African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1504 Decoupling
The Stuttgart arson case eventually alarmed the East African government. In February 1931, the East African Consulate in Stuart, Germany, protested to the local city government at the request of the International News Monthly.

Unlike other East African newspapers invested in Germany, International News Monthly is an East African news and newspaper company. Therefore, in order to safeguard the overseas interests of their own companies, the East African governments cannot remain indifferent.

Stuttgart City Police.

"Director Kuhn, this was a premeditated vicious incident targeting East African companies. The murderer has not been tracked down after such a long time. You must give a reasonable explanation, otherwise I have the right to suspect your inaction." Manfred, the consul of the East African Consulate, said.

Facing Manfred's questioning, Director Kuhn was very impatient. He said perfunctorily: "Consul Manfred, I hope you can calm down and understand our work better."

"Regarding the malicious arson of the International News Monthly branch, our police department also took it very seriously and immediately dispatched a large number of personnel to investigate the matter."

The truth is that Kuhn did not do this at all. On the one hand, the Brown Shirts did a very clean job and did not leave much evidence. On the other hand, Kuhn did not want to offend the German National Party.

Yes, everyone knows that the German National Party is the mastermind behind the arson, but East Africa cannot produce any evidence, so it naturally cannot directly target this German party. The German government turns a blind eye to the German National Party and even covers it up, so it is impossible for East Africa to obtain evidence on its own.

Consul Manfred was not going to give up. He said to Chief Kuhn, "I don't believe you can't find any evidence. Otherwise, your so-called police department is just there to eat dry food."

"If the Stuttgart Police Department cannot give us a satisfactory result, we will further protest to the city government and even Berlin."

Kuhn crossed his legs, not caring about Manfred's words. He lay lazily on the chair and said, "That's not within our jurisdiction. If you want to protest, please go ahead. We won't stop you."

Manfred was very dissatisfied with his attitude, but he could do nothing about it. He could only say firmly, "Very good, Director Kuhn, I will remember you."

After saying that, Manfred left Kuhn's office angrily. He pushed open the door and saw a man standing outside. He was Noped, the deputy director of the Stuttgart Police Department.

Noped watched Manfred leave expressionlessly, then walked into the director's office.

"Director, will we offend the East Africans by doing this?" he asked cautiously.

Kuhn smiled disdainfully and said, "So what? Can the East Africans do anything to us? Nobed, remember, this is Germany. No matter how long the East Africans' hands are, they can't reach here."

"This Manfred is just a helpless barker. There are so many cases in Stuttgart every year that we are simply too busy to handle them all. In addition, the arson case this time may be related to the National Party, so we can't really help the East Africans."

"If it were normal times, it wouldn't matter if we gave them a small favor, but we can't afford to offend the National Party. Although the National Party is only one of the many political parties in Germany, it has many bigwigs. Any one of them is a well-connected person in Germany. Therefore, I don't need to say more about how to stand on the side."

"As for this arson case, just find a few scapegoats and give the East Africans an explanation. After all, there are plenty of criminals in Stuttgart right now."

Director Kuhn planned to pick out a few criminals from Stuttgart and send them to East Africa.

Due to the economic crisis, a large number of people in Germany are unemployed. As one of the top large cities in Germany, Stuttgart naturally has a lot of idle people nowadays.

Many of these idle people who have lost their stable income are forced to take crooked paths, turning Stuttgart into a paradise for crime. In the past year, Stuttgart's prisons have been overcrowded.

Therefore, it was easy for the Stuttgart Police Department to find a few scapegoats.

Two days later, the East African Consulate in Stuttgart received news from the police station that the "real culprit" of the arson had been found and shot dead.

Although Manfred did not believe the wording of the Stuttgart Police Department, he had no choice but to accept this plan. He found Ron, the head of International News Monthly, and informed him of the situation.

"The real culprit of the arson case has been caught, but according to the German police, the real culprit of the arson case is a vicious criminal group. Therefore, after being discovered, they resisted stubbornly and were eventually shot dead by the Stuttgart police."

Ron obviously didn't believe this. He said speechlessly, "Mr. Consul, do you believe this? Everything has a motive. If they are just ordinary criminals, most of them are after money."

"In this way, there is no need to burn down an office. They can just break the lock, take out everything inside and leave."

"However, from what we have seen, many valuable equipment were not moved away, but were directly burned. Although many items cannot be sold at a high price due to the economic crisis, they can still be exchanged for some money."

"Besides, our office is obviously not the best target for robbery. They could have used their time to find some simpler and more valuable targets."

Since the economic crisis, the crime rate in Stuttgart has skyrocketed. Even bank robbery is not a rare thing in Germany nowadays. You can see related reports every now and then. If you find it difficult, there is also kidnapping and extortion, which is also common in Germany and Stuttgart nowadays.

Consul Manfred said helplessly: "I personally don't quite believe what the Stuttgart Police Department said, but now that the matter is done, we don't have much better solutions. Now, our consulate can only help you fight for compensation."

That being said, Manfred and Ron knew very well that International News Monthly could only suffer in silence in this matter. As for compensation, the German government was so poor that it was impossible to implement it.

As for insurance, after the economic crisis, Germany's insurance industry collapsed long ago, and many insurance companies went bankrupt or ran away with the money.

Finally, the "murderers" have now been shot dead by the Stuttgart Police Department. According to them, these "murderers" obviously did not have much wealth to pay off their debts.

The East African government will certainly not compensate the International News Monthly for its losses, so they will have to bear the consequences themselves in the end. The East African consulate is already quite responsible by personally taking care of the matter.

Manfred could only comfort him and said, "This may not be a bad thing. After all, it was only one of your offices that was burned down, and there were no casualties. Considering the current security situation in Europe, this is a blessing in disguise." "However, I also want to warn you citizens in Germany. Right now, Germany's business environment and social order are not a good place, so you must pay attention to safety when you go out, especially stay away from radical political groups like the German National Party to avoid trouble."

Nowadays, business is not easy all over the world, so it is not unreasonable for Manfred to say that the business environment in Germany is poor, and the social security is even worse.

Even if Americans face unemployment problems, the worst that can happen is that they go out to beg on the streets, or at worst they can resort to petty theft. After all, the United States has a lot of arable land, abundant resources, and agricultural overproduction. If a person loses his income and runs to a farm in the country to steal some crops, the farmers will not care. After all, the food is almost rotting in the fields and there is no way to sell it.

As for Germany, with a small amount of arable land and a very dense population, if they can't survive, they can only run away. As for Germany's industry, no matter how developed it is, those steel and machine tools cannot be eaten as food or meat.

Of course, many Germans choose to take the path of crime, especially in German cities, where the situation is most serious.

Although East Africa recruited immigrants for its colonies, it still gave priority to Germany's farmers and high-level technicians rather than urban residents and ordinary workers. On the contrary, the Kingdom of South Germany recruited workers and technicians in Germany, but as an agricultural country itself, the Kingdom of South Germany could not absorb many unemployed urban people.

Ron smiled bitterly and said, "Thank you, Consul Manfred, for your comfort. But as you said, this is a valuable lesson for us at the International News Monthly."

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The impact of the Stuttgart arson did not end there. A few days later, Manfred sent the report on the arson case and his own judgments on the German National Party to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in East Africa.

This brought the arson case to the level of relations between East African countries and Germany, and both Emperor Ernst and Crown Prince Friedrich expressed their concern.

"This arson case shows the power of the German National Party in Germany today. According to information provided by our intelligence department, the mastermind behind the arson case was the violent gang under Adolf, the leader of the German National Party, the Brown Shirts of Stuttgart."

"This organization is now increasingly developing into a terrorist organization in Germany, recruiting a large number of minors, hooligans, gangsters and other people who are not doing their jobs properly."

"Adolf used them to deal with his political enemies and opponents, as well as the Labor Party, Jewish companies or individuals."

"Their methods of action are extremely crude and despicable, including extortion, malicious destruction, etc., and they use every possible means. However, the German government has always been indifferent to this paramilitary group and has allowed it to grow wildly."

"This also shows that there are undercurrents in German society today. Along with the deterioration of the economy, various contradictions have also erupted."

"This may also be one of the reasons why the German government acquiesced to the growth of Adolf and the German National Party, and we must also be prepared for this."

"Because according to the intelligence we have obtained in the past few years, Adolf's attitude towards East Africa is not friendly. He even deliberately belittled East Africa in public many times because of his Aryan theory, saying that East Africa is a fake 'Germany' and that only Germany and Austria are pure German nations."

Adolf has always been registered with the East African intelligence department, so the East African intelligence agencies have a lot of information about him and the German National Party he led.

This also made the East African governments aware of the German National Party leader's potential hostility towards East Africa.

This is actually considered good, after all, Adolf directly listed the Labor Party and the Jews... as enemies on the public level.

Ernst said: "Adolf's success in Germany also represents Germany's attitude to a certain extent, including its potential attitude towards East Africa. Now it seems that Germany has never regarded us as a family. Therefore, we should also be vigilant in cooperating with Germany."

"At the same time, given the nationalist sentiment and even extreme racial rhetoric in German society today, this could potentially trigger some actions against imperial companies and individuals in Germany."

"Therefore, at this stage, we should warn companies and citizens in Germany to avoid tragedies. The Stuttgart arson case may be the beginning, so we must make plans in advance."

The deterioration of relations between the two countries is bound to affect cooperation at the economic level. Since the end of World War I, dissatisfaction with East Africa has been deepening among the German government and the people. In normal times, Germany can still maintain rationality and not be swayed by emotions, but now under the background of the economic crisis, the whole of Germany seems to have lost its mind.

The reason why Adolf was so influential in Germany was due to this social environment. To a certain extent, he had become an outlet for the German people to vent their dissatisfaction with reality.

When ordinary people are dissatisfied with reality, they simply hope that someone will stand up and seek justice for them. Compared with the Labor Party, which is strictly guarded by the German government, the German National Party becomes the best choice.

After all, the political slogans of the German National Party are louder than each other, especially the ones that the German people want to hear the most, such as the Aryan race theory. It seems ridiculous, but it has widespread believers in Germany today. After all, the vast majority of Germans believe that Germany is nobler than other countries and nations.

This is like an ordinary person. He will naturally subconsciously feel that he is superior and more outstanding than others. As for those who do not think so, their spiritual realm is not within the scope of ordinary people.

The theory of the Aryan race came into fierce conflict with the ideologies of East African countries and ethnicities. Once such remarks became popular in Germany, the relationship between East Africa and Germany would inevitably deteriorate further.

Therefore, the East African governments must be prepared in advance, especially in the field of ideology and speech, as they may even become hostile to Germany. After all, recognizing Germany's Aryan race theory is tantamount to recognizing that East Africa is a so-called "backward nation." At the same time, such speech may trigger conflicts within East Africa.

If the two countries separate in public opinion, it is possible that other areas will be implicated, such as investment, trade, exchanges, military cooperation and so on.

Ernst said: "Adolf is a dangerous person, especially his dislike for East Africa, which he does not even try to conceal. If such a person becomes the German Chancellor in the future, coupled with the already cold relations between the two countries, it may even lead to a complete break between the two countries."

"Therefore, we must pay special attention to the changes in the German political situation in the future. At the same time, we must accelerate the decoupling from Germany in some areas to avoid unnecessary losses."

(End of this chapter)