Battle of the Third Reich

Every time he faced this empire's head who was 22 years younger than himself, Walter Funk felt like a mistaken student who met the director. n ∈ n ∈. Although the temperature in the room was cool and pleasant, a crystal of sweat still appeared on Funk’s forehead.

The Deputy Minister of the Imperial Economy knew the conduct of the God’s apostle in front of him. Speaking of which, he had always had a good personal relationship with the head of state. When he was a small press spokesman in the Nazi Party, he had established a relationship with Stead Friendship has arisen. He used to like this boy who is usually used to hiding in the dark, especially admiring the other party's quick thinking and extraordinary language appeal.

However, the status of the two parties is now very different from the past. Funk has changed from the original government minister to a deputy minister, and the previous friends have already stood on top of power. Within a few months, the Nazi Party’s Change now looks like a dream.

The courageous colleagues in the past have fallen behind, and the scale of the arrest even exceeded the cleaning of the Roma assault team in the past, and it was even more brutal in terms of brutality. In those days, dozens or even hundreds of people were convicted every day, and most of them were sentenced to death. Funk thought it might be more appropriate to use the term slaughter to describe the situation during that period.

The 50-year-old Deputy Minister of the Empire Economics has already given up a long time ago, short and sturdy, with a huge beer belly, looks like the standard Prussian businessman described in the satirical novel. He was originally a descendant of a merchant family. He was born in Trekner, East Prussia. When he was young, he studied at Humboldt University and Leipzig University in Berlin, focusing on law, philosophy, and economics.

In the last war, Funk had a short and painful experience in the army. He was finally dismissed by the army for physical reasons. After the war, he found an editing job in the then right-wing financial newspaper "Berlin Stock Exchange". Since then, he has been exposed to nationalist ideas and laid the political belief for the rest of his life.

When Hitler’s Nazi party stood out among a large group of chaotic right-wing parties, the passionate mustache leader made him feel bright, and every word of Hitler seemed to be in Funk’s heart, so he was determined Definitely resigned from the lucrative editorial work and joined the Nazi Party, which was still in the entrepreneurial stage.

Because of his previous work experience in a financial newspaper, Funk became a rare dual-talent in the party who knew both propaganda and economics. After working in the party for some time, Hitler also recognized his outstanding ability and began to place heavy responsibilities on it. He once served as the head of the Nazi National Enlightenment and Propaganda Department, which is now the position of Goebbels. In fact, his interest has always been placed on the economy. He has served as the chairman of the Nazi Economic Policy Committee for a period of time, and also served as the chief representative of the Nazi economy. Eventually, when Schacht resigned from the position of economic minister, he got what he wanted. He has always expected the German Minister of Economy.

In fact, he should be Hitler's, but under the guise of the difference, he formed a friendship with Reinhardt von Steide. When the two kings fought, he firmly chose to stand on Hitler's side, so when the victory was clear, he suffered a prison sentence. He was taken away from his home by the SS and in a special military prison Stayed under house arrest for three days.

These three days of darkness and horror gave him a new understanding of von Stade's ability, and he deeply realized that once he lost the leader's protection, he was not as good as a street vendor. At that time, von Stadler only needed to give an order to take away his power, honor, property, family and everything he had, including the career he has struggled for more than ten years. When Rosenborg was dragged away by the execution squad, he was locked in the first cell in the hallway, and diagonally opposite was Ribbentrop, who still remembers the beaten piece of the godfather of Nazis today. A face that doesn't look like it.

Fortunately, Xu Jun valued his personal ability more, plus the friendship he had formed before, Funk was considered to be the type of person who could be won. However, the Minister of Economy cannot continue. His set of Nazi wartime economic theories can be used to fool Hitler. Xu Jun is well aware of the disadvantages, but it is not Xu Jun to put a known talent on the side. Habit, so he treated Ribbentrop in the same way, downgrading Funk by half and retaining it as the Deputy Minister of Economy.

"My head, the data will not deceive people. According to the report we made this quarter, I and Minister Schacht have the same opinion. If we follow this plan, we can reduce the deficit to 30% within one year. "Funke reported to Xu Jun respectfully at the conference table.

"The empire's total economic volume has not changed, and the imbalance in revenue and expenditure continues to grow. We need to expand the scale of trade and control the output of some enterprises." Schacht added that the economic minister was sitting on Xu Jun's right hand at the moment On the first seat, opposite is the Minister of Labor of the Empire.

After Hitler's fall, Schacht was renamed by Xu Jun as the Minister of Empire Economy. In fact, at the beginning, he explicitly expressed his rejection.

He did not choose to resign as minister because of conflicts with Hitler’s ideas, because he found that the loopholes in the Nazi economy were getting bigger and bigger, and he would not be able to take it anymore, so this The shrewd old fox deliberately had a dispute with Hitler, and took the opportunity to decisively dump the black pot.

He is an expert in international finance and trade, and he also highly respects the state's interference in economic production. This kind of thinking seems contradictory, but it is very consistent with the actual situation of Germany at that time. Under the leadership of Schacht, the German economy experienced a blowout-like development. He used sophisticated financial means to obtain tens of billions of valuable foreign exchange from investors in various countries around the world.

But Hitler invested a lot of foreign exchange and loans in military production. Although it seems that a prosperous scene appeared in the German world in the short term, Schacht clearly realized that this temporary prosperity is actually just a deception. Illusion. Military production can indeed make a lot of profits in a short period of time. The problem is that arms production cannot be sustained without limits, and a country’s economy cannot be supported solely by weapons manufacturing. The military industry provides a large number of jobs, and all the products produced are paid by the state. The whole thing behind it is the national finances. Once the finances are in trouble, the entire industrial chain will collapse immediately. In fact, most of it comes from treasury bonds and overseas investments and loans. Sooner or later, the money will have to be paid.

Immediately, Germany’s four-year plan exposed Hitler’s intentions, and his goal was to build a society that would remain self-sufficient and closed to the world. What kind of situation will Germany have this kind of need in? It is undoubtedly a **** and cruel war. After Hitler broke out, once Germany was completely blocked, it can still support the goal of continuing to fight.

The Nazi economic policy would completely ruin the achievements that were previously difficult to obtain. Schacht was unable to object, so he decided to find a way out of this bottomless trap before the consequences occurred. In the end, Schacht succeeded Escaped, replacing Funk who was standing next to him.

In fact, Germany was close to bankruptcy in thirty-nine years, the fiscal deficit reached 20 billion marks, and the more than 30 billion national debts sold before were about to expire in 40 years, which also made Hitler disregard the military’s war preparations. Without real completion, he ignored the opposition of a group of people around him and took a risk to launch a series of foreign wars, because he desperately needed to use the loot to recover the economic shortfall.

Xu Jun invited Shakht to come back, which was a lot of effort. He wrote a letter to Shah in person. He first used a lot of data and intelligence to prove the crisis facing Germany, and persuaded Shah to persuade Shah. Hutt gave up his resentment against Hitler and the Nazis. Xu Jun claimed that if Schacht is willing to re-appoint as Minister of Economy, he guarantees that the other side will have a wider space than before to exert his ability, because in front of him is no longer a German Empire, but the entire European Union headed by Germany .

Xu Jun promised that Shakht could use his talents to the fullest extent. He would not intervene personally except for key national policies. Schacht will become the economic policy planner and leader of the European Union, and by then the whole world will be his stage, and the powerful imperial armed forces will be his solid backing.

Xu Jun also told him that Germany is preparing to establish a European bank with European countries, and Schacht will be appointed to take charge of this matter on behalf of Germany, and he will be appointed as the first president after its establishment.

Rather than being moved by the sincerity of the new head of state, it was better to say that he could not resist the temptations in the letter, so the Minister of Economy swallowed the bait thrown by Xu Jun without hesitation. Brilliantly carrying a leather bag to the office building of the Imperial Ministry of Economy.

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thank you all. (To be continued.)