Franz. Feng. Who is Bapen?

A native of Prussia, a German royal court boy, cavalry officer, military attaché in Washington, and a military staff officer during the Second Reich, a member of the Prussian Parliament and Chancellor in the Weimar era (there was a Schleicher cabinet that lasted for two months after him), and the first and only deputy chancellor and diplomat in the Third Reich. Combining the will and character of a soldier with the calm and cunning of a politician, his seemingly weak and lean body with traditional Germanic blood flowed through it, and he was able to stand proudly in front of the judges of the Allied countries and the German people with a clear conscience, which was both a valuable political capital and a dangerous force.

In Lynn's view, it was foolish for the Allies to appoint such a seemingly middle-of-the-road veteran politician to reorganize the German government. Don't think that Feng. Away from the inner circle of German politics for nearly a decade, Papen belongs to the category of "safe and pollution", and his personal ideological position is certainly not as paranoid and presumptuous as that of a real Nazi, but the problem is that those who carried the burden in German politics more than ten years ago have either fallen victim to the exclusion of dissent by the Hitler regime, or have accepted assimilation into the loyal support of the Third Reich. What kind of characters will Barben choose?

Some things are simply superfluous to think about with the brain, toes are enough!

The character of a soldier should be brave and decisive. Barben was quick to demonstrate this in action. Shortly after the New Year, the Provisional Government of Germany was proclaimed in Berlin. Papen became prime minister, and the "financial god" who created an economic miracle - Yamal left the Nuremberg prison with Papen under the hat of "acquittal". Schacht, with the ambition to quickly heal the wounds of the German war, returned to the stage of the times. This time he was no longer Minister of Economy or Chairman of the National Bank, but in his senior capacity as Vice Chancellor of the Provisional Government, he led the economic and financial revival of post-war Germany.

Diplomatic aspects. Aging and awaiting trial by the Allies. Niu Wright with the infamous von. Ribbentrop was no longer fit for office, von Fernandes. Papen brought in the 73-year-old diplomat and another prominent figure of the Bülow family, Ernst Brown. Feng. Bilow served as foreign minister, and his cousin, known as the "successor to Bismarck" Bernhard. Feng. Count Bilow, who served as Chancellor of the German Empire and Chancellor of Prussia from 1900 to 1909, famously said, "Let other nations divide the continent and the sea." And the time when we in Germany were content with blue skies has passed, and we also demand territory under the sun" is a condensed reflection of Germany's strategic state policy of that era.

On the choice of defense minister, Feng . Barben didn't bother much, he directly chose the commander of the German Wehrmacht appointed by the allies, Maximilian . Feng. Wix, but in terms of military rank. The Allies were very unkind to the incentive rewards of the Third Reich in the middle and late stages of the war. Wilks' rank of field marshal "disappeared," and the gazette's government list reads "Cavalry General" — a military rank he had received as early as 1936.

The next cabinet dignitaries, from the ministers of the interior, finance, economy, and justice, to the ministers of post, transport, agriculture and food, and education, are either the ministers of the interior, finance, economy, and justice. A colleague with whom Papen worked in his early years. Either they were officials who held low-level positions in the same system during the Third Reich. The abilities and beliefs of these people are left aside. With the acquiescence of the Allies, their ability to stand trial during the war was likely to be erased, and the position of the Western Allies undoubtedly gave Germany a very bad start to the post-war political situation......

The German provisional cabinet led by Papen was announced at lightning speed, and the idea of "gassed" discussed by Lynn and Selot had just been put into practice. and occupy important local positions as much as possible. For this sudden change, the secret telegram sent from the Nordic base was full of calmness that made Lynn difficult to figure out for a while. The Ereich's top brass took a calm stance as if they were going to let Papen pick up the pieces and wait until the German government and industrial institutions were back in operation.

Could it be that both Papen and Schacht were the Führer's internal responses?

When this thought popped into my head. Even Lynn himself thinks it's incredible, but political things are incomprehensible and incomprehensible in the eyes of ordinary people. Papen experienced twists and turns in the more than ten years when Hitler was completely in power, first he was under house arrest on the "Night of the Long Knife", many of his men were shot, and then he served as the German minister to Austria, actively played his diplomatic role in the German annexation of Austria, and served as a minister in Turkey during the war, and was once assassinated by intelligence officers sent by the Soviet Union. …,

As a genius in the field of finance, Schacht's experience is legendary. Germany was able to rise from the ashes of the Second Reich in just over a decade, especially in the thirties, and the profound roots of German industry were a major cornerstone, and Schacht's financial magic was a great contribution. Known as the "financial magician", this half-breed successfully reversed inflation when he was chairman of the German National Bank, persuaded the League of Nations to delay the payment of war reparations by Germany (the unpaid part after the Hitler regime came to power, and from 1931 onwards, he used his prestige, connections and outstanding financial skills to manage campaign funds for Hitler, and at the end of 1932, this turning point in history, it was he who launched a large-scale coalition of German industrial and financial circles. President Hindenburg's appointment of Hitler as Reich Chancellor became the most dramatic scene of the era. Soon, Hitler became the head of the Reich in one power, Schacht was given the position of Minister of Economy, and began his magic show, creating a "credit miracle" with the skill of a white wolf with raw soup and empty gloves, so that the loans provided by the United States became a powerful impetus to wage the German war machine. In the last years of the war, Germany's armaments expanded faster than Schacht expected, and his use of the credit cycle to maintain military spending gradually lost its magical effect, and he resigned due to a fierce conflict with Goering's "four-year plan", and later almost lost his life because of his involvement in the assassination of Hitler, and his life in the concentration camp brought him to a low point. Until the end of the war, he ushered in the liberation, imprisonment, trial and release of the Allies, and the ups and downs of the process are amazing.

What secrets are hidden behind these two politically reinvigorated figures?

Lynn was puzzled.

It was also after the New Year that the situation in Eastern Europe changed again. On January 14, British Field Marshal Alexander personally commanded the Panzer Corps to launch a fierce attack on the plains more than 60 kilometers south of Namiref. After two days and one night of fierce fighting, the Allies finally made a breakthrough on the front of the Soviet encirclement, and after the internal and external forces converged, the Allies continued to expand the breakthrough, expanding it from the initial 5 kilometers to nearly 20 kilometers. In the next few days, more than 400,000 Allied troops who had been encircled by the Soviet army scrambled to retreat in the direction of Poland, and the troops serving as flank support and rear defense also withstood the pressure of the Soviet attack. At about the same time, the Allied forces on the Northern Front also used the newly captured port of Pärnu to carry out a major naval retreat in order to ensure the safe evacuation of the main forces. The U.S. and Polish armies, which acted as the rearguard, fought several beautiful blocking battles on the periphery one after another. For example, the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment held out the Velland Valley for two days under the infantry, repelling two and a half Soviet divisions, while in the defensive battle of Sogn, north of Pärnu, the Polish army, which had always been regarded as the weakness of the Allied forces, also launched a powerful defensive counterattack, and three infantry regiments forced back one Soviet infantry division. The optimistic situation almost led the Allied commander to order a halt in the retreat and turn to storm the Soviet troops, but at the request of Eisenhower's General Command. More than 100,000 troops were eventually evacuated and then retreated by sea to northern Poland for rest.

The North and South Fronts, which had once been in a desperate situation, were relieved one after another. The Allies were relieved, but they did not have time to assess the performance of the Soviet army. The opponent's new move made everyone dumbfounded - I thought that the Soviet Ukrainian Front and the Belarusian Front had suffered a great loss of vitality in the combat operations on the southern and northern fronts respectively, but these two fierce land lions suddenly launched a fierce offensive in western Ukraine and western Belarus at the same time on January 22, and the Soviet Air Force also attacked against the trend, and in just one morning, it carried out a rapid assault on more than 50 large and small airfields on the Allied front, damaging and destroying more than 1,000 Allied combat aircraft. This resulted in a record number of Allied aircraft lost in a single day since the start of the war between the Eastern and Western camps. The Soviet armored forces, which were mainly composed of IS-2 heavy tanks, T-34 medium tanks and SU series assault guns, launched a strong assault without artillery support, in which the Ukrainian Front pursued Alexander's troops who thought they were out of danger, and successively routed the Polish and French rearguard units, breaking through the two-day defensive line set up by the British army in one day, and then won an overwhelming victory in the encounter with the American armored forces. The Belarusian Front bypassed the Allied defenses in Lithuania and attacked directly from West Belarus, forming a parallel with the Ukrainian Front, they first fought a fierce battle with the Allied Central Route Corps in the Baranovichi area, and the Allied forces were soon forced to retreat due to a lack of psychological preparation, and the Soviet Ukrainian Front, which was advancing smoothly on the southern front, sent a response force to make the Allied command mistakenly believe that the Soviet Army intended to carry out encirclement and annihilation operations against its own Middle Route Corps, Therefore, the central army and the southern front maintained a balanced retreat posture, and did not want the Soviet Belorussian Front to suddenly turn right after capturing Baranovichi, and the front broke through the ribs of the Allied northern front troops and penetrated directly into Kaliningrad (East Prussia), and the Allied northern front troops that had not been surrounded before were also panicked. They went south to Belarus in an attempt to harass the Soviet flank, so that they could not be strong, and did not want the Soviet army to have already laid pockets in the Lida region of northwestern Belarus, a US mechanized corps was immediately wrapped in dumplings, and reinforcements were severely attacked in the Lithuanian-Belarusian border area, this time they faced Soviet troops were not so easy to deal with, a fully equipped infantry division was enough to nail two Allied divisions in front of the position and could not move. …,

One after another, the unfavorable battle reports against the Allies took place, and as time passed, the hideous face of the Soviet army gradually emerged from the illusion of decline in the previous stage. On the southern front, Alexander's hundreds of thousands of troops, together with the friendly and neighboring troops who came to reinforce them, were pursued and beaten by the Soviet armored cluster with more than 5,000 tanks and assault vehicles, although Field Marshal Alexander, who succeeded Montgomery in charge of the southern front, calmly gathered his troops to organize defense, but the United States, Britain, France, Poland, and some German volunteers composed of the combined corps could not achieve the state of unity from beginning to end, so it could not replicate the German ** The team was able to hold on and retreat in an orderly manner despite successive defeats in the Leningrad-Novgorod Campaign, the Right-Bank Ukrainian Campaign, the Odessa Campaign, the Crimean Campaign, the Vyborg Campaign, the Sviri-Perozavodsk Campaign, the Belarusian Campaign, the Lviv-Sandomierz Campaign, the Iasi-Kishinev Campaign, and the Baltic Coast Campaign. The morale of the Allied officers and men plummeted, and with generals, officers, and ordinary soldiers in the absence of any desire to fight, the main Allied forces on the southern front retreated to Poland at a faster pace than the normal march on foot, but the Soviets pursued faster than them, and on January 27, the advance force on its right flank had overtaken Alexander's headquarters and advanced to just over twenty kilometers from the Polish border. and turned south to attack Alexander's flank. On the last day of January, the Soviet armored corps, reinforced by mechanized infantry, fought a major battle with the Allies west of Lviv, breaking through the positions of the American and British troops and breaking into the depths on that day, a large number of American soldiers surrendered to the Soviet troops, and an infantry division belonging to the French 6th Army also raised a white flag in the hopeless retreat. So far. Of the three armies organized by the Allied Winter Offensive, the most powerful troops on the southern front had collapsed and could only hold along the defense line along the Bug River with the Polish native army, and the Soviet armored forces also lost a large number of tanks under the fierce fighting with the opponent and the counterattack of the Allied air force, so they tried to cross the river in some sections. In most areas, advances were suspended, and the Allied forces that had not had time to withdraw into Poland were cleared.

Compare to the wide opening and closing of the Ukrainian Front. The attack of the Soviet Belorussian Front was more of a use of mobile warfare to confuse and disrupt the opponent, and its main armored forces suddenly turned around when they were still more than 60 kilometers away from Kaliningrad, that is, Königsberg, Germany, and fought with the retreating Allied troops on the northern front in the Taulagai area of southwestern Lithuania. The Soviets also achieved an astonishing record of killing 42,000 Allied officers and soldiers and capturing 79,000, and Bradley and 160,000 Allied remnants retreated to the Kaliningrad fortress area through the coastal area under the cover of the navy.

The north and south lines have lost ground. The Allied forces in the center, commanded by French Field Marshal Tasini, had to slowly withdraw from the occupied areas of Western Belarus to Poland. The two sides have returned to the situation they had been six months ago, with the border between Poland and the former German East Prussia as the separation zone. On the surface, the front defended by nearly two million Allied troops relying on strong fortifications was impregnable, but the previous painful defeat had caused the morale of the army to fall to the bottom, and what made the Allied generals even more worried was that after the military coup in Romania, the pro-Soviet forces in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and even Poland were also ready to move. The Skoda Arsenal, which manufactures guns and ammunition for the Allies in the Czech Republic, has had a series of incidents, and production has come to a standstill for a time. Some Allied generals were worried that the political situation in Poland would be unstable, and once the border defense line was conquered by the Soviet army, the terrain in the hinterland of Poland would be too flat and undefendable, and the main force of the Allied forces would be divided and surrounded by the Soviet army in the process of evacuating Poland, so they proposed to negotiate peace with the Soviet Union or retreat to Western Europe. In the United States, anti-war sentiment has grown over the heavy casualties on the front lines; In Britain, the successive defeats of Montgomery and Alexander, the military was disgraced, Prime Minister Attlee's war strategy was criticized, and Churchill's call for a return to 10 Downing Street was growing. In early February, the heads of state of the Western allies gathered in London to discuss the war. In the closed-door talks between the heads of state of the United States, Britain, and France, US President Harry S. Truman proposed that only by giving full play to the superiority of nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union be completely contained and crushed, and that once a nuclear war began, a devastating large-scale nuclear strike would be launched against the Soviet Union -- the US military had prepared enough atomic bombs and had drawn up evacuation plans for the capital Washington, D.C., ports on the eastern coast, and large cities to guard against a Soviet nuclear counterattack. In order to end the war before the Soviet Union could produce more atomic bombs, the United States prepared for a nuclear attack two months later, which meant that the British and French allies in Europe had to gradually evacuate the inhabitants of the capital and major cities during these two months.

At this time, the United States was still the only Western Allies with atomic weapons, and Truman did not consult the two governments before informing the British and French leaders, but the great threat from the East made them unanimously choose to acquiesce. The contents of the closed-door talks were highly classified, but with the evacuation orders issued by the British and French governments, the Soviets sensed something unusual, and this time, the Soviet government quickly warned the Western allies through a third neutral country that if the allies used atomic bombs against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union would not hesitate to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike, even if most of the people in the area were innocent civilians.

Whether the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons or not, the Western allies have not yet reached a conclusion, and in this world, in addition to the Soviets themselves, there is another group of people who are familiar with the facts, and these people have been snooping in the shadows for a long time, and the turbulent situation is what they have been looking forward to for a long time, and adding fuel to the fire is a new method of warfare that they have realized in the midst of the difficulties...... ）