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Chapter 75: The Wealth of the German Army in 1943

The next day, as soon as he returned to the Prime Minister's Office in Berlin, Chen Yanlong immediately called to inquire about the handling of the Jews and prisoners and whether he had done it as he ordered.

His inquiry was quickly answered with satisfaction, so he also called Keitel, the chief of the German Supreme Command, a German Army General, and the director of the Operations Bureau of the German Supreme Command to his office; and ordered them to issue orders to the military departments to stop massacre of prisoners, and strictly prohibit soldiers from burning, killing, looting, and forcing them to plunder.

Because Chen Yanlong's story has many articles on the Internet in later generations, especially an article by an author named Slimmmm once said: "Although Hitler's Nazi regime promulgated laws to prohibit German troops from having sex with low races (gypsies, Jews and other "inferior" nations).

And because of the existence of this law, many historians took it for granted that Germans would not rape Jewish women.

It is true that the law stipulates this way, but whether Nazi soldiers can actually implement it is another matter.

In the concentration camp, German soldiers could even rape Jewish women.

However, there are not many of these soldiers, only a small number of them. In the later Czech movie "Collette", there is a plot of Nazi officer sleeping in the Jewish heroine."

Especially in Russia, thousands of Russian female nurses, doctors are victims of rape and are often tortured to death.

So when Chen Yanlong thought of these comments on the Internet in later generations, he decisively wanted to stop these atrocities because the most annoying thing in his life was to let his subordinates run violent violence like Japanese devils, or later captured the US military and Soviet troops.

After he gave the order in a stern tone, Keitel and Yodel left in shame to prepare for the execution of the order.

In fact, they didn't know the purpose of Chen Yanlong doing this. In addition to hating atrocities against women, he also planned to improve the image of the German army from now on; and prepared to occupy the territory and divide the land and sell the public opinion of the people in these occupied areas; let them follow Germany to fight against Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries, and divide the Soviet army's forces.

Not long after, Chen Yanlong was the only one left in the room.

Then he paced around the room, as he was taking the financial statements of Germany's various financial reports and wealth income statements to give him a clear understanding of the current financial situation in Germany.

Because it takes money to build the army's weapons and equipment and other economic and livelihood construction, but its mobile phone exchange system does not have the function of redeeming money.

And he knew that after Hitler came to power, in order to win over the hearts of the Germans, as the Internet said later, he first set the personal income tax threshold at 6,000 yuan; then he promoted those who actively created jobs, subsidized children, and increased workers' pensions... confiscated new social welfare such as the property of Jews and occupied countries, and distributed these welfare to German soldiers and people...

The social benefits that Hitler gave to the German people were better than that of Bismarck. The general manifestation can be seen from the later German scholar Gez Ali in his book "Hitler's National Empire: Plunder, Race War and Nazism".

But to put it in the words of later generations, it means: "If you do some social welfare in peacetime, it is not a big deal, or even a good thing; it is just that you continue to do it after losing the war, and it will be more and more serious, which is the most unfavorable thing!"

Especially now, both on the Eastern Front and Western Front are losing.

Although later German scholar Gez Ali summarized two sources of war income against Hitler: First, at least two-thirds of the war income was robbed from foreign countries or foreign races; Second, low-income and ordinary income people in Germany borne 10% of war expenditures, while higher-income Germans bear 20% of the war expenditures; the rest is all shared by foreigners, forced laborers and Jews.

However, Hitler's short-sighted approach of relying on the plundered wealth to support the working people is very beautiful in the short term, but once implemented for a long time, it may be a dead end.

For this reason, Chen Yanlong must know how much money he still has on his hands and can use it.

About two hours later, Chen Yanlong made a clear idea of ​​how much money he had to use from the various financial statements sent to him by Finance Minister Schweilin von Krosick.

About 60 billion marks (i.e. 15 billion US dollars) were squeezed from France, at least 104 billion marks (i.e. 26 billion US dollars) were squeezed from Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and other occupied lands, while at least 1 billion US dollars was also squeezed from the Soviet Union, and the Jews also had more than 1 billion US dollars in wealth.

In addition to money, there is also a lot of food, pigs, cattle, sheep and other supplies.

Of course, there are also a large number of works of art, cultural relics, mechanical equipment, etc.

When Chen Yanlong saw that he had at least a 10 billion US dollars in finance, he still relaxed a little.

At least he doesn't have to worry too much about lack of money now, at least in a few short period of months.

After understanding his financial situation, he was ready to take over and build the Luftwaffe and regain air supremacy in Sicily to win the victory of the Battle of Sicily.

Of course, there is also the local air defense mission, which he must do well.

Finally, the Air Force pilot reserve problem is also necessary to find ways to train more reserve pilots, otherwise no one can use it to fight.

Then, the question that made him headache was who would take over the Luftwaffe.

Should Keseling be good, or should one of the Air Marshals Wolfgang von Richthofen be good, or should someone be good?

Regarding this issue, Chen Yanlong was still entangled for a while.

However, if one of the Air Marshals Wolfgang von Richthofen was chosen, Chen Yanlong would be worried that the other party would not live long.
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