The feast finally began, and Chloe and Margaret brought pots of seductively scented food to a long, beautiful-looking table that Chloe had picked up from Petrograd.
Hersmann opened a bottle of Heinkel Champagne and poured the glasses in front of the guests one by one, with a fragrant yellowish liquid.
And tonight's star, Iron Man Herman, ignored Margaret's eyebrows, and only cared about asking Karhaus Hofer, who had just become a major general, about retiring.
The retirement of this major general is really incomprehensible, it is wartime, and Karlhaus Hofer is not very old, why should he retire "It's just retiring from the army, not retiring, but going to do some important work."
The major general glanced at Goering, and then at the other confused officers, all of whom were from the Karhaus Hofer circle, all over forty years old, and all of them had the rank of lieutenant colonel and colonel.
"I will be the chairman of the Industry Promotion Council, which is an agency under the Prime Minister's Office."
Hermann Goering, the "Council for the Promotion of Industry," glanced at Fokker, the young millionaire who was attracted to Hersman's sister Margaret, and was chatting with the little girl, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and was not interesting at all.
The fat man, who likes mature women, turned his head and talked to Major General Haushofer again, he has a very keen sense of political issues, and has found that this industrial promotion committee is not simple.
He asked tentatively, "Is Mr.
Falk a member of this committee too?"
"Yes, he is a representative of the aviation community."
Karhaushofer said, "There will be people in important industrial sectors such as aviation, manufacturing, machinery, steel, chemicals, mining, etc.
The financial community and the army, navy, and air force will also be represented.
By the way, Ludwig was a representative of the Army, and he was also a member of the Committee for the Promotion of Industry. ” "Ludwig is also a commissioner," Goering turned his head to look at Hersmann, "Ludwig, it's surprising that you're a lieutenant colonel now, you serve in the Grand General Staff."
"Almost, I'm the general manager of a Russian-German economic promotion company under the General Staff."
Hersman replied with a smile.
The general manager of the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company and a member of the Industrial Promotion Committee is the public identity of Director Stasi, and Director Stasi is a "hidden man", except for a very few people, people will not know that Director Stasi's name is Ludwig von Hersmann, and all they know is the code name "General".
"The Russian-German Economic Promotion Company must be a very important company."
Goering looked at Hersmann's blue Max medal and thought to himself: he must be a genius in business "It's just that it's more important in wartime," Hersman said in a somewhat heavy tone, "and in the long run it's the Industrial Promotion Committee that has a better future." ” "Yes," Goering seemed to be an inquirer, "what does this committee do?"
"To help German industry transform after the war," Hersmann said, "what was to be produced in peacetime was not the same as it was in wartime, with some factories reducing capacity and others increasing capacity."
In addition, German industry had achieved a number of achievements in the war, and it was important to preserve them and let them continue to develop.
The achievements of the military industry should not be lost because of the post-war era of peace. ” What he said could be published in the newspapers.
After all, this industrial promotion committee is a body hanging under the Prime Minister's Office, and there must always be a plausible reason for its existence.
"Sounds good," said Goering, nodding understandingly.
"But how does this committee do those things?"
"The committee will first take control of a bank," Karlhaushofer said slowly, taking a sip of champagne, "and it is the National Bank of Germany headed by Dr.
Yamar Schacht, who is also a member of the committee.
The German National Bank will provide low-interest loans to the most important sectors of German industry to help them tide over the crisis."
The gray scheme is constantly being refined, and now it has turned into an unusually large "surrender scheme".
It includes economic, political, military, scientific and technological, diplomatic, propaganda and intelligence and many other aspects.
In the beginning, the plan was completely left to the Eastern Division of Military Intelligence.
However, later, the situation on the battlefield on the Western Front became more and more unfavorable, and the General Staff accelerated the formulation and implementation of the plan, so more and more people and departments participated, and all aspects began to divide labor and cooperate.
The staff officers of the Russian Section of the Eastern Division of the Military Intelligence, led by Hersmann, drew up the general outline of the Gray Plan, the Greater Poland Plan, and the Courland Plan.
Major General Karhaushofer began to work with some important figures in German industry and finance to formulate the Darksaber Plan, and the Industrial Promotion Committee was the body that formulated and implemented the Darksaber Plan.
The Strategic Operations Division of the Grand General Staff is responsible for developing the Freikorps program to preserve the vitality of the Army.
The aviation management department under the General Staff began to develop a plan for the club.
The Navy Staff is secretly working on the Rainbow Project And these plans, which were drawn up by the talented staff officers of Germany and the elites of all aspects, needed to be carried out.
With the exception of the Freikorps, Rainbow and Club programs, which can be the responsibility of the command of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Greater Poland, Courland, and Darksaber projects had to be carried out by a number of departments.
Now in charge of the Greater Poland program was the "Free Poland Committee", which consisted of the German Foreign Office and the Grand General Staff, as well as the Polish Provisional Council of State.
Pilsudski was also released from prison two weeks ago and returned to the post of military minister of the Polish Provisional Council of State.
In the coming months, a series of "fair and reasonable" treaties will be signed between the Chancellery of the German Empire, the Provisional Council of State of Poland, and the Provisional Government of Lithuania and the Autonomous State of Courland.
The first to be determined was the Treaty of Polish-Lithuanian Union, with Poland and Lithuania as the core of the Polish Commonwealth, which shows that Hersmann's idea of "strengthening Poland and making it a bulwark against the westward advance of the Bolsheviks" was fully accepted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Great General Staff.
Then came the release of the Courland Cooperation Treaty in Poland.
The agreement stipulated that the Courland Autonomous State would join the Polish Confederation and have "near-independent" autonomy in the event that the Baltic United States could not be formed because of the strong opposition of the Entente, or if the United Baltic States were invaded by Soviet Russia and could not defend themselves.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
At the same time, the treaty also stipulated that the United Baltic States would cede to the Polish Confederation the port of Liepaja, near Lithuania, if Poland pledged not to claim West Prussia and Poznan from Germany after the Baltic Union had been formally established and universally recognized internationally.
Finally, there was the German-Polish Pact that was kept secret for the time being, which provided for the post-war Polish-German border.
Poland forever renounced its territorial claims to Poznan, Germany, Posen and West Prussia.
In exchange, Germany handed over Lithuania to Poland and also promised to support Poland in acquiring all of Galicia, including Western Ukraine, after the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
Since Lithuania and Eastern Galicia are the main inhabitants of Western Ukraine, who are not Poles, this agreement is in effect to exchange Lithuania and Western Ukraine for Posen and West Prussia, and if the Poles can abide by the agreement after the defeat of Germany, then Poland and Germany will undoubtedly become friends Hersman and his Stasi are currently involved in Project Courland and Project Darkaber, as well as Project Thor that is still going on after the February Revolution in Russia.
Project Courland, Project Darkaber and Project Thor, three plans that seem to have little to do with each other on the surface, are actually a whole.
Because the German military industry could not have survived the post-war difficulties with more than just loans.
Rather, it was to involve the cooperation of the Council for the Promotion of Industry, the Courland Autonomous State and possibly the Baltic United States, and Soviet Russia.
And the channel that connects these three forces is Stasi, who is hidden behind the scenes t1706231537: