Empire in Progress

Chapter 325: Vienna Arbitration

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For a long time, places like Damon Concentration Camp will still exist, but the people staying there will be replaced by Soviet prisoners of war instead of Jews. After Lin Wei completes the release of the Jews, he will release more than 400 people currently imprisoned in Germany. Thousands of Jews were released to make room for the huge number of prisoners of war after the Soviet-German war began. Lin Wei predicted that within a year or so of the war, the Soviet army would reach its peak, and most of the prisoners during the war would be there. generated during this period.

Historically, neither Germany nor the Soviet Union regarded the other party's prisoners as human beings. Most of the Soviet prisoners could not return to the Soviet Union after the war. On the contrary, the Soviet Union was no worse than Germany. The two countries seemed to have a mutual hatred for each other. The hatred is the same, and I can't wait to get over it quickly. Lin Wei had to think about the future, so he was already prepared. If the war situation goes smoothly, the Soviet prisoners will naturally have their lives guaranteed. If the war develops in a direction unfavorable to Germany, the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army will have to pray that they are not captured, because almost all of these people will be captured. After getting rid of them, Lin Wei will never let these young men go. The Soviet Union, which had lost almost all its adult men, could not pose an excessive threat to Germany after the war. This was the relationship between the two countries. Neither could rely on the other to be cruel.

Lin Wei will stay in Damon for a week. On the one hand, he wants to get close to the opposition groups imprisoned here. What they do after they are released will have an impact on the current prestige of the National Socialist Party, so it must be Be cautious and carefully identify before releasing them in batches. The other aspect is waiting for news from the Jews. Lin Wei will not be arrogant and think that he can gain the trust of the Jews through just one conversation. This kind of thing must be struck while the iron is hot to achieve the best results, so Lin Wei talks more here. It is also necessary to have more contact with these Jewish elites.

It was okay to take a look at the torture chamber of Damon Concentration Camp. After feeling the blood inside, Lin Wei sincerely hoped that this kind of place would not continue to exist in the future. Seeing the demolition of the gas chamber with his own eyes made Lin Wei even more happy. If Germany really failed in the war. He saved at least millions of lives. Bah bah bah... Germany will definitely win. If the fate of the defeated Jews is saved, his own fate will be ruined. Lin Wei quickly put this Bad thoughts popped out of my head.

The Germans imprisoned here were released one after another within a week. Lin Wei was not interested in knowing how they felt about regaining their freedom, because during this week, Lin Wei was not idle. People have been responsible for identifying people in the concentration camps, who can be released, who cannot be released, and who cannot be released now, but can be released in the future. These all worry Lin Wei very much.

Lin Wei has prepared to clean up the Damon Concentration Camp. All the old files have been checked out. The files of the dead people have been destroyed according to Lin Wei's order. The living people still cannot guarantee that they are safe. After going through After identification, there were still more than a thousand people who were determined to be cleared after approval by the people brought by Lin Wei. What awaits these people is death.

Among these people were Jewish profiteers who were so lucky that they are still alive, stubborn opponents, and a group of foreign spies stationed in Germany. For such people, Lin Wei's attitude was to eliminate them mercilessly. Even if he killed a million people, Lin Wei would not frown.

Because of Lin Wei's decision, the guards at Damon Concentration Camp went on a killing spree in the past few days. For a week, gunshots were fired from morning to night in the concentration camp. On average, 150 people were identified every day and should be shot and gassed. Although the chamber was ordered to be demolished by Lin Wei, this did not delay the efficiency of killing here at all. After getting up every morning, the people who should be executed were divided into four batches by the guards and sent to the execution ground. It was also a shooting range. Here, people who had never touched a gun could When a person serves as an executioner, he can exercise his courage on the one hand and his marksmanship on the other. These prisoners used their last remaining energy to provide opportunities for German people who might go to the battlefield at any time to practice their marksmanship.

When Lin Wei was about to leave the Damon concentration camp, the Jews finally fully believed in Lin Wei's sincerity to release them, and promised to go to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp in Germany, and the Jewish ghetto in Poland to persuade those Jews To join the German army, Lin Wei did not fully agree with this. Lin Wei said to these people, "In the next period of time, maybe half a year, maybe a year, the freedom of the Jews will still be restricted, and the Jews cannot After you come out of the quarantine area, you can't even join the German army!" As for why Lin Wei said this, there was no explanation to these people. Lin Wei's move was mainly because he was worried about arousing the Soviet Union's vigilance. Any behavior that alerted the Soviet Union was not worth it now.

Although the Jews did not get the freedom they longed for, they still received Lin Wei's guarantee that the army composed of Jews would fall under the jurisdiction of the SS Foreign Legion and become the largest foreign volunteer army. For this reason, Lin Wei even signed an agreement with these Jews, using the reputation of the Krupp family to guarantee his commitment. In order to expand Germany's military power as much as possible, Lin Wei did his best.

All preparations are aimed at the Soviet Union. According to Lin Wei's idea, after the war begins, how many troops Germany can send to attack the Soviet Union depends entirely on the maximum number of Germany's total war. In other words, if Germany can If the supply of 10 million troops is guaranteed within one year, even if all these German troops starve to death in the next year, Lin Wei will not hesitate to stuff all the troops into the Soviet Union at once.

As the date approaches, Lin Wei must leave. As the host, the main leaders of the German National Socialist Party must start preparations before the arrival of political parties from other countries. Goebbels and Hess have now arrived in Vienna to start preparations. The mediation in the Cilinwei plan involves a wider scope than the historical mediation. In the Vienna Congress dominated by Germany and Italy in history, it mainly arbitrated the territorial issues between Hungary and Romania, and mainly united the two Eastern European countries. , to prepare for the upcoming Soviet-German war. The arbitration conference planned by Lin Wei involves more issues than that one. In addition to the territorial issue between Hungary and Romania, in the face of the Italian team, Greece and Yugoslavia, the issue of how to mediate between Greece and Yugoslavia must also be Put it on the agenda.

Historically, Germany and Italy forced Romania to cede the Transylvanian half of Northern Transylvania to Hungary. However, this decision was not made out of justice, but rather to win Hungary's support for Germany's war goals. In order to reverse the situation since the Treaty of Trianon, the ruling allocated multi-ethnic areas to Hungary and Romania, resulting in large-scale population migration between the two countries and the fragmentation of ancient socio-economic units. And Romania ceded South Dobroga to Bulgaria. The area was Bulgarian territory from 1878 to 1913, but was ceded to Romania after Bulgaria's defeat in the Second Balkan War.

However, in Lin Wei’s planned arbitration for the Balkans, Romania is not necessarily the one who will suffer the most. Italy has already assembled millions of troops in Albania. According to the data on paper, no one thinks that at this time Greece and Yugoslavia are rivals of the Italian army, and perhaps even their own people think so. The Italians are even more confident. At this time, Germany is preparing to mediate here. It is obvious that it is not prepared to allow Italy to send troops to attack these two countries.

Italy would definitely not be happy with Germany's attitude. However, after discussing with Hess and Goebbels, Lin Wei decided to try his best to preserve the independent status of Greece and Yugoslavia. It was foreseeable that Germany and Italy would not be happy in this conference. There will definitely be an unpleasant scene. However, if Greece and Yugoslavia can be brought closer to the Axis camp, and with the participation of the Greek army and Yugoslavia's small but powerful troops, Germany will be more confident in its war against the Soviet Union and successfully replicate the Battle of France. It is not completely impossible to kill the Soviet Union in an instant.

Both Germany and Italy are interested in the Balkans. Unlike Germany, Italy's Mussolini is more inclined to occupy it, and Germany's early move into Romania embarrassed Mussolini even more, because Mussolini He believed that he at least had the right to be informed, but Germany did not inform him and did not regard Italy as an ally at all.

However, Italy's actions were soon discovered by the Gestapo, and the Germans immediately warned Italy not to take risky actions in Yugoslavia and Greece. In the face of Germany's strong intervention, Mussolini at least temporarily gave up his plans for further military victory in the Balkans. However, the prospect of easily conquering Greece was too tempting for Mussolini, who believed that at least for some time to such an extent that it could offset the huge victory of his ally Germany.

No one in Germany knows the situation of the Italian army and Mussolini better than Lin Wei. Although the Italian army has millions of troops and is in a posture of massive offensive, Lin Wei still doesn't care. If a war breaks out, his SS Seven divisions of the army can destroy millions of Italian troops. Moreover, Lin Wei ensured that Mussolini would not dare to take action against Germany, so he dared to set the goal of stopping Italy's actions. This convening of the conference also had the intention of playing a game with Italy.