"Prince, do you know who is behind this incident, is it the United States?"
Although Hitler and Schleicher hoped that Hersmann would return to Germany on February 25, Hersmann, who was stuck in military affairs, did not return to Berlin on an FW200 plane until noon on the 28th, when the gasoline and ammunition escorted by the Italian fleet arrived safely at the port of Messematrou.
The meeting of the High Command was scheduled for the morning of March 1, the following day, so Hersman got off the plane and headed straight for his estate in Tsosen.
At dinner that day, he met Prince Paul, the regent of Yugoslavia, who was in exile in Berlin, at Tsosen's estate.
Prince Paul looked very tired, almost ten years older than what Hersman had seen at the Geneva meeting last year, and his voice was a little hoarse, and it seemed that he had a very difficult time these days.
Hearing Hessman's question, the Yugoslav prince smiled bitterly: "Of course, the United States and Britain are making trouble, but there is no one of them in the whole of Europe who is fanning the flames, but only we Serbs have been fooled, which shows that the problem is not mainly the incitement of Britain and the United States, but the lack of soberness of our Serbs." ” Hersman sighed helplessly.
The prince was right, the Serbs were really in bad heads, or they would not have started an anti-German uprising at the height of the German Empire's power.
In another time and space, the anti-German uprising in Yugoslavia was even more vexatious, when Hitler did not want to dismember Yugoslavia at all, but was busy preparing for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
The Serbs used a nonsensical uprising to delay the invasion of the Soviet Union by one month, which probably indirectly saved the Soviet Union and changed the course of World War II.
The Serbs themselves fell into one disaster after another, first the German invasion, then the mutual vendetta with the Croats and Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a total of one million deaths, and later allowing a Croat Tito to rule them, and then engaged in decades of strong and weak South and weak Serbia, and finally a Yugoslav civil war led to a strong South and weak Serbia, which completely ruined the dream of Greater Serbia Thinking of this, Hersman gently turned the tall glass in his hand, "Your Royal Highness, you are a friend of our Germany and at the same time a clear-headed Serbian politician.
If you are willing to be a politician who saves the Serbian nation, we can make you the regent or even the king of Serbia. ” "I will be the king" Prince Paul took a glass of wine and drank it all, and laughed, "Your Excellency Marshal, in the minds of the Serbs, I am a sinner who betrayed the country and the nation, how can I be a king, our Serbian nation has never lacked heroes and heroes." ” Hesman knew that Prince Paul was talking about Serbian nationalist terrorists.
The First World War was triggered by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince and his wife in Sarajevo by Princip, an assassin of the Serbian ultra-nationalist organization "Mafia".
In today's Yugoslavia, there are still quite a few ethnic extremist organizations similar to the "Mafia", and the current anti-German uprising is related to these organizations.
However, in Yugoslavia, it was not the Serbs who had extremists, the Croats, the S, the Macedonians, the Slovenes all had their own organizations, and the object of their struggle was the Serbs.
Since the Entente established a Yugoslavia, which was not originally called Yugoslavia, but the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes after the last war, several small Slavic peoples, who were already displeasing to each other, have been fighting each other without stopping.
"Then His Royal Highness," Hersman frowned slightly, "who do you think has the ability to clean up the mess?"
Defeating Yugoslavia is not a problem, it will be done in 8 days in history, and I am afraid it will be even shorter in this time and space.
But how to deal with the aftermath is a problem, it is easy for Germany to start a war now, but it is not necessarily easy to end the war.
Prince Paul shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "A group of people with bad brains, who will have the ability to control them If you have to recommend one of them, I recommend Admiral Simovich." ” "Admiral Simovich" Hersman was stunned, "isn't he anti-German" "Do you really think that Admiral Dushansimovich is so brainless and wants to be the enemy of the mighty German Empire, he is just trying to cater to them, not really trying to go to war with Germany.
If you could stop the invasion, he would never have allowed Serbian troops to invade Croatia and Slovenia. ” It was true, and now Germany had thirty-two divisions in Croatia and Slovenia, and fifteen Hungarian divisions ready to help.
Admiral Simovich is going to take the initiative to attack, how brain-dead it is However, Germany could not tolerate a small nation like Serbia holding the banner of opposition to Germany every day in the heart of Europe "But he's challenging the authority of the German Empire," Hersmann shook his head and said with a wry smile, "how can Germany rule Europe if it can't do anything about tiny Serbia?"
"Then," sighed Prince Paul, "I would like to give you one last advice, Marshal, that Serbia and Bosnia must not be left under occupation without the rule of their own government.
I think a treaty recognizing the secession of Croatia, Slovenia and Batna from Yugoslavia is what Germany really needs. ” Hersman smiled slightly: "Okay, Your Royal Highness, I will try my best to strive for such an ending."
I think this should be an important principle for us in Germany to lead the world in the future. ” His principle is to try not to make the opponent anarchic as much as possible, even if the leader of this government is not very good at brains, but it is much better than no government to deal with, and as a world hegemon, you have to learn to deal with all kinds of people with bad brains "Stalin is crazy, his brain must be broken, and he dares to make such an unreasonable request to us, this is an insult to the German Empire, I must not accept it, never" On the morning of 1 March, Hersmann arrived at the Ministry of Defense building at 73 Wilhelm Street, and as soon as he entered the conference room of the High Command, he heard Hitler's characteristic hysterical voice.
This time it seems that Stalin had something wrong with his brain "Marshal," saw Hersmann walk in, and a mad Hitler shouted at him, "has a bomb that could blow up a city been made and when can it be used to teach the Bolsheviks a lesson?"
"What's going on" Hersman was confused, and when he saw that Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was also there, he asked: "Is it Molotov who made some unreasonable demands" He knew that Molotov was visiting Berlin for the past two days, but he was now a front-line commander and did not have the time to participate in secret diplomacy between the Soviet Union and Germany.
"He set out the conditions for the Soviet Union to enter the war," Ribbentrop replied, "and the Soviet Union wanted to get the Baltic States, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Poland, Iran, Afghanistan, and India." ” Is Stalin really crazy, or is his brain in water, ready for war with Germany Hersmann was stunned, but after a second thought, he guessed some of Stalin's true intentions.
"Leader, Stalin is not mad," said Hersmann, shaking his head, "and he probably had no intention of going to war right away." ” "I don't want to go to war right away," Hitler snorted, "I'm afraid I don't want to go to war on the side of Germany," he asked, "when will that bomb be ready?"
"1944, or 1945."
Hersman gave an approximate time with a frown.
Now the scientists of the U Engineering Committee have calculated the more accurate critical value and have begun to look for a way to split uranium-235.
In addition, while studying uranium metal, which has undergone a chain reaction, they discovered a completely new element, plutonium.
"Are we going to wait until 1944 or 1945 to attack the Soviet Union?"
Hitler asked, looking as if provoked by Stalin.
"Yes," replied Hersman in the affirmative, "at least avoid war with the Soviet Union as much as possible until we defeat Britain and the United States." ” It was not too late to start a war with the Soviet Union, and it was a big deal to bomb with atomic bombs, but Hersman felt that it was completely unnecessary, because once the United States gave in, Stalin would not have the courage to challenge Germany's world hegemony.
However, the window of time to defeat the United States was very short, and the naval forces of Germany, France, Italy, and Japan had to be assembled to annihilate the main force of the United States Navy before the completion of the huge shipbuilding program of the United States.
Otherwise, when the American battleships and aircraft carriers began to dump, Germany would not be able to reach the United States mainland even if it had atomic bombs.
"Victory over the United States," Hitler immediately asked, "the Japanese admiral promised to send the battleship to the Atlantic."
"Not yet," Hersman shook his head, "but sooner or later they will agree." ” There's no urgency, there's always an opportunity.
In fact, even without 2 Japanese super battleships, Germany would not necessarily have no choice.
If Pearl Harbor were to be the same as in history, two of the three Colorado-class ships of the United States would have been blown up by the Japanese.
For a considerable period of time after that, the number of super-battleships in the U.S.
Navy was only 3 USS Colorado, USS North Carolidona, and USS Washington, while there were at least 6 super-battleships on the German side, which was another important time window "Well, let Stalin go for now."
Hitler gritted his teeth and regained his composure, "Then how should we reply to Molotov, do you have any suggestions" "Leader, we should reject their demands on the Baltics, Finland, Poland, Lithuania."
Hersman thought for a moment and said: "In addition, the oil-producing regions of southern Iran cannot be given to the USSR. ” t1706231537: