The Rise of the Third Reich

"Comrades Valetsky, Comrade Valsky, Comrade Gomulka, Comrade Ohab, Comrade Libelsky, our Solidarity Party is now at its most critical juncture, because according to reliable information, the Soviet Red Army The invasion is about to begin!"

There is a luxuriously decorated meeting room in the Warsaw Castle (formerly the Polish Royal Palace), showing the wealth and prosperity of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Poland. Hessmann's confidant, Natalie Lesinskaya, head of the German Army Policy Council and leader of the Solidarity Party, was delivering a speech.

And the people listening to her in the conference room, with the exception of one Liebelski (who was originally from Poland in Czechoslovakia), were all former Bolsheviks... now traitors, traitors, and scabs.

Before the Polish War, except for Natalie and Liebelski, everyone else in this conference room was in the prison of the White Polish government. After the Germans took control of Warsaw, these people were all freed from the prison by Natalie, but they did not dare to go to the Soviet Union - even if they were squatting in the prison, these senior figures of the Polish Bolshevik Party also knew that Poland The tragic experience of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union!

Moreover, they were released by Natalie Lesinskaya, a Bolshevik traitor and the "mistress" of Hessmann, the leader of the German Junkers (actually Natalie and Hessmann were innocent). If No matter how stupid he was to go to the Soviet Union, he would be accused of being a Stasi agent and shot.

Since they could not go to the Soviet Union and wanted to contribute to the cause of socialism, they had no choice but to cooperate with the Germans and start anew to establish a socialist party, the Solidarity Party, with national socialism as its guiding ideology - the party's name was, of course, Hess. Given by Mann.

Because the Solidarity Union Party is a workers' party, and most of its senior leaders are from the labor movement, it has considerable influence among the Polish working class, and it has received support from the General Staff of the German Wehrmacht. Therefore, it soon became the Polish Workers' Party. The ruling party of the kingdom.

But no one expected that not long after the Solidarity Party was in power for the people, the Soviet Red Army would come to liberate the working people of Poland.

"Comrade Lesinskaya," the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Poland Walecki asked with a frown, "didn't you say that Molotov has arrived in Berlin and is discussing peaceful coexistence with Chancellor Hitler?"

Although the Solidarity Party is a political party of the Kingdom of Poland, it still has very good ears and eyes. The Solidarity Party found out about Molotov's secret visit to Berlin.

Leshinskaya smiled bitterly and looked at Valeski, who was old and had a lot of revolutionary experience, but was suppressed and expelled from the party by the Emperor of the Third International in 1929, "Mr. Prime Minister, that is a scam! Don’t you understand what the Russians are doing? They have always wanted to rule the world. The tsar called it conquest at the time, but it’s called liberation now... The question is just whether there is a chance."

"But Germany is very powerful now!" Gomulka, the civilian defense minister of the Royal Polish Government, said, "Even Britain will be defeated soon."

"Soon but not yet!" Natalie shook her head, "And the United States has also declared war on Germany... Before Germany completely defeats Britain, the Russians have the opportunity to liberate the world, and the liberation of Europe is the liberation of the Russians. The first step in the world. There is no doubt that the liberation of Europe will start in Poland, so the German Wehrmacht General Staff believes that Warsaw will be surrounded by the Soviet Red Army between June and July!"

"Surrounded? God..." Valeski shouted "God". Since being expelled from the Bolshevik Party, he was no longer an atheist. He had restored his faith in Jesus Christ.

"Isn't there Barbarossa's Line of Defense?"

"Yes, we mobilized millions of people to build a defense line. Isn't this line of defense not enough to defend Warsaw?"

The members of the Presidium of the Solidarity Union Party present shouted that since 1940, the Germans had been building more defense facilities on the basis of the original Piłsudski Defense Line on the Bug River (the last line of defense). The Solidarity Party, as the ruling party of the Kingdom of Poland, of course fully cooperated. At most, it mobilized millions of people to help the German army and the Polish Defense Forces build fortifications, and the Royal Polish government also shared a considerable part of the investment.

"Of course the Barbarossa Line of Defense can defend Warsaw!" Natalie Lesinskaya's tone deepened, "But Warsaw itself is part of the Barbarossa Line of Defense... because Warsaw itself is a fortress that is difficult to conquer! There are many buildings in Warsaw. Countless solid buildings, with a little modification, can become fortresses one after another. Moreover, Warsaw is a large city. It is a metropolis that can accommodate more than one million people, and it can also accommodate millions of troops. The great fortress.

In addition, Warsaw is also the political and cultural center of Poland and the symbol of the Kingdom of Poland. If Stalin's Red Army could not even capture Warsaw, the Polish people would not recognize the rule of the Bolshevik puppet government. "

It turns out that in the "Blue Plan", Warsaw, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland, will be an existence similar to "Stalingrad". On its way to attack Germany through the Polish plains, the Soviet Red Army would first encounter brigade-level defense strongholds such as the Trespol Ring Fortress—this kind of defensive stronghold could be fought alone when surrounded, so the Soviet Union's large The effectiveness of deep assaults will be significantly reduced.

After passing through the 150-kilometer-wide "reactionary fortress area", the huge city of Warsaw will become another giant reactionary fortress blocking the Red Army's advance. Like the previous ring fortress, the Warsaw Fortress is also a fortress that is not afraid of armored forces breaking through. And it can accommodate more troops, making it more difficult to capture.

Moreover, the huge area of ​​​​the Warsaw Fortress can play a role that other small reactionary fortresses cannot play - a large airport can be established inside the Warsaw Fortress. This means that the German Air Force can deploy Ju87, Hs-129, Hs-123 and other short-legged ground attack aircraft in the Warsaw Fortress. They can use Warsaw as a base to attack railways, roads, ferries and other important railways behind the Soviet Red Army. Air strikes were carried out against the target.

Therefore, it would be very uncomfortable for Comrade Stalin if a large city like Warsaw was turned into a giant fortress that could be defended for a long time and inserted behind the attacking Soviet Red Army.

But it is not easy to turn Warsaw into a fortress and to defend Warsaw, because Warsaw is not Lviv after all. There are more than one million people in Lviv who have a blood feud with the big people, but the main target of Poland's nationalist struggle is the Germans. Especially in Warsaw, where Polish intellectuals and the middle class gather (this class is generally the backbone of a nation), the influence of Polish nationalism is much greater than elsewhere in Poland.

If the invading Soviet Red Army complied with public opinion and raised the banner of supporting Polish independence, it might be able to attract many leading parties, and it might even launch a Warsaw Uprising to cooperate with the attacking Soviet army inside and outside.

"But how are we going to defend Warsaw?" A senior official of the Solidarity Party immediately raised this question. "Now a considerable number of Warsaw citizens are dissatisfied with Germany..."

Natalie Lesinskaya came with Hessmann's instructions, and of course she had a solution to the problem.

Natalie said: "In order to better defend Warsaw, we should evacuate the 'useless population' in Warsaw as much as possible."

"Where to evacuate to?" Valeski asked anxiously.

He had heard of "concentration camps"! Now Germany's rulers believe that the last war was lost because the German emperor's government was too kind and talkative, which allowed various anti-war elements to cause trouble in the rear. Therefore, after the Nazi Party came to power, it immediately passed the "Transformational Justice Ordinance", which branded all anti-war elements in the previous war as traitors, and many people were imprisoned for this. The place where they were held was called a "concentration camp" and was managed by the Reich Central Security Service.

After the outbreak of World War II, the scope of application of the "Transformational Justice Regulations" was further expanded to all anti-war elements in the empire. Although the Kingdom of Poland is theoretically an independent country, it is actually controlled by Germany, so it also passed a Polish version of the "Transformational Justice Regulations." Therefore, many Poles were imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland...

“To Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia-Hungary…” Natalie said, “or the city of Auschwitz!”

If Hitler had his way, all the ignorant Warsaw citizens would have to go to Auschwitz. But Hessmann was not so cruel. He pointed out a way to survive for the middle class and intellectuals in Warsaw. They can go to France, which they love most, and they can also go to the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Of course, the door of Germany is also open to them.

"It is estimated that about 1 million people need to be evacuated." The data Natalie mentioned were stipulated in the "Blue Plan". Some Warsaw citizens have been "recruited" and become soldiers of the Polish Defense Forces. Naturally, No evacuation is necessary. Some citizens had to stay to assist the German troops defending the city. The direction of the evacuation of personnel has also been planned in advance.

Natalie said calmly: "France will receive 200,000 people, Italy will receive 100,000, the Netherlands will receive 80,000, Belgium will receive 60,000, Croatia and Hungary will receive 50,000, Denmark, Norway and Sweden will each receive 30,000, and Germany is ready to receive them. 400,000, and Auschwitz also has a target of 20,000! The forced evacuation should be completed by the end of June. While the citizens are being evacuated, a group of German Wehrmacht troops will enter Warsaw!”