The Rise of the Third Reich

Both sides of the newly completed 50-kilometer east-west axis of Berlin were already filled with citizens wearing festive costumes and various old military uniforms. This east-west axis is one of the twin axes in Berlin's four-ring twin-axle transport network planned in Germania. It starts from Worcestermark in the western suburbs of Berlin and runs through Armystrasse, Adolf Hitlerplatz, Kaiserallee, Bismarck Strasse, Königsplatz, Berlin Technical College, Charlottenburg Strasse, Hirschmannplatz, Brandenburg Gate, and Bodhi. Unterstrasse, Frankfurter Tor and Frankfurter Strasse.

All of these roads have been widened and renovated, work that began in 1935 and was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second Time War. By 1944, before the armistice on the Eastern Front, construction started again, and a large number of "Russian migrant workers" were recruited to participate in the construction. With sufficient labor and mechanical equipment, the project progressed rapidly and was basically completed by May 1945. The widened road is spacious and smooth, with the width of the road exceeding 100 meters. On both sides of the road, evergreen trees with good growth have been transplanted, which looks extraordinary from a high position.

At the same time, the construction of Berlin's north-south axis project with a width of 120 meters is also intensifying. The two ends of this axis are the newly built Berlin North and South Railway Stations. In front of the South Station, a grand Triumphal Arch is planned to be built. This Arc de Triomphe was originally built to commemorate the First World War (it defeated the construction of the Arc de Triomphe, It’s really a bit thick-skinned), but now it is changed to commemorate the victory of World War II! According to the design blueprint, the Arc de Triomphe is 117 meters high and 170 meters wide. It will be engraved with the names of all European soldiers who died in World War I and World War II (as many as millions), and will be decorated with works by the famous sculptor Arnold Blake. of statue. After the outbreak of World War II, the Arc de Triomphe project was temporarily suspended and was not restarted until the armistice on the Eastern Front in 1944. Now the main body of the Arc de Triomphe has been completed, but the name-engraving project has not yet ended.

Where the east-west axis intersects, there is Berlin’s new urban center. According to the Germania Plan, Berlin’s urban area will be greatly expanded. The west of Berlin’s north-south axis is basically a new district. Here, the new Berlin will appear. The landmark building, the Great Hall of the People, will be more than 200 meters high and 250 meters in diameter, 16 times larger than St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. When completed, the Great Hall can accommodate 150,000 to 180,000 people, and will also become one of the world's largest The largest enclosed space.

Now that the construction of the Great Hall of the People has begun, thousands of workers from distant Russia are busy all day long, under the command of German engineers, adding bricks and mortar to the great miracle of National Socialism.

But today, on this day of victory in the world war, on this day of triumph for the people of all Europe, builders from Russia, together with Berlin citizens and people from various European countries working and studying in Berlin, gathered on the east-west axis of Berlin On both sides of the roads and in each square, with various moods, waiting for the victor's team and the arrival of a new thousand-year empire.

Zoya Kasmodemyanskaya, an exchange student from St. Petersburg State University, was also standing in front of the Great Hall of the People construction site with extremely complicated emotions. As an exchange student sent by St. Petersburg State University to Humboldt University Law School, she undoubtedly belongs to the future elite of Russia - everyone knows that Her Majesty the Queen does not trust officials of the former Soviet Union, and she also knows that the "old white men" who follow her "It has no great use except loyalty, and they don't understand the situation in the Soviet Union. Many people's thinking is still stuck in the old imperial era. Those who can truly serve her empire are the new generation of people like Zoya who understand the old Soviet Union and are educated in the new ideas of national socialism.

However, the split of the Russian motherland (the Soviet motherland) into two made her feel very painful. During the summer vacation of 1944, she went back to Moscow, which had just been "liberated", and found that it was almost an empty city. The area around the house where she used to live and the school where she used to attend were all empty and empty. It turns out that when the Bolsheviks evacuated Moscow, they took all the residents and soldiers in the city to Siberia and Central Asia, including Zoya's mother and brother... Of course, it is not ruled out that they were killed in the cruel war. !

On the one hand, he has a bright future, on the other hand, his relatives are separated and the country is divided. Naturally, Zoya and the "new Russians" like her have mixed feelings about the upcoming United States of Europe, with both expectations and helplessness.

The Brandenburg Gate east of the Great Hall of the People construction site is the center of the Victory Day celebrations. Five or six kilometers long viewing platforms have been erected in front of and on both sides of the Brandenburg Gate. In the middle are the European Community countries and the Roman Empire. , New Asbania, and the place where big figures from Japan, a friendly country, appeared. Most of them have already arrived. The representative of Japan is King Higashino Higashino. He is a royal army general, graduated from the French Army University, and can speak fluent French. Now he is standing next to French Prime Minister Darlan, Marshal Darlan, talking to Darlan in French about Japan's nuclear weapons development...

He is a core figure in the Japanese Army, and of course he knows how slow Japan's nuclear weapons development process is. Although the electromagnetic separation device provided by Germany is effective and can indeed extract high-abundance uranium-235. However, the refining efficiency is a bit low, and is measured in grams! Although in the past few months, Japan's "Ren Project" agency has spared no effort to build several sets of electromagnetic separation devices and consumed a lot of precious electricity, it has only refined 10 grams of weapons-grade uranium-235, and it is still It takes about 49,990 grams of high-abundance uranium-235 for the Japanese Empire to build an atomic bomb. According to the current progress, it will take about 2000 years. The electromagnetic separation device Hersman gave the Japanese was originally a tool for separating isotopes in the laboratory. , the output is calculated in grams, and it is not considered a tool for making atomic bombs in later generations.

Oh, if the Japanese can successfully use the electromagnetic separation method to collect uranium-235 that can make an atomic bomb, there is another condition, which is that the Chinese Red Army is willing to return to them the only uranium mine in Hwanghaido on the Korean Peninsula that is being mined by Japan... ...Otherwise, without uranium mines, Yoshio Nishina would not be able to build an atomic bomb even in 10,000 years.

However, the Japanese government has now decided to put its "nuclear support" hat on its shoulders first. The day after Germany used an atomic bomb on the battlefield, Yamamoto Isoroku's government publicly declared that Japan had found the correct way to make an atomic bomb. And production has already begun!

Isoroku Yamamoto hoped to frighten the three opponents of the United States, China and the Soviet Union with the atomic bombs that would only be available after about 2000, and win Japan some precious breathing time. In this way, the Japanese Empire could calmly digest the huge results achieved in the war.

However, it is not easy for Japan to digest their results. Because this world war not only destroyed the world hegemony of the British Empire, but also defeated U.S. imperialism. At the same time, it also destroyed a relatively free trade environment. A kind of barter trade, formulated by Germany before the war, without the goal of accumulating surpluses would become the main rule of international trade.

It is not a true barter, but refers to the overall balance of trade between countries (or economic communities), and international settlement is carried out with the goal of balance. In principle, deficits and surpluses are not allowed.

At the same time, the flow of capital between countries (or economic communities) is also subject to strict controls.

And this system is extremely detrimental to Japan!

A high-level trade delegation also arrived in Berlin with King Higashikaru Miyazaki. The purpose of Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto sending this delegation is to promote a trade agreement that is beneficial to both the United States of Europe and Japan - Yamamoto hopes that in the next 10 years, he can use the "Rubber Loan" and "Silk Loan" (that is, the first In the name of borrowing money and repaying it with rubber and silk), it borrowed at least 5 billion Euromarks from the European Community to introduce advanced technology and equipment.

However, such a very reasonable request was rejected by the European Community Commission. The reason turned out to be that the European Community was prepared to support rubber and silk production in India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, so it could not absorb up to 5 billion Euromarks in rubber and silk.

Although the two British empires of India and Pakistan have not yet restored peace, the British and Indian authorities have formulated long-term economic development plans. They will be Europe's raw material supply base and dumping market for goods.

In order for the people of India and Pakistan to have enough financial resources, they must support the industries there! Therefore, it is impossible for Japanese silk and Southeast Asian rubber to have a chance to compete fairly.

Under the guidance of state socialist and fascist economic theories, there is no such thing as free trade and fair competition among countries.

As for the export of technology and capital, there are also heavy controls. What Japan can obtain from the European Community is really very little.

It can be said that Japan now faces a worse international trade environment than before the war!

"Long live victory!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Long live the United States of Europe!"

"Hi! Hitler!"

When the figures of German Emperor Wilhelm III, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Imperial Marshal Hersmann, Roman Caesar Mussolini, Russian Empress Olga, British Queen Elizabeth II, French President Pétain and others appeared in front of people, In front of his eyes, the loudest cheers suddenly broke out around the Brandenburg Gate. Then, everyone on both sides of Berlin's east-west axis suddenly fell into madness.

Amidst the cheers of the people, the Wehrmacht, SS and other members of the European Community who had already gathered on the wide road in the western suburbs of Berlin on the Worstmark (the western starting point of Berlin's east-west axis) to participate in the victory parade The military parade square began to rumble forward to the sound of the majestic German military song "Hail Victory".

At the forefront is the phalanx of the German Wehrmacht paratroopers. Since the beginning of the World War, these elite soldiers known as the "Green Ghosts" have been the vanguard of the German Empire's conquests. Until the Battle of Newfoundland, known as the last battle of the World War, you can still see the heroic appearance of a large number of German paratroopers.

Lieutenant Brandt, who had just returned from the front and was still full of the smell of gunpowder, was now among these German paratroopers. Because of his outstanding performance on the island of Newfoundland, he received another shining blue Max Medal and was recommended to the Wehrmacht Air Force Officer School. He did not shirk this time, because the world war had such an outcome, and even he, a socialist who loved peace, freedom and democracy, had lost confidence in the prospect of the failure of National Socialism.

Maybe this empire will really exist for 1,000 years? Riding on a half-track armored personnel carrier, Brandt looked at the people holding swastika flags and cheering like crazy on both sides of the wide street, and suddenly a feeling of pride rose in his heart-he was also a contributor to this thousand-year empire!

On the third floor of the Berlin Royal Library on Unter den Linden, in a reading room close to the street, a group of special audiences were watching the German Victory Day parade.

They all wore slightly old military uniforms, not the uniforms of the German army or any of Germany's friendly countries, but American military uniforms. They are all American prisoners of war, but not ordinary prisoners of war, but senior prisoners of war living in the Belvedere concentration camp in Vienna.

Admiral Halsey, Lieutenant General Stilwell and Colonel LeMay are now in this room, standing by the window, staring blankly at the various German armored vehicles passing by, the heroic and proud Nazi soldiers standing on the half-track armored personnel carriers, and the various German war eagles whizzing through the sky. All people came to the same conclusion in their minds.

This is the victory of National Socialism and Fascism! This is probably the truth that the United States needs after the defeat!

At the same time, on the other side of the earth in Japan, it is already late at night on May 28, 1945.

However, Japanese Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto did not go to bed now, nor did he care about the German Victory Day Parade - the current Japanese Empire has not won yet!

He is now in the underground meeting room of the Japanese Prime Minister's official residence, waiting for the victory report from the Japanese Defense General Headquarters and the Navy. Because they knew in advance that the bombers from the United States, the Soviet Union and China would attack, all the Defense General Headquarters and the Navy have mobilized a large number of "Moonlight" night fighters, deployed at the airports of the Noto Peninsula and Niigata Prefecture, ready to intercept the invading bombers from the United States, the Soviet Union and China at any time.

The "Moonlight" fighter is a twin-engine, two-seat night fighter, which is improved from the Japanese Navy's Type 2 Land Reconnaissance. It has two 20mm cannons that can fire diagonally upwards. This is a special cannon layout invented by Lieutenant Colonel Kozono of the 251st Air Force of the Japanese Navy, which allows the aircraft to fire upwards in level flight. In normal air combat, this function is useless. However, it can help fighters with poor high-altitude performance attack long-range bombers that fly higher than themselves (if you want to die faster, you can also attack high-altitude fighters such as P47). It is the only weapon used by the Japanese Navy to deal with long-range bombers that can fly high, such as B-17.