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Time passed 1937 in the Sino-Japanese war, and the biggest focus of this year was the Sino-Japanese war.

Similar to the history, the principal still decided to fight the Japanese army in Shanghai. The difference is that the Songhu battle was not just fought for three months, but has not ended yet. At present, millions of China and Japan gather in the Suzhou-Shanghai area to fight, and the casualties on the two sides are 350,000 and 60,000 respectively. ,

According to Lieutenant General Modelk's report, the Nanjing side intends to withdraw its troops in view of the huge casualties in the battle between the Soviet Union and Shanghai. In this Battle of Songhu, all the Rhodes' engineers participated in the battle. It was their participation in the battle that kept the Japanese army from breaking through. However, at present, more than half of the Rhodes have lost their ability to continue fighting.

The Nanjing government saw that its most elite troops were no longer able to fight, so they made the decision to abandon Shanghai and other places. Fortunately, the ordnance purchased from Romania has already landed in Guangzhou. The Rhodes mechanic who supplemented the equipment believes that in the next battle, there must be a better performance.

When the time entered 1938, a major event took everyone's attention away from the smoked land of the Far East. Germany announced its merger with Austria.

Since the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire (also known as the First German Reich), it has been the dream of many Germans to build a unified country around the Germanic people, centered on German culture.

It was this dream that made the Second Reich of Germany. But with the end of World War I and the fall of the Second German Empire and Austria-Hungary, the dream of establishing a great power centered on German culture seems to have come to nothing.

But at this time, Germany and Austria, which have the same cultural roots, have some unified voices. And the momentum is growing, and the power of the German-Austrian merger has resurfaced, but the two countries have always maintained a marginal position.

However, Article 80 of the Treaty of Versailles, in order to punish the defeated country, explicitly denied the possibility of German-Austrian merger. Although not immediately successful, the German-Austrian merger has since become an important issue in Austrian politics, and the parliament has been divided into two factions: a section of the Social Democrats supported the merger, while the Christian Democrats, out of fear of German Protestantism, resisted the merger .

In Germany, the German-Austrian merger is the only option for the Communist Party. Hitler, who was born in Austria, bluntly stated in Mein Kampf: "German Austria must return to Germany, not for any economic reasons. Even if this merger has no economic benefits or even only disadvantages, we must insist on the merger. Same blood, same empire."

In the 1930s, the Austrian Communist Party became more and more powerful in parliamentary elections. In the face of repression by the authorities, they have carried out several terrorist attacks and anti-repression campaigns across the country.

In 1934, with Hitler's approval, the Austrian Communist Party assassinated Prime Minister Dolfis in an attempt to stage a coup. Although the ending ended in failure, it was a big earthquake for the Austrian political situation at the time. German-Austrian mergers and dictatorships became an almost unstoppable trend.

Austrian authorities have pursued a cautious "semi-appeasement" foreign policy toward Germany in exchange for independence. However, Hitler continued to pressure the Austrian government to recognize the legal status of the Austrian Communist Party, and even let the Austrian Communist Party participate in political affairs.

The reason for Hitler to do this, in addition to the urgent need to unite the German nation, is that he saw the weakness of Britain and France in the militarization of the Rhine, which made him more urgent to merge Austria.

Of course, the Auer-German Agreement signed in July 1936 was also an important step in Hitler's annexation of Austria.

The agreement stipulated that Germany recognized Austrian sovereignty. But in its relations with Germany, the policy it forced the Austrian government to implement was based on the fact that Austria was a German state. Austria was actually subject to German foreign policy.

In January 1938, the Austrian militants received instructions from Berlin to prepare for a rebellion. On February 4, Germany announced the reorganization of the central authority and the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. Hitler concentrated the powers of head of state and commander-in-chief into his own hands. Germany begins its merger plan with Austria.

On February 7, Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was invited to Hitler's residence in Berchtesgaden. In order to intimidate the Austrian Chancellor, Keitel reported to the Führer that the Germans were preparing to invade Austria.

Hitler forced Schuschnigg to sign a letter of agreement which in effect stipulated: establishing German control over Austrian foreign policy, legitimizing the activities of the Austrian National Socialists, and appointing a series of Austrian militants to key government positions .

The key positions of interior minister and public safety minister were to be ceded to Hitler's deputy Seth Inquart. This effectively meant the cancellation of Austria's sovereign independence.

Faced with pressure from Hitler, the desperate Schuchnigg announced on March 9 that a referendum on Austria's future would be held three days later. This made Germany's attempt to invade Austria by peaceful means in danger of failure. Faced with such a risk, Hitler demanded the immediate implementation of Otto's plan - the invasion of Austria.

Austria tried to get the British and French rescue before, but was flatly refused. So faced with this situation, the Austrian government surrendered.

After Britain and France refused to accept Austria's request for help, the German army began to rush all the way to Vienna. After the Germans occupied Vienna, Hitler signed an order declaring Austria a province of Germany.

In fact, the German Wehrmacht crossed the German-Austrian border, not only did not encounter any military resistance, but also received cheers, applause, ceremonies, flags and flowers from the residents. Therefore, this aggression is also known as the "War of Flowers". Austria was so easily brought under German control.

A triumphant Hitler declared in Vienna. "It is a common feeling for all other Germans. No matter what happens, the unified German Empire that we claim today will never be divided by anyone, and will never be divided."

The annexation of Austria has expanded the German territory by 17% and the population by 10%, making the German chariot even stronger.

The merger of Germany and Austria has made the smoke in Europe more intense, and it has also made more people worry about the future of Europe.

In Romania, however, little attention has been paid to the German-Austrian merger. Because Eder is preparing for a major event, the impact of this event is not much worse than the German-Austrian merger.

That is the merger of Romania and Bulgaria, and Eder intends to take this opportunity to bring the two kingdoms together. There has never been a better time than when Europe's eyes were held back by the German-Austrian merger.