Chapter 332: Rommel's Conception
"Führer Rommel, my ambition is to organize production, and the position of French governor-general is really too much of my energy, so I chose to be the head of the German armaments. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Okay, you can go back to China immediately! Do you have any recommendations for the choice of Governor General of France? ”
Silence, Speer on the other side of the phone fell silent again, France can fully restore production and social order, it is the crystallization of Rommel's countless efforts, France must not be handed over to an insatiable person, otherwise his own and Rommel's Führer's hard work will be in vain, who is the best candidate!
Speer suddenly thought of a person, this person is a representative of the traditional German forces, and he is also very generous, the most important thing is that this person manages government affairs, purely in the form of herding sheep, or in other words, ruling by inaction.
France now needs such a leader, because all production has been restored in France, and the social order is very good, and France does not need any capable people to toss around.
"My Führer, I recommend Marshal Rundstedt for the post of Governor-General of France."
As soon as Rommel heard Speer's recommendation of this man, he immediately understood that it would be too good to hand over this vital position of French governor to Rundstedt, who ruled indifferently, and that the traditional German forces would certainly be satisfied.
"Alright! I accept your suggestion......"
Immediately after Rommel and Speer finished talking on the phone, he made a phone call to Davide, the old butler, and Rommel asked Davide to take Elsa to his apartment in Berlin immediately.
In Rommel's apartment in Berlin, there is another woman, Anna of the Habsburgs, and now it is necessary to put them together, and if they get along, they live together, and if they don't, then separate!
Rommel really didn't want to be distracted by dealing with family affairs, but his two women had very difficult backgrounds, and they could be the head of state, and they could contribute a lot, and they also needed the help of these two families in the future ruling process.
"Forget it, let's talk about it later!"
Rommel left his family affairs behind and wrote a plan for Hitler's state funeral with peace of mind, and soon a state funeral outline was completed, Rommel carefully reviewed the following, and there was nothing missing, and he immediately pressed the bell on his desk.
Soon, Miss Schroeder, who had been informed, hurriedly knocked on the door:
"Honorable Führer Rommel, is there anything you can do?"
"Miss Schroeder, your secretariat will immediately refine this outline of the state funeral, and then send it to the review room for review, and then issue it immediately."
After taking Miss Schroeder away, Rommel took the pen and began to think that there was one of the biggest hidden dangers in Germany now, and it was left by Hitler, that is, the high degree of overlap between the functions and powers of the High Command and the Ministry of Defense.
How to solve this problem without touching the vested interests of the existing generals is a big problem that Rommel, the new head of state, must solve.
Rommel sat motionless in his chair, and after an hour or two, Rommel had a rough decision in his mind, and his plan was like this.
Germany's High Command and Ministry of Defense were retained, and the High Command was upgraded to the Supreme Command, which also served as the Supreme Commander, which consisted of the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff, the General Logistics Department, the Armaments Department, the Intelligence Department, the Military Service Bureau, the Information Bureau, and other institutions.
The General Staff Department formulates strategic operational plans at and above the military level, and then the Ministry of National Defense implements them, and the Ministry of National Defense has the power to revise the strategic plan according to the actual situation, but it needs to be submitted to the General Staff Headquarters again for examination and approval.
Under the Ministry of National Defense, there are the general headquarters of the three armed services and the general headquarters of the various group armies, and the specific combat tasks are to be accomplished by the troops organized by them, and no other departments, including the head of state, are allowed to interfere.
In this way, Rommel solved a major problem that had plagued Germany for a long time, and in the Hitler era, the High Command and the Ministry of Defense were in the same situation, in fact, it was a struggle for command, and according to Rommel's arrangement, this problem did not exist.
The other is the intelligence department, the German intelligence system is really too chaotic, the Ministry of Defense has an intelligence department, the various branches of the army have an intelligence department, the SS has an intelligence department, so many intelligence services are not subordinate to each other, and there is no intelligence sharing.
Historically, Germany had almost no success in the intelligence warfare between Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, and it was entirely caused by the chaos of the German intelligence services.
Rommel just wants to integrate Germany's intelligence services, whether it is effective or not, and there are many of them, at least these intelligence agencies will not lag behind each other, and the efficiency of Germany's access to intelligence will also be greatly improved.
The question of structure was conceived, that is, the question of the arrangement of knowledge, who would hold these posts, how to balance the interests of the major factions in Germany, and how to select from among them capable men of real talent and learning.
First of all, the role of this department goes beyond that of the Ministry of Defense, because all strategic plans are formulated by the General Staff, and the Ministry of Defense is only a specific executive body, and the quality of the strategic plan is directly related to the victory or defeat of the war.
There are now two candidates for such an important position, one is Manstein and the other is Guderian, both of whom are Rommel's hardcore brothers, and their abilities are also outstanding in Germany.
It stands to reason that both of them are capable of holding the post of chief of the General Staff, but who will do it? Rommel thought about it and decided to let Manstein take the post of chief of the General Staff.
Why did Rommel choose it this way? Because of Fritz? Erich? Feng? Manstein has a "von" in his name, which shows that Manstein is a nobleman!
And Guderian, like Rommel, does not have "von" in his name, Guderian is from a civilian background, not that Rommel dislikes his brother Guderian, but that those traditional forces in Germany look down on Guderian.
In history, Guderian also served as the chief of the General Staff, just because Guderian was not an aristocrat, but he was promoted so quickly, it was natural for those people from the General Staff to think that they were promoted by Hitler to check and balance them, so they were very disgusted with Guderian.
Few of the people below look up to him, many of them are his former superiors, and they are still working with him, and the mustache above can't listen to his opinions, and he, the general staff, is just a decoration.
Under such circumstances, even if Rommel was the Führer, he could not change the concept of those traditional forces in Germany, and he could only follow the trend and promote his good brother Manstein to chief of the General Staff.
Of course, Guderian, this brother, Rommel will never abandon it, and the position of commander-in-chief of the front-line army group is a must, and the total number of troops commanded is at least 500,000 or more. (To be continued.) )