Chapter 9 1. Sudden lightning

nightmare again The important thing in World War II is the international relations during the "World War II". Let's sort out the main content of "World War II" according to four stages and four battlefields. First of all, the four battlefields refer to the European battlefield, the North African battlefield, and the Asian and Pacific battlefields.We talked about these four battlefields in World War II. According to the four battlefields and four stages, the first stage is the outbreak stage of the war.The time was from September 1, 1939 to June 22, 1941, and from September 1939 to June 1941, nearly two years, which belonged to the outbreak stage of the war.During the outbreak of the Great War, the first major event happened on the European battlefield. Nazi Germany blitzed Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, marking the full-scale outbreak of World War II, which is "World War II"

A sign of a full blown outbreak. On September 1, 1939, under the cover of 2,800 planes and 2,000 tanks in fascist Germany, an army of 1.6 million rushed towards sleeping Poland.The time when the Germans launched their attack was 3:30 in the morning, which happened to be the time when people were asleep. When they beat you at 12:00, you might not be asleep. You woke up at 5:00 to walk your dog, and you were usually there at 3:30. sleep.Therefore, on the day when the German army raided Poland and started the war, the Polish air force was completely destroyed at the ground airport. None of the planes could go to the sky, and the Polish army lost its air supremacy. The war broke out on September 1, and Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3. They just waited and watched, and declared no war. On September 6, the organized resistance of the Polish army was crushed. On September 17, the Polish government went into exile in Romania, which actually marked the end of Poland.

When the Polish army resisted the German invasion, 600,000 Soviet Red Army crossed the Soviet-Polish border under the order of Stalin. According to the infamous "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", the two fascist demons began to carve up Poland.As a result, Poland was unable to resist the attacks from the two fascist powers, and it was subjugated again.Hitler paid the price of 10,600 soldiers killed in battle, and took 34 days to occupy Poland, which is known as the second largest army in Europe. After the demise of Poland, Germany did not attack the Soviet Union as Britain and France hoped, because the two fascist countries had reached a cooperation.The Germans began to attack Western and Northern Europe, occupying five countries, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium, in one go.It took 4 hours for the Germans to fight Denmark. At that time, the result of the war was that the German army killed 20 people and the Danish army killed 16 people. Then Denmark surrendered.Denmark knows that if the fight continues, the country will perish, so Denmark is a hero and surrenders without suffering immediate losses.

On the day of the war with Norway, the capital of Norway, Oslo, was occupied by German paratroopers. King Haakon X of Norway went into exile in the forest, sea and snow fields in the north. He persisted in resisting until June, and then fled to England by boat, so Norway was also occupied. up.There were only 400 infantry and 12 cavalry in Luxembourg, and he surrendered as soon as Germany declared war.In these two world wars, Luxembourg surrendered as soon as Germany declared war, preventing the country from being ravaged by war.So, today you go to see Luxembourg, it is simply beautiful.Luxembourg is the richest country in the world, with a per capita GNP of more than 60,000 U.S. dollars, twice that of the United States, because it surrendered as soon as it fought a war before, and avoided being ravaged by the war.The funniest thing is that there is a war memorial in the center of his capital. When I went to see it, I asked the tour guide, what does he commemorate?Probably in honor of zero deaths.

Luxembourg surrendered as soon as Germany declared war, and the Netherlands resisted for 5 days before declaring its surrender.Queen Wilhelmina, in exile in England.Belgium resisted for 12 days, then King Leopold went into exile in England. one corner against one country The Germans occupied so many European countries in one breath. At that time, the leaders of European countries, especially the royal families of various countries, preferred the United Kingdom for refuge.At the same time, Germany's ally, the fascist Soviet Union, began to invade and expand abroad, establishing what he called the Eastern Front and carve up Europe.According to the secret agreement of the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" signed with Germany, the Soviet Union began to occupy the three countries along the Baltic Sea, North Bukovina and Bessarabia in Romania, and pushed his border 400 kilometers westward. , Then the Stalinist Group brazenly sent troops to invade Finland, and the Soviet-Finnish War broke out.

During the Soviet-Finnish War, the Soviet Union can be said to have a big face and a big eye.Finland is a small country with a population of 2 million, and only 30,000 troops. The Soviet Red Army finally dispatched a million troops, and Stalin changed coaches three times. The heroic Finnish people, in the absence of foreign aid, fought bloody battles for more than half a year, killing and injuring more than 200,000 Soviet invading troops. Two major generals and division commanders were killed, which dealt a heavy blow to Stalin.So, why did Hitler dare to attack the Soviet Union?Because you can't even beat a small country, Finland, if you don't fight, what are you doing? The people of China will be as dark as the people of the Soviet Union.They have the motivation to resist bravely. The Soviet-Finnish War is a particularly successful case in the history of world wars in which a small country resisted the tyranny of a powerful country.Of course, Finland was defeated in the end. After all, the Soviet Union had 1 million troops in the end, and Finland's population was only 2 million, so Finland had to agree to cede land in the end. When the "World War II" broke out, Finland joined Germany to fight and regained its land justly (but did not take the opportunity to occupy Soviet land).As a result, Britain and France were doomed.

gentlemanly retreat What is particularly funny is that when Germany attacked Belgium, the British and French troops entered Belgium to provide assistance. As soon as hundreds of thousands of troops entered, Belgium announced its surrender. In Dunkirk, the hundreds of thousands of troops were in a desperate situation. In front of them was the English Channel with white waves, and behind them were the vicious Nazi armored divisions. The hundreds of thousands of people were about to be wiped out.At this time, a miracle in the history of human warfare was staged, and the Dunkirk retreat was organized.The Allied forces surrounded at Dunkirk were dominated by the British Expeditionary Force.The United Kingdom is a typical country that implements a volunteer system, and is the only country on the European continent that does not implement a compulsory army system.His soldiers are all professional soldiers, so they are all veterans in their twenties and thirties.If these men were wiped out at Dunkirk, it would mean that no one in England would fight.Churchill had already become prime minister at that time, and just as soon as he came to power, he encountered such a disgusting incident.So Churchill said, if this army is gone, we will have to rely on the Boy Scouts to defend Britain.So at all costs, to bring the children back from the sea, the British Navy specially formulated a generator plan, commanded by Admiral Ramsay, more than 800 ships, including the paddle steamer during the first industrial revolution in the museum All were mobilized, private yachts, private yachts along the British coast all went, and in nine days and nine nights, more than 330,000 coalition soldiers were rescued and returned to the UK, including 206,000 British troops, preserving vitality for future counterattacks.It is these 206,000 professional soldiers. When they return to the motherland, everyone is expected to be a squad leader or a platoon leader. If the army expands, the veterans who have experienced battles are much more important than the lost weapons and equipment.When retreating from Dunkirk, when the British faced the threat of death, they lined up without exception. When it was my turn to retreat, I retreated. The waist-high seawater was icy cold. Standing in such seawater for a few days There were no complaints for a few nights. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the gentlemen were making tea on the beach. At this time, a German plane came to bomb. A bomb splashed sand and splashed into the teacup. The first reaction of the British was , the Germans are really annoying, pour it and burn another cup.This is called "Taishan collapses in front without changing color". The unique gentlemanly demeanor of the British is fully reflected in the war, and then everyone lined up so calmly that they were able to run in the end.

When each unit retreated, the division commander was the last one to go. At that time, General Montgomery was the division commander. He was the last one to leave. I ensured that every officer and soldier in the division had boarded the ship before the division commander boarded the ship.Didn't he say that when the call comes here, the officials will fly first in the plane, and the soldiers will leave there, and it will be over, and the officers will be the last to run, and the soldiers will run first. It is worth mentioning that the Duke of Gloucester in Scotland, whether he is the king's cousin or a cousin, drove his private yacht to the other side of the strait to pick up farmers, miners, fishermen, salesmen, strangers The soldiers, as a result, the duke and his son rescued 300 British soldiers with their own yacht. For 9 days and 9 nights, the two men rescued a battalion of British soldiers. How many people can that yacht take? 9 days and 9 nights.The duke died, if I remember correctly, and then his son, Lord Gloucester the Young, sailed to the rescue.That's why Britain can dominate the world for 300 years.

The British were surrounded by the Germans, and as soon as their ships went out to sea, they were sunk by submarines. Therefore, Britain urgently needed sailors, and Britain happened to be a country that produced sailors. From the king to the common people, they were all qualified sailors.So the country set up a recruitment station and posted a notice that the country needs sailors now, so please sign up.At each recruitment point, there is a long line that can't be seen at a glance, and in this line, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren often follow in line.Everyone knows that going to sea is a narrow escape, if you are sunk by a German ship as soon as you go to sea, then you will not be able to return.However, everyone is queuing there, because the country needs us to contribute, don't give money, you can't see when the salary is due next month, and everyone has no complaints.

I think I was successful in those days Dunkirk retreated, the British fled, and France was finished.France, known as the number one army power in Europe, was occupied by the Germans after resisting for 6 weeks in World War II.The Germans achieved such brilliant achievements on the Western Front, and at the cost of less than 40,000 soldiers, they occupied almost the whole of Europe. The prime minister of the French government, Marshal Pétain, the hero of Verdun in World War I, was ordered to surrender to Germany. 3/5 of the French territory was occupied by Germany, and the entire Atlantic coast was occupied by Germany. The military expenditure of the occupying army was 7 billion francs per year. , borne by France, and the remaining 2/5 of the remaining mountains and rivers, led by Pétain, established a puppet regime in the small town of Vichy in the south, which was called "Vichy France".This puppet regime was established by Marshal Petain. At that time, he appointed his beloved disciple, France's then Undersecretary of Defense and Army Undersecretary Charles de Gaulle as the Minister of Defense of the puppet regime.As a result, on the night when France announced its surrender, General de Gaulle went to the airport to send a British general back home. After the two shook hands and hugged, the British general boarded the plane. The plane is also small, unlike today's Boeing 747, you can't catch up with it.At that time, the plane was very small, and Charles de Gaulle suddenly accelerated and started to chase. All the people who saw him off on the plane and on the runway at that time were dumbfounded—the general is crazy, why is this?General de Gaulle is 1.98 meters tall and has long legs. He caught up with him in a few steps. The British general on the plane, after waking up, leaned out and grabbed General de Gaulle's arm, and lifted him up. It has already taken off, and the general's legs are still kicking in the air.That night, General de Gaulle flew to London, and immediately delivered a speech, announcing the establishment of a free French government, calling on all people in mainland France who were unwilling to submit to form an army to resist, and then calling on all French overseas dominions, those not occupied by Germany, like North Africa, like the French soldiers in the Dominions of Vietnam, is subject to the Free French government.

General de Gaulle was only a brigadier general at the time, the lowest rank among generals.So much so that Prime Minister Churchill said with a smile: "Can you represent France?" But later, many people with much higher rank than him stood under his banner to safeguard the dignity of the country. In 1944, when Paris was restored, the general returned to Paris. His first act was to go to Notre Dame de Paris to celebrate mass. Thank God, France was saved.When he entered Notre Dame de Paris, there was a German sniper hidden in the bell tower. The sniper aimed at General de Gaulle and put his head on the reticle of the scope.If this sniper pulls the trigger, French history will surely be rewritten.However, after aiming, the sniper was inspired by General de Gaulle's great personality charm, not only did not shoot, on the contrary, with tears in his eyes, he fell down from the tower and surrendered. Next, General de Gaulle began to preside over the political affairs of post-war France. He organized Free France, tried Marshal Petain twice and sentenced him to death. After the country was restored, General de Gaulle retired. I will not be the interim chairman. dry.Before stepping down, the last order he signed was to pardon his teacher, Marshal Pétain. Pétain was already 89 years old at the time, and it didn't matter whether you sentenced him to death or not.Marshal Pétain died two years later at the age of 91.At this time, General de Gaulle returned home and stayed at home for 13 years. Until l958, when the Fourth French Republic was in turmoil, he came out to lead the people to establish the Fifth Republic. Today's France is the continuation of the Fifth Republic. Charles de Gaulle was the founding president of the country. He resigned after 10 years in office. He has used the old bookcase for many years.He asked the secretary if he could take it away, and asked the manager if he could take it away. The manager burst into tears. The whole of France was saved by you. What is it to take two bookcases? You can take it. Therefore, General de Gaulle asked his secretary to pay the price of the new bookcases, and took the two old bookcases away. After taking them away, the general refused to receive the president's pension, saying that he wanted to use the money to the families of the fallen soldiers. When France was restored, Congress wanted to confer the rank of Marshal de Gaulle, but he refused. The reason was that he believed that victory should belong to the glorious soldiers. I am Brigadier General, the lowest rank.We look at all the fascist dictators in the world, Hitler and Saddam, without exception, they have named themselves marshals and doctors.You see, the difference between people in a democratic system and those fascist demons is that they absolutely don’t want this stuff. The salary of a retired brigadier general is extremely meager. His wife doesn’t work, especially in European countries, the wife doesn’t work of.When my daughter was three years old, she had to rely on him to support her due to medical accidents and mental retardation. His salary was very meager to support so many people. What should I do?The old man can only write memoirs, relying on this to make a living, and he is less than 80 years old in two weeks. In fact, he is exhausted. People at this level don’t need to write memoirs by themselves, they usually just lie down on a rocking chair, drink champagne and cigars, and the secretary is there to type... How can he do it? He quit smoking and drinking, because he can’t smoke Get up and type on the typewriter by yourself.So, not counting the ancient times, but in the modern history of the world, there are only three politicians worthy of my admiration, General Washington, Mr. Sun Yat-sen and General Charles de Gaulle.Because these three are real politicians?They are truly overachieved, very great. play bad chess In any case, no matter how you resist, the influence of this free France was still very small at that time.Once France fell, the only European country facing Germany at that time was Britain.In the words of Prime Minister Churchill, the British Empire is now naked in front of the whole world, and hundreds of thousands of troops have returned to the British Isles.The children came back naked. On some troop carriers, all the soldiers had a helmet on top and pants on the bottom, and nothing else. You threw away hundreds of military uniforms, which are worth the weight of two people.So, throw away all the clothes, cover under the canvas and come back.The Germans went to the beach of Dunkirk and saw that the captured equipment could arm more than 30 divisions, 600 tanks, 2,400 cannons, and 22,000 trucks. It was too late to destroy them. If the people ran away, it would be over and everything would be delivered. Give it to the Germans. So it was very difficult for Britain to face Germany alone.However, Britain has one advantage, that is, its navy is still the most powerful in the world. If you can't cross it, Germany can only use its air force to blow up Britain. This is the famous British air battle.The Battle of Britain was also a miracle in the history of world wars. Germany invested more than 2,400 planes to destroy the British. The Royal Air Force had only 700 fighter jets.Frequent liftoffs, the pilot has to lift off several times a day. When returning home, the nose of the plane is aligned with the runway, and it falls asleep as soon as the landing gear is lowered. The plane stops on the runway by itself completely by inertia, and then the ground crew goes up. Open the hatch and gently pull him out. You can pull him hard, he won't wake up.Pull him out, throw it over the plane, put a blanket on it, and sleep right here.After an hour, kick it, it's your turn again, you have to go up.In the beginning, it was really bombed enough for the British. The airport, bridges, barracks, and most importantly, the aircraft manufacturing workshop were all destroyed.Just at this time, a very accidental phenomenon appeared, which saved Britain.Two Luftwaffe bombers lost their way and flew over London. At that time, the planes had no radar and relied on radio navigation. He might not have received it. When they flew over London, it was very bright. He thought it was something, so he took it The bomb was thrown down, and he threw the bomb here, the British were in a hurry, you can bomb military targets, but you can't bomb civilian targets, you can't bomb the community!Here are the peaceful inhabitants. So Prime Minister Churchill ordered to bomb Berlin. The British bombers had no losses. What he resisted was fighter jets. 80 British bombers took off in formation to bomb Berlin.Along the way, it seemed that there was no one in the land, and the German radio stations on the ground were guiding the British plane. He thought it was his own plane, and he thought that the British were so virtuous that they could bomb Berlin?When a British plane dropped a bomb in Berlin and the fire ignited, the Berlin gas company rushed to the scene first. He thought it was a gas pipe explosion, and rushed to repair it. No problem, nothing went wrong. At this time Only then was someone reminded whether it was an air raid, so when the searchlights in Berlin were turned on and the anti-aircraft guns were erected, the British planes had already flown out of the German border, and Germany fired a few symbolic shots, giving the right to Britain People see off. Hitler and his successor, the commander of the German Air Force, Goering, were furious.Green is a 400-pound big fat man, a pound is 9 taels, a 400-pound big fat man, Green said that a plane will not fly to Germany, if there is a plane to Germany, I will not call Herman - Goering, you can call me whatever you want, Hermann the cat, Hermann the dog, it turns out that one didn't fly, and 80 flew over.Green became furious and bombed London, letting every British person taste the horror.Once bombed, it's over, isn't Britain a democratic country?When the democracies are bombed, the people will take to the streets to rebel against the government, Churchill will fall, and the new cabinet will negotiate peace with us as soon as it takes office, and the war is over. Goering had a better idea, but he didn't expect that the British would share the same hatred with the bombing. You are too fascist, and you actually bombed peaceful residents.So the women and children were evacuated to the countryside. The queen was supposed to go to Canada, but she didn't go. I am an old woman, so what am I afraid of? I am with my husband.The two princesses said that I want to be with my father. The eldest princess is today's queen. Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth was only 16 years old at the time. It would be dangerous to go to the Air Force to turn on the searchlights.This thing, as soon as there is light here, once the Germans beat it, the queen will be finished.The second princess, Princess Margaret, was only 12 years old. She went to the hospital to rescue the wounded and worked as a nurse.The common people saw that none of the members of the royal family ran away. What are you afraid of? The men are all at their posts, fighting fires and doing rescue work on a voluntary basis.Searchlights and anti-aircraft guns from all over the UK can be concentrated in London, and you don't bomb other places anyway. In this way, the pressure on aircraft factories, barracks, and bridges will be relieved at once.It is most useless for you to bomb peaceful residents. If the common people are killed, it is useless. 7 You have to use his war resources to fight the war.As soon as the explosion stopped, the building was still on fire. When it was crumbling, a black royal car rushed to the front, and a thin man in military uniform jumped out. His Majesty King George VI commanded everyone to put out the fire and then rescue it. Everyone saw that His Majesty the King appeared on the scene to rescue people and put out the fire at the first time, so what is there to be afraid of?Prime Minister Churchill cannot come out, because he wants to guide the war, and the king is useless anyway. After the constitutional monarchy, the king is just to boost morale.If the king is killed, it will be more helpful to the morale of the British. If our king is killed, I will play my life with you.The king also understood his responsibilities very well, so he often rushed into the scene, parading and speaking at the front to boost morale. Therefore, after more than four months of fighting, Germany lost 1,733 aircraft and Britain lost 915 aircraft.But the German pilots lost more than 2,000, and the British pilots lost less than 700, because the British pilots were on the mainland. It’s okay in the hands of soldiers, you can be treated humanely, and you become a prisoner of war; if it falls into the hands of peasants, our house was just blown up by you, and you fell, think about it, a fork, you will be pierced. Cool; to fall into the English Channel, you can only feed the fish.Let's just say that weapons and equipment are the most insignificant things, you can rebuild them after you destroy them, and people are the most precious, especially technical arms like pilots and captains.Therefore, the final result of the fight was that Hitler announced that the attack on Britain would be postponed indefinitely.In fact, this British air battle was the first battle of Nazi Germany that failed to achieve its goal in World War II. The British relied on the bloody battle of the Royal Air Force to defend the British Isles from destruction. At this time, Hitler had lost his mind. Without the United Kingdom surrendering, he brazenly attacked the largest country in the world, and the country with his like-mindedness was the Soviet Union, so he saved Stalin from the pillar of shame in history. If these two fascist devil dogs bite dogs, history will not know how to evaluate this period of history.So, in this way, the scale of the Second World War began to expand.