Chapter 045: Winning the hearts of the people and winning the world

In Wolfsburg, Dönitz summoned the senior Nazi officers to discuss the situation in the Balkans, and he was very disappointed, he did not expect his army to be so vulnerable, and it was not like this when the Führer was in the past, why is this the case now? He couldn't figure it out.

"Tell me, why is this happening, more than 10,000 troops defended the city, and it was annihilated in three hours, don't tell me that there are all old, weak, sick and disabled, I know it's not."

"President, 80 percent of our forces are concentrated on the Western Front and the Eastern Front, since the liquidation of the Slavs, we do not think that there will be a big mess in the central region, so on the one hand, our forces are arranged to defend China on the Eastern Front, and most of the remaining troops are fighting the Allies on the Western Front, the war has just ended, and we have not yet had time to transfer our troops to the Balkans to suppress the Yugoslav uprising."

"That's not a reason, there are hundreds of thousands in the Balkans, and I'm asking why we have more than 10,000 people guarding a fortified city that has fallen in just three hours, so that the enemy will take the whole Balkan in less than a week, and then the Balkan tribes will rise up against us, do you know the consequences?"

"President, according to the telegram sent by the defenders, the firepower of the Soviet army was too strong, and bombs fell on almost every inch, so most of the defenders did not die in battle, but were killed without seeing the enemy, and later tens of thousands of Soviet troops attacked the ruined city without their lives, which led to the loss."

Dönitz was a president who rose from a small soldier to a field marshal and then to Hitler's successor, and he knew the war very well, in fact, he knew the general situation in a few words.

"How long will it take for you to dare the Soviets go to sea?"

"It's hard to know for sure, it depends on how many of them land before our army arrives."

Dönitz looked at the map Albania and fell, which meant that the Soviets would soon be fighting towards the Yugoslav region and then joining up with the Yugoslav rebels, so that their strength would be at least doubled.

Most of Yugoslavia were Slavic races like the Soviet Army, and these people were even more difficult to deal with than the Slavs in the Soviet Union.

But war is never a matter of two families, and who the knows if the allies or China will be involved at that time, this is what Dönitz is worried about.

"President, for now, we will transfer the troops over as soon as possible, I think that although the Soviet army has good combat effectiveness, after all, they have fewer people and cannot threaten us."

Goebbels also said: "The allies are the black hands behind the scenes, now we have offended China, now we can say that we are fighting alone, the Soviets are just a plague of moss, our focus is still to defend against the intervention of China and Britain, France and the United States, and the traitors in Berlin should be exterminated as soon as possible, otherwise Germany will not live in peace." ”

Goebbels's words convinced everyone that if Germany was divided internally, it would be difficult to gain a foothold in the world, and it could be annexed by a powerful country at any time.

At this moment in Berlin, Stauffenberg and Beck are in full swing planning their plans.

They are weak, so they will wait for the Balkan war to start in full swing, and by virtue of the prestige of Goering and Himmler in the Nazi party, they have already co-opted a considerable number of people, and there are many others who belong to the kind of people who will not help them but will obey them if they get power.

Goering and Himmler have reached an understanding that neither will serve as president and chancellor in the new government, but according to everyone's decision, everyone will see who will contribute the most to this action, and when the time comes, the vote will be the president and the other will be chancellor.

Although they are not very slow to do this, thinking that they have enough prestige to be the future president of Germany, but the current situation is very delicate, and if they don't do it well, they will lose their heads, and they cannot continue to quarrel endlessly, not only will there be no result, but they will have nothing after failure, and they can still accept this compromise solution.

Since this condition came out, both sides have been desperately contacting the old department.

On the one hand, many people are very angry at Stauffenberg's killing of Hitler, but on the other hand, after Dönitz came to power, he wantonly liquidated the original Nazi high-level, so that these people's subordinates also lacked good impression of Dönitz and did not have the same loyalty to Hitler.

However, Dönitz and others believed that if they wanted to defeat the Soviet Union supported by the allies, they might not be able to do it in a short time, so it was better to solve the Berlin side first.

As for the settlement of Berlin, Goebbels believed that although those who rebelled were guilty, if these people were to be completely eliminated, even if it was just a massacre, Germany would lose 300,000 elite soldiers, which was unbearable for Germany now, so it was better to forgive them and give them a chance to mend their ways, this time only killing Stauffenberg and other assassins of the Führer.

Dönitz immediately agreed to Goebbels' suggestion, and Goebbels ordered the propaganda department to carry out a large-scale propaganda campaign in Berlin, and for a time the Berlin rebels were in distraction.

Martin Luther, a German religious revolutionary, once said, "Even though I knew that the whole world would be destroyed tomorrow, I would still plant my vine today." This sentence fully shows the spirit of hard work and unwillingness of the Germans.

Germany's coat of arms is an eagle with a sharp beak and sharp claws, and the eagle's characteristic is bravery. Bronze statues used to decorate parks, stations, and other public places in Germany are mostly lions, horses, and muscular men, and women are rarely used for propaganda. This is all a reflection of the German national character. There are all kinds of human races in the world, and their personality traits are also strange and varied. As a German nation with a population of more than 80 million, it is impossible to have the same character. Some Germans are deep, introverted, and steady, while others are cheerful, bold, and funny......

However, over the years, the Germans have been shaped by German culture, which has made Germans develop some more common characteristics: practical, hardworking, punctual, thrifty and straightforward.

Let's look at their steadfastness and diligence first. The Germans are down-to-earth, and everything is honest and reliable, and their house architecture, for example, is not beautiful in style, but it is unpretentious and neat. Every material, such as glass, locks, hinges, knobs, switches, lampshades, curtains, hangers, etc., is firm and stable, even if it is very small. They would rather lose their clunkyness than sloppy.

In Germany, every building, a piece of furniture, a piece of equipment seems to be a 100-year plan. Repairs to the original state of things that have been damaged by the war are not for the sake of being conservative, but rather for the sake of being reliable and indestructible.

In addition, Germans are very particular about cleanliness and neatness, not only paying attention to keeping the small environment they live in clean and tidy, but also very important to the cleanliness and tidiness of the larger environment. In Germany, whether it's parks, streets, theaters or other public places, everything is clean and tidy.

Germans also attach great importance to clothing. You can wear work clothes when you go to work, and although you can dress casually when you get home from work, you will definitely dress neatly whenever there are visitors or activities. When going to the theater and going to the opera, women should wear long skirts, and men should wear formal dresses, at least dark clothing. This is especially true for attending social events or formal banquets. Germans have a diligent and tidy lifestyle, and most people start to sweep the courtyard at dawn, and the living room is orderly and spotless.

There is a joke: there are only Germans in the world who drive at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night and stop at a red light. On the one hand, this shows that Germans have a strong sense of abiding by the law, and at the same time, it also shows that Germany is a country with strict law enforcement. In Germany, people regard compliance with the law as the highest ethical principle, and there is a general mentality of seeking stability and fearing chaos, being content with the status quo, and being complacent. The formation of this psychology has a certain historical origin. Throughout the history of Germany's development, it can be said that all reforms or revolutions have been carried out from the top down.

From Bismarck's "iron-blooded policy" to the unification of Germany to the two world wars, totalitarianism and ** led to a general "spirit of obedience" or "servant mentality" among the lower classes.

Blindly obeying and following the ruler tamely, just like the German historical drama depicting "the officials have made their decisions, and the emperor has approved them, and obedience is our duty." Carrying out the emperor's decree must be supreme glory. ”

It can be seen that the Germans are not a nation that likes to rebel against their own government, even if they were fooled for a while, but they still know very well in their hearts that now the government has decided not to hold them accountable for rebellion, and only to kill the assassins of the future German nation led by Stauffenberg, which makes the minds of the top officials and soldiers in Berlin lively.

Hitler is still wise and tall in the hearts of the Germans, he led the German people out of the economic crisis, let everyone have food to eat, clothes to wear, from a third-rate country to be bullied by others to leap to the world's top two powers, avenging the shame of World War I, for Germany to win most of Europe, if not assassinated by Stauffenberg, I believe that Europe will be German sooner or later.