Himmler looked at the surprised Führer Rommel, and cold sweat flowed down, and then Himmler, the elm head, remembered that he did not have the authorization of the German Führer Rommel to expand the SS, or that Himmler had not consulted the Führer Rommel at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This unauthorized expansion of the army is tantamount to rebellion! That's why Himmler was terrified. Rommel could be regarded as holding Himmler's pigtails, so these twenty Waffen-SS divisions definitely did not belong to Himmler.

"Himmler, it seems that I have never received a report of the expansion of the SS, and you owe me an explanation."

Rommel suddenly questioned Himmler with a gloomy face, which made Himmler tremble and sweat coldly. Germany has no tradition of purges, but the German Führer has never been soft on rebel leaders.

If the Führer Rommel really wanted to care about Himmler's unauthorized expansion of the army and put on a hat of conspiracy and rebellion, then Himmler's fate can be imagined.

"Poof", Himmler knelt down, the Germans have no habit of kneeling, but this hat of conspiracy and rebellion really scared Himmler, he Himmler didn't want to die in a daze, and the Wehrmacht's grandsons would gloat because of this!

The generals of the Wehrmacht always believed that the Wehrmacht was the only armed force in Germany, and that Himmler's SS was a fancy unit that had come to compete with him for budget, weapons, and soldiers, and that the Wehrmacht generals had long wanted to bring down Himmler, the leader of the SS.

If Rommel really wanted to kill Himmler, the leader of the SS, Himmler was sure that the Wehrmacht's grandsons would have raised their hands and feet in favor.

Himmler, who was frightened to his knees, looked at Rommel with tears streaming down his face, and said:

"O my Führer! Himmler's loyalty to you can be seen in the sun and the moon, and the sky can be seen, I, Himmler, have absolutely no intention of rebellion, I just want to expand the German SS, so that they can fight on the battlefield for the Führer, and I am still expanding the army outside Germany! ……”

"Hmph, if you expand the SS without my authorization, even if you have no intention of rebellion, you are violating the corresponding regulations, and if the Wehrmacht is the same as you, then what do you want me to do.

So I'm going to punish you, but for your loyalty's sake, hand over all the wartime command of the Waffen-SS to the Ministry of Defence! This also silences those people, Himmler, you are satisfied with this punishment."

"Satisfied, satisfied...... I'm going to go through the corresponding handover formalities with the Ministry of Defense. ”

"Go ahead!"

Himmler got up from the ground in a hurry as if he had been amnesty, and ran away in the blink of an eye, because he was really afraid that Führer Rommel would suddenly repent.

Historically, the SS was not under the command of the front-line generals, and their actions could only be used with the approval of Hitler or Himmler, which undoubtedly caused a lack of coordination in command.

Even without Himmler's covert expansion, Rommel would have stripped Himmler of control over the Waffen-SS, at least in wartime.

Rommel, the Führer, could not go to war now, but was based in Berlin, and he had to provide the front with adequate logistics and an undisturbed command environment.

The quality of the German generals and soldiers was very high, and Rommel did not want these unfavorable factors to affect the overall combat strength of the German army, which was undoubtedly an act of self-defeat. There is no doubt that the German army in World War II would have been even greater if it had not been under Hitler's indiscriminate command.

When Rommel saw Himmler running out of his office, he picked up the internal phone on his desk again and connected to Defense Minister Brauchitsch:

"Field Marshal Brauchitsch, I'm Rommel."

"Hey! Rommel. ”

"I have decided to transfer the wartime command of the Waffen-SS to the Ministry of Defence, and you will henceforth be free to use the Waffen-SS as you wish.

Himmler will come to you immediately to complete the handover formalities, you can do it for him immediately, and Himmler has expanded twenty Waffen-SS divisions in the German occupation area, and they have no weapons ready yet, and you will pay in full from the state weapons reserve, of which there are five panzer divisions. ”

"Okay, I'll hand it over to someone immediately...... It's just that...... It's just that the Wehrmacht is also short of weapons and equipment, and some of the weapons and equipment lost by the Wehrmacht on the battlefield also need to be replenished.

If we arm these 20 Waffen-SS troops, there will not be much left in the national arsenal of weapons and equipment, and the Wehrmacht will not have any weapons and equipment to replenish. ”

Official, Wehrmacht! Even Rommel, the head of state who went out with a windbreaker, had to prevaricate like this, and if Himmler went to ask for weapons and equipment, he would definitely not even have a door.

"Marshal Brauchitsch, you can give it with confidence! As for the armament, don't worry, starting this month, a steady stream of weapons and equipment will be sent to you, so much that millions of Wehrmacht troops will not be able to use them up. ”

An excited voice came from the other side of the phone:

"Great Führer Rommel, are there so many tanks and planes that we can't run out?"

"Of course, you'll find out in the second half of the year."

"Then I will immediately follow the instructions of the Führer and arm twenty Waffen-SS divisions, and five Panzer divisions is no less."

"Thank you very much, Your Excellency Marshal Brauchitsch."

"Thank you to the Führer for the compliment, that's what I should do."

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Three days later, Rommel convened a conference on the research and development of German weapons and equipment in Berlin, Germany, and the theme of the meeting was to determine the direction of Germany's weapons and equipment research and development in the next few years.

For this meeting, Rommel made several phone calls to Swiss banks, which had already helped Rommel sell a large number of looted works of art and antiques.

Swiss bank staff told Rommel that his veterans' fund now has three billion dollars, and the rest of the accounts have about five billion dollars.

Führer Rommel did not hesitate to withdraw the five billion dollars, and Rommel was ready to spend five billion dollars to develop new weapons and equipment in order to cope with the early entry of the United States into the war.

For example, jet engines, V1 and V2 rockets, surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles, atomic bombs, airborne radars, new assault rifles, new master tank Leopard 2, new Iron Fist, and so on.

These are all strategic weapons and equipment, research and development expenses are extremely expensive, and most of the income of Germany and its occupied territories is used by Führer Rommel to support the production of Speer's weapons and equipment.

At this time, Germany had no money to invest in the research and development of new weapons, and it was impossible for the Führer Rommel to solve the problem by issuing additional banknotes, which was undoubtedly to quench his thirst, so the Führer Rommel had to use the plundered money.

It is only natural that the victorious countries plunder the defeated countries, and Rommel did not have any psychological burden, and in the future, after Germany occupied the Soviet Union, it was certain that the Soviet Union would be plundered in order to make up for Germany's losses, but Germany was under the auspices of Rommel, and this kind of plunder was not aimed at ordinary civilians.

When those arms manufacturers and R&D institutions in Germany heard that Führer Rommel had invested so much, they came up with their own R&D plans and prepared to apply for R&D funds from Rommel.

Historically, most of Germany's doomsday technology came from this, but many of the technical problems of doomsday technology could not be completely solved in World War II, and it needed to wait until a large number of electronic components appeared.

Therefore, Führer Rommel will not be the head of the wrongs, and must invest these five billion into some weapons and equipment that Germany urgently needs in the next few years, as for Germany's doomsday technology, let him put it on the shelf! I'm talking about it after Germany gets over the current crisis.

…… (To be continued.) )