I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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In mid-October, Yamamoto 56 came to China again, met with Jiang Weiguo, and handed over a thick document.

"This is the latest national policy outline of our country that has been officially passed by the General Staff Headquarters, the Military Command, and the Cabinet two days ago, and has also been approved by His Majesty the Emperor!" Yamamoto introduced, "Japan and China are already allies, so we naturally have to be open and honest with China. A copy of the compendium, and a copy has been sent to Berlin.

In this way, the three major powers communicate with each other, and they will naturally be able to unite and cooperate closely in the war, and will not fight independently and disperse their strength!"

Jiang Weiguo flipped through the document titled "Empire's Latest National Policy and Current Situation Handling Outline to Adapt to the Evolution of the World Situation". He was not interested in reading it seriously, because the real core things must have been sent by the Japanese before the Japanese " The harmony is gone."

After lighting a cigarette, Jiang Weiguo looked at Yamamoto: "General Yamamoto, tell me the main content!"

Yamamoto nodded: "First of all, there is one major disagreement about going to war with Britain and France, and that is the United States.

Britain and France are already a military alliance. In addition, the Netherlands and Belgium are also very likely to defect to Britain and France after the outbreak of war. However, the strength of these two countries is weak, so there is nothing to worry about. Although Britain and France are powerful, they are not the opponents of the alliance. Our real enemy is the United States.

The United States is still in a neutral state right now. If we do not attack the United States at the beginning of the war, the United States will stay out of the war in all likelihood. However, the possibility of the United States participating in the war is very high. Find an excuse to join the battle when you are exhausted and become the biggest winner in the end.

So, here comes our big problem.

How to start a war? He looked at Jiang Weiguo with a serious expression, "Should we fight Britain and France first, and then fight together after the United States enters the war later; or should we fight the United States together with Britain and France from the beginning?" "

Jiang Weiguo smoked: "It's really a big problem!"

"Yeah, there was a heated argument among the Japanese navy's top brass," Yamamoto said.

One faction believes that Britain and France should be fought first, and the United States will go to war against the United States when the United States enters the war later.

The first faction believes that taking advantage of the time gap when the United States did not participate in the war, did not assist Britain and France, and Britain and France are relatively weak, they should take Britain and France in one go. At that time, our territory will increase greatly and our strength will greatly increase. No matter how strong the United States is, it will have to fear us and develop a passive mentality of avoiding war. Maybe we will conduct diplomatic mediation and political mediation, and the United States will directly dispel the desire to participate in the war. , Sit back and watch Britain and France perish and dare not join the war, maintain peace with us, and lead the new post-war world together; the second faction believes that as long as we go to war against Britain and France, the United States will almost certainly join the war. Since the United States will join the war sooner or later, why should we not be right? The United States is the first to act first?Use pre-emptive means to seize the initiative in war?If we waited for the United States to join the war while fighting Britain and France, wouldn't we be passive?In addition, although Britain and France are not the opponents of the Allied Powers, if Britain and France can delay for a long time, so that we can't solve them, and the United States suddenly joins the war, won't the war repeat the mistakes of the last world war?At the same time, we are fighting to the death with Britain and France, while the United States sits on the sidelines and watches the tiger fight. First, we start to scare the snake, and the United States will no longer be complacent about the status quo, and will be highly vigilant, ready to participate in the war at all times, and ready for war Psychology, then how can we attack the United States suddenly?Secondly, when we were fighting with Britain and France, the United States gained precious time to produce weapons and equipment at full capacity. When the United States enters the war, its strength at that time will definitely be stronger than when the war broke out. What are the odds? "

Jiang Weiguo nodded empathetically: "If you take the initiative to fight the United States, although you have gained the initiative, the United States will inevitably participate in the war; if you wait for the United States to fight, although there is hope to prevent the United States from participating in the war, you will lose the initiative.

General Yamamoto is indeed in a dilemma!Which option do you personally support? "

Yamamoto said: "I was originally inclined to preempt the United States, but the internal treaty of the Allied countries stipulates that if the United States can be prevented from participating in the war, it must do its best to avoid it. , Therefore, I tend to hold back against the United States and only fight Britain and France first. If the United States does not participate in the war, we will live in peace with the United States. If the United States enters the war, we will be forced to fight bravely!" Many middle-level and high-level officers, especially those middle-level young military officers, strongly oppose this plan, thinking that what we do is to 'enhance the ambitions of others and destroy our own prestige'. They think that the United States is not so terrible at all. The strength of the United States is even more terrifying than the potential and explosive power of the United States.

I told them that the U.S. produced 1940 million cars last year (300), and Japan was only one-tenth of that of the U.S. If the two countries worked together, Japan could only change from 30 to 50 cars, while the U.S. could easily From 300 million to 500 million.

This is the difference, not only the strength on the surface, but also the potential and explosive power!"

Jiang Weiguo was lost in thought.

Historically, when Japan started the Pacific War, it took pre-emptive strikes and "preemptive strikes" in the face of Britain, France, and the Netherlands, three opponents that were already enemies, and the United States, a potential opponent that was not yet an enemy but was likely to become an enemy. In the first round of attack, "hit the strongest boss among the enemies" strategy, attacked Pearl Harbor, paralyzed the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy for half a year, took Southeast Asia within half a year, and then ushered in a massive counterattack by the U.S. military.

Now, Yamamoto does not intend to do this. The Japanese navy does not intend to attack the United States, the strongest enemy, at the beginning of the war. There are two reasons. I don’t have the guts to provoke the United States. If it does this, Germany and China are very likely to expel it from the allied countries. If they don’t join with it in dealing with the United States, it will die. Second, in the past, the United States took the lead in sanctioning before the Pacific War Japan, let Japan fall into a shortage of resources, the contradiction between Japan and the United States has reached the point of irreconcilability, if Japan goes to war with Britain and France, the United States will almost certainly go to war with Japan, and the Japanese with a gambler mentality will naturally list the United States as an enemy at the beginning of the war and the target of the attack, but now, the situation is different. There is not much conflict between Japan and the United States. As for resources, the United States does not give Japan, but China and Germany give. There is considerable room for maneuver.

The overall situation of the world has once again undergone major changes because of Jiang Weiguo's "butterfly effect".

Jiang Weiguo is very contradictory. From China's point of view, it is best for China and the United States not to go to war. Japan and the United States will definitely go to war. However, China and Japan are now one, so the problem is complicated.

The Allied Powers went to war against Britain, France and the United States, generally following the following routes:

First, after the war, only England and France will be fought. If the United States does not take the initiative to participate in the war, the allied countries will not take the initiative to provoke the United States, and the United States will not be allowed to interfere with the good deeds of the allies to kill Britain and France and annex the British and French territories. On the front line of anti-Americanism, let Japan die, bleed, and burn money, while China secretly reached a secret agreement with the United States not to harm the interests of Germany. In the end, China and the United States partnered to clean up Japan. At that time, Japan’s national strength and military strength should have already It is almost consumed by the United States, and it will be much easier for China to settle accounts with Japan after the fall, and the United States will become an ally helper for China to settle accounts with Japan after the fall; They don't even want to provoke the United States, and the United States may feel guilty when they see that Germany, China and Japan are so powerful. In addition, Germany, China and Japan have not provoked the United States. It is difficult to clean up Japan!China was very strong at that time, and Japan was also very strong. Even if China defeated Japan, China would inevitably suffer heavy losses. What's more, the Japanese navy was safe and sound because the Pacific War did not break out. How could the Chinese army reach the Japanese mainland?

Second, after the start of the war, the United States will be fought together with Britain and France. At that time, the United States will definitely join the war. Together with Britain and France against Germany, China and Japan, the Pacific War will definitely break out, and the Japanese will definitely go to "resist the United States." The United States entered the war so early, it is very likely to interfere with China's annexation of British and French colonies, and then extra problems will arise, causing many changes, and things will be difficult.

Jiang Weiguo thought over and over again, feeling more and more unsure: "How to do this? It's very contradictory! How to have the best of both worlds? Instigate Yamamoto to attack Pearl Harbor? It doesn't seem to make sense!"

Chapter 596 Germany Fights Again (1)

The biggest concern of the Allied Powers about the war between Britain and France was not Britain and France itself, but the United States behind Britain and France.

If the allied countries really go to war against the United States, Japan will be the main force to resist the United States at sea (even if Japan is unwilling, it will be pushed to the forefront by Germany and China). In fact, Japan won the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War After the war, it began to list the United States as the first imaginary enemy at sea, and formulated several combat strategies against the United States. Since the "Imperial National Defense Policy" was decided in 1907, it has undergone three major revisions, but the core idea has not changed, that is, "ladder Intercept the U.S. Navy Fleet invading across the Pacific in the same way.” To put it bluntly, the Japanese Navy intends to use its local combat advantages to resist the U.S. fleet step by step in the Western Pacific and in the waters near the Japanese archipelago. A "decisive battle at sea" similar to the Battle of the Yellow Sea or the Battle of Tsushima will wipe out the US fleet in one fell swoop to protect the security of Japan.

It is not difficult to see that this kind of combat thinking is a passive defensive strategy, and it is also a product of the Japanese navy's deep-rooted "giant ship cannon" thinking for decades. The aircraft carrier was gradually replaced, and the Japanese Navy's original idea of ​​"resisting step by step, and finally fighting" was shaken, and a "preemptive strike" thought emerged. Yamamoto 56 is a fan of the "preemptive strike" thought. He believes: Japan's national strength and The military strength is far inferior to that of the United States. If Japan is passively beaten, fights openly with the US military, and competes for consumption, Japan will almost certainly lose. The only way to win is to use surprise attacks (sneak attacks) at the beginning of the war. Force the U.S. military to be on the passive defensive throughout the war, and finally negotiate a truce with the U.S. under conditions that are beneficial to Japan.

Therefore, the Japanese navy in history went to fight the most difficult United States at the beginning of the Pacific War.

However, the current situation is very different from the original history, making Yamamoto no longer inclined to "pre-emptive strikes", but he is still a little hesitant and vacillating.

Jiang Weiguo thought longer and more complicatedly than Yamamoto, so he was even more hesitant.

Jiang Weiguo has been strongly influencing the world and interfering in history, but he is not God after all, and he does not have the ability to control, so he is involuntary in this mighty situation, although he still has many doubts, Worries, unease, but the current world and history have developed out of control.

Yamamoto talked with Jiang Weiguo for a long time. Yamamoto treated Jiang Weiguo with sincerity and sincerity, at least on the surface.

"Mr. Jiang, apart from the mainland, the largest territory of the Americans is the Philippine Islands!" Yamamoto asked, "According to the internal treaties of the alliance countries and the Sino-Japanese agreement, the north of the equator belongs to China, the south of the equator belongs to Japan, and the Philippines But north of the equator, in principle, it will be China's overseas provinces or colonies in the future, then, after the war, will China attack the Philippines?"

"This..." Jiang Weiguo's heart moved, and he realized that Yamamoto's words had no good intentions. The Philippines is the territory of the United States. If the Chinese army goes to the Philippines, isn't it forcing China and the United States to tear each other apart?When it comes to fighting the United States, Japan should be the top one. How can it be China?Jiang Weiguo immediately found an excuse: "General Yamamoto, in principle, the Philippines must be fought by the Chinese army, but... well, you also know that the Philippines is an archipelago, and a strong navy is definitely needed to fight the Philippines. However, the strength of the Chinese navy Weak, we are powerless..."

"The Philippines is the territory of the Americans, and we don't want to take the initiative to provoke the Americans. It stands to reason that we can skip there, but the geographical location of the Philippines is very critical!" Yamamoto said seriously, "The Philippines is guarding Japan and Southeast Asia. The channel is a sharp knife against the mainland of China in the southeast waters of China. If the US military strengthens its arming against the Philippines, then the mainland of China and Japan will be seriously threatened. Therefore, the Philippines must take it.

The Chinese navy is indeed very weak, but China and Japan are allies now, and when the time comes, our Japanese navy can dispatch a fleet to carry your army troops to the Philippines!"

Jiang Weiguo couldn't help but secretly scolded Yamamoto for being an old fox in his heart. He came up with the method of one push, two delays and three researches: "I think we should study this matter carefully!"

"Let's solve it as soon as possible! Our time is running out!" Yamamoto seemed meaningful.

To fight the Soviet Union is to go north, to fight Britain and France is to go south.

For "going south", all walks of life in Japan have long been impatient. Needless to say, the army has always been full of militants, fanatics, and radicals in the Japanese army, and the people are also eager. Waiting eagerly for the "imperial army to expand its territory" so as to seize the huge business opportunities in the war and reap huge profits. The Japanese civilians are similar. In addition to decades of brainwashing by militarism, the real reason is that Japanese civilians yearn for Japan. The main factor for the early war against the outside world is that they hope that the "imperial army" can plunder a lot of wealth from foreign countries and alien races, so as to improve their lives that are not rich at this time.

Since the Sino-Japanese peace talks and armistice and the alliance between Germany, China and Japan, the Japanese high-level officials have revised Japan’s national policy again, abandoning the westward advance (invasion of China) and changing it to the northward (occupying the Soviet Union’s North Asian territory) and the southward (robbing the US, Britain, France, and the Netherlands). Colonies), among them, going north does not need Japan to worry about, the Chinese army will take it for Japan, and going south requires the Japanese army to do it by itself, so Japan has been preparing for war since then.

For more than two years, Japanese intelligence agencies have dispatched a large number of agents to sneak into various parts of Southeast Asia to conduct on-the-spot investigations and collect intelligence data in various fields. From the Indochina Peninsula to the Philippine Islands, from the Indonesian Islands to the Australian mainland, thousands of Japanese intelligence agents And a larger number of local Japanese overseas are as pervasive as mercury, dressed as businessmen, tourists, immigrants, laborers and even prostitutes (not dressed as prostitutes, but prostitutes, and at the same time serving as "empire intelligence personnel"), doing everything possible to collect information and information; the Marine Brigade of the Japanese Navy repeatedly trained amphibious landings, and several divisions of the Japanese Army who were preparing to go south to participate in the war also went to Taiwan to conduct "mountain and jungle combat" training. Taiwan made Taiwan a springboard for the Japanese army to go south, and the Japanese navy was expanding with all its strength, requisitioning a large number of civilian ships with a gross tonnage of more than 150 million tons.

The whole of Japan can be said to be gearing up and sharpening their knives. The impatient Japanese government has already formulated "a large-scale war against the southern states of the empire (the name the Japanese gave them to the new territories south of the equator). "Immigration, development, development, operation, construction and other affairs" plans have also determined new administrative divisions for the "Southern States", and have taken "full land" for those places that are still in the hands of the British and Dutch at this time. A new name in Japanese style", even the list of officials sent to govern has been drawn up, and even Fumimaro Konoe has submitted a proposal to Emperor Hirohito, suggesting that "after the empire acquires Australia, the empire should All the subjects migrated to the Australian mainland, turning the Australian mainland into 'New Japan', and then selecting a geomantic treasure in the territory of 'New Japan', and building a new metropolis, named 'New Tokyo'" and so on.

When China and Japan are preparing for war, Germany, the "big brother" of the Allied Powers, is naturally not idle.

While the "second brother and third brother" were constantly "provoking troubles" in the East to attract the attention of the United States, Britain and France, Germany quietly pushed the war machine that had never stopped after the end of the Soviet War to full power.

Before the outbreak of the Soviet War, the German Army had about 300 million troops, of which 250 million troops were put into the Soviet battlefield, and another 50 troops were defending Britain and France in Germany. During the Soviet War, although the German army lost more than 130 million troops (the dead More than 40, the rest were injured and sick), but at the same time, there was a steady stream of conscription, so that at the end of the Soviet War, the total strength of the German Army was more than before the war, reaching more than 400 million. Since the German army won the war, the German army Not only has the number increased, but the quality has also improved. With 300 million veterans who have participated in actual combat, the number of new weapons has also increased greatly. The number of armored divisions, armored infantry divisions, and mechanized infantry divisions has more than doubled compared to before the war. The combat power is changing with each passing day, not to mention that the German army has a total of more than 200 million slave country troops to assist in the battle, which can be described as monstrous.

In order to paralyze Britain, France, the United States and other countries, Hitler pretended to publicly announce the "substantial disarmament" of the German army after the end of the Soviet War. About 400 people are stationed in the territory of the slave countries in the new eastern territory of Germany and the border between Germany and the Soviet Union (most of them are second-line troops mainly recruited by recruits), leaving more than 150 Wan returned to Germany one after another (most of them were first-line troops who had been honed on the Soviet battlefield), declaring to the outside world that "they were transferred back to the country to disarm them", but in fact they were "preparing to move westward."

At the end of October, Kurt Zeitzler, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, came to China again and held another three-nation contact meeting with Chinese and Japanese representatives in Qingdao.

Zeitzler told the representatives of China and Japan very excitedly: China and Japan have taken a series of tentative moves in the East, such as recovering the British and French colonies in China, taking Thailand, and building a military base in East Timor. The United States is also almost silent. It can be seen that the United Kingdom, France, Holland and the United States are all tough on the inside and weak on the outside, so Germany intends to "test" Britain, France and the United States on the European side.

"It's time to come!" Jiang Weiguo was full of emotion. He knew what Hitler's "exploration" was, which was to keep playing around the edges, and while gradually obtaining favorable conditions after the war started, he touched the bottom line of Britain and France, and carried out a disguised attack. Provocation, if Britain and France launch a substantive counterattack, Germany will immediately start and declare war with it, and the war will completely break out.

"Come and come!" Jiang Weiguo was not afraid, "It is a blessing, not a disaster, and a disaster cannot be avoided. What's more, there is no reason for the following war to be a disaster for China.

Even if there is a certain risk, so what?Wealth and wealth are sought in the midst of danger. If people want to prosper, they must work hard. If a country wants to rise, it must also work hard. Although the course of the next war will definitely be full of variables, it depends on human effort!Be confident in yourself! "

With a firm belief, Jiang Weiguo waited with a solemn attitude for the war horn from Europe.

Germany will definitely have another showdown with Britain and France to avenge and lose the humiliation of the last World War.

After solving the Soviet Union, first, Germany gained a vast territory and rich resources, greatly increased its national power, and its war capital; .

After the end of the Soviet War, Hitler immediately considered going to war with Britain and France. He knew that the Soviet Union still existed, but he didn’t take it seriously. First, he firmly believed that the Soviet Union was nothing to worry about. The Soviet Union will not let the Soviet Union revive, so he is completely assured of the German rear.

Against Britain, France and the United States behind Britain and France, the war plan formulated by the top German army is as follows:

[-]. First defeat the British and French allied forces on land, occupy and control France;

[-]. Defeat Britain at sea and land in Britain;

[-]. Try to solve the war as quickly as possible. It is best for Germany to get rid of Britain and France before the United States recovers, and dominate Europe;

[-]. After Europe is stabilized, it will be a showdown with the United States. If the United States "knows the current affairs" and does not become an enemy of Germany, Germany can stop the war with the United States and end the war. , Germany went to war with it.

Obviously, this is the most ideal war process, and several steps are full of unknowns, such as:

[-]. What if Germany cannot quickly defeat the British and French allied forces and solve France on land, but instead falls into a protracted war and war of attrition like the last world war?

[-]. If Germany cannot quickly occupy and control France, then Germany will not have enough coastline and sea outlets, and the German navy will be blocked by the British navy at its home port like the last world war. Naturally, it will be difficult for Germany to defeat Britain (although German submarines can sneak across the British Navy's sea blockade and then enter the high seas, but it is indeed unsafe to defeat the United Kingdom with submarines alone);

[-]. If Germany cannot defeat France and Britain quickly, the war will be protracted, and the possibility of the United States participating in the war will be very high. In this way, the pattern of war in Western Europe will repeat the mistakes of the last world war. want to avoid.

To sum up, Germany cannot pin all its hopes for victory on the ideal premise of "quickly defeating, occupying, and controlling France". After all, Germany spent four years in the last world war and failed to break through Britain and France. The defense line of the Allied Forces (although people in later generations know that Germany captured Paris in less than two months in World War II, but the German High Command at this time was naturally not sure), so Germany wants to get rid of the previous world war. Unfavorable situation, it is necessary to obtain enough access to the sea before going to war with Britain and France.

Germany now has Central and Eastern Europe, neither of which has good access to the sea, while Western Europe is the territory of the United Kingdom and France, and Southern Europe leads to the Mediterranean Sea. Naturally, the only place where Germany can obtain access to the sea is Northern Europe.

Although both Spain and Portugal are already slave states of Germany, these two countries do not border Germany after all. They are separated by France on land and Britain by sea. Therefore, Spain and Portugal cannot solve the problem of Germany's lack of access to the sea.

Take Northern Europe first, then fight against Britain and France in Western Europe, completely control Western Europe, then sweep Southern Europe, completely dominate the European continent, and finally march into North Africa and West Asia. This is Germany's war strategy.

The four Nordic countries are: Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (Iceland is a subsidiary country of Denmark at this time). Finland has long been a vassal state of Germany, and Denmark is a small country that can be easily occupied. Although Sweden is a neutral country, the Swedish king Gu Staf V was very pro-German (Gustav V was very pro-German during World War I and World War II. His wife was a German woman. He once advocated that Northern Europe unite and form an alliance with Germany. After Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Gustaf V Gustav V was full of praise for Germany, claiming that Hitler was "doing good things that benefit all mankind." The only thing Gustav V opposed to Hitler was the Jewish issue, but now, Hitler did not kill the Jews, so Gus Taft V respects Hitler so much), it is not a problem, the only problem is Norway.

Norway is precisely the biggest target in Germany's "Nordic Action", because Norway's coastline is long and tortuous, and it has 2000% of the sea outlets in Northern Europe. With Norway, German naval ships can enter the high seas unimpeded, and Norway mines 1500 per year. The 1100 tons of iron ore also has an icing on the cake for Germany (Germany before the Soviet war needed [-] million tons of iron ore every year, of which [-] million tons came from Norway).

In late September, Hitler sent Ribbentrop to Oslo, the capital of Norway, and asked King Haakon VII of Norway to "invite Norway to join the Allied Powers and become a protectorate of Germany". Haakon VII gave a stern speech on this Rejected; almost at the same time, the British side also sent a special envoy to Oslo, hoping that Norway would join the British and French camps, unite Britain and France to deal with Germany, and asked Norway to allow the British navy to enter the Norwegian territorial waters and lay mines in the Norwegian territorial waters to block the German navy. Kang VII still flatly refused.

Subsequently, Haakon VII issued a public statement, emphasizing that Norway is a permanent neutral country, will not participate in the struggle between major powers, and hopes that major powers will respect Norway's neutral status.

Germany and Britain, both of which had their noses in the dust, naturally did not give up on Norway. Although Norway is neither willing to join the Allied Powers camp nor the British and French camps, who knows if the other party will strike ahead of them?Germany was worried that Britain would suddenly occupy Norway by force. Therefore, Hitler decided to attack Norway before Norway fell to Britain and France or Britain and France occupied Norway by force.

In addition to the Norwegian problem as an incentive for a positive deterioration in relations between Germany and Britain, there is another reason: Ireland.

There is no need to say much about the historical relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Although Ireland is close to the United Kingdom, Ireland is not an inherent territory of the United Kingdom, but the first colony of the British Empire after its expansion to the world.

The relationship between Britain and Ireland has always been very bad. Although Ireland has regained its independence, Northern Ireland continues to be occupied by the United Kingdom. This is why Britain and Ireland are in such a dire situation.

Originally, after Hitler's suicide in history, Ireland was the only country in the world that sent a telegram of condolence to the German Nazi government.

As the saying goes, "the enemy of an enemy is a friend." Since Germany wants to deal with the United Kingdom, it will naturally try its best to win over Ireland. If Ireland becomes a slave state of Germany, Germany will gain a forward base that can directly attack the British mainland. The English Channel will protect the British mainland. will drop sharply.

After the Soviet War, Germany began to secretly aid and lure Ireland, and sent a large amount of arms to the Irish government through means such as submarines and disguised merchant ships. What a disaster, anyway, the German army seized countless Soviet weapons on the Soviet battlefield, and it happened to be waste at this time.

Naturally, this kind of activity has been done more times, and the British government has noticed a lot of clues.

"At this time, if anyone still believes that the Germans, Chinese, and Japanese will not break out with us, he is an out-and-out idiot!" British Foreign Secretary Robert Anthony Eden said furiously and anxiously. openly said.

The Norwegian issue and the Irish issue have brought the relationship between Germany and Britain to a freezing point, and the war is already imminent.

On the evening of October 10, Hitler officially approved Germany's "Wessel Exercise" military action plan against the three Nordic countries.

When Hitler signed, Shang Zhen was also present, and 10 minutes later, Jiang Weiguo knew about it.