"People like Lampard and Hitler can't bring Germany to glory at all. He can only destroy Germany. We can't let him continue messing around like this." Walter von Brauchitsch made a pun. said.
"Huh?" Lin Wei looked straight at General Walter von Brauchitsch when he heard this, and said calmly, "General Walter von Brauchitsch, what do you want to do?"
"We..." General Walter von Brauchitsch hesitated to speak, and finally sighed, "What is the position of your SS?"
"Of course he stands on the standpoint of the Führer," Lin Wei replied affirmatively, "Don't think that because I am the leader of the SS and have the trust of the Führer, I can order the SS to do things that none of you dare to do. , if I order them to do such a thing, I will be the one who dies."
A sarcastic smile flashed across Lin Wei's face, "I don't think the National Defense Forces are afraid of fighting with Britain and France, right? But no matter what, the officer corps had better not have any bad ideas, because that will lead to failure."
General Walter von Brauchitsch was overwhelmed by Lin Wei's words and said, "Lampard, you have to understand that the entire German army is under our command."
"That's right! General Walter von Brauchitsch!" Lin Wei also pretended to applaud, "The air force is in Goering's hands, and General Raeder of the navy will definitely not be involved in such a thing. The remaining The next one is the SS. The Wehrmacht is indeed much more numerous than the SS, but..." At this point, Lin Wei approached Walter von Brauchitsch, looked into his eyes and said, "This kind of thing , can you allow the Wehrmacht to command the Wehrmacht and the SS to fight a civil war? I think you can only put him under house arrest, right? So what if there are more Wehrmacht than SS soldiers? It is of no use at all. Furthermore, all your reasons are completely useless. It is untenable, because the Germany now led by the Führer is indeed getting stronger and stronger, and the German people are on his side."
General Walter von Brauchitsch sighed, "At least you should understand that if he continues like this, Germany will be in danger!"
"So, I didn't arrest you today," Lin Wei replied, "General Walter von Brauchitsch, you have never been here today, and I don't know about the conflict between the Wehrmacht and the Führer! In short, I am in the office today I took a nap inside and felt pretty good. I don’t want to get involved in your affairs!”
General Walter von Brauchitsch opened his mouth to say something, but finally stood up and walked away. When he reached the door, he said, "This time it is the intention of the officer corps, not mine!"
"Robert C. Crawford" Lin Wei shouted.
Robert C. Crawford came in quickly and said, "Leader, you called me?"
"I don't want the news that General Walter von Brauchitsch came here to leak out just now," Lin Wei ordered.
"I understand, I'm going to shut them up right away!" Robert C. Crawford promised.
In Hit? Facing the frantic preparations for the Western Front offensive, the generals of the officer corps believed that the time had come to start action immediately again. They had already suffered a setback since the war broke out. On the eve of the attack on Poland, General von Hammerstein, who had long since retired, was temporarily appointed to serve as a commander on the Western Front. In the first week of the war, he tried his best to invite Hit? Le went to his headquarters for an inspection to show that he had not neglected that front when attacking Poland. In fact, General Hammerstein, this Hit? Le's sworn enemy wanted to arrest him. But Hit? Already sensing something was wrong, Le declined the former army chief's invitation and soon dismissed him.
Zossen, where the Army General Headquarters and Staff Headquarters were located at that time, became a hotbed of conspiracy activities. This time the center was still General Halder, Chief of Staff of the Army, but he was hot and cold and hesitant. His boss Brauchitsch was even more timid than he was.
November 5th is a critical day. On this day, the troops will move to the attack point at the border with the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. At the same time, Brauchitsch also agreed to send troops to Hitler on this day? Le showdown. He and Halder inspected various high-level headquarters on the Western Front on November 2 and 3. The opposition of field commanders to the offensive strengthened their determination.
Halder secretly wrote in his diary that "no command thought that the attack had any possibility of success." Therefore, the Army Commander-in-Chief compiled a memorandum with a large number of arguments obtained from the frontline generals, plus the opinions of himself, Halder and others; he also brought a "counter-memorandum", which was against Hit? Reply to the October 9 memo. On October 5, he drove to the Chancellery in Berlin, determined to persuade Hitler? Le abandoned plans for an immediate offensive on the Western Front. If persuasion fails, Brauchitsch will participate in overthrowing Hitt? Le's plot, at least that's what the rest of the officer corps thought. They were elated and very optimistic. But the result was the same as before, their estimates were all wrong.
Brauchitsch came up with nothing. Neither his memorandum nor the reports from the frontline commanders nor his own arguments had any effect. This was also expected. When Brauchitsch proposed that it was the worst weather season of the year in the West, Hitt? Le retorted that the weather that was bad for the Germans was also bad for the enemy, not to mention that the weather might not be good next spring. Finally, the spineless army commander had nothing to do and told Hit? Le said, "The morale of the troops on the Western Front is similar to the situation in 1917-1918, when the army was full of defeatism, insubordination, and even mutiny?.
Hit? When Le heard this, he became furious. He asked Brauchitsch to tell him, "Which unit had this kind of undiscipline? What happened? Where?" He wanted to fly there himself the next day to investigate. Poor Brauchitsch wanted to deliberately exaggerate the facts in order to scare Hit? Damn it, now the "head of state" got angry and gave him a scolding. "What action did the army command take?" "How many people were shot?" Hit? Le roared, in fact, "it's your army that doesn't want to fight."
"There is no way to continue talking," Brauchitsch said. According to other people's memories, he was still in shock when he staggered back to the Zossen headquarters 18 miles away. He was even a little incoherent when describing the meeting.
That was the end of the "Jossen Conspiracy". Hit? After frightening Brauchitsch to death with his angry outburst, the next day he began drafting a manifesto to justify the invasion of Holland and Belgium. The excuse mentioned in Halder's diary was that "the French army will inevitably enter Belgium."
Hit? Although Le was eager to launch an attack on the Western Front, he repeatedly postponed it due to various reasons. Hitting all fall and winter? Le issued fourteen orders to postpone the attack. He postponed the attack for the first time because on November 7, the day when this decision was made, the King of Belgium and the Queen of the Netherlands issued a joint statement expressing their willingness to mediate peace before the war in Western Europe began to rage. This greatly made the Germans The earth is in trouble. Hit? In the declaration he drafted, he originally planned to say that the German army entered the two Low Countries because he learned that the French army was about to enter Belgium. However, after Belgium and the Netherlands issued this joint declaration, this excuse was difficult to win people's trust. .
Then on the evening of November 8th and the afternoon of November 9th, two strange things happened in succession: one almost killed Hit? The other was the kidnapping of two British spies in the Netherlands by German SS personnel near the German border. Although these two incidents initially distracted Hit? Le's attention prevented him from considering plans to launch an offensive on the Western Front, but in the end it increased his prestige in Germany and frightened the conspirators in the officer corps who had actually had nothing to do with either incident.
Here's the thing. On the evening of November 8, Hit? He delivered his annual speech to his comrades in the party's "Old Guard" in commemoration of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich's Bergbraukeller Tavern. This speech was shorter than his usual speeches. Twelve minutes after he finished speaking, a bomb pre-placed in a pillar behind the lectern exploded, killing and injuring 70 people. Are all the Nazi dignitaries following Hit at this time? Le left the venue in a hurry. The next morning, Hit? Le's newspaper "People's Observer" exclusively published news about the assassination of the "Führer". The newspaper said that this dirty deed was done by the "British Secret Service" and even Chamberlain. Apart from what Goebbels imagined in his fanatical mind, what did the British secret service have to do with this matter? So Hit? Le immediately sought to create such a relationship.
That night, Hit? Le found Linwei, and Heydrich, who was sitting in Czechoslovakia, secretly returned to Berlin. When he saw the two coming, Hit? Le said, "There are some weak troops in the country who have been frightened by the British and French on the Western Front and are plotting to overthrow the current government."
Lin Wei and Heydrich looked at each other and said, "Führer, what do you want to do? Do you need our help?"
Hit? Seeing Lin Wei's reaction, Le nodded secretly. Now Germany's intelligence agencies are in the hands of Lin Wei and Lin Wei. Goering still complains about this from time to time, but now it seems that the two people he cultivated are still on his side. On one front.
Hit? Le looked at Lin Wei and Heydrich with burning eyes and said, "Can the SS still stand on the side of the people?"
"My honor and loyalty!" Lin Wei promised, "No matter how many conspirators there are, the SS will always stand on the side of the Führer."
"Okay, now I have a task for you" Hit? Le said.
From Hit? After coming out of the Prime Minister's Office, Lin Wei and Heydrich did not take a car, but walked step by step to the headquarters. On the way, Heydrich asked, "Lampard, the head of state must make the officers in the officer corps more honest this time!" But I'm a little strange, why didn't you stop it? After all... "
"After all, many of them have a good relationship with my father, right?" Lin Wei asked back. Heydrich nodded. Lin Wei smiled and said, "The people in the officer corps should really be cleaned up. They are too conservative. ! This dispute is mainly about the attack by Britain and France. The head of state will not kill them. The most he can do is remove them from office and put them under house arrest!"
"Okay, we don't have to deal with these things anymore," Lin Wei asked, "How are you doing in Czechoslovakia? I heard that the Czechs love you very much?"
"Haha..." Heydrich gave a rare smile, "I just want to reform the backward system there, nothing else. What I need is to make the Czech Republic a stable country when war starts in the future." rear base".
"A good suggestion!" Lin Wei concluded, "The Soviet Union is too huge and cannot be defeated at once. In comparison, Britain and France are much easier to deal with. After all, they do not have such a vast territory, so we need a stable Back there, Heydrich, you did a great job in the Czech Republic.”
Arriving at the headquarters soon, Lin Wei complained to Heydrich, "It seems that the two of us are really working hard and have to spend the night at the headquarters."
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and secret police, called Walter Schlenborg, a young agent in Dusseldorf, and ordered him to cross the Netherlands the next day according to the instructions of the "Fuhrer" border and kidnapped two British agents who were in contact with Schellenberg.
Schellenberg, like Naujokes, was a university-educated intellectual. For more than a month, he established contact with two British intelligence officers in the Netherlands, Captain S. Paine Best and Major R.H. Stephens. In front of them, he claimed to be "Major Schamel", an anti-Nazi officer in the High Command, and made up a vivid story to explain how the German generals were determined to overthrow Hitler? Le. He said they wanted assurances from the British side that the London government would deal fairly with any future anti-Nazi regime. Both parties agreed to develop further contact. Best and Stephens gave him a small radio receiver. Subsequently, the two parties had frequent radio exchanges and met several times in different cities in the Netherlands.
Up until this point, the goals of both sides were clear. The British side intended to establish direct contact with the German conspirators in order to encourage and assist them. Himmler planned to use these two British people to discover who the German conspirators were and what their relationship was with the British spy agency. Apparently, Himmler and Hitler? Le was already suspicious of certain generals and people like Auster and Canaris in the Intelligence Agency. But on the night of November 8, Hit? Ler and Himmler felt the need to change their objectives. Now their new goal is: to kidnap Best and Stephens and charge them with the bombing of the Bergbraukeller Tavern!
Now, Gestapo Fred Naujokes appears again. It turned out that he had performed the "Polish Attack" on German radio in Gleiwitz, and now he led more than a dozen thugs from the SS Security Service to help Schellenberg complete the kidnapping plan. Things went very smoothly. At 4 pm on November 9, Schellenberg was sipping an aperitif on the balcony of a cafe in Venlo, waiting for Best and Stephens to arrive for their appointment. Finally, the two British spies arrived in their Buick. They parked the car behind the café, and as soon as they got out of the car, they were shot at by Naujoux's thugs who were waiting in the SS car. Lieutenant Klopp, a Dutch intelligence officer who had accompanied the two British men to meet Schellenberg, was fatally wounded. According to Naujoux later, after they threw Best and Stephens, together with the injured Klopp, "like a bale of grass" into the SS car, the car drove across the border at full speed. Entered Germany.
So, on November 21, Himmler announced to the public that he had murdered Hitt in the Bergbraukeller tavern? The truth about Le's conspiracy case has been revealed. This case was brought about by the British Intelligence Agency. The two British masterminds, Stephens and Best, were arrested "on the Dutch-German border" the day after the explosion. The person who actually carried out the explosion is said to be a German Communist Party member living in Munich, a carpenter named Georg Elser. However, the specific circumstances surrounding the bombing have not been announced, so it remains a mystery that has not yet been fully clarified. Himmler did not dare to hold this trial because of his guilty conscience. Later Georg Elser was murdered silently by the secret police.
Hit survived? After suppressing the resistance among the generals, he came to carry out his plan of massive offensive on the Western Front. On November 20, he issued combat order No. 8, ordering to maintain a "state of alert" in order to "take advantage of favorable weather conditions at any time" and formulated a plan to invade the Netherlands and Belgium. Next, Hit? In order to cheer up the timid generals and give them the necessary energy on the eve of the war, Le summoned the commanding generals and staff from the staff headquarters to the Prime Minister's Office at noon on November 23. "The purpose of this meeting", Hit? Le said at the beginning, "I want you to understand my ideological realm, because it governs my attitude towards the future development of events; in addition, I also want to tell you my decision."
Speaking of his early struggles, he said: "I had a clear understanding of the likely development of historical events and a firm will to make ruthless decisions... As a factor in the final decision, I can say without exaggeration that I Irreplaceable. No soldier or civilian can replace me. There may be plots to assassinate me in the future. I have no doubt about my intelligence and decision-making ability. No one has ever achieved anything like me. With such achievements, under my leadership, the status of the German people has been improved unprecedentedly. Even now the whole world hates us... The fate of the country depends on me alone. Of course I will do my part."