Chapter 12: 12 Men Meet
Accardo is not a man who only cares about his own promotion and wealth, he is also using his position to subtly build up his influence within the military.
Accardo secretly divided the new Wehrmacht Divisions, established tank units, secretly promoted qualified officers to commanders of non-existent units, and improved their salaries.
As a result of his efforts, although Germany was not allowed to have its own tank force, Accardo gave the infant Wehrmacht the most powerful armored force in the world - and of course, this force was on paper.
According to the results of Accardo's training, Germany now has more than 5,000 qualified tank drivers, and he has personally trained and explained more than 700 tank commanders for tank combat, which is enough for Germany to equip 1,000 tanks in one go.
After the establishment of Accardo, the military secretly sent its own air force officers, established several large glider clubs among the people, recruited a large number of members, and some of the pilots of the First World War joined these glider clubs, and in order to be able to fly in the sky again for a few minutes, they climbed to the top of a high mountain with heavy equipment, and then rushed to the cliff despite the danger.
Although inspectors from the Coalition Arms Control Commission inspected the glider clubs, the matter was closed because the gliders were not a threat. Although Britain and France protested solemnly against Germany, these protests were to be predictably ignored by the German authorities.
There is really nothing to protest about, the German Wehrmacht has 100,000 troops, and to the east, the newly established Poland has a regular army of 600,000 aircraft and 1,000 aircraft, and to the west of France has an army of nearly 1 million, and there is a huge reserve, compared to Germany, there is really no threat to Germany.
However, no one knew that under the nose of the Allied Arms Control Committee, a German lieutenant colonel named Accardo had trampled on his body, allowing Germany to actually have 200,000 Wehrmacht, and retained modern military systems such as armored troops and air forces.
Visionary and financially powerful, Accardo even embezzled 3 million Deutsche marks to secretly carry out the more insane plans of the Accado.
He secretly financed a number of private laboratories for a variety of scientific research that was not mature at the time but later proved to be timeless, including radio miniaturization, liquid rocket fuel, synthetic rubber technology, alloy technology, and nuclear physics research.
Although it is a drop in the bucket, after all, this money is divided into more than a dozen small parts, and at the same time funds the research projects of many scientists, but this money is undoubtedly timely and advanced, and these projects are not valued at this time, or even no one cares about them at all.
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At the train station, the steam was filled, and the train had just stopped, when two Nazi yellow shirts dressed in dark yellow and wearing military hats jumped off the train, followed by a man in a gray trench coat.
The hair is meticulously combed to one side, and only the face with a pinch of mustache under the nose is enough to make people unforgettable.
The most frightening thing is his eagle-like eyes, which scan the surroundings with a domineering and majestic temperament.
"Boss, the car is ready!" said a man with a big belly licking behind him.
Hearing this, the man nodded, and slowly walked out of the platform surrounded by a group of yellowshirts.
Outside the platform, dozens of yellowshirts mixed with hundreds of poor people in different clothes held banners and shouted: "Welcome to Berlin!
Hitler just waved his hand casually, and got into the high-end car that had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as he got into the car, he couldn't wait to speak: "Don't go to the hotel, I'm going to a friend." ”
The train arrives at 10 p.m., and it's almost five o'clock, so it's a good time to get to the hotel for a rest, not to visit friends.
The driver saw Hitler get into the car, heard him change his itinerary, and asked politely: "Chief, which friend do you want to visit at such a late hour?" ”
Hitler's eagle-like eyes stared at the eyes of the car driver in the rearview mirror for a few seconds before he staggered his gaze: "Don't ask so much, drive to Linden Street." ”
Linden Strasse is a very famous street in Berlin, where the emperor paraded his army, and there are many ancient buildings built by great designers on both sides, it is not easy to find a place to live here, but for some very special people, it is not difficult.
General Accardotoxit's connections found here a humble apartment, paid the high rent with his rising salary, and made his home on this famous street, not too far from the Wehrmacht General Headquarters, and with a great view.
Accardo put the open bottle of red wine on the table, humming a song and sitting on the sofa, he was waiting for Hitler's arrival, red wine was prepared on the table, and some light food was prepared.
Hitler was a vegetarian through and through. This is no secret among later scholars who studied him. In addition to being an executioner and butcher, he also cares about green diet, which is enough to show that this person has schizophrenia in Yan zhòng.
"Nice view. Hitler entered the house without shaking hands with Accardo, and after greeting a few words with a hint of pride and arrogance, he leaned against the windowsill and said, "You don't seem to have fulfilled your promise to me. ”
"Really?" Accardo didn't expect that the two hadn't seen each other for two years, and it was such a scene of meeting, which was a little embarrassing and a little embarrassing.
Hitler looked at Accardo's slightly strapped apartment, spread his hands and said: "You have not completed your plan! I am now one of the leaders of the Nazi Party, and my Roma even has tens of thousands of Yellow Shirts! I have fulfilled my promise to you, but you are now only a small lieutenant colonel!"
It is indeed a small lieutenant colonel, and now the members of the Nazi Party have befriended some of them were once famous generals on the German side of World War I, and Hitler looked down on Accardo's current rank, which is indeed not an exaggeration.
Accardo also knew that although he had great prestige at the grassroots level of the Wehrmacht, and personally led the construction of the Wehrmacht, and could even influence the decision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, General Sickert, he did not have a real force of his own.
Although the commander of the First Division, General Hamon, obeyed Accator's words, but in the final analysis, he was still a descendant of Sickert, so the First Division, which had the deepest influence on Accardo, was actually still in Sickert's hands. As for the other forces, none of them could be commanded by Accardo.
The 103rd Regiment and the 105th Regiment, which were friends with Accardo in private, are now classified as the 15th Division of the Wehrmacht with Hamburg as the headquarters, and it can be said that it is now the only force of Accardo, after all, half of the commanders of this division are old acquaintances of Accardo, and the fact that this division can be reorganized as the main division is also completely the result of Accardo's abuse of power for personal gain.
Thanks to Accardo's efforts, the 15th Division had the latest batch of armored vehicles ordered by Germany, and the whole division was equipped with more than 40 radio stations, and each company was equipped with a small number of Wehrmacht machine guns.
Because of Accardo's deliberate arrangement, this division is second only to the first division of the Wehrmacht as an elite unit, so the division commander of this division, Leo, is also grateful to Accardo, this person is a Prussian nobleman, but he is not a descendant of Sickert, and now he is considered a marginal person of Accardo's faction.
Speaking of the Accardo faction, in fact, it is the young Zhuang faction within the Wehrmacht, this faction is weak and the voice is not loud, but it is the future successor of the German side, and Accardo is the representative of these people, not their actual leader.
After thinking about it so much, in fact, it was only for a moment, and Accardo still spoke in a very calm tone: "You came all the way to me and didn't even eat dinner, it won't be just to ridicule my low position, right?"
"Of course not! I need you! Accardo! I need your thoughts! I need your creativity! I need you to go to glory with me!" Hitler extended an olive branch and invited Accardo with an excited face: "How about joining the Nazi Party! Become our comrade!"
He stared at Accardo and was very excited: "You are smarter than Roma, wiser than everyone else! I need a wise man like you! Your joining will make me invincible!"
"I wonder what position I will be able to hold after joining the Nazi Party?" asked Accardo with a smile.
"I will appoint you deputy leader of the Nazi Party! You will become the leader of the party second only to me! I will make you a celebrity in the whole German political scene! If the two of us run together in the general election, we will make the Nazi Party the winner of the Reichstag election! I firmly believe it!" Hitler further deceited, and he gave him what he thought was a very valuable bargaining chip, depending on whether Accardo could not get on the road.
Then, without waiting for Accardo's reply, he waved his hand again: "No! You may have a greater role! I will mobilize the hidden forces of our Nazi Party in the military to help you further ascend to power! You will become the voice of the Nazi Party in the military! Until we completely control the Wehrmacht! You are the vice president of Germany! How about it?"
"And what about the Nazi Party itself? The radical statements against aliens in the newspapers, and the statements against the military that are enough to make the military vigilant, I have not warned you, Adolf, that you will not be supported by the military if you go further and further down the radical path!" said Accardo, looking at Hitler with some regret.
If Hitler had developed the Nazi Party according to Accardo's ideas, Accardo would not mind cooperating with Hitler, using the Nazi Party to complete the control of the whole of Germany, and then work with Hitler to start a new World War II.
However, it is clear that Hitler ignored the advice that Accardo had written in his notebook and insisted on pulling the Nazi Party back to the original trajectory of history, because Accardo's development strategy, although more secure and comprehensive, lost the speed that Hitler liked most.