Chapter 128 – Arms King
“It’s a long way to Africa, and I don’t want to see your men develop illnesses along the way, necessary precautions are a must.”
Because of the limitations of the conditions, there were currently not enough places to clean up, it was just a matter of condescending to Mihajlovic’s men and enjoying the gifts of nature at the coastline.
Alan Wilson had divided the seashore into two areas, barely managing not to be mixed bathing, with men on one side and women and children on the other.
If, in a state of shame, Mikhailovich’s men had refused, there would have been only one other way. There was only one place in Germany where such large groups could be sterilized, and that was the gas chambers of the concentration camps that were scattered all over Germany.
With that said Allen Wilson put the binoculars down fondly, ending the fact that he was observing the Yugoslavian female human body.
Receiving money to do the job, he also does not want to give high hopes of the royalists, on the way to death, the preparation should still be done.
Although this kind of broad daylight, bathing in the group seashore is a bit shameful, but Mihajlovic knows that this kind of conditions can not expect more, as for Alan Wilson with binoculars aiming at the female group, he took it as if he did not see it, but also the opening of the mouth to thank, “Alan liaison officer thought of it thoughtfully.”
“That’s for sure, in fact I’m not a greedy person. This is after all more than 200,000 lives!” Alan Wilson stood straight and sighed at length, “But I don’t have the funds to help you guys too much, it costs money to do things, and it costs quite a bit of money, and I’m certainly aware that by now, whether it’s you guys or the Croats, or the Slovenes, you’re all broke, I’m not asking for your money, I’m just using your money to do your business.”
“The money will not come into my hands, but I cannot expect that everyone in the midst of this affair, like me, can carry on a good will and run your affairs, can they? Mr. Mihailovich.”
Alan Wilson and Mihailovich stood side by side on the beach, their mouths full of hopelessness.
“Of course I understand that!” Mihailovich very much believed that Alan Wilson was saying that greed was a common problem for all people, and it was very normal for Alan Wilson to say that he was going to take the money to unblock the relationship.
“It’s good that you understand this, the weapons you need, are they really scrap metal? He says yes and no, and we need to make him yes, so we have to dredge up the relationship.” Alan Wilson said with an expression of you taking advantage of a great advantage, “If you can find enough money quickly after arriving at Rodneya, there are still gains to come later on.”
“In what way exactly?” Mikhailovich froze and had to engage in follow up questioning.
“For example, all of Germany’s current military industries will have to be dismantled and destroyed, which I personally think is a bit too much of a shame. After all, there’s still money to be spent on destruction, and that’s an expense, so if there’s a buyer who can then take the money to purchase some light weapon production lines. That’s the best of both worlds.”
The weapons that were given to these Yugoslavian refugees were only temporarily topical, and the buyer weapons all needed to be maintained. Under that kind of environment in Africa, how long these weapons could be used was still an unknown.
How to turn waste into treasure was the most important thing that the British Empire, which was now finely tuned, should consider.
Since all countries now believed that Germany should completely abolish the military industry, there was no need to keep the wartime military production lines.
Alan Wilson felt that if Mihailovich and these people could physically get funds as soon as possible after arriving in Africa, then it would not matter much to share some of Germany’s military industrial industry that was supposed to be dismantled with the other side.
Of course this thing he is not going to do it himself, what things intervene harmless, what things absolutely do not touch, Allen Wilson also has an account in his mind, this kind of exchange of the proceeds brought about by the British Empire, completely belong to the British Empire.
With the basic cleaning of the people after the seaside to Africa, this wave of population migration caused by the World War kicked off, of course, this and Eastern Europe has begun the Germanic migration, or a small thing.
Where was the German military industry, where were the weapons best suited for Mihailovich’s people? Alan Wilson understood at first thought, Essen in the Ruhr, where the Krupp family was headquartered.
Mihailovich is the last batch of refugees to board the ship, now there is still time, Allen Wilson is just right to take him, to the seat of the Krupp family, so that the other side to observe.
A few months ago, Alfred Krupp, the German arms kingpin, a long, lanky man in a pinstriped suit and felt bowler hat, boarded a U.S. Army jeep, escorted by three gun-toting soldiers. The jeep roared to life and headed toward Dusseldorf. The man was Alfred Krupp, heir to the famous German arms empire, who had just been arrested and was tried and booked in Dusseldorf that night.
Alfred Krupp had lived alone during the war with no friends and only servants, and spent most nights drinking whiskey and smoking Camel cigarettes. To facilitate the appropriation of property in the occupied territories, Krupp meddled in the coal mining, horse racing, foundry and blast furnace industries.
As the world-renowned arms king, he was first captured after Germany’s defeat, and as for the huge Krupp military industry, it is currently being dismantled by British soldiers, while Krupp himself was handed over to the British Army by the US Army.
Düsseldorf is adjacent to the Ruhr industrial zone in the north and Cologne in the southeast, with the inner city and most of the downtown area located on the east bank of the Rhine River, and only thirteen kilometers of precincts in the west part of the river, making it an important industrial city in northwestern Germany close to Holland, the main artery of German industry, and the center of the Ruhr coal mining region.
After returning to Europe for three months, Alan Wilson could finally begin to think about what he was going to do, in the devastated British-occupied areas, to see what legacy was left behind by those well-known German companies.
Alfred Krupp, all his life was trained in accordance with the family heir, but now in jail, this day has been taken into custody he was brought out by the guards, the heart of the estimate is another interrogation.
But out of his expectations, came a young man who had never seen, and a somewhat disheveled middle-aged man. The young man is Alan Wilson, has stepped into the elderly stage of the middle-aged man, is the head of the Yugoslav Fatherland Army Mihajlovic.
Allen Wilson to this is not entirely bad taste, with the Soviet Union more and more powerful, in front of this German arms king sooner or later will be released, just in the end which year is not sure, this is inevitable, unchangeable.
In front of the arms king although a short period of time behind bars, but can not change out after the sixties again became Germany’s calling card, Alan Wilson sat down and opened his mouth to ask, “Can you speak English?”
“Of course!” Alfred Krupp replied indifferently, “You have confiscated my entire family fortune, what else is there to ask now?”
These are all temporary, Allen Wilson knew that sooner or later these family properties would be returned to the arms king in front of him, “Honorable arms king, I am not talking about the family properties, that part has someone else to take care of it, I mainly want to talk about about the non-military part of the Krupp family’s industry, how can it be activated, knowing that right now, the unemployment rate in Germany, no matter whether it’s an indicator or the real situation. are very bleak.”
“I suppose you don’t want Germany to fall back into the predicament it was in after World War I either. In your youth, you experienced it firsthand, when the Ruhr was full of French and Belgian police, and there was nothing you could do about it. That was the beginning of Germany’s return to war afterward, and people can’t always be in trouble. But Hitler’s way, it has proved to be a dead end.”
“How to divest the military industry and become a German company that serves the common man is what the British Empire is currently trying to assist Germany in doing. Although you are to be taken into custody for the time being, I believe that your assistants will be able to help us, to a certain extent, to resume production.”
“Not only you, but I also hope that other businesses in the Ruhr area will be able to help the Germans in distress at this time.”
Alan Wilson knew that the Krupp family had an important position in the Ruhr area, and the vast majority of the Ruhr area was under the administration of the British-occupied area, the most important industrial area in Germany, if it could cooperate with the British policy, the British-occupied area’s recovery would be a more certainty.
This is what the British Empire has always done, cooperating with the local local snakes in the occupied territories to pacify the discontent of the occupied territories. But it was usually used on colonies, but rarely on European countries.
“Will you let me regain my freedom?” Alfred Krupp asked rhetorically with the corners of his mouth quirking up, not having any hope at all in his mind.
“Can’t! Your position amongst the German military industrial complex, I don’t need to tell you that you personally understand everything.” Alan Wilson shrugged helplessly, “The person who is staring at you is not just a country or a person. You can only be judged while the war is not yet over.”
Alan Wilson didn’t say how it would be after the war, sort of leaving the arms king with a thought.
“It seems I have to write a letter, and there is also the fact that I hope to improve my living environment.” Alfred Krupp was silent for a moment, but finally agreed.
No matter what, he still had feelings for the Ruhr region where he grew up. Likewise, he did not want to see the citizens of his country, constantly shrouded in death.
The most crucial thing was that he almost had no choice. If he didn’t agree, all of the Krupp family’s properties would be confiscated, and if he was willing to cooperate, he might be able to keep some of them.
“Thank you for your cooperation in restoring order in the British Occupied Territories.” Alan Wilson nodded his head very politely, he also knew that this was the first step, and his own journey to level the Ruhr area had just begun.