Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 73, Reich Ministry of Defense.
A 1942 Maybach "Leader" luxury bulletproof sedan was parked at the main entrance of the building.
A very handsome and personable lieutenant colonel in his thirties got out of the passenger seat, opened the door of the back seat of the car, and then saw the Imperial Marshal Hersman get out of the car, straighten out his military uniform, and then stretched out his left hand and whispered: "Klaus, my scepter." ” The lieutenant colonel who opened the door for Hesman immediately handed Hirschman a beautifully carved marshal's scepter, and then tried to carry the handbag for Hirschman, but was stopped by Hirschman.
It's not that there's something shady in the bag, it's that Hersman always feels uncomfortable when he sees his new lieutenant holding the bag.
Because the full name of the lieutenant colonel is Chris von Stauffenberg, and this is the man who put a bomb in a bag to kill Hitler, of course, in the original history As a royalist militarist from a high-ranking aristocratic background, Stauffenberg was certainly loyal to a royalist leader like Hersmann.
In fact, he and Hersmann were still relatives, and the Stauffenberg family and the Heinsberg family were both well-known Catholic families in western Germany, and they were also well-connected earlly families.
Of course, there was a marriage relationship between the two families, this is Chris von Stuffenberg is a distant cousin of Chloe, and not long after marrying Chloe, Hersmann met Chris von Stuffenberg, who was still a child at the time.
Since then, Hersmann has had a good relationship with the Stauffenberg family, which is why Chris von Stauffenberg is now the Hirschmann lieutenant.
In terms of mastering the Junkers officer corps, Hersmann was much better than Hitler.
Because he himself is the "most perfect" Juncker, impeccable in both origin and experience.
Moreover, together with Schleicher, he contributed to the restoration of the German Kaiser, and promoted the line of the Soviet Union, which was also recognized by the "old fellows" of the Junker officer corps, pioneered by Kaiser Wilhelm, and now has achieved a series of great successes.
So there is no so-called "opposition" in the German Junker aristocracy and officer class.
At least the Reich's Central Security Directorate, headed by Admiral Stockhausen, and the Military Intelligence Directorate, headed by Major General Reinhardt Galen, did not detect the existence of such a faction.
Even the historical "anti-war faction" such as General Ludwig Beck is now following Schleicher, the militarist leader, Beck was originally promoted by Schleicher and Hammestein to be the commander of the England Army Group preparing to invade Britain, which is a bluff commander.
"Ludwig, how are you talking with the Dutch?"
In a rectangular conference room in the Defense Building, Hersmann heard the voice of Marshal Kesselring as soon as he entered the door.
Kesselring has now taken over Hersmann's squad as chief of the General Staff, he has been transferred from the army to the air force, and he has also commanded the air force to fight the navy, and he is an "all-round" general, and he is most suitable to take over as the chief of the general staff of the Wehrmacht.
So Hersmann chose Kesselring as his successor among three candidates: Kesselring, Halder and Guderian.
Halder became the First Quartermaster General, Kesselring's deputy.
Guderian became commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, and together with the commanders of the four army groups, Reichenau, Liszt, Moder, and Manstein, went to guard against Stalin's thunderstorm.
Today, Kesselring arrived at the Ministry of Defense building in Berlin early in the morning from Tsosen to attend a very important meeting of the High Command.
"The Dutch agreed to the independence of Dutch Guiana."
Hersmann sat down in a chair opposite Marshal Kesselring, placed the heavy leather bag in his hand on his lap, opened it, and took out a secret handwritten agreement signed by Hersmann and Dutch Prime Minister Dirkgill, in which the Dutch government agreed to recognize it in the event of an independent revolution in Dutch Guiana.
"Independent," Marshal Kesselring shook his head with a smile, "these Dutchmen really can think of it. ” "Leave this to the Central Security Bureau, there is no problem with the cooperation of the Dutch colonial authorities."
Hersmann took the coffee cup from a female secretary of the Department of Defence, took a sip of his coffee, and then said to Kesselring, "But our men must also enter at once, and take control of Dutch Guiana before the Americans can do it, and preferably both British and French Guiana." ” "Okay," Kesselring nodded, "the General Staff will immediately make a plan for when we are going to enter South America."
"Of course, the sooner the better," Hersman said, "because history will not give us a long period of opportunity, and once the Americans make a wire-controlled glide bomb, we will not have a chance to get a springboard in South America."
By the way, the code name of this project is called Springboard. ” "How about doing it before May 1942," said Kesselring, thinking for a moment, "before we invade Ireland, and by the end of April we will have at least one JU288 group armed with HS239 gliding bombs ready for combat, and this group will pose a great threat to the U.S.
Navy." ” JU288 was a very promising project during Kesselring's tenure as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force.
The aircraft was designed by Juncker and is the successor to the JU88.
The aircraft is equipped with a 24-cylinder JU222 turbocharged engine with a maximum output of 2,500 hp, and the JU222 is also available in a non-turbocharged version, so the JU288 is also available in high-altitude and low-medium altitude versions.
The maximum level flight speed can reach 670 kilometers per hour, the ceiling can reach 12,500 meters, the bomb load is 36 tons, and the maximum range is 5,985 kilometers The anti-ship capability of the JU288 is unprecedentedly powerful, not only can it dive-drop bombs like the JU88, but it is also equipped with two epoch-making controllable gliding bombs, the HS293 and the Fritz X.
In addition, the maximum range of 5,958 kilometers and the combat radius of more than 2,200 kilometers also made this aircraft a killer feature for Germany in the Atlantic The JU288 is not the only high-end aircraft used to receive the JU88 class, and the more economical and practical DO217 bomber developed by DORNIER has now begun to equip the troops in large quantities.
Although the DO217 has a much smaller range than the JU288, only 2,148 km, and the maximum speed is only 557 km/h, which is not as good as the 670 kmh of the JU288.
But the DO217 can have a bomb load of up to 4 tons, which is the largest of all known twin-engine bombers, excluding such pseudo-twin engines as the HE177.
Moreover, it also has relatively good dive performance, and can also carry HS293 and Fritz X remote-controlled gliding bombs.
In the Luftwaffe's plans, the future Air Force's twin-engine tactical bombers will form a high-low mix of the JU288 and D0217.
As for Germany's new generation of heavy bomber projects, significant progress has also been made, with the 264 project, jointly developed by Messerschmitt and Fokker, and the Junkers JU390 project, in the final rounds.
At the same time, Fokker also came up with the Fokker 108 or 108 as an emergency model for the Luftwaffe to replace the old JU89 and DO19 aircraft.
"By the way, has the 8th draft of the Sea Lion Project been prepared?"
After discussing the "springboard", Hirschman turned the topic to "Sea Lion".
The "Sea Lion Project" was a battle plan to solve the British mainland, but the main battlefield was chosen in Ireland.
It was Hersmann himself who proposed this plan, and it was Hersmann's eldest brother, Field Marshal Schleicher, who carried it out.
However, the "Sea Lion Plan" is an extremely complex plan, including a deception plan before the launch of the campaign, a plan for a decisive battle at sea before the start of the landing, a plan for landing and airborne landing in Ireland, a plan for a decisive battle with British forces in Ireland, a plan for a total blockade of the British mainland based in Ireland, and finally a plan to deal with the entry of the United States and the Soviet Union into the war.
Of course, the plan of fighting against the United States and the Soviet Union will not be included in the "Sea Lion Plan".
As early as 1941, after the end of the Mediterranean campaign, the General Staff of the Wehrmacht began to secretly draw up operational plans against the United States and the Soviet Union, the former codenamed the "Barrier Plan" and the latter the "Blue Plan".
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The core idea of the "barrier plan" is to use the Atlantic Ocean as a barrier and Guyana as a bridgehead to keep the United States out of Europe, while at the same time placing the battlefield of the confrontation between the United States and Germany in the Caribbean.
And the core of the "blue plan" is to seize the heavy industrial base of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and the resource-producing Caucasus, provided that the Soviet Union first goes to war with Germany.
Hersmann's reluctance to go to war with the Soviet Union remained unchanged, because if the Soviets and Germany went to war, the United States would be able to reap the benefits, and Germany would be caught in a two-front war.
However, from the current analysis of US-Soviet relations and Soviet-German relations, the risk of Soviet-German war is becoming more and more great.
Therefore, it is necessary to consider the solution of the "Soviet question".
However, the solution of the American problem and the Soviet problem must be placed after the defeat of Britain, and the pace of aggression and expansion under Hersmann's control is still steady, which seems reassuring.
This is also the reason why he can have the unanimous support of Juncker militarists.
"It's all done," Kesselring smiled, "It's not easy, the 8th draft of the entire plan is almost a million words, and the landing plan alone has made 18 sets, taking all kinds of possibilities into account."
In fact, the difficulty of the entire Sea Lion plan is the landing, after all, we have not fought a major landing battle.
If it weren't for Paulus's return from Japan, we wouldn't have been able to make these 18 sets of plans. ” t1706231537: