The Rise of the Third Reich

"General Heydrich, my name is Pavlyuchenko, and I want to join the 14th Ukrainian Volunteer Division of the SS."

Late at night on May 31, while the Soviet Red Army was marching into Poland, the Baltics and Western Ukraine, the Chief Minister of Western Ukraine (nominally appointed by the German Emperor, actually appointed by the Wehrmacht) and the Ukrainian Defense Council Vice Chairman Rear Admiral Reinhard Heydrich is receiving Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlyuchin, a student of the History Department of Kiev State University (moved to Lviv in 1939) in his office division.

The Kingdom of Western Ukraine, like the Kingdom of Poland, entered a state of emergency half a month ago. However, the population of Lviv was not evacuated. Instead, Chief Minister of Western Ukraine Heydrich and Prime Minister of Western Ukraine Margrave Petliu jointly issued a general mobilization order, calling on the citizens of Lviv to take up arms and join the fight.

The citizens of Lviv responded extremely positively to the call of Heydrich and Petliura, even a little too much. Not only were men lining up in long lines in front of the city's recruitment points, but some women were also actively asking to join the army. Some of them were not willing to be nurses or support personnel, but wanted to be combat soldiers.

This seemed to the conservative-minded German Junkers officers to be nonsense, so the German officers in the Ukrainian Defense Forces rejected such a request without hesitation. But unexpectedly, a group of female students from Kiev State University took to the streets to march, demanding to join the fight against the Russians.

The march alarmed Reinhard Heydrich, who was well-liked in Western Ukraine. He was not a hard-headed Junker, but an intelligence officer with a very keen sense of politics (he was also the head of the Imperial Central Security Service in Western Ukraine). The director of the branch) can naturally find some special value in it.

So he took the time to meet with the female college students who were marching and petitioning tonight. This Ukrainian beauty with big eyes, a high nose, and charming long brown hair, as soon as she saw Heydrich, she impatiently offered to join the fight. requirements.

"You want to join the SS Volunteer Division? Are you a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party?"

Rear Admiral Heydrich was not a member of the Nazi Party because he was a member of the Wehrmacht. However, he was very pro-Nazi and had very good relations with many important figures in the Nazi Party.

With his support, the Nazi party organization in Western Ukraine developed rapidly, especially among young people, with a very high support rate. This is actually related to the fact that the Soviet Union occupied most of the Ukrainian land. Now in Lviv, Most young people are refugees who have lost their homes, and are naturally easily attracted to the Nazi Party, which advocates extreme nationalism.

"Yes, I am a glorious member of the National Socialist Workers' Party!" Pavlyuchenko said in very fluent German. "The Bolsheviks took away my homeland and now want to take away Lviv. I think I We must stand up and fight against them, even if it costs our lives!”

Pavlyuchenko's resentment is justified. The tens of thousands of square kilometers around Lviv are the last homeland of the Ukrainian nation, and the Russians still want to take it away. This is not letting people live!

"Do you know how to hold a gun?" Heydrich nodded. He has decided to let Pavlyuchenko join the army - this is an excellent propaganda material that can inspire the fighting spirit of the entire Ukrainian nation!

"I know." Pavlyuchenko immediately set up the aiming setup skillfully, "General, I am a sharpshooter. I am a member of the shooting club of the National University of Kiev."

"But the battlefield is very cruel!" Heydrich said, "You should consider becoming a nurse."

"No, I want to become an SS sniper!" Pavlyuchenko made his request again, "General, you must approve my request."

Heydrich smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go say hello to General Fletak of the 14th SS Ukrainian Volunteer Division, and you will definitely get what you want. Good luck to you, Miss Pavlyuchenko."

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"Poland has not perished. As long as we have one breath left, Poland will not perish. Raise the sword and take back the lost ground. Forward, forward, Dombrowski..."

Major General Carol Rommel, who was in the Trespol Ring Fortress, suddenly heard lyrics and tunes that haunted him. Although the sound was already very soft when it reached his ears, he still listened. Come out here are the lyrics and melody of "Poland Never Dies" - someone is playing the Polish national anthem on a loudspeaker!

Of course, this song "Poland Will Never Perish" is not the national anthem of the Kingdom of Poland now controlled by the Germans, but the national anthem of the Republic of Poland for which Major General Carol Rommel fought for most of his life!

"General, the Soviets in Brest are using loudspeakers to play... our national anthem!"

Colonel Artsky, the chief of staff of the Trespol Brigade, hurriedly walked into Major General Carol Rommel's headquarters from outside, his face looking very ugly.

Major General Carol Rommel glared at his chief of staff and said, "That is not our national anthem. Our national anthem is "God Save King William."

"but……"

"But what?" Major General Carol Rommel interrupted Colonel Artsky, who looked a little confused. "The Soviets have already submitted an ultimatum. They probably won't wait 24 hours, which means an attack may happen at any time. We are only a few kilometers away from Brest, so we must be the first place to be attacked. Now the Soviets are playing "Poland Will Never Destroy" just to shake us and win without taking advantage of it. Maybe they will be attacked later. Someone will speak. Pass my order. Everyone, except the sentry, will get down to the gun-proof bunker and close the door. No one is allowed to listen!"

His guess was absolutely correct, this was psychological warfare! The Soviets had long known that brigade-level defensive positions such as the Trespol Ring Fortress were difficult to attack, and General Pavlov did not want these ring fortresses to contain too many of their own forces. Therefore, they came up with this "heart attack" method. First, use a loudspeaker to play the national anthem of the Republic of Poland, and then play the speech of Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Free Poland. The Prime Minister of the Free Polish Government and the Commander-in-Chief of the Free Polish Army have been under the wings of the United Kingdom in recent years. Naturally, they cannot refuse to cooperate with the Soviet Union, and Stalin also made a promise - to restore the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Poland!

Therefore, Sikorski recorded his speech in the UK and wrote letters to the generals in the Polish Defense Forces whom he knew (he was Prime Minister of Poland before the war), asking them to defect to the Soviet Red Army, and with the help of the Soviet Red Army Join the Polish Army... If ordinary Polish Defense Force soldiers believe this, it will be a way to survive. If the noble officers of the Kingdom of Poland believe it, then prepare to go to Siberia to work hard!

Listening to the nonsense of the Polish reactionary leader Sikovsky from the loudspeaker, Konstantin Konstantinovich, commander of the 9th Mechanized Army, was leading his troops on the west bank of the Bug River, waiting for the order to cross the river. Major General Ch. Rokossovsky was a little impatient - because he himself was a Pole, and there were many Poles like him in the Soviet party and army, even after the Great Purge. After surviving, when will it be the turn of Sikowsky, a reactionary, to be the leader of the Polish army?

"Yakov, what time is it now? When will the shelling start?" Major General Rokossovsky turned to ask Yakov Dzhugashvili, director of the artillery of the mechanized army who was sitting on a GAZ61 light off-road vehicle with him. Captain.

Yakov Dzhugashvili is the eldest son of Stalin. He is 34 years old. He graduated from the Railway Transport Engineering College and the Artillery Command College. He joined the Red Army in 1937 and now serves as the artillery director of the 9th Mechanized Army with the rank of captain (at the university) After the purge, it was common for him to serve as a regiment-level or brigade-level commander with the rank of captain, even if he was not Stalin’s son, he would have such an official career), and he would set foot on the land of White Poland on the first day after the war.

"It is now 0:15 a.m. on June 1. According to the plan, the shelling will start in 15 minutes."

In 15 minutes, 20,000 cannons will fire simultaneously on a nearly 1,700-kilometer front extending from the Baltic Sea to the Romanian border!

"The bombardment will last for one and a half hours, starting at 0:30 and ending at 2 in the morning. Then our 9th Mechanized Army will set foot on Polish soil."

Yakov Dzhugashvili seemed a little excited when he spoke. He also understood the importance of this war - it is to liberate all mankind! The ideals of Marx, Engels and Lenin were finally fulfilled in the hands of his father, Stalin!

"There are still 1 hour and 45 minutes..." Rokossovsky smiled, "The scouts have already crossed the river, and the engineers have already started to build the bridge. We can cross the river at 5 a.m. at the earliest. More than 150 kilometers to the west is Warsaw! If there is no German armored force to stop it, it will only take dozens of hours. "

Of course, a unit like the 9th Mechanized Army will not attack the ring fortress. Its mission is to advance with other mechanized corps, tank corps and cavalry divisions to advance to the vicinity of Warsaw in the shortest possible time. It is expected that there will be an unprecedented tank battle with the German armored group near Warsaw, if it can win and capture Warsaw.

Then, the 9th Mechanized Army will have two directions to go next. One is to turn around and head north to attack Danze City - after capturing Danze, the German Army Group in the Baltic Sea will fall into a dilemma of being attacked on three sides; the other is to go all the way. Head west to Berlin! 500 kilometers west of Warsaw is the capital of the German Empire. If Berlin can be captured, then the climax of the world revolution is really coming!