The Rise of the Third Reich

On the morning of April 27, when the Allied and German forces on Newfoundland were preparing for the upcoming decisive battle, Hersmann, Chief of Staff of the German Wehrmacht, left his home in Zossen and boarded a Ford aircraft. The K-42 passenger plane flew to London, the capital of the United Kingdom.

His trip to London had been planned long before the Germans airborne to Newfoundland, but was delayed by a lot of military affairs. It was not until the "Authorization Letter for Dropping Atomic Bombs" was completed on the 26th that it became available. So on April 27, he arrived in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, together with Hermann Goering, Chairman of the European Communities Commission, Rudolf Hess, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, and others.

Hersman's visit to London was related to the Canadian campaign that had already begun - the European coalition's operations in Newfoundland and Labrador actually kicked off the "invasion" or "liberation" of Canada!

The key to whether this attack is an "invasion" or a "liberation" lies in London's position. If the Queen of England and her government still adhere to their previous position of not participating in the European and American war, then the European coalition forces will be the aggressors.

On the other hand, if Queen Elizabeth holds high the flag of liberating Canada, then the right of justice lies with the European coalition forces - after all, before the "fall" of the British mainland, the Canadian Dominion still obeyed the will of London, and the United States also recognized the British sovereignty over Canada at that time. sovereignty. To this day, neither King George VI, who is in exile in Canada, nor his government, nor the government and parliament of the Canadian Dominion, have ever declared that Canada is a sovereign and independent country.

According to them, the Dominion of Canada is still part of the British Empire!

In other words, the British Empire still has indisputable sovereignty over the Canadian Dominion. Even the U.S. government has never publicly questioned that the British mainland and the Canadian Dominion on both sides of the Atlantic belong to the same Britain.

Therefore, as long as the European coalition forces that are "invading" Canada have the support of the Queen of England and the government, they will be the legitimate "Liberation Army."

However, the Queen of England and her government also knew how important the bargaining chip in their hands was, so they had been vague before Hessmann, Goering, and Hess visited together.

"Ludwig, look below, on the Thames."

When the plane passed over the Thames, Hersman, who was concentrating with his eyes closed, was suddenly awakened by his personal secretary Natalie.

"What? This is..." Hersman looked out the window in the direction of Natalie's finger, who was sitting opposite him, and saw a very-looking ship moored on the Thames River near the London dock area. A mighty large ship.

"This is a battleship!" came the voice of Fatty Göring. The fat man was a pilot and had a pair of farsighted eyes, so he recognized the big ship floating on the Thames at a glance. "It's the King George V class." Oh my God, the British actually have a battleship!"

"It's the Prince of Wales." Hersman smiled and said, "This battleship was severely damaged by us in 1941, but it was not abandoned. Instead, it was towed back to London for overhaul and has been hidden in the dock. , it was re-launched a day ago... I think it was launched to welcome us. "

Of course, the news that the British secretly repaired the battleship Prince of Wales could not be hidden from the German intelligence agency. However, the German Wehrmacht did not interfere. After all, in Hersman's view, battleships were actually completely obsolete in an era of increasingly mature anti-ship missiles. The battleship Prince of Wales is not so much a powerful killing weapon as it is a mascot with strong symbolic significance.

It symbolizes the renaissance of the British Royal Navy! It also means that the British Empire has the power to rebuild the Royal Navy!

In fact, in the "Britain-European Community Armistice Treaty" concluded in 1943, the Germans did not prohibit the United Kingdom from possessing battleships and aircraft carriers, but only imposed some restrictions on the scale of the Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Air Force.

However, the British themselves have always been very guilty in rebuilding the navy. They dare not openly build up the navy. Instead, they are secretly repairing the "Prince of Wales" and building the "Elizabeth II" fleet that can carry jet aircraft. Aircraft carrier - This aircraft carrier was originally named "Bold". Construction started in October 1942, but was later shelved due to the surrender of the British mainland.

However, the Germans did not "forcefully buy" the aircraft carrier under construction, but allowed the British to continue secretly building it. After the British government's financial resources recovered slightly in 1944, the construction of the "Elizabeth II" resumed, and the angled deck design of the "Adolf Hitler" class aircraft carrier was also used as a reference.

According to the latest design plan, the full-load displacement of this class of aircraft carrier will exceed 50,000 tons, making it the world's third largest aircraft carrier (ranked by "class") after the Adolf Hitler class and the Midway class.

However, the "Elizabeth II" class aircraft carrier cannot remain ranked third in the world for long. Because at the beginning of 1945, the Japanese Empire, which was trapped in the continental war, exchanged the blueprints of the Adolf Hitler class on the condition of giving up the two Prussian-class ships under construction (built at the Petrograd Shipyard) - a country with extremely financial difficulties. The Japanese government (no matter how difficult it is, it must build an aircraft carrier, otherwise the shameless navy will not jump up? The navy is a great contributor, how can it not have the world's largest aircraft carrier?), decided to build on the Adolf Hitler-class aircraft carrier. Design and build the world's largest 80,000-ton super aircraft carrier to maintain its hegemony in the Pacific!

The Japanese tightened their belts to build super aircraft carriers in order to maintain their hegemony in the Pacific, and it was also a reward for the navy. As a de facto defeated country, Britain is now repairing battleships and building aircraft carriers, which seems to be a bit unwilling to admit defeat...

"The appearance of the Prince of Wales should be beneficial to our trip this time." Rudolf Hess, the minister who manages everything (his position is equivalent to that of the deputy prime minister), is a pro-British faction and has a good relationship with the British fascist leader Earl Walder Mosley. Naturally, he knows what the British are planning.

"They want to revive the Royal Navy," Hess said, "but they have always been afraid of our interference."

"Revive the Royal Navy?" Hessman sneered a few times, "The Royal Navy will not join the European Combined Fleet?"

Hess shrugged: "After all, they are British!"

The biggest difference between the British and the French, Germans, Poles and Russians is that they are cut off from Europe! A loose European Community is the limit they can accept, and the United States of Europe is unacceptable to them, at least not for now!

After all, from the map, the British Empire is still an incomparable large colonial empire, with land and population far exceeding the sum of Germany and the United States.

Therefore, the British Royal Navy did not join the European Joint Fleet like the French Navy and the Russian Navy, but maintained a small Royal Navy. Now, taking advantage of the opportunity of the European Allied Forces' expedition to Canada, the previously hidden Prince of Wales was released to make an appearance, which clearly wanted Germany to recognize that Britain had the power to revive the Royal Navy.

And Germany's recognition was of course conditional, the condition being that Britain supported the European Allied Forces' actions in Canada. Of course, the political arrangements after the European Allied Forces took over Canada were another game.

Hersman laughed: "Rudolf, you are right. It seems that Queen Elizabeth will agree to our request, and we can also give them a chance to revive the navy... a chance to dream. Maybe what Elizabeth and Friedrich need is just a dream."

Germany's request had long been notified to the British through diplomatic channels, that is, to borrow Britain's "status" over Canada, so that the European coalition forces can send troops in the name of expelling the United States and restoring sovereignty over Canada, and at the same time send British generals such as Marshal Harold Alexander to serve as the "joint commander" of the coalition ground forces.

The German Wehrmacht certainly would not really give the command of hundreds of thousands of expeditionary forces to Marshal Alexander, he just went there to hang a name. Now the actual commander of the Canadian (Newfoundland and Labrador) ground forces selected by the General Staff of the Wehrmacht is General Rommel, and his title is also "joint commander", which means that Rommel will fight side by side with Alexander!

However, this idea does not exist in the "Gauchburg Plan". Before the European Expeditionary Force successfully landed on the Labrador coast, no one even in the General Staff of the Wehrmacht knew about it. It was just a long-term plan agreed upon privately by Hessmann and Hitler to "liberate" Canada from the control of the United States after the success of the "Gauchburg Plan".

So the British were also very surprised after learning of the Germans' request (they had just learned that before the Germans landed on Newfoundland, the British did not know that the main attack direction of the European Allied Forces was actually Canada). The Queen and Prince Friedrich convened a royal meeting overnight and discussed for a long time. Finally, they decided to take out the Prince of Wales, which had been "hidden" for a long time, to try and see if it was possible to revive the Royal Navy.

In the eyes of the upper echelons of the British Empire, the tool to maintain their collapsing empire is the Royal Navy. Once the Royal Navy declines, there is no way to maintain the distant and vast colonies such as India, Canada, and Australia.

Once these colonies are lost, the British Empire will become an ordinary power in Europe. Therefore, reviving the Royal Navy has always been the dream of Queen Elizabeth's authorities-although the dreamer may be very clear that dreams are difficult to come true, the dream of pursuing the revival of the Royal Navy itself is a political correctness in the UK!