The Rise of the Third Reich

When Hungary became a Soviet republic, Hersman was in Budapest - he seemed to have a fate with the Soviets in his life, and had personally participated in the birth of three Soviet countries (Soviet Germany was of course fake). He went to Hungary to inspect the construction of the "Special Technical School", investigate the combat readiness of the Hungarian Red Army, and on behalf of the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company, he signed several food, arms and coal sales contracts with the newly established Hungarian Soviet regime.

On April 1, 1919, Hersmann returned to Berlin and placed the report and signed contract on Field Marshal Hindenburg's desk.

“How much money do Hungarians have?”

Hindenburg flipped through the reports and contracts, looking at each line and asking questions from time to time. Sitting next to him was a general in his fifties who was a little thin, with big eyes and wearing a monocle. He was Hans von Seeckt, the military representative of the German delegation participating in the Paris Peace Conference. Hessmann was familiar with him and had been his subordinate during most of the World War until he was wounded in Romania.

"The Hungarian government nationalized the banks and therefore received a large amount of gold and silver coins from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which gave them a certain ability to pay."

After months of nothing, the Economic Promotion Corporation controlled by Hirschman finally had another chance to do big business. The Hungarian Bolsheviks, who had just taken power, needed a lot of arms, food and coal, and through nationalized banks, they also collected a lot of gold and silver krona that could be used for international payments.

"It's okay to have arms and coal. We can always get them in Germany, but where can we get food?" Hindenburg put down the contract and looked at Hessmann. "This is not a small amount of grain, but a grain purchase contract worth more than 20 million gold marks! I don't think you want to use German rations to feed the Bolsheviks in Hungary?"

The Germans are now as short of food as the Hungarians! The failure of the world war actually began with insufficient food supply. And without enough food, the Hungarians would not be able to resist hungry.

"It is impossible to lift the blockade against us for the time being!" Sekter interjected in a gloomy tone. "After March 21, they did not mention sending troops to Hungary via Germany at all."

"Instead of German grain, let Soviet Russia produce grain." Hessman had already made a plan. "We will buy grain from Soviet Russia at a low price and then resell it to the Hungarians... It is estimated that there will be several million gold marks." profit."

"The Russians are willing?" Sekter was very doubtful. “I heard people are starving to death in Russia!”

"Ken!" Hessman said, "There are many people in Russia, and they don't feel bad if they starve to death... And the Hungarian Revolution is related to the survival of Soviet Russia, so we must provide full assistance. And the Hungarian Revolution is also very beneficial to us. I think this It’s also an opportunity for us to repair our relationship with the Russians.”

The Hungarian Revolution was actually not that important to Soviet Russia. Historically, after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, the Soviet Union still survived and developed. But Lenin and the leaders of the Russian Bolsheviks did not know this now.

Although Britain, France and the United States have not recognized Queen Ogali of Tallinn so far, they have not denied her status. In February 1919, after Germany fell into a small-scale civil war due to the January Revolution, Britain and France reached some agreements with the Queen's government. Cooperation was carried out without involving recognition of the empress's status or Russia's participation in the Paris Peace Conference.

By the end of February 1919, more than 130,000 British and French troops had landed in Novorossiysk, Odessa and Sevastopol in southern Russia through the Black Sea, and had successively occupied cities such as Batumi, Tiflis, and Baku. , also established contact with the South Russian White Guards entrenched in the lower reaches of the Don River, and began to arm the South Russian White Army with a large amount of arms.

Because Soviet Russia placed too many troops in Pskov and Petrograd to fight against the Russian Empress in Tallinn. Their military strength in southern Russia was weaker than in history, which gave the South Russian White Guards based on Cossacks a good opportunity to develop rapidly.

By early April, the White Army of South Russia had controlled most of Ukraine on the left bank of the Dnieper River, the lower reaches of the Don River, and the Transcaucasus region, including Donetsk, the center of Russia's heavy industry.

At the same time, the newly restored Poles also began to take advantage of the situation. In mid-February, the Soviet-Polish War officially started (there had been small-scale conflicts before). By March, the situation on the battlefield became very favorable to Poland. In order to use its main force against the White Army, the Red Army could only gradually retreat from the front line starting from the Kurland border in the north and reaching Ukraine in the south.

In this situation of internal and external difficulties, the birth of the Hungarian Soviet Republic was equivalent to opening up a second battlefield for Soviet Russia!

Hersmann wanted to use this opportunity to bring Russia and Germany, which had become estranged because of Empress Olga, closer again. In Hessman’s memory, in less than two years, Soviet Russia’s economic policy will undergo a 180-degree turn, and the era of New Economic Policy will come. If relations with the Soviet Union could be restored earlier, the Economic Promotion Corporation would be able to gain huge benefits from the "Soviet Russia reform."

"But the fire can't be contained in the paper. The Allies will know it sooner or later." Von Seeckt said, his tone was gloomy, and he glanced at Hersman. "The news coming out of the Paris Peace Conference is very bad. They will definitely not act in accordance with the Fourteen Points of Peace. It is said that the French want us to cede the west of the Rhine and let the Poles occupy East Prussia, West Prussia and Posen! The compensation must be an astronomical figure, the first payment alone is as high as 20 billion gold marks..."

Hersmann said: "That's why we need the Hungarian Soviet Republic! If the Allies fail in Hungary, they will need us Germany, and they will have to give us benefits. Even if they know that the Hungarians have received help from us! "

Von Seeckt looked at Hindenburg. The marshal said: "I think so too... Since tolerance can't bring any benefits, why bother with confrontation? If the Hungarian resistance succeeds, who thinks that Germany can be easily conquered?"

"But will they succeed?" Von Seeckt seemed a little doubtful.

"Yes!" Hindenburg smiled contemptuously, "The Hungarians' opponents are only the Czechs and Romanians."

If the Europeans were ranked in terms of combat effectiveness, the Magyars would have ranked high in the long years before 1919, while the Czechs and Romanians had never been known for their bravery. As long as the Hungarians have enough food and weapons, and receive guidance from German military advisers who are good at fighting guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, there is no chance that they cannot win.

"But once the Czechs and Romanians fail, Britain and France will go down personally."

"General, I think they will still fail unless they get help from us and the Austrians."

"Why?" von Seeckt asked.

"Because the transportation facilities in the plains of Hungary, the mountains of Transylvania, and the mountains of Slovakia will be completely destroyed during the course of the war."

Hersman said confidently: "Moreover, the entire Hungary will be armed by then! There will be millions of Red Army and countless guerrillas, and it will be a vast ocean of people's war! The British and French coalition forces will We are stuck in the quagmire there! When the time comes, Britain and France will definitely ask for help from us.”

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