The Rise of the Third Reich

A MaroszekWZ35 anti-tank rifle produced in Poland has been set up at the suite window of the Europa Hotel in the center of Prague. The slender barrel has been pointed at the intersection of the main road - this is a road full of cars. But ordinary cars don't need to be shot with anti-tank rifles. This powerful and hard-to-get anti-tank gun is designed to deal with Skoda's custom-made bulletproof sedans. This kind of car is not an ordinary commodity produced on a mass scale, but a luxury product produced in small quantities for the use of the big shots. There are less than 10 of them in Prague, one of which belongs to Masaryk, the former president of Czechoslovakia who just stepped down.

Today the former president will ride in his bulletproof car to a court in central Prague, where he will give a speech calling on the Czechoslovak people to unite and crush the conspiracy of the German separatists - not that the old president is Wisdom, but all the bad things in Czechoslovakia were done by the Germans!

They are so annoying and do all kinds of evil! Before 1931, they were thieves, liars, beggars and prostitutes from the mountains... They were the lower classes in Prague, qualified only for menial jobs. And after 1931, these people became madmen again, imagining that their forever lost empire would rise again and once again turn Czechoslovakia into a colony ruled by the Germans!

Now, they are inciting ignorant Slovaks to cause trouble in an attempt to turn Czechoslovakia from a united republic into a loose federation... In this way, the 3.5 million Sudeten Germans will also have the right to organize a free state.

"Son, you are not needed here in Prague. You will return to London tomorrow." Masaryk, who was leaning on a cane, said, "The Slovaks are not a big deal. The real problem is the Germans in the Sudetenland... The Germans are the whole of Europe. The source of evil. The same is true for Czechoslovakia! I mean to expel them all, leave the land of Czechoslovakia and go to Germany.”

"Father, it's not 1919 anymore!" Jan Masaryk shook his head, "They have really risen and become a powerful country."

"So what?" Masaryk snorted, "Do they dare to come to Czechoslovakia to run wild? We are not weak, and we also have France, Poland, Yugoslavia and Romania."

Czechoslovakia had the so-called "Iron Triangle Alliance" with France and Poland, and also formed alliances with Yugoslavia and Romania, forming the so-called "Little Entente". However, Poland is now missing from the "iron triangle", and Romania and Yugoslavia in the "Little Agreement" are unreliable. And the German Empire is the same every year, and its national power is getting stronger and stronger...

Jan Masaryk shook his head. Just as he was about to say something to his father, the car suddenly shook, as if it had been hit by something, and then several loud "bang bang bang" sounds were heard. Jan Masaryk's head seemed to have hit something, and he felt like stars were shooting out of his eyes, and there were bursts of sharp pain on his forehead. It took a while to realize - someone was shooting at the car!

He quickly turned around and looked to the side, only to see that most of his father's body was stained red with blood. His eyes and mouth were wide open, as if he wanted to shout, but no sound came out...

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Paris, Palais Matignon. French Prime Minister Albert Salo, who had just taken office, suddenly felt that the sky was falling. In February, something big happened in Spain - the Left Front supported by the Third International came to power.

It is very likely that the Spanish Republic will become a socialist country of the Third International type - and become a member of the socialist camp!

Germany, another major neighbor of France, now claims to be national socialist and is also a member of the socialist camp!

France is now about to be surrounded by socialism, although there are many socialists in France. For example, the Radical Socialist Party of Prime Minister Albert Salo also claims to be socialist. But the mainstream socialism in France is not the Third International system, nor the National Socialist International system, but the Second International system. Although they both share the surname She, it goes without saying what the relationship between the two factions is...

But I’m afraid it’s not feasible for France to interfere in the Spanish revolution, not only because the French people don’t want to fight, but also because the various leftists in France are trying to prevent French “fascism” – in fact, they are not the same group as Hitler. Rather, they were French radical nationalists who were opposed to Germany—they had seized power and were forming a coalition of parties called the Popular Front, of which the French Bolshevik Party would also be a member.

In other words, the French Socialists of the Second International (Our Lady of the White Left) and the Bolsheviks of the Third International united in the name of opposing fascism to jointly suppress French nationalists - in fact, Pétain, People like Weygand, Reynaud and de Gaulle.

Constrained by the Bolsheviks within the "Popular Front", the French government did not know how to deal with the chaos in Spain, and there was new chaos in Czechoslovakia in Central Europe.

The Slovaks are clamoring for autonomy - this is no small matter. The Slovaks are the main ethnic component of Czechoslovakia! If they became autonomous, what about the Germans, Poles, Hungarians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia? Do we also need autonomy?

If everything becomes autonomous, how much territory will the Czechs still have? Can that little territory still support an independent military power?

What makes the French Prime Minister even more troubled is that Czechoslovakia's "Father of the Founding" Masaryk was actually hinted to when he went to the Prague City Court a few days ago - he was shot to death with an anti-tank rifle in a bulletproof car!

And this assassination incident suddenly turned into an uproar!

Czechoslovak President Benes declared a state of emergency on the day Masaryk was killed, ordered the recruitment of 400,000 reservists, and launched a purge of the army, dismissing thousands of Slovak officers and non-commissioned officers. position.

At the same time, President Benes also ordered the army to march into the Sudetenland area where Germans gathered, and declared martial law.

Moreover, the Czechoslovak government also believed that the assassination of Masaryk was related to the Sudetenland German Party and announced the ban on the party. Such behavior was actually a common practice in Czechoslovakia. Whenever there were internal problems, the Germans would be pushed out. Be the culprit.

But this time, the Czechoslovak government's actions immediately met with a strong reaction from Germany!

On the day when German President Ludendorff banned the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia, he issued a first-phase plan to expand the army to 1.5 million troops within a month!

At the same time, a large number of German troops entered the border area close to Czechoslovakia, and the Luftwaffe's fighter jets and reconnaissance aircraft also began frequent cross-border reconnaissance, with the intention of fighting Czechoslovakia for the "Sudeten brothers".

The matter is not over here yet, just when Germany and Czechoslovakia are at war with each other. An organization called the "Slovak People's Front" publicly claimed responsibility for the assassination of Masaryk.

And this organization is a guerrilla group affiliated with the Hungarian Bolshevik Party and the Slovak Bolshevik Party!

In other words, Masaryk's death was indirectly related to the Soviet Union and had nothing to do with the Sudeten German Party. They were wrongly accused.

Just when the Bolsheviks stood up to take the blame, Conrad Hanlein, the leader of the Sudeten German Party, and Father Andrei Hlinka, the leader of the Slovak Catholic People's Party, ran to Geneva, Switzerland, crying against the Germans and Slovakia to the League of Nations. The ethnic group has long been brutally oppressed by the Czechs!

Moreover, these two men also accused the Czechs of deceiving the Allies in 1919 - the Czechs and Slovaks were not the same nation at all! So Czechoslovakia is not a nation-state, but a multi-ethnic country!

Non-Czechs, who account for more than 60% of the population (not that much), are now being exploited and oppressed by the Czechs, and their situation is even more miserable than that in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A few days later, representatives of Hungarians, Ukrainians and Poles in Czechoslovakia also came to Geneva to complain and cry. Newspapers in Britain and France are full of all kinds of evil deeds of Czechs.

"Mr. Chancellor, the German ambassador-at-large, Mr. Ribbentrop, has arrived."

The secretary of the French Prime Minister led a middle-aged man in his early forties who looked a little frivolous into the office.

"Mr. Chancellor," Ribbentrop's French was very good. He went straight to the subject without saying any pleasantries, "Our country's Chancellor Hitler sent me to Paris to convey to you his opinions on the 'Czechoslovak question.' He believes that the problem should be solved comprehensively within the framework of the League of Nations.”

"Solve the problem completely?" The French Prime Minister seemed a little confused.

Ribbentrop said: "The Czechoslovak issue is mainly an ethnic issue, that is, whether Czechoslovakia is a nation-state. If not, then whether the various ethnic groups in Czechoslovakia have the right to self-government and whether they can secede from Czechoslovakia through national self-determination. Chancellor Hitler’s opinion is to form a League of Nations investigation team to conduct a comprehensive investigation into Czechoslovakia’s internal ethnic problems! Then based on the investigation results, a solution to the Czechoslovakia problem will be decided.”

"Send a League of Nations investigation team?" The French Prime Minister thought for a while and felt that this was indeed a solution to the problem. "So, does Chancellor Hitler have any opinion on the composition of the investigation team?"

"One representative from each of the permanent members of the Executive Yuan can participate." Ribbentrop said with a smile. "The entire investigation process can be made public to journalists from various countries... In fact, the whole of Europe knows that the Slovaks and Czechs have no They are not the same nation, their language, culture and even their degree of belief in Christ are completely different.”