[{"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-163":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},1294728,1717,"Chapter 162","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-163",163,"\u003Cp>January 9, 1941\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Champagne, Northern France, Reims – Belgium Expeditionary Force Headquarters\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Alphonse Georges, Commander-in-Chief of the Belgium Expeditionary Force, was receiving a report from Gaston Billotte, Commander of the 1st Army Group, with a heart full of despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Excellency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 200,000 men of the 2nd and 7th Armies are isolated at Kortrijk, and the 300,000 men of the 1st Army are isolated on the coast near Nieuwpoort.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Georges was at a loss for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had been passive during the last Belgian offensive demanded by Weygand, this time, he too had considered it a golden opportunity and launched an offensive with all his forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never even imagined a situation like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Georges muttered, dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when Guderian's 200,000-strong armored unit emerged from the Ardennes and struck the French Army, accompanied by air raids that covered the sky, the French forces, while thrown into chaos, did not think they would suffer a fatal blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the damage was significant from being struck on the flank and rear of their long front line, even an elite armored unit of 200,000 could not lead the 1.7-million-strong French Army to ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, Maxime Weygand, claiming that his decision to wait and assess the situation was correct, scoffed at the Prime Minister's rashness and ordered a response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the moment Georges moved his units to counter Guderian's forces, the Allied Forces of the Western Front launched an all-out offensive, plunging the French Army into great confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as they knew, the enemy force on the Western Front was 1.1 million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they had inflicted 150,000 losses, the enemy should not have had the capability to launch a counterattack, needing time for unit reorganization and resolution of the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the enemy reorganized their seemingly intact armored units and immediately began a counterattack, followed by the rest of the Allied Forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was thanks to Walter Model's amazing feat of grasping the loss status of each unit and creating full-strength divisions on the spot by haphazardly combining battered units, but to the French Army's eyes, it only seemed as if a German Army reserve they knew nothing about had been committed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to this, Weygand, who believed he had completely misjudged the scale of the German military force, was panic-stricken and finally issued a retreat order, and the result was catastrophic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French Army, retreating in disarray, fell victim to the Luftwaffe's fierce bombing and was cut off by the sharp breakthrough of armored units, completely collapsing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French Army suffered 200,000 losses, and 500,000 were isolated in enemy territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was what could be confirmed, at least. The whereabouts of nearly 100,000 soldiers could not even be verified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Georges shuddered at the thought that they would likely be counted as losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the 2-million-strong Grand Army ambitiously mobilized for the Bonaparte Operation, only 1 million had succeeded in retreating to the French mainland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Excellency. What should we do now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Georges looked around at the generals and staff officers in the headquarters with a dumbfounded expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all looked as if their souls had left their bodies. Until this battle, the French Army had never imagined there would be such a gap between them and the German Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Numerically, they still had a force of 1 million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But looking at each division, they were completely battered, and an offensive was unthinkable before undergoing reorganization and replenishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Air superiority had long been completely lost, and even fuel would soon run dry. The military's will to fight had already hit rock bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a situation of launching an unreasonable offensive in a war of aggression, they had somehow maintained morale with the hope that the capture of Brussels was just around the corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, they had lost all the Belgian territory they had shed blood to occupy and had been soundly, vainly defeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, would these soldiers, who had seen the overwhelming superiority of the German air force and tanks with their own eyes and retreated to their home country, even move if ordered to advance into Belgium again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only Weygand had listened to him, just a little. No, if only they hadn't started such a war in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resentment and helplessness seized him. Georges, who had been looking at his subordinates with a hollow expression, burst into tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the tears of the commander overseeing the front line forces, the French general officers were at first flustered, but as if it were contagious, they began to cry one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French Army headquarters, unable to produce any plan or countermeasure in this situation, turned into a sea of tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>January 10, 1941\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The capital of France, the ‘City of Light,’ Paris – Maurice Gamelin's Mansion\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maurice Gamelin, a hero of the last great war and a rare, staunch supporter of democracy in the French Military, was pouring wine for a guest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guest, French Prime Minister Jean-François de La Rocque, savored the wine and then offered a light comment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indeed, a wine worthy of being enjoyed by the hero of our nation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not something the man who put that hero of the nation under house arrest should say.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I believe it is quite a generous courtesy for someone who has committed High Treason.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>La Rocque smirked, slowly reading and turning the pages of a paper, and Maurice Gamelin's eyebrows twitched as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, what do you plan to do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, I’m thinking.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In La Rocque's hand was a list of participants in the so-called pro-democracy resistance forces, compiled by Gamelin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gamelin had been forced to surrender that list in vain when French Intelligence Department agents suddenly raided his home, and La Rocque was now pointedly checking the list in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t it amusing? Plotting to overthrow a legitimately elected government through democratic elections in the name of democracy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph! A man who seizes power from or imprisons anyone who gets in his way under some plausible pretext has no right to speak of democracy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>La Rocque casually skimmed the list, then paused for a moment at Charles de Gaulle's name, where it was noted, ‘Pending, more persuasion needed.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, turning the page, La Rocque let out a hollow laugh at the fact that there were those who had a foot in his own government as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those damn Germans have certainly created a fine tradition.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At La Rocque’s scoff, Gamelin shouted in fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Revolution against a wrongful government is the most French thing to do!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>La Rocque, regardless of what Gamelin said, waved the list of participants in his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“General, are you willing to remain silent about this list and live quietly in prison?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“France must know your true nature! We will bring true freedom to France—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good grief, I don't like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who want to save their own skin by bailing out like Italy now that it looks like we'll lose the war, why do they dress it up so much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you say!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sighing, La Rocque pulled out a pistol and aimed it at Gamelin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“E-Even if you eliminate me, the people of France will eventually drive you out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, that might happen. That wouldn't be so bad.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s fine if I resign due to the people’s demand, but a civil war breaking out due to a coup by self-proclaimed democrats is not.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does that—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Gamelin could finish, La Rocque's pistol fired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man famous as the hero who saved France in the last great war met a futile end to his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Minister of Defense and Field Marshal of the Army, Philippe Pétain, entered the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He flinched upon seeing Gamelin's corpse, then frowned at La Rocque.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you really have to kill him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There is no way to persuade a fool who believes it's right to start a civil war in this situation, Field Marshal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pétain stroked his mustache, looking displeased, and La Rocque continued, speaking to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If he spouts nonsense in court, it will be impossible to manage the resolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than starting a civil war to wipe out those who participated in a coup that hasn't even happened while facing the German Army, it's better to get rid of one fool to set an example and bury the matter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having finished speaking, La Rocque glanced at the list and then threw it into the fireplace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The list, filled with the names of countless participants, began to burn to black ash, and La Rocque let out a sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pétain was not pleased with La Rocque.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to Pétain, who believed himself to be a French patriot without a doubt, it was an undeniable fact that La Rocque was quite impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Algerian Army has begun its engagement with the Ethiopian Army, and Lebanon and Damascus have also begun to be attacked by the British Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>De Gaulle is holding on somehow but has been pushed back right in front of Portsmouth, and our main force has been driven out of Belgium.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pétain's calm words starkly revealed the situation France was in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>France was under attack in Britain, on the mainland, and in Africa. The reality was that the collapse of the European great power, France, was not far off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>La Rocque also nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am well aware, Field Marshal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Now, only an armistice remains.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they had not collapsed yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The offensive of the German Army and Allied Forces had produced a catastrophic result that France had never imagined, but as long as they were handling a two-front war, there was a limit to the forces they could deploy to the Western Front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I do not plan to release the result of this battle to the public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we can hold on somehow, and the Soviet offensive puts pressure on them, there is a possibility of signing an armistice for a small price.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as De Gaulle was holding out and Germany was burdened by the Eastern Front, La Rocque's expectation was that if France could just show it had the spare capacity to at least tie them down, they too would agree to peace negotiations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pétain quietly looked at La Rocque.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the tide of this battle turned towards defeat, Pétain had thought of expelling La Rocque and shifting the blame onto him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But La Rocque had approached him first, persuading him that even if the regime were to be overthrown here, the Allied Forces would not show mercy to France, and it would only increase the chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some thought, Pétain had agreed with La Rocque, protected him, and dismissed Maxime Weygand, who was responsible for the offensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I hope you won’t make me regret supporting you as Prime Minister, even after all this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>La Rocque was about to say he would, as always, but just nodded his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>January 11, 1941\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>German Western Rhineland – Luftwaffe Airbase near Cologne\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ooh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Luftwaffe representatives watched, a squadron of HeB 177s, the first heavy bomber formally adopted in Germany, performed a demonstration flight that also served as training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the tactical bombers Ju88 or He111 that the German Army had used until now, this was a full-fledged six-seater strategic bomber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, hahaha! Good, very excellent! It's big and beautiful!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Richthofen, as expected, looked like he was dying of joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“According to our experiments so far, the engine problems of the previous version have been splendidly resolved! The stability issue is solved, and it can reach a top speed of 570 km\u002Fh at an altitude of 6,000m! The maximum altitude has also greatly increased to 9,000m!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Boeing Company engineer chattered on, unable to hide his excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, I didn't quite understand what all that meant…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I looked puzzled, Werner Mölders, who was next to me, explained instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At the same altitude, its speed is similar to a Bf109.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That really put it into perspective. That thing is that fast for its build?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, the expressions of the Heinkel representatives were not very good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This airplane itself was, in the end, a heavily modified version of Heinkel's He 177.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Boeing engine… it seems to be the same spec or a similar product to the engine used in America's famous B-17, and the design was hastily changed to accommodate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, I was concerned about stability from the moment they started overhauling the design, but surprisingly, the conclusion was that the original engine was so garbage that the modified version was much more stable and had better performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It strikes me anew, Germany's heavy bomber engines were just trash…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently, that's why it's called the HeB 177, with Heinkel's 'He' and Boeing's 'B'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Heinkel Company's perspective, they had practically finished the whole thing, and Boeing just swapped the engine, yet it became a joint development. And since they had to co-develop the next-generation bomber with Boeing from the start, they couldn't help but look sour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to hold a competition, Boeing was, for now, an American company, and they couldn't possibly bring an American strategic bomber as is for a competition, and Heinkel, for its part, was feeling the limits of its own technology, so there was no other choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, good, very good! Excellent! Now that it's in full-scale mass production, we finally have a proper strategic air force!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Richthofen, looking happier than anyone, smiled brightly at me with a thrilled expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this incendiary bomb-loving warmonger thinking as he smiles so brightly? It makes me anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, now Schacht! Where should we burn with that thing? Is it Paris, after all? Just like the city's nickname, shall we make it the City of Light with incendiary bombs?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it's that after all…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The City of Light (physical), he says.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we do that and France cries out for a fight to the death, things will get tiresome.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paris is not some great military production base; it's just a place full of civilians and landmarks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If by some mistake Notre Dame, the Louvre, or the Eiffel Tower burns down, who knows what kind of fit they'll throw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, we could consider it as a last resort, but for now, just having a card that shows we have such means is enough pressure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren't weapons made to be used? I hate words like strategic deterrence.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected of Richthofen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he's a good-natured man to me, I have to keep him on a leash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, of course, they won't surrender just from words of pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We do plan to demonstrate its power. I'm just saying we should choose the target prudently.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, I'll leave that part to you. To be honest, with how I'm feeling right now, I don't care about anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm a little sad that he would be very disappointed if he knew what I was considering for this bomber's first mission—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>France's offensive capability has been completely annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Britain and Africa, the French forces are also being pushed back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, it seems they plan to hold out instead of surrendering unconditionally, but we have no intention of just watching after pushing them this far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm a bit curious how they'll react if I ask them to choose between being the City of Light (physical) or the city of debt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I was thinking that, my aide, Mr. Berger, came running from a distance, out of breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“V-Vice-Chancellor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Soviet Army offensive has begun on the Eastern Front!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…So, what was bound to happen has happened.\u003C\u002Fp>",2590,"2026-06-05T17:48:35.001Z",1,"novelbin.me","a56d4e1f4091a1f975f6bd2d3cf401967c3339fcb676b22c7b49bbeddf6fb96b","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-111","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-110",190,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-cover.jpg"]