290. Chapter 290 290 Berlin
This is indeed a worrying choice. On the one hand, Germany's expansion in Europe made the United States restless, and on the other hand, Germany's every move in Asia is helping the United States a lot. However, Roosevelt always believed that Europe is the foundation of the interests of the United States, so he was more inclined to help Britain turn Germany back to its original form.
However, because Congress dragged him down, he could not find any other good way for a while. He could only continue to watch the changes in Europe, hoping that Britain and France could hold back the pace and give the United States time to deal with it.
Roosevelt is in a very conflicted mood now. He hopes that Germany can hurt the British in one breath, so that the United States or the Lease Act he implemented can be accepted by the British, so that the United States can get the benefits they have always dreamed of without bloodshed. On the other hand, he does not really want the Germans to expand quickly, and he is afraid that Germany will win the entire war before the United States can react.
So Roosevelt had to use his personal influence to sell 400 American fighters to the UK in one go. These 400 American main fighter jets P-36 are the fighters that are now mass-produced in the world that are closest to the performance of the German foreign trade me-109c fighter.
This fighter, which was designed intensified because the Me-109a fighter emerged in the Spanish Civil War, has a speed of 480 kilometers per hour, which is very close to the castrated version of the German export Me-109c fighter. Although there is still a gap in some major performance, it can at least bring the gap between the two sides to the level of "can fight one".
In order to obtain these advanced fighter jets to defend local airspace, the UK had to take out a large amount of foreign exchange to pay the scary bill. Of course, it is even more ironic that the UK actually obtained 20 me-109c fighter jets in batches from Spain, Finland and other places, and also changed the painting and equipped a flight squadron.
Such efforts were so hard to regain air supremacy from the Luftwaffe. Of course, this attempt failed in the end. During the fierce air battle for several days, the Luftwaffe became more and more brave and shot down various British Air Force fighters, including Fearless, P-36 and Me-109c. The United Kingdom lost a total of 410 fighters.
This also forced the British Air Force to find more powerful weapons. They selected a super fighter that was still in the design stage. This fighter was named Hurricane by the British. At their request, the new Hurricane fighter had a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour and was equipped with large-caliber cannons. The UK has even begun to deploy production lines in Canada and the country at the same time to prepare for the production of such more powerful fighter jets.
Of course, the United States was not idle either. They invested their own designers and finally designed the famous P-40 fighter in history in advance. However, this fighter is still on the drawings and cannot be put into production immediately like a hurricane.
Acardo has brought new changes to the world, and engineers and scientists from all over the world have also provided their motherland with the most advanced science and technology in a more cruel environment. For example, the new aircraft carrier in the UK has begun to be produced, and some non-main superstructures have adopted the German segmented construction method. This method has been fully experimented in the United States, and it is believed that mass production will be started soon.
Of course, while the whole world was trying to catch up with German technology, the Germans were not idle. At the weapons test site in the suburbs of Berlin, 20 German helicopters took off to the air and demonstrated how to use helicopters to quickly deploy mountain troops to several generals of the German Wehrmacht logistics department.
All the generals present were stunned by the excellent performance of this new weapon. 20 helicopters deployed 80 fully armed German mountain soldiers to the target area 10 kilometers away in one breath, and lifted 10 large-caliber mortars and more than 4 tons of combat supplies. All this took only one hour. In the past, mules and horses were transported, and these troops would take at least one morning to complete the combat deployment.
Amid the applause, the German logistics forces announced the purchase of 2,000 such helicopters and subsequent aircraft models, and customized safer and improved models for key personnel such as the German head of state and prime minister as candidate transport for short-distance rapid transfers.
Of course, more confidential experiments were conducted in mountainous areas. The new German weapon "rocket" has successfully conducted short-distance flight experiments. This new weapon that changes the flight trajectory according to radio instructions to attack targets was named "missiles", which is the conjunction of guiding missiles.
The US's hypocritical disobedience made the German government quite dissatisfied, but given that they now have very close secret cooperation with the United States, they can only leave nothing to the US's fence-making matter. For example, after the beginning of World War II, the US still left a large part of the Middle East oil export share for Germany's ally Italy.
This obvious deal left Britain helpless. First, because the navy suffered successive defeats, the British government drew the Mediterranean fleet, which led to the British military's maritime strength in the entire Mediterranean region being significantly inferior to Italy. Second, because neither the United States nor Italy have declared war on Britain at present, and rash intervention will cause the two countries to turn to support Germany.
But even fools know that at least one-third of Italy imported a large amount of oil to sell to Germany for a high price. Therefore, the US government has always been like a good man who has been fighting. On the surface, he said kindly that he hoped everyone would not fight, but he handed a pistol to every quarreling person.
The tragedy is that everyone has to give this hypocritical Uncle Sam a little face, because Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan, France and other countries do not want to push the United States into the arms of others. They have to try their best to please them, and they don’t want to turn against each other until they have to. This is the enviable geographical advantage of the United States, and this is the unique skill of the United States in the two world wars.
However, all Germans in Berlin trusted their omnipotent head of state, and they placed their hope of winning the war on the victory of many people in Aka. Recently, the German government launched a series of economic reforms, drawing on some of the contents of Roosevelt's New Deal and launched the next stage of development plan.
Taking advantage of the expansion space of Poland and the Netherlands, Germany's economy has begun to slowly get on track, because it has brutally plundered some of the Polish-occupied areas in disguise, and the development and utilization of western Poland has quickly got on track. On the other hand, the German government has also taken advantage of the plundering advantages established by repeated victory to repay a large number of Mifubon debts, which has helped the German government get rid of the fiscal crisis in one fell swoop.
On the one hand, with Augustus and Schacht, a genius combination, at the helm, Germany did not eventually embark on the war economic model of being kidnapped by the Junker nobles, but instead planned to distinguish civilian and military-industrial enterprises, adopted a more efficient planned economic strategy for the entire Germany, and brought the German agriculture and light industry, which had been in a slow development state, on the fast lane of rapid development.
On the other hand, the German people, who had material satisfaction, invested in the construction of heavy industry with higher production enthusiasm, and doubled Germany's industrial output value in one go. Using high-pressure means, Germany established a national industrial and agricultural structure with a reasonable layout: the local focus on the development of heavy industry and centralized automated agriculture; Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria developed light industry, and the Netherlands as a follow-up supplement; the development of automated farms and light industry in western Poland, while the development of predatory agricultural production in central Poland.
This strategy of mercy has enabled the entire Germany to operate efficiently, and the only ones that have been exploited are central Poland, even western Poland is a beneficiary group. This arrangement has compressed the population against German rule to a controllable level, winning Germany a stable rear environment.
On January 11, 1938, the Berlin Congress passed a bill under the auspices of Prime Minister Augustus, which approved the proposal of the Great German Party in the form of law. This proposal stipulates the scope of the Great German nation and is of great significance to guiding documents.
The document stipulates that Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, northeastern France, and the Polish-occupied areas are all the traditional scope of activities of the Great German nation, and these scopes should and must be under the rule of the German government. In order to ensure the absolute security of the territory of this Great German nation, Germany must control a larger scope.
In order to completely safeguard the territory, the German Wehrmacht will expand to 7 million, and should also maintain a scale of 3 million in future peacetimes. In this document, Germany will continue to produce military supplies to ensure that Germany completely conquers the above-mentioned areas.
In another report on domestic results, Germany claimed that although it has been in a state of war in the past six months, Germany still produced 36.9 million tons of steel, manufactured 29 trains, laid roads and railways with a total length of more than 7,000 kilometers, and put dozens of automobile and aircraft production lines into use.
Augustus proudly announced in his speech to Congress that Germany's economic growth maintained a 20% pace in 1937. The people's daily necessities and food were completely self-sufficiency, and in major cities, the power generation exceeded last year. In the controlled area, Germany built 21 thermal power plants to provide reliable power supply to various factories.
Amid the applause, Augustus announced to everyone that the head of the empire at the stone castle, Akado Rudolph, would return to Berlin in a few days, formally accept the surrender of Queen William Minna of the Netherlands at the head of state, and formally incorporate the Netherlands into the rule of the Third German Empire.
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