Rise of Australia
Chapter 792

Leo Szilard

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While Australasia and the United Kingdom were discussing how to control the world's oil prices, Germany, also located in Europe, was far from peaceful.

Italy, which had the same political system as Germany, was waging a glorious colonial war. This made Hitler, who likewise wanted to expand his territory, intensely envious.

The problem was that Hitler, who had only just become German Prime Minister, had not yet fully grasped power. His first task was to eliminate the other political parties within Germany that opposed his rule, as well as former government officials.

Purging the political parties and government could certainly give him control over more power, but it would also drive the other parties to unite and launch a counterattack through public opinion.

Hitler first had his subordinates submit a bill to Parliament. The bill directly expanded the powers of him and his party, allowing them to recklessly enact and amend the laws of the German Empire without needing Parliament's approval.

That alone had already brought him close to Arthur's despotic dictatorship in Australasia.

The problem was that Arthur's rule in Australasia had the approval of the Australasian people, and Arthur had never used his power to heavily suppress other political parties and factions.

Hitler was different. After forcibly making Parliament pass the proposal, he had his subordinates issue laws the very next day to crack down heavily on other political parties. They were forbidden from giving speeches in Germany, and organized marches were declared illegal, directly cutting off those parties' escape routes.

Naturally, the other parties refused to take this lying down. To put enough pressure on Hitler and make him abandon the laws suppressing the other parties, they chose to unite and organized an enormous march.

The march spread across the entirety of Berlin, with the expected number

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