The Rise of the Third Reich

"He actually said that the working class needs to rest, so it cannot revolt!"

"He is a traitor! He should be shot!"

"Yes, we don't need them, the Spartacists can do it themselves!"

The chairman of the Independent Socialist Revolutionary Party, Hugo Haazi, left, and the only people left in the room were Spartacists and internationalist fighters. Everyone saw Hugo Haazi's true face - he was delaying the uprising, not leading it.

"Yes! Let's do it ourselves!" Karl Liebknecht waved his hand, and the people who were talking about it suddenly fell silent. "We will do it ourselves... When the workers get their wages (workers in Berlin are more affordable than those in Petrograd, so they must get their wages), we will issue a call tomorrow. A general strike will begin on the 7th and 8th, and the demonstration will be held on the 9th. Move into the barracks and mobilize the soldiers to join us! Then seize the Congress, the City Hall, the police station, and the main telegraph office.”

"And the Palace of Glinico!" A tall man with a pair of provocative ears, very handsome features, and a very tall figure added a sentence in German with a Baltic accent.

He is Jan Karlovich Berzin, a Latvian revolutionary who was born in the Baltic region. He will be the future intelligence chief of the Red Army and will be the Stasi's biggest enemy. Historically, he would have been leading the Latvian Bolshevik organization in Riga at this time.

However, in this time and space, due to the strong suppression by the Baltic Defense Forces and the Stasi, and the number of Baltic Germans due to the addition of Russian Germans, some of the "unidentified ethnic" population has been classified as German. Therefore, Reached 1 million, while the number of Latvians was reduced to more than 400,000 due to various reasons - this move was more deadly than the Defense Forces and Stasiga together - so Berzin was not sent to die in Riga, but with Yurovsky came to Berlin together to help the Bolsheviks in Germany seize power.

"Glinico Palace should also be occupied?" Liebknecht said, "It is close to Potsdam and is not the main royal palace. If there is an uprising in Berlin, William II will probably flee to the German headquarters in Belgium."

When it came to the German troops on the front line, Liebknecht couldn't help but frown. Contrary to the extreme war-weariness of the Russian frontline troops, the German frontline troops generally wanted to continue fighting. Most of those seduced by the Spartacists were the reserve troops and navy at the rear, whose combat effectiveness on land was limited. Once the Kaiser mobilizes his frontline troops to fight back, the revolution may fail.

"Glinico Palace is the residence of the Tsar's family." Berzin reminded, "The Tsar is now an ally of the Kaiser... He is helping Germany mediate an armistice. If successful, the German revolution will be extinguished immediately."

"We need to control Glinico Palace," Liebknecht nodded. "When we control Berlin, we will send people there!"

"The Tsar's entire family should also be killed!" Yulovsky added in blunt German.

"They will be extradited," Liebknecht glanced at Yurovsky, who was thin and gloomy and rarely spoke, and said, "waiting for the formation of the German Soviet government and handing them over to Russian comrades immediately... Nikolai II was sentenced to death by Russia, not Germany.”

"But..." Yurovsky still wanted to speak, but Berzin stopped him with his eyes. Liebknecht clearly did not want to kill the Tsar, and he was now not a Bolshevik, but an Independent Social Democrat. This shows that Liebknecht still had illusions about German Social Democrats. But so what? Berzin and Yurovsky sneaked in with a special team! As long as the Berlin Uprising spreads to Glinico Palace, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to kill a few people?

…

A dilapidated taxi containing Hersmann, Chloe and Olga was parked in a quiet alley next to the Kurfürstendamm. It is now the early morning of November 6, and the streets of Berlin are deserted. It seems that the revolutionary storm has not yet reached here.

Several young people wearing shabby suits and masks came out of the corner cafe. Their right hands were stuffed into their bulging suit pockets and they looked around warily.

"Who are they?" Grand Duchess Olga got out of the car and noticed them immediately.

"I don't know..." Hessmann, who was also wearing a big mask, glanced at those people - they were all Stasi agents! Led by Captain Stockhausen himself, the team was secretly lurking in Berlin.

Before leaving Glinico Palace, Hersmann gave Stockhausen, codenamed "Shadow," an order to take people to guard near his residence in Berlin. However, looking at the careless appearance of these agents, they are still a little too immature.

"It should be the secret police, right?" The Grand Duchess actually guessed their identities. When she and Hessmann went upstairs, she suddenly said to Hessman: "I heard that there is a person named 'Stasi' in the United Baltic Principality. The secret police organization... Ludwig, I want you to take charge of them! You must do it well and don't make it as useless as the original Secret Service!"

"Your Majesty, let's wait until we get to Riga to discuss this matter." Hessmann smiled at Olga as a thank you to her for "promoting" him, even though she had no power to appoint the director of the Stasi.

Going upstairs, Hersman found guests at home. The one who came was Schleicher, who had been the leader of Thor's team when he was in the General Staff, and he was now going to be very successful. His old boss, General William Groener, replaced Ludendorff as the First Munitions Director on October 25, and Schleicher became Groener's right-hand man. In the past ten days, he has been traveling around for Grenner, contacting the leaders of the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Social Democratic Party.

When Herschmann arrived home, Schleicher was talking to Herschmann's Jewish stepmother, Odeya. Odeya returned to Berlin in early August. Her husband, the old Hersmann, fully recovered under her careful care and returned to the front line to work in the trenches. But he was no longer a battalion commander, but was promoted one level, became a colonel, and received a first-class Red Eagle Medal.

But the old man was not at all happy about being promoted and receiving medals. The letter written to Hessmann was full of worries about the situation at the rear, and the lines also revealed a lot of low morale on the front lines. Although there are still many soldiers willing to fight, the wavering of military morale is obvious - starting from late October, the situation in Germany began to deteriorate rapidly. There were strikes, anti-war protests, and riots everywhere. In addition, fatal colds are also prevalent among the military, and many people fall ill or even die. The morale on the front line inevitably dropped significantly as a result.

However, at the same time, the attack of the Allied forces was resisted by the German army (in fact, it also had the effect of a cold. The situation of the US military was particularly serious, and almost all frontline troops fell ill). Moreover, the model of World War I was too beneficial to the defensive side, and the German army's combat effectiveness was higher than that of the Allied Powers - just look at the casualties of the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers in World War I. Although the Allied Powers were defeated, their human losses were far less than their opponents - even if Even when the rear is not very stable, it can still resist.

But with the surrender of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rise of the German revolution, the heroic resistance on the front lines seemed to come to nothing after all.

"Odeya," Hessmann first greeted Schleicher, then pointed to Ogaly, who was wearing a blue woolen dress and looked tired, and said to his stepmother, "She is Chloe. Yi’s cousin Elizabeth, please take her to the guest room to rest.”

After settling Olga, Hessmann and Schleicher entered his study together. Before he could ask the other party to sit down, Schleicher spoke first: "Ludwig, put on our military uniform and follow me to see General Groener!"

"Now?" Hessman was stunned and looked at his watch, "It's five o'clock now."

Schleicher's face looked a little ugly, "Something big is going to happen! The Admiral wants to see you right away. I called Glinico Palace and they said you went back to your residence in Berlin. That's why I came over overnight to wait for you!"

"What happened?"

"Don't ask, you'll find out when you get to the Capitol."