During the days when Czechoslovakia was in danger, neither Britain nor France made any move to save it, although at the Munich Conference they both solemnly guaranteed that Czechoslovakia would be inviolable.
Very unexpectedly, on March 17, two days after Hitler destroyed Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain suddenly felt like waking up from a dream and knew that he had been deceived. He recited Hitler's previous guarantees: Hitler once said that the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim in Europe and that he did not want a Czech, but now he has broken his promise.
On March 31, 16 days after Hitler entered Prague, Chamberlain told the House of Commons: "If any action were to take place which would clearly threaten the independence of Poland and which the Polish Government considered necessary to resist with all its might, the Crown would consider itself responsible. Immediately give full support to the Polish government. I can also add that the French government also authorized it. Chamberlain originally planned to open the door for Hitler to move eastward and play a conspiracy of manipulating tigers and harming people. They thought that sending Austria and Czechoslovakia would satisfy Hitler's needs Desire, as the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister said to the British and French ministers when he was forced to accept the Munich Agreement: "I don't know whether your country will benefit from the decision made in Munich, but it is certain that we will not yes*. After us, others will meet the same fate. "It makes it clear that it shares our position on this issue."
There are no innocents in the history of World War II. The Czech Republic, which had long oppressed the Germans in the Sudetenland, fulfilled their own orders and was annexed by Germany.
On March 23, the German army invaded and occupied the port of Memer in Lithuania.
After completing the order to annex the Czech Republic, Lin Wei returned to Berlin, because Lin Wei knew that the Czech Republic had attracted the prying eyes of many people in Berlin. After the annexation of the Czech Republic, its huge profits made many National Socialist Party members The eyes of the people inside were hot. Lin Wei certainly wanted to take this place into his own hands.
For Lin Wei, the value of the Czech Republic is far more than this. Industrial facilities such as the Skoda Arsenal in the Czech Republic are extremely needed for Lin Wei. If they are not in his own hands, Lin Wei may not be able to sleep. Especially the Skoda Arsenal, as the second largest arsenal in Europe, has a great reputation and is not inferior to the world-renowned Krupp Military Industry. Its subordinates have strong industrial strength and technical personnel, although it has caused certain competition and competition for Krupp Military Industry. Influence, but more of a complementary effect, Lin Wei will never allow him to fall into the hands of others, because that would be equivalent to letting others choke the Krupp family's neck.
This person was none other than the second-in-command of the National Socialist Party and Hitler's successor, Goering. Perhaps it was because his beloved wife died of illness when Goering had no money, which made Goering become extremely greedy now. As early as when the National Socialist Party took power, Goering continued to extend his hands to Germany's domestic industry and banking industry. At first, because of the power of the Juncker landlords, he did not dare to take action on the industries under the Junckers. However, Now, as the National Socialist Party's rule in the country becomes more and more stable, Lin Wei suddenly discovered that Goering's hands were getting deeper and longer.
Along with the power of his own air force, Goering continued to annex air force-related manufacturing plants and airlines in Germany. Companies such as Junkers Aircraft and Mercedes-Benz fell into Göring's hands.
As this continues, Göring also has a close relationship with Rheinmetall, which has always been at odds with the Krupp family. All of this makes Lin Wei wary. Lin Wei knows that everything he is doing now is related to his father. Staff's support is inseparable. Without the support of the Krupp family, Lin Wei is nothing.
Therefore, whether it is to maintain the advantage over his old enemy Rheinmetall or to limit Goering's power, Lin Wei must take the Skoda factory into his own hands.
This was founded in 1859 by the Czech Arno ~-1904) who founded a machinery factory in the western Czech city. It was bought by an Austrian count named Skoda in 1868. From 1869 the factory was named Skoda Factory. In 1899, it became a joint-stock manufacturer of civilian machinery products. It also produced large quantities of shotguns, machine guns, artillery tanks, etc., becoming one of the most famous military factories in Austria. Its large-caliber artillery and armored vehicles were unique at the time. Its largest factories are located in the industrial towns of Pilsen and Vilzim in the western Czech Republic. A total of 100,000 people work for it. It was the second largest arsenal at the time after H&K in Basenhofen, and its artillery output in 1937 accounted for almost 100% of the total output. In addition, he also operates machine tools, thermal power equipment, and produces various heavy industrial products such as cars, buses, trucks, tram and trolley buses, electric locomotives, etc. It can be said that it is the backbone of Czechoslovakia's industry.
Just like the status of the Krupp military-industrial complex in Germany, the Skoda factory dominates the world in the Czech Republic, even more so. After all, the Krupp family and Rheinmetall compete with several East Prussian families, and the Skoda factory does not have this situation at all.
Now is an opportunity for Lin Wei. The Czech Republic has just been annexed. He takes advantage of the fact that no one is paying attention to this place and takes advantage of it. If we cooperate with the Skoda factory, the Skoda factory will definitely agree to cooperate in order to survive. However, we cannot take advantage of others' danger. If the Skoda Factory is forced to jump over the wall and fall into the arms of other forces, the gains will outweigh the losses.
With his mind full of confusion, Lin Wei returned to Berlin.
After Lin Wei returned to Berlin, he first came to the SS headquarters building. Whenever he encountered difficulties, Lin Wei wanted to come to Heydrich and listen to his opinions. After all, in the history of the Third Reich in World War II, the Navy Derich was too mysterious to figure out, and Lin Wei always wanted to find him when he encountered confusing things.
Before arriving at Heydrich's office, Lin Wei met an acquaintance, Imperial Air Force Grand Marshal Hermann Goering. Seeing Lin Wei, Goring strode to Lin Wei's face, not slowing down at all because of his fat body. There was another person accompanying him, and Lin Wei recognized him at first glance. Konrad Hanlein was the leader of Germania in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. It seemed that Goering was planning to find someone familiar with Czechoslovakia to support him. I have to say that Goering is still very smart.
Sure enough, Goering said with a smile, "Conrad Hanlein has become a part of our Third Reich. Now I am going to nominate him as the supreme administrator of the Sudetenland. After all, he has worked in the Sudetenland for so many years." Very familiar with Czechoslovakia. Lampard, what do you think?"
"Mr. Conrad Hanlein is of course a suitable candidate, but I think all this still needs to be decided by the head of state," Lin Wei said with a smile, cursing in his heart that "Göring is here to cause trouble."
"Haha, Lampard, I'm leaving first. I have something to do with the head of state now." Goering walked away carelessly. Lin Wei looked at Goering's shaky back and couldn't help but secretly thought, "Only a simple-minded and high-profile person like you will not arouse Hitler's wariness."
After this episode, Lin Wei was in a bad mood when he arrived at Heydrich's office. Seeing Lin Wei in a bad mood, Heydrich asked, "Lampard, what's wrong with you?"
Feeling his friend's concern, Lin Wei adjusted his mentality and asked, "Heydrich, what did Goering do here just now?"
"Göring?" Heydrich thought for a moment and said, "He just brought Konrad Hanlein from the Sudetenland to visit our headquarters. Considering it was not a big deal, I didn't care. Did something happen?"
Lin Wei did not dwell on this matter, but said, "Heydrich, if you were asked to serve as the governor of Czechoslovakia, how would you govern that place?"
Heydrich did not expect Lin Wei to ask such a question, and said, "Why do you ask, what happened?"
Lin Wei thought for a while and replied, "Heydrich, we are friends, and I won't hide it from you. The Czech Republic is a huge cake now. Too few people in the party are watching over it, and the head of state also needs a trustworthy person to sit there." Out of my own selfishness, I don’t want this position to be taken by others, especially Goering. You may know that Goering has been very quick to attack industry in the past few years. Now he has people at all levels in the country, among whom we have Rheinmetall, the old rival of the Lupp family, also had a close relationship with Göring."
"Lampard, can you please put it simply?" Although Heydrich is a very capable person, he is relatively lacking in industrial aspects. However, based on his professional instinct, Heydrich had already sensed that his friend was in trouble.
Sure enough, Lin Wei began to complain, "Heydrich, the Skoda arsenal in the Sudetenland region of the Czech Republic is the second largest arsenal in Europe. Its strength is even stronger than our Krupp family in some aspects. If this power is controlled by Goering, , the status of our Krupp family in Germany will decline, do you understand?" Seeing Heydrich nodded, Lin Wei continued, "So, Heydrich, I need your help. For some reason, I It is impossible to personally come forward to snatch this Czech governor, but Heydrich, I hope you will come out to serve as the spokesperson of the empire in the Czech Republic."
"Me?" Heydrich hesitated, but seeing Lin Wei's frowning face, he nodded and agreed.
"Thank you, my friend" Lin Wei said sincerely.
A week later, Heydrich finally came up with his final plan for the governance of Czechoslovakia. After taking a look at it, Ji Ming felt that this guy was of a very high level. At least there is nothing I can modify. Soon Lin Wei brought Heydrich and his materials to the Chancellery in Berlin for a meeting. Of course, since the main problem this time was how to arrange the final settlement in Czechoslovakia, bosses from various regions in Germany came over. When Ji Ming and the others walked inside, everyone, including the fat man Goering, was already standing there waiting for the meeting to start.
After a while, Hitler came to the conference room. Seeing this, everyone immediately stood up, and then raised their hands respectfully to the holder of the highest power in the German Third Reich. "Okay! Everyone, sit down!" Hitler waved his hand slightly. Then he said: "I believe you are very clear about the purpose of calling everyone here this time. Although our occupation of Czechoslovakia has been a complete success, I believe everyone should also know that according to the Munich Peace Treaty, except for the Sudetenland , we must start to retreat from certain places within a year. So I hope everyone can come up with a good way to allow Germany to get the maximum benefit from this operation." At this point, Hitler glanced with a sharp look. Everyone present, then continued: "Now I give everyone the opportunity to speak freely. If you have any opinions, please feel free to express your own opinions?"
Goering stood up first and said: "The Sudetenland has returned to the embrace of Germany, and the Czech Republic no longer exists. So I think the control there should be strengthened. I suggest that the leader of the Germanian independence movement in the Sudetenland should be strengthened. .The former leader of the Czechoslovak Germanian Workers' Party, Konrad Hanlein, holds this position. After all, he has been there all the time and is very familiar with the situation in the Sudetenland."
People on Göring's side expressed their agreement one after another, while people on Linwei's side remained silent. Goebbels and Hess were neutral. Seeing this, Lin Wei stood up and asked, "Conrad Hanlein." When he said this, Lin Wei performed a Junker etiquette to show respect. Although Hitler didn't like it, Lin Wei still often did this. "Mr. Conrad Hanlein, this is not the first time we have met. I would like to know what better suggestions or plans you have for the governance of the Sudetenland? Especially for the non-Germans in the Sudetenland?"
"Of course, drive them out, drive them out completely from the territory of our empire. Let them know the consequences of losing their land and freedom." At this point, Conrad Hanlein held his hand tightly. Fists, eyes blazing with rage.
"Well, Mr. Conrad Hanlein, I deeply sympathize with the unfair treatment that the Germanic people suffered in the Sudetenland in the past, but you can't do this," Lin Wei said slowly.
"Why?" Conrad Hanlein said loudly.
"Because it is very passive to just use racism to physically eliminate our enemies. We should take a proactive approach, that is, try to keep the opponent's resistance in a very low state, so we must Implement a gentle policy," Heydrich then replied Lin Wei.
Soon Heydrich took out a thick folder: "This is the relevant administrative plan we formulated for the Bohemian-Moravian Reserve. In this report, I believe that the main body of the other party's resistance It should be the middle class, who are the main breeding ground for the resistance movement. So we cannot adopt the so-called racial system. Instead, we must court the local workers and farmers and use them against the bourgeois intellectuals. And we should abolish Regulations that relegated Czechs to second-class status were adopted. And they were able to increase the supply of grease and other related living facilities to workers on the other side. They also reformed the Czech social insurance and medical systems, which were far behind Germany, so that they could Put real and complete control of Czechoslovakia in our hands."
Although what Heydrich said was reasonable, Lin Wei knew that the final decision still rested with Hitler. So he carefully observed Hitler's expression, and when he saw his slightly frown slowly unwinding, Lin Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had finally passed this test. Sure enough, Hitler said coldly, "What Reinhard said makes sense, but we cannot turn a blind eye to the oppression that the Germanic people have suffered in the Sudetenland for so many years. Reinhard, I heard that your Gestapo is very He is good at criminal investigation and must find out those Czechs who persecuted the Germanic people." After a pause, Hitler glanced at Goering and continued, "Conrad Hanlein has been working in the Sudetenland for many years, so he will cooperate. You find those scum.”
Hitler's decision finally brought an end to the struggle between Göring and Linwei. He immediately appointed Reinhard Eugen Tristan Heydrich, deputy national leader of the SS, as chairman of the Committee to Reorganize Czechoslovakia and manage it. Administrative affairs throughout Czechoslovakia. In fact, he was the Governor-General of Czechoslovakia. Conrad Hanlein was promoted to the supreme administrator of the empire in the Sudetenland.
"Führer" Just when everyone was about to leave the meeting, Lin Wei stopped Hitler again.
"Lampard, what are you doing?" Hitler asked doubtfully.
"That's right, Führer." Lin Wei cleared his throat and said, "The SS is preparing a fifth division, and its name has been determined to be the Viking Division. I want to arrange for it to be stationed in Czechoslovakia."
Hitler thought for a moment and agreed readily, "Okay, Lampard, just move the Viking division wherever you want."
After the meeting, Lin Wei and Heydrich walked out of the conference room. The fat Goering came over and said, "Reinhard, congratulations."
How strange, Heydrich added in his mind, but still smiled and replied, "Thank you, Your Majesty the Imperial Marshal."
Back in the SS headquarters building, the two of them entered Heydrich's office together, because Lin Wei knew that Heydrich would soon go to the Czech Republic to take office, and no one would come here for a long time, so Over the years, the two have transformed from a relationship of mutual use to true friends. Especially when Lin Wei moved to Himmler, Heydrich took the greatest credit.
Therefore, now Lin Wei felt that it was necessary to remind Heydrich to avoid its fate in history. After the two sat down, Lin Wei said, "Reinhard, I am going to Czechoslovakia this time, and I am very worried about your safety. ".
After listening to Lin Wei's words, Heydrich felt a little funny. He was an expert in safety work, how could he let his own safety issues slip up? He said funnyly, "Lampard, do you think there is any danger in Czechoslovakia?" .