The Rise of the Third Reich

"Churchill bomb vest? This is so ridiculous! Who would put on a vest filled with explosives and die with others? This kind of thing has no use at all. And why should it be named after me?"

At No. 10 Downing Street, Churchill, who was about to leave for Ajinsha Bay, Newfoundland, to meet with US President Roosevelt, received a report from MI6 on Afghanistan. The report mentioned a strange drug named after his surname. Weapons - Churchill already knew about MI6's secret cooperation with German agents and American agents in Afghanistan.

Of course the British Prime Minister also agreed to this kind of cooperation. After all, Britain and the United States have the same interests in Afghanistan and they all want to cheat the enemy, so there is nothing they cannot cooperate with. Moreover, the Soviet Union was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Even if Britain and Germany colluded to cause harm, it would be difficult to stop the Red Army from liberating Afghanistan.

Kandahar was captured by the Soviet Red Army on April 23, and Kabul fell within a few days. The Royal Government of Afghanistan had moved to the dangerous Panjish Valley a few days ago, and was prepared to fight a protracted war there for a long time. .

Under such circumstances, if Britain and the United States do not hold their noses in cooperation, then the day will not be too far when red flags are planted all over Afghanistan.

"Prime Minister, this was not named by us, but by the Germans..." General Dill, the Imperial Chief of Staff, shook his head in confusion, "I really don't know how the Germans came up with such a crazy weapon?"

"That's because they know that the war will eventually end with Germany's disastrous defeat!" Churchill said angrily. "If Hitler and Hessmann don't want to go to the gallows, they will have to put on these bomb vests for the last resistance. "

Fatty Qiu paused and then asked, "Is there any other important news?"

Foreign Minister Eden frowned and reported, "The new Roman Pope has been elected. He is the former Austrian Cardinal Theodore Inzenier, known as Mark II."

"We already knew it was him," Churchill snorted. "Did he also issue an encyclical against us?"

"Not yet, but it will be released sooner or later." Aiden sighed.

Mark II was clearly a pope supported by Germany and had always been pro-Nazi. Now of course he wanted to find fault with the British Empire. And British planes did kill the last pope...

Eden said: "Prime Minister, it is estimated that after the papal encyclical is issued, Spain will take advantage of the situation and declare war on us."

Spain is a country with strong Catholic influence. The British who sent bombers to drop bombs to kill the Pope are undoubtedly the anti-Christ devil in the eyes of devout Spanish Catholic believers! Therefore, after the martyrdom of Pius XII (being killed by a devil's bomb is of course a martyrdom, and he will be canonized as a saint in a while), all pro-British factions in Spain did not dare to speak out, otherwise there would be devil's accomplices and Bolsheviks. Suspect!

Therefore, there is no domestic obstacle for Franco to lead Spain to declare war on Britain, and he now believes that Germany and Italy will win.

“We don’t have to wait for them to declare war,” Churchill hummed. “We break off relations with Franco’s government and recognize Juan Negrín’s government-in-exile of the Spanish Republic.”

The Spanish Republic's government-in-exile was the republican faction in the Spanish Civil War. After the failure of the civil war, they fled to France, and then fled to Mexico City after France surrendered.

Churchill continued: "In this way we can help the Spanish government in exile to regain the Canary Islands."

The United Kingdom has now occupied the Madeira Islands with the acquiescence of the Portuguese government, but Spain has put up a posture to defend the Canary Islands, deploying aircraft and a large number of ground forces there, and it does not seem to be easy to take them down. Therefore, after the British occupied the Madeira Islands, they did not immediately move to the Canary Islands. Instead, they mobilized their troops to prepare for a landing war.

By late May 1941, the British army had assembled an infantry division in the Madeira Islands, and also deployed a large number of Wellington bombers and Bristol 'Beaufort' torpedo bombers and ranges in the Madeira Islands. The larger P-51 fighter jet. We already have the ability to attack the Canary Islands, now we just need an excuse.

In addition, the British army's defense on the Gibraltar Peninsula has also been strengthened a lot compared to March. The number of defenders has exceeded 30,000, and many 7.2-inch howitzers (183mm) and 25-pound field guns (87.6mm) that can be deployed on a mobile basis have been added. mm).

"How is the situation in Crete and Tobruk?" Churchill frowned and asked again.

"Nothing has changed yet," Admiral Dill replied, "but there are rumors that the Greek royal family is secretly contacting Germany to prepare for surrender. If they surrender, the Greek army on Crete may surrender together... "

Crete and the fortress of Tobruk were now two isolated strongholds that were almost isolated, and there was no other way for the British to get there except to venture there by submarine. Naturally, there was no talk of reinforcements. We could only watch as the British troops there became weaker and weaker due to the siege, and finally became prisoners of Germany and Italy.

"Make a plan to disarm the Greek forces on Crete when the Greeks surrender."

After issuing this seemingly difficult order, British Prime Minister Churchill left his official residence and boarded the train to Liverpool. He will transfer to the battleship "Prince of Wales" at the Port of Liverpool and head to Ajinsha Bay on the other side of the Atlantic to have a historic meeting with US President Roosevelt.

Although the British Prime Minister took a powerful battleship to Ajinsha Bay, which was surrounded by a gray and desolate scene, this long-term meeting took place on a treaty cruiser "Ogu" with a standard displacement of less than 10,000 tons. "Star".

Because the President of the United States "Roosevelt" was riding on this slender American heavy cruiser.

The Prime Minister of the British Empire must first go to the "Augusta" to meet the President of the United States, and then Roosevelt returns to the "Prince of Wales". This itinerary seems to have shown that the status between Britain and the United States is completely different from that of the last world war.

At 11 a.m. on June 1, Churchill, accompanied by First Sea Lord Marshal Pound, boarded the "Augusta". Roosevelt, supported by his son James Roosevelt, stood on the deck of the heavy cruiser, looking tall and majestic. Roosevelt shook hands with the chubby British prime minister, who was a head shorter than him, in front of a crowd of reporters. The British Prime Minister was wearing a blue navy uniform. He bent his back and looked up at Roosevelt solemnly and happily. He did not look like a number one person. So much so that the reporters who took pictures of them couldn't help but think of the word "changing of the guard" in their minds.

The concept of "changing of the guard" is exactly what President Roosevelt wanted to convey to the American people through the meeting at Ajinsha Bay - now the United States, not Germany, will lead the world instead of Britain!

After the reporters' photography work ended, the standing President of the United States immediately returned to his original appearance as a cripple, got into a wheelchair, and was pushed by his son to leave the back deck with Churchill.

The formal talks will be held in the officer's lounge of the "Augusta", and the core content of the talks is only one, which is the United States' participation in the war!

If the United States, the candidate world hegemon, wants to "take office", it will inevitably have a bloody war, otherwise the world will be ruled by Germany. As the second largest economy in the world, the United States will not have a good life in the future.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I think you know very well that without the Soviet Union's participation in the war, we would not be able to defeat Germany."

After the pleasantries and flattery between the two sides, the US president got straight to the point and talked about the important role of the Soviet Union.

Roosevelt went on to tell Churchill, "I also invited Stalin, but he was not willing to come and discuss with us the issue of defeating Germany. In fact, he ignored me at all."

Unlike the situation during the "Ajinsha Bay Meeting" in history, the Soviet-German war has not yet broken out. Moreover, Germany and Italy also won the Mediterranean battle and gained control of the oil-producing areas in the Middle East!

So now the United States and Britain are begging the Soviet Union, not the Soviet Union begging the United States for help.

"The initiative is in Stalin's hands!" Churchill said while puffing on his cigar, "But without Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union would not be able to defeat Germany." He emphasized his tone, "If Britain loses India now, then Britain will support compromise with Germany. People will become the majority.”

Roosevelt nodded, he understood Churchill's difficulties. Although Churchill was determined to fight to the end, the British people may not have such ideas. Once Britain is sure that it will lose its world empire, they will have no morale to continue fighting.

"Okay, the Soviet Union cannot invade India! We will clearly convey this opinion to the Soviet Union." Roosevelt nodded and said, "If Stalin insists on having his own way, then he will have to face the Germans alone in the near future."

He paused, and then said: "Stalin asked us, the United States, to join the war first, and then the Soviet Union would find an opportunity to join."

"So are you ready to join?" Churchill asked immediately. "Mr. President, you know that the Germans will soon launch a new offensive at sea... If we cannot win, the next battle will be the defense of the homeland. If you cannot join by then, then I, the Prime Minister, will It’s possible that I won’t be able to do it anymore!”

Britain is an island country and has been founded on the navy since ancient times. If the Royal Navy really kneels down, then the morale of the British people will collapse. How can they still have the courage to fight against the Nazi and fascist war machines alone?

Roosevelt nodded and said: "I am working hard to push the United States to enter the war, but it will not be easy...All I can do at the moment is to provoke our enemies and let them provoke the conflict first. This is why I came to Ajinsha Bay Purpose."

"President, what are you going to do?"

"I prepared a Declaration, a Declaration that would outrage the Germans," Roosevelt said.