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin for a banquet, Chloe kept talking, and from time to time offered kisses to Hersmann. Hersmann was now her greatest idol, because the German army really marched into Paris as a victor under his leadership!

When the news reached Berlin, the capital of the German Empire, was jubilant. The 81-year-old Kaiser Wilhelm appeared in the square outside the Charlottenburg Palace, dressed in full military uniform, and delivered a "victory speech", declaring: "A new era, in which Europe is united around Germany and marches together, and a beautiful era of war, poverty and turmoil is no longer coming." This is the mission that God has given us to the Germanic peoples, and we have finally completed it......"

And when the convoy of senior officers of the Wehrmacht General Staff, escorted by cavalry from the Royal Guards Cavalry Regiment, entered the city of Berlin. On both sides of the road, it was already crowded with jubilant citizens of Berlin. The adult men wore a variety of uniforms, ranging from brown stormtrooper uniforms to old field gray uniforms. And the women, dressed in their most beautiful clothes, waved desperately at the convoy of cavalry escorts. From time to time, people raised their hands and shouted "Long live, Germany!" "Hooray! Wehrmacht! ”

"Two more?" Hersman smiled and touched his wife's belly, "This is already the sixth, and you're both in your forties." ”

"I think I should have had eight, and that's my responsibility as a Germanic mother." Chloe replied with a smile, "As the wife of the Marquise and His Excellency the Marshal, I should lead by example in this regard." ”

The current German government encourages childbearing, and mothers who have given birth to four children are awarded the bronze "Germanic Mother" cross; Those who give birth to six or seven children are awarded the Sound Quality Cross; If you give birth to eight or more, you will be awarded a gold medal.

Chloe, Marquise Heinsberg, had always been a woman of a mission, believing that she was strong enough to be able to procreate, wealthy enough to raise her, and a respected aristocrat (to be a good example), so there was no reason to shirk her responsibility to bear children for Germany.

However, this is a little problematic in Hersmann's view, not so much because he is worried about what will happen to Chloe, but because the German government's policy of treating women as child-bearing machines over the years will affect Germany's war potential.

It was not a bad thing for the German Empire, which had a small population, to have more children, but to encourage women to have children in wartime rather than having them go into factories to replace men in the army would reduce Germany's arms production.

Thanks to the German government's relentless propaganda, most German women now regard having children as a top priority (and German men think so), and the war situation is so good that it seems unlikely that German women will be mobilized to go to factories under the current circumstances. And this matter is not under the jurisdiction of the General Staff......

Digesting and integrating the production capacities of the European countries controlled by Germany then became the key to Germany's victory over Britain and the United States in industrial production.

Of all the continental European countries that have been or may be controlled by Germany, France is undoubtedly the most industrially productive country, and it is the fifth largest industrial country in the world after the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain.

With these questions in mind, Hersmann's car had already driven into the splendid Charlottenburg Palace to the cheers of the crowd.

In the courtyard of the Imperial Palace, limousines of various colors were parked at this time, most of them belonged to the German military and political dignitaries, who were all heroes of the German conquest of France. There were also some friendly ambassadors who came to congratulate the German Kaiser on behalf of their own countries. There are quite a few cars with old family crests painted on them (Hersmann's car also has two lions and a cross).

"Two-headed vulture!" Chloe stepped out of the car and pulled down Hersmann's sleeve and pointed to the badge on a sedan of unknown brand (it was Hungarian Rabau).

"This is the Habsburg two-headed vulture?" Hersman was stunned when he saw this emblem, "Whose car is this?" ”

"It should be His Royal Highness Crown Prince Otto," Chloe said, "and it seems that he has returned from Belgium." (To be continued.) )