On the battlefield, negativity is a state of mind, a phenomenon, and a philosophy that cannot be underestimated in the world. If you can't, it will be even more difficult for the commander to turn the situation around, even if the commander is talented!

Immediately after the German Corps, which had surrendered to the Soviet troops at Lake Shnyarved, sent a telegram to the departments of the German Wehrmacht, the Soviet side issued an announcement in the name of the Soviet army base camp: All German soldiers who surrendered to the battlefield could choose to return to Germany after the war, or they could freely go to Northern Europe, or join the compatriots who remained in the Soviet army as German volunteers. With a two-pronged approach, even if the officers of the German units still had concerns, how could the Allied command continue to entrust these wavering German servicemen with heavy responsibilities?

However, the Allied front in 1948 had changed considerably from a year or two earlier. More than 1.7 million US troops have been killed, missing, captured, or wounded and discharged, and even though new recruits are constantly being recruited from within the country, the proportion of US troops stationed in the United States on the battlefield in allied countries has dropped from nearly 55 percent to 41 percent. The losses of the British army also reached more than 800,000, and due to the constraints of the population base and reserve strength, their replenishment of troops was far less than the consumption, and the proportion of troops dropped from 21 percent to less than 10 percent; The French army did not participate in the war at the beginning of the war, and the Polish army has always been in an awkward position, these two countries also contributed a third of the land troops to the Allied forces in Europe at most, but their combat effectiveness has always been regarded as the belly of the Allied front, except for a few battles with outstanding performance, most of the occasion played the role of minions and even soy sauce. By virtue of their consistent rigor, dedication, and excellent military qualities, more than 1 million German soldiers gradually changed from auxiliary forces to main combat forces, and the proportion of combat units steadily increased, reaching nearly 20 percent by the time the Soviet troops launched another strategic offensive. That is, the vacillation of the German army meant that the Allies lost a fifth of their combat personnel in a short period of time, and a fifth between the absolute main force and the second-rate troops. As a result, the Allied command could only use reserve troops or tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall to fill the void left by the overwhelming German combat power!

On the other hand, the Great Depth of Defense in East-Central Poland was not as impregnable as the Allies advertised, and since the defeat of the French by the Germans bypassing the Maginot Line, no military decision-maker would have invested an astronomical amount of money and materials to build an immovable defensive system, which existed only as a "man-made fence" on the vast and unobstructed Polish plain. In fact, it took only five months to build, with the French coming up with the design, the Americans providing the funds, the Germans contributing professional engineering troops, and nearly a third of Poland's working population undertaking the main basic works. The defensive line has a defensive depth of 40 kilometers, outposts, minefields, anti-tank trenches, main defense lines, reserve defense lines and reinforcement areas, and the main defense line is also equipped with a large number of concrete fortresses and armored turrets, and thousands of old and new artillery pieces are fixed in the defense line area. However, more than a month ago, Soviet intelligence had obtained the blueprints for this defensive line, and combined with detailed geographical information, they could easily develop a fortunate and effective offensive plan. In the case of the weakness of the Soviet aviation in the later period, the spring rain became a natural factor to cover the Soviet ground forces, taking advantage of the rainy days and the decline in the efficiency of the Allied fighters' sorties, the Soviet army once again set off an offensive frenzy, and the southern area of Olstyn, Chekhanuv and Radom, which was originally defended by the German army and temporarily replaced by other Allied troops, the Soviet troops with tank units as the main force of the assault broke through the defense line in a relatively short time. Once there was a breach in the linear defense line, the rest of the area was impregnable, and the Allied Command in Europe hurriedly dispatched the strategic mobile force, the elite armored division of the US army, to fill the loopholes in the future, and Britain and France also transferred troops stationed in Germany to reinforce the line of fire, plus the Allied aviation units were put into the battlefield at any cost, and the Soviet offensive in many places was contained. However, this was destined to be only a repetition before the tide broke the dike, and the experienced Soviet infantry, not to be outdone, formed a breakthrough in the center and south of the defensive line. Taking advantage of this turbulent situation, Slovak communists and partisans, with the support of the Soviet Union, also launched an armed insurrection, which greatly contained the Slovak army and the Allied forces stationed in northern Slovakia. …,

Seeing that the defense line was full of holes and crumbling, the Allied command never reactivated the German troops in Poland, which numbered more than 200 regiments, but they were unwilling to let these German officers and soldiers return to the country, so there was usually only one order given to these troops: to stay in place and not to retreat without authorization. As a result, millions of German Defence officers and men watched from the rear of the defensive line from across the bank to watch the millions of officers and men of the Eastern and Western camps fight fiercely for the interests of their country. Towards the end of May, the Allied forces, outnumbered in numbers and momentum, finally fell into a rout, and there was no longer a line of defense on the Polish plain for them to gather their troops and organize their defenses, and under the inability of the Allied command, the troops rushed into the Oder valley valley in panic, and across the river was the German eastern defensive line, which was being built at the same time as the great depth of the Polish defensive line. However, there were only more than 100 kilometers of retreat from the eastern Polish front to the Great Depth of the defensive line, and from the Great Depth of the Defense Line to the Oder River valley, there were trains full of wounded and American and British officers and soldiers running on the railway line to Germany, most of the French and Polish troops could only march slowly on the crowded roads, the strength of the country determined the status, and the distinction between high and low in the Allied armies always seemed to exist in a vague place - if they were well, everyone would be safe, and once the catastrophe came, This differential treatment will be unabashedly highlighted!

Four million Allied troops fled in front, six million Soviet troops pursued in the rear, and tens of millions of troops marched mightily across the Polish land, even if the planes flew to a critical height, it was difficult for people to get a full picture of the incident. In an era when satellite photography was still decades away, people could only rely on their imagination to guess what a magnificent spectacle it was. In the midst of the tens of millions of people chasing after me, the million-strong German troops, organized into 243 infantry regiments, 181 engineering battalions, and 46 independent artillery units, looked very different, and they watched with extremely complicated feelings as the armies of various countries that were still nominally Allied colleagues withdrew by rail and road, and hundreds of Allied fighters and bombers were still trying their best to block the Soviet aviation and ground forces, but gradually, the number of these Allied fighters became smaller and smaller, and Soviet reconnaissance planes and fighters could be found in the sky again. The order to stay in place was not canceled or changed, and the German troops naturally became the rearguard, and although they dug up temporary positions and were ready for battle, the generals of the various divisions soon agreed in private, and they ordered the laying of conspicuous German flags in their defensive areas, the planting of warning flags in the minefields in front of the positions, and the officers and men remaining in the trenches as long as the Soviet troops did not force their way into their defensive areas. When the situation was still unclear, a tacit understanding was quickly reached between the attacking Soviet troops and the German troops who had no choice but to stay, Soviet fighters threw leaflets instead of bombs in the German defense area, and the Soviet troops continued to move around the German defense area, and only when it was necessary to use the bridges and roads in the German defense area, the two sides would send liaison officers to negotiate in person, and then the German army would "lose" part of the defense area and let the powerful Soviet torrent roll in front of them, "surrounding" them in the defense area. Of course, this is very different from a normal siege, there is no shelling, no siege, not even cutting off or destroying the water source, but just a dull wait.

Although there is no clear evidence that the majority of the German Wehrmacht on the front line chose to surrender to the Soviets or were already negotiating surrender, the new commander of the Allied Command in Europe, Mike Brown, was the commander of the Allied European Command. Arthur and his allies made a difficult but important decision: a state of emergency was declared in Germany on the grounds of the collective defection of the German Wehrmacht, and all German servicemen who remained on home had to wait in the barracks for the next order, and Germany's military defense was taken over by the Allied forces! …,

With a steady stream of Allied troops arriving in Germany via railroads, the Allies at least did not have to worry about not having enough troops to occupy and control Germany. In the name of the government and the army, they declared that Germany had entered a special period, that the army and the people must put the national interests first, unconditionally accept and cooperate with the control of the allied armies, and that universal suffrage and the formation of the parliamentary cabinet could only be postponed. In view of the fact that the Allies were preparing to use the eastern German defense line to defend against the Soviet attack, after obtaining the consent of the Allied Command, Hof-Hersten issued an evacuation order to evacuate the residents of eastern Germany to the central and western regions.

If the allies continue to attack northern Europe despite the decline of the war on the European continent, the Soviet Union will lose the nuclear weapons balance between the two camps, but the top leaders of the allies obviously do not have the real inside story, let alone distinguish between the Northern Scandinavian Free Empire and the Soviet Union. As the situation in Poland deteriorated, the Allies suspended their military offensive in northern Europe and gradually withdrew their naval fleets and marine units from the Norwegian front in order to strengthen the Allied forces in the European theater and tactical options.

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