C17 A Letter from China

November 1932, in the office of the National Socialist Workers' Party in the German Republic's capital, Berlin.

Adolf Hitler sat dejectedly on the sofa, his head drooping and his eyes bloodshot. Obviously, he had not slept well the entire night. The Nazis had won more than two hundred seats in the general election, not enough to form an independent cabinet, but enough to make them the biggest party in Congress. But he did not want to form a coalition with other parties, and President Hindenburg rejected the terms of his full executive powers as Prime Minister. Damn the current prime minister of the government, the Catholic Core, Baben, had used the prime minister's power to dissolve Congress and re-elect it because the caucus was too low in Congress. A new election cost the Nazis two million votes and more than thirty seats in Congress.

Why was fate so unfair to him? His father died at the age of fourteen, and he had a taste of the world's coldness; when he entered the war at the age of seventeen, when he had just been promoted to corporal by merit, the great German Empire surrendered; when he went to Vienna after the war, supported by his mother and sister, to art school, and his mother left him for good at the age of nineteen; when for the next few years he lost his money and had to live in a chicken hair shop with only a bunk, or in an almost identical single room on the Twentieth Street of Vienna on the Danube, where he spent his days of starvation by eating porridge …

It was as if he was a person who was related to poverty, failure, and despondency. A loser was unworthy of living in this world! With that in mind, Hitler grabbed the Luger from the table and aimed it at his temple. Just as he was about to pull the trigger with his index finger, he heard the voice of his assistant, Goring, outside the door: "Leader of the Party, there's a letter from you from China."

China? During his time in Vienna, a kind-hearted Chinese family had helped him. Could it be that they had written to him? Hitler immediately placed the pistol on the table and said, "Bring me in!"

Goring hurried in and handed the letter to Hitler. Hitler took the letter and looked at it. It was signed not by the Chinese who had supported him, but by a man named Hua Bicheng. It had been forwarded to Hitler by General Wenzel of the German Military Advisory Group in China. Although he was disappointed, Hitler still opened the letter with curiosity:

"Dear Mr. Adolf Hitler:

Hello, my name is Hua Bicheng, I'm a colonel in the Chinese Academy. The reason for this letter to you is that we Chinese and German peoples are facing the same problem at the moment: being squeezed into too much living space by inferior aliens! Both you and I are trying to solve this problem for our people. The best way to solve this problem is actually the iron and blood that your country's famous Prime Minister, Mr. Bismarck, has spoken of.

In my humble opinion, the biggest problem for Germany at the moment is the lack of a strong leader to lead the German people to wash away the shame of the Treaty of Versailles. I think you can be that leader in the future. However, this process would definitely not be smooth sailing. If necessary, he could make compromises that would not go against the principles. But I believe that it is only a matter of time before you become the head of state of Germany.

In the future, if Germany is to gain a living space, it must acquire land for the ploughs of Germany, as you say, with the sword of Germany. The first step would be to send troops into the fucking Rhineland, as provided for in the Treaty of Versailles, and to test the British and French reactions and the Soviet Union's reactions; then to attack Austria, which would be the same Germanic state as Germany, with little resistance; then to incite Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland Germans to demand independence, and to occupy Sudetenland and all of Czechoslovakia; then, I believe, Britain and France would not declare war on Germany for the sake of Czechoslovakia, and would only want to safeguard the interests of the British and French governments after the war.

As for Italy to the south, it was a country under the wind and would be nothing but a subordinate to Germany. The United States was trapped by domestic isolationism and would not interfere in the affairs of the continent. The next ten years would therefore be the best time for German development. I also look forward to the opportunity to visit Germany and meet with you.

Hua Bi Cheng

10 October 1932 "

"When I become Prime Minister, I will definitely invite this Chinese colonel to visit Germany!" Goring saw that when Hitler closed the letter, his eyes were filled with the same familiar fighting spirit. Could this Chinese man who wrote letters be magical?

Hitler had treasured it ever since, and it had become a treasure of the German Museum of History. Later on, people and historians were amazed at Hua Bicheng's foresight, because the expansion of Germany in the Second World War was the prelude to this letter, and the reactions were the same as expected.