At the same time, there is also the restoration of the British-occupied areas. The British-occupied areas of Germany include the Ruhr area, the core of German industry. How important is the Ruhr area? If we look at the complete Germany of World War I,
The Ruhr area accounts for 59% of Germany's industrial production capacity. Once the Ruhr area is destroyed, Germany will be finished.
At that time, the other three major industrial areas in Germany, including the Silesian Industrial Area, accounted for only 41%.
Not to mention that now, the Saarland is occupied by France, France is also annexing the Saarland to France, and the Silesian Industrial Zone has been owned by Poland.
For Germany in 1945, the Ruhr area was almost everything to Germany. As long as the British-occupied area could gain prosperity, it would quickly affect the entire Germany.
General restorative development is not so fast. If you want to quickly reverse the situation, other than the wealthy United States, you can only learn from the Soviet Union's wartime planning and development.
If history remains unchanged, the British Empire now has three years to independently restore production in the British-occupied areas.
If you take into account the independence time of British India, there are only two years left. However, if Alan Wilson can return to British India, he will definitely try his best to delay the independence of British India. Of course, this will require 100,000 British
Cooperation of Indian civil servants.
Whether the recovery of the British-occupied areas can be efficient can only rely on the British occupation forces. As early as the Potsdam Conference, Montgomery, the British Commander-in-Chief, who was receiving awards and honorary citizen titles everywhere, issued a "Complaint to the British Occupation Forces".
The "Regional German People's Book" stated: "The harvesting of crops must be carried out actively, transportation facilities must be rebuilt, and postal and telecommunications services must be restored."
"Certain industries must continue to operate... The German people should abide by the orders of this commander-in-chief, engage in the production of daily necessities for the entire region, and restore the economic life of the country."
It can be seen that this British-occupied area, which has belonged to the United Kingdom since the Yalta Conference, is also extremely important in the eyes of the London government. Now all occupied areas in various countries are in a state of military government. In terms of efficiency, military government should be the model that can best utilize this advantage.
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All areas occupied by the Western Allies can travel freely between each other, but they are still not allowed to enter the Soviet-occupied areas. Only in Berlin, free movement between the Allied districts is nominally possible.
Since the occupied areas of the three countries of Britain, the United States and France can travel freely, it depends on who can restore the occupied areas first. The one who restores them first will definitely form a siphon effect. This is true for the British-occupied areas, regardless of their population, location and industrial indicators.
It is the leading presence in the Shikoku-occupied zone.
Alan Wilson also listed a list of famous German companies during World War II, including Krupp, Henschel, Mauser, Mercedes-Benz, Rheinmetall, Siemens, Bayer, Carl Zeiss, Thyssen, Messerschmitt, Volkswagen,
Opel and other famous names.
And now these world-renowned German companies are lying in the ruins of the Ruhr area, waiting for someone to save them.
The value of these famous companies that supported the German war machine during the war also fell to the bottom when Germany was defeated. In Alan Wilson's eyes, even if there is gold mining in the manure, the British-occupied area is the most valuable one.
In fact, Cabinet Secretary Edward Bridges, who returned to London, was also planning how to be a good middleman.
Edward Bridges himself is actually not very interested in the dual-track price system.
But after Prime Minister Attlee came to power and revealed his views on the future status of British India, Edward Bridges began to really pay attention to this plan.
The reason why he finally agreed to send Yugoslav refugees to Rhodesia when he was in Germany was because he wanted to shock South Africa and make the Boers who were ready to act more honest.
Nowadays, South Africa is still nominally a colony of the British Empire, but after World War II, South Africa's attitude towards London seems to have changed subtly.
What was the ranking of the world's powerful countries during this time period? In fact, it was like this, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and South Africa. This was the ranking of the world's national power in 1945.
It seems that the British Empire is still very powerful, occupying three of the top six places, but Canada will still miss a little bit of incense, and no one knows what will happen to the always unruly Boers.
While making plans, Edward Bridges met with Prime Minister Attlee and took Montgomery's telegram, "Dear Prime Minister, Montgomery's telegram mentions some suggestions for the restoration of the British-occupied areas."
"Oh, does our marshal have any good suggestions?" Prime Minister Attlee asked, scratching his smooth forehead.
Edward Bridges pushed up his glasses and said calmly, "Currently, the British occupation area maintains order through the British occupation forces and the released German soldiers. The effect of maintaining order is very significant, but we must
Admittedly, there are not many ways for the military to restore the economy. So what Marshal Montgomery means is that he wants to establish a civilian government, but this matter cannot be rushed, because if you look for such civilian personnel in Germany from now on, almost everyone will
Having worked for Hitler, we cannot guarantee the credibility of these people."
After listening to Edward Bridges' chant-like narrative, Prime Minister Attlee nodded and asked, "Sir Edward, you mean that there is a lack of personnel management in the British-occupied areas."
"That's it, dear Prime Minister." Edward Bridges said softly, "The current situation in Germany is that every time you delay, the Germans in the occupied areas will be in pain for a while longer, so I have a plan.
The Prime Minister can take a look."
When Prime Minister Attlee looked at the plan, Edward Bridges explained to Attlee, "This is a phased plan. In the first phase, the military region commander has taken charge of management through his military government team.
Various responsibilities of the military government. In the second stage, a group of regional administrative committee members should be trained to replace the military district commander as the head of the military government. In the third stage, the military district commander ceases to perform the duties of the head of the military government. In the fourth stage, the military government
Deployed personnel will gradually give way to civilian personnel, whose numbers should be greatly reduced."
"When the four stages are completed, I believe that the work of identifying German government personnel who did not commit crimes during the war has been completed, and the British Empire can then hand over the work to the Germans."
The Cabinet Secretary's version of the fourth-level tactic was successfully passed by Prime Minister Attlee under the explanation of Edward Bridges. Edward Bridges, who came out of the Prime Minister's Office, immediately ordered, "From all departments and local governments,
Two thousand civil servants will be transferred to Germany."