Chapter 754 Yakov, Danger!

The day after Hersmann returned to Berlin, he welcomed a distant visitor to his mansion in Charlottenburg. The visitor was Count Haushofer, the German ambassador to Japan. He flew back to Berlin from Japan on Christmas Day and brought back a diplomatic memorandum from the Japanese government.

The Japanese agreed to peace talks in principle, but they could not change their existing combat plans before reaching a peace agreement with the United States.

In addition, in order to unify the positions of the various Axis powers, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo also proposed to hold an Axis summit somewhere in the Middle East.

In addition to the above two points, the Japanese side also proposed a series of assistance requests, including aviation technology assistance, joint development of advanced fighters, special steel and aluminum alloy assistance, and tank technology assistance.

Whether the Axis summit meeting would be held was decided by Hitler, and Haushofer estimated that this matter would most likely be successful.

However, technical and strategic material assistance had to be decided by Hessmann, and Hessmann had always been quite strict on the issue of technical assistance. Hessmann knew how powerful Japanese manufacturing was in the future, so of course he had to be strict now, otherwise the Japanese manufacturing industry in the future would most likely overwhelm German manufacturing!

So after meeting Hitler, Haushofer came to visit Hessmann.

"The maximum speed is not less than 345 knots (about 638 km/h) at an altitude of 6,000 meters, it takes no more than 6 minutes to climb to 6,000 meters, the range is 5 hours at 250 knots and then half an hour at maximum power (that is, the combat radius is more than 1,150 kilometers), the turning combat capability is not less than the Zero Fighter 32, and the firepower is stronger than the Zero Fighter 32..."

Hersmann shook his head slightly while looking at the information brought by Haushofer. He knew that the Japanese wanted a "perfect" fighter that could not only fight in medium and high altitudes (638 km/h at 6,000 meters is no problem for fighting in medium and high altitudes, but it is not enough to fight in extremely high altitudes), but also be able to play in medium and low altitude combat, and have a long range.

This aircraft should be the "Gale" carrier-based fighter. As long as there is a high-performance piston engine such as an 18-cylinder large-displacement air-cooled or 24-cylinder liquid-cooled, it should be put into production in 2 years. This level of engine is readily available, and the BMW-802 series and Jumo-222 series can handle it.

However, when the Me-262 jet fighter has begun small-scale production and the carrier-based Me-262T has also begun development, it would be a waste for Germany to spend another two years to develop a piston carrier-based fighter like the "Gale".

Therefore, the plan of the German Naval Aviation is to continue to upgrade the Fokker Zero to deal with low-altitude combat and leave the enemies in the middle and high altitudes to the Fw-1262T.

However, now that the Japanese have proposed cooperative development, it might as well export the BMW-802 technology to Japan in exchange for half of the rights and interests of the "Gale". In this way, if the development of the Me-262T encounters difficulties, the German version of the Gale can be used to replace it.

With the BMW-802, the development and production of the three aircraft, P1Y, N40 and Ki84, should also be greatly accelerated. With these aircraft, the Japanese should be able to withstand the American "dumpling ships" and the sea of ​​aircraft... I wonder if the Japanese can withstand the time when these "advanced aircraft" are put into mass production?

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While Hersman and Haushofer were studying what kind of technical assistance to give to the Japanese, his confidant Natalie had already arrived at the Nuremberg Soviet-German Friendship Concentration Camp - this concentration camp now holds more than 300,000 prisoners of war, and all the Red Army prisoners captured in the Belarusian Campaign were held here. But there is no Red Army major named Yakov Djugashvili among them... at least not on the roster of the prisoner-of-war camp.

However, Natalie cannot just report to Hersman, because Yakov is likely to conceal his identity after being captured.

So Natalie must spend some time to check all the prisoners captured from the Belarusian battlefield - she must meet all the prisoners who may be Yakov one by one to determine whether they are related to the person registered in Moscow by Stalin!

"Is Comrade Svanidze here?" A voice that sounded very beautiful sounded in the ears of Comrade Li Mei who was moving bricks for exercise. Comrade Li Mei immediately put down the bricks and frowned at the Nazi little witch Irma Grese.

"Irma, what do you want to see Joseph for?" Li Mei asked. "He is already moving bricks for exercise."

Major Joseph Svanidze was one of the few confidants of Comrade Li Mei in Nuremberg. He and Li Mei had a few "Queen's dinners" (it was called the Queen's dinner, but the guests were not the Queen herself, but several big traitors), but they were not moved. He was also one of the very few Soviet prisoners of war who firmly believed that he would go to Siberia for labor reform after returning to the Soviet Union. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was stubborn.

Therefore, this Red Army artillery major from Georgia also suffered some hardships in the Nuremberg concentration camp and was "diagnosed" with high blood lipids, so sometimes he would move bricks with Li Mei for exercise.

Because they were "fellow prisoners" and had a common language (the Red Army major could speak English and he didn't like dealing with Soviets), Li Mei got to know him well and became friends who could talk about anything.

"Curtis, I'm not the one looking for Comrade Svanidze," Glazer smiled sweetly at Li Mei, "It's the people above who are looking for him."

She is now very familiar with Li Mei, almost a friend, and she has returned all the packages sent by the Red Cross to Li Mei - because in a package sent to Li Mei, Glazer found a dozen nylon stockings produced by DuPont... In Germany in the 1940s, this was a good thing!

"The people above?" Li Mei asked, "Is it the Russian empress's people?"

"No, it's people from Berlin," Glazer said. "We are going to meet a lot of prisoners of war aged 30-40, there are thousands of them. Curtis, you look quite young, also in your 30s, why don't you come to make up the number. After the meeting, there will be cream cakes, and I'll ask someone to save a big one for you."

Li Mei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll come. Joseph went to the toilet, I'll tell him when he comes back."

"Okay, then you go to the infirmary and line up to meet the people from Berlin." Glazer said, handing Li Mei two mimeographed notices, and then hurried away.

It turned out that she was captured by Lesinskaya from Berlin today, and she had to notify a bunch of thirty-something captives to go to the infirmary, so she had no time to wait for the strange Svanidze.

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"What? Meeting someone from Berlin..." Major Svanidze, who looked a little neurotic and always full of fear in his eyes, was trembling when he heard that he was going to meet a visitor from Berlin.

"What's the matter?" Li Mei asked strangely, "Joseph, are you scared?"

"No, I'm not afraid."

Li Mei smiled and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. You are not the only one the Nazis from Berlin want to meet. Many people have been notified."

The Nazis in this time and space don't seem to be particularly scary. At least they won't put people in concentration camps to make soap, and they are not cruel to prisoners of war. So Comrade Li Mei and most people in the Nuremberg prisoner-of-war camp are not afraid of them.

"What? A lot of people..." Svanidze's calves were shaking, "Who are they?"

"They are all Red Army prisoners of war in their thirties, but I will go too." Li Mei said as she pulled Svanidze to the infirmary - this was an excuse to avoid labor, and they could get extra food, so anyone who didn't go would be a fool.

When the two of them arrived at the door of the infirmary, the prisoners who met the requirements had already lined up in a long line. Most of these people were militiamen captured from the Belarusian battlefield, and they all looked very indifferent.

When the German army occupied Western Belarus, the Bolshevik Party regimes in various parts of Western Belarus organized many militias, most of whom were older Belarusian men (the young ones had joined the regular Red Army). Most of them were Poles before 1939, and then they became Soviets for two years, and now they are happily preparing to become Germans. So they have no resistance to the Nazis who arrested them.

The reason why the Germans did not let them go was that many factories producing military supplies were now opened in this special war prisoner camp in Nuremberg, and free labor was needed. And there was no place to put them for the time being. Probably because they were afraid that the Red Army would fight back, the people of the entire Western Belarus had almost all fled to good places like Germany and France to become refugees. So Hitler's biggest headache now was not the war, but how to settle so many refugees who were ready to become Germans...

"Alexander, who did you just meet?" Li Mei stopped a Belarusian captive he knew.

"It was a woman in her thirties, and she was pretty." The person replied.

"What did they ask?" Li Mei asked again.

"Ask me if I was from the 9th Mechanized Army of the Red Army, and if I knew a man named Yakov Djugashvili..."

When Li Mei was thinking about who Yakov Djugashvili was, Svanidze beside him suddenly shouted, and then ran towards the gate of the concentration camp.

It turned out that he was Yakov Djugashvili! Svanidze was his mother's surname, and Joseph was his father's name. After becoming an "anti-G revolutionist", he found an opportunity to throw away his ID and then reported a false identity. The Germans did not investigate him, and let him stay in the Nuremberg concentration camp until now.

But he was discovered after all!

Yakov knew that he could not be captured. As the son of the great leader Stalin, he could only die heroically and could not live in disgrace!

Since he did not die on the battlefield, he would die in the prisoner-of-war camp... Let the guard guarding the gate of the prisoner-of-war camp beat him to death!