＜ Episode 202 >
“Can the German Empire remain as an empire?”
she asked
“If I can remain as Deutsches Reich, I will.”
Reich is often translated as empire, but its meaning is closer to the state.
Of course, the nuance itself is close to a monarchy, but Nazi Germany as well as the Weimar Republic used the name Deutsche Reich.
Perhaps the posture was slightly uncomfortable, so she moved her body and took a different position.
“Can I remain as Deutsche Kaiserreich?”
“……”
I turned and looked straight into her eyes.
“You can’t go on as if nothing happened. Princess.”
“I don’t expect that either. There is a war, and you have to take responsibility. Besides, the former emperor and older brother actively cooperated with the Nazis, so it will be difficult to wash your mouth about it. I don’t either. But my other brother, Frederick IV, is now a puppet, nominally emperor.”
“Are you saying you don’t want me to be put on trial for war crimes?”
“Wouldn’t it be enough to abdicate and deprive his descendants of the right to succession? My father paid the price for starting the war by abdication.”
“If we deprive all of the succession rights of the Wilhelm III line and the Frederick IV line, if the enactment is not abolished, there will be only one royal family left.”
“It’s not bad for you either.”
“……”
“I looked around the streets. Your support is as strong as it gets.”
“Is that so.”
“I’m serious.”
She interlaced her fingers. With that in mind, she said softly.
“Even the Czechoslovaks now accept you as their king. On the contrary, there are those who say that this war is a victory for Czechoslovakia because the king of Czechoslovakia did this.”
“I’m happy.”
“Ah, those pretentious words, there’s no way you don’t know what I know. Let’s be honest. Even though you’ve made it this far… is this the same for other women?”
“If this is diplomacy, isn’t it diplomacy? An honest diplomat is like a wooden iron or a lawyer who can’t lie.”
“Speak well. And weren’t you a soldier?”
“I was discharged. I used to be a doctor, and in the military, I was also a surgeon.”
“……”
“really.”
“I shouldn’t be talking with a person like this…”
Louise, who mumbled, sighed.
“After all, my older brother is a dead person, so it doesn’t matter if I cover everything up. But little brother is just a puppet. Can’t you just abdicate instead of sending me to the gallows?”
“Do you keep the government in place?”
“Anyway, I gave you my biggest weakness with my hands. If you can firmly hold the imperial family and shake it, don’t you think I’m better than a democratic country that can’t be controlled by election results? If you think the leash is insufficient, you can add more. Are you unable to do that?”
As I spoke slightly provocatively, I sighed.
“In the future, the imperial presence will fade considerably in the country. Don’t you know how close my father-in-law and your father, the former King of England, were related? No matter how close you and I are, if the people cry for war, it will be difficult to avoid war.”
“I don’t think so. Russia’s name in Germany is fear, and furthermore, if you win this war alone against the whole of Europe, the whole of Europe will be afraid of Russia.”
Usually, in Europe, anti-state alliances are created and fans are unilaterally. But she insisted that it would no longer be possible.
“A reversal of the alliance is quite possible. People still remember Bismarck. The moment of abandonment of Bismarck began the fall of Germany. It is not wrong.”
In fact, the Bismarck regime was impossible to sustain for a long time. How can a system that is maintained only by one’s own abilities be stable?
However, the general perception is different.
“A good treaty with Russia is the best diplomacy for Germany. To isolate France by alliance with Russia was Bismarck’s guiding principle of diplomacy. It’s a little harsh to criticize my father like this, but I couldn’t keep it, so my father lost the war. Besides, the new Russia is not a country without diplomatic trust. Unlike France, which secured security to Switzerland and invaded the annexed Germany or the neutral Netherlands and devoured its ally Belgium, we went to war for the protection of Denmark, which had no significant benefit.”
France is something we promoted, but… it’s not known to the public.
“And the imperial family, on which I center, will be the symbol.”
“Did you think of that in the first place?”
“It’s not something I can think of alone.”
Having said that, I have nothing to say.
“With a German-Russian union, we can isolate France, oust Britain from Europe, and disarm Italy. The collapse of Greater Germany will have to be endured, but it will only be a return to the pre-war era.”
“Can Prussia also lose? What if I ask you to give up the entire Elbe River movement?”
“In a formal setting, we will try to negotiate first. Making the demilitarized zone… Of course we, Germany, have lost a lot of diplomatic credibility when we rearm the Rhineland.”
“Really?”
“Is there any way to stop it? If you ask me to give it to you, I have to give it to you. And if you do that, there will be no republican revolution.”
“Why?”
“The fact that I, who is rumored to be your government, sits on the throne is a last resort for Russia. It’s a safety device, not a national symbol. Do you know the diplomatic efforts Germany made during the last war to get Russia out of the war?”
Louise tilted her head.
“But it all failed. As far as I can remember from the previous interwar period, for Germans, having a safety device called me is a more secure safety device than signing a hundred treaties. Besides, if you’re the one I know, you wouldn’t be unilaterally tearing us apart and making us dissatisfied. Unless you want to dismantle Germany itself.”
In the Treaty of Versailles, I was a very moderate group by anyone. In fact, since Nicholas II refused to completely dismantle Germany, all I could do was cry out that Germany should be restored to the international community by minimizing the amount of reparations to be levied on Germany and the territorial plunder.
The fact that the person who decisively defeated Germany on the Eastern Front made such a claim was quite fresh.
“Thanks to that, a lot of people think of you as a pro-German person.”
“Even if we declared war on Germany?”
“A treaty is a treaty. On the contrary, it cannot be denied that it has increased diplomatic credibility with you. Personally, I am friendly to Germany, but I have kept the treaty of the alliance with a clear distinction between public and private. You know what the Germans did after the last time the Germans entered France, right?”
“You made us declare the end of the military alliance? I didn’t understand what they were doing, but that’s what you were thinking?”
If the military alliance between France and Russia is broken, is it possible to negotiate in moderation now that there is already a war going on?
“Exactly. Although the last offensive actually has no strategic answer, it is possible to negotiate as long as you can stop the Russian army once and for all if you can do something about the front that is collapsing out of control. In that sense, they have achieved half the purpose of the offensive itself. It didn’t push the Russians away, but it did give me a breather anyway, so maybe I’ll openly propose peace talks sooner or later.”
“I don’t even think about accepting that.”
In the first place, all of your territory was taken away and the Rhine River is just around the corner, so will you accept the negotiation? Who do you know as Peter III?
Well, if the U.S. is looking at whether or not to join the war on the side of Germany, I might accept the negotiation, but the U.S. is firmly on our side, and at best Britain?
“At least in terms of their mental state, it is highly probable.”
Well, but in hindsight, Hitler believed that after Roosevelt’s death, the Red Captain Roosevelt died, now the United States and Britain could switch to their side and continue the war with the Soviet Union. .
Taking a short sigh, I leaned my head back.
“I have no intention of conquering Europe. We only want to unite Europe and prevent future wars, so that we realize that if we start a war, even if we win, we will not benefit.”
Of course, humans are not that rational. Therefore, disputes can arise.
That’s why we need the police.
“Did you change from the military police to the police?”
“Neither the police nor the judges, the police must have a proper judge and a code of law, right? If you beat them up for causing trouble, what is the difference between them and the cartels?”
European Union. and the United Nations.
It is the new international order I am looking forward to.
The European Union is something that Russia can handle alone, the word is the European Union, and it will be in the form of a Warsaw Pact, but it can be afforded.
But Russia alone in the world? There is no such thing as a dog whistle. America’s help is essential here.
He joins hands with the United States to establish the United Nations and conquer the world. One veto would be given to the US and Russia, and only two permanent members would be occupied, and then five Russia-side countries and five American-sided countries could form a non-permanent member of 10 countries.
There may be a general assembly, but the UN General Assembly does not have any particular power in the 21st century. it’s real
No matter what the UN General Assembly says, if the Security Council keeps their ears shut, or if only one permanent member of the Security Council lays down with veto power without needing the entire Security Council, no resolution will ever be passed in the UN.
Of course, the exercise of the veto is also a serious burden on the State party, so there are very few cases where the veto is actually exercised, and most end in abstaining. Even if the UN General Assembly wants to block something, it will never be able to stop it if only three of the five permanent and non-permanent members are involved.
The United Nations is by no means an equal organization. And it will probably be the case in this world as well. No, it will get worse. Everything will be decided by the interests of just the two countries, the US and Russia.
‘But it’s stable.’
Academia gives various reasons for the failure of the Cold War to develop into a hot war, but most of it was possible because it was a two-pronged system with few variables.
It’s literally unreasonable to fight the US anyway and win. The United States has enough national power to fight and win against all countries except itself.
The Soviet Union in its original history also competed with the United States, but failed to win and collapsed.
“The Middle East and India will all be able to live freely, as long as we acknowledge our supremacy.”
All colonies are independent. If the new government doesn’t openly oppose us, we will. If we maintain a diplomatic pro-Russian stance no matter how we do domestic affairs in our territory, which we will simply negotiate with the United States, we will be concerned, and on the contrary, we will not care what the United States is doing outside of our territory.
And they will be the market.
If we sell our goods in the international market at a lower price than the existing rulers, but at a higher price than we originally sold, and buy the raw materials we originally bought at a lower price, but at a higher price than the price we had to offer almost freely. What is the benefit?
It’s good for the ruled, and it’s good for us, anyway, by this time the colony was all about prestige. there is nothing to be embarrassed about
“Then we, Germany, could also have a place in that idea. It has been a long time since we have managed our country without a colony, so we will adapt better than England and France.”
“Is Prussia supposed to fall? Austria too.”
“Austria was not the same country as before the Great War, but it was the same people, and although Prussia is the region where the German Empire was based, there is a case where the Savoy royal family sold its roots to France for the unification of Italy. It’s also effective in weakening the Junkers’ power to prevent this from ever happening again. Oppas would never make that choice, but I have a different story.”
Are you going to try to somehow protect the German Empire and the Imperial Family by handing over all the war responsibility to your dead brother Wilhelm III, the Nazis, and the Junkers? It won’t be an easy road, but if Russia protects it, I won’t openly point a knife at it, but I’ll eat a lot of cursing.
“I kind of know that. And if I was going to stop because of that, I wouldn’t have started in the first place.”