Rommel's request, Hitler actually really approved, this is still the result of Hitler's efforts to exclude the public, originally Minister of War Blenburg resolutely did not agree to Rommel's request, but Hitler said:

"Rommel has so many trucks that are not used for transportation, do they need to be empty? The logistics department is about to lose gray hair in order to transport those materials, so it is better to transport the materials to Rommel, and if Rommel can't use them up, they can also distribute them to friendly and neighboring troops! ”

The Minister of War, Brunburg, was Hitler's dog-legged in the first place, and he could not have been extremely resolute in opposing Hitler's orders, and since the great Führer had said so, he immediately complied with it and let Rommel go to the logistics to collect it himself.

Originally, these supplies were supposed to be sent to Rommel by the logistics department, but Blenburg asked Rommel to send a convoy to transport them, in Blenburg's words:

"Aren't your Rommel cars too numerous to be of any use? Go to the warehouses of the logistics department to pick it up yourself, and then organize your own fleet transportation! ”

As soon as the supplies arrived, Rommel was already thankful that he immediately sent out the empty five hundred trucks. By the end of March, all the various materials allocated to Rommel had arrived at the 7th Panzer Division station.

At this time, the order for transfer also came down, and the 7th Panzer Division was once again subordinate to the 15th Motorized Army, this time under the command of the 4th Army of Army Group A, together with the 5th Panzer Division, and the troops immediately secretly operated to assemble outside the Belgian border.

The order arrived with a company of 150-mm self-propelled guns (6 units, this is a historical record), a self-propelled gun that the Germans had only modified from the chassis of Tank No. 3, and Rommel's 7th Panzer Division became the first unit to experiment. Now Rommel's artillery unit is unprecedentedly powerful, with twice as much firepower as other armored units.

Hitler was really good to Rommel, and it is no wonder that Rommel in history was grateful to Hitler in the early stage of World War II. When Hitler learned that Rommel was involved in the assassination of himself, Hitler's anger can be imagined, of course, this is wronged, but Hitler believed, how could such an ungrateful person Hitler not kill him quickly, this is called love and deep hatred - hehe.

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From the German attack on Poland in September 1939 to the actual German attack on France in May 1940, there was no fighting on the Western Front, and hardly a single shot was fired.

And in the West, too, people were quick to give it a name: "fake war". As the British General J? F? C. Fuller said, "The French Army, the most powerful army in the world, confronted by no more than 26 German divisions, sat quietly behind the steel fortifications, watching a Don? The gallant allies of the Quixote style were wiped out. ”

The causes of the false war were manifold, first of all, the defeatist sentiment among the French High Command, the government and the people; The second is that the French still remember the heavy casualties and devastation they suffered during the First World War, and they were determined to avoid such a massacre if they could avoid it. Thirdly, until mid-September, the crushing defeat of the Polish army made them feel that it would soon be possible for the Germans to move their superior forces to the Western Front, thus sweeping away the little advance that France had made at the beginning.

Then there was the fear of German weapons and air superiority. Indeed, from the very beginning, the French government insisted that the British Air Force not bomb targets in Germany, for fear that the French factories would suffer a retaliatory attack, but they did not know that if the Ruhr, the industrial center of Germany, were bombed with all their might, it would probably cause a fatal blow to Germany.

Britain wanted Germany to attack the Red Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union at that time used the international communist organization it had formed to export revolution to the world. As long as Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Germany would definitely be stuck in the ice and snow of the Soviet Union, just like Napoleon, and the Soviet Union would be seriously weakened.

Britain's calculations are very good, but whether Germany will do what he thinks is not something he can control, and history has proved that this is Britain's wishful thinking, and Britain will soon bear the consequences of betraying its allies.

Rommel's 7th Panzer Division was assigned to the 15th Motorized Corps, this time under the command of the 4th Army of Army Group A, along with the 5th Panzer Division. The 7th Panzer Division, as the main force of the attack, was tasked with forcing its way through the Ardennes, crossing the Mans, appearing behind the main Allied forces, cutting off the enemy's access to the English Channel, and dividing it.

The 7th Panzer Division departed from Thuringia in early April, because the 7th Panzer Division had more trucks, except for the tanks, which were transported by rail, and all the personnel were on trucks full of species supplies.

The 7th Panzer Division had more than 800 trucks, and each truck only needed to carry more than 20 soldiers, and as for the problem of overloading, the quality of German trucks was very good, and there was no problem with this overload.

In mid-April, the 7th Panzer Division reached 30 kilometers outside the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, and the troops were certainly not exposed, all of them were hidden in the forest, and a large number of light and dark sentinels were arranged around the troops, and all suspicious persons would be arrested, even if the Germans broke in, they would be temporarily detained until the outbreak of war.

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The head of the Gestapo, Heydrich, was ordered by Hitler to conduct a secret investigation of Rommel's residence, including Rommel's hometown in Thuringia.

Hitler received Heydrich in his office

"Hey! Hitler. ”

"Heydrich, how is the situation with your investigation?"

Although Heydrich also accepted the artwork sent by Rommel, it is absolutely impossible to think that Heydrich favored Rommel because of this, Heydrich was Hitler's most loyal lackey, and he definitely did such a thing.

"My Führer, we, the Gestapo, conducted a secret investigation of two residences in Rommel and found nothing wrong."

Today Hitler was calm, he did not make a tirade in front of Heydrich, but stared at Heydrich with his eagle-sharp eyes and said:

"Isn't Rommel's house luxurious, and isn't Rommel very rich now?"

Although Heydrich would not favor Rommel, he would not deliberately frame Rommel, he reported truthfully:

"My Führer, judging from the secret investigation of the Gestapo, Rommel's two houses are extremely simple, all the furniture is old furniture, and Rommel's deposit in the bank is only more than 20,000 marks, which is exactly in line with his income."

"Didn't Rommel secretly buy a luxury villa?"

"No, no one can hide from the Gestapo investigation."

Hitler did not give up and continued to ask:

"Didn't Rommel have other secret deposits? For example, secret deposits in Swiss banks. ”

"No, my Führer, Rommel does not have a personal account in a Swiss bank, I personally went to the Swiss bank to verify it.

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