In the Imperial Strategic Staff, the work of a low-level staff officer is almost the same as when Lynn was a staff officer in the headquarters of the "Vampire" commando, and he does not have to charge into battle like an ordinary officer and soldier, even if he is exposed to the rain and crawling, he is basically lacking in the creation of surnames, and sometimes it is very repetitive and trivial, but this job is not without bright spots, and its most refreshing process is "discovery" - discovering the first secret intelligence information, and discovering the plan that is still in the brewing stage. Discover the inside story that the outside world may never know. In just a few days after coming to the Strategic Staff, the "Aryan Ark Project", which was originally chaotic in Lynn's mind, finally gradually revealed its huge and hideous outline from the fog.

The core of this plan, as Lynn speculated, was to ensure that the head of the Empire, Adolf. Hitler's life was absolutely safe, because even in 1945, when the war was about to be lost, the appeal of this scholar to the Germanic nation was irreplaceable – Goering, Himmler, Goebbels, and even Rommel "crawled out of the grave" did not have such influence. Only when the Führer came out and raised his arms and shouted that the German army and people would stubbornly rise from the ruins.

Around the heart of the plan, planners and executors sought to secretly transfer and accumulate valuable military resources. As with the long-standing goals pursued by Germany, these resources strive for the "best" and "the most advanced", on the basis of which the quantitative scale can be appropriately ignored. Because of this, it was not necessary for all of the top engineers of the project to retreat to the "refuge" at all costs, and the planners probably had already scoped the scope in late 1944, mainly the four projects of the dish aircraft and special power projects, the high-speed high-altitude aircraft, the high-speed silent submarine, and the electronic communications and detection equipment. In a report assessing the status of key technicians and equipment transfers, Lynn saw that the plan executors gave a 90-odd percent degree of completion. As for the other traditional projects of the German workers, including conventional aircraft, artillery, tanks, firearms and even rockets, they are almost excluded.

In Lynn's view, such a decision can only be described as stupidity, lack of vision and putting the cart before the horse, but he put himself in the shoes of the planners who were born and grew up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For example, when the war broke out, the main means of air detection were telescopic observation and primitive listening devices, and in just a few years, radar, which had little attention was originally paid attention to, has developed by leaps and bounds, and has even become an effective airborne weapon. It is precisely because of these dazzling plans that pure military decision-makers can only rely on their own consciousness to judge the direction of future weapons development. Now that jet fighters have surpassed traditional piston-powered aircraft, it doesn't defy logic that they're pinning their hopes on more powerful aircraft!

Of course, a war cannot be all about weapons, and in the "Aryan Ark Project", the original plan was to select 4,000 of the best officers and men of the SS to retreat to the "refuge", together with 400 pilots, 1,200 skilled maintenance mechanics, 3,000 naval officers and 600 best naval workers, plus the engineering and guard units that arrived earlier, the total number of officers and men would exceed 12,000. However, after entering 1945, the tide of the war changed far faster than the planners expected, and a large number of SS troops were separated from various parts of the battlefield, from Courland in the northeast to Hungary in the south, and from Italy to the Western Front in Germany. According to the statistics of 20 May, together with some Defence officers and men who temporarily joined the operation in the final phase, only 1,400 land fighters, only 120 pilots, and 633 maintenance technicians arrived at the "refuge", with the exception of the Navy, which was the closest to the plan, at nearly 2,800 people, thanks to the 43 submarines that arrived from the Baltic, North Sea and Atlantic Sea after 9 May.

Weapons and equipment and corresponding personnel are basically in place, and the "Aryan Ark Project" will enter a rather important dormant stage. According to the planner's estimates, this stage depends on the speed of its own scientific and technological research and development and changes in the external situation, with a minimum of half a year and a maximum of more than 10 years. As a result, the plan to arrange for 12,500 women of working age to live with military officers and soldiers in the "shelters" and start new families will undoubtedly be the envy of the 21st-century youth who will be plagued by the ratio of men to women decades later, despite capacity constraints, with only 8,500 young German women arriving before the fall of Berlin.

In a report on the distribution of labor, Lynn saw a distribution of 8,500 young women: 400 in military service, 800 in medical rescue, 600 in restaurant operations, 6,200 in factory production, and the remaining 500 in training as candidates for civilian service, communications technology, and combat units in the military. Overall, the presence of these alien surnames will enrich and coordinate the relatively isolated life of the "Vault", but the total number of personnel at the base will also reach 16,000, and it is a very critical problem to solve the problem of these people's usual material consumption.

The planners were very flexible in their logistical arrangements: for the first four months, they relied mainly on the base's stockpiles, supplemented by fishing activities off the coast of Norway – 80 hand-picked German naval volunteers disguised themselves as Norwegian fishermen, who could speak Norwegian and had identification issued by the Norwegian political axe, which would be difficult for the Allied ships to see if they were not interrogated very strictly. Four months later, even though the Western Allies and Soviet forces, mainly Britain and the United States, had not yet fought on the European continent, their attention had been diverted from the war against Germany. As long as there are no major accidents, the normal operation of the base can continue.

The "refuge" was by no means a haven of strife, and the decision-makers of the Aryan Ark Project were determined to avoid the Allied and Soviet forces, and pinned their plans for the revival of Germany on two major factors: the successful development of ultra-sophisticated weapons and the outbreak of a large-scale war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Based on Lynn's understanding of the content of the plan, these two factors are not absolutely indispensable, and as long as one of them can meet enough requirements, the "refuge" will be the starting point for the counterattack. At that time, the head of the Reich, Adolf. Hitler will raise his arms and shout here, and those German nationals and former Imperial soldiers who are in the shadow of defeat and are being bullied by the occupiers will not immediately attack the American and Soviet armies, and may not even dare to show a sense of resistance in their hearts, but their desire for victory and honor and the memories of the glorious days will be reawakened, and the organizations that remain on the European continent, and the forces distributed abroad, will also obey this command. Then, the empire that appears to the world in a new way will rely on superweapons and political skills to quickly control Norway, go south to Denmark, return to Germany, take power, restore the economy, expand the military, first defeat the Soviet Union without fighting on two fronts, then turn around and defeat the vulnerable France, force Britain to withdraw from the war permanently, and finally achieve control over Europe, Africa, and South America, and create a German empire that has never been stronger.

When the puzzle pieces in her mind finally became a complete picture, Lynn's heart was shocked more than anything she had ever done before. When the "Aryan Ark Project" was first formulated, Germany still had the opportunity to reverse the decline through strategic adjustments, but the planners were obviously far from the center of political and military power, and since they could not change the consciousness of the superiors at that time, they simply used bold prediction and superior imagination to depict this phoenix nirvana-like plan, and what is even more commendable is that its implementation did not cost astronomical financial resources like the Maginot Line, and also involved heavyweights such as Rommel who were ostensibly implicated in political events. While there are likely to be many contingencies in the implementation of the plan, on the whole, it exists far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, including the allied strategists, military strategists, and outstanding generals.

However, Lynn thought that the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II had passed in his own era, and since the "Aryan Ark Project" did exist, why did the decade of imperial revival become a distant one? Is it because the superweapon has not succeeded for a long time, and there has never really been a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Reading history can provide insight and understand the big and small episodes in the past. If he had done so, Lynn believed that at a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were at their most tense, there was a good chance that they would be provoked to war. In this way, the abandonment of the "Aryan Ark Project" is likely to be due to internal factors such as the death of the Führer, the rebellion of officers and soldiers, and the internal struggle for power and profit, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the planning system.

After thinking about it for a long time, Lynn was still unsure of the answer, he thought that the truth could only be solved in time, but when a piece of information about the submarine transporting secret supplies to Yuben was captured by the U.S. military was presented to the senior staff officer, he suddenly figured out that this bold and almost perfect plan still missed a little after all, an extremely critical but unpredictable key point, nuclear weapons!

(To be continued)