The Rise of the Third Reich

On August 10, 1943, in Bombay, the most developed commercial city in the British Indian Empire, at No. 19 Laburam Road, where high-end residences were scattered, there was a beige Western-style three-story building surrounded by green trees and flowers. By this time it was already crowded.

Braving the scorching sun in India in August, those who gathered here were all Indian Asans wearing ugly homespun clothes and slippers - in this era of India, those who dressed like this were not necessarily poor Asans, there were many families with special Brahmins who are wealthy and have been rich for thousands of years now dress like this because homespun slippers symbolize non-violence and non-cooperation!

The Asans wearing Indian homespun clothes gathered around No. 19 Laburam Road today are of course supporters of non-violent non-cooperation. And the reason they gathered here was to go to jail! Accompany their great leader Mahatma Gandhi to jail!

Mahatma Gandhi was released in May on the order of Mountbatten, the Governor-General of India. At that time, Gandhi agreed to discuss the issue of "Indian Self-Government" with the British.

In other words, he recognized Queen Elizabeth as the Empress of India, and no longer shouted the slogan "Britain Get Out" - nor did he dare to shout it, because German Field Marshal Halder led a mighty German Expeditionary Force of more than 100,000 people. Come to India.

That was the legendary Nazi who killed without blinking an eye! Mahatma Gandhi's method was fine for dealing with the soft-hearted British, but wasn't he looking for death when facing the Nazis?

Moreover... Mahatma Gandhi heard in prison that the newly-elected Queen of England was very vicious and was nicknamed the "Bloody Queen". She brutally suppressed the British Bolsheviks in London, killing them until rivers of blood flowed. All the captured British Bolsheviks were taken to Buckingham Palace. Shot down in the square!

Therefore, Congress leaders such as Gandhi and Nehru decided to retreat temporarily and seek autonomy first and then find ways to become independent.

But in August, the situation changed again.

First of all, it was the Congress party that figured out the truth about the "London Rebellion". Queen Elizabeth was not that vicious, the bombardment in Buckingham Palace Square was simply a fiction, and the suppression of the British Bolsheviks was not cruel.

Secondly, the Congress Party discovered that the German troops entering India were not very large, estimated to be less than 100,000. Half of them have not yet entered the subcontinent, but are stationed in Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, the Maldives Islands and other places. The remaining German troops who actually entered the South Asian subcontinent did not look very fierce. They had strict military discipline and did not commit any crimes in India. They seemed to be more reasonable than the original British army.

But what really prompted Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru to raise the banner of struggle again was the emergence of the People's Republic of India!

The so-called People's Republic of India is actually an Indian country supported by the Soviet Union and with the Indian Bolshevik Party as the main ruling party.

This country is nominally independent and is the Indian people's own country!

Its emergence seems to have realized the ideal of the Indian people being the masters of their own country! This has put great pressure on the National Congress Party, a party that has been fighting for India's independence and freedom.

If the Indian National Congress still pursues cooperation with Britain, it will lose the politically correct banner of Indian independence.

Without this big flag, Gandhi and others are just bad old men who only know how to go on hunger strikes.

Therefore, Gandhi and Nehru had to raise the banner of Indian independence again in July 1943 and announced the implementation of non-violent non-cooperation throughout India.

This move immediately aroused strong opposition from the British Indian authorities. Starting from August 1, Sikh policemen loyal to the British appeared around No. 19 Laburam Road - in the rules of the political game in India, this was A precursor to the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Congress Party immediately launched a resistance with Indian characteristics. It did not launch an armed uprising or arrange for Mahatma Gandhi to escape, but called on its supporters to accompany Gandhi to jail! Probably they wanted to mobilize tens of thousands or more supporters to go to jail for the British Indian authorities and bankrupt the British.

So starting from August 2, tens of thousands of Congress Party supporters gathered around No. 19 Laburam Road, carrying their jail luggage and ready to accompany Gandhi to eat prison food at any time.

At the same time, major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, and Calcutta were also paralyzed, with workers, businessmen, and students on strike. Even the Hindu officers and soldiers in the British-Indian army were in commotion, and the situation in the "British-controlled areas" in India suddenly became tense again.

"Ludwig, the situation in India is very bad now. It's like a big powder keg that will explode at any time."

The person reporting the situation in India to Hessmann was Marshal Franz Halder, the commander of the Indian front. He was ordered to return to Berlin to report on his duties. I left Delhi on August 3rd, visited the crowded Labrama Road in Mumbai on the 4th, and arrived in Zossen, a suburb of Berlin, on August 5th.

"Can it be suppressed?" Hersman asked while sitting behind his desk, looking through the information brought by Halder. Among the information he was reading, there were many scenes of chaotic demonstrations and protests, and some were about the former Indian National Army units.

The Indian National Army was raised by the Germans themselves and was originally intended to be sent to India to cause trouble with the British. However, I did not expect that the plan could not keep up with the changes. India has now become a common trouble for Germany and the United Kingdom. Although these national troops are now integrated into the British and Indian Army, they have retained their original organizational structure below the regiment level and are not under the control of British officers. Down, very dangerous.

"Who should be suppressed?" Halder seemed not to understand Hersman's question. "Is it the National Army?"

"The Indian National Congress!" Hessman said, "Can Gandhi and Nehru be arrested and shot?"

Artillery execution is a unique method of killing in India, which involves tying a person to the muzzle of a cannon and then blasting the person to pieces! It was first used by the Mughal dynasty, and was later learned by the British colonists who were good at following the local customs. During the Indian uprising from 1857 to 1859, the British executed many Indian resisters by gunfire. In the Punjab Rebellion from 1871 to 1872, another 66 Sikhs were shot.

However, after the Amritsar massacre caused by non-violent activities, the British colonists gradually became weak and did not dare to use gunfire to kill people. Moreover, after the Amritsar tragedy, the non-violent non-cooperation movement emerged, making the movement against British colonial rule gradually take shape in India. The British rulers became increasingly weak and did not dare to take decisive measures to suppress it.

Hirschman, who has the knowledge of later generations, knows very well that Britain's colonial rule in India cannot be maintained by compromise, and the European Community's colonial rule in Africa cannot be maintained either!

Cruel means must be adopted!

"Execute Gandhi?" Halder looked at Hessman, "I'm afraid this will cause even greater trouble... This is the British opinion. Because Gandhi has countless supporters and he is the leader of the Indian independence movement. The leader of the moderates. The British believe that it is possible for Gandhi and the National Congress Party to cooperate. If they are eliminated, we will face hundreds of millions of angry Indians!”

Are hundreds of millions of angry Indians really scary?

Hessman smiled contemptuously and said: "There are not hundreds of millions of creatures in India that can be called human beings. There are only at most 20 million people there, and the rest are untouchables who are not worthy of being human."

Halder, who had been in India for several months, already understood some of India's strict hierarchy. He nodded and said, "Ludwig, you are right. The 20 million upper-class Indians have not treated the lower-class people there at all." Others treat us as human beings, but the lower-class people there are incited by the upper-class people and become cannon fodder against us.”

"This is the most powerful thing about Mahatma Gandhi!" Hersman interjected.

Hirschman has spent a lot of time studying Indian issues, and he is basically a "revolution expert" himself, so he can discover some deep things.

Before the rise of the non-violent non-cooperation movement, although a series of resistance incidents occurred in India, the participating groups were not widespread and were mainly the upper class in India. The main forces in the uprising from 1857 to 1859 were princes of princes and high-caste native soldiers (soldiers also need to have the skills). The Punjab Rebellion in 1871 was mainly provoked by the remnants of the Sikh dynasty. Gandhi used the non-violent non-cooperation movement to turn the resistance into a national movement.

Because "non-violent activities" greatly lower the threshold for rebellion - the national conditions of Greater India determine that not everyone can participate in serious rebel activities.

Everything in India must be done based on seed. If you don't do it well, you can only be oppressed. You have to serve those who do well for generations. How can you rebel? Moreover, a serious violent rebellion requires the organization of an army. To organize an army, someone must serve as a soldier. And being a soldier... that is a job only a Kshatriya can do! According to Hindu standards, the majority of untouchables are not allowed to join the Indian rebel army at all. Only those who meet the caste requirements can join the army. How many people are there? How to defeat imperialism?

In addition, if you work for the revolution with your head in your waistband, you cannot do it in vain. There is no such reason! There must be rewards after the victory of the revolution, at least land and caste changes! Everyone who participates in the revolution must be mentioned as a Kshatriya, right?

After this revolution, how many Kshatriyas will India produce?

Moreover...if the rebellion can create the Kshatriya caste, can there be peace in India?

Now Gandhi and Nehru can incite the untouchables to rebel against the British Empire. In the future, won't others be able to "Brahmins and Kshatriyas have their own kind of calling"?

Therefore, the root cause of the non-violent and non-cooperation movement was not at all due to Comrade Gandhi's high moral character or Mahatma Gandhi's excessive weakness, but rather to the national conditions of Greater India. Only through non-violent non-cooperation can people from all walks of life and castes in India unite to make trouble against the British colonists.

If Gandhi gave up non-violence and started fighting imperialism, Indian society would inevitably be divided!