The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1013

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Miller is an ordinary worker in a factory in North Carolina. The factory he worked in has swept the world and become a world-renowned enterprise more than 30 years later. Its name is Kodak!

But at this time, it was just a relatively ordinary film production company.

Although Kodak had begun to produce cameras using film more than two years ago, the gap between North America and Europe, especially with Hans, in the field of precision industry is still quite obvious. Kodak’s film is sold well in the world, but the sales of cameras are not as good as those of Hans’s Leica and Zeiss.

At this time, companies such as Leica and Zeiss have successfully developed and produced small-volume, aluminum alloy bodies and other twin-lens and single-lens reflex color cameras. This portable color camera is far superior to other peers in performance, so once it came out, it was immediately sought after worldwide.

This affected the business of many competitors, and even Kodak in North America did not escape this disaster.

However, with the advent of high-performance cameras, people’s demand for film began to rise sharply. Therefore, although Kodak encountered Waterloo in camera sales, it achieved great success in film sales. The strong market demand and a large number of orders made Kodak’s factories very efficient. This film production factory in North Carolina is one of them.

Before the outbreak of the economic crisis, Miller and his colleagues had to work overtime almost every day!

In order to improve production efficiency, the company even had to recruit three times the number of workers to carry out 24-hour uninterrupted production, but even so, they still could not meet the strong market demand. During that period, although Miller’s work was very busy, the income he earned was also considerable. Kodak’s salary was very good, and there was overtime pay for overtime work. If you were lucky, you could get about $250 a month!

This income is still very good in the United States. At this time, the average annual income of a North American family was only about $3,000.

However, the good times did not last long. The outbreak of the economic crisis caused the economic situation of countries around the world to take a sharp turn for the worse!

The deterioration of the economy affected the market demand, and Kodak, which had previously performed very well, also faced the crisis of losses.

In 1928, Miller’s company had cut thousands of jobs and dismissed a large number of employees, and it was difficult to guarantee the jobs of the remaining workers. If the market situation did not improve, even Miller himself might face the dilemma of being laid off.

In the eyes of Miller, who had experienced the post-war economic boom, this period of time was simply the low point in his life.

However, he did not expect that a sudden war would involve himself and the entire country!

The Eagle Sauce and Hans, who were originally allies, suddenly fought for some unknown reason.

Let’s fight, Miller and most of the Eagle Sauce people did not care too much at the beginning. After all, this kind of thing is not uncommon. In the history of the Eagle Sauce, they have often been at war. From independence to the present, they have almost been fighting. As long as the war does not affect their own native land or their daily life, most of the Eagle Sauce people do not pay much attention to these wars!

Even many people support this war. After all, the more than 9 million square kilometers of land in the Eagle Sauce are not given away by recharging phone bills, but are fought out by wars one after another!

Therefore, in most cases, the Eagle Sauce’s foreign wars can bring benefits to the country.

Just like the previous World War I, the First World War caused tens of millions of casualties, and the whole of Europe was in ruins, but the Eagle Sauce’s homeland was not affected at all.

Not only that, they even made a lot of money from the war, not only completely paying off the large amount of foreign debts they owed in the era of the Great Railway, but also making European countries owe themselves a lot of debts!

Moreover, during the war, European counterparts were busy with the war and could not produce, nor could they compete with them for the market, resulting in the efficiency of the Eagle Sauce factory being doubled, various orders were lined up, the capitalists were full of oil, and ordinary workers also benefited and drank a mouthful of soup!

In this kind of war, almost everyone in the Eagle Sauce benefits, and no one will dislike it!

So when the Eagle Sauce government suddenly declared war on Hans and joined the Allies to participate in World War II, the people in the Eagle Sauce did not take it too seriously.

In their view, since they joined the European allies to declare war on Hans, it should be the same as World War I, and the US military went to Western Europe to participate in the war. At that time, they would probably accept a large number of orders from Europe, just like World War I!

When they thought of this, the Eagle Sauce people were a little excited, and no one would oppose such a war at all!

However, what happened next made them completely confused!

Before the US military entered Europe to participate in the war, the German army took the initiative to come to the door!

The German army landed in Florida, which can be said to have completely shocked the entire Eagle Sauce, and countless Eagle Sauce people dropped their jaws!

They never thought that the Eagle Sauce, as the chosen place, would be invaded by enemies from other continents!

And that’s not all. The German army that landed on the shore won victory after victory, and the US army retreated step by step. Not only did they fail to drive the German army into the sea, but they also completely lost the strength to confront the German army head-on.

As a result, the lives of thousands of American workers fell into a trough!

Affected by the war, a large number of young and strong workers were conscripted by the army to join the army and fight on the front line.

And those capitalists, because they were worried about the loss of their property and even their lives, sold their assets and fled to the safe areas inland or even in the west with their families.

After these big capitalists fled, factories everywhere lost their source of funds. The factories had no money to pay the workers’ wages, no money to purchase raw materials for production, and even couldn’t pay the water and electricity bills, so they had to stop working!

As soon as the factory stopped working, the workers immediately lost their source of income, and their lives immediately fell into hardship and despair.

No, like other workers who lost their source of livelihood, Miller rushed over early in the morning after hearing the news that relief porridge was being distributed on the street, and lined up here.

During the Great Depression, queuing for relief food was no longer unfamiliar to American workers. They had experienced it for several years!

However, today’s situation seems a bit special.

The people who distributed the relief food to them were actually a group of soldiers in German uniforms.