Chapter 56 Gods Fall to the Mortal World?

Crackling......

After a burst of lightning that pierced the night, rolling thunder swept through the sky, and the strong wind shook the windows so hard that the wet air seemed to be able to squeeze out the water. Without hesitation, Lynn slipped out of the covers and walked barefoot to the window with her bare feet on the floor. The power of nature has always been so awe-inspiring, compared to the power of human beings, the power of human beings was once incomparably small, but the development of technology has not only allowed this race to stand at the top of the earth's food chain, but also allowed them to gain a terrifying destructive power comparable to nature step by step. From gunpowder to nuclear power, humanity has finally moved from killing each other to destroying the world, and it can be said that they are experiencing a self-brewing crisis with pride.

The window was closed, and the fluttering curtains hung down obediently. The clock was ticking, and the heavy raindrops were beating haphazardly on the window panes, and Lynn was already feeling drowsy. He turned and walked to the study, pulled out his chair, turned on the lamp, and opened the drawer, where a beautifully printed envelope lay quietly. Half a piece of cardstock the size of a letter paper was pulled out from the opening, and the mighty and domineering "Imperial Eagle" at the top of the cardstock lost its ring and returned to the "Weimar Eagle" with its feet open and four toes extended. More than half of the middle of the card is specially customized printed words, and the space left is written in blue-black ink.

Dear Hugo. Mr. Horst:

You have shown absolute loyalty and love for Germany in a righteous way, and in view of your extraordinary talent in politics and diplomacy, we are honored to invite you to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of Germany as Second Political Secretary of the German Chargé d'Affaires in the Netherlands. If you accept the appointment, please report to the Berlin office of the Federal Foreign Office within 15 days of receiving the notice and wish you all the best in your new position. If you are unable to attend the post due to special circumstances, please submit a written explanation to us as soon as possible.

Sincerely

Personnel Committee of the Cabinet of the Provisional Government of the German State

March 29, 1947

Hugo. Horst, Lynn's new identity back in Germany, was left unfinished due to the devastating destruction of government institutions and church facilities in his birthplace during the war, and official information can only be traced back to his entry into the philosophy department of Humboldt University, and then the end of the war when he graduated, never serving in the German army or official institutions, but working for the Red Cross to this day. The problem of incomplete archives was not unique in a country that had been almost completely destroyed by war, and Lynn's activities in Allied-occupied territory had been largely unhindered and his philosophical knowledge had not been questioned maliciously by holding a German Red Cross work card. Of course, the Foreign Service is not a neutral non-governmental organization like the Red Cross, and its position in the framework of government is quite important. Of course, the second political secretary can only be regarded as a small and inconspicuous role in the embassy, roughly equivalent to a non-commissioned officer in the army, and if he has the opportunity to transfer to the consulate in the future, he will barely have enough weight there.

Judging from his personal ability characteristics and experience, Lynn and the diplomatic department belong to the kind of relationship that cannot be matched, unless one day he becomes a strongman in the military circle and dabbles in politics and diplomacy from a military point of view, if it is just to disguise his identity, the position of the Red Cross staff is already very good. The background at the moment is Feng. Papen and Schacht had the support of the Allies to form the Provisional Government of Germany, which had been ruled by Hitler's regime for 12 years, and the central and local governments were almost controlled by the Nazis, who fled the country after the war, were arrested and imprisoned by the Allies, and some were pardoned by the Allies, but the individuals were already notorious, and the re-establishment of the government in such a situation meant that a large number of new people who had nothing to do with the armies of the Third Reich regime would become a new force in the political circles. And at the time when Lynn was fully engaged in the Nuremberg operation, the hand of the imperial top brass had quietly reached into von Lee. In addition to the "popular faces" of the German Provisional Government led by Papen and Schacht, who had held prominent positions in the Third Reich or had a high appearance rate, many previously unknown Imperial personnel were installed in various departments. Such a large-scale gesture was naturally appointed by the Führer, and the head of the Imperial intelligence, Andri, must have played a crucial role in it, and it also had a resounding name - "bone implantation". …,

In Lynn's view, the so-called bone implantation was nothing more than a strategy to resurrect the dead, and in order to gain a legal position in the military and political circles after the war, his own original idea was to find a position in the local government of a state such as Bavaria, Hesse or Württembon, or to enter the nominal position of a position in the military and political circles of Von Württemberg. Lynn could not measure how far the German army led by Field Marshal Weix, the second secretary of a mere embassy abroad, was far from the real national skeleton, but as far as he knew, it was already a high-ranking position among the infiltrators of the Reich. From this aspect alone, von. It is highly unlikely that Bapen and Schacht will remain under Imperial control or tend to support Imperial restoration, and perhaps they would not have known about the Führer and the Empire's post-war existence,

A professional soldier galloping on the battlefield, a small diplomat who does not enter the stream, it seems that it is clear at a glance which is superior and which is inferior, and where to go. Perhaps because of the disparity between the two, the Imperial Headquarters made a somewhat flattering statement in its directives that "diplomatic immunity may be fully utilized."

Diplomatic immunity?

Weak countries have no diplomacy, and Lynn's experience in recent months has amply demonstrated this wise saying summed up by the pioneers of the past. A defeated country that surrendered unconditionally, even if it was able to rise rapidly after the war with astonishing perseverance, at least in the years immediately after the defeat, its citizens had to endure heavy mental pressure and struggle to survive in an unprecedented material situation, and this sorrow would not have received universal sympathy and pity from the outside world.

The rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier, and the sound of the rain seemed to drown out all the noise of mortal dust, and the room seemed extraordinarily quiet. Lynn closed his eyes and pondered that when the general trend of history had not changed, he was able to foresee the "future" with the eyes of decades, and now that history has changed beyond recognition, this foresight is only the people who have the ability to change history and the development trend of technology. The direct arrangement of the imperial base camp, whether to go or not is no longer a decision, but to treat this political second-class secretary as a pure identity disguise and "bleaching", to do his own business in the clothes of a diplomat, or to take advantage of this opportunity to take a path of earning legitimate political capital?

At night, it fades under the washing of the storm. It was dawn, and the green chirping of birds could be heard outside the window. With a faint sense of weariness, Lynn leaned over to wash in front of the pool, Frankfurt, Germany, an industrial city that had been nearly razed to the ground by the Allies during the war, and the efforts of hundreds of thousands of residents for nearly two years had gradually restored its urban framework, and several major streets could be seen in its former prosperity. It was only a few hours by train from Munich, and it was easy for a person with legal status like Lynn to get here, and after more than two months of travel and a false shot near the German-Swedish border, the "spiritual leader" of the National Socialist Party decided to make this his first base for awakening the people, and Lynn had no objections, and the heads of the Imperial stronghold did not seem to have much interest in the return of this tricky figure. Speer, who had arrived in northern Europe, was appointed vice-chairman of the German Reconstruction Committee and was in charge of the industrial economy, and it was heard that he was already in the process of consolidating the large and small factories that Lynn had built around Tromsø and Narvik by various means. There is no doubt that only Goering and Keitel escaped from Nuremberg's prisons. According to the reports of the surviving task forces, most of them, including Goering, were forced into the swamp by the Allied pursuit, the once glorious Imperial Commanders were all killed in the real disaster, and only a dozen of the more than 50 task forces responsible for protection survived - Lynn couldn't help but associate it with the letter of appointment in the drawer whenever she thought of it. The Führer, Goebbels, and Rommel, the de facto rulers of the empire, may not have really wanted to see Goering and others return to decision-making, but they could not have ordered the execution of these former colleagues out of their own considerations and scruples, and the result was that they neither chastised the commander-in-chief of the Nuremberg operation nor characterized it as a "great success". As a reward, Lynn received a flashy Imperial Medal, the temporary rank of Special Lieutenant General remained unchanged, and the original official rank of "Lieutenant of the Army" was promoted to "Major of the Army", so it was not so unacceptable to "commit" to the role of a second secretary. …,

Boom...... Knock Knock...... Boom...... Knock Knock......

Someone knocked on the door at the agreed rhythm, Lynn wiped his face as he walked out of the bathroom of the suite, glanced at the clock in the hall, there was still nearly an hour before the normal breakfast time, he wanted to change into sports clothes and move around the yard, at this time......

"Who?"

"Sir, it's me." Outside the door, Tanze said, "There's a guest who comes to you early in the morning and he's waiting in the restaurant. ”

Lynn walked over and opened the door, "Who came so early?" ”

"Delwich." Tanzawa replied with a calm face.

"Oh, come on! Help me change my clothes and we'll try to get it done in five minutes. Lynn took Tanze back to the bedroom and chose a casual suit with brown plaid on a gray background, with a shirt with a leaf collar and a tan bow tie. In the dressing mirror, the temperament of the two tall and handsome young men is not the same, and the fortitude precipitation obtained by Tanze's repeated tempering in adversity is obviously not as deep as Lynn's, but he looks more youthful, and he is 100% concentrated in every little detail, and Lynn is just like the state of mind that this costume wants to express - calm and rigorous, arrogant but not arrogant.

After a while, Lynn arrived at the hotel's empty diner, where a young man about his age sat alone in a corner by the window in a dark blue coat of velvet, with big riding boots on his feet showing his uninhibited character.

"It's early, my friend!"

Lynn walked over steadily to shake hands with the other party, and he noticed that the position chosen by Delvich was more than twenty meters away from the service desk, and the waiter would not move between the tables without other guests, as long as he kept a more restrained voice, the conversation here was still very safe.

"I heard that you have a good habit of waking up early, so I'm here to bring you the freshest news." Delvich replied calmly.

Leaving the southern region of Bavaria, where Selot was in charge of intelligence, he quickly hooked up with the new "land snake". Dervic, whose original name was Olgus, was a junior SS officer before the end of the war, and he did not do much of a career, nor did he stay on the front lines or flee south with the army, but found a reliable friend somewhere in Thuringia to help him forge a new identity and live there for several months. In the autumn of 1945, the 24-year-old man with an honest, old-fashioned face who looked dull and weak, and with his innate security looks, Delvich gathered a group of comrades who had also evaded the Allies from Thuringia to Frankfurt, and engaged in black market trading under the noses of the Allies, and then traded with some Allied officers and soldiers. Clever people can easily make a lot of money in buying and selling, but Delvich did not squeeze the meagre savings of the German inhabitants, but sought out the rich to sell the stolen goods and poured them into Belgium and France, and in a long way established his own network of contacts in western Germany. Not to mention information, truckloads of goods can travel to and from the Allied-occupied territories. Approached and promised by Imperial intelligence agents who had returned to Germany, Delvich became the intelligence chief of western Germany, and his comrades, who had made a fortune from running the black market, were transformed into an efficient intelligence network.

In troubled times, Lynn never judged people by their appearance, not to mention that his age was very close to Delwich. Sitting down across from the young talent, who had recently been actively campaigning for a place as a local councillor, he asked curiously, "Is it good news or bad news to come in such an early morning?" ”

"Great news!" Delvich said with a smile, "I just got the inside information, the US Navy has a fleet in the Atlantic Ocean, they think it was done by the Soviets, this is not the most shocking, they say that this fleet is from the United States to Europe to transport atomic bombs, this time all sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the Americans, the British, the French and the Soviets are rushing to send ships to fish for the atomic bomb!" ”…,

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Lynn's surprise was not faked, since he left the Nordic base to command the Nuremberg operation in Germany, the strategic decisions of the imperial top and all kinds of high-level confidential information were basically insulated from him - the intelligence department in charge of Andriy consciously revealed some of it, and the official directives of the headquarters mentioned some of it.

Delwich was a very powerful rising star in post-war Germany, but he was not Cao Cao after all, he had the courage and ambition to swallow mountains and rivers, and for Lynn, a high-ranking personnel from the imperial base camp, his behavior was quite flattering and flattering: "Uh-huh! I heard about this from American military officers, and these guys were also tired of the life of fighting in Europe, and they wished that the government would make peace with the Soviet Union sooner, and if the atomic bomb fell into the hands of the Soviets, unless the White House continued to fight at the risk of devastating the destruction of its own cities, the war should be over! ”

"Yes, we anticipated this and called it a 'nuclear standoff,' but in fact...... We have also mastered nuclear technology. For her sleek and sophisticated comrades-in-arms, Lynn doesn't mind making a fuss about it once in a while.

"Aha! I knew the rumors were true. Delwich laughed.

"We have the strength to make a comeback, but the international environment is still very unfavorable for us. Once we show up, it is likely that the Western Allies and the Soviet Union will end the war and turn to us in unison. Lynn threw out the previous lead, and then asked casually, "You've also gotten some information about this from the General Intelligence Service, haven't you?" ”

"What do you mean?" Delvich asked slyly.

Tanze brings Lynn's breakfast directly from the front desk. Taking a sip of warm fresh milk, Lynn said, "Of course it's the American fleet, do you really think the Soviet Navy has that kind of strength?" ”

Delvich shrugged his shoulders and said: "They captured a lot of unfinished submarines in Tanze and Stettin, and later the Western allies handed over a batch to them in accordance with the secret agreement of the Potsdam Conference, among which there are new submarines that were not put into operation back then, and the strength of their submarine force should still be greatly improved!" ”

Lynn picked up his knife and fork and chose to start with the omelette without hesitation, saying as he cut it: "Hard equipment is only a part of the strength, and the lack of technical and tactical level of officers and soldiers, coupled with the lack of long history and fine traditions, these vital factors have restricted them from becoming a first-class naval combat force - they may be able to reach this height in a few decades, but it is basically impossible now." ”

"Makes sense!" Delvich sipped his coffee and stared at the plate in front of Lynn, still not answering the question directly.

Lynn continued: "We've always wanted to speed up the pace of our manufacturing of this superweapon by seizing the U.S. atomic bomb materials, so as to bridge the gap between the resources and the industrial base we have, but you also know that it is very difficult to do that. ”

"Yes." Delvich replied, "I heard that the United States had secretly deployed ready-to-use atomic bombs at military bases in France and Denmark, and that once the Soviets broke through the Polish and German lines, they would use this superweapon to stop the rapid advance of the Soviet army—one would have wiped out an army group, but at the same time tens of thousands of local residents would have to be buried." These military bases, not to outsiders, are unapproachable even by ordinary American soldiers, and are heavily cordoned off, with proven combat units and heavy tanks...... But then again, the Nuremberg prison is breached, and our combat elite should be able to raid the US military base and snatch the atomic bomb, right? ”

Lynn smiled and shook his head, the reason why the task force was able to succeed in Nuremberg Prison was mainly due to surprise and internal response to ambush in key positions, and these factors were difficult to achieve in the raid on the US military base, the Empire's current intelligence forces in Denmark and France were not enough to support the transfer of goods after the raid, and they were all neighbors of Germany, and once the action was mistaken and the atomic bomb exploded accidentally, Germany itself could not escape the invasion, More importantly, the heavy losses suffered by France and Denmark will plant terrible bombs among the people of these two countries, and once the truth is revealed, they will not only hate the United States, but also the masterminds behind such a tragedy, and the implementation of the Reich Revival Plan is likely to be strongly resisted by these two countries and many more of their neighbors - the international outrage caused by Germany's invasion of neutral Belgium in 1914 is a profound enough lesson!

After thinking about it, Lynn finally put away this overly profound and macroscopic analysis, and he said lightly: "By the way, I also have good news to share with you - on this beautiful morning, I have decided to take on a new challenge and play a very challenging role in the diplomatic missions of the German Provisional Government abroad, following the instructions of the Imperial Headquarters. ”

"Ambassador or chargé d'affaires abroad?" Delvich asked as a matter of course.

Lynn smiled and replied, "No, Second Political Secretary." ”

"Second Secretary?" Delvich's eyes widened in disbelief.

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