The Rise of Australia - Chapter 1001

c980 Sharing the cake

Although President Ludwig did not fully grasp the right to speak in Germany, and even the Federal Republic of Germany he established has only controlled most of the Berlin area so far.

But this did not prevent Ludwig from personally promoting the armistice meeting. After all, this was the first step to show goodwill to the three countries of Britain, France and Australia.

Only with the support of these three countries can Ludwig’s rule of the Federal Republic be stable.

Otherwise, even if the German Prime Minister and his remaining forces were defeated, they would be doomed to face destruction under the continued attack of Britain, France and Australia.

As the former Chief of Staff of Germany, Ludwig thought he could still see the current world situation clearly.

He was not like the crazy warmongerer of the German Prime Minister. Obviously, Germany was at the end of the road, but he still wanted to drag the whole of Germany and all Germans to be buried with him.

In the federal government currently controlled by President Ludwig, the top officials are actually the senior officials who participated in the rebellion.

Rommel, as the marshal with the largest number of troops, was appointed by Ludwig as the Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic.

Rommel and Ludwig had the same idea, that is, the German government at this time was no longer suitable to continue the war.

Under the promotion of Ludwig and Rommel, the proposal for an armistice within the German Federal Republic government was passed unanimously.

A few hours later, at 5 pm on June 23, 1939, the British, Australasia and French governments received an open telegram from Berlin, Germany.

As President Ludwig expected, after hearing that the Germans had problems within themselves, the decisions of the three countries of Britain, France and Australia were similar, that is, to support Ludwig’s Federal Republic to control Germany’s discourse power, and then negotiate with Ludwig’s Federal Republic.

Of course, President Ludwig also understood one thing. Although he could obtain Germany’s discourse power through the support of Britain, France and Australia, this also meant that in the next peace talks, all of Germany’s interests and property would become a huge cake, and then be divided up by Britain, France and Australia.

And in the entire process of division, Germany would have no voice and could only passively accept it.

However, compared to continuing to drag the entire Germany into the abyss of war, ending the war at this time is not unacceptable. Although Germany will have to pay a lot of painful prices to end this war, it is much better than negotiating after the territory is occupied by Britain, France, Australia and other countries.

On June 24, a public document issued by the new Federal Republic government was sent to all German regions, with President Ludwig’s condemnation of the German Chancellor and the requirements for all German troops.

Among them, President Ludwig mentioned many times that this war was launched by the German Chancellor’s willful behavior and imposed the harm of the war on all Germans.

At present, the total casualties of the German army in this war have reached 8 million, of which at least 2 million German soldiers died on the battlefield.

For the consideration of all German people and for the future of Germany as a whole, President Ludwig asked all German troops to carefully consider the next actions and end the war as peacefully as possible.

Rommel’s Army Group B was the first to respond to President Ludwig’s call. At noon on June 24, Rommel ordered all the formations of Army Group B to cease fire immediately and withdraw 30 kilometers as a gesture of sincerity to seek peace with the British, French and Australian armies.

From June 24 to June 25, Britain, France and Australia issued statements in succession, expressing their willingness to accept the proposal of the Federal Republic of Germany to end the war in a more peaceful way, and announced a temporary ceasefire in the Western and Northern European battlefields.

On June 26, representatives of the governments of Britain, France and Australia gathered in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

Because Army Group B retreated 30 kilometers, the city was successfully taken over by the British, French and Australian armies.

In short, this was a meeting on how to divide up all of Germany’s property.

Of course, the way to deal with Germany will eventually have to be decided by a big meeting voted by all the countries that participated in the war against Germany.

But this did not prevent Britain, France and Australia from holding a small meeting before the big meeting to decide the outline of the disposal method.

Because there had been many discussions and ideas about how to deal with Germany before, Britain, France and Australia quickly reached a unified agreement on some areas where there were not many differences.

First of all, all the countries currently occupied by Germany have the right to restore their independence. This range includes Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Austria and other countries in Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea.

However, although these countries are nominally allowed to restore their own countries, there are still a large number of German troops stationed in countries including Poland, Austria and Denmark. If they want to regain independence, they must rely on the support of Britain, France and Australia.

More importantly, Britain, France and Australia allow countries including Poland to regain independence, which directly cuts off the possibility of Russia wanting to annex Poland.

In addition, the three Baltic countries are basically in the hands of Australasia. It can be said that the Russians have no gains from this war, and it is not so easy to even completely recover their own territory.

For some areas occupied by Germany, Britain, France and Australia also agree to return them all.

This also means that Russia can at least guarantee the integrity of its territory, but the bad news is that the Russians must get these lands from the Germans.

And even if Russia regains the occupied land, Ukrainians in the Kiev area may not necessarily identify with Russia.

The impact of Russian soldiers forcibly snatching food is too great, which may even cause the division of the entire Ukraine and Russia.

This is also the reason why Britain, France and Australia did not stop Russia from regaining all its territory. If Ukraine becomes independent, a single Ukraine obviously cannot confront Russia.

But if Ukraine continues to be part of the whole of Russia, then this solid fortress of Russia may be broken by Ukraine from within.

After all, what Russian soldiers did in Kiev is indeed not glorious, which is something that the Russian government cannot whitewash at all.

The third point is the scope of territory that Germany itself needs to cede.

As the initiator of this world war, it is not enough for Germany to atone for its sins by simply giving up these occupied lands. Even in order to avoid Germany being too powerful after the defeat and the possibility of launching a war, the existing German territory must be divided to a certain extent.