Chapter 229： Return to the Empire

The relationship between Austria and Germany is complicated in history. For a long time, they belonged to the Greater Germany region and were ruled by the Habsburgs of Austria.

Later, Germany was unified by the Hohenzollern dynasty of Prussia. They excluded Austria, and Austria and Hungary formed the loose Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War, Austria and Hungary also went their separate ways.

The division of the European territories known to later generations, Austria is a separate country, which was mainly determined at the meeting of the victorious countries after World War II.

The end of World War I brought many changes. For example, the division of European countries was a huge problem. At the same time, a famous unsolvable equation appeared: "Is a country a piece of land or a group of people of the same origin? ? If they are people of the same kind, which common factor should take precedence, race, religion or language?"

After the First World War, Europe has always been in turmoil, and the merger of Germany and Austria was premeditated.

In 1918, just after the end of the First World War, Ludendorff, the German quartermaster, wrote a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking them to consider realizing the German-Austrian merger to compensate Germany for "losses in other regions caused by the war."

The failure of Germany caused great losses to Germany. The colonies were divided by other countries. Germany must win over Austria.

At that time, the Austrian Provisional National Assembly took into account the impact of the defeat and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on Austria, and passed a resolution in the party to merge with Germany. In other words, the two countries are wronged by the merger.

It is a pity that the Allied Powers that have won Germany will not just watch Germany become stronger. In the Treaty of Versailles, they tried their best to weaken Germany and prohibit the merger of Germany and Austria.

In this way, it dragged Hitler to power. For Hitler, how to reintegrate Austria into Germany was the first part of his imperial strategy.

History has proven that when a piece of land has been split for too long, it will become more and more difficult to merge, because people who have obtained power on this split land will not be willing to hand over power. , I would rather be the head of the chicken than the tail of the phoenix. When the leader of a country, power will make them lose their minds.

Moreover, after a few decades, when the new generation of people grow up, the time they grew up is split out, and they are even less willing to merge.

Hitler was faced with this problem. After Hitler had mastered the power of Germany, it was already a bit tricky when he wanted to deal with the problems in Austria.

Those in power do not want to hand over power.

Thus, Hitler began to subvert the Austrian regime. His plan was to support the Austrian Workers' Party.

A few years ago, they carried out subversive activities, broke into the Chancellery of Vienna, shot and killed Prime Minister Taulfiz, occupied the radio station, and declared Lintroen as prime minister.

Unfortunately, Italy at the time was quite dissatisfied with this, and sent four divisions to the Brenner Pass, ready to intervene in arms at any time to maintain Austria.

Over the years, Hitler has been tentative, including advancing to the Rhineland. If Britain and France objected at that time, he would immediately withdraw.

As a result, Mussolini quit, Hitler immediately stopped the plan.

In Hitler's eyes, he respected Mussolini, the revolutionary teacher. Hitler saw that Mussolini did not support, and immediately abandoned the plan.

In the past few years, the relationship between Germany and Italy has been greatly eased. Now, Germany and Italy are like-minded, helping Spain together.

Moreover, in the Spanish Civil War, the combat effectiveness of the German team far exceeded that of Italy! In this era, strength is used to speak, so Hitler is fully convinced that he has won Mussolini's respect and he will no longer interfere in Austrian affairs!

This idea had long been brewing in Hitler's mind, but it has not been said yet.

Now, when he heard Cyric's words, Hitler was immediately very happy. This Cyric is the person who knows his mind best!

Just as Hitler was about to express his appreciation, he heard a different voice.

"General Cyrek, you have always been in Spain, not in Germany, and you lack an analysis of the surrounding situation. I think your view is quite wrong." Blomberg, the German defense minister, publicly opposed Up.

Born in the orthodox Prussian regiment, Blomberg had a considerable influence in the army, and it was precisely because of his support that Hitler could successfully obtain the support of the army.

Although the relationship between Blomberg and Cyric is pretty good on the surface, the officer regiment has a stinky temper and just can't understand this kind of civilian origin. In particular, Cyric won the battle in Spain!

The officer corps once discussed that it was extremely wrong to focus on the use of tanks, especially Blomberg, which personally refuted this tactic. However, Cyric used the Spanish battlefield as a demonstration to prove that this tactic is correct. This is simply slapped Blomberg!

In their bones, there is a kind of arrogance, and at the same time, Blomburg still has his own theory.

Although Britain and France did not speak when they advanced into the Rhineland, it was because there was originally their own territory and they were at a loss, but Austria is different!

Britain and France will not watch Germany merge Austria, thus having greater war potential, so they will definitely oppose it!

As long as there is opposition from Britain and France , it will be difficult for our side to proceed smoothly. Therefore, Blomberg firmly opposed it.

Private matters are private matters, and public matters are public matters. Although Cyric congratulated him on taking his wife just now, Blomberg is still quite opposed in this regard.

"Yes, at this time, if we annex Austria, it will definitely trigger joint sanctions by the powers. We have violated the Versailles Treaty in many places. They may be vigilant about our rise and use this incident to jointly suppress. "After Blomberg finished speaking, Army Commander Friech also expressed his views.

The two major military generals both expressed opposition to Cyric's proposal. Hitler's face was still relaxed and said: "Since both of them are opposed, we will talk about this later."

The tone was good and did not spoil the atmosphere of the banquet, but Cyric saw the cold light in Hitler's eyes. Now, Hitler was already angry.

Blomberg and Frisch are stumbling blocks to Hitler's foreign war! Hitler had to overthrow these two men before he could take the steps of his aggression!

And these two stumbling blocks have to be solved by Cyric!