After making these adjustments, Hoffman finally felt much more relaxed, and his "role-playing" level had risen to a new level, at least these old comrades of the National Socialist Party could no longer see how abnormal they were, and they were still commanding like an arm.

"You should all know about the current military situation and strategic adjustment." Hoffman's face was grim and his expression was extremely serious, "From the current point of view, the war has inevitably become prolonged, and we must be mentally prepared for this. The Russians still have plenty of reserves, and they may not be able to defeat them in a year or two, and with the Americans involved, the British will resist to the end. For the war on the Eastern Front itself, the army also has the idea of continuing to accumulate strength and preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the Russians next year. In order to avoid fighting on two fronts, and in line with the principle of first making it easier and then making it more difficult, I have resolved to shift our strategic focus to the southern front, while the eastern front will enter a relatively gentle offensive defense. We must make effective use of this year's adjustment time to comprehensively enhance the strength of the empire, and our armament production, material procurement, and personnel mobilization must have a different turn, so I order that from September 1, 1942, the empire will be fully transferred to a wartime system, and all laws and policies that contradict this system will be null and void, that the consumer industry should be gradually transformed into an armaments industry, that the major armament enterprises should change from the current one-shift system to a three-shift system, and that production efficiency and output must be increased. Lay a reliable material foundation for a total victory. ”

This was another shocking decision, and although the participants had not yet reacted, Hoffman knew in his heart that the Third Reich did not carry out a general mobilization until after the defeat of the Battle of Kursk "Castle", and then the military industry reached its peak in 1944, when the strategic bombing of the United States and Britain had already turned Germany upside down. At present, the whole of Germany is still immersed in the delusion of "not interfering with the normal life of the citizens", the preparations for the protracted and brutal nature of the war are very inadequate, the military industry is still unhurriedly implementing the one-shift system, and the economic management system is in chaos, only because the problems are masked by the constant victories at the front.

The Minister of Armaments, Speer, understood what Hoffmann meant, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he interjected: "Führer, this is only afraid that there will not be enough labor." ”

"Labor?" Hoffman glanced at Admiral Jodele, the head of the Operations Bureau of the Supreme Command, and asked, "Didn't we capture nearly 3 million Russian soldiers on the Eastern Front in the past year, and all of them can participate in labor." ”

Yodel looked embarrassed and his face was not very good-looking.

Speer shrugged disapprovingly: "As far as I know, more than 500,000 people have died in the prisoner of war camps due to malnutrition and harsh punishment, and some have been dragged away by the troops of the Eastern Front, who have volunteered to serve as auxiliaries, but in fact as slave workers, and even more so the prisoners of war have taken advantage of the opportunity of army movements and the tension of the war to get out of control and return to Stalin's arms." ”

"That's not going to work." Hoffmann was furious and told several of the Wehrmacht's giants, "Russian prisoners are also an important resource, and they should not be easily wasted on the same level as other material captures." After a pause, he added, "Prisoners of war alone may not necessarily meet the needs of production, and I believe that educated and age-appropriate women of the empire should also serve in the army, and increase the proportion of female employees in factories, social organizations, and government agencies......"

Goering's eyes were about to pop out: "Führer, you want women to join the army?" We're not Russians, and the army isn't ready to fight with our girls. ”

"Stupid, who told them to take up arms and go to the front line?" Looking at Göring, who was not open-minded, Hoffmann was angry, "Just like the air force, operators and telegraph operators can't let women play roles?" Radar operators, anti-aircraft searchlight operators can't let women play the role? ”

"Oh my God!" Keitel, who had finally seized the opportunity, mocked, "Comrade Goering's air force is already overstaffed, and if women are put into it, I am afraid it will be even more overcrowded." I'm not worried about women serving, I'm afraid that when the time comes, even men who serve normally won't be able to complete their tasks. ”

This is a clear stance to say that Goering, the leader of the Air Force, is making trouble and causing a lot of scandals, which can be regarded as Goering's sarcasm just now that only the Air Force is loyal to the leader's counterattack. Seeing that Goering was about to go crazy again, Hoffmann stopped him and said: "Don't worry, I won't let the Air Force personnel do nothing, the Air Force has other tasks." The care and escort of these prisoner camps are all entrusted to the Air Force, and the Air Force Field Division can't defeat the Russians, so it won't even be able to take care of the prisoners, right? ”

Goering's eyes rolled, and he felt that if he really put the captives into labor, as the Führer had said, it would inevitably lead to the competition of the major enterprises, which was a very profitable thing, and the steel and metal companies under his name were short of labor, so he readily agreed.

Seeing that Keitel and Zeitzler, the two chiefs of the general staff, were about to protest again, Hoffman directly called back: "Aren't you complaining that the front-line troops are not enough, I will leave the matter of the prisoner camp to the air force to deal with, you only care about the prisoners in the field, and you can free up tens of thousands of field troops for the front line." Moreover, it is beneficial for you that the prisoners will not occupy the army's food and supplies after they are escorted back home by the air force, and all prisoners on the Eastern Front will be treated in this way in the future. ”

Speer saw that Goering had robbed the prisoners of their work, and looked at Hoffman with a blank eye, hoping that he would open his mouth to allocate some workers to him for forced labor, but Hoffman did not expect Hofmann to give a completely new solution: the captured enemy troops could not be simply assigned to labor, but must first be screened, especially the Bolsheviks, and the soldiers and officers must be separated from each other, so as not to use the authority of the officers to incitement and organize. Officers and Bolsheviks were all involved in forced labor, while ordinary soldiers were not advised to engage directly in the munitions industry - inevitably there would be sabotage, strikes, and sabotage, which would cause great harm to the quality of munitions.

"My suggestion is that we move all the consumer industries to the occupied territories and relocate their military industries to the empire itself, so that even if they mess with the products, they will not be harmful to our weapons, and at the same time weaken their defense capabilities and prevent them from producing weapons for the resistance. I think the Russian captives should be placed in the Viceroyalty of East Prussia and Poland, and let them be engaged mainly in agriculture and mining production - especially agriculture. We should have an incentive policy that the resettled captives should be left to their disposal as long as they can pay enough for the Imperial Government. Didn't Stalin like to engage in collective farms that plundered all surplus materials? We can also learn from this model and give them a taste of what true National Socialism is. Thanks to the food products they provided, the inhabitants of the empire, who had previously been engaged in agricultural production, were able to devote themselves to large-scale industrial production. "Gentlemen, we need not be afraid of their troubles, for it will not do them any good to be passive and reduce production, but it is completely out of their stomachs, and if these divided captives behave well enough, we will be able to offer them better treatment than Stalin's collective farms, and in the future we will be able to let them take over their own family members and give them the land of the Poles, so that they can serve the Reich with all their hearts." In a word, in order to greatly increase the production capacity of the Reich, especially the heavy industry and the armaments industry, we must integrate the resources and production capacity of the whole of Europe to confront Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union -- this truth was clearly explained by General Ludendorff in "Total War". If there is anyone else who is not clear, I suggest you find out and take a closer look, it will be good for you. ”

"Bang Bang!" Goebbels was the first to applaud, "The Führer has spoken so well that he has not only expounded the necessity and importance of the general mobilization of the empire and the comprehensive transition to a wartime system, but also pointed out the direction for future economic work and industrial and agricultural production, no matter how far-sighted the evaluation." ”

The others could only clap their hands, and Goering muttered "sycophant" in Goebbels' direction in dissatisfaction, which the latter ignored as a matter of course.

"So," Hoffman slowly walked behind Speer and patted him on the shoulder, "Your task is very heavy, and the system needs to be reorganized after the implementation of the wartime system and production reform, and I demand that the output of major technical weapons such as tanks, artillery, and aircraft must be doubled in a short period of time, and that basic industrial products such as steel, aluminum ingots, and synthetic oil must also be increased by a relatively large margin." After the integration was completely completed in 1943, efforts were made to double this year's double. Of course, you don't have to worry, since I have given you a task, I will also grant you the corresponding rights -- all the economic work and the production of armaments in the Reich, whether in the air force, army, or navy, will be under your unified command and command, and whoever dares to disobey the order will be regarded as a traitor who has undermined the wartime system and will be punished by Comrade Himmler. ”

This is completely a reuse of Speer's posture, which is equivalent to handing over the entire economy and production power of the empire to him, Speer only felt that the blood was pouring up all over his body, his face was red as if he had secretly drunk a bottle of fine French wine in one go, stood up straight, and said loudly: "Please rest assured, I will live up to your high expectations." Goebbels, Himmler, and others were all very moved, revealing envy and jealousy, and Martin Baumann looked at Speer even more with a blank eye, the Führer had clearly instructed last night that in addition to the existing base camp, no new headquarters should be built, which cost money and labor, and this made Comrade Baumann, who had been in charge of the Führer's project, lose for a long time.