Back in Berlin this time, Hersmann did not immediately see Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
The two big men were now in a state of flux, with the affairs of Russia, the Baltic Republics, and the grey plans that helped Germany recover after the war were all put on the back burner.
Stabilizing the collapsing front and seeking peace came first, and these two contradictory things would seem to be conducive to peace if democracy was to be pursued in Germany according to the will of the enemy, but the German army would collapse as a result.
On the other hand, strengthening the dictatorship will make the military strong-willed, but it will make it more difficult to seek peace.
It's almost a multiple-choice question with no correct answer Fortunately, the person who is doing the question now is not Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig von Hersmann.
Just when Wilhelm II, Hindenburg and Ludendorff had a headache, Hersmann handed over the report of his trip to Moscow to his superior, Colonel Var T.
Nikolai.
"Ludwig, the situation is getting worse and worse, your prophecies are coming true, I have to say, you are the most amazing crow's mouth in the General Staff" Looking at the report sent by Hersman, Colonel Nikolai sighed with emotion.
Hersman frowned and asked, "Colonel, can I interpret your words as a compliment?"
"Yes, it's a complimentAlthough most of your reports and plans are overly pessimistic, I have to admit that your pessimism is very prescient.
This allows us to prepare for the most difficult moments, and that's a credit to you. ” It is impossible to be promoted to colonel with merit, but the position can still be promoted.
Colonel Nikolai's subsequent words confirmed Hersmann's conjecture.
He said: "Major General Haushofer has retired, and you will take over his head of the Eastern Division, and from now on I will no longer act in this position."
You are now the youngest chief of the departments under the Great General Staff, and you have the rank of lieutenant colonel, and I think you know what that means" It was not easy to win the lead in the promotion race in the elite German Army, and most of the young officers with the same qualifications as Hersmann were now captains and lieutenants, and he was already a lieutenant colonel, and he also served as a division chief, and in a few years he might even become a colonel.
This means that he is at least three ranks ahead of his peers, and in peacetime, when he is promoted little by little according to the system, it often takes fifteen to twenty years to go from captain to colonel This means that Hersman has enough time to advance to the rank of general, and the Eastern Division and Stasi under his leadership will also give him enough opportunities to make meritorious contributions.
It also meant that Hindenburg and Ludendorff already saw Hersmann as the likely leader of the German army in the future.
They were to pave the way for Hersman before he lost power "The head of the Eastern Division of the Military Intelligence means responsibility, great responsibility," Hersman replied solemnly.
"It's good that you understand that," Colonel Nikolai nodded, and lowered his tone, "then from now on, don't mention in your report any more support for the Hungarian Bolshevik Party or any other Bolshevik Party, and the civilian government that is about to come to power is made up of people of the least courage. ” This is to ask Hersman to take responsibility for himself, and it is not enough to be an official with good vision, but also to dare to be responsible, especially when he does not have a particularly good father.
"I understand," Hirschman replied, "I'll take responsibility." ” "In addition, it is necessary to set up companies in charge of sensitive projects in addition to the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company, which cannot be the property of the German government, but should be sacrosanct private property."
"Okay, I'll go find someone to pay for it.
Colonel, do you want to invest a little bit in those companies, and you're going to make a lot of money."
"Well, that's going to be later."
Colonel Nikolai did not refuse, but continued, "There is also news that the 600 tons of gold, which is secretly reparated by the top secret Soviet Russia, will be converted into 2 billion gold marks and deposited in the name of the Hohenzollern Foundation in the National Bank of Germany. ” Needless to say, the controller of the Hohenzollern Foundation is Wilhelm II and his successor.
With this huge deposit, Wilhelm II was able to guarantee the continued influence of the German military and intelligence services in the event that Germany became a republic.
It is clear that Wilhelm II is already leaving a way out for himself.
Colonel Nikolai paused, and said: "Now I will settle with you, the eastern part is yours, do it well" Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg grew older, his hair and beard were almost completely white, the muscles of his face were loose, his eyes were bloodshot, and he sat limply in the chair behind his desk, like an old man on the verge of death.
The marshal bowed his head, wore reading glasses, and carefully looked at Lenin's handwritten letter and written assurances brought back by Hersmann, which was quite serious in Europe at this time.
Historically, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain also regarded Hitler's written pledge as "peace for a generation".
I don't know how long it took for him to finally read Lenin's written pledges and letters to Liebknecht and Luxemburg, and to hear Hersmann's oral report on his plans to support the Hungarian Bolsheviks, and then he was silent for a long time.
"Lieutenant Colonel" Finally, the old marshal raised his head, and with a sharp light in his eyes, he looked at Ludwig von Hersmann, who had already hung up the rank of lieutenant colonel.
"You believe in Lenin" "I don't believe it."
Hersman replied truthfully.
"What, then, is this guarantee for" Hindenburg put down Lenin's written assurance.
"Once we are defeated, I am afraid that the Red Army will pour into Riga like a tidal wave" "Actually, it's up to Poland."
Soviet-German friendship depends on Poland, and if there is no great Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany, where will there be Soviet-German cooperation for more than 20 years after World War I And a similar point was made in Hersmann's plan for Greater Poland: the Polish corps should be strengthened.
While the Eastern Front troops retreated, they could leave most of their weapons to the Polish Corps, allowing them to expand their army to 500,000 in a matter of months.
"A strong Poland will certainly covet Russian land."
"Russia, in particular, is in the midst of a civil war," Hersman said "But Poland is strong, and it will also covet German lands, East Prussia, West Prussia, and Posen, and the United Principalities of the Baltic Principalities, which may also be lost."
Hindenburg said slowly, "Lieutenant Colonel, what do you say we should do?"
It's in the exam Hersman knew that the elites of the Great General Staff must have figured it out a long time ago After personally participating in the development of a series of "surrender plans", Hersman was quite convinced: In the original history, there must have been a surrender plan similar to the gray scheme.
Otherwise, Poland would not have risen miraculously at all, and Hersman studied Pilsudski's military strength, and before he became the military minister of the Polish Council of State, there were only three brigades, and 20,000 people died.
Although they were all elites with strong combat effectiveness, they were simply not enough to defeat the Red Army, which had gone through the baptism of a brutal civil war.
If the Germans had not sent Poland a large amount of weapons and ammunition, how could they have started the war with Soviet Russia in March 1919, just a few months before the German surrender, and the Paris Peace Conference had not yet been concluded.
Even if the Entente wanted to provide military aid to Poland, it was unlikely that there would be many weapons and equipment in place.
The only one who could arm the Poles was Germany, which had just been defeated.
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And Germany only dared to arm Poland, in addition to wanting to use Poland to resist the expansion of the Bolsheviks, it must have left enough back.
The Freikorps plan, drawn up by the Strategic Operations Department of the General Staff, should be the follow-up of the Hindenburg and Junker military aristocracy.
"Your Excellency Marshal," Hersmann already had an answer at this time, "I think we will keep a strong army after the armistice, and if the Entente does not allow the German government to have a sufficiently large army, then we will learn from the Bolsheviks and organize an armed force that is not under the authority of the government.
They will be made up of veterans, in the hundreds of thousands, and they will be truly elite" Hindenburg smiled a little, and nodded noncommittally: "Well, now I will give you a task, take Lenin's letter, and Archduchess Olga with you, and accompany the Social Democratic Councillor Albert on a trip to Breslau, I don't think he can convince those two stubborn fellows, but he should always try."
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