Above the city of Munich, the sky is as clear as ever. The bright sunshine is scattered on the roof of the Munich pub, adding a sense of vitality to this famous local pub.
Unlike the clouded Finland, Germany under the sun seems to have stayed away from the war. In other words, the Third Reich has the ability to actively choose war, instead of having to respond passively like Finland.
While people lamented that life was getting better and better, there was also a small group of people who selectively forgot about Reinhardt's contribution in leading Germany out of despair and criticized his current behavior.
For example, the former commander of the 3rd Military District in Berlin, General Witzleben.
The Wehrmacht group headed by him has always had a grudge against Reinhardt, who established the SS, an independent unit outside the Wehrmacht.
Witzleben even publicly accused Reinhard of starting to form cliques for personal gain in 1923 or even earlier, taking advantage of his power to promote a large group of junior and trusted generals, and intervening in the country many times according to his personal wishes.
decision making.
Although almost all the generals promoted by Reinhard proved their abilities in subsequent wars, they were by no means idlers. Although Reinhard did influence the development of Germany, it seems now that this development
They are all evolving in a good direction.
Forming a clique for personal gain? You Junkers played better than anyone else before! Your qualifications are still young? How many of the Junkers officers in the old army have no higher qualifications than those promoted by Reinhard?!
Many people familiar with the situation understand that the Juncker class's rights have been continuously weakened by Reinhardt, and they have long been impatient.
The Juncker consortium had already been torn apart after Reinhardt's presidential election that year, and was divided by Reinhardt's efforts.
Now, there are still a few stubborn Juncker generals who are always trying to win the battle.
"Hey, General Witzleben!" Surrounded by two SS guards, Reinhard walked towards a group of officers headed by Witzleben: Chief of Staff Baker is also there? Eh, then
Isn’t it General Hammerstein? They are all here, they are all here.”
The former mayor of Leipzig, Goedele, who was slightly behind, saw the head of state approaching and immediately had the idea of escaping. Somehow, he always felt that the smiling Reinhard would give
He felt a sense of oppression.
This feeling is derived from his countless experiences. It is groundless, but it has never been wrong!
Just as Goedele quietly moved back, Reinhard rushed up with a smile on his face, held his hand, and said with a hearty laugh: "Mr. Goedeler, I have heard about this name for a long time, and today I finally got it."
At first sight, I heard that you have close friendships with many politicians, business leaders, Catholic and Christian clergy, diplomats and soldiers, and even many foreign dignitaries are your friends. We must have a good chat some other time if we have the opportunity.
"
Reinhard's seemingly complimentary words sounded frightening to Goedele and made him break into a cold sweat. Yes, he had contacts with all walks of life in the country and certain foreign dignitaries, but it was all for the sake of where he was.
contact with a secret organization.
The ultimate purpose of contacting these people is to overthrow Reinhardt's rule and let the Junker nobles ****!
Just when Gotele looked guiltily at Reinhardt, the other party had already gone to talk to Witzleben and paid no attention to him. It seemed that the Führer was not aware of what his group was doing.
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Wait until Gotler came over curiously to listen. Damn it! What were Reinhardt and Witzleben talking about?!
I saw Reinhard hooking Witzleben's shoulder and loudly saying with "incomparable enthusiasm": "General! In fact, I really didn't mean to replace you as the commander of the Third Military District in Berlin. In fact, the two of us are now
The troops were divided along the front lines and the troops were empty, so we dismantled your men and sent them to the meritorious division in the Polish campaign, that is, the 30th Infantry Division, as a supplementary force."
Originally, Wetzler planned to use his army in Berlin to launch a coup and quickly control Reinhardt to create a predetermined situation. To this end, they even sent people to secretly contact the British government to seek cooperation from inside and outside.
Unfortunately, British Prime Minister Chamberlain blindly placed his hope on the appeasement policy and refused Witzleben, a resistance force within Germany, for help and refused to provide diplomatic support.
During the negotiations between the resistance group in Witzleben and the British, the three SS divisions led by Model happened to be stationed around the army in Witzleben, which temporarily gave up the idea of a coup by the resistance group.
After that, Reinhard divided the troops under Witzleben step by step and added them to the various troops that continued to replenish their troops after the Polish campaign, further depriving him of the polished commander and completely dispelling the idea of a coup for this group of people.
"Führer, I have no objection to the country's arrangements." Witzleben replied respectfully.
His expression was very respectful, at least, he looked very respectful on the surface.
"The Wehrmacht originally existed for the needs of the empire. It is the force of the empire. For the sake of Germany, they can obey any arrangement." Witzleben used the most objective tone possible to insinuate Reinhardt and said: "And the SS
The difference is that the National Defense Forces are not a private armed force that is loyal to only one person, so they will not have objections to the country's arrangements because of their leaders' personal likes and dislikes."
Why does Reinhard need to be human? He immediately realized that this guy was scolding me in different ways!
Bringing the SS into this situation is just to say that the SS is inferior to the Wehrmacht and that you look down on the SS.
Reinhard, who had known for a long time that Wetzler planned to kill himself, sneered in his heart, if it weren't for the fact that you were too famous to do anything, do you think I would have left you as a scourge to this day?
Looking down on the SS? It doesn't matter. I, Reinhardt, don't have to argue with a dead man.
"General Witzleben understands my thoughts! He is indeed the most outspoken and loyal minister of the empire. At this time, we should do as you said, and the entire people of the country should unite to the outside world and bravely face the threats of Britain and France!"
Reinhard seemed to have not understood what Witzleben said just now, and what he said when he opened and closed his mouth was not what Witzleben meant.
I have to say that this guy’s way of referring to deer as horses is really neat, and his voice is loud enough. After two or three sentences, it seems that he and Witzleben have been friends for a long time and cherish each other. According to his meaning, it seems as if Witzleben had been friends with him for a long time.
Those comments that were made against him publicly and privately turned out to be blunt words of advice, deliberately told to him.
Not to mention other people, even many insiders who were traveling with Witzleben were confused after Reinhard talked nonsense and made a friendly gesture with Witzleben.
From the looks of it...could it be that Witzleben and the Führer have always had a good relationship?