Chapter 590: Middle East

On the battlefield in the Middle East, the Jewish army swept across Saudi Arabia, and the original population of more than three million Saudi Arabia dropped sharply to more than one million. Many people boarded refugee ships provided by Greece to seek refuge in the United States across the Atlantic.

What's interesting is that the Saudi leaders were killed or arrested; occasionally there were fish that escaped and fled to the United States by boat, but they encountered a shipwreck on the way and disappeared. All the families with some power in Saudi Arabia were cleansed, and the remaining more than one million people were driven to a barren land.

The continuous influx of refugees naturally caused dissatisfaction among the American people. Their lives were not easy, and suddenly there were so many freeloaders competing with them for resources. No one would be happy.

The US government was also very troubled by this. No matter how it threatened and intimidated, Greece still sent refugees in a steady stream, saying that if you don't want to accept them, you can just sink the ship, which really made the US government hate it. But they couldn't declare war on Greece. After all, even if they declared war, they couldn't hit Greece, but they had an enemy.

These refugees were penniless (in order to board the refugee ship, they handed over all their valuables). When they got off the ship, they were empty-handed, with only a piece of clothing on their bodies, just like beggars. The US government had to provide them with food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Even if each person ate one kilogram of food a day, these refugees would consume hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food every day. The most annoying thing is that they would not stay still after eating, but clamored for better accommodation and clothes, and asked the government to build a mosque; this caused a lot of social conflicts, and even had several conflicts with the police.

These refugees were pushed to the ground by the police, and the scene of being beaten by batons was photographed and spread to Germany; European news media immediately reported it widely, satirizing the US government, which claims to be the embodiment of democracy, freedom and justice, for abusing these unarmed refugees. Is this what you call justice?

Yannick asked Pope Pius XII of the Vatican to publish a broadcast titled "Let the World Be Filled with Love", calling on the American people to accept these poor people with love and give them a piece of bread, a glass of water, and a place to sleep.

This pope named Eugenio Pacelli is a very controversial figure in later generations. He was portrayed by many Western historians or authors as a heartless, greedy, and complacent villain.

In 1963, a play called "God's Advocate" was staged in Berlin, Germany, which caused a sensation. The pope in the play was obsessed with how to use the sale of some of his investments to influence the Americans to stop the Allied bombing of Rome and turned a deaf ear to the massacre of the Jews.

As soon as the play was released, it was quickly translated into more than 20 languages ​​and became the basis for the pope's disgraceful behavior. It spread rapidly in the streets and alleys. In fact, people had questioned the agreement signed by the pope with the German and Italian fascists and his silence during the fascist atrocities.

At that time, under the dominance of the pope's "infallibility" creed, the Vatican and the pope were always very secretive about the matter, which led to a lot of controversy. Perhaps the script, as an artistic creation, is unconvincing and inevitably contains fictional elements.

Then in 1964, France published a very important historical work "Pius XII and the Third Reich". The author is a historian who studies Nazism. Both of his parents died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and he survived in a Catholic monastery in France.

In the book, he clearly pointed out that "the Pope has a preference for Germany, and this preference has not been weakened by the nature of the Nazi system".

Once this book was published, it caused a lot of public opinion. Under pressure, Pope Paul VI ordered the compilation of the Vatican documents during World War II in 1964. Although 11 volumes of archives were compiled, some people still questioned their authenticity and integrity.

While the Vatican published its collection of documents one after another, the debate continued to develop and expand, and a series of works came out one after another.

Such as "The Sinking of Pius XII", "The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany", "Black Sabbath" and other works, a lot of evidence shows that Pius XII and the German Nazis were in collusion, and the Nazis also reciprocated, as a reward for silence, in order to protect their position from threats, they did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of half of the Jews.

There are always two sides to things. Some people oppose and some people support. In "Britain and the Vatican during World War II" and "We Remember: Reflections on the Holocaust", it is pointed out that Pius XII is not cold and heartless. He is a warm, humane and compassionate person. He also has many helplessness about the war, and pointed out that more than 800,000 Jews were saved during World War II.

Until later generations, the debate continued, and there was still no clear conclusion about the Pope's behavior during World War II.

In any case, the speech of Pius XII has achieved considerable response. Most Americans are religious, and Catholics account for a large proportion. Since the Pope has said so, devout believers can only suppress their dissatisfaction in their hearts and give these refugees as much help as possible according to the Pope's instructions. However, in the near future, they will deeply understand what it means to be an ungrateful person who can't be fed.

Pius XII also called on the world to put aside disputes and live in peace.

The German Foreign Ministry subsequently issued a statement saying that Germany is very peace-loving, and everything it has done before is for long-term peace in the future. Look at how peaceful Europe is now. He also said that Germany would be happy to negotiate with the United States if the United States wanted to stop its war.

The Americans half-believed and half-doubted and asked the ambassador to Switzerland to contact the Germans. The first request of the United States was to exchange the European foreign exchange in the treasury. The German ambassador said that it was all in the past and they would not recycle a pile of waste paper. If they really wanted to recycle it, they could only give them a few dollars per ton of foreign exchange at the price of waste paper.

The American ambassador resisted the urge to overturn the table and made the second request, which was to return the American companies and frozen funds that had been sealed in Europe; the German ambassador said that those had been divided up by others, and if they wanted to get them back, they would have to go through a cumbersome procedure, which would probably take thirty to fifty years.

The American ambassador slammed the door and left in anger. Only then did the Americans realize that the Germans did not want to negotiate sincerely, but it was just a means of propaganda war.

Just when Germany and the United States were arguing fiercely, according to the previous agreement, King Abdullah Ibn Hussein of Transjordan led his people to relocate the whole country and happily moved to Mecca in the Hejaz.

Naturally, all of Saudi Arabia's oil-producing areas fell into German hands, so there was no need to talk about a 30-70 split or a 20-80 split. Now 100% of it belongs to the Germans.