Ross and Steve were also among the first old members to follow Reinhardt. Since Reinhardt's position has become higher and higher, their power has also increased, and the task has become heavier and heavier.

In particular, after the Gestapo expanded its intelligence work to foreign countries and the SS began to expand on a large scale, the two old comrades-in-arms, who had gone their separate ways, rarely had the opportunity to meet.

But this time, with Reinhardt's seemingly "whim" speech at the Munich tavern, the two finally had a chance to get together.

Back 20 years ago, Steve was just a small company commander in the Weimar Republic. With no hope of personal promotion, the future of the country is bleak, and he is disheartened and spends his days in discouragement.

Ross is even worse, since he participated in Operation Rainbow, he was laid off and placed in the police station as a sergeant.

are just two small characters who should have been unknown all their lives, except for their patriotic enthusiasm, they don't have many outstanding talents. Because he was the first to go to Reinhardt's side, he eventually became the second-in-command of the Third Reich.

Chief of the SS General Staff, who was the commander-in-chief of the Waffen-SS, and Minister of Homeland Security, the leader of the Gestapo. Who would have thought that the two hottest deputy positions next to the Führer were actually occupied by two nobodies in the original history, and they occupied it steadily.

Of course, since even the head of state has been replaced, if the führer's cronies are not replaced, it will not be justified.

"Führer, I've heard that the Finnish side is fighting fiercely. I wonder if it is in the name of our Party Guard, like Norway and Sweden, to organize a support for the Finnish Volunteer Army. Although Steve is usually very good at, he now asks Reinhardt with a serious look.

As one of Reinhardt's most trusted cronies, Steve was fully aware of Reinhardt's true attitude towards the Soviet Union.

For the Soviet Union, for the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, Reinhardt was definitely not as relaxed as he seemed. On the contrary, he has been vigilant about every move of the Soviet army, calculating the proportion of relative interests of cooperation between the two sides.

In this Soviet-Finnish war, although Reinhardt never publicly expressed any attitude, many even thought that he was supporting the Soviet Union in disguise in a tacit way. But in fact, Reinhardt had already helped the Finnish army in private.

On the one hand, under the pretext of refining his quality and summing up his war experience, Reinhardt transferred more than 100 German instructors from the Wehrmacht to the Finnish army to strengthen the Finnish army's combat skills.

On the other hand, Reinhardt also brought the Gestapo and Mussolini prepared supplies for the northern Italian defense, and secretly sold them to the Finnish government to help them strengthen the Mannerheim line.

Steve even knew that in Reinhardt's mind, Finland was of great strategic importance, worth more than 100,000 troops!

Unexpectedly, Reinhardt quickly shook his head and rejected Steve's long-considered plan to aid Finland.

"Steve, our SS is not the same as Norway and Sweden." Reinhardt smiled, patted Steve on the shoulder and explained: "Fifteen years ago, maybe our SS could still be regarded as a militia by the outside world, and even send troops to the Ruhr for the Wehrmacht. ”

At this point, Reinhardt paused, and then continued meaningfully: "But not now! The SS has long been regarded as the imperial weapon of the Third Reich, and in the eyes of the outside world, the SS has become equivalent to the national armed forces of Germany! ”

"So, we can't do this kind of trickery like Norway and Sweden." Reinhardt patiently explained to Steve, who wanted to share his worries: "Besides, there is still cooperation between us and the Soviet Union. In order to create a better environment for dealing with Britain and France, we must not offend the USSR yet. Even if they are reluctant, they can only watch them attack Finland. ”

Walking aside, Ross, who had already had something to say, hurriedly seized the opportunity to speak: "Moreover, we have no leisure to care about the war between Finland and the Soviet Union. According to intelligence, all 100,000 British expeditionary forces had arrived in France, and their target was clearly Germany. ”

After thinking for about two seconds, Ross immediately added, "In addition, our spies have detected the British high-level occupation plan for Norway. This plan, also aimed at us, was to seize the ports of Norway and block our main routes for importing iron ore from Sweden. ”

The few words of Reinhardt and Ross immediately made Steve, who was in the army and didn't know much about this information, understand the dark tide surging under the seemingly calm.

The north side has already been remembered by Britain and France, and sooner or later there will be problems. The Soviet Union, which is next to each other to the east, cannot be provoked, otherwise it will be a big problem. The British, French and Belgian coalition forces in the west are completely in place, and they may attack the western front of the empire at any time. Italy, an unreliable ally in the south, but this ally is equivalent to none in Steve's eyes.

"Then we should ...... now," Steve was a little anxious. If the situation was so urgent, why did Reinhardt still have the heart to conduct a large-scale confrontation exercise between the SS and the Wehrmacht?

In this way, the Führer should have convened the generals of the three armed services in his mansion today to discuss the situation, instead of just bringing a large number of army generals to the taverns in Munich and giving an informal opening speech for the exercise.

Looking at Steve, who was a little anxious, Rose smiled and explained to me instead of Reinhardt: "Steve, you have been busy with the expansion of the army recently, and you are not by the Führer's side, so you have no chance to understand the Führer's deep plans. When I'm done with today's business, I'll come down and tell you more slowly. ”

"Just a few of us know, don't spread the word, we can't let too many people know about it." Reinhardt kindly reminded.

This reminder warmed Steve's heart, because he knew that he belonged to one of the few people who could know in Reinhardt's mouth. That's how Reinhardt trusted himself!

On the other side, Ross immediately went on to tell Steve: "Don't we know the Führer's personality?" When will he do something meaningless?! ”

Indeed, since Steve met Reinhardt, what impressed him the most was Reinhardt's clumsy personality.

Although his behavior is often fanciful and bizarre, it is ultimately for a hidden and important central purpose. And the more important the end, the more Reinhardt's means to achieve it look like a neuropathy......

Soon, the three of them walked all the way to the Munich tavern, escorted by a group of imposing SS officers and soldiers.

"Get your people ready to do it, be smart." Reinhardt smiled slyly and gave Steve a brief final explanation, "You know, now is not the time to relax at all, and I'm not here to speak for that little drill today. Raising his wrist, Reinhardt looked at his watch, turned around and said to Steve, "I'll find Ross to explain today's arrangements to you later." The time was almost up, and I went to prepare my speech. ”