Chapter 55 55 suffered a dark loss

In the presidential office at Wilhelmstrasse 73 in Germany, Accardo is meeting with President Hindenburg to explain the march of the Greater German Party.

"Are you doing this to demonstrate to me?" Hindenburg asked, staring at Accardo, his words tinged with a hint of anger, "Or do you want to take my place?"

Accardo waved his hand: "No one can replace you, President Hindenburg, we are showing our opponents that we are powerful enough to intimidate them! ”

"What are you going to do? General Accardo, Rudolph, are you not satisfied with the power I have given you?" Hindenburg asked with a frown.

He glanced at the silent Accardo, and sighed as if talking to himself: "You must know that you are only 27 years old now, and my official position at your age is not half the size of your current official position, and my power is incomparable. ”

As he spoke, he stroked a beautiful ornament on his desk, and then looked up at Accardo: "Do you want to command the entire army, and then get a military government to help you implement a dictatorship?"

Accardo lowered his head and thought for a moment before he spoke: "I do not want dictatorship, I want to bring Germany's long-suffering democracy to victory! Mr. President! The reason I took power is because I need greater power to carry out my plan to revitalize the German nation! Not for any dictatorship." ”

"An unbalanced power will push you to the other extreme, child, and you know that power that you have gained without the right means will eventually perish!" exclaimed Hindenburg meaningfully.

"If there are people who hinder it, then the revitalization of the Wehrmacht will be greatly hindered, and we are not allowed to back down at this time, Mr. President. "We must unite and crush all the enemies that stand before us," said Accardo. ”

"I will not surrender my power! General Accardo, I will defend my power to the death! Only I, the president of this country, Hindenburg, am the supreme commander of the Wehrmacht!" said Hindenburg, closing his eyes and saying word by word.

Of the 330,000 German regular troops, although Accardo controlled the main force of nearly 100,000 men, most of the Wehrmacht was still a die-hard loyalist of President Hindenburg.

"That's why you stand firmly behind me and support me, don't you? Our goal is the same, we all want Germany to become strong! We all want the Wehrmacht to be invincible in the world!" Accardo said solemnly: "Sickert did not stop me, and you did not stop me, not for any other reason, but because we all have a heart that loves Germany." ”

Hindenburg was silent for a long time, and finally he raised his head and looked at Accardo and said helplessly: "The chairman of the Social Democratic Party came to me, and he told me that the Greater German Party was the source of disturbance of the social order, and begged me not to support early parliamentary elections, and I agreed to him. ”

"There was no problem, I immediately informed Krupp and asked him and Streesmann to stop the march. Accardo bowed his head and said, "I assured you that the Greater German Party will unconditionally support your decision. ”

"Good! You know better than I thought. I'm very pleased. Hindenburg stood up and walked slowly in front of Accardo, a little struggling, his age making every breath seem precious: "General Accardo, I also promise you that the government will secretly allocate $5.5 million for the purchase of Wehrmacht equipment, and prepare another $1 million as a Wehrmacht bonus for all officers of the army. Any more requirements?"

Accardo stood up and saluted, stretched out his right hand high, raised his chin, and replied: "No!

Satisfied with Accardo's attitude, Hindenburg nodded, waved his hand and motioned for Accardo to leave, and Accardo stood up and saluted again before exiting the president's office.

Outside the door of Hindenburg's office, two cadres of the Greater German Party were waiting, one was the head of the Organization Department, Tut, and the other was the head of the Propaganda Department, Matthof. When the two saw Accardo come out, they immediately stood up and greeted him.

"I want you to investigate it immediately! This time, someone fished in troubled waters and made things so out of control that we almost became the enemy of President Hindenburg! If I hadn't known everything about Hindenburg, we would have been finished this time!" Accardo and the other two people ordered fiercely as soon as they got closer: "Within three days!

"Yes!" The two men knew that Accardo was in a bad mood, so they just nodded and said no more.

"Inform Krupp and Streismann to come to my office in the afternoon. Accardo continued to give orders as he walked out.

"Yes!" Tut of the Organization Department agreed.

Accardo turned to Captain Sindra, who was following behind him, and said, "Call the president's office of the MAN company, make an appointment for you to come in person, and say that the funds are in place, and we will add 50 P4 cars." "For the sake of secrecy, all armoured vehicles within the Wehrmacht are referred to as automobiles, but with a certain difference in the letters at the beginning: B refers to the cars produced by BMW, also known as the Bavarian Machineworks, D refers to the cars produced by Daimler, K refers to the cars produced by Krupp, and 123 is used to distinguish the size of the motor vehicles.

For example, B1 refers to a BMW motorcycle, B2 refers to a BMW small car, D3 refers to a Mercedes-Benz large car, and P4 refers to a secretly produced P-2 tank.

"Understood!" Captain Sindra nodded, "I'll leave as soon as I'm back at the General Headquarters." ”

Accardo was relieved of Captain Sindra's ability to do things, although the loyalty to her and Anna remained to be seen and proven, but the ability of the two people was very satisfying to Accardo.

Krupp and Streesmann were brought in not for anything else, but to order the immediate cessation of the demonstrations of the Greater German Party in Berlin and throughout Germany, and to summarize the march in all its aspects.

As soon as the two of them came to the office, Accardo said with a calm face: "Gentlemen, this time we are a little radical, and we have not taken into account the reactions of all forces, and the action of guiding the demonstration of the sword has been used by people with ulterior motives!"

Streisman was a smart man, and he quickly figured out the crux of the matter: "They used our actions to kill us? We didn't call for an early congressional election! These bastards planted the blame!"

"This is just a super propaganda campaign to expand the party's influence, and it has no political purpose! Not to mention the stupid request for early elections to the National Assembly. We are not ready to win the election, how can we make such a request?" said Krupp, also frowning.

Suddenly, Accardo seemed to think of the crux of the question: "Have we forgotten someone?"

Streisman stared at Accardo quizzically and asked, "Who?

Accardo walked to his desk, pulled out a bag of papers from a stack of papers, opened them, and took out two files inside, as well as a photo glued to them: "This man is the head of the Nazi Party in Berlin, his name is Goebbels, and he is a very powerful fellow! He is very familiar with propaganda work, and this incident is his handiwork." ”

"Why did they do this?" asked Krupp, who suddenly laughed again: "Hey, hey, that's interesting, because their most capable Adolf? Mr. Hitler is the chairman, and you took him to prison, right?"

"It's not all. Accardo dropped the file on the coffee table and said with a frown, "They're doing what we did a year ago, muddying the waters so that they can grow stronger." ”

"Playing with the tricks we've played? This Goebbels isn't very good. Streisman picked up the file on the coffee table, flipped through it casually, and then threw it back on the coffee table: "Is he really as powerful as you say, chairman?"

"Don't underestimate him, at least he's an opponent enough to make us scared. Accardo said.

"I have recently been preparing a diplomatic offensive against the United Kingdom, and I intend to persuade the British government to agree to another revision to expand our army to 200,000 men. That's the top priority of my work lately. Streismann said indifferently: "Leave the work of dealing with this terrible opponent to Vice Chairman Krupp." ”

"I still have four meetings to attend, which are related to the distribution of imported steel and rubber and other industrial raw materials by several large companies, so how can I have time to deal with such a little-known person. Hand this guy over to our Minister of Propaganda, Mr. Mathoff. Krupp also had no interest in this Goebbels, and pushed the matter to the end in an instant.

Accardo was helpless, after all, not everyone had the same clear foresight of history as he did. Therefore, he could not expect Krupp, the now well-known arms tycoon, and Streismmann, the famous German Foreign Minist, to take Goebbels, a small party propagandist, seriously.

"In that case, I will recommend a man to be Mr. Mathoff's deputy, and deal with Goebbels. Accardo said helplessly, and he had to try to steer the situation on the good side.

"Who?" asked Krupp, noticing Accardo's use of her word.

"Miss Fanny, a reporter for the newspaper of the Greater German Party, I am very satisfied with the propaganda campaign she has planned, thank her for helping, and let her continue to be in charge of the propaganda work of the Greater German Party. Accardo thought for a moment and said.