The Rise of the Third Reich

Under the bright sunshine in southern Germany, a train puffing out thick smoke was speeding on the railway to Zurich. On both sides of the railway, apart from deserted farms and pastures with no cattle or sheep in sight, there are large tracts of dense forest.

The train was not crowded, with less than half of the seats in most carriages occupied by passengers, mostly women, children or elderly men. Our Captain Hessman is also riding on this train, but he is not sitting in an ordinary carriage, but in a spacious box. There were several other people with him, one of whom was named Carl. Second Lieutenant of Stockhausen. He has blond hair, a rather tall build, and is very young, as if he is less than 20 years old.

He was the assistant assigned to Hessmann by Captain Kesselring. He was drawn from the guard troops of the Grand General Staff, and he came with three large soldiers. Their task was not to protect Hessman, but to act as porters - there were no portable military radios nowadays, they were all big and bulky guys. There was no way Hessmann could carry it alone.

In addition to these four "coolies", there were also two personnel sent by the Reich Foreign Office in Wilhelm Street in the spacious box - liaison with Comrade Lenin had always been handled by the German Embassy in Switzerland. This time, the contact with Lenin was also jointly controlled by the General Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also sent a small official who rubbed shoulders with Hersmann, Oscar, the first secretary of the Embassy in Switzerland. Feng. Ettel. This is a fat man in his thirties, with big eyes, thick eyebrows, a big red nose, wearing a pair of thick glasses, a very loud voice, and a huge appetite for food - in Being a diplomat in Switzerland, where the food supply is very abundant, is really a good job for him.

Hersman guessed that this big fat man must have a good background and what kind of path he took to get this position as a diplomat in Switzerland. Otherwise, at his age, he would be on the front lines right now.

Accompanying Ettel is a young lady with a graceful oval face, a tall nose that seems to be carved out, wavy blond hair, a pair of very beautiful ice blue eyes, and a very fair complexion. It looks like cream, and at first glance she is an outstanding beauty.

The only drawback is that her figure seems to be a little fat, maybe not fat but attractively plump... Because she always wears a large gray woolen skirt, Hessman has no way of judging.

This lady is actually a diplomat, an attaché of the German Embassy in Switzerland - this was unimaginable before the war, but now too many men have been pulled out of their prime, leaving enough positions for women.

The beauty who got a job at the German Embassy in Switzerland was named Chloe. Feng. Heinsberg also holds the title of Baroness, which she inherited from her father who died on the battlefield (one of her fiancés also died on the front line, which is really sad).

In addition, according to Eitel's introduction, Miss Heinsberg is a female college student who graduated from the History Department of Munich University. And very coincidentally, her teacher in the History Department of Munich University was Karl. Haushofer was actually Hessmann's tactics instructor at the Grosslichfeld Military Academy.

"Oh my god, are you also a student of Colonel Haushofer?" Hessmann looked at the female diplomat of the German Empire in surprise and said in a serious tone, "He is a very strict teacher. Senior students are often punished by him, either running around the playground or doing dozens of push-ups. I think he is quite strict at the University of Munich, right? "

Miss Heinsberg was amused by Hessman and giggled: "Captain, college is not like a military school. It is a very free place. In my impression, the doctor is a very kind and gentlemanly man. , he is a good teacher.”

But after the defeat in World War II, this good teacher would commit suicide! Hessmann couldn't help but have gloomy thoughts in his mind... In his impression, Colonel Haushofer and his Jewish wife (an honorary German) both committed suicide by taking poison a year after Germany's defeat. .

By the way, there are quite a few Jews who fought for Germany as honorary Germans and even gave their lives! Therefore, in Herman's view, the Jews are not the enemy of Germany. The real enemy of Germany is the big plutocrats in Wall Street and London, who do not allow the rise of Germany... Although a considerable number of these plutocrats are Jewish, the Jewish international plutocrats There were definitely not as many Jews as there were who fought for the Nazis.

"And the doctor is very talented. The European history he explains is very interesting and not boring at all." Miss Heinsberg continued to praise her teacher, but her eyes were fixed on Hessmann, who looked melancholy. "Captain, what are you worried about?"

"No, no," Hersman shook his head and smiled. "I thought of the colonel's geopolitical views. I think he also talked about it at the University of Munich, right?"

In Heschman's memory, Haushofer was also Rudolf, a famous German geopolitics scientist. Hess was his student, and Hitler was also deeply influenced by him. After the Nazi Party came to power, he also became the president of the German Academy of Sciences.

His ideal in geopolitics was heard by Hessman in later generations, which was the German-Soviet alliance, where the two land powers jointly opposed the British-American sea power. In this regard, he was better than Hitler and Stalin. If the two dictators had listened to him, the end of the Third Reich and the Red Empire would not have been so miserable. Among the two dictators, Hitler's geopolitical views were obviously more confused - because Hitler pursued a pro-British and anti-Russian view... "The doctor advocates German-Russian coordination," Miss Heinsberg and the fat man Ettel exchanged glances. Heinsberg smiled and asked, "Captain, I think you must not agree with this view?" "On the contrary," Hessman shrugged, and then was silent for a moment, as if he was choosing his words. "In fact, I agree with Mr. Bismarck's proposition. Russia is particularly important to Germany. The reason why this war will last for a long time is that we are fighting with France and Russia at the same time... If we could transfer the troops on the Eastern Front to the Western Front from the beginning, the glorious peace would have come long ago."

When Hersman spoke, his eyes were fixed on Eitel's face. Because he knew that there have always been loyal believers of Bismarck's line in the political and diplomatic circles of Germany. For example, Gustav Stresemann, who later became the Prime Minister of the Weimar Republic, and Schulenburg, who was the ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Eitel remained silent and just looked at Heinsberg. Heinsberg raised his voice and said, "Captain, isn't there an opportunity to achieve Russian-German coordination now?"

"Are you talking about Lenin?" Hersman looked at the bright and beautiful Heinsberg. He guessed that she was a beautiful mouthpiece. Female attachés in foreign embassies had no future, so they were not afraid of saying the wrong thing. All the sensitive topics today were brought up by her. It seems that she was testing her bottom line under Eitel's orders.

And that Eitel is a first secretary at a young age, and he must have a bright future. There must be some big man behind him, perhaps Foreign Minister Kühlmann himself! It seems that the contact with Lenin has always been directly controlled by Wilhelm Street (referring to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

"Captain, do you know who this Lenin is?" Eitel took over the topic and asked with a smile.

"Yes!" Hermann said, "He is the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Socialist Party. He has been in exile in Switzerland since the failure of the revolution in 1905."

Eitel nodded: "But now it is not the Bolsheviks who control the Russian Provisional Government, but Lenin's political enemies, the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Progressive Party and the October Party."

Eitel spoke word by word, and while speaking he also paid attention to Hersmann's expression. As early as ten years ago, he was ordered to contact Lenin in the name of "German Socialist Mr. Green" and provided him with a lot of funding. And on December 28 last year, Eitel also arranged for Lenin and the German Ambassador to Switzerland, von. The meeting with Count Romberg, the two sides discussed the possibility of Lenin returning to Russia via Germany... It can be said that Comrade Lenin is the key to Mr. Ettel's career success.

But Germany today is not what it was ten years ago. The military has expanded its power and they want to intervene in everything. Lenin's "big cake" is no exception.

However, Ettel does not care about the military's intervention. He is worried that the military will mess things up. That's why he tried to find out about Hirschmann on the way to Switzerland, hoping that the other party would accept his point of view and allow him to continue to play a leading role in "helping" Lenin.

"If the Russian Provisional Government is unwilling to negotiate with us, then Lenin and his Bolsheviks are the only hope for the Empire to restore peace on the Eastern Front. Their ability to make trouble should not be underestimated." Ettel said slowly, "Captain, you have been on the Eastern Front for a long time. You should know whether we have the ability to completely defeat them?"

"Indeed, we do not have the ability to completely defeat Russia, at least not on the battlefield." Hersman admitted this very frankly. In fact, he did not care at all about the German diplomat's coveting of Lenin's big cake, because the other party did not know how big this cake was.

In fact, in Germany at the moment, no one except Hersman knew how big Lenin's cake was, let alone how to make full use of him!

"To defeat Russia, it is not enough to occupy Warsaw, Riga, Brest and Vilno. Even occupying Minsk and Kiev is not enough to force Russia to fail completely. Moscow and St. Petersburg must be captured. But we certainly don't have such power."

Ettel nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "Then we can only try to solve the Eastern Front by political means. The revolution that took place last month has plunged Russia into chaos. If we can support Lenin to further mess up Russia. Then peace on the Eastern Front is expected, and we will be invincible at that time. Just like in the Seven Years' War!"

The Seven Years' War took place between 1754 and 1763, and it was almost the Anglo-Prussian alliance against the entire European continent. Although Prussia had a military genius like Frederick the Great, it was still beaten by three powerful enemies, France, Austria and Russia, and even Berlin was lost. But just when Prussia was about to perish, Russian Queen Elizabeth died of illness, and her successor was Peter III, a die-hard fan of Frederick the Great. He returned all the territories occupied by Russia to Prussia, and then formed an alliance with Prussia, saving Prussia's life. However, such good luck would probably not befall William II!

The highlight of the train journey is the Zurich train station, which is much the same as it was a hundred years ago, except that the ladies are dressed more conservatively and no one is using their phones or tablets. The station building, the square outside the building, and the statues in the square are no different from what Hersman saw a hundred years later.

Compared with cities in Germany, the biggest difference here is probably that there are many young and middle-aged men coming and going, and basically no one wearing military uniforms is seen. Although the whole of Europe was caught in the flames of war, Switzerland was still a paradise far away from the war.

"Dear, our carriage has arrived." Heinsberg took Hessmann's arm, raised his other hand, and pointed at the two old-looking carriages in the square.

After passing through the customs at the Zurich train station through the VIP passage reserved for diplomats, Heinsberg called Hersmann "honey." Of course, it was not because of the spark of love between the two during the trip, but because of work needs.

Because Lenin was a great proletarian revolutionary, it was inconvenient for him to cooperate with the German militarists, let alone take money from the German militarists... So he has been using money to support Comrade Lenin and protect Lenin's safety in Switzerland. They are all "German Socialists". Although this kind of nonsense is very despicable, it is better than "political correctness". As long as this layer of window paper is not broken, no one can say that Comrade Lenin cooperated with the German militarists. At most, he was unaware of it for a moment and was deceived by the class enemy. .

So now Hessmann is a socialist, and he has given himself a very funny pseudonym - Otto. Braun (the famous consultant Reed, who now also wants to serve as a military consultant to Lenin). Heinsberg's previous identity was Eva, a German socialist. Miss Green, now "married," is Eva. Mrs. Braun... introduced Hersmann to Lenin through this relationship, which seemed more natural.

As for the big fat guy with the red nose, Ettel is Eva Braun's brother, Max Green - he has used this pseudonym for almost ten years. When Comrade Lenin first arrived in Switzerland, he used the name of Comrade Green. Give money and things. Later, his position was promoted and his work became increasingly busy, so Heinsberg, a newcomer to the embassy, ​​participated in activities to help Lenin in the name of Miss Green (Mr. Green's sister).

"Karl, put all your luggage into the carriage behind and be careful." Hessman told his assistant, the big man Karl. Stockhausen gave the order.

"Yes, Captain!" Karl put on workers' clothes. Stockhausen stood at attention and gave the customary military salute.

"Karl!" Hessmann looked around and found that the leisurely Swiss didn't notice the suspicious guys on his side, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not a captain, it's a comrade!"

"Yes! Comrade!" Carl. Stockhausen saluted again before going to move things with his three men. It's just that these four guys look like they have been in the army for a long time.

Of course Hessman was a little worried and looked around again.

"Honey, don't worry." Heinsberg poked Hersman gently with his hand. "Switzerland is a different world. It is peaceful, tranquil, beautiful, and wealthy. It is far away from war. Everyone is friendly to each other, and there is no need to worry about counterintelligence agencies."

"Where are Lenin's people?" Hessman glanced at Etel beside him, "I think they should know your true identity?"

Ettel, who was filling a pipe with tobacco, laughed when he heard this: "Get in the car, my dear brother-in-law, we still have a long way to go, Zurich is not close to Qiujiwiese... …But we can enjoy the scenery of Switzerland along the way. It is a beautiful country and the scenery is really beautiful. You will not be disappointed.”

The group split into two parts, Carl. Stockhausen and three of his "worker" men were sitting in an open carriage carrying luggage at the back. Hersman and Ettel got into a carriage with a carriage in front. Miss Heinsberg went to a nearby store and bought a lot of food, including Swiss rolls, chocolate, milk, grilled sausages and beer. She packed two large bags and gave them to Carl. Stockhausen and others took one package, and the other package brought the carriage in which Hessmann was riding.

The wheels of the carriage rolled and moved slowly along the beautiful and exquisite streets of Zurich.

"It's really nice here. It's a good place to live. It would be great if I could always live here." Hessmann calculated in his mind that his "Feng" name turned out to be a small aristocrat from the East Prussian countryside. There was a farm in East Prussia, but it was abandoned after the war broke out. His father was originally an elderly retired officer with little savings. He re-enlisted in the army after the war broke out and was now squatting somewhere on the Eastern Front. In addition, Hessman also has a stepmother, a younger brother who has been killed in the war, and a half-sister (Hessman's biological mother died in childbirth more than ten years ago).

Basically, the family situation is like this. Hersman now has to send money to his stepmother and sister in Königsberg every month so that they can cope with the increasingly difficult life. In the future, he will also have to find a way to pay for his sister’s dowry-considering that there are two More than a million young Germans were killed or maimed in the war, and the dowry required for Miss Hersmann to marry a happy man was not a small sum.

So Hessmann could only give up the idea of ​​retiring after the war and living a comfortable life in Switzerland. It seems that I can only concentrate on thinking about how to help the German Third Reich win the future world war.

"Where are we going to Qiujiweize?" Hersman asked.

"It's a nice sanatorium, in the Alps," Heinsberg said. "It's surrounded by forests and snow-capped mountains. Things are very cheap."

"Where will we set up the radio when we get there?" Hersman asked. "You won't let me set up the antenna in the nursing home, will you?"

"The radio station is set up in my house. I have a house near Chogyiweize."

"Very big and beautiful." Ettel pointed at Heinsberg with his pipe at this time. "She is a countess, a real aristocrat, the kind with a manor, a castle and an annuity." He Winking at Hirschman, he added, "And single!"

"Mr. Eitel!" Heinsberg shouted, with a trace of sadness in his eyes.

"Miss Heinsberg, you have to look forward." Ettel took a drag on his pipe and exhaled a cloud of bluish-white smoke. "This war has taken away too many lives, but the living people still have to look forward." Life!”

"I know, I know..." Heinsberg looked at Hessmann who was lost in thought again with his big eyes, and then said in an inaudible voice, "Let's wait until the war is over, I don't want to Lost someone again."

"The war will end soon, probably this year." Eitel said.

"The war on the Eastern Front will not end soon," Hersman suddenly interjected. He seemed not to have paid attention to the conversation between the two. "I think we are going to accomplish something big this time."

"Big deal?" Ertel took another puff of cigarette, "Ludwig, what do you want to do?"

Hessman was silent for a moment, as if he had made a lot of determination, and lowered his voice: "I want to escort Lenin back to the country, and then stay by his side to help him become the ruler of Russia!"

"Stay in Russia?" Eitel smoked his pipe and frowned. "And help Lenin become the ruler of Russia? Is this possible?"

Hessmann nodded and said seriously: "For the benefit of Germany, even if there is only one chance in ten thousand, we should try our best!"

…

Qiujiweize is located in the mountains south of Zurich. It is very high, almost close to the snow-capped top of the mountain. It is a relatively cheap sanatorium. Heinsberg's villa is located at the foot of Qiujiweize, halfway up the mountain, next to a blue lake, and the scenery is as beautiful as a painting.

Hirschman put Carl. Stockhausen and three other "coolies" were placed there, and it took another hour to set up the radio station. Then he held Heinsberg's slender waist and walked up the mountain together. He found that Her Excellency the Baroness was not as fat as she seemed at first glance, and her waist was still quite thin, but her breasts were too fat, which stretched out her wide woolen skirt.

But Hessman’s mind is not on women at this time, because he is about to meet the great mentor! That was a lively Comrade Lenin! Although he had met German marshals such as Ludendorff and Kesselring before, as a Chinese progressive youth who had grown up under the red flag and had participated in the Communist Youth League, he had sworn an oath under the bright red flag. For a while, Comrade Lenin's status in his mind was still quite high, basically like the great ancestor of the Red Dynasty.

Moreover, Hersman has thought about it again and again along the way. In order to prevent US imperialism from putting a noose around his neck, he must vigorously promote the Soviet-German alliance!

Only by uniting Russia and the Communist Party...at least maintaining the Soviet-German alliance until Britain and the United States are completely defeated can the Third Reich win the next world war.

In Hersman's view, it is entirely possible to unite with Russia and the Communist Party. Because the existence of the German Empire was actually beneficial to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, which was dominated by communism, and Germany, which was dominated by nationalism, were both intolerant of international capitalism. Although the German Third Reich must be strangled, the Soviet Red Empire must also be destroyed!

In its original history, international capitalism that controlled the United States did achieve these two goals! The former was eliminated through force, while the latter was disintegrated through a Cold War that lasted for more than 40 years.

The Soviet Union lost the Cold War because of its institutional flaws. But it is undeniable that the overall strength of the Soviet Union and some Eastern European countries that are not rich and developed is much weaker than their capitalist opponents.

Whether it is economy, technology, population, resources, or land area, the Soviet Union is at an absolute disadvantage. The only way to fight against the West is to concentrate financial and material resources on military power. The final result is of course that the military is in a state of decline, and people's livelihoods and industries are withered... In fact, it is not particularly withered, but it is too far away from the legendary GC paradise.

But if the Soviet Union had not done something, it would have been able to win the Cold War against the West? I'm afraid I'll just die faster!

But what if a German Third Reich that ruled Western, Central, and Southern Europe still existed?