The construction site of the National Automobile Plant in Wolfsburg covers a large area of several tens of square kilometers, but it is still small compared to the Motor City on the Volga River in the Soviet Union.
However, the density of factories under construction is clearly greater than that of Volga Autotown, and many large factories have already completed land leveling and are laying foundations.
Busy workers and construction machines can be seen everywhere.
The roads and railways in and out of the "Motor City" have been completed, and various building materials are being transported in a steady stream, neatly stacked and covered with tarpaulins.
German seriousness and rigor are evident throughout this huge construction site.
Even the temporary living quarters for construction workers are very neat and clean, without the slightest hint of sloppiness.
In the evening, when it was time for dinner, young workers in uniforms resembling military uniforms would line up and sing inspirational songs to return to the Nazi Labor Front, all of whom had been organized by the Nazi Labor Front and were originally unemployed.
By the time they returned, the smell of food was already wafting throughout the camp.
Both Tukhachevsky and Berzin were very observant people and were not likely to be deceived by superficial phenomena.
They took a closer look at the workers, and each of them had a sunburned skin on their faces and hands, and they all looked very strong and strong, indicating that they were well nourished enough to keep up with the heavy physical labor.
In the workers' quarters, there are also a number of shops in makeshift houses, which, like those on Berlin Street, have a wide range of goods and seem to be doing a good job.
According to Tukhachevsky and Berzin's inquiries, these shops were privately run and affiliated with several business cooperatives, and several of the shop owners were honored Aryans who were Jews, and each of them said that the construction workers who worked here earned very well, so their purchasing power was strong, and their business was relatively easy to do.
Obviously, the economic operation of German National Socialism is very good, and it reflects some of the superiority of socialism.
In some respects even surpassed the socialist USSR After returning from Wolfsburg to the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin, Tukhachevsky and Berzin began to prepare their report.
It was supposed to be just a report on the state of Germany's combat readiness and armored forces, but Tukhachevsky intended to mention Germany's very prosperous economy in the report.
"Jan Karlovich, it seems that some of our original views on the German economy need to be revised."
Tukhachevsky has a cigarette in his hand.
Standing on the balcony of the luxury suite, you can see the city bathed in golden light, the light of the setting sun shining through the fresh air.
The wide avenue is lined with rows of tasteful houses, neat and clean.
It's a bit like Leningrad, but it's noticeably more dynamic than Leningrad As a Bolshevik, he was very reluctant to use the word "dynamism" to describe "pseudo-socialism" in Germany, but that seemed to be the case "The German economy is much better than we thought, growing rapidly and running smoothly, and it doesn't seem to be too big of an imbalance, in some ways better than the situation in our Soviet Union."
Tukhachevsky said that he did not know that what he was saying now would be recorded by Berzin, reported to Stalin, and would in the future become evidence of his guilt against Germany "No, they have problems with the economy."
Berzin was the head of the intelligence of the Red Army.
In the USSR.
The NKVD and the Main Directorate of Political Protection were mainly internal, while the Red Army Intelligence Directorate was external.
Therefore, Berzin's knowledge of the German economy is also deeper than that of Tukhachevsky.
"There is an imbalance in the development of industry and agriculture in Germany, an imbalance in industrial development and resources, and a very unbalanced balance between heavy industry and light industry."
Belzin lit a cigarette and stood on the balcony with Tukhachevsky, the sound of cars muffling out their conversation, making it difficult for any eavesdropping equipment to function.
"Germany needs to import 4 million tons of agricultural products a year, mainly from the Baltic and Soviet Unions, and they also need to import large quantities of oil, iron ore, non-ferrous metals and other raw materials," Berzin said. in order to meet the needs of German industry.
And Germany is currently developing the automotive industry, which will bring a large demand for fuel.
Although Germany has advanced synthetic fuel technology, they still need to import more oil every year. ” "But they also export a lot of things," Tukhachevsky said, holding a cup of Russian coffee.
"German planes, cars, ships, machines and compact instruments are very popular in the world, and their trade is generally balanced."
In fact, there is a considerable trade surplus in Germany, except that the surplus is stored not in the form of dollars and gold, but in the form of various raw materials.
"Only for the time being," Berzin said, smoking a cigarette, "unlike England, France, and the United States, Germany has no colonies."
They do not have a stable dumping market for industrial products and a place to collect cheap raw materials.
Moreover, they were going to swallow Austria and the Czechs soon, which was equivalent to taking most of the original industrial areas of Austria-Hungary. ” "Then the German economy will be even more unbalanced," Berzin said with great certainty, "so they have no other way out but to expand abroad."
And they repeatedly professed to be anti-colonial, believing that investing in the colonies was a loss-making deal."
"Either they are cheating, or they are going to take the route of local expansion," Tukhachevsky smiled coldly, "they are looking to the United States and want to build a Greater German Empire with complete industrial and agricultural resources" "Yes," Berzin nodded approvingly, "if this is to be achieved in Europe, the direction of German expansion must be to the east, Czechoslovakia will be followed by Poland, and Poland will be followed by the Soviet Union."
"It's determined by their economic base," Tukhachevsky said, taking a puff of his cigarette and staring at the endless traffic on the road, "so the Soviet Union must be ready for war with Germany" While Tukhachevsky and Berzin were traveling around Germany, Ludwig von Heinsberg Hersmann was working with senior staff members of the General Staff to make the final revisions to the green plan.
The Green Plan was developed for Austria and Czechoslovakia, as well as Poland.
As early as 1934, shortly after Ludendorff succeeded to the presidency, Defense Minister Schleicher and Chief of the General Staff Hammestein received a secret order from the president to draw up two combat plans: one was a red plan for fighting France and Belgium; The other is a green solution.
According to the results of several joint meetings of the Ministry of Defence, the General Staff, the Admiralty and the Naval Staff, the Red Plan was a defensive-oriented plan in which Germany would build a defensive "Siegfried" line on the borders of France, Belgium and Luxembourg to counter the French "Maginot Line" and a possible attack by the Allies.
However, due to financial constraints, the "Siegfried" defense line was far from being as strong as the "Maginot line".
This 630-kilometer-long defense line is mainly composed of three parts: an obstacle zone, a main defensive belt, and a rear position, with a depth of 35 to 75 kilometers.
The obstacle zone consists mainly of minefields, barbed wire, anti-tank trenches and the "Dragon's Teeth" system.
This is a multi-row angular conical reinforced concrete pile, which is mainly used to block the advance of tanks, and the theoretical basis for the construction of this "Siegfried" defense line is the theory of large-depth elastic defense proposed by Hersmann.
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That is, this is a line of defense against mechanized assault In addition to the anti-tank trenches and dragon teeth, a number of permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete and steel armor were built behind the obstacle strip, equipped with machine guns and anti-tank guns.
However, the Maginot Line was not equipped with a large number of complex fortifications and armored turrets.
However, the entire line of defense used more concrete and steel than the French "Maginot Line", and the number of various fortifications reached 11,860, which was also far more than the "Maginot Line".
In fact, the historical sit-down battle is very much related to the existence of this "Siegfried" line.
If the French really attacked the "Siegfried" line, I am afraid that the losses would be too great to bear.
In later history, this "Siegfried" defense line at the end of the war, when the German army was gone, also blocked the powerful British and American allies for five months, if it was changed to 1939, let the French attack "Siegfried" alone, I am afraid that even the Manstein plan behind it will not be needed, and the Germans will be able to easily defeat France by taking the old road of World War I.
Although he knew that the "sit-down battle" would follow, Hirschmann still did not dare to intervene in the construction of the "Siegfried" defensive line, which was a matter related to the survival of the country And the red plan is not a matter for Hersmann, but the chief of the General Staff, Senior General Khamestein, is personally responsible.
Hersmann is in charge of the green solutions.
And the green approach under Hersmann's leadership is certainly different from the historical version.
First of all, it is not a plan based on the annexation of Czechoslovakia by force, but a comprehensive plan of political, diplomatic, espionage, and military means.
Unlike in history, the entire operation was controlled by the General Staff, not by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Secondly, the order of annexation is also different.
In the green scheme developed by Hersmann, the first to be annexed by Germany was not Austria, but the Czech Republic.
Moreover, the annexation of the Czechs did not begin with the Sudetenland Germans.
Rather, it began with the secret cooperation of Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and Japan in the League of Nations. t1706231537: