I Will Stage A Coup D’état - Chapter 83



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EP.83 Return of the Champion (3)

Dictator Adolf Hitler screamed all night long.

Why did Britain, as a fellow Germanic nation, believe that it could coexist with Greater Germany?

Why did the Anglo-Saxons betray Greater Germany and side with the Reds and the inferior yellows?

Hitler had no idea how his war threats would be received in Britain.

The President, increasingly dependent on drugs, led the country in spur-of-the-moment flashes, and was thus far removed from the criminal’s perspective.

“This is a betrayal. Do you understand, Hess? The Anglo-Saxons have betrayed the Germanic cause!”

The President’s unique logic was difficult for ordinary people to understand at once.

“I had no idea that the British would betray the kindness shown to me by the Führer during my struggle.”

But Hess, the party secretary who faithfully served the Führer, understood those words perfectly.

“I intended to preserve the dignity of the British Empire. But how!”

Of course, it was something the British would have been shocked to hear.

Was the British Empire so weak that it depended on someone else’s favor to survive?

“Your Excellency, if by any chance negotiations can be reached.”

“How can you do that? It’s already wrong. These piece of shit ruined the whole plan!”

Hitler expressed his annoyance in a shrill voice and blew away all the papers on his desk.

Even for Hess, a loyal follower of Hitler, the situation did not look good.

In ‘Mein Kampf’, wasn’t the ultimate opponent that Germany was joining hands with to share the world with Britain, a fellow Germanic nation?

‘This won’t do. It’s best to handle the situation before His Excellency the President’s plan is shaken further.’

Hess made a momentous decision.

On August 25, 1942, Hess drove to a German airfield near the English Channel.

“Yes, Party Secretary?”

“How can I get there?”

“Of course, he should be treated with the same courtesy as His Excellency Goering.”

Since it was a visit from a high-ranking official, such as a party secretary, the Air Force attempted to conduct complex protocol to accommodate him, but Hess refused.

“I wish I could ride an airplane.”

It was an antics often seen among high-ranking German military officials visiting the airfield.

“Well, I know it’s not impossible, but can you fly the plane?”

“You know how to tell.”

It was even more surprising, since Hess knew how to fly an airplane.

“Then, go ahead and do that.”

The German officers had no idea what Hess would do, so they gave him a Messerschmitt fighter plane.

‘Your Majesty, please wait a moment. I will try to negotiate with the Anglo-Saxons.’

Hess then took a plane across the English Channel.

And then it landed straight in the fields of southern England.

“???”

Just then, a National Guard soldier standing guard saw a German plane with an Iron Cross emblem landing and rushed over, aiming his gun.

“Put your weapons down and put your hands up!”

Hess spoke calmly as soon as he got off the plane.

“I have come as a special envoy to negotiate peace with Great Britain, in obedience to His Excellency the President’s wishes.”

“First, President?”

The British soldier decided that it was not a matter he could handle.

After receiving his report, the British government immediately sent someone to find out what was going on.

“A man who calls himself the number three Nazi has arrived. Find out if he is just making excuses to defect or if he is someone who can really negotiate.”

And the conclusion that came out was,

“That guy, did he turn around?”

As soon as the British decided that there was no need to take Hess seriously, they put him under house arrest.

Hess’s flight was a comical farce to the British, but to the Nazis it was a shocking incident in which the third-highest ranking member of the party had ‘defected’ to Britain.

“Find out how he got to England! How could this happen without all these maggot-like traitors swarming everywhere!”

“Your Excellency, President. Please calm down.”

“Do I look real!”

Hitler, already enraged, foamed at the mouth.

Hitler had many imaginations in his head, wondering if Hess might defect to the Allies and hand over confidential information.

Even his own close associates betray him like this, so who can he trust?

‘Everyone around you is untrustworthy. They’re always looking for an opportunity to betray you.’

The Führer’s hysteria became even more intense than before.

In the midst of all this, when the Allied Powers held the Moscow Tripartite Conference and resolved to destroy the Axis, Hitler became extremely excited.

“You dare to demand unconditional surrender from Greater Germany? Do you think the word surrender exists among the great Germanic people?”

Hitler showed his rage to the fullest.

“Trauma. Go around and crack down on the allies right now.”

The Führer immediately summoned Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and ordered him to tour the Axis countries to strengthen the solidarity of the alliance.

Ribbentrop then traveled to Rome, Madrid, Budapest, Bucharest and other places, talking to leaders of various allied nations.

Allied leaders responded mostly favorably.

Although Britain was involved in the war, Germany still dominated the continent.

Well, if it was disadvantageous, then just think about it again later.

In the case of the shameless Mussolini, he expressed his gratitude and asked in return if he could get additional help.

I don’t know about other countries, but there seemed to be no need to worry about Italy betraying them.

However, Greece, the last of the Axis allies to join, thought differently.

‘We sided with Germany to avoid war, but if Britain becomes the enemy, won’t we become the battlefield?’

Greece’s position changed slightly when the pro-German dictator Metaxas died on the operating table during surgery for throat cancer.

Prime Minister Alexander Corizis, who was selected as Metaxas’ successor, was a man of banking background who had considerable fears about the finances of the British Empire.

He weighed both sides immediately after Britain entered the war and calculated that it would be best to quietly break away from the Axis.

No matter how I think about it, it was suicidal for a country surrounded by the sea on three sides to turn the world’s second or third largest navy into an enemy.

When Ribbentrop came to Athens, Corizis treated him with great courtesy.

Yet when asked to contribute to the Axis alliance, he responded immediately negatively.

“Greece is a small country. It has a long coastline, so it is difficult to defend its territory. If we divide our troops, it will only cause trouble for the people.”

It was an exaggeration, but it wasn’t entirely a lie.

Ribbentrop left Greece with some uneasiness over Corizis’s rejection.

In any case, the tour of Germany was a success.

It reaffirmed the solidarity of the alliance and confirmed that Germany’s position had not collapsed.

Once Goebbels was convinced that there was no problem with the alliance on the surface, he turned on the loudspeaker toward Europe.

“The alliance of the yellow, the Jewish-Bolshevik, and the greedy Anglo-Saxon shows how corrupt the West has become. Pure white people must unite against these degenerates and make the world a better place. Europeans, rise up!”

Germany’s ‘appeal’ was a heart-warming cry to them, but the response was less than expected.

There was no significant volunteerism except among staunch racists and anti-communists.

Since all those who were going to fight in the Great and Lesser Crusades had already done so, the number of volunteers Germany received through this appeal did not exceed one hundred thousand.

Germany was forced to resort to means it had no choice but to avoid.

“We are introducing a large number of female workers into factories.”

The mobilization of women was essential to secure an army to fight against Britain.

Goebbels even gave a total war speech to justify the mobilization of women.

“I ask you, gentlemen, do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more radical and total than anything we can imagine today?”

German civilians, who had not yet tasted the bitterness, responded enthusiastically to this speech.

“If the German nation wants it!”

The Third Reich began to transition to a proper war economy for the first time since the war.

Production of consumer goods declined dramatically, and women were mobilized in earnest for military production.

yes,

“We have a labor shortage. Can’t we bring in more foreigners?”

“If you’re a foreigner, aren’t you already overflowing with it?”

Germany was already using prisoners of war from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in its factories, farms, and mines.

Their number alone was close to 4 million.

Here, German industry demanded that even civilians from occupied territories be brought to Germany to work.

“Hmm. That’s a bit of a headache to manage.”

“If you want to match production, you have to match the manpower first.”

“It’s not as easy as it sounds to match the numbers.”

“Oh, so how do we achieve our goal? Just give up on meeting deadlines?”

With the German Wehrmacht eating up nearly ten million men, Germany had less than four million young Germans available for military industries and other fields.

Even if we added some female labor to this, it was impossible to produce all military supplies such as tanks, airplanes, and cannons.

More people were needed.

“Okay, I understand.”

The German government began to impose quotas on the occupied territories in earnest.

“From there, pick out 500,000 people and send them to Germany. Oh, no exceptions. If you don’t have people, send children, that’s what I’m saying.”

The demands placed on the eastern occupied territories were particularly harsh.

“Give me food and money. Give me women. Give me men to work in the factories.”

The Soviets, who already harbored ill feelings toward Germany due to the extermination units and the suppression of separatists, took this as an opportunity to jump into the anti-German struggle in large numbers.

“Germany was not our liberator. They were a more vicious ruler than the Soviet Union.”

As anti-German sentiments boiled over in various places, Jews who had been chased by extermination squads also took to the path of armed resistance.

The Third Reich’s hegemony suffered a major blow with Britain’s entry into the war.

Yet the outward appearance of the empire remained solid.

Not yet.