The Rise of the Third Reich

After coming out of the General Staff Headquarters at Koenigplatz, Hersmann drove back to the new headquarters of the Military Intelligence Service, a villa in the Charlottenburg district. The headquarters of the Economic Cooperation Company and the new homes of Hessmann and Chloe were also moved to the Charlottenburg district where there are many mansions. Each occupied a large house with a large garden and fountain - due to the revolution, these originally belonged to Many of the mansions of dynasty dignitaries are now being sold at low prices because their owners are eager to escape Germany, a place of right and wrong.

So Hessman purchased three large houses very close to each other at a relatively low price. This makes it easier for him to commute to and from get off work, and also makes it easier to keep things secret. The Military Intelligence Service and the Economic Promotion Corporation have too many secrets and are not suitable for working in places with too much traffic.

Under Hersmann's leadership, the Military Intelligence Service has become a very mysterious agency, somewhat similar to the Stasi. But the size of the Military Intelligence Service was not large - if you don't count the Stasi.

There are several groups under the Military Intelligence Office, namely the Military Group, the Political Group, the Economic Group, the Scientific Group, the German Group, the Baltic Group, the Logistics Group and the Personnel Group, plus Hessmann’s Office of the Director and Kaiser Lin's deputy director's office (the chief and deputy director of the Military Intelligence Division is the chief and deputy director of the Stasi, and the two take turns sitting in Berlin and Miuta) constitute a military intelligence office similar to the headquarters of a large company.

The reason why the General Intelligence Department is called the "corporate headquarters" is because the five business groups of the military group, political group, scientific group, German group, economic group and Baltic group only have analytical and leadership functions and are not directly engaged in espionage and intelligence. It does not engage in secret police activities and does not directly participate in business activities.

Under these five business groups, those directly engaged in espionage and business activities are the Stasi agencies and the Economic Promotion Company. They are like two branches under the head office, each engaged in different main businesses.

The main business of the Economic Promotion Company is Russian-German trade (now there is also Hungarian-German trade) and Courland economic development. The main focus of the Stasi was, of course, the secret police and foreign espionage work. The economic promotion company and the Stasi are not unrelated. They need to cooperate with each other in many aspects. One of the functions of the "Head Office" of the Military Intelligence Service is to guide the secret cooperation between the Economic Promotion Company and the Stasi agencies in all necessary aspects.

The important information obtained by the Economic Cooperation Corporation and the Stasi Agency will be sent to the five relevant business groups of the Military Intelligence Division for analysis and research. Then it turned into reports one after another and sent to Hersman's desk.

On the third day after Herschmann returned to Berlin from Russia, a report submitted by Rosenberg, the leader of the political team, immediately caught his eye.

"German Workers' Party?" Hersmann looked at Rosenberg. "Alfred, why do you need to issue a separate report for such a small party with only a few dozen members?"

The political team of the Military Intelligence Department is a very special department. It is responsible for political issues that seem to have nothing to do with military intelligence. Moreover, it is not a foreign political issue, but a German political issue! In addition, the arrest and surveillance of Bolshevik activities was not the responsibility of the political group, but the German group. The political group only cares about legal political parties and does not care about illegal rebels.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Alfred Rosenberg looked very excited. "This German Workers' Party represents a trend! It is a trend that has never appeared in the previous labor movement."

"What's the trend?"

"Awakening! Some workers are beginning to wake up and spontaneously fight against the Marxists in the trade unions!" Rosenberg said excitedly as if he had discovered a new continent. "They finally realized that they had brought them the greatest suffering and suffering. It is not the capitalists who are harmed, but the enemies of the state...the unequal treaties imposed on us by the Allies, and the Social Democrats, Independent Social Democrats and Bolsheviks who started the revolution behind the soldiers and made us lose the war!”

This is not surprising. There are anti-imperialist and anti-colonial workers’ movements in every colonial or semi-colonial country. During this time, the May Fourth Movement in China was in full swing! Compared with the injustice China suffered at the Paris Peace Conference, Germany simply fell from the clouds to hell overnight.

Moreover, the disaster that the humiliating defeat brought to Germany has now been passed on to the working class! All kinds of restrictions and blows to German industry will eventually turn into terrible unemployment and hunger. The weakening of Germany's national power will also cause workers to lose their original benefits. Inflation will wipe out the savings saved by workers through frugality.

When the factory machinery was smashed by the Allied soldiers, when Germany's resources and wealth were put on trains by the Allied powers and shipped to France and Belgium. What other worker would think that their enemies were German soldiers and entrepreneurs?

"In a country suffering from humiliation and oppression, the labor movement will be combined with statism (nationalism). This situation is very common in colonial and semi-colonial countries." Hersman tapped his fingers lightly on his desk. , seems to be considering something. “But the German Social Democratic Party, the Independent Social Democratic Party and the Bolshevik Party are guilty of original sin on this issue!”

Rosenberg shouted: "Yes, the Socialist Party and Bolshevik Party in Germany are different from those in Hungary! They must be responsible for Germany's defeat, so they have no way to combine with nationalism!

They will only be anti-war, anti-war, anti-war! Like a dog to please the enemy, and then turn back to persecute the German soldiers! They will be abandoned by the German people and become criminals of the country! "

There are certainly many reasons for Germany's defeat, and the main responsibility does not lie with the Social Democratic Party, the Independent Social Democratic Party and the Bolshevik Party. If the German emperor had not been mentally retarded, these people would have been suppressed long ago. But now the Social Democratic Party is the ruling party, and they have to sign the Treaty of Versailles, so they are bound to bear the blame.

The predecessor of the Bolshevik Party, the Spartacists, was the most resolute anti-war faction during the war. Now that the anti-war movement has succeeded, the German people are facing a greater disaster! It is indeed difficult to explain the position clearly.

What's worse is that they did not stand up like the Hungarian Bolshevik Party to lead the people to fight against the Allies. The Bolshevik Party's uprisings were all aimed at opposing the German bourgeoisie. The locations were all in Bavaria, Hamburg and Berlin, far away from France. If they could launch an uprising in the Rhine demilitarized zone or the Saar region to be occupied by France to fight against the Allies, then the banner of nationalism would be carried by them.

Unfortunately, the German Bolshevik Party was always one step behind! The banner of nationalism fell into the hands of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, which developed from the German Workers' Party, and put itself on the opposite side of nationalism.

"The German workers' movement has split, and the National Socialist workers' movement has begun to emerge..." Hersman seemed hesitant. According to the Weimar Constitution, active military personnel cannot openly join a political party, let alone lead a political party. If Hersman wants to lead the National Socialist workers' movement, he must resign from the military.

But Hersman's current position is very important to Germany's secret preparations for war! If he resigns from the military, Germany's preparations for war will definitely be affected. Even if he becomes prime minister in the future, he will be like Hitler, and will go to war without preparations.

Moreover, Hersman is different from Hitler! He is not the kind of big ** who spent a few years of hell in the trenches, fought for the German nation, and finally had nothing. He is a Junker elite, and he has made a fortune in trade with the Soviet Union, becoming a millionaire, and is preparing to marry a super rich countess as his wife. For German workers in the 1920s, people like him are also original sins!

"We must join in!" Hessman gave up the idea of ​​leading the movement himself, because the Military Intelligence and the Stasi needed him more. "Send people to join the German Workers' Party and other similar parties... We must keep track of their movements at all times! Alfred, you understand politics, you will be directly responsible for this matter, and report to me at any time."

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