Chapter 10: The Dead Wife
Rommel accompanied Hitler on a special train from Warsaw, Poland to Berlin, Germany, but a shocking "bad news" awaited him.
It is said that Rommel's wife Lucy felt the change in her husband Rommel on the phone, and in order to find out the situation of Lucy, she drove alone to Berlin, more than 500 kilometers away, overnight.
Being upset has always been a taboo for driving, not to mention that there are more than 500 kilometers away, which is completely fatigue driving, as a result, Lucy herself drove the car to the bottom of the cliff, and the Mercedes-Benz car driven by Lucy fell from a cliff dozens of meters high and became a scrap discus, and Rommel's wife died on the spot.
When Rommel returned to the Berlin train station, he immediately learned that his wife, Lucy, had died in a car accident. Rommel must have had no feelings for Lucy, but when Rommel heard the bad news, his tears dripped, like pearls with broken threads, which was completely an instinctive reaction of Rommel's body.
Rommel the traverser couldn't control his sadness at this time, he cried bitterly on the platform of the railway station in front of countless German executives who came to greet Hitler, Rommel cried so badly! Heaven and earth were moved.
Rommel had a very good relationship with his wife Lucy, which is a well-known thing, and Rommel's grief was so sincere that everyone was touched by Rommel's sincerity, including Hitler, an unmarried man.
According to Hitler's understanding, those who can be loyal to love and finally family will be loyal to him as the Führer. Hitler's view is similar to the ancient Chinese idea of loyalty and filial piety, the Chinese have always linked loyalty and filial piety together, a person who is not filial to even his own parents, he cannot be loyal to his own king, not to say whether this idea is right or wrong, but this kind of thinking definitely has a certain truth, this is beyond doubt.
Hitler very generously gave Rommel half a month's holiday, which was absolutely enough to deal with Lucy's funeral, and Rommel could also dispose of the two hundred tons of gold and works of art that had been looted, and the future of Germany would depend on these riches, and he could not be careless at all.
You must know that this money is managed by three people, the other two are Manstein and Guderian, even if Rommel is the chairman of the foundation, he does not have absolute rights, and important decisions need to be discussed with Manstein and Guderian.
Although this restricts Rommel's rights, it can also make Rommel, a traveler, make fewer mistakes without self-righteousness. The time-traveler is absolutely invincible, even if the time-traveler knows the outcome of history, once history changes, many unexpected situations will occur, such as Rommel's wife Lucy, who died inexplicably.
No historical event exists alone, one place is changed, and other histories must change accordingly, and Rommel is now trying to change his future destiny, and his efforts will inevitably cause a series of chain reactions, or the butterfly effect!
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Rommel spent a week burying his wife Lucy with great pomp, and his son Manfred was sent to Rommel's parents, who were about to go to war, and it was impossible to take the child with him.
The deceased is gone, and the living will continue, and Rommel, after taking care of his funeral, immediately left for Switzerland, which is two countries connected by land, and the main ethnic groups of both countries are Germanic. (Switzerland is 95% Germanic in the country)
During the Second World War, the relationship between Germany and Switzerland was extremely complicated, on the surface Switzerland declared itself a permanent neutral country, but Switzerland and Germany were secretly eyebrows, and the relationship between Germany and Switzerland was probably as follows:
First, Switzerland is Germany's only foreign trade window under the British and American blockade, Germany does not have a strong navy, and it cannot break the British and American naval blockade of Germany, Germany's resources are relatively poor, and many strategic materials for waging war need to be imported, once it is blockaded by the British and American navies, Germany's war machine will be unsustainable.
The role of Switzerland is reflected, both countries are Germanic countries, blood is thicker than water, Switzerland has become the only window for Germany's foreign trade, and Germany's import and export trade is almost all done through Switzerland, especially rare metals.
Second, Switzerland is also the main location for Germany to trade gold in exchange for the hard currency Swiss franc. Swiss banks, on the other hand, don't care where the gold comes from, and blindly make a huge difference in the price of it. It is alleged that 90% of the gold transactions of the Reichsbank in Nazi Germany at that time were carried out through Swiss banks.
A considerable part of the huge wealth plundered by the Nazis through the war was also deposited in Swiss banks. With the "help" of the Swiss bank, Hitler received valuable foreign exchange to buy on the world market vital supplies to sustain the war. The Vice-President of the Reichsbank of Nazi Germany simply put it bluntly: "It is politically important for Switzerland to allow free foreign exchange transactions, and it is a fundamental principle that we still keep it independent." ”
In fact, Switzerland is not a good bird, for example, the performance of Swiss banks in World War II also has many "cats". According to reports, during World War II, German Jews persecuted to death by the Nazis opened more than 50,000 accounts in Swiss banks, with $6 billion worth of funds, of which only $6 million has been returned to Jewish organizations or gifted to international humanitarian organizations through the Swiss government. Some Swiss banks even refused to pay compensation on the grounds that the Nazi concentration camps did not issue death certificates. All these funds were embezzled by Swiss banks.
(During World War II, 1 gram of gold = 1 US dollar, 6 billion US dollars = 6,000 tons of gold, but now rich Switzerland is based on embezzlement.) )
Because the Swiss bank never asks how the wealth comes from, this is completely a posture of selling stolen goods, then it is not difficult for Rommel to get rid of those gold and artworks, Swiss banks completely provide one-stop services, Rommel only needs to open a veterans' fund account, and all the proceeds of the sale of stolen goods, the Swiss bank will take the initiative to enter the account.
Gold can be cashed directly in Swiss banks, Rommel's 200 tons of gold were exchanged for 1.8 billion US dollars, needless to say that those 200 million US dollars became the handling fees of Swiss banks, as for the dozens of truckloads of art looted from Poland, Swiss banks need to slowly sell the stolen goods, Swiss banks will charge huge fees, but they will not be greedy for customers' money.
What to do with the money, Rommel could have decided on his own, but instead of doing so, he flew directly from Switzerland to Berlin to consult with Manstein and Guderian, and the three of them held a secret meeting in the office of the Führer Guard, Rommel.
Guderian and Manstein's excuse was to come to comfort Rommel and help Rommel get out of the grief of losing his wife as soon as possible. Why did Rommel choose the venue of the meeting in the office of the Führer's Guard, because even the Gestapo could not enter here, and the most dangerous place was often the safest place.
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