The Rise of the Third Reich

While Tojo Hideki and Oshima Hiro were talking, Japanese Foreign Minister Aoi Shigemitsu's brows were frowning tightly, as if he was thinking hard about something.

After hearing the Prime Minister's question, Shigemitsu Aoi responded, but did not answer. Instead, he asked Tojo Hideki a question: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, how many major powers do you think there are in the world today? Who is the most powerful, and who is the most powerful?" The weakest one again?”

"Oh?" Tojo Hideki was stunned, and then replied, "Now the Soviet Union is finished and can't be considered a great power. Britain and France were also defeated by Germany and are no longer as prosperous as they used to be. In today's world, we can still be called a great power. Now, there are only Germany, the United States, Rome, and our Empire of Japan! As for strength... Germany is of course the strongest at the moment, followed by the United States, followed by the Empire, and Rome is the weakest."

Hideki Tojo is still somewhat self-aware now and knows that he cannot defeat the Americans.

"What about the future?" Shigemitsu Aoi asked again.

Tojo said: "In the future, we, the Japanese Empire, will naturally lead the world! Now that the Soviet Union has been defeated, the vast lands of the Far East and the East Asian continent have been allowed to be taken by Japan. The United States will surrender again, and the Southwest Pacific will also be the focus of our Imperial Navy's navy. The Inland Sea. The Nanyang Islands and Indochina are all colonial lands of our Empire. The land of Australia and New Zealand will also depend on the survival of our Empire. It only takes 20 years of hard work by hundreds of millions of people, and the Empire of Japan will finally be strong. At the top of the world, even Germany can only be ranked second.”

Aoi Shigemitsu seemed to disagree with Tojo's words, and just smiled and shook her head. Tojo didn't mean to blame, he just smiled: "Shige-kun, don't you believe that the empire can defeat Germany in the future?"

"No." Shigemitsu Aoi said, "The empire has laid the foundation for eternity, and its future will be limitless. There is no doubt that it will be at the top of the world. But it is difficult for Germany to become the second most powerful country in the world."

Tojo nodded and said: "That's right. The United States will be defeated, but the foundation is still there. Future recovery is inevitable. Germany seems to be only ranked third."

Shigemitsu Aoi still shook his head, "The third one is also difficult."

"What? Is it difficult to be ranked third?" Hiroshi Oshima, a German fan, couldn't bear to hear it. "Is Germany still inferior to Italy?"

"It's not that it's not as good as Italy," Shigemitsu Aoi said with a smile, "it's that it's not as good as the Roman Empire!"

"Not as good as the Roman Empire?"

"Yes!" Shigemitsu Aoi said, "The future development of a country depends on many factors such as resources, territory, population, and surrounding areas. Among the four major powers today, Japan is the most advantageous, so its future is limitless. The situation in Germany is the worst. Even if Ukraine and Belarus are included, Germany's territory is only about 2 million square kilometers, far less than the Roman Empire, which has more than 7 million square kilometers of fertile land. The land is small and the resources are naturally not as good as Rome.

Moreover, to the south of Rome, there was mostly "ownerless land" in Africa, which could be expanded at will, and it was unknown whether the country would have tens of millions of territories in the future. Around Germany, there are many great powers. Britain, France, Russia and Germany all have feuds with each other. It is inevitable that there will be another peak in the future. As for the population, although Germany claims to be 100 million, the number of Germanic people is only 70 to 80 million, and there are no colonial slaves to drive it. The decline in the future is conceivable. "

"But what about Germany and the European Community?" said Hiroshi Oshima who was standing next to him.

"Haha," Shigemitsu Aoi just smiled contemptuously, "Britain, France, Russia and other countries are just being coerced by Germany. If they act in vain, the European community will inevitably fall apart in the future."

This time even Oshima Hiroshi did not speak for Germany, because he knew the virtues of Europeans too well. We have been building nation-states for hundreds of years, how can we integrate them so easily? Now Britain, France and Russia are just frightened by the Germans, and they are also facing an economic crisis of the imminent collapse of their colonial empires. They had no choice but to unite with Germany in order to get out of the predicament.

If Germany's European Community cannot bring a way out for everyone, and Germany's military power will decline in the future, it is entirely possible that the European Community will fall apart.

Germany, which has lost the European Community, is just a European regional power covering 2 million square kilometers, surrounded by Britain, France, and Russia (Rome). It is not at all an intercontinental power like Great Japan, Great America, and Great Rome. Therefore, it is normal to rank at the bottom among the four major powers in the future.

Tojo Hideki nodded, "It seems that the Imperial Kingdom is the real winner of this world war!"

"Exactly!" Shigemitsu Aoi smiled and said: "The problem the empire faces now is how to end the war successfully and delineate a sphere of influence for the empire to grow and develop in the next few decades. As long as it can win decades of stable development At that time, the empire would dominate the world and it would become inevitable. Therefore, there was no need to quarrel with Germany over the issue of Australia and New Zealand. It was very far away from Japan and was different from the Soviet Far East... If Germany wanted to move in, let them. They're ready."

Shigemitsu Aoi talked a lot in roundabout ways, and it turned out that she wanted to persuade Tojo Hideki to make concessions to Germany on the Australia-New Zealand issue.

"Shige-kun is right," Oshima Hiroya agreed with Shigemitsu Aoi. "The Far East is part of the Imperial Kingdom's absolute defense circle and must be captured. And Australia and New Zealand...will definitely be the Imperial Kingdom's backyard in the future!"

The Soviet Far East was like an abandoned child to Germany, but it was a must-win for Japan. If the Far East is taken back by Queen Olga for various reasons, and Russia and Germany do not turn against each other in the future, Japan will be in big trouble.

As long as Germany deploys hundreds of jet bombers in Vladivostok that Japan cannot intercept, His Majesty's life will be under threat from the Germans at any time, not to mention the nuclear fission bombs that the Germans are developing and are said to be infinitely powerful. It was throwing sarin gas bombs (Germany disclosed sarin gas bombs after Japan used bacterial weapons against the United States). Even His Majesty the Emperor couldn't stand it...

Therefore, the Soviet Far East is a must-win, while Australia and New Zealand are disposable to Japan.

Seeing Tojo Hideki's silence, Oshima Hiro reminded him: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, if you can exchange your support for Germany's entry into Australia and New Zealand in exchange for Germany's acquiescence in our country's invasion of the Far East, it will be a very good deal."

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"Good news, Japan and Rome have accepted our peace proposal in principle!"

On May 20, in the Cabinet Conference Room of the White House, President Roosevelt, who was sitting in a wheelchair, showed a rare smile on his face and informed everyone in the conference room of the good news... Of course, not everyone thought this was the case. Good news.

"Mr. President, are we really going to let the Japanese go like this?" General William Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff (equivalent to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), seemed very unhappy. "These Japanese devils have killed many of us. Really?" a lot of!"

Of course, many American officers and soldiers were killed by the Japanese. From the First Hawaii War to the present, Americans have successively lost about 200,000 officers and soldiers on the Pacific battlefield, of which more than 100,000 were killed. However, William Leahy is not talking about these American soldiers who died on the battlefield, but the American prisoners of war and American civilians who were killed by the Japanese!

It turned out that during the U.S. military's capture of Niihau Island, the attacking U.S. forces also discovered something previously unknown - after the Japanese occupied the Hawaiian Islands, they put all the U.S. officers, soldiers and civilians they captured into concentration camps. Moreover, they are forced to perform high-intensity physical labor without providing necessary food and medical care.

Therefore, in the past two years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died in various concentration camps on the Hawaiian Islands.

Some of them are buried on Niihau Island! The US military discovered these concentration camps during the capture of Niihau Island, and also dug out many corpse pits... Some of the corpses were still dead, and some were the corpses of women!

And a considerable number of these Americans who were tortured and killed by the Japanese were family members of the U.S. Navy and captured naval officers and soldiers who were trapped in the Hawaiian Islands!

"I know that the Navy is unwilling to let the Japanese go," Roosevelt glanced at Leahy, who was full of indignation. "Actually, I don't want to do it, but we must concentrate our efforts on Germany...The Soviet Union is about to fail now, leaving We are running out of time."

"Mr. President," Admiral Leahy shook his head, "it will be difficult for us to defeat the Germans in the Atlantic. Maybe we should make peace with Germany and then concentrate on dealing with Japan."

Americans with any sense now know that it is impossible for the United States to win in both the Atlantic and the Pacific at the same time, so it can only concentrate its efforts on one side.

However, most Americans, including William Leahy, advocated attacking Japan because the Japanese looked more hateful and easier to fight.

Roosevelt lit a Camel cigarette at this time, took a puff, then shook his head and said: "General, in fact, I have not thought about defeating Germany, and it seems unrealistic now. Look at the Germans in the Soviet Union With their rampant performance and looking at the situation on Niihau, everyone knows we can’t beat them.”

In this time and space of 1939, the Japanese Army also competed with the Soviet Union. But the Japanese, who were very capable in fighting on the Hawaiian Islands, were no match for the Soviet army. The Soviet army, which was beating the Japanese army, met the German army and became the target of being beaten.

Therefore, it is not difficult to draw the conclusion that the US military is inferior to the Japanese army, the Japanese army is inferior to the Soviet army, and the Soviet army is inferior to the German army. Compared with the US military and the German army...the gap is not even a little bit! The battle between Germany and Germany in the Battle of England further illustrates this point. The US military was beaten to the point where it could not even find the north.

"Then why don't we make peace with Germany?" William Leahy asked.

Roosevelt shook his head and explained with a wry smile: "We are making peace with Germany... I am sincere. As long as Germany agrees to withdraw from South America on the surface, we can tolerate the existence of a pro-German and Italian Argentina. And Australia and New Zealand can also be handed over to the European Community."

"Then why do we still need to negotiate with Japan?" William Leahy looked at Roosevelt and asked puzzledly, "Could the Germans still reject such a decent peace?"