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poison spreads
Just as poison flows into the bloodstream of a person bitten by a viper, the venom of fascism was devouring Europe.
In the United States, Franklin Roosevelt won the 1928 presidential election and came to power.
In Germany, through the Long Sword Night, which was much earlier than the original history, the SAs including Ernst Röm were purged and the SS came to the fore. We’ll have to change our uniforms because of those rotten things. Really.
Princess Louise informed me about this incident by adding a bit of her own opinion. The information was provided by an insider of the imperial family, so the credibility was quite high.
-Your brother is supporting Hitler and his men, but he is demanding the eradication of leftist forces, including SA, within the Nazi Party, and the military also agreed with your brother. It’s a thing of the past, so there’s nothing I can do about it. If I’m a left winger, I’m still shivering.
The reason she cooperated with me was simple. She hated the Left, but she didn’t like the Nazi Party.
No, she even wrote a letter of bitter accusation against the Nazi Party. What did you say? Did I say that it was a party created by a paranoid and talkative agitator, a pseudo-horror that reveals women, and a socialist exile?
Of course, the socialist refugee is the most dangerous person.
-After all, what happened this time was a purge that was caused by a combination of the powerful demands of the military and brother and the power struggle within the Nazi party. Without the gentle support of your brother, the Nazi Party would not exist today, and it is not good for the Nazi party to lose to the military.
But the most important value of her letter is that it conveys trends within the military.
-There are many people in the military who look down on the Nazis, but at least there are many people who sympathize with many of the Nazi Party’s arguments, especially those who are hostile to France. There is no one who advocates war with Russia as openly as there is, but France is a very different story.
‘Should have cut Prussia too?’
It reminded me of a drip I saw on the Internet in the 21st century. Did I say that the source of all German aggression came from Prussia?
If you see them doing that even after being kicked out in the great war, there is no real answer. Wilhelm III, that nobleman…. I must set up a war criminal trial for that person.
‘I’ll cut that too in the next war.’
If you look at Prussia on a map, the protruding part looks just like the front of your pants, which is also unsightly.
‘But if you cut that… uh…’
Suddenly I felt a throbbing in a very important part, and I stopped thinking and continued reading the letter.
-The current goal of Germany is to subdue France as quickly as possible and to negotiate with Russia after being prepared to stop the advance of the Russian army.
It deserves it. France’s Maginot Line, if I, too, break through that head-on, my head will rot.
Anti-tank guns, underground machine gun turrets, dense minefields, anti-aircraft guns…
All the way to the low-lying corridor was blocked off. In addition, France, which did not trust Britain, blocked the corridor to the Netherlands at all. Of course, the Ardennes forest was also blocked.
Of course, in return for that, it seems like he almost gave up on modernization of the military instead.
They think they have a circuit like that where Russia wants to beat them while defending them along the Maginot Line, and the Ardennes Forest is also blocked.
Calena Normandy Landing? In the original history, the Normandy landing operation was only possible after learning lessons from blood such as Dieppe. The French Navy is not that strong either, but the British Navy will break through it in a short time, and the French Army will set up a coastal artillery and slam it into Normandy or Calais, where the lights are on. It would be Heinz ketchup.
Spain? Surely, no matter how absolute in the world, Spain crosses the Pyrenees and advances to France… Well?
Even if you put all your power on the Maginot line like the original history, it doesn’t make sense that France is just watching while breaking through a large part of the French territory, which cannot be compared to the distance from the Ardennes to Paris. It is difficult to see that Spain has the military power to do that in the first place, and if the Spanish Civil War breaks out like the original history, I will have to take care of my wounds for a while.
It’s the Italian army.
‘Yeah, the French cubs don’t just put a canned can in the iron mother or you can’t keep it.’
Take off France, Poland, and the Czech Republic, and face Germany, which broke out in World War II…. Compared to the original history, it must be super-ultra-easy.
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If there is one thing that King Mikhail of Czechoslovakia, the real power of the Russian Empire, misunderstood, it is that not all fascists are necessarily on the same side.
For example, even at the time of the Anschluss and Munich Agreements, Italy did not hesitate to threaten Germany.
On the contrary, Hitler was also hostile to Britain, and had an open relationship with Mussolini.
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Mussolini was looking at whether to stick to Britain, Germany, or France and Russia, and Britain was considering an alliance with France by separating France and Russia because Germany was weak.
In other words, the simultaneous occurrence of the Middle East-Central Asian Front, the European Front, and the Far East Front, which Russia had predicted, had not yet happened.
Not yet.
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The German Empire was in trouble.
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Magino Line.
How should I break through the defense line that the devil made?
There were many ideas such as super-strong train guns and special tanks, but it was not easy to penetrate a fortress ship that combines a thick barrier with the thinnest wall of 3.5m and powerful firepower including various heavy artillery.
At least it seemed clear that Germany alone was virtually impossible.
The German Empire’s goal in the war against France was always swift, and as long as the Franco-Russian alliance was maintained, if time was wasted in the French War, the whole of eastern Germany would be trampled on by them.
Among the customs union and the military alliance, which one has the strongest sense of weight is the latter, of course.
“Let’s fortify the Eastern Front. If it is a defense line that is difficult for us to break through, it is also difficult for the Russian side to penetrate…”
“It’s better to build another tank with the resources and time to put into it!”
Of course, there were differences of opinion even within the German army.
Do you make means to defend East Prussia, or do you sharpen your spear with the time and resources to make a shield?
If war broke out, they were considering moving the capital westward, to Bonn, Frankfurt, Vienna, and even p-Samborg.
The German military’s ‘phobia’ and PTSD following the occupation of Berlin were serious enough to seriously consider using the Elbe or Rhine as a defense line.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a high-ranking person to the Russian Empire to show the German Empire’s sincerity and attempted to shake up Russia-French relations.
They needed an alliance.
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“I will follow you.”
It’s easy to say that it’s the right place, and like some game, this person has 12 conspiracy power and that person has 8 management power.
And there are people who look competent from above, but when they sit down, they pack a lot of shit.
Recruiting excellent scholars and bureaucrats, nurturing talented people, and achieving industrialization.
Words are easy, words are easy. I’m an expert in running a factory, and I’m not saying that I have extensive knowledge about the economy and experience in running the national economy or anything like that. Of course, it should be so in the long run, but not yet.
Coordinating think tanks, ministries, local governments, etc., extracting useful things from the tens of thousands of reports and proposals they post, etc.
Fortunately, Prime Minister Alexander is in the process of reinventing himself. I think this yangban will also have to retire soon, but I am worried about who will be the successor.
“Sir, the Minister of the Navy, Archduke Kirill and the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Alexei, have invited us to dinner.”
“ha.”
The military… It’s funny when I say this, but it’s one of the most troublesome groups.
The elite consciousness of the military, especially those from the military.
It has the potential to be a problem in the long run. At least they obey my authority with certainty.
‘What if the next Chief of Staff and Army Minister were selected from non-internal forces?’
In fact, the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Army do not have units under direct subordinates, so even if they lack loyalty, they do not have to worry about rebellion, and they may not be able to hold the discipline of former members of the Interior Army.
It is a matter of whether there is a suitable person, but if anyone uploads it and does not have the ability, the situation may get worse.
‘I wish there was someone like Marshall.’
“dismissal?”
“Oh, yes, tell me you’re going.”
“I think you have a problem.”
“Chief of Staff, and Secretary of the Army, shouldn’t we be grinding soon?”
“Certainly, the minister’s health has deteriorated rapidly.”
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Minister Brusilov, who had already passed his original lifespan, was in such a deteriorating condition that it was difficult to go to work, and he needed the following:
“Who would you recommend as a successor?”
“Well………”
Irina, who also served as the military inspectorate, tilted her head slightly.
“It sounds like you don’t have any intention of being recruited from the military.”
“Can you read it?”
“If you can’t even read the facial expressions of the people you live with, you will be disqualified as an informant. No, you wouldn’t have asked me if you were going to hire me from the Home Affairs Army before that.”
“Yeah, Minister… I thought I was a little humbled by the last failure, but my nose pierces the sky. I’m not going to attack the imperial family, but I think I’m going to get really hurt.
“How about Brigadier Konstantin Goretzky? He was one of the most active figures in military reform.”
“brigadier general?”
“Yes, the rank is a bit low, but…”
“Um… the problem is that the vacancy that is going to happen now is for the Secretary of the Army.”
To entrust the apex of the army to a single brigadier general… It was something that even I, who had been shot by the Tsar, could not have aimed for.
“It’s not that he doesn’t have the ability, but in terms of administrative ability, he’s the best I’ve ever seen.”
“No, I don’t think there will be a lot of jealousy… Wouldn’t it be better to put at least one person in the middle? About a year.”
“How about the current Chief of Staff, General Pyotr Wrangel?”
“Is that guy the Minister of the Army…?”
I frowned.
“If you let it sit for a while and then let it go, that’s enough.”
“……Think about it.”
It’s not that Wrangel isn’t a person who doesn’t have the ability, but… Maybe he’s a little nervous about trusting something.