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Although the Baltic Republic was not the territory of the Second German Reich in the past, Wilhelm II was surprised to find that he had been ruling the country all along.

When he stepped down the ramp of the Deutschland in the port of Riga, then got into a luxury Maybach convertible and drove into the city of Riga, he found that the whole city was rejoicing at his arrival.

"Long live the Emperor! Long live Germany! ”

On both sides of the street, the citizens of Riga dressed in festive costumes, as well as some people who had come from out of town to witness His Majesty the Emperor.

Unlike the situation in Germany itself, the Baltic Republic has continued to promote "imperial nationalization" education in the past decade or so. In the history of the Baltic Republic and in German textbooks, the glorification of the Hohenzollern dynasty and Wilhelm II is everywhere.

The city of Riga and other cities of the Baltic Republic are full of squares, streets, schools and hospitals named after the kings and ministers of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Any attack or discrediting of the Hohenzollern dynasty and its monarch was punished according to Baltic law. And very few Baltic people would do the same, after all, most Baltic Germans were the beneficiaries of the policies implemented by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

According to the official propaganda of the Baltics, the homeland of the Baltic people was liberated with the help of His Majesty Wilhelm II, and their land was granted by His Majesty the Emperor. Without the emperor, there would be no Baltic today.

And that's pretty much true. The Baltic Republic, with a population of nearly 4 million, has some industries - such as aircraft and shipbuilding. But it was still primarily an agrarian country, with about 300,000 small family farms as the basis of the Baltic Republic's economy. The owners of these small family farms, mostly Germans who had migrated from Russia and Poland, had received land from the Baltic government for free.

And. After granting the farms, the Baltic government did not ignore these family farms and left them to fend for themselves. The German-style fine management is vividly embodied in the Polo.

A system known as "family farming cooperatives" has been in place in the Baltic Republic for more than 12 years.

In Hersmann's view, this system was somewhere between a family farm and a collective farm. According to Rosenberg. This system originated in the Volga German-inhabited areas of Russia, where agriculture has a tradition of "cooperativeization" and "communalization". This tradition influenced the Germans who had emigrated to the Volga valley (Russian Jews were also influenced by it, and after they settled in Palestine, they implemented the "collectivization of Moshav agriculture"), who also formed small family farms into communes.

Later, they brought this system to the Baltic Republics, and they also had a truly "German-style scientific management", forming a multi-level system of agricultural cooperation supported by the government.

At the top were the Baltic Agricultural Cooperatives, down were the provincial and county branches, and at the bottom were the agricultural communes made up of family farms - a complex and peculiar system, in which the agricultural commune was in fact a business entity. Similar to an agricultural joint-stock company, it needs to be self-financed. The cooperatives at all levels above the "commune" are non-profit agricultural service organizations that provide technical support, small low-interest loans, and the sale and purchase of products to the "commune" (the commune provides the daily necessities, production tools, etc. required by the commune).

Operated by the more disciplined and less sinister Germans, the Baltic Republic's system of agricultural cooperatives has worked well for the past 12 years. The vast majority of the citizens of the Baltic Republic have enjoyed a relatively stable and prosperous life - which is very good compared with neighboring Poland and the Soviet Union.

Moreover, this system has also made the Baltic Republic a major exporter of agricultural products, exporting at least 1.3 million tons of grain (accounting for one-third of Germany's grain imports) and a large amount of meat, seafood, and dairy products to Germany every year.

In this case, the rich and stable Baltic German peasants. Of course, it is easy to be deceived by their royalist government, and to follow the royalists together in a daze--in Europe. Small and medium-sized farmers, who live more securely, are often symbols of conservative power, and these people are the grassroots of royalists in various countries. The working class and urban intellectuals tend to be more radical, and they are the main force behind the revolution. If Hitler could get these radical workers and intellectuals at his disposal, he would be able to unite Germany and turn it into a powerful war machine.

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"Mr. Prime Minister, did you see that? The 4,000,000 Baltic people supported the emperor. Unless the Emperor was restored in Germany, they would not support the union of Baltic and German. ”

President Gorz of the Baltic Republic sat in another Maybach with Chancellor Hitler and Infantry General Hersmann.

Hitler arrived in Polo a day before the German Kaiser, not only to welcome Wilhelm II, but also to observe the "Iron Fist-1935" military exercises. At the same time, he wanted to discuss the German-Baltic merger with the President of the Baltic Republic, Golz.

The merger was supposed to take place in 1933, but Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and Poland successively expressed their opposition and let the merger be postponed again and again. The opposition of the Soviet Union did not have to be taken seriously, and Stalin had already privately expressed his opinion of "non-interference" to Hersmann. Of the remaining three countries, Britain, France, and Poland, Hitler was most worried about the attitude of Poland - it was necessary to maintain relations with Poland until Germany had completed its annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.

However, Pilsudski was suffering from liver cancer, and the news of his death soon afterward made Hitler feel that the opportunity was ripe for a merger with the Baltic Republics.

However, at this time, President Golz put forward the condition of "the restoration of the Hohenzollern dynasty".

"I am not alone in the matter of the restoration of the dynasty," Hitler said in a cold tone, "and it needs a referendum!" ”

Hitler's agreement to submit the issue of the "restoration of the Hohenzollern dynasty" to a referendum was already a big concession.

But the vote was not easy, and now it is the Junckers who are really interested in restoration. And the Junckers have a strong military, but they are too few in number, and they have even fewer votes.

In today's German parliament, the National Socialist Workers' Party, the largest party, holds a firm majority of more than 60 percent. The coalition "Juncker party", the Fatherland People's Party, holds only 28 percent of the seats - the result of a by-election after the Social Democrats were outlawed.

"Prime Minister, perhaps a referendum on the union with the Baltic Republic and the restoration of the dynasty." Hersman suggested.

He was much more transparent about the rules of democratic elections than Goltz, who was a military dictatorship and enlightened in the Polo.

"Of course it is easy to pass the two cases in one," Hitler said, "but the support of the National Socialist Party is the key!" ”

"If the empire is restored," Hersman said slowly, "a new constitution will of course be needed...... We need a constitution that can win for Germany! Under the leadership of the Kaiser and the Chancellor, the upper and lower middle classes of Germany will be truly united. We will be invincible! ”

"Invincible?" Hitler glanced at Hersmann and said, "Ludwig, you are very confident in the results of the exercises?" ”

Hitler was referring to the military exercises, codenamed "Iron Fist-1935," which would begin on May 1 and end on May 10, 1935, for a total of 10 days.

More than 135,000 officers and soldiers of the German and Baltic republics will take part in this large-scale exercise. The purpose of the exercise was to test the correctness of the "theory of mechanized warfare."

According to the plan, the 135,000 officers and soldiers will be divided into the "Blue Army" and the "Red Army".

Among them, the Blue Army is composed of a temporary Panzer Corps, including the German 1st Panzer Division, the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division, and the Baltic 1st Motorized Infantry Division - this is not wartime, even the "high-tech" units such as the Panzer Division and the Motorized Infantry Division are not completely complete in personnel, so the total number of the three divisions is only 45,000.

In addition, there is a brigade of Hs123 ground support aircraft assigned to the Blues.

The Red Army consisted of nearly 90,000 officers and men, including two Baltic infantry divisions and four German infantry divisions. They were twice as large as the Blues, but they didn't have any air power.

In the exercise plan, the smaller Blue Army will be responsible for the attack, and the larger Red Army will deploy a 100-kilometer defensive line in the southern part of the Courland Peninsula. The Blues had to break through the defence within 10 days and advance more than 20 kilometres north to claim victory.

In Hitler's view, unless it was cheating, the chances of the Blues succeeding in their mission were nil. But if Hersman really wants to deceive, he is confident that he can find out.

If it were Hitler in another time and space, 1935, he would certainly not have such an idea now. Because in another time and space, this "corporal" is the supreme commander of the German armed forces, and there are a large number of brilliant military generals acting as advisers, and he can always get the latest reports on the development of military technology. With his genius, he was able to keenly grasp the general direction of the military revolution.

But in this time and space, although he also has a military adjutant and a few military staff, his level and level are not high, and most of them are not active officers. By and large, he was also the head of a civilian government with very limited knowledge of specialized military issues.

"Mr. Chancellor," said Hersmann, who of course understood Hitler's thoughts, said with a smile, "the exercise will begin the day after tomorrow, and tomorrow you and His Majesty the Emperor will hear together the reports of the commanders of both sides on the plans of battle." Then, on May 1st, go to watch the breakthrough of the blue side. ”

Hersmann was not going to cheat, and he had to convince Hitler that he was incapable of directing the war. So there is no point in faking, although Hitler did not understand mechanized warfare, but he was not a rookie who had not been on the battlefield.

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