Chapter 576: The Third Reich in a Desperate Situation (7)

Munich Orthopaedic Hospital, Germany.

Outside the operating room, Bonners and the other two major officers of the machine-gun battalion were waiting anxiously.

An hour, two hours...... Four hours later, there was still no movement in the operating room.

Finally, after 4 hours and 56 minutes of anxious waiting, the surgeon finally walked out of the operating room.

"How's it going? Doctor. Bonnas immediately stepped forward and asked anxiously.

"The operation was a success, and the patient was able to save his life. But ......"

"But what?" Bonnas immediately interrupted the doctor.

"However, the patient permanently lost his left eye, his right hand and two fingers of his left hand, and may also be paralyzed in both feet." The doctor in charge of the surgeon said helplessly.

Bonners was silent, and then he sat down on the ground, knowing that Stauffenberg, a good partner, would probably not be able to fight with him again. This hero, who saved an entire machine gun battalion, lost the opportunity to return to the battlefield forever.

Fortunately, thanks to the best of the doctors and the special attention of the heroes of the battle, Stauffenberg received the best medical treatment, successfully saved his life and was transferred to the best orthopedic hospital in Munich for recuperation.

However, even this could not change the fact that he had lost his left eye, right hand and two fingers of his left hand, and his legs were so badly damaged that doctors almost unanimously concluded that he would never be able to walk again.

Bonners didn't know if Stauffenberg could accept the fact that a thriving soldier spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair after waking up, which was already very difficult for an ordinary person to accept, and for a professional soldier like Stauffenberg, it was equivalent to a verdict that stripped him away from the front line forever.

He didn't have a chance to make a contribution, and this time his feat of saving the whole battalion was also his last feat.

As doctors say, Stauffenberg finally woke up after 28 days in a coma.

When he was about to take a mirror to check the condition of his eyes, he found that his right hand was no longer there, and his left hand had lost two fingers, and what was even more terrifying was that his feet did not seem to listen to the instructions of his brain, and he was completely unable to move.

After Stauffenberg woke up, all kinds of situations immediately poured into his brain one after another, which made Stauffenberg a little distracted for a while.

A line of lonely tears flowed uncontrollably from his right eye.

Gradually, he also suffered from depression, and wanted to leave this world more than once, fortunately, several suicides were prevented by the nurses in the hospital, and later his hospital made an exception and transferred to the 24-hour intensive care unit to avoid his suicide.

Later, in the intensive care unit, Stauffenberg rolled in pain in the hospital bed every day, and in order to restrain him, the hospital tied ropes to his limbs and fixed them to his hospital bed, and also put special protective gear on her mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide, and he was also like a mentally ill person who cried wolf in bed all day long, rolling in pain.

He tried to break free from the rope more than once, but not only did he not break free, but he also grinded out the blood holes where the rope was tied, which were just stuttered after being medicated by the medical staff every time, and then he was worn out again, which eventually led to a large-scale infection of the wound, and the infection once spread to the chest and lungs, but fortunately, it was the hospital's best efforts to save his life.

None of this stopped Stauffenberg from wanting to commit suicide, and he soon thought of a new method, which was a hunger strike. Since then, he has not done any self-harm, that is, he has not eaten or drunk all day long, and no matter how much the nurse persuades him, it is useless.

This continued for two days, until the morning of the third day......

Stauffenberg suddenly seemed to be a different person, as if he had an epiphany, not only eating on time every day, but also smiling on his face from time to time, and everyone agreed that Stauffenberg had been completely relieved.

Gradually, after retrieving a life from the brink of death, Stauffenberg even began to rely on his own efforts to overcome his disability.

He began to refuse to take any painkillers, trying to endure the pain with his own perseverance.

Then, with the help of medical staff, he learned to dress himself, bathe and write with his remaining three fingers.

The medical staff were very surprised by the tenacity of this patient, and everyone could not figure out why Stauffenberg, who could not have been sent to the battlefield, was so desperate.

Because the injury to Stauffen's left hand was so severe that only three fingers remained, and his right arm was completely broken, he could not even fight with a gun at first.

But then, through his own continuous practice, he learned to shoot with a small Luger P08 pistol with 3 fingers in his left hand, and he also has good marksmanship.

Around him, those who knew about it, called him a miracle in the history of German wounded soldiers.

However, this miracle, at the moment, has been with the German Army, not again.

Stauffenberg's tenacious struggle for rehabilitation was not to serve the Third Reich again, or to die for Reinhardt.

Now he has made up his mind to try to assassinate Reinhardt.

Yes, he once supported the Führer as the savior of Germany, a gift from God to the Germans.

However, the Führer is now no longer omnipotent, and he has lost the luck of winning every gamble.

Before being admitted to the hospital, Stauffenberg heard the bad news that the Soviet Union had torn up the treaty on the Eastern Front and surrendered to the German border. When he woke up, he heard the bad news that General Rommel's offensive had failed and the Allies had switched to a strategic defensive position on the southern front.

After personally experiencing a battle, which ended in defeat with heavy casualties, Stauffenberg began to stop worshipping his Führer.

On the contrary, as a man who was ready to abandon himself who did not even care about his own life, Stauffenberg did not care about the tradition of "devotion to duty" of the German soldiers.

"It doesn't matter, it's all about abandoning the big deal." Stauffenberg thought.

"Reinhardt is not an all-knowing and all-powerful God, and he has already begun to fail. And if he is allowed to continue to fail, there will be countless people in Germany who will suffer the same as himself. ”

Stauffenberg, who had become somewhat stubborn because of his disability, did not consider who else would be able to stabilize the situation once Germany was without Reinhardt. He also didn't think about it, even without Reinhardt, would this war, which was originally provoked by Britain and the Soviet Union, stop?

He couldn't think of that much now, and the only question that puzzled him was "Is there not even one officer in Reinhardt's base camp who can kill that blonde beast with a gun?" ”

While still lying in the hospital bed, Stauffenberg realized that this could only be done by him......