Chapter 194: The Katyn Tragedy (Part II)
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"My Führer, our Gestapo in the USSR sent us back this!" Heydrich handed a few photographs and a report to Leon, who was sitting at his desk reading a newspaper, and said.
Lyon put down the newspaper when he heard this, but Heydrich handed over the materials, picked up the report and read it first.
"I always thought that the methods of the Gestapo were very bloody, but now it seems that the madmen of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs can play better than you." Leon looked at the staggering numbers and efficient killing methods in the report, and then looked at the photos that were black and white, but full of blood-red content, and smiled at Heydrich.
"No, no, my Führer, the Soviet Union just slaughtered more than 20,000 Polish officers, which is far from the record of our Gestapo." Heydrich shook his head and said proudly.
"Haha." Leon laughed twice, then handed the photographs and reports back to Heydrich, instructing, "Take them down and give them to Goebbels." These things are much more useful in his hands than in mine. ”
"Understood, my Führer!" Heydrich replied with a German salute.
"Also, in the future, this kind of information doesn't need to be shown to me, just give it to Goebbels." Leon ordered, "I'm more concerned about how well Operation Witherberg is prepared now. ”
"Yes!"
"Go down." Leon waved his hand and motioned for Heydrich to carry out his orders.
"Stalin, you're ruthless." Looking at Heydrich's back as he walked down, Leon chuckled twice and said to himself, "I don't know if you're ready to pick me up for the first time." ”
Early the next morning, the streets of various German cities were filled with newspaper cries about the Katyn massacre.
"Nickname Outside! The Soviet Union massacred more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war in the Katyn Forest in the city of Smolensk! A newsboy waved the newspaper in his hand and shouted loudly.
I don't know if the news was strong enough, or if the newsboy's voice was too crisp, and his cries quickly attracted a large number of early risers.
"Give me one!" "I'm me, I'm going to want it too!" "Man, get me one too!" The people who were attracted took out their coins and bought a newspaper from the newsboy, and then discussed it with relish while looking at the bloody and terrifying pictures on the newspaper.
"Hey, what do you think the Soviets are going to do this time? When they robbed us of the results of the war in Poland, they said with a righteous face that they marched into Poland to protect the Ukrainians and Russians, but now? That's how they protect their own people. A worker crouching on the side of the road, dressed in a dirty overall, read the report and spoke to a formal office worker next to him.
"Haha, who's to say it's not?" The office worker laughed twice, "Originally, most of the international community was condemning our German attack on Poland, but they turned a blind eye to the equally shameless Soviet Union. But after the same war, we are helping Poland rebuild the country, and the Soviet Union is busy slaughtering the people they keep saying they want to protect, and now I will see what the group of people who denounce us should say! ”
"I don't agree with you, I think the newspaper company that produced this paper is going to be finished." Another person interjected, "The Soviet Union is our ally, they broke the scandal that this newspaper company is not busy washing white, and it is still criticizing, and Mr. Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, will definitely not let this newspaper company go." ”
"You're so stupid!" The workers and office workers looked at the speaker with contempt, "You think that the Soviet Union is really our ally, and this is obviously what we blew out to the British, French and Polish governments in exile, the purpose is to stink the Soviets and let everyone know how bastard the Soviet Union is!" ”
"I kind of recognize how bastards the Soviets were!" At the same time, in the presidential palace in Paris, France, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile, Rachikijevic, was holding a German newspaper, pointing to the bloody photos on the front page, and lashing out at French President Lebrun.
"They're bastards in the first place." Lebrun shrugged and said, "From the very beginning of their founding, the British and I agreed on the question of 'whether the Soviet Union was a bastard,' but I didn't expect them to be not only a bastard, but also a bloody and violent bastard who disregarded international law and nothing." ”
"I'm going to get revenge on them! I want to avenge more than 20,000 innocent Polish officers! Rachikievich roared.
"I understand your feelings, but Mr. Rachikievich, for now, you don't have much capital to talk about revenge." Lebrun reminded "kindly".
Rachikievich choked, but thinking that it was true, he looked at Lebrun and whispered a plea: "Mr. Lebrun, you and Mr. Churchill can help me, right?" I need the help of my allies! ”
"Yes yes, I will help you! Mr. Rachikievich! Lebrun smiled slyly, "But before collecting debts from the Soviet Union, we have to discuss the question of Germany, who have recently strengthened their Army Group E deployed on the Danish border, and we have reason to believe that they are plotting against Denmark and Norway." ”
"So what?" Lachikievich asked, looking at Lebrun.
"So we need your troops to strengthen the defenses of Denmark and Norway to prevent our poor ally from falling into the hands of the Germans." "You know, Germany doesn't have a direct exit into the Atlantic, so they've been playing Norway's mind. In the last war, the British Royal Navy used its naval superiority to lay a tight blockade across the narrow North Sea from Shetland to the coast of Norway, so that the German fleet was trapped in the home port and did nothing, and this time we also intend to do so, and Churchill has already sought the approval of the British Parliament to sail the Royal Navy to Norway to defend it, but it will take a little time. Before the Royal Navy arrives in Norway, if Denmark and Norway fall into their hands, they will be freed from this yoke and given their coveted access to the Atlantic, and we will lose the opportunity to contain the German High Seas Fleet. ”
"But with just 100,000 of us, how can we resist the attack of the German Army Group E?" Rachikievich hesitated.
"No, you are not the only ones who will go to Norway this time, the Allies will also send about 200,000 people to accompany you." "On the Western Front, we already have fewer troops than the Germans, and we can't get more people to go to Norway and Denmark until we complete a new build-up, so I can only ask you," Lebrun explained. ”
"Okay." "But you also have to promise me to teach the Soviets a good lesson!" ”
"No problem." Lebrun nodded, "We were going to teach the Soviets a lesson!" ”
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