69novels Chapter 619
Chapter 619
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As early as eight years ago, during the German-Austrian merger, Mainz had used more than 300,000 captured Romani prisoners of war as free slaves.
Mainz was not polite to these prisoners of war at all, and threw all the dirty, tiring, and hard work to them.
Mining and road construction were all trivial matters, while building roads and bridges in the Alps were hard, tiring, and dangerous jobs. Many prisoners of war accidentally fell off the cliff while working, and their bodies were gone!
In the end, these prisoners of war couldn’t stand it, and they persuaded the Romani government through their families to agree to Hans’s huge ransom and redeem them from Hans’ hands, and their nightmares were finally relieved.
In the subsequent military operations, the German army also captured prisoners of war from many countries. In addition to the German-Polish War in 1923, in order to allow the Polish people to recover their strength as soon as possible to fight with the bears, a large number of prisoners of war were released. In other wars, all the prisoners of war captured by the German army were detained and used as coolies all over Hans.
Among them, the largest number of people was the Gallic Campaign that just ended not long ago!
In the Gallic Campaign, Hans captured more than 2.5 million Allied troops, most of whom were Gauls, and all these prisoners of war were sent to Hans to mine coal, build bridges and pave roads for Hans, and do some heavy physical dirty work that could not be hired even if you spent money!
Because these people don’t have to spend money, and they have been in the army before, their discipline is much better than that of ordinary workers, so they are actually much easier to use than ordinary workers. They have high work efficiency and low work cost, and they are excellent high-quality labor.
So Mainz naturally had no intention of letting them leave. These prisoners of war were divided into hundreds of groups and settled in different areas. Some were assigned to mines.
Some were assigned to farms to reclaim wasteland and grow food, and to establish Hans state-owned farms.
Others were sent to militarized factories to produce various civilian and even military products for Hans.
Detaining these people can not only greatly ease the labor shortage in Hans, but also effectively weaken the resistance of those occupied areas.
After all, most of those who can join the army are young and middle-aged men between the ages of 20 and 40. They are the main labor force in society. The German army has withdrawn millions of these young and middle-aged men at once. It is not easy for these occupied areas to gather so many young and middle-aged men again. Therefore, even if they hate Hans, they can’t resist Hans. The main labor force in the country is gone, how can they resist?
After all, not everyone is as crazy as the bear. Regardless of gender, age or young, all people are soldiers, which really makes Hans fall into the vast ocean of people’s war!
However, the bear can do this to this extent, firstly because of the different national system, and secondly because they have a political strongman-Starling!
If it weren’t for the bear’s national system, they wouldn’t have such a strong mobilization ability.
If there were no political strongmen like Starling, their execution would not be so in place, and the advantages of their policies would be difficult to play out!
Therefore, it was inevitable and accidental that the Russians could win the Great Patriotic War and defeat the Third Reich.
The inevitable refers to their comprehensive national strength, which is industrial strength and rich human resources. They naturally have the foundation of a superpower, so it is difficult to be defeated all at once, and they have the capital to win the war!
The accidental thing is that they have a strong leader like Starling. If the leader of the Russians at that time was not Starling but someone else, there is a great probability that they would be defeated! It is no secret that Hans used a large number of prisoners of war from defeated countries as coolies. All European countries know it well.
However, because these are prisoners of war, not civilians, they have not received much attention. There are almost no news reports about these prisoners of war in the public. After all, as spectators, other European countries do not need to report these things at the risk of offending Hans.
The fact that the allies were defeated on the battlefield and captured so many people was embarrassing enough. If they reported these things at this time, it would be a humiliation for themselves. Of course, they would not do such a thankless thing!
Others did not care, but the armies of various countries could not help but care, especially those countries that opposed Hans. After all, one day in the future, they might also end up like this!
The Norwegian army was scared to death after their prime minister said such words in public at the military parade in the Iron Tower City!
They cursed these politicians in their hearts. Just for their own political achievements and face, they used these soldiers as guns and didn’t care about their lives! Politicians only need to move their lips to make these soldiers go to the battlefield to fight the enemy and work for these politicians!
If the enemy they are facing is not very strong and they have a great chance of winning on the battlefield, then the attitude of the military may be slightly better. After all, fighting can also gain military merits, and they can climb up with military merits!
So for the army, fighting is not a bad thing, but the prerequisite is that they can win!
If they are facing an opponent that is impossible to defeat, and fighting a war that they know they cannot win, then the attitude of the army will be completely different!
For the Norwegian army, the German army is the one they cannot defeat!
They only have a hundred thousand troops at most, while the Hans have more than 2 million troops!
The disadvantage in numbers is too great!
So great that they feel desperate!
However, after their first battle with the German army in Christian City, they realized that the disadvantage in numbers was secondary.
The biggest gap between them is actually in weapons and equipment!
They have a small number of artillery, less than 300 in total, and they cannot produce it themselves. They rely on imports, and the imported ones are all old models that have been eliminated by other countries.
Hans’s artillery is complete and of high quality. All of them are the latest howitzers and field guns, including heavy artillery such as the SFH150 howitzer, and self-propelled artillery such as the No. 3 assault gun!
In addition, the German army also had a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, which the Norwegian army did not have at all, and had never even seen!
In the battle, in addition to facing the fierce attack of the German army, they also had dive bombers and strategic bombers in the air. Often, their firepower points and bunkers were destroyed by the German bombing before they could play a role.
After the German army’s firepower output, there were not many Norwegian soldiers who could survive on the position. At this time, facing the attack of the German army armed to the teeth, they had no chance of winning at all, and could only flee in panic!
No fight, no acquaintance. The Norwegian army had heard about Hans’s power a long time ago, but they had only heard about it before and had never seen it, so they didn’t take it seriously.
But when they fought with the German army, they realized that the rumors were true. The German army was really strong, so strong that they were unable to resist!
If they continued to fight, they would either be killed or captured by the German army and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp to serve as coolies for life.
They were unwilling to choose either of these two results, so when the third path was presented to them, they naturally knew what to do!
This is also the fundamental reason why Quislin was able to successfully lobby the army and make the army turn against him and support him!