The Rise of the Third Reich

When Hersman arrived with a pile of coffins and several murderers (including the main murderer Yurovsky, but Berzin was not caught), it was cold in November in Riga, and all the roofs and streets were covered with white snow. Compared with Berlin, which was swept by the storm of revolution, the city looked very peaceful, and almost no one was marching in protest.

Due to early preparation, the main defense force of the Kurland Autonomous State was no longer a regular German army. Instead, it was an 80,000-strong defense force composed mainly of Kurland Germans and the "Iron Division" of the Free Corps with a number of nearly 20,000, as well as the Kurland People's Stormtroopers, which was said to have a strength of 100,000. Although they were all composed of older or too young men, after several months of training, they had already possessed a certain combat effectiveness.

The Stasi controlled by Hersman also began to form an elite armed force called the "100th Squadron of Special Mission Training and Construction", with its headquarters located in Miuta, southwest of Riga (the Russians called it Jelgava, which was also the headquarters of the Stasi), so it was also called the Miuta Force. This force will become very powerful in the future, but currently there are less than 300 people, and Stockhausen is responsible for command and training.

In addition, as far as Hessmann knows, the Courland Autonomous State also has abundant reserves of various materials. Before Germany officially surrendered, the Eastern Front General Headquarters transported a large amount of wheat and coal looted from Ukraine and Poland to Riga. It is enough to support the Courland Autonomous State with a population of 2.04 million for a long time.

The population of 2.04 million is the latest statistical data, of which there are as many as 1 million Germans, only 400,000 Latvians, 250,000 Jews, 200,000 Russians, and 150,000 Lithuanians.

Compared with two months ago, the number of Germans has increased by more than 200,000! This is certainly not the result of encouraging fertility, nor is it that Germans have been migrated from somewhere else. Instead, it was "verified" by Baron Pierburg, the Prime Minister of the Courland Autonomous State - the baron believes that the Baltic Germans, Latvians and Estonians have lived together for a long time, and the Germans are in the upper class and have a higher economic and social status. Latvians and Estonians have long been ruled, and were even serfs of German nobles in the past.

It was very common for nobles to sleep with serf girls in the uncivilized past, and many illegitimate children were born from this. Some of them were regarded as Latvians and Estonians.

Now, justice should be given to those poor illegitimate children and their descendants! As long as you can say in the civil affairs agency of Courland that one of your ancestors is an illegitimate child (this was not uncommon in the early Baltics) and you can speak fluent German (German has long been the official language of Courland), you can get a German surname and become a German. In this way, you can get land and will not be relocated.

Therefore, not only did many Latvians find their German ancestors, but even many people from neighboring Lithuania came to recognize their ancestors - after the Germans handed over the power of Lithuania to the Polish Provisional Government, the situation there was a bit chaotic. Many people fled to East Prussia and Courland, and some towns in northern and western Lithuania were protesting and wanted to join Courland and East Prussia...

In addition, the number of Jews and Russians in the Courland Autonomous State has also increased a lot during this period. They all fled from the Soviet-controlled areas and Ukraine, and most of them were intellectuals and former capitalists. Now the whole of Central and Eastern Europe is very turbulent, and the calm and tranquility of the Courland Autonomous State attracted them.

But under this calm and tranquil appearance, the undercurrent of war is surging. Just look at the new slogans written in red paint on the Riga Railway Station.

The Courland Autonomous State is the home of the Baltic Germans!

Salute to the Courland Defense Forces and the Stormtroopers!

The Stasi is the defender of the Courland Autonomous State!

Baltic has become Courland, which fully shows that the situation is developing in an unfavorable direction. Hessman's plan was not without omissions. Grand Duchess Olga I of the Baltics might have enough legitimacy - the Allies have not yet expressed their views on this - but this also means that she can get the recognition and support of the White Russians, which gives her the capital to get rid of the control of the Germans!

"Her Majesty has just gone to Tombia in Tallinn, where she will welcome the coffins of the Tsar and the Queen."

At the train station, Chloe, who came to greet him, frowned and told him a bad news as soon as she saw Hessman.

The Grand Duchess did not follow Hessman's plan to put her Grand Duke's official residence in Riga Castle, but went to Tallinn and lived in Tombia Palace. She also ordered the former Speaker of the Parliament of the United Baltic Principalities, the Latvian politician Karlis Ulmanis, to organize the government of the United Baltic Principality. She also ordered the Prime Minister of the Estonian Autonomous State, Constantine Pas, to form the Estonian Defense Force. Admiral Yudenich, who arrived in Tallinn a day earlier than her, was appointed Chief of Staff of the Baltic Defense Army. He gathered White Russian soldiers in Tallinn and prepared to organize a Baltic army with White Russians as the backbone.

Because there was a new Baltic government and defense army, the government led by Baron Pierburg and the army commanded by Admiral Goltz had to change the Baltic brand to Courland.

"It seems that His Majesty wants to keep a distance from us in order to gain the support of the Allies."

Major Falkenhorst, the commander of the Riga defense and the chief of staff of the "Iron Division" who came with Chloe, seemed a little worried.

"Who defeated us?" Hessmann glanced at Falkenhorst with a wry smile. "But there is a positive side to her keeping her distance from us, which will help her gain recognition from the Allies. If the Allies recognize her status, then the problem of the United Baltic Principalities will be a Russian affair... What we need now is a non- It doesn’t matter who controls the United Baltic Principalities, which are bound by treaties and can develop freely.”

A population of one million Germans - even if there are many impostors among them - has already determined the future political map of the United Baltic Principalities. What worries Hersmann is that the United Baltic Duchy is treated as an extension of Germany rather than part of Russia, so that it will become a defeated power! would be bound by the Treaty of Versailles.

Grand Duchess Olga and General Yudenich, as well as the White Russians who began to gather in Tallinn, can all prove that the United Baltic Principality is a matter of the Russian Empire. If the Treaty of Versailles is to bind the United Baltic Principalities, then the Baltic Principalities' military should be at a level that can only maintain domestic security. Why is there still energy left to attack Petrograd?

"But doing this will trigger a conflict with Soviet Russia." Chloe looked very worried.

"Conflict is conflict!" Hersman laughed. "It's not a big deal and it won't affect our cooperation with Soviet Russia."

"Can we still cooperate in a fight?"

"Of course!" Hessmann looked at Falkenhorst, "Unless we are defeated and eliminated by Soviet Russia!"

"This is impossible," Falkenhorst said. "We have a hundred thousand quite elite troops with sufficient weapons and ammunition. Admiral Yudenich and General Paz (Oliga made him a major general) are currently also Twenty to thirty thousand people have gathered, and now it is Soviet Russia that needs to be worried.”

"Isn't that enough?" Hessmann shrugged, "As long as the fists are strong, the Bolsheviks will have to cooperate with us. By the way, has Kollontai left?"

"Already left. She left after the news of the Berlin revolution came." Chloe said, "But before she left, another person came from Soviet Russia, named Mikhail Markovich Bow. Rodin, he is still in Riga."

"Borodin?" Hessman smiled and looked back at the carriage where the coffins of the Tsar and the Queen were. "I'll go see him first, and then escort the Tsar's coffin to Tallinn."

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