Chapter 1535 Adolf Comes to Power
East Africa's transportation development model tends to be balanced. Therefore, the East African government encourages the civil aviation industry to grow bigger and stronger, but restricts its blind expansion, thereby stabilizing the development of transportation such as railways and roads.
At this stage, the main area of competition among civil aviation, railways and road transportation is passenger transport, especially railway passenger transport, where the competitive pressure is the greatest.
As for water transportation, passenger transport is not very important to it, or the speed of water transportation is difficult to meet the travel needs of the people. On the land side, water transportation could not compete with railway and road passenger transport before. After the emergence of airplanes, with the development of time, in the future international passenger transport, aviation will inevitably replace ships and become the first choice for international long-distance passenger transport. Aviation will surpass sea transportation in international passenger transport in about the next 20 to 30 years.
Even though the development of civil aviation in East Africa is not as regulated as in the United States, it is in fact already leading the world. This is due to many factors.
On the political level, the East African government was the first to attach importance to the development of the civil aviation industry. On the technological level, East Africa was the first country in the world to invest in the development of the aviation industry, and it has the largest number of related practitioners and research and development institutions in the world.
In terms of market demand, East Africa’s mainland area is as large as 13 million square kilometers, with a north-south straight-line distance of more than 4,000 kilometers and an east-west distance of 3,000 kilometers, so there is a huge demand for civil aviation.
In terms of regional development, the civil aviation industry is of great significance to the north and southwest of East Africa, because the transportation routes in these regions are relatively sparse. East Africa's railway and road networks are mainly concentrated in the middle area, while in the north and southwest, except for the national strategic transportation arteries, travel in most areas is not very convenient.
In terms of industry, the East African Air Force has verified the safety and reliability of the aircraft, so it can transition related technologies to civil aviation. For example, East Africa has now successfully developed large long-range transport aircraft and the world's first jet aircraft.
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July 1932.
Berlin, Germany.
Germany's parliamentary elections in July officially ended. In this round of parliamentary elections, the German National Party surpassed the Social Democratic Party and the German Labor Party for the first time and became the largest party in the German parliament.
The so-called Social Democratic Party and Labor Party actually both belong to the Labor Party, but the former belongs to the doves and the latter belongs to the radicals. Before World War I, the Social Democratic Party became the largest party in the German parliament.
For a long time thereafter, the SPD hovered between the first and second largest party in parliament.
However, this also shows the SPD's political "naivety". Such a party, which has long been the largest party in the German parliament, has never become the leader of Germany. This is of course related to the design of Germany's political system. Just like the appointment of the prime minister, it ultimately has to be approved with the consent of the emperor and the army.
After World War I, the emperor's power was hollowed out. Now the selection of the German Prime Minister is directly controlled by the military, and behind the military is the Junkers. Compared with the SPD and the Labour Party, there is no doubt that the German National Party is easier for them to accept.
Although Adolf was also unpopular, his encouragement of military development and support for expansion catered to the appetite of the Junker group.
Furthermore, after the German National Party became the largest party in parliament, there was no doubt that Adolf would come to power. As long as he passed the subsequent procedures, he would become the new Prime Minister of Germany.
At this time, Adolf had already convened the backbone members of the National Party to discuss important issues.
"1932 is a critical year in which the fate of the entire Germany will undergo earth-shaking changes. We, the German National Party, will lead the Germans to victory, but before that, we still have some preparations to make. We must start in advance."
"First of all, the army must obey our leadership. Therefore, from now on, it is particularly important to accelerate the infiltration of our German National Party into the army and win over middle and lower-level officers and grassroots soldiers."
"The Imperial Army is related to whether we can become the actual rulers of the Empire, rather than being puppets of some incompetent people. We absolutely cannot allow the latter. In addition, the continued expansion and regularization of the Stormtroopers must also be put on the agenda. The Stormtroopers will become an important force in our leadership of the Empire."
"At the same time, it will also become an important reliance for us to crush the enemy. By then, we will completely clean up the parasites and saboteurs in German society, such as the Social Democratic Party and the Labor Party."
In fact, at this time the SPD was still an important supporter of the German National Party. Some people within the SPD even regarded Adolf as "one of their own", because the German National Party led by Adolf had the words "social" and "worker" in its full name, that is, the national socialist "ism" German Workers' Party.
However, the SPD's wishful thinking was obviously a failure. Adolf never regarded them as collaborators, but as enemies like the Labor Party. Therefore, after it was confirmed that he would come to power, he immediately began to arrange for the encirclement and suppression of the SPD.
Adolf said: "In the future, Germany will have only one voice, and that is the voice of our national party. We naturally represent the interests of the German nation, and the Social Democratic Party, the Labor Party and other parties have no need to exist at all."
"Especially the German Labor Party, they are spies for the Soviets and the Jews, they are enemies lurking within Germany, and they are traitors to the German nation."
"They obey the leadership of Moscow and Joseph, and are in collusion with the Jewish... elements. Therefore, they are just pawns of the Soviet Union and the Jewish... elements. The interests of the German nation are completely unimportant to them. Therefore, we cannot allow the German Labor Party to continue to exist."
"The same is true for the Social Democratic Party. They are birds of a feather and are the result of the Labour Party betting on both sides. Therefore, we cannot rule out the risk of them joining forces with the Labour Party in the future."
Although the support rates of the Social Democratic Party and the German Labor Party are not as high as in Germany, their support rates in Germany are both above 20%. If they merge, it will be 40%, which will exceed the German National Party and threaten the status of the German National Party and Adolf, which Adolf absolutely cannot allow.
Of course, in Adolf's own view, the SPD and the Labour Party are essentially "in the same group", but the actual situation is that since the 1920s, the ideological conflicts between the SPD and the Labour Party have even exceeded the contradictions between them and the German National Party.
"Heretics are more hateful than aliens." This is the most true portrayal of the relationship between the German Social Democratic Party and the German Labor Party. The Social Democratic Party even supported the dictator Adolf and was unwilling to cooperate with the Labor Party because they believed that the German Labor Party was "too extreme."
The fact is that Adolf and the National Party are far more extreme than the German Labor Party, but the SPD turned a blind eye to this. They had supported the German autocratic government in their previous lives. Therefore, it is not surprising that they became the largest party in imperial Germany before World War I.
This is probably the same as the British Labour Party. They are not enough to make the behind-the-scenes rulers of the two countries feel "threatened". After all, it is too naive to expect parliamentary struggles to become the country's leadership. Their upper limit is to become the rulers in the open, but they will never be able to mobilize grassroots bureaucrats and powerful departments.
Just like the British Labour Party, even if they obtain the position of prime minister, any of their reform measures are basically just empty words and cannot reshape the British political and social structure.
After discussing the arrangements for domestic political tasks, Adolf then turned his attention to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
"The cooperation between the Austrian National Party and us must also be accelerated. Austria is the key to the unification of the German nation. Now that we are about to take power, we must also begin to prepare for the infiltration of Austria."
"In the future, an unprecedentedly powerful Greater German Empire will appear on the map of Europe. This is the first step for our German nation to rule the world."
"Youp, you should strengthen cooperation with our Austrian partners. The situation they face is much more complicated than ours, especially in terms of public opinion and propaganda."
"If we cannot win over the majority of people, the German-Austrian merger will most likely fail. Therefore, we must strengthen propaganda within the Austro-Hungarian Empire."
Now that the German National Party's coming to power is a foregone conclusion, the party can focus some of its energy on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially propaganda work.
Goebbels pushed up his glasses and said to Adolf, "Okay, Mr. Party Leader, I will pass on some experience to my fellow Austrians to reduce the civil resistance to the future merger of the two countries."
For the German National Party, their own national identity is particularly strong, so the German unification has long been one of their important goals.
Of course, if the Greater German Empire is realized, the benefits to the German National Party will be amazing, and not many people can resist this temptation.
August 4, 1932.
Berlin Palace.
Under pressure from Germany's conservative elites, William II was forced to formally appoint Adolf as the new German Prime Minister, and German history came to a new turning point.
William II's face was not looking good today. He said to the "predetermined" new German Prime Minister in a slightly cold tone: "Mr. Adolf, I hope you can bring some good changes to Germany."
Adolf himself was not very disgusted with William II at the moment. He responded: "Your Majesty, next we will lead the empire to complete the unfinished business of the world war. I think this is also your ideal. Therefore, our goals are always the same."
"It's all for the future of Germany, so I hope our cooperation can unfold happily and we can contribute to the development of the German nation together."
This madman! This is William II's evaluation of Adolf in his heart. Although there is nothing wrong with what Adolf said before, during World War I, William II was indeed an ambitious man who tried to turn the whole of Europe into Germany's backyard.
However, he did not have such self-awareness. William II believed that he was launching a war for the benefit of Germany, and if Adolf did the same, he would be a complete "ambitious" and "madman."
Of course, William II still had a glimmer of hope that Adolf was just bragging. After all, politicians are natural liars.
In his opinion, Adolf was a complete "political novice" who did not understand the wickedness of human nature. As long as Adolf was harassed by the Junker Group like himself, he would eventually "face reality."
Yes, at this time, William II still regarded Adolf as a "poor guy" like himself to a large extent, and a "puppet" of the German elite.
Therefore, William II said to Adolf in a strange tone: "Mr. Adolf, you are an optimistic person. I hope you can keep this spirit forever."
Although Adolf did not understand what she meant, he was in high spirits at the time, so he responded politely: "Optimism is a fine quality of the German nation, and my optimism will continue as the future development of the empire. I believe the future of the empire is bright."
No one knew what the emperor and Adolf talked about, but the representatives of the German ruling group were very satisfied to see that the emperor and the new prime minister were so "harmonious".
Just as William II had thought before, in the eyes of the ruling group, Adolf was just a "puppet" instigated by them. The right-wing elements of the German ruling group believed that they could "control" the new prime minister of the empire.
The so-called right-wing elements include the German Junker group, that is, the aristocracy and the military, and then Germany's big industrial capitalists, nationalist parties, bureaucracy and judicial system, etc.
There are more than one nationalist party in Germany. There are also some small parties, such as the German People's Party, which are mainly composed of veterans, anti-democratic and anti-Semitic... elements.
Germany's big industrial capitalists were important supporters of Adolf and the German National Party. For example, Germany's industrial giants, Krupp, Thyssen, Farben, Siemens, etc., provided the main financial support to the German National Party.
Adolf was also able to meet their political demands very well, such as opposing the "social welfare policies" of trade unions and the SPD, suppressing the workers' movement, ensuring private property rights, and obtaining arms orders.
There were differences of opinion on Adolf's support within the Junker Group, especially within the military. However, their own supported representatives did not have the same influence as Adolf in Germany and could not compete with Adolf. Therefore, they turned to support Adolf in the later period. Their main demand for Adolf was to suppress left-wing elements such as the Labor Party.
Finally, there are the bureaucracy and the judicial system. Their expectation for Adolf is to prevent the "equalization" reforms advocated by the Social Democrats and trade unions and to maintain the traditional authority of the system.
This was also one of the main reasons why the German police department and the court system condoned and favored the various violent activities of the SA under the German National Party.
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With the success of the German National Party, the situation in Central Europe became increasingly tense, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire would become the center of a new round of political and social crisis in Central Europe.
Because the Soviet Union also tried to launch an offensive in Austria, a fierce battlefield among five major forces was formed within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. First, there was the conservative ruling group headed by the Habsburgs, then the Labor Party, followed by various nationalists, then the Austrian National Party that colluded with the German National Party, and finally the radical elements of the bourgeoisie.
Except for the ruling group headed by the Habsburgs, the other forces did not care too much about the integrity of the empire's territory.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire, a world power, is about to face its greatest challenge. The subsequent development of the situation will determine the survival of this ancient empire.
Emperor Rudolf was also clearly aware of the serious situation within the empire, but there was very little he could do. If it were in the mid-to-late last century, Rudolf might still have the confidence to suppress other opposition forces, but now the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a new European powder keg.
Any spark could cause the Austro-Hungarian Empire to explode on the spot, and now there are too many people trying to "set fire" inside the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which also means that there is far more than one fire point.
(End of this chapter)
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