It was easy to use the Katyn Forest incident to incite the Poles to war with the Soviet Union, but it was not easy to carry it out. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because Germany's ambitions for Poland are also well known, although it is only a communist monarch at present, the prospect of Poland becoming part of Germany, and Poles becoming Germans, is very clear.

And the Poles are roughly divided into two opinions on the prospect of this inevitable demise.

One is opposition, which is the dominant opinion, or rather, the dominant opinion among the Polish intelligentsia. Their Polish national consciousness was extremely stubborn, and they were bent on freeing the country from German control and restoring its independence.

One is pandering, which is a non-mainstream view. Most of those who held this view were former Polish Bolsheviks with a relatively weak national consciousness, or had been "educated" by the Soviets...... The Poles on the east bank of the Bug River, who had been robbed of their homeland - had suffered the loss of their souls and learned that the loss of freedom was nothing.

And in the army of the Poles today, it is divided into two categories according to the two opinions of "opposition" and "pandering".

Polish soldiers who opposed integration (and Germany) formed the Royal Polish Defence Army, which pledged allegiance to the Polish king (i.e., Kaiser Wilhelm III). The Poles, who pandered to German views, were mostly part of the SS Polish Volunteer Division.

The former was the army of the Kingdom of Poland, and the latter, although called the SS, was part of the Wehrmacht - the SS of this time and space was just a name, meaning that the original participants were all members of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany.

By now, however, the line between the SS and the Wehrmacht had become very blurred, and many of the SS officers and men were non-Nazi members, and there were Nazi members within the Wehrmacht.

Incidentally, the principle of non-partisanship in the German constitution now applies only to professional soldiers, not to conscripts and reserve officers (i.e., officers who have been demobilized after a war). Otherwise, if you join a party, you can evade military service, which is too child's play.

Guderian now wanted to use the Red Army against the Soviet Union, of course, the Royal Polish Guard, not the already pro-German SS Polish volunteers, most of whom were already fighting for Germany on the front lines.

And if you want the Royal Polish Defense Army to fight the Soviet Union, you can't rely on the Katyn Forest incident alone. The Katyn Forest incident could be used to incite Polish civilians, but it did little to really influence the middle and upper echelons of the Wehrmacht.

On May 19, three days after meeting with Kennedy, Hersmann, who had been in Berlin and Tsosen for those days, temporarily handed over the work to Guderian, the First Quartermaster. She was also the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Poland to Switzerland and Ambassador to Geneva. Accompanied by Leshinskaya, he arrived in Krakow, the capital of the Lesser Poland province, which belonged to the Kingdom of Poland.

Since Warsaw was still occupied by Soviet troops and was the capital of the Polish People's Republic, the government of the Kingdom of Poland had to move to Krakow, Poland's second largest city.

However, the purpose of Hersmann's visit to Krakow was not to meet with the leaders of the Polish government, but to meet with the former commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces, Edward Edward, who lived in seclusion. Field Marshal Rez-Himigvi, and former Polish government-in-exile leader Władysław, who was placed under house arrest in Krakow after the surrender of the British mainland. Sikorski meets.

The meeting took place in a very beautiful manor house on the outskirts of Krakow. This is Natalie. Leshinskaya's dacha in Krakow, which originally belonged to a certain Austro-Hungarian duke, and during the Polish Republic to a close associate of Pilsudski, now somehow belonged to Natalie......

In a lavish parlor that doubles as a king's audience room, Hersman sipped Natalie's hand-brewed Mandheling coffee (one of the most expensive coffees available in Europe) from Japanese-occupied Indonesia as he looked at two recent guests, Rez Shimigwe and Sikorski.

Rez Shimigvi looked a little sluggish, and he didn't wear a military uniform, but a well-made civilian dress. After the defeat of the Polish army by the Soviet Union (the war of 1939), he remained in seclusion, as if he had no quarrel with the world. However, in the Polish Defence Forces today, his influence still exists.

Sikorski, who was under house arrest, sat there in the uniform of the Polish army (army of the republic), and still looked like a high-ranking general. Like Rez-Šmigvi, he was equally influential in the Polish Defence Forces.

In fact, he was a symbol of the spirit of Polish resistance!

While Hersmann was sipping her coffee, Natalie was talking in German to two Polish generals (Rez-Shimigwe and Sikorski were both Austro-Hungarian and fluent in German). The conversation between the three was not about the Polish Wehrmacht going out to fight, but about the future of the Kingdom of Poland.

Rez-Himigwe and Sikorski have no problem with Poland's accession to the European Community - what else? Learn from Serbia as a European orphan? Moreover, both were willing to recognize the system in which the German emperor was also king of Poland.

But they are all against going one step further on the basis of the republican alliance!

Natalie, on the other hand, tried to convince the two of them that when Hersman finished drinking a cup of coffee, it had no effect.

Hersman gently placed the coffee cup in his hand on the coffee table in front of him, and then opened his mouth to interrupt the conversation between the three of them.

"Natalie, good coffee, go get me another one."

"Okay." Natalie immediately stopped the conversation, picked up Hersmann's coffee cup, then nodded apologetically at the two Polish generals, and trotted away.

"It's hard for this woman to be a good politician," Hersman said with a smile as she looked at Natalie's slender back, "and she should find a man to marry and have a bunch of children...... Children are the future of a country and a nation. ”

"Marshal, what do you mean......" Rez-Himigvi knew that there was a deep meaning in Hersman's words, but he couldn't understand them.

"I mean......" Hersmann looked seriously at Rez-Himigwey, "it doesn't matter whether the Kingdom of Poland became an integral part of the German Empire or not, what matters is the children of Poland!" If all Polish women were like Natalie, then Poland would not have a future even if it was completely independent now.

If, on the contrary, every Polish woman was the same as my wife Chloe, then the Poles would in the future enjoy a significant part of the benefits of the German Empire. ”

"Then you have to be able to afford it," laughed Rez-Shmigwe, "how can an ordinary Polish woman compare with the Marquises of Heinsberg?" ”

"It's hard to say," Hirschman shook his head, "that there are quite a few more children in the farmer's family than in my family." He smiled, "From a macro point of view, the population of a nation actually depends on the living space...... The so-called living space is, of course, the land suitable for human survival and reproduction. The more land you have, the more people you have. And if a nation loses part of its living space, then in the long run, their population will inevitably decrease. ”

In fact, this theory may not be accurate, but the two Polish generals are in favor of it - more territory is definitely easier to feed people than less territory, and more people can be fed, and more people can be fed...... That's a lot of power!

Hersmann smiled and continued: "The future of Poland depends on the size of the Polish population, and the population of the Polish nation depends on the living space of the Polish nation, and the survival space of the Polish nation in the German Empire depends on your willingness to cooperate, and on the willingness of the Poles to avenge the tragic death of their compatriots in the Katyn Forest. ”

Rez-Himigwey and Sikorski glanced at each other, where could they not understand what Hersman meant?

Hersmann grasped at once the crux of the Polish question - land!

Poland's independence from the German Empire or something seems to be a pipe dream at the moment. Now is the time when the German Empire is in full swing, how is it possible to make Poland independent?

So it is useless for the Poles to fight for independence, the only way out is to cooperate with the Germans to divide more land, with land can we feed our children, and with enough children Poland will have a future!

Even Sikorski understood this, otherwise he would not be in Krakow by now...... At the time of the fall of the British mainland, it was still possible for him to escape.

After a moment of silence, Sikorski asked: "How much land can Poland get in the future?" ”

"It depends on the performance of the Polish army on the battlefield," Hersmann said lightly, "since the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Saint-Germain have been abrogated, the present Kingdom of Poland inherits the legal system of the Kingdom of the Polish Conference!" ”

The Kingdom of the Polish Conference is Russian Poland, which was founded in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna and covers an area of only 128,500 square kilometers. If only this little land remained in the Kingdom of Poland, how much population would the Polish nation have in the future? If there are no more people, will there be a future for Poland?

Hersman looked at Sikorski, "General Sikorski, go and pledge your allegiance to the emperor, and then I will recommend you to be the commander of the Polish Army Group." I think it's the best fit for you to take on this position. And the Katyn Forest incident can also be an opportunity for full reconciliation and solidarity between our two sides...... Because the Soviet Union wanted to fundamentally destroy the Polish nation. ”

This is a condition that Sikorski could not solve! For he knew that he was indeed the most suitable person - a military strategist and political leader who had fought for the Polish nation wholeheartedly, and now stood up and led the Polish Defence Forces to fight for the survival of the Polish nation. (To be continued.) )