"Miss Doctor" Schragmüller guessed right, Hersman was about to create a highly independent intelligence agency. Because he knew that after the defeat of Germany, the army would be shackled and the government would be tied hand and foot. Not only can we not have a strong force for external warfare, but even internal repression will be weakened by chaotic democracy -- internal repression may sound evil, but the experience of more than a year has taught Hersman that internal repression is also an important part of a country's combat effectiveness!

The collapse of the Second Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire from within is a manifestation of the lack of internal repression!

Although before the collapse of the empire, people's livelihoods were more difficult, and food and coal quotas were dwindling. But compared to the suffering of Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union in World War II, the current difficulties of Germany, Austria and Russia are nothing at all. No bombs will fall from the sky, industry and agriculture are basically maintained, and no one seems to have starved to death.

In addition, the people in the Bolshevik-ruled areas of Russia are suffering far more from the civil war than they did before the February Revolution. But Soviet Russia did not collapse, because they had the All-Russian Extraordinary Committee for the Elimination of Counter-Revolution and Sabotage!

Historically, the Weimar Republic had only slightly better internal repressive capacity than the Russian Provisional Government, and although it was able to suppress the Nazi and Bolshevik uprisings, it could not prevent these two parties from possessing paramilitary forces and using them for elections and partisan fighting.

Recognizing the importance of internal repression, Hersman was determined to seize the opportunity to build Stacy into a large, independent institution with a firm grip on his own.

The goal is a bit ambitious, and the road to achieving it is certainly tortuous. On March 22, 1918, when Hersmann received the official order to establish the Baltic State Security Service, the secret service that would become a formidable and huge agency in the future consisted of only four members—the director, Major Hersmann, the deputy director, Major Canaris, the training director, Schragmüller, and the secretary, Rosenberg.

"Let's talk about the big principles today," Hersman said as he sipped coffee and munched on bread as he discussed with his two deputies about setting up a secret service organization.

"The first is independence, without which we can't do anything." "The second is that it's huge, and the agency should be a huge organization, not a pocket-sized espionage agency, which has a lot of capabilities and a lot of members," Hersman stressed. ”

"Thirdly, the institutions should have a doctrine of fighting, like the Cheka......," Hersman noted, noting that in Soviet Russia, the Cheka fighters did not consider themselves a vile and shameless secret policeman, nor would they be condemned by their conscience for what they did. Because they are convinced that they are fighting for the noblest cause in the world, the liberation of mankind. If Stasi is to become an institution that can be compared to the Cheka in the future, it must also convince its members that it is fighting for some noble cause.

"I think dynastic socialism can be the guiding ideology of Stasi," Elsbert. Schragmüller immediately proposed. She was a student of economics and knew both Marxism and Lisztism, the latter of which was the great German economist of the 19th century, Friedrich Friedrich. The economic theory founded by Liszt. "This is the only thing that can stand up to Marxism and liberalism!"

With Adam. Smith's liberal economics was at odds with Liszt's theory that the state should play an important role in economic life, and that the state should lead industrialization and implement trade protectionism. Liszt believed that the production of wealth was much more important than wealth itself. Therefore, the government should do everything possible to promote the industrial productivity of the country, even if it does not hesitate to use tariff protection and financial subsidies.

However, unlike the Marxist view, Liszt did not advocate intervention in all areas of the economy. He argues that state intervention or control can only be confined to certain areas, i.e., "the state does not overstep its authority in respect of those things which the individual citizen knows better and is better at; On the contrary, it does what the individual cannot do on his own, even if he understands it. Liszt also specifically mentioned what the state needs to do, including: protecting its merchant ships with the help of naval and nautical regulations; construction of infrastructure such as roads, railways, bridges, canals, and seawalls; enactment of patent laws and regulations in favour of production and consumption; In order to promote the growth of the country's manufacturing industry, the implementation of protective trade, and so on. In short, the mission of the state is to promote the growth of wealth and productivity, so that the country can evolve from barbarism to civilization, from weak to powerful.

Liszt's views were not taken seriously during his lifetime and were rejected by the mainstream of society at the time. But after his death (suicide in poverty), it contributed to the economic take-off of the Second German Empire - in fact, most of the late-developing countries that took off economically in later generations succeeded along the lines of Liszt.

After the economic take-off of the German Empire, in order to counter the threat of the workers' movement, Bismarck began to implement a social welfare system during his reign, and more than 6,000 laws to protect labor were forcefully introduced. This made Germany the country with the best welfare in the world at that time.

The combination of Liszt's state-led economic line and Bismarck's political idea that the state needed to take care of the people, combined with Prussian militarism, was hailed by some German socialists as "dynastic socialism". After the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty, this doctrine became known as "National Socialism".

By the way: Prussian militarism, Liszt's economic line and Bismarck's promotion of social welfare were in fact a trinity. The authoritarianism of Prussian militarism was the political basis for the implementation of Lisztism and social welfare, and the economic take-off brought by Lisztism to Germany was the economic basis of militarism and social welfare, and finally social welfare became the social basis of militarism and Lisztism.

After the defeat of Germany, Prussian militarism suffered a heavy blow and was unable to maintain its original authority. Liszt's economic proposition lost an important foundation. Moreover, the German economy was devastated by the Treaty of Versailles, lost its economic base, and the German social welfare system collapsed, and finally Prussian militarism was not strong enough to suppress the workers' movement. The complete collapse of National Socialism in the Trinity caused the weakness and chaos of the Weimar Republic.

And the consequence of the vigorous development of the workers' movement in the Weimar Republic was the growth of the German Bolshevik Party and the German National Socialist Workers' Party!

The reason for the economic miracle in the early days of the Nazis was actually the combination of the Nazi Party and Prussian militarism to form a new and powerful authoritarian power and restore the "Trinity" of National Socialism.

"Dynasty Socialism...... This is, of course, I think we can call it National Socialism. Hersman knew that the dynasty would soon be gone. "In addition, we need to have Greater Germanism and Europeanism," he pondered. Great Germanism is the pursuit of the ultimate unity of virtues, and this is the unfinished mission of the Franco-Prussian War! This is also the root of the current crisis, and a divided Germany is not enough to be the dominant power in Europe! Europe, lacking a dominant power, will inevitably be weakened by constant internal strife, and will eventually be replaced by the New World, forever losing the power to lead the world. ”

Hersmann concludes: "Stasi's guiding ideology is to revitalize and unify Germany with National Socialism, and then to lead Europe with a united Germany to make it a strong and united whole!" ”

"Sounds very attractive, at least I can't think of a better one!" Canaris nodded excitedly.

"So be it!" Schragmüller said, "Independent, massive, thoughtful...... I'll mention one more thing, the mechanism should be secret! ”

She pondered: "The organ must remain secretive, invisible and intangible, but ubiquitous, which requires the implementation of the strictest secrecy system!" For example, everyone in the agency does not use their real names as much as possible, but is referred to by their code names. Intelligence sites dispatched by organs must carry out covert activities. The agency is to secretly develop informants in the Baltic and in Germany......"

"Not bad," Canaris interjected. "The fear of the unknown is the greatest fear, and to make the enemy afraid, we must become mysterious and ubiquitous."

"That's right! And the enemy! ”

Hersman rolled his eyes and said to the two spy geniuses, "Stasi needs enemies!" Enemies keep us united and keep improving! ”

"Enemies? Who are the enemies? Canaris asked.

"Anglo-American liberal capitalism that dominates the world and the Bolsheviks who are trying to subvert us!"

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This chapter seems to be a bit boring, but it must be written, otherwise everyone only knows the benefits of the national community, and many people don't know what the national society is about and how it came about. More than 2,700 words are written clearly, it shouldn't be considered water, right? Finally, I begged for recommendations and favorites.