January 30, 1933, is a memorable day in German history. On this day, Reinhardt, the leader of the Socialist Workers Party, became Chancellor of Germany as expected by the public.
The youngest general in Germany, who is about to turn 30, suddenly has the title of youngest chancellor.
For this reason, leaders of many countries sent their congratulations. Stalin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, even sent a handwritten letter of congratulations.
You know, when Gustav took office as the German president, Stalin only gave a polite congratulations. Now, he showed excessive enthusiasm for the inauguration of a small German chancellor.
Of course, it made sense for Stalin to do this both publicly and privately.
Yu Gong said that Stalin, who had secretly cooperated with Germany for many years, clearly felt that Reinhardt's power and influence in Germany was much more than that of an ordinary prime minister. To a certain extent, Reinhardt's attitude was
It can represent the attitude of the entire German top management.
Yu privately said that when Tukhachevsky ceded all responsibility for the failure of the Soviet-Polish war to him, it was Reinhardt who asked for cooperation by name, thus preserving his position at that time.
Then, Reinhard ordered the German students at the Tucker Mountain School in Germany to bypass Soviet personnel under Stalin's arrangement and secretly kill Stalin's competitors Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin and Pi.
This move by Dakov and others directly helped Stalin ascend to the throne of the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
Although Stalin became increasingly wary of Reinhardt, on the surface, the Soviet supreme leader and Reinhardt seemed like the closest comrades in the world.
In April 1933, the German Navy launched its 12th new destroyer, further accelerating the reconstruction of the German Navy and establishing the framework for the future German Navy.
The 12 new destroyers were all produced under the supervision of Reinhardt. This new destroyer has weakened its artillery combat capabilities, but has greatly enhanced its air defense capabilities, and is also equipped with a device called "sonar"
new anti-submarine equipment.
Under the intervention of Reinhardt, a "navy man", the German shipyard adopted a new assembly line manufacturing method and produced 12 identical new destroyers. This manufacturing method has been proven to greatly improve shipbuilding efficiency.
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Moreover, the trained destroyer sailors can work skillfully on any new destroyer in the future. Once they have accumulated enough experience, they can be transferred to the new destroyer and lead the inexperienced recruits to master how to use it.
In other words, every time Germany launches a new destroyer in the future, it can quickly be equipped with a backbone of personnel who can skillfully operate it.
What is different from history is that this time the new destroyer slightly improved the 88mm anti-aircraft gun and used it as a dual-purpose gun for the destroyer. It is also equipped with a large number of 37mm anti-aircraft guns.
In addition, Reinhardt, who has anti-subconscious skills, equipped each "Z" class destroyer with a large number of depth bombs and equipped with anti-submarine torpedo launch tubes.
The only fly in the ointment is that the main gun of the "Z" class destroyer was changed from the planned 150mm gun to the 88mm horizontal and high dual-purpose gun suggested by Reinhardt, resulting in a reduction in its anti-ship capabilities. In comparison with the British Royal Navy and even France
In the naval firepower confrontation, the "Z" class destroyers do not have the firepower advantage.
However, given that the current strategic goal of the German Navy is to break the engagement rather than a decisive battle at sea, there is not much opposition to Reinhardt's reduction of the caliber of the destroyer's main gun.
In fact, the "Z" class destroyer's speed of up to 38 knots under extreme conditions gives it extremely high survivability in engagement battles. As long as it is commanded properly, it will be difficult for even the British naval fleet to intercept it.
Therefore, the entire German Navy selectively ignored the poor anti-ship firepower of the "Z" class destroyers.
Of course, Reinhardt's requirements for these new warships were not, as the German navy's top brass thought, to be for maritime engagements.
In Reinhardt's vision, these new warships, which possess intensive anti-aircraft firepower and the strongest anti-submarine capabilities of the modern era, will become the escort fleet of Germany's Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers in the future.
The future naval decisive battle planned by Reinhard was not to let German battleships take the lead and engage in a duel with the British Royal Navy's big guns. Instead, it was to attack the British fleet through carrier-based aircraft of aircraft carriers as much as possible.
After all, the steel consumed by carrier-based aircraft is not even a fraction of that of a battleship. Exchanging fighter planes for sinking the other side's battleships is the most asymmetrical transaction Reinhard has discovered from his summary of later generations.
It is a pity that the British Royal Navy, which received information on the gun caliber of the German "Z" class destroyers, was extremely relaxed. It showed that it was not afraid of these new German warships with "junk" naval combat capabilities, further relaxing its vigilance against Germany.
According to an assessment report by the British Royal Navy, the danger index of the German Navy is less than half that of the French Navy next door.
After all, France's "Jaguar" class destroyers have five 130mm guns, and their firepower is much higher than the 88mm guns of the German "Z" class destroyers.
Of course, Reinhardt, who pursued aircraft carrier tactics, did not completely abandon the construction project on battleships.
According to the secret cooperation terms signed with the Soviet Union, Chancellor Reinhard ordered the simultaneous construction of three arrears battleships for the Soviet Union.
These three battleships were originally Bismarck, Gneisenau, and Scharnhorst in history. However, their current names are Peter the Great, Tutor Lenin, and Leader Stalin.
Among them, the Stalin Leader has a displacement of more than 50,000 tons and is the most combat-effective battleship.
Putting Stalin on the same level as Peter the Great and Lenin, Reinhardt's intention is already obvious.
He would definitely lose the battleship in the end. Reinhard even thought about the future captain of the battleship Stalin Leader, so he asked his old superior, Ludwig von Ludwig, who had planned Operation Rainbow together.
Admiral Reuter serves.
Ludwig, like Reinhardt, is regarded by the German people as a hero who preserved the honor of the German navy. Moreover, Ludwig also commanded the battleship Kaiser in the Battle of Seagate Bay in World War I.
Experience.
Letting Ludwig serve as the captain of the strongest battleship in the German Navy was not only because Reinhardt was very confident in his abilities, but also because Reinhardt was subconsciously expressing an attitude towards employing people!
In the end, although he was not prepared to let the Soviet Union get the battleship, Reinhardt insisted that it was appropriate to let Stalin have a taste of naming.
Therefore, the German side asked the Soviet government very seriously and responsibly whether it was feasible to temporarily call the three battleships Peter the Great, Mentor Lenin, and Leader Stalin.
Of course, this German naming proposal was readily accepted by Stalin who was far away in Moscow.
