On October 22, 1918, Hersmann accompanied the future German President Albert and two revolutionaries destined to live long to the stormy imperial capital of Berlin, and although they refused to participate in a coalition government led by the Social Democrats, Prince Baden was pressured to march in Berlin and order the release of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
On Berlin's train station square, Hersmann saw a familiar scene.
Thousands of Spartacist supporters gathered in the square, waving red flags and singing the Internationale, shouting Liebknecht's name.
The sound was deafening Like Lenin, Liebknecht climbed to the top of a ready-to-prepare car and delivered an impassioned speech.
Once again, he attacked the war policy of the German government, declaring that the main enemy of the German people was at home, that is, German imperialism, the German militant faction, and Germany's secret diplomacy demanded that the government immediately stop the war and achieve peace without land cession and without reparations "Although they were unwilling to cooperate with us, they did not announce that they would immediately launch a proletarian revolution" Albert, who escorted Liebknecht back to Berlin, stood on the steps outside the waiting hall of the railway station, listening carefully to Liebknecht's speech.
Finally, he smiled at Lieutenant Colonel Hersmann, who had been standing beside him as if he were an adjutant.
"Mr.
Councillor, it seems that your persuasion has served a little," Hirschman replied respectfully.
"You have won the empire a temporary respite."
"Well, he's pretty good at talking."
Albert smiled, "Lieutenant Colonel, how much time do you think we have yet?"
"A few days or two weeks."
Hersman said in a solemn tone.
"It's only been that little time," Albert was stunned.
During this time, the situation on the battlefield was actually okay, and the German army temporarily stopped its decline.
At present, the battlefield is still far beyond Germany's borders.
"Yes, Mr.
Senator, do you think that Austria-Hungary will last a few days" Hersman spread his hands helplessly, "the Czech Republic has declared its independence, Hungary is in chaos, and a revolution can break out at any time."
Once Hungary declared independence, how could Austria support the war on its own, and if there was also a revolution in Austria, unless the Spartacists joined the government to help suppress the revolution.
Otherwise, even if they do nothing, the revolutionary wave will still sweep through Germany" "Austria-Hungary" Albert shook his head, "what you said makes sense, they saw this and asked us to surrender unconditionally." ” After the German "democratic government" came to power, the Allies immediately raised their asking price, no longer mentioning any 14-point peace conditions, and still demanded that "the German army completely surrender its main equipment and means of transport for the army, navy, and air force."
This was to demand the surrender of the German army, and unconditionally Although the Entente did not say that the Fourteen Terms of Peace were now nullified, anyone with a little common sense would know that once the Germans surrendered their weapons and equipment, they would be lambs to the slaughter.
Under these circumstances, Britain, France and the United States would not be imperialist if they had spared Germany But the majority of the people in Germany, who did not realize at this time that peace was more painful to them than the insistence on war, still believed that the conscience of the United States of America on the other side of the ocean had found it and bestowed upon them a just peace.
After separating from Albert, Hersman told Chloe to go home first.
Together with Ogali, he got into a carriage sent by the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company and went to Tsosen, on the outskirts of Berlin, where the Tsar's family lived in Germany.
He then returned to Berlin to report to the General Staff on the meeting with Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and Hessmann intended to draw special attention to these two dangerous elements.
It's better to eliminate them now, and don't wait for them to do something earth-shattering, and that's the end of it At the Grand General Staff, Hersmann heard the laughable news that the Germans of Austria-Hungary were about to achieve national self-determination.
The non-German members of the Reichstag had returned to their hometowns to pursue national self-determination, and the remaining German parliamentarians, after studying the provisions of the Fourteen Points of Peace on national self-determination, believed that the German nation within the Austro-Hungarian Empire could also be self-determined, and therefore wanted to pass a resolution to unite Austria and the German Empire But the Austro-Hungarian German nation could really self-determine according to the Fourteen Points of Peace Terms, Hesmann did not believe it, and neither did the 99 staff officers in the Grand General Staff.
Because they all found themselves being tricked by the little tricks of the Americans.
When Hersmann arrived at the headquarters of the General Staff at Königplatz, the people here were either sad or angry, and some were cursing loudly in exasperated tones, including Hindenburg.
"Deceived, Germany deceived, there is no just peace at all, the conditions of the Fourteen Points of Peace are also deceitful, they want to take away everything from us, these devils, these garbage without a sense of honor" The roar of Field Marshal Hindenburg, Chief of the General Staff, was clearly heard outside the corridor outside his office.
"Lieutenant Colonel Hersman, please follow me."
Major Schulenburg, Field Marshal Hindenburg's aide-de-camp, saw Hersmann and immediately led him into Hindenburg's large office.
There was not only Field Marshal Hindenburg, but also the emaciated Admiral Ludendorff.
Rarely angry, Hindenburg got angry and walked around the office.
Ludendorff sat down on a couch facing the door.
"Lieutenant Colonel Hersman, you're here," Ludendorff said weakly when he saw Hirschmann.
"Your Excellency the Marshal, Your Excellency the Admiral, it is me."
Hersmann gave a military salute to Ludendorff and Hindenburg, and then stood there straight.
Hindenburg also stopped, and turned to look at Hersmann.
There was a deathly silence in the office.
I don't know how long it took before I heard Field Marshal Hindenburg sigh and smile bitterly: "Unconditional surrender, you should know it, it's so stupid to be deceived by the Americans" The news of the unconditional surrender was learned of by Hersmann when he had just arrived at his hotel in Breslau, and he and Albert received calls from various systems at the same time.
"Your Excellency, we underestimated the meanness of the Americans," said Hersman, "who were never gentlemen" "They are not gentlemen, they are a bunch of liars and robbers with no credibility," Ludendorff scolded.
It was said that Germany would be able to negotiate peace with a democratic government, but it turned out that it would have been proposed to surrender unconditionally, and if you had said it earlier, Germany would not have been so chaotic now, and Karl I of Austria-Hungary would not have accepted the Fourteen Peace Terms.
Maybe Germany and Austria will be able to grit their teeth and hold on.
"This is unacceptable" Hindenburg gritted his teeth, "unconditional surrender is unacceptable, the Reich cannot lose his arms, at least the army cannot lose their weapons, otherwise the survival of Germany will be in question" Is it that bad Hesmann said that in history, Germany did lose its main naval fleet after World War I, and only a small number of old ships remained.
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The Air Force was also forced to disintegrate, but the Army did not lose.
In the early days of the Weimar Republic, there were still hundreds of thousands of German Wehrmacht Army, and there were also a huge number of "Freikorps", otherwise Germany would have been reorganized into a Soviet state Therefore, there must have been some factor that prompted the Entente to open up to Germany and allow it to retain considerable force.
Hersman thought to himself: This factor should be the revolution, now the Russian revolution is getting bigger and bigger, the White Guards supported by the Entente are failing, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is about to disintegrate, and it is very likely that a new Soviet state will appear.
And if Germany also had such signs, the Entente would dare to really destroy the weapons of the German Empire However, this suggestion cannot be mentioned by the revolution, and it was the Hohenzollern dynasty itself that was ousted, a Junker aristocratic officer, so he had to pretend to be a royalist While Hersmann was wondering whether he was going to disguise himself as a royalist after the war, Ludendorff spoke in a hoarse voice: "Lieutenant Colonel Hersmann, I have consulted with the marshal and think that we can support the socialist revolution in Hungary.
Soon weapons and ammunition will be shipped to Budapest in the name of supporting the Ottoman Empire.
In addition, Nicholas II was to decree that she should be canonized Ogari Nikolaevna as the Grand Duchess of the United Principalities of the Baltics.
And our relations with the Russian Bolsheviks may also be broken, but you still have to keep in touch with them as much as you can.
In the unlikely event that peace is not attained, then cooperation with Soviet Russia is the last hope for our revival. ” Ask for favorites, ask for recommendations t1706231537: