I Will Stage A Coup D’état

The dictator Adolf Hitler screamed all night.

Why would Britain, which believed it could coexist with Germany as a fellow Germanic nation, do this?

Why are the Anglo-Saxons betraying Germany and siding with the Reds and the inferior Yellows?

Hitler didn’t think about how the war threats he sent would be received in Britain.

The Führer, who was increasingly dependent on drugs, led the country with impulsive flashes of insight, so he was far removed from the perspective of ordinary people.

“This is betrayal. Do you know, Hess? The Anglo-Saxons have betrayed the Germanic cause!”

The Führer’s unique logic was difficult for ordinary people to understand right away.

“I, too, did not know that the British would betray the goodwill you showed them through Mein Kampf, mein Führer.”

But Hess, the party secretary who faithfully served the Führer, understood those words perfectly.

“I was thinking of preserving the dignity of the British Empire. But how!”

Of course, if the British had heard it, they would have been dumbfounded.

Was the British Empire such a weak nation that it relied on someone’s goodwill to survive?

“Your Excellency, the Führer. If by any chance there is a negotiation…”

“How can we do that? It’s already wrong. These shitty bastards have ruined all the plans!”

Hitler expressed his irritation in a sharp voice and blew away all the documents on the desk.

Even to Hess, Hitler’s faithful disciple, this situation did not look good.

In Mein Kampf, wasn’t Britain, a fellow Germanic nation, supposed to be the one that Germany would ultimately join hands with and divide the world?

This won’t do. It’s best to resolve the situation before the Führer’s plans are further shaken.

Hess made a momentous decision.

On August 25, 1942, Hess took a car and visited a German airfield near the Dover Strait.

“You, Party Secretary?”

“How shall we serve you?”

“Of course, we should serve him with a protocol befitting His Excellency Göring.”

The Luftwaffe tried to serve him by performing a complicated protocol procedure, as he was a high-ranking person who was the Party Secretary, but Hess refused.

“I’d like to fly a plane for a bit.”

It was a common eccentricity shown by high-ranking German military officials visiting airfields.

“Well, it’s not impossible, but can you fly a plane?”

“I know how to fly.”

Since Hess knew how to fly a plane, it was even less unusual.

“Then, let’s do that.”

The German officers had no idea what Hess was going to do, so they gave him a Messerschmitt fighter plane.

‘Your Excellency, please wait a little. I will try to negotiate with the Anglo-Saxons.’

Hess took the plane and crossed the Dover Strait.

And he landed straight in a field in southern England.

“???”

Just then, a Home Guard soldier who was on guard saw a German plane with an Iron Cross mark landing and rushed over, aiming his gun.

“Drop your weapon and put your hands up!”

As soon as he got off the plane, Hess said in a calm tone,

“I have come as a special envoy following the will of His Excellency, the Führer, to negotiate peace with the British Empire.”

“The, the Führer?”

The British soldier judged that it was not a matter he could handle.

Upon receiving his report, the British government immediately sent someone to find out what was going on.

“A guy claiming to be the third-highest ranking Nazi has come, find out if he’s making up excuses to defect or if he’s someone who can really negotiate.”

And the conclusion they reached was,

“That guy, is he crazy?”

Once the British decided that they didn’t need to take Hess seriously, they immediately detained him.

Hess’ flight was a ridiculous farce to the British, but to the Nazis, it was a shocking incident where a high-ranking figure, third in the party hierarchy, had ‘defected(?)’ to Britain.

“Find out how that bastard got to Britain! How could this happen without traitors swarming around like maggots everywhere!”

“Mein Führer, please calm down.”

“Do I look calm to you!”

Hitler, who was already engulfed in rage, foamed at the mouth.

In his mind, Hitler imagined all sorts of scenarios, such as Hess surrendering to the Allies and handing over secret information.

If even his close associates betrayed him like this, who could he trust?

Everything around me is untrustworthy. They’re just waiting for a chance to betray me at any moment.

The Führer’s hysteria became much worse than before.

In the midst of this, when the Allies held the Moscow Tripartite Conference and resolved to destroy the Axis, Hitler became extremely agitated.

“How dare they demand Germany’s unconditional surrender? Do you think there’s such a word as surrender for the great Germanic people?”

Hitler showed his anger to the fullest.

“Foreign Minister. Go and keep our allies in check right now.”

The Führer immediately summoned Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and ordered him to go around the Axis allies to strengthen the alliance’s solidarity.

Ribbentrop went straight to Rome, Madrid, Budapest, Bucharest, and other places to talk with various allied leaders.

Most of the allied leaders showed a favorable response.

Although Britain had joined the war, Germany still dominated the continent.

Well, if things turned unfavorable, they could just think about it again when the time came.

In the case of the shameless Mussolini, he expressed gratitude and even asked if he could get additional help in return.

At least Italy didn’t seem to worry about betrayal, even if other countries did.

However, the ally that joined the Axis last, Greece, had a slightly different idea.

We sided with Germany to avoid war, but if Britain becomes an enemy, won’t we become a battlefield?

With the death of the pro-German dictator Metaxas on the operating table during throat cancer surgery, Greece’s position had changed a bit.

Prime Minister Alexandros Koryzis, who was appointed as Metaxas’ successor, was a former banker who had considerable fear of the British Empire’s finances.

Immediately after Britain’s entry into the war, he weighed both sides and concluded that it would be best to quietly withdraw from the Axis camp.

No matter how he thought about it, it was suicidal for a country surrounded by sea on three sides to turn the world’s second and third largest navies into enemies.

When Ribbentrop arrived in Athens, Koryzis treated him with great courtesy.

Nevertheless, when asked to contribute to the Axis alliance, he immediately showed a negative reaction.

“Greece is a small country. With our long coastline, we’re already struggling to defend our territory, so dividing our forces would only cause harm.”

It was an excuse, but not an outright lie.

Ribbentrop left Greece with a slight unease about Koryzis’ refusal.

In any case, Germany’s tour was successful.

They reaffirmed the solidarity of the alliance and confirmed that Germany’s position had not crumbled.

When Goebbels confirmed that there were no apparent problems with the alliance, he turned on the speakers towards Europe.

“The alliance of the Yellow Race, Judeo-Bolsheviks, and greedy Anglo-Saxons shows well how decadent the West has become. Pure Whites need to unite against these depraved ones to create a righteous world. Europeans, rise up!”

Germany’s ‘appeal’ was a heart-stirring cry in their own minds, but the response was not as great as expected.

Except for extreme racists and anti-communists, there was no significant volunteer uprising.

After all, those who would jump into the Great Anti-Soviet Crusade had already done so, and the volunteers Germany gained from this appeal did not exceed 100,000.

Germany had no choice but to use means they didn’t want to use.

“We will massively deploy female labor in factories.”

To secure an army to face Britain, mobilizing women was essential.

Goebbels even gave a total war speech to justify the mobilization of women.

“I ask you, do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more radical and total than anything we can imagine today?”

The German civilians, who had not yet tasted bitterness, showed an enthusiastic response to this speech.

“If the German nation wants it!”

For the first time since the war, the Third Reich began to properly transition to a wartime economy.

Consumer goods production decreased dramatically, and women were fully mobilized for military production.

Moreover,

“We’re short on labor, can’t we bring in more foreigners to use?”

“Foreigners? We’re already overflowing with them.”

Germany was already using prisoners of war from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and other countries in factories, farms, and mines.

Their numbers alone were close to 4 million.

The German industry’s demand was to bring civilians from the occupied territories to Germany to work on top of this.

“Hmm. Managing that would be quite a headache.”

“You need to provide the manpower first to meet production.”

“Providing the numbers isn’t as easy as it sounds.”

“Ah, then how are we supposed to achieve the targets? Should we just give up on meeting deadlines?”

Due to the German armed forces, which consumed nearly 10 million personnel, the available young German workforce for the military industry and other sectors was less than 4 million.

Even adding some female labor, it was impossible to churn out all the military supplies such as tanks, planes, and cannons.

More people were needed.

“Alright, I understand for now.”

The German government began to allocate quotas to the occupied territories in earnest.

“Extract 500,000 from there and send them to Germany. Ah, no exceptions. If there are no adults, send children, I say.”

Particularly harsh demands were allocated to the eastern occupied territories.

“Hand over food and money. Hand over women too. Hand over men to work in factories as well.”

The Soviets, who already harbored ill feelings towards Germany due to the Einsatzgruppen and the crushing of separatists, took this opportunity to massively engage in anti-German resistance.

“Germany was not our liberator. They are more vicious rulers than the Soviets.”

As anti-German sentiment boiled over in various places, even the Jews who were being chased by the Einsatzgruppen took the path of armed resistance.

The hegemony of the Third Reich took a major hit with Britain’s entry into the war.

Nevertheless, the outward appearance of the Empire still looked solid.

For now.