Chapter 90: The SS

(The left-wing and right-wing factions will be blocked and replaced by left-wing and right-wing, anyway, what does it mean, if you want to study it, let's go to see Marxism-Leninism.) )

The National Socialist Party soon grew to more than 1,000 committed members, but the National Socialist Party was only one of the hundreds of political parties in Germany, and its influence was mainly in Regensburg and other cities in the southeastern part of the empire.

At present, the largest party in Germany is the Social Democratic Party, and the famous figures are government leaders such as Albert, who represent the broad masses of capitalists, the middle class and workers.

However, the Social Democratic Party is also divided into two factions, the left and the right, one is the right wing, representing the capitalists and the middle class, advocating peaceful reform, propagating nationalism, and not advocating the proletariat.

There is also the left, which advocates a fair distribution of benefits, protection of the vulnerable, taxation of the rich, and so on.

Right and left, from the Constituent Assembly of the French Revolution more than two hundred years ago, the clergy and the aristocracy mostly sat on the right side of the parliament. The bourgeoisie, urban commoners, workers and peasants sat on the left.

At that time, the clergy and the aristocracy represented the top of society, and money and power were in their hands, advocating for law and order, and protecting the power that was already in their hands. The bourgeoisie, the workers and the common people, on the other hand, are the weaker side, believing that power and wealth should be distributed fairly, that everyone should be equal, and that they support a republic.

As a result, the 'right' or 'right-wing' has become synonymous with conservatives and opposition to social change. The 'left' or 'left' supports liberalism and revolution, and sometimes refers to the radicals.

One on the right is conservative, one on the left is radical.

The 'left' tilt refers to an overly radical approach, and the 'right' tilt is an overly backward and conservative approach

In simple terms, the right wing represents the upper ruling class. The left wing represents the broad masses of people at the bottom.

The Social Democrats are currently the largest political party in Germany, representing almost all Germans on the left and right, but the weakness of the Social Democrats and the Ruhr crisis have led to a lack of trust among the people, and the Social Democrats have been criticized by the right for forcing the Kaiser to abdicate and sign an armistice. After the armistice of the world war, many workers' revolutions were suppressed, well-known left-wing leaders such as Carl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were killed, and the Social Democratic Party was also attacked by ****.

In any case, however, the military needed the Social Democrats, the bourgeoisie needed the rule of the Social Democrats, and the broad masses of workers believed in the leader of the Social Democrats, Albert, so the Social Democrats remained the largest party in Germany to this day.

The second largest party in Germany is the Communist Party of Germany, the Communist Party of Germany was originally a Spartacist faction, which merged with the Social Democratic Party three years ago and grew stronger, and became the Communist Party of Germany, with its main influence in northern cities such as Hamburg and Bremen, representing the proletariat such as workers and peasants.

It was followed by the Central Party, the Democratic Party, the Peasant Party, and other parties, all of which were supported by certain cities or certain people, and whose members were in the tens of thousands, while Hitler's National Socialist Party was still very small in number compared with these old parties.

The fact that the KMT is weak due to the strict examination of the Executive Committee, regardless of origin or class, can only be joined by ideologically qualified people, and cannot join other parties at the same time.

As a result, tens of thousands of people in Regensburg demanded to join the National Socialist Party, but all had to queue up to study the National Socialist Party at home or on the construction site. The book "National Socialist Party" was written by several members of the executive committee headed by Hitler, and mainly described the ideology and future struggle of the National Socialist Party, as well as the party discipline and party constitution program, and was a must-read and memorized for all party members.

Slowly but surely, the National Socialist Party grew and gradually spread to other German cities, even to neighboring Czechoslovakia and Austria.

In mid-October, a workers' uprising broke out in the northern Saxony and Thuringian provinces of Bavaria, and the German Communist Party and the **** Social Democrats united to form the Saxony-Thuringian workers' government and quickly occupied the two provinces.

Hitler also took advantage of the chaos to apply for an armed organization of no more than 2,000 people, named the SS, whose members included former Freikorp veterans, Spartac, ordinary citizens and workers. Although most of the 2,000-odd people were not party members, all of them were people who were willing to join the National Socialist Party, and an army with ideology was a powerful army, and with the guidance of the ideology of the state and society, the SS had combat effectiveness that could not be underestimated.

At present, the SS is headed by Hitler, Ludendorff is chief of staff, and Steiner is the head of the training department.

The captain is the military commander in chief, and is responsible for all the work of the unit, including all internal and external affairs such as combat training and ideological style.

The chief of staff is the one who organizes the daily work of the troops, provides auxiliary work in organization, planning, reconnaissance, analysis, and other aspects for the regiment commander's decision-making, and can also be inserted into the construction of the army.

The director of the training office was Hitler's own creation, and before that, the General Staff in the army had two institutions, the training department and the combat department. However, Hitler found that the chief of the war department often had some constructive suggestions for the training of soldiers, because the chief of the war department was one of the main people who studied and formulated the battle plan, and they would know the strengths and weaknesses of the soldiers in the course of the battle, and they could know what training the soldiers needed to supplement and what skills they needed to learn.

Therefore, the merging of the Operations Division and the Training Division is conducive to enhancing the combat effectiveness of the troops. In this way, the position of the training office has become very important, comparable to the rank of deputy regiment commander, and even enough to become the third person in the army.

The appointment of Steiner as head of the training department was the result of careful consideration by Steller. Steiner used to be just an ordinary platoon commander of the Berlin regiment, and later he was promoted to company commander, he shined in the period when he became a company commander, his company under his training can get the first place in every military competition, for example, he may not be the first, but he must be the first in the exercise, his company can also destroy the most enemies with the least casualties in battle, and its reputation is far and wide, and it is called the "Devil's Company".

Steiner's character Hitler is known, one of the five future SS tiger generals, but more are not known, but Steiner was able to stand out in the talented Berlin regiment, which naturally shows that Steiner has outstanding qualities and has been valued by Hitler.

The newly formed SS was trained by Steiner.

"Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime." This was his first motto, and he believed that stiff formation drills needed to be drastically cut and replaced with physical reinforcement training, individual and team attack tactics, and frequent live-fire drills.

In the past, the military only required low-level soldiers to scrupulously obey orders and complete the tasks of their superiors, but he believed that individual training and small teamwork were also important.

Such revolutionary ideas of military training and the pioneering tactical training of infantry were despised by many Prussian commanders, but in the SS there were fewer traditional Prussian soldiers, and his reforms were supported by everyone except Ludendorff.