novelhk Chapter 298
Chapter 298
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To measure a country’s war potential, we must not only look at the size and combat effectiveness of the country’s existing army, but also the potential size of the country’s mobilizable army.
In order to figure this out, we need to conduct a census to find out the total population, the ratio of men to women, and the number of people in each age group.
The population of a country that can create value and work is mainly adults between the ages of 18 and 60, among which young and middle-aged people between the ages of 22 and 45 are the most important labor force.
These people are not only the main force of the army, but also the main force needed for a country’s industrial development!
If a world war really breaks out in the future, the size of the population in this age group will determine the upper limit of the total strength of the German army.
In the original history, the Third Reich mobilized a total of more than 3.5 million people to join the army in World War II, almost draining out the entire young and middle-aged population of Hans. At the end of the war, because of the heavy losses and the huge shortage of troops on the front line, the mustache even organized some troops composed of minors, which were euphemistically called the SS Youth Armored Division.
Most of the members of this unit are minors between the ages of 14 and 18. Although they fought bravely on the Western Front, they were still beaten to a pulp by the Allied forces and suffered heavy casualties.
To be honest, when a country needs to mobilize minors to participate in the battle, it is actually a critical moment for the survival of the country. In that case, such resistance can only appear futile and tragic.
“The census survey team will be dispatched directly by the central government, and all localities must cooperate unconditionally without any obstruction or interference!”
The power of the major states within Hans is still very large. Although the member states have been abolished, the power of local governments has not been weakened much. Hans is now similar to the Eagle Sauce, both of which are loose federal regimes.
This kind of regime is certainly not what Mainz wants, so he has to start intervening in local affairs and concentrate power in the hands of the central government. In this way, the development of Hans country can go according to his wishes!
After Mainz gave orders to the local state governments, he also specially mobilized several field armies and entered the states in the name of military training.
Guderian’s First Army entered the Rhine region, Model’s Second Army entered the Saxony region, Manstein’s Third Army entered Bavaria, Kesselring’s Fourth Army entered the Prussian region, Mainz personally led the Fifth Army to sit in Brandenburg, and the remaining two groups One army went south to Odili, and the other went north to the Schleswig region.
After more than a year of training, these field armies have transformed from the new army composed mainly of recruits at the beginning of the year to a well-trained elite army.
Faced with such a murderous tiger and wolf, the local government naturally did not dare to confront them.
So, the census was carried out smoothly.
After three months of census, the results of the first census in 1924 were released.
There are a total of 848,000 people in Hans, which is more than one million more than the results of Fitch’s survey last year.
Some of the more than one million extra people are new births in Hans, and some are people returning from overseas.
As Hans’ economic conditions gradually improved, the downward trend in fertility affected by the war began to be reversed. From 1922, Hans began to enter the post-war baby boom stage.
In 192, the number of births in Hans reached 1.98 million, returning to the highest level before World War I.
This number further climbed in 192, when a total of 2.12 million people were born in Hans, setting a record since the establishment of Hans.
The number of births this year ranks among the top five in the world, second only to China, India, the United States and Japan.
The Russian Bear, which has a larger population than Hans, has seen its births drop to 1.97 million this year due to constant wars, while Japan, which has a smaller population than Hans, has not been affected by the war because of the continued peace in the domestic situation. In addition, because of the opening of the Chinese market, domestic goods can be continuously exported to China. Dumping has made the DP of Jiaoben rise year after year, and the economic situation is very good.
Stimulated by these good news, the birth population of Jiaoben has risen rapidly, from 1.
45 million in 1900 to 2.
11 million in 1920 in just 20 years.
Last year, it created a fertility peak of 220,000.
The total population of Jiaoben has also risen rapidly during this period of time, not only surpassing the old power Gaul, but also surpassing the sun that never sets, and even catching up with Hans.
If Mainz had not reversed the economic situation of Hans, Hans’ fertility rate would probably still be struggling in the quagmire.
By then, Jiaoben would probably surpass Hans in total population in less than 15 years!
Population growth is closely related to the economic situation and the internal and external situation of the country. If the economic situation is good, people have stable jobs and high income levels, and there is no war and the internal security situation is good, people’s willingness to have children will increase, and the birth population will increase accordingly.
On the contrary, once the economic situation deteriorates, or the internal and external security situation deteriorates, people will reduce fertility, and the birth population will drop drastically.
In 1900, the number of births in Hans had reached 1.
98 million, close to 200,000.
According to this trend, in 1920, the total population of Hans should have exceeded 85 million.
However, due to the impact of the First World War, more than two million people died in Hans, and the number of disabled people was even greater.
During the duration of the war and the ten years of post-war unrest, the number of births in Hans dropped by more than half.
At the lowest point, the number of births in Hans was less than 900,000!
Affected by this, from 1912 to 1922, only more than 3 million people were born in Hans in ten years, while the number of deaths reached 15 million. The population of Hans not only did not grow, but also decreased!
However, the number of people in this era increased by nearly 11 million, and the population gap between the two sides quickly narrowed.
The birth rate at this time is directly related to the number of laborers who can work and join the army in Hans eighteen years later.
The reason why Foot Basin was able to burst out such combat effectiveness despite its greatly lagging industrial strength during World War II had a lot to do with the baby boom that broke out during World War I.
From 1900 to 1925, at least half of the population born in these 25 years would wear military uniforms, take up arms and join Foot Basin’s army to fight for their country!
And how many people are there in this group?
A full 40 million!
Many people in history believe that the biggest reason for the failure of the Third Reich in the war, in addition to the lack of resources, was the exhaustion of military strength.
Since World War I, Hans’ birth population has continued to decline, hovering around 1.
1 million for many years, only about 50% of Foot Basin.
In this case, Hans simply does not have many young and strong people to recruit.
The mustache used all his strength to recruit 13 million people, which really emptied the entire Hans’ male population.
Otherwise, he would not have sent even teenagers to the battlefield!
Therefore, from Mainz’s perspective, he naturally hopes that the people of Hans can have more children, because these children are the future of the empire! _To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download