The Rise of the Third Reich

"Marshal, a telegram from Marshal Guderian."

Hersmann's adjutant, Colonel Schnetz, walked through the YSL-style corridor and opened the door into a restaurant with a completely European style. Hersman was inside having breakfast with his wife, Chloe.

The place where they are now is the Golestan Palace in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Tehran is the end point of Hersman's trip to the Middle East. When Hesman arrived in Tehran, he naturally became Reza Khan's distinguished guest, stayed directly in the Iranian palace, and received the most hospitable hospitality.

Iran is now ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty, the unlucky dynasty that failed to hold on to the United States and was overthrown by the religious revolution led by Khomeini.

But in this time and space, Hersman would not allow this to happen. Because Hessman still knows very well how European civilization got rid of religious fanaticism - it was not based on one-person-one-vote democracy, but on a group of heinous feudal monarchs and bureaucratic profiteers who, in the process of constant struggle, defeated the pope and bishops. The adults pulled down the altar.

If the ignorant serfs of the Middle Ages were allowed to vote, who could beat the ecumenical Pope? He is God’s general agent on earth!

Therefore, when Hessmann was in Baghdad, he clearly told several leaders of the Arab Social Renaissance Movement that you can go ahead and become a dictatorship. As long as you follow the lines of secularization, Europeanization, and nation-states, Germany and Europe will definitely support them. Let’s talk about democratic elections 100 years later... The process from fighting Catholicism to democratic voting in European countries took more than 100 years.

In the talks between Iran and Reza Khan, Hersman expressed the same position - Iran must be secular, European, and a nation-state, and it must not engage in pan-Persianism. Under these major principles, even if the Pahlavi family pursues "enlightened dictatorship", Germany will firmly support it.

Marshal Hessmann's stance, if placed in the 21st century, would have to be eliminated by the YSL Saints of all walks of life, if not by the European white left. Fortunately, Europe is now dominated by the Nazis and fascists, who even the Saints are afraid of, so Hessman is very safe.

As for progressive dictators with ideals and aspirations like King Reza Khan and Prime Minister Kelani (in fact, their dictatorships are relatively progressive), long live the actions of Hessman, because they will start from now on. , I can finally be a happy dictator!

Therefore, they all agreed to Hessmann's other demands, such as settling oil in Euromarks, purchasing German government bonds during the world war, and accepting Palestinian and Lebanese YSL believers. It also agreed that German troops should be stationed on Iranian and Iraqi soil (including Kuwait).

Since the trip in Iraq and Iran went very smoothly, Hersman has been in a good mood. He also enjoyed the belly dance performed by Chloe last night. King Farouk of Egypt did not know what he thought, and sent a man named Farah. He's beautiful young "dance teacher" to Chloe. Chloe has learned a little from her during this time, and she performed it for her husband last night.

Although it was a bit too plump and the skin looked saggy, Hersman still liked it very much... so he went to bed late today and didn't get up for breakfast until three o'clock in the morning.

Before breakfast was finished, Colonel Schnetz hurried in and brought some very important news to Hessmann.

Seeing Hessman's brows furrowed, Chloe asked with concern: "Honey, what happened?"

"A lot of things happened!" Hessman paused. There were a lot of things. Some things were confidential and couldn't be told to his wife, but there were also things that could be said.

"A U.S. fleet sailed into Port of Heroes, the capital of the Azores, yesterday afternoon and occupied it. At the same time, the U.S. government also announced that the U.S. military would take over the defense of Iceland."

This can all be said because it is not a military secret and the whole world will know it in a while.

What cannot be said is that Hitler was squandering oil. And he also proposed a plan for German agents to pretend to be British MI6 agents to support the YSL Saints in Afghanistan. Guderian could decide whether the plan to support the Afghans against the Soviet Union was implemented. The current General Staff has this power. However, Guderian did not know how to deal with the act of accelerating the integration of Europe by squandering oil reserves, so he sent an urgent call to Hessmann for instructions.

"It seems that I have to go back to Berlin." Hersman handed the copy of the telegram to his adjutant Schnetz, "Go and inform the plane that it will take off this afternoon, and the destination is Berlin."

The straight-line distance between Tehran and Berlin is more than 3,500 kilometers, because a section of it has to fly through Soviet airspace, which is very unsafe. So Hessmann chose a long way around, flying first to Ankara and then to Berlin, so the entire journey took nearly 10 hours. By the time Hessmann arrived in Berlin, it was already early the next morning. However, when he returned to his estate in Zossen, Guderian and Lieutenant General Paulus, who served as the director of the Petroleum Reserve Bureau of the Ministry of Defense, were already waiting there.

"Marshal, there was originally only a gap of 2 million tons, but now it has suddenly become 6.2 million tons. As a result, by 1943, the Petroleum Reserve Bureau will not have much reserves to deal with emergencies."

Lieutenant General Paulus calculated the accounts for Hessmann on his fingers. Guderian on the side also echoed: "Now I am afraid that the oil collection volume in the Middle East will not reach 11 million tons in 1942...Here in Europe, the most 6.5 million tons can be dug out in 1942. In addition, I am also worried that the oil collection volume in the Middle East may not reach 11 million tons in 1942. There will be a war with the Soviet Union, and oil consumption will further increase, and we are likely to face an oil crisis in 1943. "

Tired from the journey and a little sleepy, Hessmann steeled himself to listen to the opinions of Guderian and Paulus. Then there was silence. After a long while, he spoke: "The Prime Minister is still timid. Why did he leave more than 6.8 million tons of reserves for 1943? All oil reserves should be used up, at least 6 million tons." tons, just leave 800,000 tons for emergencies.”

"Use them all?"

"Marshal, what are you talking about?"

Guderian and Paulus were both shocked. Hitler was already profligate enough. Why did Hessmann go even further? All the oil reserves were used up in 1942. What will happen in 1943?

"We will have enough oil to advance the war by 1943!" Hersman said slowly, "As long as we can achieve a comprehensive advantage in 1942, only if we achieve a comprehensive advantage can we get more oil."

He paused and then said: "I have calculated that Iran's Khuzestan Oil Field will be able to increase production to more than 15 million tons by 1943, and Kirkuk Oil Field will provide more than 10 million tons of oil. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia's oil fields will also provide 1 million tons of oil each, and the oil fields in the Sinai Peninsula and Syria can provide a total of 1 million tons... In this way, we can collect 28 million tons in the Middle East alone, and Romania, Hungary, Poland and Western Ukraine. The local oil production will reach 7 million tons by 1943, and the production of synthetic oil will exceed 8 million tons, so we will have 43 million tons of oil, so we no longer need to reserve more than 6 million tons. tons of reserves to expand arms production and expand the size of the air force and armored forces.

Therefore we are now going to implement larger-scale military and economic mobilization! Now the United States has begun to accelerate its armed forces, and has also entered the Azores and Iceland. This means that they will soon join the war. We must be prepared for war with the United States, so we must increase mobilization efforts. "

Military enthusiasts in later generations often blame Germany's failure in World War II on the fact that the general mobilization was too late, so that there were not enough aircraft and tanks in the most critical three years of 1941, 42, and 43.

However, in the view of Hersmann, who is now the Chief of General Staff of the German Wehrmacht, the reason why Germany did not carry out general mobilization in time was still the lack of oil.

The current expansion rate of the German air force and navy is far faster than that of the same period in history, and the price is that the consumption of oil is far more than that of the same period in history. If it were not for the large reserves before the war, Germany would not be able to maintain its current size of navy and air force.

To finally win the war, further mobilization will definitely be needed, not only to mobilize the power of Germany, but also to mobilize the power of the entire Europe. Then the consumption of oil will be even more alarming!

The reason why Hitler generously provided more than 4 million tons of crude oil was to take advantage of the current situation, which seemed to be very favorable to Germany, to bring France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Norway, which were still neutral on the surface, into Germany's favour. chariot. In this way, Germany can further mobilize European manpower and material resources to fight against Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

But if we want to mobilize Europe's manpower and material resources, we have to spend more oil! In the final analysis, it is still an issue of oil.

Seeing that both Guderian and Paulus were hesitant, Hessmann smiled and said: "As long as we can gain a greater advantage in 1942, there will not be any oil shortage problems in 1943. If we lose In 1942, we can only rely on the nuclear fission bomb of Project U to achieve a decent peace."

Guderian's brows furrowed even more tightly, "Will we go to war with the Soviet Union in 1942?"

"This is a situation that we must try to avoid," Hessmann shook his head, "but we still have to prepare for war. Therefore, the armored forces must also be strengthened to a certain extent. The development of the No. 5 and No. 6 tanks must be in June 1942. It will be completed before the end of the month and mass production will begin in July.”