Chapter 342: Everything is ready

In Poland, Führer Rommel inspected several units by taking advantage of the rapid maneuverability of helicopters, and the weapons and ammunition of each unit were very sufficient, and the fighting enthusiasm of the soldiers was also very high. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

But Rommel saw a hidden danger in this, and it was now March, and all the soldiers were wearing thin cotton clothes, and there was a relatively large gap between trucks and tanks.

As for trucks and tanks, it will certainly not be solved in a short time, but Rommel can start all the factories in the occupied country, and after a year, Rommel can completely solve the problem of the shortage of trucks and tanks.

During Hitler's reign, the German soldiers did not make good use of the industry, mines and enterprises of the occupying countries, and only France was able to fully recover all kinds of production under the administration of Rommel and Speer.

Now that Rommel is in power, he has appointed Speer, the genius of the organization, to take over the logistics department in full, and all the enterprise production of Germany and its occupying powers is under the integration of Speer.

The industrial production capacity of European countries is extremely strong, but because of the destruction of the war, enterprises in many countries cannot operate, and now Germany will use state funds to help these enterprises resume production.

The shortage of 300,000 trucks and several thousand tanks in Germany at this time can be solved by Speer in half a year at most, and this is the huge role of talent and policy.

As for the question of cotton clothing or winter clothing, it is too late to start production or order at this time, after all, the winter in the USSR will not come until the end of October, and there are still 7 months to go!

Then there is the traffic situation, in order to attack the Soviet Union, Hitler has been repairing the railways and roads in Poland since he took Poland, so the traffic situation in Poland at this time is very good, which can fully meet the needs of the war.

But there is an unresolved problem, that is, the wide-gauge railways used by the Soviet Union, while the narrow-gauge railways used in Europe, are fundamentally common to the railway systems of Germany and the Soviet Union.

This is a big problem, historically, Germany had to transport supplies to Poland, and then unload all kinds of supplies and load them onto Soviet trains, which undoubtedly delayed the supply of supplies to the front.

After Germany arrived in Moscow, this backward way of transshipment made the German front line seriously insufficient, and Germany only then remembered to renovate the Soviet railway system.

This disadvantage had to be changed, and Rommel had already planned to renovate the Soviet railway system as soon as the Germans invaded the territory of the Soviet Union, and the captured Soviet trains were also reformed to their gauges.

Rommel didn't even need to draw people from Germany to recruit workers directly in places like Poland and Ukraine, the kind of railroad workers who could get paid well.

The most obvious of this is to increase employment in the occupied territories, to provide their families with an income to support their livelihoods, and thus to reduce the soil for the rebels to survive.

Rommel returned to Berlin after three days of inspection of the Polish front, and he had almost all knowledge of the situation of the troops at the front.

In general, the morale of the 3.2 million German troops on the front line was high, they were eager to fight, and all kinds of weapons and ammunition were very sufficient, but there were some gaps in trucks and tanks.

However, the more than 1.3 million troops sent by the German Allies were a bit unsatisfactory, and the weapons and equipment they used were all German weapons, but they had no intention of seeking war at all, and they were all lazy in their drills and training.

Rommel didn't have a good way to deal with the armies of these allies, after all, they were here to help Germany fight, and all Rommel could do was hand over the brutal street fighting to them.

[Among the 190 divisions of the Barbarossa Plan, there are 153 German divisions and 37 client states, and the German divisions are fully equipped divisions according to the wartime establishment, with 16,000-18,000 men per man, plus nearly 500,000 air forces with 4,980 aircraft in armies, group armies, group army groups and units directly under the base camp (artillery, engineers, communications, baggage, service, etc.), with a total strength of 5.5 million.

In total, Germany dispatched about 3.3 million army troops, plus 500,000 air forces, which is estimated to be around 3.9 million, and the client states dispatched about 1.3 million to 1.4 million troops, including logistics and other troops. 】

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Immediately after Rommel returned to Berlin, Canaris reported on the progress of the Bowman espionage case:

"Honorable Führer, we have made a breakthrough in the Bowman espionage case, and now more than 1,700 spies have been arrested, and the General Intelligence Directorate is still digging deeper."

Canaris's report scared Rommel a lot, Canaris actually caught so many spies in just three days, this absolutely can't be!

It must have been Canaris who was expanding the Bowman espionage case, and Rommel did not want to carry out a Stalinist purge in Germany, which was undoubtedly an act of self-destruction:

Rommel looked at Canaris with a smile and said:

"Director Canaris, I am very satisfied with your work, and we must not spare those spies.

However, in order to avoid unjust, false and wrongful cases, our work should be more rigorous, such as the Bowman espionage case, your intelligence general is responsible for arresting and interrogating, and then you hand over all the spy personnel and interrogation materials to the procuratorate for review, and then they will be tried by the German military court, and everything will be in accordance with legal procedures.

My opinion is to never let go of a bad person, and never to wronged a good person, I don't know what Director Canaris thinks. ”

Rommel also did not criticize Canaris for expanding Bowman's spies, and he used another euphemism to directly and easily resolve Canaris's attempt to cut off dissidents through the Bowman espionage case.

Germany's judicial system has long been separated from the three circles, and as long as Rommel, the Führer, insists on governing the country according to law, even if Canaris is a tyrant, he will not have any chance to make trouble.

Rommel, who returned to Berlin, began to be busy again, and the gradually stabilized Germany no longer needed Rommel to worry about, and he was now busy making some adjustments to the personnel of the German party, government, and army.

Several very important posts were appointed by Rommel himself, and the rest were recommended by everyone, and on 20 March, the personnel arrangements for the party, government, and military of the German Rommel government were announced.

German Führer and Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Rommel

Minister of Propaganda; Goebbels

Minister of Armaments, Minister of Logistics: Albert? Speer

Chief of Staff: Dietrich (SS General)

Home Secretary: William? frank

Minister of Economy, Governor of the National Bank: Vanelke? Funk

Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme High Command: Manstein.

Minister of Defence; Marshal Keitel

Commander-in-Chief of the Army; Fedor? Feng? Bork

Commander-in-Chief: Karl? Dönitz

Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force: Albert? Kesselring

General Leader of the SS: Himmler

Director of the Directorate General of German Intelligence; Canaris

Viceroy of France: Marshal Rundstedt

Governor General of North Africa: ******?von? Reichenau

Governor General of Poland; Heydrich

Barbarossa Plan Military Commander Arrangement;

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Enemy; Führer Rommel

Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front; Witzleben

Commander-in-Chief of Army Group South; Guderian

Commander-in-Chief of Army Group North; Qu Hillel

Commander-in-Chief of Army Group Center; Manstein

Minister of General Logistics: Speer

At this point, Rommel has completed all the arrangements since taking over, and the "Barbarossa Plan" is also making final preparations, and everything is ready, only most of the ice and snow in the Soviet Union will melt. (To be continued.) )