Chapter 592: Crowned Emperor
It is no longer news that Germany wants to restore the Holy Fallen Empire, because Germany began to vigorously promote it more than half a year ago, and Goebbels, a German propaganda genius, formulated a very well-thought-out propaganda plan for this purpose. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The German media are promoting the benefits of restoring the Holy Roman Empire every day, and getting the German people to support the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire is only one aspect, and getting the rest of Europe to agree that the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire is the most difficult.
Goebbels also had more experience in propaganda in this area, and he started with the wars of European countries through the ages, and after the staircase of the Holy Roman Empire, the whole of Europe entered into endless wars.
Today you fight me, tomorrow I will fight you, the day after tomorrow you unite with other countries to fight me, and the day after tomorrow I will unite with two countries to counterattack.
The whole of Europe had paid a very heavy price for these wars, and if the Holy Roman Empire had been restored, these wars would have been completely avoided, and the whole of Europe would have ushered in an unprecedented peaceful development.
It can be said that Europe has been fighting for thousands of years, and there is very little time for real peace, and the people of Europe are actually very tired of war, and the people are eager for peaceful development and a happy life.
In order to achieve this goal, even the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire is acceptable, after all, the Holy Roman Empire is only a union state, and their original state will be retained, and the original monarch will not be deposed.
Therefore, the European people are not opposed to the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire, many people are supportive, and even if a few people oppose it, they do not dare to say anything, because these European countries are all occupied by Germany at this moment, and German troops are stationed in their countries.
The traditional aristocracy of Europe, inspired by the Habsburgs, also explicitly supported the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire.
Now the whole of Europe, from the commoners to the aristocracy, supported the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire, and the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire was a matter of course, all of which was ultimately achieved on the basis of Germany's strong military and economy.
On January 28, 1942, the Pope visited Berlin, Germany, and the next day the Pope personally held the coronation ceremony for the Führer Rommel of the Holy Roman Empire, and Rommel officially became the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
The official upgrading of the central institutions of Germany into the various administrative organs of the Holy Roman Empire, of course, there are some new faces in these administrative institutions, which is of course the result of the game between the parties.
At the beginning of February, the numbers of the German units began to change, for example, after the name change of the 7th Panzer Army, it was not the 7th Panzer Army of the German Army, but the 7th Panzer Army of the Holy Roman Empire.
The military uniforms of the Holy Roman Empire are all based on German military uniforms, and after the end of the Soviet war, new military uniforms were uniformly customized.
The standard weapons and equipment of the Holy Roman Empire are all based on the German weapons standard as the national unified standard.
The currency of the Holy Roman Empire was temporarily replaced by the German mark, and a year later, after a new version of the currency, the currency of the Holy Roman Empire was issued by the former German National Bank.
In short, the whole of Europe was united militarily and economically with reference to Germany, and each country had a certain degree of autonomy, but the military power, the coinage power, and the diplomatic power were managed by the Holy Roman Empire.
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Two flowers bloom, one on each branch.
Ever since the Anglo-American forces landed in France on August 25, 1941, Stalin felt a sense of rebirth, and he immediately and eagerly launched a series of campaigns.
Stalin, we didn't want to completely crush the millions of elite German troops and millions of Soviet rebels, he mainly wanted to contain the main strength of the German army.
It was in this context that the Vistula-Oder battle took place.
Before the start of the campaign, Stalin mobilized 16 combined armies, 4 tank armies, 2 air force armies, as well as a number of independent tank corps, mechanized corps, cavalry corps, and a large number of troops directly under the front army, totaling 2.2 million men, 33,500 artillery pieces and pursuit guns, 7,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, and 5,000 aircraft.
This was the largest strategic group of the Soviet army pre-established for the implementation of an offensive campaign. The two Soviet fronts operated in a 500-kilometer-wide strip and controlled three landing sites on the left bank of the Vistula River in Magnushev, Povavi and Sandomierz.
The "center" army group was the main force of General Harper, with a total of about 560,000 officers and men, about 5ooo artillery pieces and mortars, more than 1,200 tanks and assault guns, and more than 600 aircraft.
In the course of the engagement, the enemy transferred about 40 divisions of the Russian Liberation Army from Poland from the Western Front, the German interior, and other parts of the Soviet-German battlefield in order to restore the defense.
In order to resist the Soviet attack, the German high command established a complete defense system between the Vistula and Oder rivers in Poland, which included seven defensive areas arranged in echelons with a depth of 500 kilometers.
In order to improve its stability, especially in terms of anti-tank protection, extensive use was made of the Vistula, Varta, Oder and other rivers.
This series of defensive areas includes a number of cities and fortresses that have been prepared for long-term defense.
The two most fortified areas were the Vistula region, which consisted of four strips with a total depth of 30 to 70 km, and the Kreuz (Křiže) and Unrustadt (Kargova) regions, which consisted of the Pomeranian fortified area, the Mezeritz fortified area, and the Glogau-Breslau fortified area.
The fascist German high command wanted to weaken the offensive capability of the Soviet army by holding on to the fortified areas, so as to delay the war.
The political purpose of the Sva-Oder Battle was to contain the main strength of the German army, indirectly support the Anglo-American coalition, and show that the Soviet Union and Britain and the United States were one and the same.
The strategic purpose was to smash Army Group "Center" in front of it and advance out of the Oder River, and at the same time to obtain a bridgehead that wanted Moscow to advance, and see if it could relieve the more than 100 regular Soviet troops encircled in Moscow.
The tactical attempt was to launch a powerful divisional assault from each landing field at the same time, to break through the enemy's defenses, to rapidly develop a high-speed offensive, and to seize the area before the retreating German army or reserves could gain a foothold in the middle defensive area.
The total depth of the campaign of the 1st Belorussian Front was 100-250 km, and that of the 1st Russian Front was 100-200 km.
In accordance with the intentions of the base camp, the 1st Belorussian Front was to carry out three assaults: four combined armies, two tank armies and one cavalry corps to carry out the main assault from the Magnushev landing ground in the direction of Poznan.
The second assault was carried out from the Pławy landing ground in the direction of Lodz, reinforced by two separate tank corps and one cavalry corps by two combined armies, and the third assault was carried out by the 47th Army from the area north of Warsaw.
The 1st Russian Front should carry out a powerful assault from the Sandomierz landing ground in the direction of Radomsko, with 8 combined armies, 2 tank armies, and 3 separate tank armies, and after completing the current tasks (120-150 km deep), develop an offensive towards Breslau. (To be continued.) )