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The Navy didn't forget it, Hoffman didn't expect that the Army would also be shy to ask for an increase in diesel supply, and the reasons sound very good: first, the T-34 and the Assault are standard diesel vehicles, and they have a production capacity of hundreds of units a month, and they need more diesel; Second, Germany has always had technical reserves for high-power on-board diesel engines, and the Weapons Bureau wants to install diesel engines on new tanks and trucks.

Then there was the Polish governor Frank's desire to provide more diesel fuel, and the reason sounded very good: since the Führer was willing to provide diesel fuel to the countries of the East, why not distribute a little more to the Polish Governorate, where there were many collective farms built with prisoners of war, and it would be more profitable to invest diesel here.

The Army's request was mercilessly rejected by Hoffman, who did not recommend installing a diesel engine on the tank except for agreeing that they would copy the engine on the T-34, although the diesel engine was the mainstream in later generations, the problem was that an excellent diesel engine was not easy to form - the technical experts could not fool Hoffman, Germany now has no shortage of tank gasoline engines below 700 horsepower, but reliable tank diesel engines above 700 horsepower are now not available in the world.

Germany's own Maybach HL234 gasoline engine has only just been sampled, and although the power barely reaches 850 horsepower, it is still a long way from maturity, and Hoffmann does not think that he can achieve more results with a diesel engine than the HL234. Truck diesels could have been used a little, but for the sake of simplifying the supply of troops, he did not want to adopt them on a large scale on the Eastern Front, and perhaps could use them on a small scale on the Southern Front, where the lack of reliable railway lines required a higher capacity for trucks.

Although Hoffmann has not yet answered the request of the Polish Governorate, the request will never be approved, because Bauman has bitten Frank and accused him of corruption in Poland, Hoffmann has signed the arrest warrant, and Fritz Schokel, the plenipotentiary of the all-German labor force, will take Frank's place, waiting for the latter to be guillotined.

Of course, this accusation is true, but it is not the root cause of Frank's downfall, Frank angered the Führer in two things: first, he controlled the relevant economic industry and labor resources of the Polish Governorate, did not allow Speer and Milch to interfere, and openly and secretly resisted the general war of the Ministry of Armaments; Second, on the issue of dealing with Jews, Frank did not agree with the Führer's "new policy" and repeatedly resisted it privately, continuing to find excuses to kill Jews in Poland. In Speer's view, it didn't matter how the Jewish question was to be handled, but if he dared to go against the Führer's policy, the outcome would generally not be good, and the Führer would not be merciless in killing people now - the Night of the Long Knife was a child's work compared to the traitorous group.

Speer didn't know that the inside story was more complicated than he thought, and Hoffman wanted to move Frank for the above two reasons, but also because of Frank's behavior after the war: in order to exonerate himself, he indiscriminately climbed Hitler's Jewish blood and threw all the charges on the dead - which made Hoffman very disdainful of his character. On the one hand, Shokel's position is in conflict with Milch's Trotto organization, and there are often conflicts between the two, and changing the position for Shokel helps reduce friction; Schaukel, on the other hand, was Baumann's man and was strongly supported by the latter in his appointment.

After the imprisonment of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess by the British and the death of Reich Marshal Goering, the position of Führer's successor suddenly became vacant, and it was widely believed in the party that after taking into account the current position, age, and prestige, there were four people expected to occupy this position, the so-called Big Four: Himmler, Goebbels, Baumann and Speer. Originally, Speer could not enter this list at all, but after the general mobilization, his power grew extremely fast, and he vaguely became the number one person in the Big Four. The Big Four are generally 10-15 years younger than the Führer, and they are basically the same in terms of allegiance, but they have a lot of contradictions with each other, and from time to time there will be some conflicts, and they will use various occasions to stumble on their opponents.

Flick and Himmler were very close, and Baumann not only dealt a blow to Himmler's layout, but also put his own man in the position of governor of Poland - he was the direct beneficiary, Speer was only an indirect beneficiary. After half a year as the head of the multi-face, Hoffman finally got started with politics and power struggle, and it was of great benefit to him that the four giants checked and balanced each other and supervised each other, and finally had a relatively balanced opportunity to let him take charge of the overall situation, and he certainly would not easily announce who the successor would be and change the pattern.

Baumann also included Sedlitz-Kurzbach Artillery General this time, in the eyes of many people, this is an out-and-out unlucky bastard: first lost the post of commander of the 51st Army in the expansion of the division and disarmament and was assigned to the reserve army, I thought that I could have the opportunity to be the main person in charge of the reserve army, but I did not expect that the Führer directly arranged the reactivated Marshal Blomburg to the reserve army, and Kurzbach, who had the rank of general, could only play an insignificant role in front of the marshal - so there were all kinds of complaints, Somehow, these complaints reached Bowman's ears again.

The traitorous clique told Bauman that he was having nothing to do, and immediately "envy and hatred" to control Kurzbach on the charge of "hidden traitor"; in fact Bauman himself did not think that the other party was worthy of this crime, and he thought that the Führer would at most reprimand him and let him retire from active service. Unexpectedly, the adjutant passed back the Führer's instructions on the file as "not to be connived at", while in Frank's file it was "dealt with seriously." So after Baumann racked his brains, Kurzbach "committed suicide" in prison one morning.

In Hoffman's eyes, Kurzbach, who was shaken by the renegade and cooperated with the Soviet army in history, deserved it, and his behavior and nature were even worse than Paulus's, he wanted to observe Kurzbach's performance in the reserve army, if he could settle down and play his value in the reserve, he didn't mind giving him a decent result, but he didn't expect it to be the second Hoppner, and Hoffman of course had to deal with it mercilessly.

Hoffman sighed after receiving a secret telegram from Bowman, and now he finally began to understand the dictator: only constant purges and killings could keep them safe, and he had gone further and further down this path from which there was no turning back.

"Führer, Minister Speer said that the preliminary survey results of the Baku oil fields have been obtained, do you need him to report to you immediately?"

The phone call from Chief Adjutant Daldgs made Hoffman recover from his emotion, and this time he rushed to the Eastern Front, in addition to observing and directing the "Spring Awakening Campaign" on the spot, Hoffman came more to inspect the economic recovery of the war.

"Our oil and engineering experts in Iran followed the first troops to look at the current situation in Baku, and the situation was much more serious than we thought, and the damage was very complete, much more complete and comprehensive than the destruction that the British had done in Iran and Iraq."

According to the preliminary judgment and estimation of experts: if sufficient labor, equipment and materials are invested, Baku's crude oil production can be partially restored after 6 months, with an annual output of about 1.5 million to 3 million tons, and crude oil production can be restored to more than 5 million tons in 9 months; 1 year or more to get the refinery back to work; In 2 years, the oilfield production can be restored to 10 million tons, and it has a refining capacity of 3 million tons; It will take 3 years to reach 70% of the peak level, and 5 years or more to completely restore the oil city.

"It's been too long." "There's another problem, even if Baku oil is produced, it's hard for it to fall into our hands right now. ”

After Turkey took the Transcaucasus, it not only demanded the occupation of all the land, but also had special ideas about Baku's oil resources, and did not mean to let Germany intervene. Hoffman was well aware of this, President Inonu was not the leader of Iran or Iraq, he was even more cunning than Mussolini, he was a typical wall-to-wall grass, and now Germany still needed the cooperation of the Turks in many places, and Turkey's relations with the Allies had not deteriorated to the point of being out of control. He had received information that the American ambassador was still trying to persuade Turkey to withdraw from the war: as long as Turkey was willing to withdraw, the Americans were willing to guarantee that Turkey would maintain the land it was currently occupying.

He did not intend to be hostile to Turkey over this matter, but on the contrary to be more generous, and to make sure that Turkey's relations with the Bolsheviks deteriorated beyond control. However, not dealing with each other does not mean that he is willing to take the lead in the Baku issue, and he thinks very clearly: If Turkey wants Baku's oil, it must jointly develop it with Germany, and it must be on favorable conditions for Germany -- anyway, now that Germany has Middle East oil as a base, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are stepping up the exploitation of large oil fields, and the capacity for the restoration and construction of relevant oil projects has reached the limit, and it is impossible to invest more forces in Baku. It is ridiculous that until now Turkey has not made a request for "joint development".

"In view of the actual situation, experts recommend that the restoration of Baku be abandoned for the time being, and at most use spare labor such as prisoners of war to clean up the rubble, and if there are still personnel left, they can be sent to build the oil pipeline."

"Don't be so troublesome, let the Turks do the clean-up themselves, and the Baku oil field will be thrown there first." Hoffman laughed, "Let the Turks toss first and see if they can leave the Germans." (To be continued.) )