The Rise of the Third Reich

"Prime Minister, your worries are unnecessary." Hessman said this, but he was really unsure in his heart.

Civil war cannot be measured purely from a military perspective, and political factors must also be considered. And Her Majesty Olga, the Queen, is obviously a master of playing "sugar-coated bullets".

Maybe with a bunch of "**** and silver bullets", the Red Army that ran to the icy Siberia would be defeated...

Moreover, the Russians have always recognized Moscow and Petrograd. Siberia has never been the orthodox place in the minds of the Russians.

"Moscow is not that easy to capture," Hessmann shook his head and said, "The German army will not participate in the offensive operation, but will only provide fire support with the French army."

"I don't think so, Reich Marshal," Hitler interrupted Hessmann with a wave of his hand, "I have also fought in the war. I spent several years in the trenches during the last World War and know what offensive operations are all about. The key is artillery, enough artillery, 150mm caliber, 170mm caliber, 210mm caliber, 305mm caliber or even larger caliber artillery. As long as there are enough of them, Moscow can be razed to the ground. How many such large-caliber artillery can we and the French produce now?"

"There are nearly 20,000 guns with a caliber of more than 150mm." Hessmann replied.

"That's enough!" Hitler said, "As long as Olga, that woman, shows her determination, the White Russians can take Moscow within three months! Manstein's army group will take the Volga-Urals at the same time... and the Japanese may also take advantage of the situation. These days, Hiroshi Oshima has been looking for our people to discuss the issue of Japan's attack on the Soviet Union and the blockade of the North Pacific shipping route. Do you know what this means?"

It means despair! And despair means collapse and defection. If the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Central Asia have no hope of survival, it is not impossible for Olga to completely take over Russia's eastern territory in the next few months.

And Germany seems to be powerless to do anything about it... It can't be forbidden for the Bolsheviks to defect to the enemy, right?

"I will tell Model," Hessmann said to Hitler thoughtfully, "Moscow cannot be taken within six months."

It is now mid-May, and six months later it will be mid-November. If it drags on, the army will have to spend the winter under the city of Moscow. And Hessmann also plans to deal with the United States in 1945, so the war against the Soviet Union must end in 1944.

"That's not enough," Hitler said to Hersmann in a low voice, "If we want the Soviet Union to survive east of the Ural Mountains, we must let the Soviet Union retain a strong leader, Stalin...cannot die in Moscow!

In addition, there must be a strong Soviet army retreating to Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East. Otherwise, once the Japanese get carried away, we will be in big trouble. And the people who make up the Soviet Red Army are all young and strong, mainly men, but also some women. If millions of such people retreat east of the Ural Mountains, the future Russian Empire will reduce its population by 10 million or even 20 million. Do you understand? The key now is population, and we must ensure that the Germans will be the largest ethnic group in the European Community in the future."

Because there is no way to starve the Russian uncles to death, Hitler can only consider driving as many people as possible away.

In addition, the Hitler government is still thinking about many "quick" population growth developments. For example, the "Aryan War Orphan Raising Method" - of course, there are not really many Aryan war orphans to raise, but young orphans are collected from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and raised by German orphanages or families to become Germans.

There is also an "Aryan Mother Law", which encourages Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian girls to give birth to children for blond and blue-eyed Nazis...

And the matter of the chariot is different from those crooked ways to increase the number of Germans, because it is not Germany's decision, there is also a Great Japanese Empire on the other side of the earth that can explode at any time. What if the Showa Emperor goes north and beats the Soviet Union into Russia, wouldn't Comrade Hitler be pissed to death by Hirohito? So Hitler thought it would be better to leave more troops for the Bolsheviks, at least to scare the Japanese.

"Moreover," Hitler paused and said, "We have to give Stalin enough time to evacuate the population of the Volga-Urals region. Although they are inferior Slavs, they are still nobler than the barbarians in Central Asia and Siberia, and they should have a certain living space."

Hersmann nodded. He certainly knew that the living space in Central Asia could still support many people. If it weren't for the Russians who believed in GCism and Orthodoxy (now the Soviet Union has opened up Orthodoxy) to occupy the territory, it would be a "green" place.

Seeing Hersmann nodded, Hitler breathed a sigh of relief. Now, as long as he and Hersmann reached a consensus, there would be nothing that could not be done about Germany.

"Imperial Marshal, you have to let Natalie go to Mrs. Kollontai and tell Stalin what we mean." Hitler said, "Let him leave Moscow early, go to the Caucasus first, and then take the troops to Kazakhstan through the Caspian Sea."

It seems that Hitler is really Stalin's good friend in this time and space, and even helped him think of the escape route.

"I understand," Hessman thought for a moment, "I will go to Switzerland in person to discuss this matter with Mrs. Kollontai in person."

……

After Hessmann agreed with Hitler on how to save the Soviet Union and Stalin, he asked for leave from the General Staff the next day, and then took his wife Chloe, personal secretary Natalie, adjutant guard and others with him. Went on vacation to a villa in Switzerland.

Of course, vacation is just a name, and meeting Mrs. Kollontai, the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland, is the real purpose.

Before Hersman and others boarded the train to Zurich, Natalie had already spoken to Kollontai on the phone. So on the night Hersman arrived, he met Mrs. Kollontai in his and Chloe's villa.

Mrs. Kollontai, who looked very sad, sat in Hessmann's study after dinner. After listening to Hessman's words with a frown, she asked in a very skeptical tone: "Marshal Reich, what do you Germans mean?" Don’t you want to have peace negotiations with the Soviet Union?”

"It's not a peace negotiation," Hessmann smiled helplessly. "If Olga had not become the master of Petrograd, we could have reached a peace agreement. But now... the war between the Soviet Union and Germany It has turned into a civil war in Russia, and we do not want Russia to be reunified in the short term, madam, do you understand what we are thinking?"

Kollontai glanced at Hessmann coldly, nodded slowly and said: "No one wants to see a unified and strong Russia, whether it is red or white."

Hersman nodded wordlessly.

Who made the Russians the largest ethnic group in Europe now? If the entire Russian nation were swallowed up, the Germanic population advantage would disappear.

"Then in the future, will you intervene in the war between us and Belarus?"

"If the war breaks out in Europe," Hersman said, "we will definitely intervene."

Mrs. Kollontai was silent for a moment and then asked: "What if Japan attacks us? Such a thing is very likely to happen, isn't it?"

"We will try our best to persuade Japan not to take action, and if Japan does not listen to us, then... we will not provide Japan with any support."

"This is not enough." Kollontai shook his head and looked at Hersman, "Do you know what is the key to whether the Soviet Union can survive?"

"What?"

"It's supplies." Kollontai said with a wry smile. "Siberia and Central Asia lack supplies and cannot feed so many people and troops, at least until we fully develop Central Asia. And the possible sources of supplies are all in Japan. under threat.”

"Don't worry for the time being." Hersman understood Kollontai's meaning, but he could not give any guarantee on this issue. "Japan and the United States are currently at war, and according to the information we have, the Japanese can't fight Not as good as they claim. In fact... they are being defeated by the United States! Although the Japanese have been claiming victory for the past 2 months, the actual situation is that they are losing."

What is now being fought between the United States and Japan is the "Pacific War". The entire Pacific is a battlefield, and the Battle of the Hawaiian Islands is only a part of it. Although Japan continues to claim that it has severely damaged the United States on the Hawaiian Islands battlefield, Japan is suffering setbacks elsewhere in the Pacific.

As an ally of Japan, Germany is not ignorant of this. Because the EC’s own fleet running the Greater East Asia route lost a total of 11 ships in March and April, totaling 118,000 tons! This number accounts for more than 30% of the total number of EC cargo ships entering the area east of the Strait of Malacca in March and April. In addition, 10 ships were damaged. Together, they accounted for more than 50% of the total number of EC ships (excluding warships) in the Greater East Asia.

70% of all losses and damage to ships were caused by U.S. submarines, and the remaining 30% were the result of U.S. mines. Although the mines laid by the Americans sank and damaged fewer ships, they caused greater losses to production and transportation. Because a small number of mines will temporarily render waterways and ports inoperable, transport ships are forced to wait for mine clearance.

In the two months of March and April, the Malacca Strait alone was interrupted for 21 days due to mines laid by the United States (the Malacca Strait is shallow and is a good place to lay magnetic mines), which seriously affected the transfer of materials between Europe and Japan. .