Chapter 52: Changing Heavens

The Berlin regiment was transferred by the high command to the town of Spa, near Liège, Belgium, which is extremely famous in Europe, and the world-famous spa spa originated from this spa town, and the soldiers of the Berlin regiment were lucky enough to be able to experience the famous spa when they were on vacation.

The town of Spa was the headquarters of the German Army at this time, and all the members of the entire imperial family were in the army headquarters, and now Berlin was turbulent and had become very unsafe, and Wilhelm II simply brought all his relatives to the German headquarters, most of the people in the German headquarters were loyal to the imperial family, and it was much safer here than Berlin.

As the time entered November, Germany's war potential had been exhausted, and the German ruling circles still wanted to fight desperately, and the naval command ordered the German ocean-going fleet in the port of Kiel to go to sea to fight the British, hoping to win a great victory, and if it failed, it would "sink with honor".

If you fail, you will "sink in glory"?

This is to let them die in vain!

The soldiers in the port of Kiel, who were already extremely dissatisfied with the government, became angry, and 80,000 sailors refused to lift anchor and extinguished the warship. Although the resistance of the sailors forced the German naval authorities to withdraw the order, the sailors were persecuted and several hundred arrested. On 3 November, sailors took to the streets of Kiel to demonstrate against the naval authorities and demand the release of those arrested. The demonstrations then turned into an armed uprising, with the sailors disarming the officers and quickly seizing strategic points and taking control of the city.

The workers also responded with an armed uprising and established a Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, and Kiel and its nearby suburbs were soon occupied by the insurgents, and the next day the whole city of Kiel went on strike in support of the sailors' uprising.

In fact, at this time, Germany had reached the point of exhaustion, and in 1918, the German army gathered 205 divisions on the Western Front to launch four large-scale offensives against the Entente, but the result was heavy losses, and then the Entente attacked on all fronts, and the German army had to retreat. The military defeat prompted the further development of the domestic anti-war movement, and Germany was already in a state of turmoil.

Under the call of the Spartacists, who represented the interests of the German working class and the German nation, the revolutionary movement within the country was surging. And the war has been fought for more than four years, and many soldiers wonder what they are fighting for, and what is the purpose of the war?

Many soldiers have come to the conclusion that our war is meaningless, just to kill people.

In fact, when the soldiers asked, "Why fight", the war was lost.

"The naval uprising in Kiel must be suppressed!"

Kaiser Wilhelm II immediately ordered the northern garrison of the empire to march towards Kiel, and the Berlin regiment stationed in Belgium immediately took a train to extinguish the rebellion in Kiel.

As soon as the Berlin regiment arrived in the city of Hamburg, and after joining up with the northern guard troops, they discussed an opportunity to prepare for an attack on Kiel, when they were suddenly ordered by the high command to cease all operations, and it turned out that the fire of revolution had swept through the whole of Germany. This series of changes was too fast, and the news of the refusal of the sailors to fight had just reached the upper echelons of the empire, but within seven days it had developed into an armed uprising, which was so fast that people could not react. Within a week, the monarchs of the various states had been ousted, workers' and soldiers' soviets had been established in almost all cities, and even the capital Berlin had been occupied by strikers.

Plus the fact that the Entente had defeated Ottoman Turkey a month earlier, and Ottoman Turkey signed an armistice with the Entente.

Austria-Hungary in the south also collapsed under the blow of the Entente, the non-German nations became independent one after another, and Austria, which was in the midst of revolutionary 'turmoil', signed the "Treaty of Saint-Germain" with the Entente on the same day as the Kiel sailors' uprising, surrendered unconditionally, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided into multiple ethnic states.

The Second German Reich was in internal and external trouble, isolated in the whole world!

This further caused great confusion and panic in the army headquarters, and Hindenburg warned the Kaiser that the German army was no longer capable of protecting him, and that he must immediately abdicate and go to the Netherlands. Within less than forty-eight hours, the stunned Wilhelm II accepted Hindenburg's advice, and suddenly he lost all will, abdicated in a decree, and fled to the Netherlands.

Prince Maximilian also announced his resignation after the Kaiser's abdication in order to quell domestic anger and successive uprisings.

Germany decided to first seek peace with the Allies and agreed to hold talks with the Entente on the basis of the "14-point principle" put forward by Wilson, but in the course of the negotiations, the Americans suddenly changed their tone and wanted to make Germany completely collapse and no longer give him a chance to turn over, announcing that they would no longer use the "14-point principle" as the basis for peace talks, but put forward extremely harsh conditions, and for Germany this was no longer a "decent peace talk" but a surrender negotiation.

When the delegation headed by the German Foreign Minister crossed the forward position with a white flag and arrived at the Compiègne Forest, 50 kilometers northeast of Paris, where the headquarters of Field Marshal Fous, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, was located, Foucy received the Armistice Commission headed by the German Foreign Minister in his special train car. Upon learning of the Germans' intentions, the French immediately enjoyed the hard-won victory with his arrogance: "But we have not proposed any armistice, gentlemen, we are more than willing to fight." ”

In the end, the Entente signed an armistice agreement with Germany, which was very harsh, requiring the loss of one-third of the country's land and one-tenth of the population, as well as a huge amount of war reparations, but in order to solve the civil war that could break out at any time in the country, Germany had to accept it.

The German government signed the armistice, announcing the end of the world war, and the guns that had resounded in Europe for four years finally stopped, and the truce horn was blown on the entire Western Front, and at the same time, a 101-gun salute sounded over Paris, indicating that after four years, three months, and eight days of hard fighting, the world war ended with the final victory of the Entente to which France belonged.

After the armistice was very chaotic in Germany, Hitler did not participate in it, handed over all the powers of the Security Service to Hindenburg, put Walter of the Intelligence Service in charge, transferred the Berlin regiment to Bremen, and took the train alone to a luxurious estate in Toron, the Netherlands.

"Ha, the French still stipulate that I am a war criminal, so what if I am a war criminal, it's not that they can't catch me."

Wilhelm II proudly said in the garden that this manor was his personal property, and that after fleeing to the Netherlands, Wilhelm II's relatives lived in this manor, and although the war made him lose power, it was a blessing in disguise to be able to live happily with his family.

In the garden, there are not only his children and grandchildren, but also Hitler, Hindenburg and many other high-ranking officials of the former Reich.

Most people are visiting Wilhelm II, the Second German Reich is an imperial country after all, and the idea of loyalty and patriotism is implanted in the brain of every German, but Wilhelm II's performance is too poor, so that Germany is defeated, so that the people at the bottom no longer trust Wilhelm II.

However, there are still many people who have turned to Germany and become royalists.

There were many people in the garden to accompany Wilhelm II, and Hitler and Victor walked outside to walk in the grass, it was already winter, and Victor's daughter and Hitler's goddaughter Elanie was building a snowman with the other children of the royal family, and the two were watching the snow not far away.

"I'm sorry, but the Security Service hasn't been able to contain this uprising." Hitler's plain clothes were covered with snowflakes.

"It's not your fault, Germany's defeat was inevitable, I expected it, and it was long overdue to end this senseless war." Victor shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly that Victor was right, since the failure of the Schlieffen plan, the balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the Entente, and later the United States entered the war, which doomed the defeat of Germany to be a matter of time.

"What are you going to do after that?" Hitler could not imagine that the proud son of heaven, who once controlled tens of thousands of troops, suddenly became a common man, could he accept such a gap?

Victor patted the snow on his body: "What else can I do, my father can accept it, why can't I accept it?" I've been in love with football lately, I'm going to start a football team, you can play football too, and come to the Netherlands to play football with me more often. ”

"Okay, I'll form a soccer team too, and we'll play it then." Hitler laughed, glad that his comrades were able to get out of their inner predicament so quickly.

"Then it's decided, we'll play next fall." Victor laughed too.

"Bang!"

A snowball was thrown on Victor's black pants, and in the distance, Eleni put her hands to her mouth to form a megaphone: "Dad, let's build a snowman." ”

"Okay!"

With a warm smile on his face, Victor walked towards Elenie and said to Hitler: "The Entente should soon convene a conference to divide the spoils, and if we Germans are going to attend, I would like you to take some of the Berlin regiment with you." ”