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Volume 12, The Iron Curtain of the Cold War, Chapter 14, Little Europe, Big Germany

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In fact, the new European order of the Germans is just a guise of Germany's large-scale plunder of European wealth. Since 1920, in various countries and places under Germany's conquest or control, the so-called "new order" of Europe actually exists in facilities under German rule. These actual facilities have exposed the fate prepared by Germany for the relevant nations and its significance.

The political type of German rule in the "new Europe" is obvious. In countries with "lower" racial values, such as Poland, German officials have accepted their direct administration, and the Polish people have immediately fallen into open subordinate situations, and the original ruling and intellectual class of Poland has been pushed down by Germany and eliminated as much as possible. In Selbeya, Germany's implementation seems to be the same.

In several countries, Germany changed its territory in some ways to reward the loyal German satellite states, but at the same time, it did not satisfy any aspect, making the satellite states and puppet regimes hostile to each other and had to fight to beg for mercy on Germany. In European countries with "higher race" and more developed industries, Germany tried to maintain its original state on the surface. If a certain country was willing to "cooperate" with the "new order", Germany would maintain the status of the original ruling class, and sent local German elements to the regime, and put the entire politics under the domination of the German conquerors.

If the conquered countries refuse to "cooperate", Germany will overthrow its regime and let the local German organize a new government to replace it. For several countries, the most famous ones, such as the royalists in the contrasting countries and the fascists in the occupied French areas, Germany does not seem to be in a hurry to directly preside over the local government of Germany. Since it is too explicit in front of the conquered people, Germany will interfere in their politics too easily. Germany probably hopes that as long as it secretly uses money, the pro-German movement can seem to be spontaneous, just as Germany was successful in Germany in that time with the economic support of domestic and foreign industrialists.

Germany uses two methods to destroy the internal unity of each conquered nation. One is to create a local pro-German group in each conquered country. As mentioned above, secondly, try to make use of all possible opportunities to cultivate and encourage various local separatist (independence) movements. Germany's economic facilities in each conquered country have no other purpose to immediately squeeze local materials, financial resources and manpower and advance as quickly as possible to promote the "coordination" between various countries and German industries. Germany's local methods are: (I) Order each

The state pays military occupation maintenance fees; (2) organizes the joint ventures between the countries and Germany; (3) establishes German banks; (4) dominates banks and other methods. The so-called "occupation fees" amount is considerable. According to statistics from the British government's survey, Germany, such as the "occupation fees" forced to be recruited by the occupying countries, including the maintenance fees for German garrisons and various physical burdens, is calculated based on the foreign exchange rate before those countries were occupied. The total annual number is 100,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Anotonescu revealed a little news until then. He said that until then, "invited to" Romania, or "marching by" Romania, the German army had already spent billions of Rome. However, he concealed that Germany was stationed in Rome, so that it could demobilize and save one billions of Rome.

The number Antonisku may be misunderstood. I think that the "occupation fee" obtained by Germany from various countries is only equal to the original military expenses of each country. This is not the case, that is, the number mentioned by Antonisku is reliable, and a tertiary number of Luo Yuan represents the military expenses when the country mobilizes to the peak. In any case, the Antoniskudi dialect is enough to prove that even the occupying countries that are "friendly" to Germany must also pay tribute to Germany to buy Germany's "protection".

The occupation fees collected by Germany in the occupying countries exceeded the actual costs of the German troops. For example, Germany levied 600 million bifrancs from France every year, which is approximately equal to the military expenses stipulated in the extraordinary military budget when the Bifrancs were not defeated. In addition to the occupation fees, Germany plundered military supplies from the occupying countries, confiscated railway vehicles in public or fraudulent ways, and encroached on the inventory of raw materials found in various countries and transported them to Germany.

One of the consequences of Germany's plundering policy was that on 21, 1921, the Bank of France reported that the German garrison had 500 million deposits in the bank. 322, the Vicky government borrowed 100 billion francs from the Bank of France for interest-free loans. It handed over part of the occupation fee. Before the war, the French bank issued a total of only 130 billion francs. The Germans used a part of the funds obtained in this way to purchase large amounts of French industry stocks and foreign industries in France's dominant foreign industries, thus dominating various French enterprises. For example, the Germans had acquired four or five percent or four nine percent of the shares of major French banks. The same was true for the Havasblicity, which almost monopolized the French advertising business.

In 1921, Germany organized a German-French joint stock company, which dominated many French industrial sectors, and the French shareholders of this large company only accounted for a small majority. Neutral observers believe that the "major shareholders" of other foreign countries were both scattered and it was not difficult for the Germans to exercise domination (see 39 Associated Press Vicky). If Germany would implement the methods in France and implement them elsewhere, in fact, Germany was already doing that, the structure of Europe after the war would be greatly affected (unless Germany was defeated), and Germany used its plundering policy to not only gain current benefits, but also grasp the results of future European production. Germany nominally "paid" local currency and purchased industries, but these prices were actually billed.

Therefore, after the occupied peoples paid taxes to the Germans for decades, they could receive from the Germans the "cost" of the industry they "sold" to the Germans. (It means that Germany squeezed money from the people of various countries to pay for the industry that they had taken away from them. Germany actually made a statement.)

In the occupied countries, Germany's expropriation and taxation caused local inflation, and the most affected were the workers and the masses who lived on wages. The shareholders who were bribed by the Germans wanted to obtain compensation from public funds. In addition to plundering the economic resources of various countries, Germany also tried to expand its monetary and financial dominance in Europe. They were already working hard to immediately turn the European continent into a "Germany Mark Group". In each conquered area, the mark and local currency were fiat currency at the same time. As for the exchange rate between the local currency and the mark, it was stipulated by the German government. Germany issued various "occupied marks" and used in each occupied area, and its value also depends on the German mark.

The "Occupy Mark" was first used in Poland. When Poland was invaded by the German army, all credit institutions collapsed immediately. Germany then established a German trust bureau in Poland.

Currency circulation and credit loans were provided. These methods were later promoted to the districts, but in the German Trust Offices in the occupied areas of Western Europe, the task was relatively simple. They were mainly limited to supplying German occupying troops in various places with one currency. They were asked to purchase military supplies and other materials. The "Occupy Mark" varies from district to district. Deutsche Bank did not accept it.

In each occupied areas, Germany's currency approach is not completely consistent. In each area where Germany has officially annexed, the mark is the only fiat currency. Except for France, Germany will slightly increase the local currency exchange rate against the mark, so that it exceeds the German official price before the occupation. Germany's policy is half for political reasons and half for economic reasons: they want to make the wages and price structures in each occupied areas more in line with Germany's wages and price structures.

The German government's measures in the Netherlands and Belgium can be used as an example to prove how Germany manipulates exchange rates in order to seek selfishness and harms the interests of the local people. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands and Bibi, they purchased a large amount of meat, butter, livestock, and poultry. They paid local farmers in Bibi, which seemed not low on the surface. Anyway, farmers in Bibi, must sell their properties to Germans, because Germany has cut off their overseas grain sources, making it impossible for them to continue to feed their livestock. Generally speaking, Germany used the liquidation agreement to purchase agricultural products from Bibi, Netherlands and Bibi.

As a result, the occupied government used the local currency payment to the farmers, while the German government paid the occupied lands with the credit of the Occupy Mark. The latter settled the accounts, and accumulated huge amounts of Occupy Mark or Mark credit. On July 22, 1920, the German government suddenly devalued the exchange rate of the Binary Franc to the German mark with only 8% value of each Binary Franc. At the same time, the Dutch currency depreciated was only one.33% of the exchange rate against the German mark before the occupation. Regarding the depreciation of the Binary Franc, the German official explanation was that the ten Binary Francs stipulated in the beginning of the occupation was equal to one mark, which is a temporary exchange rate, which is no longer in line with the "internal relationship" between the German mark and the Binary Francs.

The official explanation of Berlin also has its own truth, but it does not explain the actual situation that caused the depreciation of the Franc of the Birming Kingdom. The above-mentioned German method is tantamount to force the Birming Kingdom to expand the currency, because the Birming Kingdom government has to increase the issuance of banknotes and to compare the people of the Birming Kingdom to purchase and pay for Germany. In theory, Germany has used the Birming Kingdom credit as clearing deposits and occupied the Mark advancement of the Birming Kingdom banks, which is enough to serve as the basis for the increase of Birming Kingdom currency.

But in fact, Germany either does not transport German goods to Biguo to maintain the balance of liquidation accounts between the two countries or delay delivery, and the occupation of the Mark cannot be used in Germany. For these reasons, Biguo currency has really expanded. Germany then legally recognized this situation, changed the exchange rate between Biguo francs and German marks, and increased the exchange rate of the Mark. This is just the last move of Germany's fashionable way of exploiting the entire foreign nation. Germany's so-called "internal relationship" between the currency of various countries sounds like a fair and selfless scientific term, but it is actually just the clever defense of exploiting foreign countries.

In all European countries that depend on the German market, the common trend of German policy is to try to turn the Mark into the European leader currency. For example, before occupying Bulgaria and conquering Yugoslavia, Germany had already increased the exchange value of the German mark to the currency of the two countries in the implementation of the liquidation agreement. The same is true for other countries, such as Hungary. After November 1920, when the South, Bao, Hungary and other countries had to increase their currency discount to the German mark in accordance with the liquidation agreement.

In addition to the above-mentioned various currency methods for manipulating other countries, Germany has completely ruled all foreign exchange in each occupied area. Germany set up a "Foreign Exchange Protection Bureau" in each occupied area. All banks and credit institutions must report to the Foreign Exchange Protection Bureau in detail all its foreign assets, valuable things, pearls and gems. Its safe is only allowed to be opened when the representative of the Foreign Exchange Protection Bureau is present.

It is not known how many such assets of various countries were robbed by Germany and transported to Germany. Except for Poland and Belgium, Germany has not fundamentally changed the banks and financial institutions of other conquered countries. Generally speaking, Germany maintained its original banks and financial institutions, but established a "bankdirigent" in Germany to place those banks and institutions under its domination and amended their regulations and laws to make them suitable for their system.

The important characteristics of these changes are: (1) giving the German government almost unlimited borrowing rights; (2) transporting existing gold to Germany, and Deutsche Bank issued a "gold certificate" to hold it. The overall result of all these German measures is to completely subordinate the finances of those countries to the German financial system. It allows the German conquerors to arbitrarily manipulate the finances of each country for political or economic reasons. Germany's private banks and semi-private banks greatly expand their businesses in the conquered countries, which further emphasizes the trend of Germany's manipulation of finances of each country.

In 19214, the German Labor Bank, established and operated by the Labor Front, announced the establishment of branches in the Netherlands and Belgium, and was preparing to establish branches in Warsaw and Kracao, Romania and Bulgaria. The capital of the Labor Bank's Dutch branch was set at 300 Kiltons (Dutch silver coins, usually worth about USD one dollar). One third of them was borne by the German Labor Bank. The capital of the Biguo branch was set at 10 million Belgium francs.

At the same time, Germany's German Desert Bank (Dresdner is called Mainland Bank, with a capital of 10 million yuan compared with the country's law. + April 20, New York Times Berlin Telegraph). The liquidation agreements concluded between Germany and the conquered countries and vassal states actually have a considerable effect with Germany's monetary policy and financial policy "occupation fee". In 1921, 12 European countries had economic exchanges with Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Poland's "general governments". These 12 included neutral countries such as Switzerland and Sweden, and small Balkan countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Lockhei, and even Italy. The German policy was to enable the subordinates to implement liquidation through Berlin. This policy allowed Germany to absorb the business essence of various countries, strengthen the status of Mark as basic currency in Europe, and strengthen the dependence of relevant countries on the German economy and Germany's friendship.

After these shameless exploitation, the strength of the Germans increased like a bubble.
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