The Rise of the Third Reich

"Jingle Bell……"

A crisp ringtone of the alarm clock woke up Ernst Thalmann from his dreaming state. A white, slender woman's arm was pressing on his bony chest. He suddenly pushed the jade arm aside, and the owner of the jade arm let out a scream.

"Ernst, what's wrong with you?"

This is a woman's voice that sounds very cooing. It probably belongs to a blond, blue-eyed, long-legged Russian beauty...

But at this time, Ernst Thalmann didn't pay any attention to the beautiful woman. He just ran out of the bedroom quickly and suddenly opened the velvet curtains of the living room window, letting in the dazzling sunlight. Thalmann squinted his eyes and looked at the scene outside the window. The red tower of the Kremlin was not far away, and the red star on the top of the tower reflected the sunlight, making it particularly dazzling.

This scene definitely belongs to Moscow, not Solovsky.

He burst into tears suddenly, "It's Moscow! It's really Moscow... I'm back! God, I'm really back from damn Solovsky!"

For ten years before the World Revolution of June 1, he lived in the Solovsky Monastery. Of course, it is not to cultivate Taoism there, but to reform through labor!

Yes, Thälmann was transformed through labor! This was all Hessmann's fault, because Thälmann and his comrades were arrested by the Stasi, the German secret service at the time, shortly after the Reichstag fire, but they were not shot but sent to the Soviet Union.

It seemed good to go to the Soviet Union, the holy land of communism, but Thalmann's communism life didn't take long before things went wrong. It turned out that according to the investigation of the Soviet Internal Affairs Department, there was a German spy group within the German Bolshevik Party in exile in the Soviet Union!

This is very possible, after all, most of the German Bolsheviks who fled to the Soviet Union had the experience of being arrested. Since he had been arrested, he might have rebelled and surrendered to the enemy. It was normal for comrades from the Soviet NKVD to investigate.

So Thälmann actively cooperated with the Soviet internal affairs department to catch spies within the German Bolshevik Party, and achieved very good results. The more spies are arrested, the more good people are fewer and fewer. At the end of the arrest, Thalmann is surprised to find that he is also a heinous spy!

Since he is a spy, of course he must be arrested. The Bolshevik Party will never let a bad person go, even if he is a senior cadre of the party. So Thälmann was disgraced, his family and friends disowned him, and he was sentenced to "maximum security measures," which meant he was to be shot!

However, it was not executed in the end and was changed to 25 years of reform through labor before going to the execution ground. Then he was sent to the Solovsky Monastery near the White Sea - it was originally an Orthodox monastery. After the victory of the revolution, it was It was converted into a labor camp for reforming reactionaries.

Thalmann has been renovating it there for 10 years!

And just when Thalmann began to realize his crimes deeply, he wanted to change his mind and start a new life. However, a cadre of the Internal Affairs Department wearing a blue hat ran to Solovsky and announced to him the results of the latest verification by the Internal Affairs Department - it turned out that he was not a German spy, but that the Internal Affairs Department had made a mistake.

Well, the Bolsheviks never wronged a good man! Since he made a mistake, he had to correct it, so Thalmann was restored to his reputation and returned to Moscow half a month ago.

However, he was not reinstated immediately because the German Bolshevik Party was banned a few years ago. Without the party, there would naturally be no general secretary of the party. Fortunately, the organization did not treat him badly. He was not qualified as an official, but his rank and treatment were restored.

He was allocated a large house in a good location in Moscow, received a special support card from the Third International that was reserved only for "leaders of important fraternal parties", and the NKVD also assigned him a wife - also in the name of important fraternal party leaders. The standard assignment was a 21-year-old Russian beauty named Anna, whose apparent occupation was the German translator of the Third International. She was assigned by the Third International to Thalmann, who spoke fluent Russian, as a Russian translator. Of course Thalmann also knew her true identity, but he soon fell in love with her. In fact, this Anna is a very good girl, young, beautiful, gentle, considerate, and educated. She is also very good at taking care of men, and she will not ask Thalmann to buy a house, a car, a diamond ring, or anything like that.

I don’t know if happiness came so suddenly that Thalmann’s brain couldn’t react. Anyway, he has been having nightmares these days, either dreaming about Solovsky’s labor reform in the ice and snow, or dreaming about blue hats rushing into the labor camp. The house comes to arrest him - because he really is a German agent! After 10 years of labor reform and ideological struggle, Thalmann really believed that he was a spy!

Moreover, the scenes of being arrested or reformed through labor in his dreams were so real that he couldn't tell when he was dreaming and when he was awake.

Dong dong dong...

At this moment, someone really knocked on the door, and then Thalmann heard the sound of someone moving. He looked back and saw that it was his woman Anna who put on a silk nightgown and opened the door. And outside the door stood two men in military uniforms and blue caps (these are the attire of internal affairs personnel)!

We are really here to arrest!

Comrade Thalmann's head was buzzing, and stars were rising in front of his eyes. At this time, he saw Anna walking towards him, talking and laughing with two "blue hats", and he immediately felt like being betrayed - this woman must have reported some wrong things she said or talked in her sleep. . She is Cheka's swallow, and she is here to monitor her...Now the higher-ups know that she is a bad person, and they will definitely shoot her this time!

Ernst Thälmann was completely desperate. He didn't want to be shot, nor did he want to go to Solovsky anymore to be tortured. He didn't even want to go to Lubyanka No. 2 (Interior and Exterior Building).

So he suddenly turned around and reached the window, then pushed open the window with all his strength, leaned half of his body on the window sill with both hands and leaned out - he was going to commit suicide by jumping off the building and seclude himself from the German people!

But it's not that easy for him to die now. He only leaned out halfway, and his waist was already hugged by Anna, who was quick-sighted and quick-witted. Thalmann refused to give up and struggled twice, but he did not expect Anna's strength to be astonishing. Thalmann, who was as thin as a stick of firewood, could not break free at all. Moreover, the two "blue hats" reacted quickly and grabbed Thalmann together.

"Honey, what are you doing?" Anna asked loudly.

Thalmann cried and replied: "Jump off the building! I want to jump off the building!"

"Why? Why did you jump off the building?" Anna asked in surprise.

"Because I am a German spy! I am a reactionary! I will be arrested soon," Thalmann replied, "Anna, be good and let me die!"

Anna and the two "blue hats" were stunned when they heard this. One of the "blue hats" said: "Comrade Thalmann, we took you to see him on the order of the NKVD... Do you want to plead guilty or not?" Let’s wait until we meet the People’s Commissar.”

It turned out that they were not going to arrest him, but were taking Thalmann to see Beria, the NKVD.

…

"Comrade Thalmann..."

In a very luxuriously furnished office in the interior and exterior building of Lubyanka 2, Beria adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and said in Russian with a heavy Georgian accent: "You admit that you are... …an agent of Nazi Germany’s intelligence service?”

"Yes, I am a spy." Thalmann's mind was already in a mess.

"Okay then, you write an explanation." Beria pointed to the report paper and pen on the desk and said with a smile. "Write it clearly. When did you join the Stasi, who was on the line, and what information was betrayed. Write it all clearly."

Beria, just write!

Thalmann is also a person who can write, so this is not a problem for him. And during the ten years of labor reform, he had written countless such things, so he quickly wrote a short spy novel.

Of course, the above content is all made up. When Hessmann asked Thalmann to be arrested, he also wanted to maintain relations with the Soviet Union, so he did not let anyone beat him, the boss of the German Bolshevik Party, or even send him to the Stasi. Instead of being in a dark prison, he was placed under house arrest in the Kempinski Hotel in Berlin, where he was provided with good food and drinks. Beria actually knew about this. Later, Kempinski's bill was paid by the Third International...

After taking the "novel" and looking at it, Beria nodded with satisfaction, then took out an ink pad box and asked Thalmann to make a fingerprint. Finally, he put the ridiculous "novel" full of paper into the safe.

"Okay," Beria looked at the somewhat depressed Thalmann and smiled, "Comrade Thalmann, when Germany is liberated in the future, we will naturally verify the issues you explained. But before that, we have to Liberate Germany first, right?”

Thalmann was stunned again and again. Aren't he a secret agent and a reactionary? How could he still participate in the great cause of liberating Germany?

Beria went on to say: "Comrade Stalin knows that you were wronged at Solovsky, so he asked me to talk to you in order to let you put down your burdens as soon as possible, move forward lightly, and shoulder the heavy responsibility of leading the German Bolshevik Party and the German revolution. ”

What! ? Thälmann has a big mouth. Dimitrov, General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Third International, should talk to himself about this kind of thing. Why are you, a Soviet NKVD, meddling in other people's business? This will scare people to death!

That's not right... I just wrote an explanation material and gave it to Beria to keep!

Although this material is all fabricated, if it is thrown out in the party, it will cost people's lives! This is an extra-large handle!

Beria smiled very kindly, and said to Thalmann in a gentle tone: "I will help you keep what you just wrote, and no one else will know it, so you can just go about your revolutionary work with peace of mind. Don’t put any psychological burden on me. Comrade Dimitrov will talk to you in the afternoon to discuss the issue of rebuilding the German Bolshevik Party and organizing the German Red Army.”

Thalmann now understood a little bit. This extra-large handle belonged to Beria personally! From now on, I am Beria’s person…