Chapter 465:

On 1 July, Colonel Stauffenberg, in his capacity as Chief of Staff of the Reserve Command, began his duties.

In the reserve command, Colonel Stauffenberg was the second most important person after Lieutenant General Fromm, so here Xiao Mubai, as his adjutant, also rose to prominence.

It's a pity that the first time he took up his post, Xiao Mubai encountered a problem, and Lieutenant General Fromm was very uninterested in him. I don't know if it was because of the last penicillin incident, which was heard by Lieutenant General Fromm, or if it was because of the inadequate promotion of the rank this time.

Xiao Mubai didn't know that this matter was really related to the promotion of military ranks.

Fromm did not approve Lieutenant Heinrich's promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Heinrich because he had been in the rear after he had been wounded in the war in 1943, but Colonel Stauffenberg strongly recommended it.

In short, this top boss whom Xiao Mubai never knew was full of bad feelings towards him, which was the reason for the scene at the rank promotion ceremony.

It's a pity that Xiao Mubai doesn't care about this, he knows that although Lieutenant General Fromm does not approve of Valkyrie's action, he is even more neutral in the action, and he did not help Stauffenberg at the last moment, to a certain extent, he is the roadblock of Valkyrie's action.

Historically, Colonel Stauffenberg failed to remove this roadblock, and now, maybe this person will have to be dealt with by Xiao Mubai.

Similarly, when Xiao Mubai accidentally mentioned to Colonel Stauffenberg that Lieutenant General Fromm had a bad sense of him, and asked if he had offended the general in some way, Colonel Stauffenberg replied like this.

At that time, Xiao Mubai finished speaking tentatively, and when Colonel Stauffenberg heard this, he squeezed out a smile on his face that he didn't know whether it was contempt or mockery, and then said to Xiao Mubai casually: "Heinrich, although he is the commander of the reserve army, you are now my adjutant, and his attitude does not matter. ”

Xiao Mubai was relieved, he could feel that Colonel Stauffenberg's attitude towards Lieutenant General Fromm was very subtle, not hateful, but absolutely not respectful and obedient, from this aspect, Colonel Stauffenberg was unruly.

Of course, if Colonel Stauffenberg had not resisted, he would have had so much courage to assassinate Hitler?

He was a role model for those young senior officers who, despite the bright future, were not resting on his laurels and were determined to act for justice. He has the sense of responsibility that an officer should have in the army, and a sense of responsibility as a citizen in the face of the people.

On 1 July, Colonel Stauffenberg was appointed chief of staff of the reserve army, a position that allowed him to meet directly with Hitler and was an excellent position to assassinate him.

Two days later, in accordance with a military plan of the Nazi German government, Colonel Stauffenberg took advantage of the situation and carried out a military operation to assassinate Hitler in the opposite sense, based on the original Valkyrie operation.

Hitler was paranoidic of persecution, and often used abrupt changes in itinerary to prevent assassinations, but he was guarded against the Communists and Jews.

He never imagined that within his officer corps and armed forces there would be one force after another against him, each time almost killing him, and each time he had narrowly escaped.

Valkyrie "is a military plan developed by Hitler, assuming a workers' revolt in Berlin, and the army will intervene to stabilize the situation; This plan was to respond to the emergence of a rebel group in Berlin, whether it was a workers' uprising, a coup d'état by military officers, or a seizure of power by the Nazi Party, and the planned reservists deployed by Hitler would be dispatched to suppress it.

Those involved in the conspiracy envisaged a further military deployment through this plan, seizing power in a coup d'état by the SS and secret police, and taking command of the government as it should, besieging government institutions and suppressing the Nazi forces led by Goering Himmler.

This Valkyrie operation was born out of the original Valkyrie plan formulated by Hitler himself, and it is closely related to the four failed assassination operations carried out by the previous black band.

After 1941, the centre of the German resistance shifted from the Beck-Godeler group to the armed forces, represented by Major General Treskov, Chief of Operations of Army Group Center, and Colonel von Stauffenberg.

Treskov's first plan was simple: Hitler had promised to personally visit Russia to inspect the front. When Hitler got off the plane and went to the headquarters, he controlled Hitler halfway through and forced Field Marshal von Bock to become the supreme commander.

However, after Hitler went to Belarus in 1941, he was heavily protected by three layers of soldiers, and he could not be kidnapped at all.

The second plan was to lure Hitler to the front, arrest him at the Lonz Cluster Command in Poltava, force Hitler to give the order to abandon Kharkov, and finally achieve an armistice. If Hitler resisted violently, kill him and leave him alive.

But Hitler flew not to Poltava, but to Zaporozhye, the command of Army Group South, so the plan also fell through.

After these two failed attempts, Treskov decided to kill Hitler with a bomb. The explosives used to make the bomb were called Nobel 808, and this project was called "Project Flash".

Treskov was ready to blow up Hitler in the officers' cafeteria where he was eating. If that didn't work, try to get the bomb on Hitler's plane and let it explode in the air. However, Hitler ate too quickly and before he could plant a time bomb, he finished eating.

Treskov sent people to pack the bomb into rum and bring it on the plane, waiting for the news of Hitler's safe landing. When I replaced the bomb, I saw that the firing pin had stopped at the detonation position, but somehow it did not explode.

All in all, Hitler escaped again.

A few days later, Treskov received the news that Hitler would travel to the Armory in Berlin on March 21 for a memorial ceremony, followed by a visit to Army Group Center for captured Soviet weapons.

However, the workers watched very carefully, did not have the opportunity to place bombs under the rostrum, resorted to suicide attacks, and could not get close to Hitler himself.

By the end of the speech, the conspirators turned on the timing fuse and waited for Hitler in a small room stacked with Soviet weapons, which Hitler was clearly not interested in.

By 1944, the core espionage system of the original conspiracy group had been completely paralyzed, and the opportunity for the conspirators on the Eastern Front to assassinate on the front line was lost, and the main work was entrusted to the officer Stauffenberg, who formulated the "Valkyrie Plan" to overthrow the Nazis.

The plan was to first bomb Hitler to death at the Führer's Wolf's Lair, then to put the blame on the SS and Nazi leaders, then the Reserve Command issued an order to implement the Valkyrie Plan, occupy the major cities, and then proclaim a new regime, with Beck as regent and Gotayl as chancellor.

Front-line commanders like Rommel and Kruger, who have fallen to the conspiracy group, will declare a ceasefire, make peace with the Allies, and finally set up a tribunal to try Nazi war criminals.

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