[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany":3,"chapter-i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-127":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Don’t Need Nazis In My Germany",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1294759,1717,"Chapter 400127Chapter NaN","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-127",127,"\u003Cp>August 3, 1940\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rome, the Capital of Italy\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Already in chaos as South Tyrol was handed over to Germany, the devastating defeat in the Battle of Malta sent a shockwave across all of Italy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst this, the German Army's offensive, which began in the Veneto region, started to rapidly push back the already battered Italian army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the fall of Venice became imminent, Mussolini, who should have been controlling the situation, had lost all will and was wasting his days on alcohol and drugs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the King and the National Fascist Party conspired for Mussolini's expulsion and the subsequent course of action, another meeting was being held to discuss Italy's future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this goes on, Italy is finished.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone present at the meeting agreed with the statement from Ivanoe Bonomi, the leader of the Italian Social Democrats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Alcide De Gasperi, who had continuously fought in the anti-fascist movement under Mussolini's rule, to the democrat Ferruccio Parri.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The citizen factions of Italy, setting aside their ideological differences, gathered in one place to liberate Italy from the Fascists and formed the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Committee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The National Fascist Party and the King may have thought that only Mussolini had lost popularity, but the people's dissatisfaction, which had begun to spread throughout Italy, was already demanding change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We were once powerless, but the people have seen Germany's precedent and want change. This is the perfect opportunity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And their confidence had a basis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If General Giovanni Messe can lead the negotiations with Germany, he said he would support us. If that happens, victory is certain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Pietro Badoglio resigned, Mussolini summoned Rodolfo Graziani, the most fascist Field Marshal in the Army, to Rome and appointed him Chief of the General Staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giovanni Messe, who had been supporting the front as Vice Commander, became the commander of the German Frontline Army in Graziani's stead, but he, the one who had to block Germany's offensive, had already judged that continuing the war with Germany was no longer possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no hope in the King. To think he's wasting time, insisting on an armistice without liberating Ethiopia and Albania even in this situation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, upon learning that King Victor Emmanuel III, still not in his right mind, was discussing with the National Fascist Party his desire to keep the Ethiopian Throne and the Albanian Throne, Giovanni Messe informed the National Liberation Committee of this fact and made contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The problem is Germany. Their national sentiment isn't good, so I wonder if proper negotiations are possible…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have no choice but to try. Germany will want to end the Italian front quickly and focus its forces on France, so that's our hope.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivanoe Bonomi and Ferruccio Parri, who were talking, turned their gazes to Alcide De Gasperi, who had remained silent during the talk about Germany.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Regrettably, to negotiate with Germany, we will have to give up Trentino-Alto Adige (South Tyrol) at the very least.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alcide De Gasperi was born in Trento, an Italian-inhabited area in southern South Tyrol, when South Tyrol was Austrian territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his youth, he had struggled for Trento's incorporation into Italy, so one could only imagine how he felt now that the Italian territory, regained in the last Great War, was about to be taken by Austria again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You'll have to handle the negotiations to hand over your homeland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can you take this on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alcide De Gasperi, the designated foreign minister of the National Liberation Committee, shook his head at his comrades' consideration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is my duty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying so, Gasperi let out a deep sigh and added dejectedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nationalism… it's so transient. In the end, it was exploited by the ambition of a fascist dictator, and the Italians must pay the price.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a lesson learned far too late by a man who had dedicated his youth to nationalism, only after seeing his country, swept up in the gale of fascism, arrive at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>August 7, 1940\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Southern British Isles, Sussex – The Anglo-French Front\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the crack of dawn, the sentries on duty greeted the morning with long yawns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, this is so damn boring.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell are we doing across the sea…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The excitement the French Army had felt when they first set foot on the British Isles, after the Royal Navy, which had seemed like an insurmountable wall, was temporarily neutralized, had long since faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smiles had vanished from the faces of the soldiers who had ecstatically praised La Rocque as the greatest leader since Napoleon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their ambition of returning home in glory as the great heroes who defeated the high-and-mighty Britain had withered away in the harsh reality of their comrades being ground down in the trench lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This war started in such a cowardly way. Damn it, this is a wrongful war.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French forces in the British Isles were only now beginning to see the situation with somewhat objective eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it, if I knew I'd come to this foreign land to dig trenches and suffer like this, I would've listened to my father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact that the parents of the soldiers who had enlisted while enthusiastically supporting La Rocque's call for a great France were the ones who had experienced the horrors of trench warfare in the last Great War and opposed war, was a tragedy in itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, whatever the French Army thought now or whatever late regrets they had, it was meaningless in their current situation, on the land of the British people filled with animosity, across the English Channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the offensive was halted, the French Army, following de Gaulle's orders, had been diligently constructing trench lines at the front, preparing to solidify their defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an incredibly tedious and frustrating task after having come on an expedition all the way across the sea, but their efforts were rewarded in an unexpected way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you hear something?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Gasp, enemy attack! It's an attack!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take cover! Quickly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an artillery barrage began to rain down with sudden explosions early in the morning, the French soldiers scrambled into the trenches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Henri! Hurry up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh, uwaaah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unlucky soldiers who couldn't dive into the trenches in time became sacrifices to the shelling, but thanks to the trench lines that de Gaulle had diligently established, the French Army did not suffer serious damage from the artillery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But while the ground was being pounded by artillery, the British Royal Air Force and transport aircraft were passing over the French Army's defense line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly a month after the battle in Gloucestershire. The British counterattack began with a grand artillery barrage followed by the commitment of paratroopers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>August 7, 1940\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Southern British Isles, Portsmouth - French Invasion Force Headquarters\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Charles de Gaulle, who had spent a sleepless night, clutched a letter from his beloved wife, Yvonne, with dry eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife's letter contained the news that his mother, who had been in poor health, had passed away three weeks ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The letter had arrived too late for him, across the sea in the midst of war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle pressed his tired eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, thanks to the unwanted British expedition, he couldn't even attend his mother's funeral.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yvonne had apparently made a request to have his mother's obituary conveyed to de Gaulle before sending the letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, de Gaulle had received nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How pathetic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle spat out a curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could roughly imagine the reason he hadn't been informed. The time his mother passed away was when he was busy reviewing the Belgian bypass operation at La Rocque's request.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prime Minister had undoubtedly been so kind as to prevent him from being shocked by his mother's death while he was supposed to be contributing to the military's operations in a foreign land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle was well aware of his current predicament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>La Rocque's request to do his best to maintain the current front without forcing an offensive seemed rational at first glance, but it actually meant that he considered de Gaulle and the British invasion force as a sacrificial pawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An expeditionary force with a goal can still maintain its morale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the French Army, which had to suppress the backlash from hostile local residents without any objective, while also in a stand-off with the enemy, would see its morale drop day by day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be better if that contributed to the motherland's victory, but while he and his expeditionary force were holding out, what the home country was doing was a gamble to invade Germany through a neutral country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a truly hopeless situation, and just as de Gaulle let out a sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General! We're under attack! The British are counterattacking on all fronts!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle let out a deflating sound and chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A counterattack?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle, who until a moment ago had been consumed by fatigue and depression, shot up from his seat and began striding toward the command barracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems the heavens have not yet abandoned France.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike in the original history, Britain had military exchanges with the German Fourth Reich and took a great interest in Germany's military system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Halifax carried out disarmament, the British Army, instead of reducing the overall size of the military, had focused on units that could be utilized as small, elite forces, like paratroopers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, thanks to the outstanding performance of Germany's Fallschirmjäger, the British Army further accelerated the development of its airborne forces, which was already underway, and had organized a small-scale paratrooper unit before the French invasion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to a lack of time, it was a stretch to call the British paratroopers an elite unit comparable to the Fallschirmjäger, but in a situation where a conventional approach was difficult, the use of a variable that Germany had already proven once seemed attractive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, the military high command expected that once the paratroopers landed, the British residents in the occupied territory would actively respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, a small-scale paratrooper force couldn't defeat the enemy, so a plan was established to drop them behind the enemy defense line to disrupt the French Army, and when the French Army faltered due to the chaos in their rear, to have armored units lead a rapid breakthrough of the enemy defense line to encircle and annihilate the enemy forces at the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The operation itself seemed plausible enough, but a plan hastily patched together to achieve the impossible was bound to falter with misfortune from the very beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The British Army, concerned that their transport aircraft would be shot down by the French Air Force, scheduled the operation to begin at night. This was also a matter of air superiority, but it was also because the successful airborne operation in which Germany had great success with its Fallschirmjäger was also a night raid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem was that a strong wind blew just before the operation began, delaying it by two hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They succeeded in getting the transport aircraft past the French Army's defense line without the French Air Force noticing under the cover of the wind-calmed dawn, but by the time the paratroopers actually began their drop, it was already daybreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aaaargh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are there so many enemy soldiers in the rear!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to their extreme misfortune, the French Army had not concentrated its forces only at the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle had deployed many troops to each city and town to suppress the already restless public sentiment and maintain public security, and they unleashed a merciless attack on the defenseless paratroopers during their descent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uwaaaaaaaah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the paratroopers were a relatively well-trained unit in the disarming British Army, there was little they could do against a hail of bullets while descending from the air, relying on parachutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless paratroopers met a miserable end, hit by bullets or tumbling as their parachutes were torn by gunfire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the drop had been at night as originally planned, the plan to sow chaos in the enemy's camp in cooperation with local residents, just like Germany's Fallschirmjäger, might have succeeded. However, the French rear-area forces, on a scale that surpassed British predictions, inflicted massive losses on the paratroopers before they could even complete their landing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fair number of paratroopers managed to land despite suffering serious damage, but the response from local residents that the British Army had anticipated was only small-scale, thanks to the French Army's dense deployment of troops in the narrow occupied area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem didn't end there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The turret of Britain's ambitiously developed new cruiser tank, the Crusader, spat fire, but the shell failed to penetrate the armor of the French Somua tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"R-Ricochet!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are those things so tough!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Germany, whose main battle tanks were centered around the Panzer IV, the British tank system, divided into cruiser tanks and infantry tanks, was causing the operation to sputter from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The British Army had an ambitious plan to have units of light and cruiser tanks lead the way to break through the enemy defense line with high mobility, then cut off the enemy in conjunction with the paratroopers disrupting the rear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to achieve a breakthrough, one inevitably had to take out the defending enemy tanks, yet the main guns of the British cruiser tanks Mk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I, II, and Crusader couldn't inflict effective damage on the French cavalry tank Somua, let alone the infantry tank B1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French tanks' characteristic design flaws, such as the lack of a radio and the tank commander having to play multiple roles, which had caused a lack of flexibility and was the cause of the previous offensive's failure, were irrelevant in a defensive battle where all they had to do was wait and shoot the approaching tanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the thinly armored British cruiser tanks, while trying to break through the well-established French defense line, were frequently destroyed not even by tanks, but by infantry or France's shabby anti-tank guns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new British infantry tank, the Matilda, did fluster the French with its unparalleled defensive power from its thick armor, but it was even slower than the slow French B1 tank, making it a tank that was far removed from the plan to encircle and annihilate the enemy with the paratroopers through a rapid breakthrough in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, the British Army lacked a sufficient number of Matilda tanks and was operating many Vickers infantry tanks made 20 years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the British high command weren't fools, so they did notice early in the offensive that the situation was not going as they intended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General, it seems the operation is a failure! The cruiser tanks are taking massive losses without being able to break through the enemy lines!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Alan Brooke, who received the report, clicked his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it all, we should have at least fought them in the last battle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only they had engaged France's armored units in the last offensive, they could have identified these problems in advance, but since de Gaulle had completely avoided engagement and retreated, there was no way of knowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But we can't just let the paratroopers be annihilated.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem was that the British Army, which already had a small standing army, had already dropped its ambitiously raised paratroopers into the middle of enemy territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The paratroopers, dropped to disrupt the French forces for an encirclement and annihilation, instead resulted in the British Army pouring its forces into the well-prepared French defense line to rescue them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, the British light and cruiser tanks had to suffer massive losses against the French armored units, which possessed far superior firepower and defensive power, while attempting a breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the light and cruiser tanks retreated, unable to withstand the massive damage, the now-free French armored units swarmed and began hunting down even the infantry tanks, including the Matildas, forcing the British Army to finally abandon the offensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The British paratroopers, who had suffered serious damage during their drop, held out for quite a long time with the support of the locals, but when they finally realized that the British Army had given up on rescuing them, they had no choice but to surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The British counterattack, ambitiously planned with reference to the German Fallschirmjäger and maneuver warfare, crumbled due to de Gaulle's thorough preparations and the limitations of an outdated tank design philosophy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The British Army, which had launched a week-long offensive with 400,000 troops, suffered massive casualties of 80,000, and lost more than half of its armored units.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even its ambitious paratrooper force was almost all killed or captured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, the French Army's losses were less than half of Britain's, and this completely reversed the atmosphere of the French expeditionary force, which had been steadily losing morale.\u003C\u002Fp>",2788,"2026-06-05T17:48:35.000Z",1,"novelbin.me","2935986aa9cd426c1af8904133f9dc6927530c295698f5ddb7ede635ebf313c1","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-178","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-177",190,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-cover.jpg"]