Chapter 602: Hersman's Small Goal

Hersmann and Kesselring were having secret conversations in the Office of the Minister of Defense, preparing to characterize the upcoming Soviet-German conflict. In the famous White Crane Hotel in the pleasant scenery of Geneva, Switzerland, Rudolf Hess, a minister of the German Empire and a senior member of the Senate of the European Community, was meeting with the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland John F. Kennedy - the meeting was of course secret.

"It is impossible for the United States to give up its support for the United Kingdom. As you know, the United States and the United Kingdom have close economic, cultural, and political ties. Although not every American likes the United Kingdom, the 1940 election has shown most of the Americans support Britain. This is the mainstream public opinion in the United States. Although President Roosevelt himself is unwilling to fight Germany, he cannot go against the country's mainstream public opinion. However, we Americans have always been very realistic. If the British mainland surrenders. If we are determined by Germany’s will, then we will no longer hold on pointlessly..."

Kennedy's words actually sound reasonable. Although virtue is now in a state of war, the dawn of peace is not without it - it seems that as long as the British mainland kneels down, Prince Friedrich of the Hohenzollern dynasty will bring his aunt Elizabeth to the throne. Marry, then the United States will have no choice but to admit reality.

Then, the United States and Germany can happily divide the earth. Anyway, the earth looks quite big, enough to accommodate two superpowers.

"What we in the United States want is around North and South America and the Pacific Ocean." Kennedy said "America's requirements" seriously.

Rudolf Hess listened carefully, holding a pen and notebook in his hand and recording something from time to time.

"Pacific?" Hess heard Kennedy mention the Pacific and immediately asked, "Including the sphere of influence of the Japanese Empire?"

"The Japanese Empire must perish!" Kennedy said categorically, "You must stop aiding Japan... In exchange, the United States will also stop aiding the Soviet Union. Then you go to clean up the communist cancer of the Soviet Union, and we go to destroy the Japanese Empire."

"Mr. Kennedy," Hess seemed to have heard something valuable and quickly asked, "Can I understand that the United States supports Germany's attack on the Soviet Union?"

"It's not support, it's not opposition." Kennedy shrugged. "Although I personally support the elimination of the Soviet Union, very much! But there will inevitably be competition between the United States and Germany in the future. Therefore, the United States will not support Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, just like You, Germany, will not support the United States’ attack on Japan.”

"That's it." Hess nodded with satisfaction. The result of today's meeting with Ambassador Kennedy was obviously satisfactory.

Although the United States and the Soviet Union are both powerful and dangerous countries, the United States and Germany are separated by the Atlantic Ocean after all. Without overwhelming maritime superiority, it is impossible to attack each other's territory.

However, Germany and the Soviet Union were neighboring countries on land, and the armies of both sides could easily launch attacks on their opponents. It can be said that until Germany disintegrates its powerful land neighbor, the Soviet Union, it will not be able to enjoy the fruits of victory in the world war with confidence and boldness.

Therefore, after defeating Britain and making peace with the United States, abandoning Japan, and then concentrating on dealing with the Soviet Union seems to be the most beneficial choice for Germany.

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"Leader, I don't think it is possible to make peace with the United States under the current circumstances. The United States will not negotiate with us sincerely." At the headquarters meeting that night, Hersman was straightforward about the proposal to make peace with the United States. Expressed the opinion of "don't believe it".

"Then why did Ambassador Kennedy negotiate with Hess in Geneva?" Adolf Hitler looked at Hessman and asked.

"I guess it was for Stalin to see, right?" Hessman shrugged, "That place in Geneva is a nest of spies. British, American, Soviet, and our spies are all there, and they have all established spy networks. The information is well-informed. No matter where Kennedy and Secretary Hess met, they could not hide it from Stalin's agents."

"Do the Americans want Stalin to know that once Britain surrenders, they will make peace with us?" Hitler quickly guessed Roosevelt's intention. This was actually a "conspiracy." If Britain really kneels down, the negotiations between Germany and Germany will not be fake, but real. Then Stalin will have to consider the issue of confrontation with the entire Europe.

"Roosevelt is a liar..." Hitler immediately realized that Rudolf Hess had been fooled again. It was obvious what Stalin would think when a figure of Hess's level had secret talks with Kennedy in Geneva.

"So will Stalin attack in the east?" Hitler asked, looking at Hersmann and Kesselring.

"The General Staff believes that the war on the Eastern Front is imminent." Kesselring replied.

"On the verge of breaking out?" A trace of nervousness flashed across Hitler's expression, but it was quickly replaced by anger.

"Shouldn't we strike preemptively?" Hitler's gray-blue eyes stared at Hessmann. "Can we fight a blitzkrieg like the Battle of Poland and the Battle of France?"

"No." Hessman's answer was very simple. “The Soviet Union is a powerful country with huge depth, a large population and developed industrial strength. After the completion of the Soviet Union’s 3rd Five-Year Plan, the Ural Industrial Zone and the Second Baku Oil Field have reached a certain scale, allowing the Soviet Union to carry out The ability to fight for a long time has been greatly enhanced, and it is simply impossible for us to defeat it with a blitzkrieg.”

"But we have a Russian empress in our hands," Hitler said. "She is the legitimate monarch of Russia, and there will always be people who support her...Those Bolsheviks can be quite cruel."

Thanks to Hersmann, Hitler had more cards to play in his policy towards the Soviet Union than in history. Not only were most Poles and Ukrainians able to be used by Germany, but even Belarus became a Soviet Union because of Empress Olga. Objects that can be exploited. But Hersman does not believe that Olga and her White Russia can deal with Russia, which has a vast territory, a large population, and a very complicated situation.

"Not too much," Hessman shook his head. "She is just a weak and failed empress. And the Russians support a leader who is strong and can bring victory to the country...the current Stalin is exactly such a leader, so The Soviet people loved him as a tyrant, and at least until he suffered the same failure as Nicholas II, the vast majority of the Soviet people would not abandon him.

Moreover, even if the Soviets abandoned Stalin, they would probably not support Olga, who failed like Stalin. If we insist on supporting Olga or other political forces that have no foundation in the Soviet Union to come to power, we will pay a huge price. This is a choice that outweighs the gains and losses. "

"Then how should we deal with those Bolsheviks?" Hitler asked calmly.

"We will not aim at destroying the Soviet Union, but only fight a limited war and pursue a peace treaty that is beneficial to us." Hersman said, "There are already arrangements in the blue plan... We cannot fight a war in the Soviet Union. This is a war that cannot be ended, and in order to end it before we are exhausted, we should set some easy-to-achieve goals for victory.

If our purpose is to overthrow the Bolshevik rule in Russia and restore the Romanov dynasty. Then we must occupy the entire Soviet Union, at least advance the front to the Ural Mountains and seize the Soviet Union's main industrial areas. Then we have to help Belarus establish its army and government... I think Queen Olga will inevitably establish a government that is corrupt, unpopular, and full of idiots from top to bottom. Until then we will still have to worry about the livelihood of tens of millions of Russians and face a long-term guerrilla war. "

In the "Blue Plan" formulated under the leadership of Hersman, the war against the Soviet Union only had one or two "small goals" to achieve, namely Ukraine-Western Belarus and the Caucasus oil-producing area.

It is not to achieve two goals at the same time, but to win the entire Ukraine and Western Belarus that originally belonged to Poland. The Caucasus oil-producing area depends on the situation. If you can win the best, forget it if you can't.

The hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of left-bank Ukraine and right-bank Ukraine (a total of 600,000 square kilometers were introduced, and now about 70,000 square kilometers belong to the Kingdom of Galicia-West Ukraine and are ruled by Germany) will be merged with Western Ukraine after the war. The Kingdom of Ukraine then became part of the German Empire in the form of a co-kingdom or state.

In this way, the mainland area of ​​the German Empire includes the German State, the Austrian State, the Bohemian State, the Baltic States, the Sinai Peninsula Reserve, the Cyprus Reserve, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of Poland (including Western Belarus), the Kingdom of Ukraine, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. , the Grand Duchy of Slovenia and the Grand Duchy of Slovakia, it will exceed 1.8 million square kilometers.

Although it is not particularly vast, it controls wealthy areas with a relatively developed economy and a relatively moderate population of 150-160 million, of which the Germanic or Germanized population is close to 100 million. Assimilating 50-60 million people with 100 million people will succeed in one generation or two.

If we really want to capture the entire European part of the Soviet Union, the Germans will become a minority in the future German Empire. It would take less than 100 million Germans to assimilate more than 200 million Slavs. No matter how you look at it, it will not be successful. Therefore, it is better to choose the route of eating less and easier to digest.

With a basic base of 1.8 million square kilometers and a population of 150 million to 160 million, plus the die-hard brothers of Croatia, Hungary, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Romania, and Bulgaria, plus the defeated Britain and France could use a few decades after the end of the world war to build a European Community with the Greater German Empire as its core, and even have the opportunity to turn the European Community into a unified federal country.