On the northern flank of the Eastern Front, there was also Finland to cooperate in the war, because Mannerheim repeatedly emphasized that he and Germany were comrades-in-arms rather than allies, mainly to seek justice for the Soviet-Finnish war, so the armistice agreement was relatively simple, the Soviet-Finnish border was restored to the state before the Soviet-Finnish war, and adjustments were made in favor of Finland in some areas that were not very clear -- Molotov had no control over this matter, it was all direct talks between the Vlasov regime and the Finns, and a total of more than 80 square kilometers of land boundary changes were involved. Relatively speaking, it is a drop in the bucket. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the special climate on the northern front, there were relatively few armored troops, and Germany sent a batch of aircraft and large-caliber artillery to the Finns, mainly Russian-made 122mm and 152mm guns, and also sent more than a dozen submarines that usually operate on the northern front to the Finns.

At this point, all the countries that fought against the Soviet Union obtained relatively satisfactory results, signed in full, and the "Sofia Treaty" officially entered into force at midnight on June 28, 1944, and the state of war between the Axis and the Soviet Union was declared to be suspended.

Subsequently, the Soviet government issued a public statement recognizing the establishment of the Eastern countries and declaring a confederation of the Russian National Socialist Republic (Western Russia) and the Russian Socialist Republic (Eastern Russia) to be called the Soviet Socialist Union Republic, with Moscow as its capital and Stalin as its supreme head - in fact, the political center of Western Russia was in St. Petersburg and the political center of Eastern Russia was in Omsk.

In order to save Comrade Stalin's face, the countries had to issue another declaration of independence, which included a total of 21 countries, including Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Chechnya, Kalmykia, Cossacks, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which were recognized on the same day by the Axis camp led by Germany - collectively known as the countries of the East.

According to the agreement, except for the German army, all the armies of other countries will withdraw from the eastern countries, including Italy, Romania, Hungary and other countries, and the troops will begin to withdraw at the end of June and complete the withdrawal within two months.

On June 30, Army Group South entered Stalingrad after the Soviet retreat, and Western Russia renamed it Volgograd, seeing that this city that had stood in the fire of war for three years fell into its hands completely, including Manstein, Hort, Guderian and other generals, all of them were in mixed moods, after inspecting the dense webs built by the Red Army, layers of fortifications and defense systems, Marshal Kleist, who had been rushing to the front line of the Eastern Front, sighed: "No wonder the Führer has always opposed us to fighting big cities, especially to fighting street battles, With the city's defense system, if I defend it, I can kill at least 300,000 enemy troops. ”

Manstein smiled: "Your estimate is quite conservative, Heydrich just estimated that he could kill 500,000 ...... of our army"

"This ...... Hahaha, fortunately it wasn't him. "Heydrich is notoriously good at guarding, and since he thinks he can take out 500,000, he must be able to do it.

More than 1.5 million citizens of Stalingrad watched with mixed emotions as brigades of German troops poured into the city, and although sporadic incidents were still occurring, they were generally calm. Field Marshal Hoth deigned to take up the post of commander of the city defense, and soon ordered a curfew from 8 p.m., and at the same time cracked down on all lawless actions, and at the same time reaffirmed military discipline, "Robbery, theft, unwarranted injury, etc., as soon as discovered, immediately shot, on the occasion of victory, all officers and soldiers must be inspired by the spirit of the German soldiers, strictly abide by it, and unswervingly." ”

With his strong intervention, Volgograd restored normal order within a few days, and even executed a small number of black sheep, and the civil officials sent by West Russia deliberately arrived in the city several days late - according to his thoughts, the Germans must have plundered it, and even prepared for the aftermath, but when he saw the city appear in front of him intact, he could not help but exclaim.

"Don't rejoice too soon, there must be saboteurs and spies left behind by Stalin in the city, who will oppose us in the shadows in the future, so be careful."

In view of this factor, Manstein and others rejected the idea of the Führer coming to Volgograd for inspection, believing that the time was not yet ripe, and that if they really wanted to come, at least wait until the Red Army had completely withdrawn.

According to the agreement, in the future, the German army and the Red Army will be disarmed at the same pace as the pace of disarmament, and the goal of 200,000 troops in Ukraine, 100,000 troops in Belarus, 60,000 troops in the three Baltic states, 90,000 troops in Transcaucasia, 100,000 troops in Central Asia, and 750,000 troops in East Russia (of which 500,000 are blocked on the first line of the Ural Mountains) will be finally achieved. East Russia could keep 2 million troops (acquiescing to Stalin's additional 20-300,000 internal affairs troops), and West Russia could keep 1 million troops (the clever Vlasov decided to hire 10,000 German officers as advisers).

In addition, Germany stationed 80,000 troops in Iran, 150,000 troops in Middle Eastern countries and several bases, and 120,000 troops in the Balkans, retaining a total of 1.65 million troops, and promised to reduce them to less than 1 million before 1955.

Even so, there were still people in Germany who were not satisfied, and at the high-level meeting held at the end of June, Himmler, who had not spoken much for a long time, preemptively opened fire: "Führer, to be honest, I still can't figure out why we should cede so many interests on the Eastern Front, even for the sake of the European Union, our sacrifice is greater, and I remember clearly that when you launched Operation Barbarossa, you called on the soldiers to use the German sword to open up a living space for the Reich in the East." ”

Hoffman nodded - these words were said by Hitler, not by him, but he could not object, but rather acknowledged.

He pondered for a moment: "Which ones are you referring to?" Is there no compensation? ”

Himmler shook his head: "It's not about the reparations, the reparations are not easy to get, Stalin is too poor to pay, if Vlasov is allowed to pay, then the regime will soon be unstable and fall, and it is not in our interests." I'm talking about territory, at least the three Baltic states and Ukraine should be in our hands, and originally there was Baku, but now that we have oil rights and interests in the Middle East, Baku is not so important. In addition, East Poland should not allow its independence ......"

Hoffman's face sank, obviously not very happy, he knew that this was Himmler taking the opportunity to express his dissatisfaction: the Polish governor Hans-Frank was Himmler's man, because he angered Hoffmann on two points - one was to control the relevant economic industry and labor resources of the Polish Viceroyalty, and not let Speer and Milch interfere, openly and secretly resisting 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", repeatedly resisted it privately, and continued to find excuses to kill Polish Jews.

Hoffmann finally asked Baumann to investigate, and Baumann's team, Fritz Schokel, the plenipotentiary of the all-German labor force, took Frank's place, and the review of the latter lasted for more than a year, Himmler repeatedly tried to intervene, Baumann eliminated all interference and finally got the real evidence, and the formal trial was completed not long ago and hanged; Now Baumann set his sights on a second provincial minister, Erich Koch, Governor of East Prussia and leader of the National Socialist Party in East Prussia, accusing him of being overjoyed, disobedient to the Führer's orders, and insatiable at the same time.

It's just that Koch is also Himmler's team, and he thinks that Bauman is taking the opportunity to purge his own people, which Hoffman knows well, otherwise Himmler would not have jumped sooner or later, but jumped at a high-level meeting after he had just signed an agreement to quarantine Koch?

However, it has to be said that the timing of Himmler's election was very good, and some people in the party did think that he had made too many concessions and was too tolerant of the countries of the East: especially Ukraine is a natural granary, and it would be a pity to let it become independent.

Hoffman nodded: "Very well, Comrade Himmler, you asked a very good question, that is, the question of how Ukraine should deal with it. There are almost 35 million people living on this land of Ukraine, what are you going to do? Kill them all? ”

"I ......," Himmler almost said yes, but after a moment of thought, he saw Goebbels shake his head after signaling denial with his gaze, "we can kill the less tame ones and let the others work for us." ”

"You've already put this idea into practice." Hoffman laughed, "Didn't Stalin set up collective farms in Ukraine and then forced the Ukrainians to hand over the grain?" As you can see, last year we received 80% of the grain handed over to the collective farms during the period, and this year it is expected to exceed the amount handed over by the collective farms during the best period. ”

Himmler argued: "But Stalin got it for free, and we paid a lot of diesel, agricultural machinery, machinery and other military costs." ”

"Do you really think that Stalin got it for free?" Hoffman said with a serious face, "In order to maintain the high-pressure rule of the Soviets in Ukraine, he maintained a large set of administrative teams and state civil servants, and also maintained a large number of anti-terrorist and terrorist forces, all without cost?" If we were to rule this fast place, how many troops would you send? 300,000? 500,000? 1 million? Then hundreds of thousands of guerrillas will emerge in Ukraine, kill a few German soldiers today, and attack a few German policemen tomorrow, and keep dying all year round, and I keep throwing money for anti-guerrilla warfare, for the pension of officers and soldiers, and this cost is more than the machines and diesel fuel we traded, right?

Machines and diesel fuel can also boost domestic production and employment, and forced repression can only create widow families in Germany, which approach do you think the German people support? Mussolini couldn't see through this, he stayed in Serbia in vain and refused to leave, how many people have he died in the past 2 years? How much military money was spent? I'm afraid that there are not as many Italians killed on the Eastern Front as there are in Serbia, right? ”