Chapter 118 – Fourth Order Tactical Jazz Edition

At the same time there was the restoration of the British Occupied Zone, Germany’s British Occupied Zone but there was the Ruhr Area, the core of German industry. The Ruhr area in the end how important, if it is to the first world war full body Germany, the Ruhr area occupies fifty-nine percent of Germany’s industrial capacity, once the Ruhr area was destroyed, Germany is finished.

At that time, the other three major German industrial zones, including the Silesian industrial zone, accounted for only forty-one percent.

Not to mention the fact that the Saarland was now occupied by France, which wanted to incorporate the Saarland into France, and the Silesian Industrial Zone had been returned to Poland.

For Germany in 1945, the Ruhr area had been almost everything to Germany. As soon as the British-occupied zone was able to gain prosperity, it quickly affected the whole of Germany.

The general restorative development did not have such a fast speed, and if you want to turn the situation around quickly, the only way is to learn from the Soviet Union’s wartime program of development, except for the rich and powerful United States.

If history remains unchanged, the British Empire now has three years to independently carry out restorative production on the British-occupied territories.

If we take into account the time for British India’s independence, there are only two years left, but Allen Wilson, if he is able to return to British India, will surely try his best to delay the time for British India’s independence, which of course requires the cooperation of 100,000 British Indian civil servants.

British-occupied areas to restore can not be efficient, can only rely on the British occupation forces, as early as the Potsdam Conference has not yet begun, everywhere to accept the award of honors, to receive the title of honorary citizenship of the British commander-in-chief of the British army, Montgomery, issued a “British-occupied areas of the German people,” which pointed out that: “Harvesting of crops must be carried out vigorously, transportation facilities must be rebuilt, postal and telecommunications services must be restored. ”

“Several industries must continue to be started. The …… German people should comply with the orders of this Commander-in-Chief and engage in the production of the necessities of life for the whole area and in the restoration of the economic life of the country.”

It can be seen that this British-occupied area, which had belonged to Britain since the Yalta Conference, was also extremely important in the eyes of the London government. Now that the occupation zones of all countries are in a state of military government, in terms of efficiency, military government should be the model that can best utilize this advantage.

The Western Allies were free to travel between their zones of occupation, but were still not allowed to enter the Soviet-occupied zones. Only in Berlin was there nominally free movement between Allied administrations.

Since the British, American and French occupation zones can freely come and go between them, it depends on who can first restore the occupation zones, and the one that restores it first will surely form a siphon effect, which the British-occupied zones, no matter in terms of population, location, and industry all kinds of indexes, are the premier existence of the four countries’ occupation zones.

Alan Wilson also listed a list of famous German companies during World War II, Krupp, Henschel, Mauser, Mercedes-Benz, Rheinmetall, Siemens, Bayer, Carl Zeiss, Thyssen, Messerschmitt, Volkswagen, Opel, and so on as thunderous names.

And now these world-famous German companies are lying in ruins in the Ruhr, waiting for someone to save them.

These in the middle of the war to support the German war machine of the famous companies, in the defeat of Germany at this time, the value of the bottom of the barrel, in the eyes of Alan Wilson, even if it is the gold in the dung, the British-occupied areas are also the most valuable one.

In fact back in London the Cabinet Secretary, Edward Bridges, was also plotting how to be a good middleman.

In itself Edward Bridges was not really too interested in a two-track system of prices.

But after Prime Minister Adderley came to power and divulged his views on the question of the future status of British India, Edward Bridges began to really take an interest in the program.

The reason why he finally agreed to send the Yugoslav refugees to Rhodesia when he was in Germany was because he wanted to deter South Africa and keep the foolish Boers honest.

Now nominally South Africa was still a colony of the British Empire, but after World War II, South Africa’s attitude toward London seemed to have subtly changed.

How did the world powers rank during this time period? Actually it was this, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, Canada, France and South Africa, this was the ranking of the world’s powers in 1945.

It seems that the British Empire is still very powerful, occupying three of the top six, but Canada will still read a little incense, and what will happen to the Boers, who have been unruly, no one knows.

While plans were being made, Edward Bridges met Prime Minister Airdrie with Montgomery’s telegram, “Dear Prime Minister, Montgomery’s telegram mentions some suggestions for the restoration of the British-occupied territories.”

“Oh, what does our Marshal have to offer?” Prime Minister Airdrie asked, scratching his polished forehead.

Edward Bridges pushed his glasses and said unhurriedly, “Currently the British Occupied Area is maintained through the British occupation forces as well as the released German soldiers, and the effect of maintaining order in this way is remarkable, but we have to admit that on top of restoring the economy, there are actually not many ways for the military to do so. So what Field Marshal Montgomery means is that he wants to establish a civilian government, but this matter can’t be rushed, because if we look for such civilians from the present Germany, almost all of them used to work for Hitler, and we can’t guarantee that these people are trustworthy.”

After listening to Edward Bridges’ narrative as if it were a chant, Prime Minister Eardley nodded his head and asked, “Sir Edward, you mean that there is now a lack of personnel to administer the British Occupied Territories.”

“That is so, Honorable Prime Minister.” Edward Bridges said softly, “The situation in Germany right now, every little bit of delay, the Germans in the occupied areas are in pain for a little while longer, so I have a plan that the Prime Minister can look at.”

While Prime Minister Airdrie was looking at the plan, Edward Bridges explained for Airdrie from the side, “This is a phased plan. In the first stage, the Commander of the Military Regions, through his junta team, has taken on all the responsibilities of running the junta. In the second stage, a group of regional administrators should be trained to replace the regional commander as the head of the military government. In the third stage, the commander of the military region ceases to perform the duties of the head of the military government. In the fourth stage, the personnel sent by the military government will gradually give way to civilian personnel, whose numbers should be greatly reduced.”

“When the four stages have been completed, it is believed that the work of identifying German Government personnel who have not committed crimes in the midst of the war will have been completed, and the British Empire will then be able to hand over the job to the Germans.”

The Cabinet Secretary’s version of the four stages of tactics, as explained by Edward Bridges, managed to pass with Prime Minister Airdrie. Edward Bridges, who came out of the Prime Minister’s office, immediately ordered, “Two thousand civil servants from all departments as well as from local government to go to Germany.”