The Rise of the Third Reich

“Arise, you hungry and cold slave!

Arise, you suffering people all over the world!

The blood in my heart is already boiling.

Fight for the truth!

The old world is in ruins.

Slaves, get up, get up!

Don't say we have nothing,

We want to be the masters of the world..."

Amid the loud and resounding "Internationale", a closed-door meeting at the Paris Peace Conference was about to begin. Of course, the singers were not the representatives of various countries participating in the peace conference, but the crowd gathered outside the Palace of Versailles, a large number of whom were Chinese. They came to protest against the transfer of German rights and interests in Shandong to Japan at the peace conference. But more protesters were French, coming for the Russian Civil War and the Hungarian War.

Of course, these French working people are not here to support the French government’s intervention in Russia and oppression of Hungary. Otherwise, they would not be singing the Internationale. They were all from the anti-war French United Socialist Party, and the leader was a French member of parliament named Marcel Garcin.

Although Clemenceau and Bi Xun were extremely tough in shouting and killing at the peace conference, France has actually reached the point where it is a foreign power and a domestic power. France is not the United States, which only joined the world war in April 1917. The French people have endured the world war for four years and three months, and they are already extremely fed up. Before the United States entered the war, the anti-war movement in France was stronger than in Germany. If the peace-loving Woodrow Wilson had not led the United States to join the war, the peace of "no territory, no reparations" would have been realized in Western Europe.

Now, although the French will cede German land, they are willing to accept Germany's compensation. However, shouldering the obligation to dominate the European continent, to exterminate the Bolsheviks in Russia and Hungary, and to restore order in the old world is something that the vast majority of the French people are unwilling to undertake.

Because both Soviet Russia and Soviet Hungary look difficult to deal with!

Needless to say about the former, Soviet Russia got at least more than half of the legacy of the Russian Empire and claimed to have 3 million Red Army troops! Moreover, Russia is also the place where the Napoleonic Empire encountered nightmares in history. No Frenchman with a brain is willing to fight Moscow again. Therefore, the French troops who were sent to Russia are making all kinds of noises and refuse to fight properly.

Just a few days ago, the fighting enthusiasm of the Hungarian Red Army inspired French sailors stationed in Odessa - they launched an uprising against the war! Although they were suppressed in the end, they still lost the face of the French.

As for Hungary, I originally thought it was a soft persimmon. But when I pinched it, I realized that this persimmon was not soft at all! More than 200,000 troops from the four-nation coalition of Romania, the Czech Republic, Serbia and France rushed in aggressively. They fought for several months without taking Budapest, and they also fought countless guerrillas.

And this is not over yet. A week ago, a Hungarian Red Army force with about 100,000 people (actually not that many) raided the Chalduk Pass and invaded Romania in one fell swoop!

Then the Red Army fired a false shot outside Bucharest, the capital of Romania, which shocked the Romanian king and the headquarters into a cold sweat. They thought the Hungarian Red Army was coming to liberate Bucharest and establish the Romanian Soviet Republic!

So the Romanians desperately mobilized troops to return to support the capital. As a result, a bigger loophole was left, allowing the Hungarian Red Army to cross the Carpathian Mountains again along the Ort River (west of Bucharest) and counterattack back to the Romanian-occupied territory. of Transylvania.

With the cooperation of the guerrillas, the scattered Romanian troops (who were all retreating to Bucharest) were swept away, and Sibiu and Cluj were recovered, cutting off the retreat of the Romanian army that invaded Hungary. The railways and roads from Bucharest to Budapest were also the main supply lines for the four-nation coalition that invaded Hungary. At the same time, the main force of the Hungarian Red Army concentrated in Budapest also began to launch a counterattack, defeating the exhausted and panicked coalition forces.

When the news reached Paris, everyone knew that the invasion of Hungary had suffered heavy losses. It would be considered lucky if half of the more than 200,000-strong coalition forces escaped.

To completely subdue Hungary, I am afraid that more French troops will have to be mobilized for an expedition, and it seems that the situation will not be able to deal with the Hungarian Bolsheviks within a year or two. Most French people are unwilling to die in Hungary, which has nothing to do with them.

So after a few months of lull, the anti-war movement in France suddenly surged.

"Yes, we provided some of the weapons and equipment used by the Hungarian Red Army, but that was before the Compiègne Forest Agreement, when we and the Hungarians were allies. And Hungary at that time was not a Soviet Republic... "

"Yes, your information is correct. There are indeed some German retired soldiers who were hired by the Hungarian Bolsheviks. We admit this and are willing to shoulder the corresponding responsibilities, but you are not letting us take the responsibility now..."

Amidst the faint sound of the "Internationale", von Seeckt, the military representative of the German delegation, was explaining Germany's role in the Hungarian War to the leaders of Britain, France and the United States in a very sincere tone.

"Nonsense!" French Prime Minister Clemenceau said angrily, interrupting Sekter, "When did we stop letting you take responsibility?"

"You ask us to cut the army to 100,000, so there will be more unemployed officers and non-commissioned officers. They will not do anything else but fight. They have no jobs, cannot buy bread, cannot feed their families, and can only Go to Hungary to help the Bolsheviks fight..."

"And we're going to keep them all in the military, but you're going to put them out of work," Sekter said.

"Hmph, keep the 300,000 army, do you want to make a comeback?" Marshal Fuxi smiled. "it's out of the question!"

Seckert shook his head, looked at the French Prime Minister and French Marshal Foch, who were so angry that they almost jumped, and replied in standard French: "We lost Alsace and Lorraine, which are rich in iron ore and coal mines, and West Prussia. After losing Posen and the entire main fleet...how can we make a comeback? If you French people are not worried, we can just disarm as planned. However, those laid off officers and non-commissioned officers have to go abroad to work, but there is no other way. "

"You have nothing to do, but we French people have a way!" Marshal Foch shouted, "We will catch every German who goes to Hungary and hang them all!"

"Get up, hungry and cold slave..."

As if he was accompanying Marshal Foch, while he was speaking, the international singing outside suddenly became louder and spread into the conference hall, which was really frightening.

Von Seeckt whispered: "The singing outside reminds me of Germany in November 1918 and Russia in March 1917!"

"What did you say?" Clemenceau looked at von Seeckt fiercely.

However, the British and Americans present felt the same as von Seeckt. France now is really a bit like Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1918!

Von Seeckt said: "Mr. Chancellor, let's do this... Before the heroic French army destroys the Bolsheviks in Hungary, the German Army will temporarily remain at 300,000 men, and the General Staff will also be temporarily retained. At the same time, we will strictly Control the flow of materials and people to Hungary.”

"George, I think we can consider reducing the number by 100,000. How about temporarily retaining 200,000?" British Prime Minister Lloyd George quickly persuaded Clemenceau, "In addition, the Germans must recall all retired soldiers from Hungary. , all must be recalled within a month... In this way, the heroic French army will wipe out the Bolsheviks in Hungary by the end of the year at most."

Does this mean that the British will not go to Hungary? Clemenceau was stunned and did not speak.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson also echoed: "Yes, yes, that's it. But it's just 100,000 more iron rice bowls... In addition, the Allies can send a military supervision team to monitor the border between Germany and Austria. In this way The heroic French army will soon win in Hungary, and then let the Germans disarm."

In other words, Americans who are not very heroic will not go to Hungary to suffer. Americans are not the European hegemons anyway.

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