The Third Reich officially ended the moment Rommel founded the Holy Roman Empire, which became the Fourth Reich in German history. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the Third Reich became history, it is necessary to write history for the Third Reich, and to write the history of the Third Reich, there is a figure that cannot be ignored, and that is Hitler.

How to evaluate Hitler's historical merits and demerits has become a difficult problem for Rommel, and Hitler has the grace of knowledge for Rommel, and for Germany, he also has the merit of revitalization.

However, the writing of historical figures cannot be based on personal likes and dislikes, but must uphold the fairness of history, not to mention the rigorous character of the Germans, even if Rommel wanted to blow up Hitler.

In this case, Rommel handed over his evaluation of Hitler figures to the Historical Society of the Holy Roman Empire (formerly the German Historical Society), and the historical evaluation of Britain produced by the Historical Society was objective and fair.

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At the beginning of Hitler's tenure as Führer, the traditional German forces held the vast majority of power in Germany, which was absolutely intolerable for the dictator Hitler.

Hitler had a natural acumen in political struggles, and was definitely not a foolish mediocrity, otherwise he would not have become the Führer of Germany from a corporal.

After careful preparation and intelligence gathering, Hitler set his sights on Field Marshal Blunberg, commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht.

All the armed forces of Germany, except for the SS, were under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, and even now that Germany had only begun to expand its army, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army commanded as many as two million troops.

It was basically the traditional forces of Germany that held such a powerful armed force, and Hitler could only be regarded as the new Führer, except for the support of the people, he did not have much armed forces in his hands, and the SS was born under such circumstances, and now the opportunity has come.

In 1935, Hitler tore up the Treaty of Versailles and announced the beginning of a large-scale rearmament, the army would be expanded to 36 divisions, and the army general staff of the First World War would be restored.

Soon after, the Ministry of Defense also underwent a large-scale reorganization, the Ministry of Defense was reorganized into the Ministry of War, and the official title of Blunburg was changed from "Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht" to "Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht".

In addition, in order to counter the increasingly independent General Headquarters and General Staff of the Army, Blenburg ordered the creation of a new body, the Wehrmacht Directorate, headed by Major General Reichenau, who had been his confidant for many years.

With the deepening of the expansion of the army, Blunburg began to carry out the transformation of the high-level command system of the armed forces, and Blenburg's concept of military management, he believed that modern warfare in the future will guide an all-round way of thinking.

Gone are the days when war was decided only by land warfare, and the Wehrmacht needs to have a leadership system that integrates the three services, which in fact means to set up a general headquarters of the three services in the true sense of the word, instead of the current three armed forces acting independently and only cooperating on the surface.

But such a reform would inevitably touch the interests of Nazi upstarts like Air Force Commander-in-Chief Goering.

In Goering's view, the Air Force was an important bargaining chip in his political struggle, and it was intolerable for him to weaken the authority of the Commander-in-Chief of the services and thus strengthen the centralization of the Wehrmacht's upper echelons.

There was also strong resistance to such a reform at the top of the army side, and most of the old-fashioned generals of the Army General Staff and the General Staff were staunch supporters of the "theory of victory in land warfare," saying that if a war broke out, only the army could solve the problem alone, and in their view, the reform of Brunburg was completely superfluous.

Although Blenburg's reforms were not implemented due to many obstacles, on April 20, 1936, on Hitler's birthday, the 58-year-old Blenburg was promoted to field marshal, becoming the first person in the Wehrmacht after World War I to be awarded the rank of field marshal, reaching the pinnacle of his military career.

At the same time that Blunberg was at the height of his power, his modesty and enormous power in military matters began to arouse Hitler's displeasure, and he warned Hitler about this risky move as early as March 1936 when he ordered the Wehrmacht to march into the Rhineland demilitarized zone.

On August 5, 1937, Hitler summoned Minister of War Blomburg, Army Commander-in-Chief Friech, Navy Commander-in-Chief Raeder, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Goering, and Foreign Minister Newright to a meeting at the Chancellery to announce his long-term war plans to them.

and to be in the near future an attempt to act aggressively against Austria and Czechoslovakia. At the conference, Blenburg, with the support of Frisch, warned that the war would be intervened by the combined forces of the Western powers, so both he and Frisch had reservations or opposition to Hitler's attempts at a war of aggression.

This infuriated Hitler, who realized that Blenberg and Frisch must be removed from power as soon as possible and replaced with obedient heads of the army.

Otherwise, sooner or later, the two of them will become a stumbling block for him to launch a war of aggression. Soon, the marriage scandal in Blunburg gave Hitler this opportunity.

Since the death of his wife Hermich in Bremborg in 1932, he has lived a life of widowhood. But 5 years later, he soon fell in love with his secretary, Miss Gruen, and was ready to get married.

However, Blenburg also knew that his marriage to Gruen, who was a commoner, would certainly be opposed by the conservative officer corps. To this end, he tried to find Hitler and Goering to be his witnesses, so as to silence the officer corps. On August 12, 1937, he married Eva. Gruen held a civilian wedding in the hall of the War Department.

Later, Blenburg took his newlywed wife to Italy for his honeymoon. Hitler and Goering, the witnesses to the wedding, may not have imagined that the Brenburg event would give them a godsend to get rid of him.

While on his honeymoon in Blunburg, Berlin Police Chief Herdorf found a document that read about the marshal's new wife, Eva. Gruen's file, which he had worked as a prostitute, immediately handed it over to the head of the Wehrmacht, Brenburg's in-laws, Admiral Keitel Artillery, in the hope that he would be able to dispose of it properly.

After obtaining this dossier about the fate of his superiors, Keitel gave it to Goering for fear of shielding Blenburg and offending the Nazis and the SS and affecting his own future.

Goering, who had coveted the Blenburg marshal for a long time, soon told Hitler, who was furious, and his marshal deceived him and made him a witness, treating him as a fool.

This news also caused the officer corps to abandon Blenburg completely, and Army Chief of Staff Baker once said to Keitel: "It is not tolerated that a field marshal and a bitch will be married." ”

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