"This is just a peripheral recruit of the Illuminati, and his target is the captured German noble officers." Wehrle replied.

"They're working for the French?" The Reich's fingers tapped on the rim of the glass.

"Not exactly, the Illuminati have high-ranking French officers among them, so they only need to pay a little money to bribe the guards, and their people can come and go freely in and out of the prisoner of war camps." The chief of staff took a sip of his glass.

"It's logical, go on." Xu Jun pushed the wine glass.

"Kuhnberg was not initially deceived by Hansen, and he was bent on escaping from the prisoner of war camp." "But you know, after the Battle of the Marne, the strategic situation could not be changed, and the German front was retreating under the French offensive, and by the time Kuhnberg was discharged from the hospital in September of 18 years, less than two months before the end of the war. ”

"His escape plan didn't work out?" Xu Jun laughed.

"He didn't have time to implement it at all, and the war was over." Weirle also replied with a smile.

"It's a shame." The Führer raised an eyebrow on one side and spat out a ball of smoke.

"Germany was defeated, and although Kuhnberg had a premonition, when it happened, he found that he could not accept this fact at all." Weirle continued.

Kuhnberg's mood was at a low point, and after the earl lost his honor, he lost his self-confidence. In Kuhnberg's eyes, the sacrifices he and his men had made were worthless, they had been betrayed by cowardly politicians and traitors, all their blood and sweat in exchange for a death notice. A year or two from now, no one will remember these brave warriors anymore, only their respective families, who may remember these once vivid faces with tears and tears.

The Count was furious and desperate, and he didn't know how to explain to his men why he was the only one who survived the battle. After the defeat he had nothing left, and he could imagine what he would face when he returned to Germany, where he would be court-martialed for leading his troops against orders.

The officers and men of the 3rd Infantry Battalion who died in battle did not receive the credit they deserved, because he, the commander, was not ordered by the division headquarters, and these officers and men obeyed his orders completely spontaneously and launched a final counterattack against the French. Once he is investigated by a court-martial, the command, instead of acknowledging the merits of these soldiers, will tarnish the honor they have previously received.

Kuhnberg could not return to Germany, and he could not even let the Army know that he was alive, which was the only thing he could do for his men, so that perhaps he could get some decent treatment for his soldiers.

Just as the Count was in a state of despair, the Illuminati recruiters found him again.

"He was persuaded by the other party, and it should be said that the other party just satisfied his idea of escapism at that time." Wehrle raised his glass.

"I can't understand how the clichés of the Illuminati can be attractive?" Xu Jun frowned and dusted off the long soot in the ashtray.

If in the sixteenth century the Illuminati were able to attract others with their intellectual and cultural and political ideas, by the beginning of the twentieth century all that remained of the Illuminati was the crazy idea of establishing a world government. They differed from the Freemasons, who amassed an astonishing network of contacts and wealth over a period of nearly two hundred years from the middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, relying on a large and well-organized system of organization and financial means.

"What they claim to be doing is to save the German nation at some point." Weierle said with a wry smile.

"Kuhnberg believes it?"

"At that time, he simply had no second option." The chief of staff tilted his head: "At that time, he was just a young man in his twenties, and he was not further than ordinary people. In addition, he had nowhere to go at that time, and he urgently needed a place to live. ”

Kuhnberg, who witnessed the brutal oppression of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles and the weakness and incompetence of the Weimar government, was a staunch patriot who saw his duty to do something for the country and its people.

Six months after the end of the war, he was put on a cruise ship to the United States, and then began to work in the German diaspora community in the East Coast cities. The Illuminati need to absorb more manpower and money, and the Germans generally have an antipathy to these secret societies, and being a count can make things easier quickly. Wehrle explained.

He soon became a backbone of the American Illuminati, usually mainly involved in some social activities of the upper class, maneuvering among a group of wealthy businessmen, noblewomen and politicians, spying on those unknown insider information and business intelligence. He was a natural intelligence officer, something that even he hadn't thought of himself. Kuhnberg quickly became famous among the upper classes of New York, Chicago and Detroit, and everyone knew that there was such a personable German count.

The Illuminati will provide him with all the materials he needs for social interaction, money, luxury cars, customized high-end clothes, high-end apartments and bodyguards, and his aristocratic temperament can help him quickly gain the trust of others, no one would have thought that the elegant German Count in front of him is actually a commercial spy packaged by the Illuminati. Werler took a sip of his wine and placed his glass on the edge of the table.

"It's like a legend." Xu Jun nodded and said.

"Indeed, as you said, that's what I thought when I first heard it." Weirle hurriedly chimed in.

"Kuhnberg is a smart man, and he will also use what he finds to his own advantage. Over the course of a few years, he had saved up a fortune to buy a luxury apartment and a car, and gradually he no longer needed the support provided by the Illuminati. His status in the Illuminati began to rise, and he soon became a mid-level cadre in the East Coast region of the Illuminati of the United States. Wierle brushed the ends of his hair next to his ear: "Kuhnberg told me that he was naïve at the time, and his mind was full of returning to Europe, leading the German people to overthrow the Weimar government, welcome back the emperor, re-establish the imperial system, and restore the Kingdom of Bavaria. ”

The Bavarian royal family was overthrown after the defeat and the territory was divided into a German state, but there are still a large number of remnants of the kingdom's era, who are bent on rebuilding the kingdom of Bavaria and regaining their lost privileges and glory.

"This is not surprising, after all, they are aristocrats who have experienced the imperial era, and until now, among my marshals and generals, there are still many people who are supporters of the imperial system." Xu Jun twisted his wrist and said.

This is indeed no secret, the army itself is the stronghold of royalists, and if it were not for Hitler's use of the Fletcher and Brumberg events to clean up the army several times, transfer a number of high-ranking generals who supported the restoration and opposed the Nazis from the command core, and some even forced retirement, maybe Germany would suddenly have another emperor one day.

"Before that, they were your marshals and generals, my Führer, and we all swore to you that no one would break the sacred oath of loyalty." Weirle respectfully reminded.

"So I never doubted them, Werle." Xu Jun raised his eyebrows.

The Reich Führer did not think so, and the oath only worked for those who were willing to be faithful to it, Canalis had taken an oath, Beck had also sworn an oath, Witzleben and Stauffenberg had also sworn allegiance, and a bunch of cabal members had not sworn allegiance to Hitler, but as a result, the count almost blew up the object of allegiance. Now that Canaris has been shot and Baker has been arrested by the General Security Service, the former army chief of staff is not as strong as he thought he would be, and he has confessed to everyone in the conspiracy.

"Go on, Weierle, how did he come to Berlin?" Xu Jun said with a cigar in his mouth.

Then the financial crisis broke out in the United States, and the whole society began to decline, and the Illuminati lost a lot of money in the stock market, and the wealth that they had accumulated with great difficulty was wiped out in a matter of days. Kuhnberg was able to maintain a comfortable life with his previous savings, and he opened his own trading company to sell second-hand machine tools and tools made in the United States to Germany, and the business was quite good. During that time he fell in love with a salesman's daughter, and the two had married four years earlier, and the following year his wife gave birth to his first child, a girl named Helen. Wehrle shook his glass.

"Good name." Xu Jun said with a puff of smoke.

"Yes, my Führer. After our annexation of Poland in 1939, the Illuminati decided to increase their investment in Europe, and they were very concerned about Germany's military successes and saw it as an opportunity for them to return to Europe. Weirle said.

"It was after Hitler's purge of Freemasonry that the German Freemasonry died out, leaving room for the Illuminati to operate." Xu Jun touched his chin with his fingers and said.

"Not just Freemasonry, but Jews as well." Wehrle replied.

"Oh, I almost forgot there were them." Xu Jun nodded in agreement.

PS: Chapter 2 is presented, thank you for your support.

There will still only be one chapter updated tomorrow, and some plots need to be adjusted.

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