Chapter 371 European Community

What is the European Community? What is European Monetary Union? What is the European Customs Union?

Correctly explaining these three issues was an important mission of "Dear Comrade Hitler" at the Geneva Peace Conference. Only by clarifying these three issues and letting leaders of countries that really want to participate and those who are forced to participate understand it can Germany integrate Europe in a relatively short period of time and become a country that can compete with the United States and the Soviet Union. "quasi-intercontinental countries" that compete with intercontinental countries.

The "Intra-EU Meeting" will be held on June 27. Only delegations from countries preparing to join the European Community, the European Monetary Union or the European Customs Union are eligible to attend.

The meeting was held at the Wilhelm Palace - the original Wilson Palace. Because Wilson was now a bad guy who destroyed European peace and unity, the League of Nations changed the name of Wilson Palace to the Wilhelm Palace.

"The European Community is a close confederation, similar to the German Confederation or the Holy Roman Empire. It will be composed of many European countries with independent sovereignty. All countries participating in the Community must be in the economic, military, diplomatic and judicial fields. To be consistent in policy, all governments must hand over part of their sovereignty to the Community Council, and the Community Council is also obliged to ensure the security and economic prosperity of every country participating in the Community..."

At this time, Adolf Hitler transformed into a rational, moderate, and clear-thinking politician. In German with a Bavarian accent, he described his ideals of the European Community to the representatives of European countries attending the meeting--of course, designing various European Community It was not the National Socialist Workers Party that established the system, but the German Army Policy Council.

"The European Community will have an independent capital city in the Alsace-Lorraine region, Europa Berg, which will be a new city on the Rhine. It will be home to institutions such as the European Community Commission and the European Community Parliament, It is also the seat of the head of state of the European Community..."

"Head of the European Community?" French President Pétain frowned and asked in stiff German, "Who will be the head of the European Community? Is it His Majesty Emperor Wilhelm of the German Empire?"

“The head of the European Community is elected,” Adolf Hitler said. “It will be elected by a vote similar to the ‘electoral monarchy’ by the heads of state and government of the countries participating in the European Community. Once elected, he will hold this position for life. Position. However, the head of the European Community does not have much real power. This is a ceremonial position.”

"Ceremonial positions" also depend on who holds them. According to Hitler's plan, the elderly Kaiser Wilhelm will be the first head of the European Community. Of course, he is an "old vase". After the death of Emperor Wilhelm, Hitler prepared to become the head of the European Community himself!

President Pétain asked again: "Leader, is the European Community a military alliance? Will it have troops loyal to the European Community?"

"Of course the European Community is a military alliance!" Marshal Hessmann took over the question, "But it will not establish an European Community army. It is just that the European Community countries must adopt a unified stance on the military, and a Supreme Commander of the European Community will be established. Ministry to coordinate consistent military actions among states within the framework of the European Community.”

The EU in later generations has only economic integration but not military integration. EU countries rely on NATO led by the United States for defense. Therefore, the EU has become a weak alliance of countries, while the European Community designed by Hersman is a combination of the EU and NATO.

"In other words, if France decides to join the European Community, it must declare war on Britain?" Marshal Pétain asked with some embarrassment.

Although the French fleet suffered a bomb in Toulon, the French were unwilling to choose war with Britain after being angry. They surrendered to Germany because they just didn't want to fight. How could they immediately fight for Germany?

Of course, there are still a small number of volunteers, but this does not represent the will of the entire French nation.

"Yes," Adolf Hitler nodded, "but France does not have to join the European Community right away... Joining the European Community can be a one-step process, or it can be gradual. I think France can become a full member of the European Community after Britain is completely defeated. "

Of course, the integration of Europe cannot be achieved overnight. At present, the attitudes and relations between European countries towards Germany and Germany are also different. For example, Hungary became agitated because Germany wanted to abrogate the Treaty of Trianon, and insisted on following Germany to conquer the world.

Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Galicia-Ukraine, the four countries that share the same monarchy with Germany, are actually completely controlled by Germany, and naturally they can only follow Germany's path to darkness.

The situation in Belgium was similar. The country was completely occupied by Germany and there was no way out except joining the European Community. However, Belgium currently does not have an army that can go abroad to fight, and only has a police force used to maintain law and order. Therefore, although Belgium must join the European Community, it does not have to send troops to participate in the military operations of the European Community (actually Germany).

Another country determined to join the European Community is Finland. Finland would join the European Community in exchange for German protection to ensure that its country would not be annexed by the Soviet Union. At the same time, Finland must fulfill its obligations as a member of the European Community and send troops to participate in the German-led war.

In other words, the first batch of countries to join the European Community are: Germany, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Galicia-Ukraine, Belgium and Finland.

"France can first join the European Customs Union and the European Monetary Union," Adolf Hitler said with a smile. "Of course, this is not forced. We do not force any country to join the European Customs Union and the Monetary Union."

The French can vote for a combination of surrender conditions. They can either join the European Customs Union, the European Monetary Union, and hand over a "volunteer fleet" including four new battleships, and then hand over Alsace-Lorraine to Germany for management (as the capital of the European Community), and lease Calais, Dunkirk and Brest to Germany, while handing over French Tibet to Italy (after some bargaining, Hitler agreed that France would retain Algeria and French Morocco) and agree to the independence of Syria and Lebanon.

Either France will return Alsace-Lorraine to Germany, and return all the compensation Germany paid under the Treaty of Versailles, as well as all the losses caused by France's illegal occupation of the Rhine and Saar regions, as well as compensation for the colonies Germany lost due to the Treaty of Versailles, and all the losses caused to the Austrian Crown Territory by the Treaty of Saint-Germain...about 300 billion gold marks!

And before France pays all the compensation, Germany will occupy 60% of France as collateral, and all French officers and soldiers captured in the Western Front will work for Germany to pay the interest on the compensation... Only after the compensation is fully paid, they will be released!

As for what conditions France surrenders, or chooses to fight to the end. It will be entirely decided by one vote per citizen in France...including Alsace-Lorraine and all French citizens imprisoned in prisoner-of-war camps can vote.

And those imprisoned French prisoners of war cannot escape the fate of hard labor no matter what the voting results are. The question is how long...at most 18 months or at least 18 years?

If the result of the vote is that France joins the European Customs Union and the European Monetary Union and surrenders part of its fleet (in the name of volunteers), then these French prisoners of war will only need to work as construction workers for a maximum of 18 months. After repairing the infrastructure and industrial facilities in Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Dunkirk and Calais, and repairing a few coal mines and iron mines (in Belgium, Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine), they can go home.

If the French refuse to surrender, then these poor prisoners of war will have to work endlessly, and the entire French economy will collapse, just like Germany after 1920!

In addition, no matter what kind of surrender plan, France's military strength will be restricted to a certain extent.

However, the intensity of the restrictions is different. If France joins the European Customs Union and the European Monetary Union, it can have more troops and retain a certain number of air forces.

Otherwise, France can only be subject to strict restrictions like Germany after the Treaty of Versailles.

And of course, there is no need to worry about the result of the vote. This French people will not make trouble for themselves. France will definitely join the European Customs Union and the Monetary Union. After France joins, the European Customs Union led by Germany will be close to the United States in terms of economic volume, and its population will far exceed that of the United States. It will thus become a super market that can keep pace with the United States.

In this way, countries such as Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Romania and even Switzerland will not be able to escape the attraction of the European Customs Union (of course, there is also a forced component) and join it.

Countries that join the European Customs Union do not have to join the European Monetary Union at the beginning (France and all countries joining the European Community must use the European Mark), but they will eventually give up their own currency and choose the stronger, more stable and more convenient European Mark.

It should be mentioned here that the Kingdom of the Netherlands finally resisted the temptation and refused to join the European Monetary Union immediately, but only joined the European Customs Union. Therefore, the headquarters of the European Central Bank will not be in Amsterdam, but will be located in Frankfurt, Germany.

After all the countries participating in the European Customs Union chose the European Mark, the fate of their countries was actually tied to Germany, and joining the European Community was just a matter of time.