The Rise of the Third Reich

While the Germans were busy revolting, repressing, and holding elections. In Paris, France, the heads or representatives of the five countries of Britain, France, the United States, Japan and Italy were holding a preparatory meeting for the Paris Peace Conference - no Russian representatives participated! Neither the mentor in Moscow nor the empress in Tallinn received an invitation to the Paris Peace Conference.

The preparatory conference formulated the rules of procedure, stipulating that the five major powers, Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and Italy, were "belligerents with general interests" and could participate in all meetings of the peace conference. Belgium, China, Serbia and other countries are "belligerents with individual interests" and can only attend meetings related to their own countries. The United Baltic Principalities, like Russia, do not exist and are nothing.

As for the defeated Germany and Austria-Hungary, they basically had no bargaining power - probably none! I can only sign the treaty obediently.

In order to force the defeated countries to surrender, on January 20, the day after the Germans suppressed the Bolsheviks, they held National Assembly elections. President Woodrow Wilson, who loved peace and democracy, met with Lloyd George from Britain and Clemenceau of France, his host, in the U.S. Embassy.

"Boy, would you like a drink?" The slender, elegant President of the United States invited the guests into his office, and a waiter brought champagne. "Now it's time to break out the champagne. This is our American champagne, no worse than the French."

The French Prime Minister picked up a wine glass from the waiter's plate and took a sip of the sparkling wine inside - which he would not have thought could be called "champagne."

"What a great wine!" said the French Prime Minister in compliment. "I think it's not time for the Germans to drink this kind of sparkling wine, right?"

The Germans don't need to drink champagne now, they continue to eat food! A man named Woodrow Wilson promised German Prime Minister Albert on November 14 that as long as the Bolsheviks were suppressed and National Assembly elections were held, he would receive food aid.

However, the French Prime Minister's words had nothing to do with aid. Clemenceau knew that Woodrow Wilson would not fulfill his promise to the enemy. Clemenceau was referring to the blockade of Germany! Not only are they not given food aid, they are not even allowed to buy it with money!

"Can't the blockade be lifted now?" Woodrow Wilson hesitated while holding the wine glass.

"Of course not!" British Prime Minister Lloyd George took a sip of champagne and nodded appreciatively. Then he said: "The blockade suffocates Germany so that they will receive a fairer punishment."

"So how long will the blockade last?" Woodrow Wilson asked thoughtfully.

"Continue until we reach an agreement on various issues in the treaty with Germany!" the French Prime Minister said proudly, "Let them starve first, and we will discuss it slowly."

"Okay, that's it." Woodrow Wilson nodded in agreement.

Lloyd George raised his glass and said with a smile: "Although we still have huge differences on many specific issues, today we have reached an agreement on a key issue. This is worth celebrating, cheers!"

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

The blockade would last until the end of the peace conference, and hundreds of thousands of German citizens, women and children would starve to death as a result!

And many German boys who survived this senseless catastrophe will rush into France fully armed twenty-one years later...

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"Your Majesty Marshal, large-scale strikes are continuing in Hamburg, Munich and the Ruhr area, with the total number of people participating in the strikes exceeding 1 million. In addition, the Soviet regime in Bremen has just announced a press censorship system, and they also insist on demanding that Ai The Burt and Scheidemann governments resign..."

Hersmann closed the folder in his hand and stood upright opposite Field Marshal Hindenburg, Chief of the General Staff.

It is now February 1919. As the Allies continue to blockade Germany, the Social Democratic government that won the election cannot produce enough food to feed the working class. Therefore, the flame of the proletarian revolution has not been extinguished due to suppression, and the major cities in Germany are still in chaos.

So much so that the National Assembly did not dare to meet in Berlin to formulate a constitution and had been hiding in the small town of Weimar for the past two days.

And Hessman was also very depressed during this period, and many things were not as he wished. First of all, relations with Soviet Russia almost broke down, and the business of the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company completely stopped.

This should be the sequelae of Lenin's internationalist fighters assassinating the Tsar's family. Originally, Olga was just the monarch of the Baltic Principality. Although she was an enemy of Soviet Russia, she was not a mortal enemy.

But now, her parents, siblings have all been killed by internationalist fighters sent by Soviet Russia. Not only has there been a blood feud between her and Soviet Russia, but it has also made her the "little mother" of the Empress of Russia and hundreds of thousands of White Russian troops. .

Although the Red Army will probably not provoke the Courland Defense Forces - except for fake attacks - business between the two parties will definitely not be done.

Secondly, the United Baltic Principality has not yet been recognized by the Allies, and this country has been completely ignored. However, this result is not bad. It is better to ignore it than to send troops to attack. Moreover, the Allies have been relatively strong in the past two years. When the Soviet-Russian civil war decided the winner, American isolationism rose, and Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan began a naval arms race. The hearts of the Allied Powers were dispersed, to the point where even Turkey could not deal with it.

The third thing that gave Hirschman a headache was that the Industrial Promotion Council was basically paralyzed! Because the factories involved are busy dealing with the strike. Even some of the machinery, equipment and parts that were previously shipped to Riga's Fokker Aircraft Factory and BMW are now stacked in the warehouse and unopened. Because the Baltic form was too unclear, Tallinn now became the temporary capital of the Russian Empire. The war between Soviet Russia and Belarus seemed to be about to break out.

The fourth is that the Military Intelligence Bureau under the supervision of Hersman was reorganized-from "bureau" to "department"! The bureau chief has become the director. Beginning in January 1919, Germany began to disarm. This was not only because of the Compiègne Forest Agreement, but also because the German government could not afford to spend millions on troops.

Since October last year, Germany has been plunged into increasing chaos. Although the National Assembly has been elected, the situation has not eased. Strikes, protests, small-scale civil wars, and the continued Allied blockade had brought the German economy to the brink of collapse. The fiscal revenue of the People's Committee and the newly established German government has been reduced by more than half compared with the revolution. Naturally, they are unable to maintain a large army, and disarmament has become an inevitable choice.

The Intelligence Bureau under the leadership of Hersman became the hardest hit area of ​​disarmament. This was related to the fact that officers in the old era generally did not pay attention to spies, and also to the fact that Hersman's qualifications were too young. The Intelligence Bureau was brutally slaughtered and became a It became an intelligence department directly under the Chief of General Staff, with a staff of only 80 people. Fortunately, Hessmann's rank of lieutenant colonel has not been reduced, but if he wants to become a colonel (German colonel), he is probably far away.

As for the Stasi organization, it is not included in disarmament. Because this organization does not belong to the official establishment of the German army, and it is not paid by the German Ministry of Defense. But Hindenburg still ordered Hersmann to place the Stasi under the tight control of the General Staff Intelligence Unit. Moreover, the Stasi's secret police functions will be extended to the territory of Germany, and will also be responsible for monitoring and infiltrating various political parties in Germany.

However, the Stasi cannot count on the German army for funding...it has to rely on trade and cooperation with Soviet Russia to make money, and currently it can only rest on its laurels. Seeing that the limited gold marks in his hand were getting less and less day by day, Hessman was not in a happy mood.

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