Chapter 99 If You Don’t Fight, You’ll Get Old

"September 1, 1939, is the day I plan to launch World War II!"

In a small office, Hersmann lowered his voice and spoke to Colonel Kurt von Schleicher in an extremely serious tone.

"What? What? Second World War!?" Schleicher jumped up suddenly, eyes wide open, and raised his right hand to point at Hersmann. "You, you, are you serious?"

Hessman nodded seriously, "Colonel, of course I am serious. We lost a world war, now we should consider revenge and prepare for a new world war! And I personally think that the more appropriate time to launch a war is 1939 !”

In another time and space, the German military began planning to launch war only after Hitler came to power, and the time was set from 1944 to 1945. In other words, Germany entered the war completely unprepared.

"But why 1939?"

"Colonel, I was born in 1892, and you were born in 1882. By 1939, I will be 48 years old and you will be 58 years old. They are not too old. By then I can command several armies to sweep away Poland and France, and you can serve as the chief of general staff. If we delay it any longer, we will be old and will not have enough physical and mental power to lead the German army to win the war. Since we are preparing for war, we have the responsibility to lead. The German army is victorious!"

Is this a reason? Schleicher certainly thought about fighting World War II - in the time and space without Hersmann, he was the one who led Germany's quiet preparations for war in the 1920s and early 1930s! He was also the one who promoted cooperation between Germany and the Soviet Union!

But he probably never thought about launching World War II in his lifetime.

"It is already November 2020, and there is only less than 19 years left..."

"Colonel, this does not depend on us!" Hessmann frowned, "It depends on the will of the German people! When the German people need war to avenge their disgrace, as soldiers we cannot retreat!"

"The people need war?" Schleicher shook his head doubtfully. His thinking was still that of the Second Reich, although the German people were cheering for him when Wilhelm II declared war. However, World War I was mainly fought by the emperor and the Junker nobles, and the support of the people at the bottom for the war was not comparable to that of the Germans in World War II.

The situation in World War II was exactly the opposite. The middle and lower classes supported the war far more than the upper class. There is no need to defend the German working people, because they were the ones who pushed the Nazi Party into power with their votes. However, many people in the Honorary Officer Corps were against the Nazis, such as Vorbeck, who received the Blue Max Medal in World War I, and Count Luckner (the one who used the sailing ship Seahawk to break the war) and the war General Ludwig Beck, who previously served as Chief of General Staff, and others.

"When the people have suffered enough from defeat, they will need war!"

Hessmann plausibly said: "The cessation of territory and huge reparations brought not only humiliation to the German people, but also a miserable and desperate life in the future. In history, any socio-economic crisis is mainly caused by the people in the middle and lower classes. The pain caused by Germany's defeat will make the middle and lower classes suffer.

Those who will feel particularly painful will be our German generation and our children's generation... We once lived in a glorious and prosperous empire and had an extremely beautiful life. But the defeat and the Treaty of Versailles ruined everything! As for our children's generation, some will remember the beauty of childhood, and some will know what kind of country Germany used to be from their parents. Facing a bleak life, most people cannot be calm. They will hate the enemies who have brought them suffering, they will dream of returning to the past, and they will dream of a war that will allow Germany to stand up again. Their dreams will eventually turn into Germany's political line!

Moreover, only a war policy can save Germany and save the lives of two generations of Germans. Facing the Treaty of Versailles, at least I can't see any future for peace, so Germany is heading towards World War II step by step, which is irreversible. The responsibility of us soldiers is to win a new world war for Germany. "

Historically, Hitler's method of saving the German economy was to prepare for war with a wartime system: tearing up the Treaty of Versailles, settling the debts of the Weimar Republic, imposing foreign exchange and trade controls, and issuing additional currency to expand arms, prepare for war, and create demand.

Although Hitler's policy of stimulating demand is similar to Roosevelt's New Deal, the reason why this policy can be implemented in Germany is to prepare for war (really prepare to fight) - if you are not prepared for war, you cannot tear up the Treaty of Versailles, nor can you Get rid of debt. Without breaking the treaty or breaking the debt, the marks produced by the German government are just waste paper and cannot be used to stimulate demand at all.

"Colonel!" Herschmann looked at Schleicher. He knew Schleicher's abilities and the tragic end of this soldier-politician. "According to reliable intelligence, the final compensation will be as high as more than 200 billion gold marks, which is impossible to achieve. And if we can't pay, they will come and occupy the Ruhr area! Germany's future is bleak, and we and our children will We will face long-term poverty and humiliation. War will be the only way out. This is the trend of history and we can only comply with it and cannot resist it!"

Schleicher touched his big bald head and looked at the lieutenant colonel in front of him who was supposed to be his younger brother. The images of Hindenburg and Ludendorff emerged in his mind - in the future, will he be another Hindenburg, and will Hessmann be another Ludendorff? But who will be William II?

"Who will lead Germany to start a war?" Schleicher suddenly asked. "Will there be another emperor?"

"Maybe," Hessmann said, "but the dynasty will not be restored before we win World War II, because the middle and lower classes will not trust us before the war is won."

As a Junker elite, the position of the royalists cannot be shaken!

"They won't trust us?" Schleicher asked, "Then who will lead?"

"Of course, it will be a workers' party that opposes Marxism." Hersmann said with a wry smile, "During the November Revolution, you and I had to wear soldiers' clothes to occupy the Royal Palace and the Reichstag. Doesn't that prove the problem? The middle and lower classes don't trust us. They have their own will, which we cannot control."

"Are we going to be slaves of those elected politicians?"

"Of course not," Hersmann said, "We should support them, monitor them, cooperate with them, and compete with them."

"Ludwig, do you have a candidate?"

"There is already one," Hersmann said, "He is a Stasi cooperation informant, codenamed 'Corporal', and is currently the propaganda minister of the National Socialist German Workers' Party."

"Codenamed Corporal? Who is he?"

"He is an Austrian who served in the German army during the war. His highest rank was corporal. He has won the Iron Cross First Class and the Iron Cross Second Class."

"A corporal, and an Austrian! Lieutenant Colonel Hersmann, are you kidding?"

Am I kidding? Hessman sighed. "Colonel, he is a genius at incitement, even better than Lenin! If you have time, let's go to Munich to meet him together."

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