Rise of Australia

Chapter 980: Divide the Cake

Although President Ludwig did not completely control the discourse power in Germany, even the Federal Republic of Germany he founded only controlled half of the Berlin area so far.

But this did not prevent Ludwig from personally pushing for a ceasefire meeting. After all, this was the first step in showing goodwill to the three countries of Britain, France and Australia.

Only with the support of these three countries can Ludwig's rule of the Federal Republic be stable.

Otherwise, even if the German Chancellor and his remaining forces were defeated, they would be doomed to face destruction under the continued attacks of Britain, France and Australia.

As Germany's former chief of staff, Ludwig believed that he had a clear view of the current world situation.

He is not like the crazy warmongerer of the German Chancellor, who wanted to drag the whole of Germany and all Germans down with him even though Germany was clearly at the end of its road.

In the federal government currently controlled by President Ludwig, the top leaders are actually the officials who participated in the rebellion.

As the marshal with the largest number of troops under his command, Rommel was appointed Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic by Ludwig.

Rommel and Ludwig had the same idea, that the German government at that time was no longer suitable to continue the war.

Under the promotion of Ludwig and Rommel, the proposal for an armistice within the government of the Federal Republic of Germany was passed unanimously.

A few hours later, at 1939 p.m. on June 6, 23, the British, Australasia and French governments received an open telegram from Berlin, Germany.

Just as President Ludwig had expected, after hearing about the problems within the Germans themselves, the three countries of Britain, France and Australia made similar decisions, which was to support Ludwig's Federal Republic to control Germany's discourse power, and then conduct peace talks with Ludwig's Federal Republic.

Of course, President Ludwig also understood one thing. Although he could gain Germany's voice through the support of Britain, France and Australia, this also meant that in the subsequent peace talks, all of Germany's interests and property would become a huge cake and then be divided up by the three countries of Britain, France and Australia.

Moreover, during the entire division process, Germany will have no say and can only passively accept it.

However, compared to continuing to drag the entire Germany into the abyss of war, ending the war at this time is not unacceptable. Although Germany will have to pay a huge and painful price to end this war, it is much better than negotiating after the territory is occupied by Britain, France, Australia and other countries.

On June 6, a public document was sent to all German regions from the government of the new Federal Republic, containing President Ludwig's condemnation of the Chancellor of the German Empire and demands for all German troops.

Among them, President Ludwig mentioned many times that this war was launched by the Chancellor of the German Empire on his own will, and the harm brought by the war was imposed on all Germans.

So far in this war, the total casualties of the German army have reached 800 million, of which at least 200 million German soldiers have died on the battlefield.

For the sake of all German people and the future of Germany as a whole, President Ludwig asked all German troops to carefully consider their next actions and end the war in a peaceful way as much as possible.

Rommel's Army Group B was the first to respond to President Ludwig's call. At noon on June 6, Rommel ordered all units of Army Group B to cease fire immediately and withdraw 24 kilometers as a gesture of sincerity to seek peace with the British, French and Australian armies.

Between June 6 and June 24, Britain, France and Australia issued statements expressing their willingness to accept the Federal Republic of Germany's proposal to end the war in a more peaceful way, and announced a temporary ceasefire in Western and Northern Europe. On June 6, representatives of the governments of Britain, France and Australia gathered in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

Because Army Group B retreated 30 kilometers, the city was successfully taken over by the British, French and Australian armies.

In short, this was a meeting about how to divide up all of Germany's property.

Of course, the final decision on how to deal with Germany will still require a large conference, where all countries that have participated in the war against Germany will vote to decide.

But this did not prevent the United Kingdom, France and Australia from holding a small meeting before the big meeting to decide on the general outline of the solution.

Because there had been many discussions and ideas on how to deal with Germany before, the three countries of Britain, France and Australia quickly reached a unified agreement on some issues where there were not many differences.

First of all, all the countries currently occupied by Germany have the right to restore their independence, including Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Austria and other countries in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

However, although these countries were nominally allowed to restore their own independence, there were still large numbers of German troops stationed in countries including Poland, Austria and Denmark. If they wanted to regain their independence, they had to rely on the support of Britain, France and Australia.

More importantly, Britain, France and Australia allowed countries including Poland to regain independence, which directly cut off the possibility of Russia wanting to annex Poland.

In addition, the three Baltic countries are basically under the control of Australasia. It can be said that the Russians have gained nothing from this war, and it is not even easy to completely recover their own territory.

Regarding some areas occupied by Germany, Britain, France and Australia also agreed to return them all.

This also means that Russia can at least guarantee the integrity of its territorial territory, but the bad news is that the Russians must take these lands from the Germans.

Moreover, even if Russia regained the occupied land, Ukrainians in the Kiev area would not necessarily identify with Russia.

The impact of Russian soldiers' forcible seizure of food is so great that it may even cause the division of the entire Ukrainian and Russian regions.

This is also the reason why Britain, France and Australia did not prevent Russia from recovering all its territory. If Ukraine becomes independent, a single Ukraine will obviously not be able to confront Russia.

But if Ukraine is allowed to continue to be part of the whole of Russia, then this solid fortress of Russia may be breached by Ukraine from within.

After all, what the Russian soldiers did in Kiev was indeed not very glorious, and it is something that the Russian government cannot whitewash at all.

The third point is the scope of territory that Germany itself needs to cede.

As the country that initiated this world war, it was not enough for Germany to atone for its sins by simply giving up the occupied lands. In order to prevent Germany from being too powerful after the defeat and the possibility of launching a war, the existing German territory must be divided to a certain extent.

(End of this chapter)