Chapter 179 Israel's National Society
The British's "weakness" was beyond Hessman's expectations, but it was reasonable.
Germany is much stronger now than Germany in history that Hitler took office after he came to power! Faced with the weaker Germany in history, the Macdonald administration of Britain and the Laival government of France were also blindly giving in. Now that the same "combination" (both Britain and France are mastered by the Virgin Mary) meet a stronger Germany, what else can be done besides giving in?
However, Britain's concessions are not without a bottom line. Germany's naval tonnage cannot exceed 35% of that of Britain in history, and it is estimated that it is about the same proportion now. Considering the climate of the North Sea, Germany cannot expect to win with a "cut corners" Pacific aircraft carrier like the "Karl Marx" level.
Historically, Germany's 33,000-ton Earl Zeppelin had only 42 ship-borne aircraft, which was more than a dozen less than the 15,900-ton Canglong. It can be seen how much impact the wind and waves of the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean have on aircraft carriers!
Since a large 33,000-ton aircraft carrier has only 42 carrier-based aircraft, and it is often encountered sea conditions where the ship-based aircraft is unable to be deployed due to weather reasons (the Pacific Ocean also has such sea conditions, but the chance of encountering them is relatively small). In the future North Sea and the North Atlantic War, it is impossible to rely on aircraft carriers to conquer the world like the Pacific War in history. If you operate close to the Arctic Circle, you will also encounter polar night and polar day. The former will make it difficult for carrier-based aircraft to be deployed!
Therefore, in the North Sea and the North Atlantic, aircraft carriers are not very effective, and battleships are indispensable weapons.
The "English-German Naval Agreement" that will be signed with this time and space in history will control the total tonnage of German battleships below 35% of that of Britain.
According to the Washington Naval Treaty, the maximum tonnage of the UK's main battleship is 525,000 tons (British tonnage), and 35% is 183,750 tons (British tonnage), and the maximum tonnage of a single battleship cannot exceed 35,000 tons (British tonnage). However, the UK can retain a USS Hood with a displacement of up to 41,200 tons...
In other words, if the "breach of contract" ships are not built, it will not obviously violate the "English-German Naval Agreement". The 180,000 tons allocated to Germany will be killed by 5 to 6 "Schernhorst" class ships.
Even the Schánhorst class cannot be found just by opening its mouth. Germany had no experience in building battleships and battle cruisers after 1918. It was just that in 1929, a 10,000-ton armored ship, the "Germany" class in history. However, it has not been launched yet. Therefore, it has not been named.
According to the "English-German Naval Agreement", the German aircraft carrier is a "Earl Zeppelin". Although Germany has accumulated a lot of experience in building and using aircraft carriers through Soviet-German cooperation, Germany-Japan cooperation and Germany-Italy cooperation, the sea conditions of the North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Pacific Ocean are not the same thing after all. There are still many difficulties that need to be overcome.
Therefore, the British's "unexpected" concession gave Germany an opportunity to catch up with Britain in terms of naval strength.
Because the "naval holiday" era in history will end in 1936. At that time, Germany can legitimately break away from the control of the British-German Naval Agreement. However, the accumulation of technology and the construction of naval shipbuilding capabilities need to be completed before 1936.
From this perspective, the value of this "English-German Naval Agreement" that was several years ahead of schedule is still very valuable.
While thinking about how to plan the development of the navy, Hessman had already returned to the Langham Hotel.
"Ah, my dear," Chloe opened the door, "A guest was brought by Professor Einstein."
Then Einstein and two other men appeared in front of Hessman. Both were bald, but one was bald and elegant. At first glance, he saw this person on the archives of the Intelligence Agency. He was the chairman of the Zionist organization and the leader of the Zionist movement. He was from Russia but finished college in Germany and Switzerland. He was also a very outstanding chemist.
Another person who looks a bit weird, a bit like a clown in a circus. Hessman also saw him in a report submitted by Stacey's Foreign Intelligence Department. He was David Ben Gurion in the report written by Canaris himself, calling him Adolf Hitler among the Jews!
Comparing Ben Gurion to Hitler may be a "offensive" to later generations, and they should be completely different. However, in the eyes of people in 1931, they still had a lot in common.
Hitler was determined to expand his living space for the Germans, and pursued the supremacy of German nationalism. Ben Gurion was determined to obtain living space for the Jews, and followed the route of Israeli nationalism.
Hitler wanted to suppress or expel (at this time, no massacre was proposed) in Germany. Ben Gurion pointed out incisively that there was real conflict in Palestine. The political conflict between us and the Arabs. We (referring to Jews and Arabs) wanted to be the majority in Palestine at that time, there were hundreds of thousands of Arabs and only tens of thousands of Jews.
Hitler's Nazi Party was a worker party that took the far right line. Ben Gurion was also an alternative among Zionists. He did not rely on Jewish capitalists and financial oligarchs to establish the state of Israel. Instead, he relied on Jewish workers. He relied on the middle and lower classes of the Jews to unite them, constantly migrate to Palestine to settle down, and finally defeated the Arabs by force.
Finally, Hitler and Ben Gurion did not imagine establishing a Marxist or liberal state. Their "socialism" or "workers' interests" were reflected in perfect social welfare, rather than public ownership and state-owned enterprises.
So, it is not too weird to confuse Hitler with Ben Gurion.
"I think you must have been moved by my proposal, are you?" After introducing and greeting each other, Hessmann went straight to the topic.
He knew that true Zionists could not reject Hessman's "good intentions", even those Jewish financial oligarchs hated Germany's "economic anti-Semitism".
"Lieutenant General, your proposal is indeed feasible." Ben Gurion said in a smooth tone, "Your proposal may cause Britain to retreat from its current position... The British may consider using partition to establish an Arab state and a Jewish state in Palestine. I think we will not need you to provide islands to establish a 'temporary state' in the end."
Ben Gurion's political sense of smell and foresight were also comparable to Hitler. He was not in London, but in Prague. After receiving a telegram from Weizmann, he immediately captured the opportunity. Therefore, he took the first flight of Lufthansa to London.
"Yes, I think so too." Hessman said with a smile, "Although the Jewish nation has no country, it is very powerful and worthy of winning. You could only hope to get to the United Kingdom, but now that you have a second choice, the United Kingdom will naturally give you more benefits. But you must first help us solve a problem so that there is a possibility of cooperation."
If Zionism cooperates with Germany, it sounds like a fantasy, but in fact this kind of cooperation has existed in history! Hitler did not think about using massacre to solve the Jewish problem in Germany. Because although German Jews possessed too much economic interests (mainly in the financial industry, their population was very small, only more than 500,000, less than 1% of Germany's total population.
Just limit it, deprive some, integrate a group, and drive away some of it. This level of anti-Shi is not new in Europe, and it is not very intense.
In contrast, Pisusky's Poland treated Jews more severely! Because the number of Polish Jews was too large, exceeding 4.3 million (3.5 million in history, but in Poland occupied the right bank Ukrainians and obtained hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews), accounting for 8.6% of the Polish federal population.
Moreover, most of the Polish Jews live on the land of Polish state, accounting for more than 10% of the population. In fact, Jews are not a big problem in Germany, but a big trouble in Poland! Hitler massacred 2.5 million Polish Jews in history, but helped the Poles solve huge hidden dangers...Poland was established after the war without Jews (most of the remaining ones went to Israel)!
However, Hessmann was not so kind to solve the Jewish problem for the Poles. In his vision, more than 4 million Polish Jews could exist as allies.
"Lieutenant General, what is your problem?" asked Ben Gurion.
"The Law of Restriction of Jews" said Hessman, "This is not a pleasant bill for Jews, and I do not expect Zionism to issue a statement of support. But I hope most German Jews and European Jewish scientific elites understand that Germany's Restriction of Jewish Act is not aimed at them. We still welcome Jewish scientists to Germany. So, I hope Professor Einstein can go to Germany and serve as the chairman of a coalition of Jewish scientists."
"I can go to Germany," Einstein said, "as an Israelite!"
"Okay," Hessman paused, and continued, "In addition, I hope that Germany and Zionism can be openly aligned... it should be known to the whole world that the Judea restriction Act is just to ensure the economic security of Germany, and that Germany is still very friendly to Jews and Zionism." He looked at Ben Gurion and Weitzmann, "Can it be done?"
The two Zionist movement exchanged glances with each other, Weitzmann nodded, and Gurion said: "Zionism is not walking on a strong rope, but on a hair! So we cannot reject friends like Germany!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!