In October 1918, 40,000 German seafarers received orders to go to the battlefields of World War I. At this time, Germany's general trend in the First World War had gone, and there was no dawn of victory at all. No one wanted to die, and the 40,000 seafarers combined felt that the only way to save their lives was to be deserters and rebels.
But the shores of the land are all royal subjects. If you really want to be a deserter, dodge and dodge all your life, you can't live brightly, it is better to go directly to the battlefield. Under the muzzle of the Anglo-French forces, at least they could die a painful death.
A government that wags war and plunges the people into turmoil is not what they want to see.
So they rose up and revolted on October 29 in the Gulf of Kiel, Germany.
The 40,000 seafarers had no hope but to die. Unexpectedly, they really saw hope, and the German workers actively supported them and quickly occupied western Germany. German Emperor Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate, and the original German Empire was destroyed in less than ten days. Germany, on the other hand, also surrendered in World War I.
History is a reincarnation, and twenty years later the war is playing out again in Germany.
In 1943, germany was no longer in a good position, and everyone hoped that the former "November Revolution" would be staged again on German soil.
But wait, wait, wait, wait until the soviet hooves enter Berlin, the workers' and peasants' red flag is planted in the Reichstag, and no one has unveiled the pole.
The experience of losing World War I was frightening, and overthrowing the Nazis meant a return to 1919
No one knows more about "uprising" than the descendants of Huaxia, and after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang issued the question of "Emperor General Xiang, Ning Has Kind" in Daze Township more than two thousand years ago, the peasant uprising was accompanied by our national history. Almost every last dynasty had a peasant revolt, and many glorious dynasties were completely ended by the uprising.
The matter of "uprising" is inseparable from its origins, and once the people's life cannot go on, they are bound to stand up and fight for their legitimate rights and interests. This has been the case for generations in China, and the german nation in Germany is no different. There is no shortage of elements of resistance in their national lineage,
But why did Nazi Germany, which had been defeated at the end of World War II, inevitably turn the war to the death, but no one came out to resist?
This is probably the bane of the First World War
After the end of World War I, Britain, France and the United States adopted the method of countering violence by violence, driving the German people to the fire and roasting.
They encroached on large amounts of German land, overseas colonies and human resources, and confiscated half of Germany's proud steel industry. In addition, Germany faced war reparations of 226 billion marks and the losses of all the victorious powers.
These penalties have left Germany's economy in jeopardy.
The people are making money every day, but not a penny is in their pockets, the government is constantly drawing taxes, taxes are getting heavier, and all the hard-earned money is used for compensation.
The German people have worked hard, but they cannot live a good life, and they are eating every day, eating salted potatoes, and seeing no hope in life. And if there is a strike to defend one's rights, it is punishable by death.
There is even a brutal history of 12 million German strikes, only to be brutally suppressed by the government.
And it took Germany 92 years to pay back the compensation
But will the Germanic peoples be aggrieved by a people who have experienced a century of long suffering, and 20 years later they will wage war again, wanting to regain their dignity as human beings. The angry punishment of britain, the United States, and France eventually only led to greater anger.
And after the first bitter lesson, the Germans have understood,
The end of the popular uprising to overthrow the Nazi government was to let Germany directly raise the white flag in World War II, and Germany could no longer withstand the toss of the second centenary repayment plan.
Germany launched the war again in the hope of resisting the oppression of the Western powers, and the defeat after the uprising would plunge them into a new round of oppression. If they didn't want to go back to the factories and work day and night for a hundred years, they wouldn't have risen up to overthrow the Nazi government.
More authoritative than Wilhelm II, the people believed that Hitler could do miracles
Hitler was originally just a humble art student in Germany, dreaming of becoming a painter. But the people are in dire straits, and he has no intention of immersing himself in the world of art.
Before he became Chancellor of the Third Reich, he had already summed up the reasons for Germany's defeat in World War I.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was unpopular, resulting in the lack of unity of the German people, the inability to obtain the large-scale support of the people in the war, and eventually the people had to be "stabbed back", which was the problem of Germany itself.
Figuring out what the problem was, he began to look for a solution.
Became a completely different person from Wilhelm II
。 The throne of Wilhelm II was inherited, and the German people were not familiar with him at all, so naturally there was no prestige.
Hitler was different, he began to participate in elections in 1930, the slogan is through his own continuous struggle, leading the people to live a life without eating potatoes.
His "Mein Kampf" was widely circulated in Germany, and every young man could recite a few words.
Everyone is willing to vote for this short man who keeps his mouth shut for social welfare.
Hitler also kept his promise and began to gradually improve the quality of life of the German people after taking office.
Data is always the best feedback, and before 1933 the German people had an unemployment rate of 33% and were basically struggling at the poverty line. Five years after Hitler came to power, in 1938, Germany's unemployment rate was only 1.3 percent, 0.5 percent lower than in the United States.
The overall income of the national population has directly doubled in 5 years, and production has increased by 102%. Social welfare is also strengthening, no longer have to eat potatoes, milk and bread, and you can eat meat.
This is what Hitler brought to the German people, he made the people feel the practical model of interests, gave them the "meat" that they could see and touch.
In addition, he is very good at creating people for himself, developing water armies, and brainwashing the people, so the German people love him very much.
His prestige was the highest of any ruler in The history of Germany. What he said was everything, and no one would refute it.
Hitler said that Germany could win in World War II, and the people were convinced of this. Even until Hitler committed suicide in the presidential palace and the Soviet Union defeated the German army, there were still many Germans who did not believe that Germany had been defeated. Because their prime minister once said that Germany would win.
It was this authority that made many Germans not think of overthrowing Hitler's Nazi government.
Until the end of World War II, When Germany was defeated, they still believed that Hitler could turn defeat into victory, because he had been a miracle chancellor.
Third, there are spies everywhere, and there is no chance of uprising
In addition to creating people, it will brainwash the people,
Hitler also knew the art of checks and balances
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Hitler knew that to ensure his own security, it was not enough to rely on the Wehrmacht alone, but to have a convoy that only obeyed his own dispatches. In fact, he was right, the Wehrmacht tried several times to oust Hitler from power in the late part of World War II, but they were stopped.
What stopped them was Hitler's personal bodyguard, the SS.
This army was built by Hitler and sent only by Hitler. Hitler started with the SS on the grounds that he could protect all the high-ranking officials of the Nazi Party and even act as a stormtrooper on the battlefield.
But when the SS was built, everyone found that it had a more important function.
It was intelligence gathering and political conduct monitoring, not only at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, but also at the entire population of Germany.
Since ancient times, Cao Cao of the Western Han Dynasty could not sleep at night, and he was afraid that his eyes would fall to the ground as soon as his eyes were closed. Hitler's war was also a deadly job, so he didn't trust anyone, he thought that everyone wanted him to die, and surveillance was necessary.
There was an agency under the SS called the Imperial Security Directorate. This security bureau had the most complete intelligence network in Germany, and they installed a large number of spies in all levels of the German people, the Top Nazis, and even the Wehrmacht Army, and reported them as soon as they found conspiracies.
This institution already had more than 100,000 spies in the 1930s, and hitler later expanded the SS and Waffen SS, and the number of spies has been increasing.
From the first day of Hitler's reign, some people wanted to assassinate him, and then the war was gradually lost, and some people wanted to overthrow Hitler's government. But because of the existence of the Security Bureau, Hitler escaped a large number of assassinations. And with everyone probably a whistleblower, no one would dare to organize an uprising anymore. As long as you reveal your thoughts to the people around you a little, you have already been reported and sentenced.
Everyone is at risk, everyone is protecting themselves, and in this case the uprising can never take place in the German people. It is even more unlikely in the Wehrmacht,
Hitler sent nearly 1 million SS troops into the battlefield, forming a counterweight to the Wehrmacht
And they were all secretly monitoring the Wehrmacht, so armed uprisings wouldn't take place on the battlefield.
It is not difficult to see that Hitler did have his charm and ability, otherwise he would not have become a national idol of the Germans. His extraordinary character can be seen from his daring to tear up the Treaty of Versailles.
However, his extreme Nazi virtues eventually pushed himself into the abyss, and also ruined Germany's future for decades - it was time to start paying off debts, sadly, sadly!
Text/Lamb
Reference: Sunset of the Empire, Albert Kesselring.