Chapter 3: Alliance with Russia and the Soviet Union

Under the bright sunshine in southern Germany, a train spewing thick smoke was speeding on the railway to Zurich. On both sides of the railway, apart from deserted farms and pastures with few cattle and sheep, there were large tracts of dense forests.

The train was not crowded. In most carriages, less than half of the seats were occupied by passengers, mostly women, children or elderly men. Our Captain Hersman was also on this train, but he did not sit in an ordinary carriage, but in a spacious compartment. With him were several other people, one of whom was a lieutenant named Karl Stockhausen. He had golden hair and a rather burly and tall figure, and he was very young, as if he was less than 20 years old.

He was Captain Kesselring's assistant to Hersman, and was drawn from the guard force of the Great General Staff. He came with three big soldiers. Their mission was not to protect Hersman, but to act as porters - there were no portable military radios now, all of which were large and bulky. Hessmann alone could not have done it anyway.

In addition to these four "coolies", there were two people sent by the Imperial Foreign Ministry on Wilhelm Street in the spacious box - the contact with Comrade Lenin had always been handled by the German Embassy in Switzerland. And this time, the contact with Lenin was also jointly controlled by the General Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

So the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also sent a junior official who was shoulder to shoulder with Hessmann, Oscar von Eitel, the first secretary of the Embassy in Switzerland. This was a fat man in his thirties, with big eyes, thick eyebrows, a big red and rosacea nose, wearing a pair of thick glasses, speaking in a very loud voice, and eating a big appetite - being a diplomat in Switzerland, where food supply is very rich, is really a good job for him.

Hessmann guessed that this fat man must have a good background and had some connections to get this position as a diplomat in Switzerland. Otherwise, at his age, he should be squatting on the front line now.

The young lady with Ettel had a beautiful oval face, a high nose bridge that seemed to be carved, wavy blonde hair, a pair of very beautiful ice-blue eyes, and a skin as white as cream. She was a very outstanding beauty at first glance.

The only flaw was that her figure seemed a little fat, or perhaps not fat but attractively plump... because she always wore a loose gray tweed skirt, which made it difficult for Hersman to judge.

This lady was actually also a diplomat, an attaché at the German Embassy in Switzerland - this was unimaginable before the war, but now too many men were drafted, leaving enough positions for women.

The beauty who found a job at the German Embassy in Switzerland was named Chloe von Heinsberg, and she also had the title of Baroness, which she inherited from her father who died on the battlefield (one of her fiancés also died on the front line, which was so sad).

In addition, according to Ettel's introduction, Miss Heinsberg is also a female college student who graduated from the History Department of Munich University. And coincidentally, her teacher in the History Department of Munich University, Karl Haushofer, is also Hirschmann's tactical instructor at the Grosslichfeld Military Academy.

"Oh my God, you are also a student of Colonel Haushofer?" Hirschmann looked at the female diplomat of the German Empire in surprise and said in a serious tone, "He is a very strict teacher. The students of our class were often punished by him, either running around the playground or doing dozens of push-ups. I think he was also very strict at the University of Munich?"

Miss Heinsberg was amused by Hirschmann and giggled: "Captain, university is not like military school, it is a very free place. In my impression, the doctor is a very kind and gentlemanly man, he is a good teacher."

But after the failure of World War II, this good teacher committed suicide! Hersman could not help but have gloomy thoughts in his mind again... In his impression, Colonel Haushofer and his Jewish wife (honorary German) committed suicide by taking poison a year after Germany was defeated.

By the way, there are many Jews who fought for Germany as honorary Germans and even sacrificed their lives! So in Herman's view, Jews are not Germany's enemies. Germany's real enemies are the big financial tycoons on Wall Street and London. They are the ones who do not allow Germany to rise... Although a considerable number of these financial tycoons are Jews, the number of Jewish international financial tycoons is definitely not as many as the Jews who fought for the Nazis.

"And the doctor is very talented. The European history he explains is very interesting and not boring at all." Miss Heinsberg continued to praise her teacher, but her eyes were fixed on Hersman, who looked melancholy. "Captain, what are you worried about?"

"No, no," Hersman shook his head and smiled a little. "I thought of the colonel's geopolitical views. I think he also talked about them at the University of Munich?"

In Hessman's memory, this Haushofer was also a famous German geopolitician, Rudolf. Hess was his student, and Hitler was also deeply influenced by him. After the Nazi Party came to power, he also became the president of the German Academy of Sciences.

His ideal of geopolitics, which was heard by Hessman in later generations, was the German-Soviet alliance, where the two land powers jointly opposed the British-American sea power. In this respect, he was smarter than Hitler and Stalin. If the two dictators had listened to him, the end of the Third Reich and the Red Empire would not have been so miserable. Of the two dictators, Hitler's geopolitical views were obviously more confused - because Hitler pursued a pro-British and anti-Russian view...

"The doctor advocates German-Russian coordination," Miss Heinsberg and the fat man Ettel exchanged glances. Heinsberg smiled and asked, "Captain, I think you must not agree with this view?"

"On the contrary," Hessman shrugged, and then was silent for a moment, as if he was choosing his words. "In fact, I agree with Mr. Bismarck's proposition. Russia is particularly important to Germany. The reason why this war will last for a long time is that we are fighting with France and Russia at the same time... If we could transfer the troops on the Eastern Front to the Western Front from the beginning, the glorious peace would have come long ago."

When Hersman spoke, his eyes were fixed on Eitel's face. Because he knew that there have always been loyal believers of Bismarck's line in the political and diplomatic circles of Germany. For example, Gustav Stresemann, who later served as the Prime Minister of the Weimar Republic, and Schulenburg, who served as ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Eitel remained silent and just looked at Heinsberg. Heinsberg raised his voice and said, "Captain, isn't there an opportunity to achieve Russian-German coordination now?"

"Are you talking about Lenin?" Hersman looked at the bright and beautiful Heinsberg. He guessed that she was a beautiful mouthpiece. Female attachés in foreign embassies had no future, so they were not afraid of saying the wrong thing. All the sensitive topics today were brought up by her. It seems that she was following Ettel's orders to find out his background.

And that Ettel is a first secretary at a young age. He must have a bright future. There must be some big man behind him, perhaps Foreign Minister Kühlmann himself! It seems that the contact with Lenin has always been directly controlled by Wilhelm Street (referring to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

"Captain, do you know who this Lenin is?" Ettel took over the topic and asked with a smile.

"Yes!" Hermann said, "He is the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Socialist Party. He has been in exile in Switzerland since the failure of the revolution in 1905."

Ettel nodded: "But now it is not the Bolsheviks who control the Russian Provisional Government, but Lenin's political enemies, the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Progressive Party and the October Party."

Ettel spoke word by word, paying attention to Hermann's expression while speaking. As early as ten years ago, he was ordered to contact Lenin in the name of "German Socialist Mr. Green" and provided him with a lot of funding. On December 28 last year, Eitel also arranged a meeting between Lenin and Count von Romberg, the German ambassador to Switzerland. The two sides discussed the possibility of Lenin returning to Russia via Germany... It can be said that Comrade Lenin is the key to Mr. Eitel's career success.

But Germany today is no longer what it was ten years ago. The military has expanded its power and they want to intervene in everything. Lenin's "big cake" is no exception.

However, Eitel doesn't care about the military's intervention. He is worried that the military will mess things up. That's why he tried to find out about Hirschmann on the way to Switzerland, hoping that the other party would accept his point of view and allow him to continue to play a leading role in "helping" Lenin.

"If the Russian Provisional Government is unwilling to negotiate with us, then Lenin and his Bolsheviks are the only hope for the Empire to restore peace on the Eastern Front. Their ability to make trouble should not be underestimated." Ettel said slowly, "Captain, you have been on the Eastern Front for a long time. You should know whether we have the ability to completely defeat them?"

"Indeed, we do not have the ability to completely defeat Russia, at least not on the battlefield." Hersman admitted this very frankly. In fact, he did not care at all about the German diplomat's coveting of Lenin's big cake, because the other party did not know how big this cake was.

In fact, in Germany at the moment, no one except Hersman knew how big Lenin's cake was, let alone how to make full use of him!

"To defeat Russia, it is not enough to occupy Warsaw, Riga, Brest and Vilno. Even occupying Minsk and Kiev is not enough to force Russia to fail completely. Moscow and St. Petersburg must be captured. But we certainly don't have such power."

Ettel nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "Then we can only try to solve the Eastern Front by political means. The revolution that took place last month has plunged Russia into chaos. If we can support Lenin to further disrupt Russia. Then peace on the Eastern Front can be expected, and then we will be invincible. Just like in the Seven Years' War!"

The Seven Years' War took place between 1754 and 1763, and was almost an alliance between Britain and Prussia against the entire European continent. Although Prussia had a military genius like Frederick the Great, it was still beaten to a pulp by three powerful enemies, France, Austria and Russia, and even lost Berlin. But just when Prussia was about to perish, Russian Empress Elizabeth died of illness, and her successor was Peter III, a diehard fan of Frederick the Great - he returned all the territory occupied by Russia in Prussia, and then formed an alliance with Prussia, allowing Prussia to save its life.

But such good luck will probably not befall William II!

The focus of the train trip is the Zurich Railway Station, which is no different from a hundred years later, except that the ladies are dressed more conservatively, and no one is using mobile phones or tablets. The station building, the square outside the building, and the statues on the square are no different from what Hessman saw a hundred years later.

Compared with German cities, the biggest difference here is that there are many young and middle-aged men coming and going, and basically no one in military uniform is seen. Although the whole of Europe was caught in the flames of war, Switzerland was still a paradise far away from the flames of war.

"Dear, our carriage has arrived." Heinsberg took Hersman's arm, raised his other hand, and pointed at two old carriages on the square.

After passing through the customs of Zurich Railway Station from the VIP channel dedicated to diplomats, Heinsberg called Hersman "dear". Of course, it was not because the two of them had a spark of love during the journey, but because of work needs.

Because Lenin was a great proletarian revolutionary, it was not convenient to cooperate with the German militarists, and it was even more inconvenient to take money from the German militarists... So the "German Socialists" who had been funding Comrade Lenin and protecting Lenin's safety in Switzerland were all "German Socialists". Although such nonsense is very despicable, it is "politically correct". As long as this layer of window paper is not broken, no one can say that Comrade Lenin cooperated with the German militarists. At most, he was deceived by the class enemy for a moment.

So now Hersman is a socialist, and he has given himself a rather amusing pseudonym - Otto Braun (the famous Li De advisor, who now also wants to be a military advisor to Lenin). And Heinsberg's identity was previously Miss Eva Green, a German socialist, and now she is "married" to Mrs. Eva Braun... It seems more natural to introduce Hersman to Lenin through this relationship.

As for the fat red-nosed Ettel, he is Eva Braun's brother, Max Green - he has used this pseudonym for almost ten years. When Comrade Lenin first arrived in Switzerland, he sent money and gifts in the name of Comrade Green. Later, his position was promoted and his work became increasingly busy, so he asked the newcomer Heinsberg of the embassy to participate in the activities to help Lenin in the name of Miss Green (Mr. Green's sister).

"Karl, move all the luggage to the carriage behind, and be careful." Hersman gave an order to his assistant, the big guy Karl Stockhausen.

"Yes, Captain!" Karl Stockhausen, who had changed into worker's clothes, stood at attention and saluted as usual.

"Karl!" Hersman looked around and found that the leisurely Swiss did not notice the suspicious guys on his side, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "Not Captain, but comrades!"

"Yes! Comrades!" Karl Stockhausen saluted again, and then went to move things with his three men. However, these four guys looked like they had been in the army for a long time.

Hersman was of course a little worried, and looked around again.

"Don't worry, dear." Heinsberg poked Hersman gently with his hand. "Switzerland is another world, peaceful, tranquil, beautiful, rich, far from war, everyone is friendly to each other, and there is no need to worry about any counterintelligence agencies."

"Where are Lenin's people?" Hersman glanced at Ettel beside him, "I think they should know your true identity?"

Ettel was filling a pipe with tobacco, and he laughed when he heard this: "Get in the car, my dear brother-in-law, we still have a long way to go, Zurich is not close to Akiwize... But we can enjoy the scenery of Switzerland along the way. This is a beautiful country, the scenery is really beautiful, and it will definitely not disappoint you."

The group was divided into two parts. Karl. Stockhausen and his three "workers" sat in an open carriage with luggage at the back. Hersman and Ettel sat in a carriage with carriages in front. Miss Heinsberg went to a nearby store to buy a lot of food, including Swiss rolls, chocolate, milk, grilled sausages and beer, packed two large bags, gave one bag to Karl. Stockhausen and others, and took the other bag to Hersman's carriage.

The carriage wheels rolled and slowly moved along the beautiful and exquisite streets of Zurich.

"This is really nice, a good place to live. It would be nice if I could live here forever." Hessman calculated in his mind. He was originally a small noble in the countryside of East Prussia. He had a farm in East Prussia, but it was abandoned after the war broke out. His father was an elderly retired officer with little savings. He re-enlisted after the war broke out and is now squatting somewhere on the Eastern Front. In addition, Hessman has a stepmother, a brother who died in the war, and a half-sister (Herssman's biological mother died of dystocia more than ten years ago).

This is basically the family situation. Hessman now has to send money to his stepmother and sister in Königsberg every month so that they can cope with the increasingly difficult life. In the future, he will have to find a way to pay for his sister's dowry - considering that more than two million young and middle-aged Germans died or were disabled in the war, the dowry that Miss Hessman needs to marry a good husband is not a small amount.

So Hessman had to give up the idea of ​​retiring after the war and living a comfortable life in Switzerland. It seems that I can only think about how to help the German Third Reich win the future world war.

"Where is Akijiwize?" Hessman asked.

"It's a good sanatorium in the Alps," Heinsberg said, "surrounded by forests and snow-capped mountains, and things are very cheap."

"Where will we set up the radio when we get there?" Hessman said, "You won't let me set up the antenna in the sanatorium?"

"The radio is in my house. I have a house near Akijiwize."

"It's very big and beautiful." Eitel pointed at Heinsberg with his pipe, "She is a countess, a real aristocrat, with a manor, a castle and annuity." He blinked at Hessman and added, "And she's still single!"

"Mr. Eitel!" Heinsberg shouted, a trace of sadness in his eyes.

"Miss Heinsberg, you have to look forward." Ettel took a puff of his pipe and exhaled a cloud of bluish-white smoke. "This war has taken too many lives, but the living have to live!"

"I know, I know..." Heinsberg looked at Hessman, who was lost in thought again, with her big shining eyes, and then said in a barely audible voice, "Let's talk about it after the war is over. I don't want to lose anyone again."

"The war will end soon, probably this year." Ettel said.

"The war on the Eastern Front will not end soon," Hessman suddenly interrupted, as if he had not noticed the conversation between the two just now, "I think we are going to accomplish something big this time."

"Big thing?" Ettel took another puff of cigarette, "Ludwig, what do you want to do?"

Hessman was silent for a moment, as if he had made a great determination, and lowered his voice: "I want to escort Lenin back to his country, and then stay by his side and help him become the ruler of Russia!"

"Stay in Russia?" Ettel smoked his pipe and frowned, "And help Lenin become the ruler of Russia? Is this possible?"

Hessman nodded and said seriously: "For the benefit of Germany, even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance, we should try our best!"

...

Akijiwize is in the mountains south of Zurich. The terrain is very high, almost close to the snow-capped mountain top. It is a relatively cheap sanatorium. Heinsberg's villa is at the foot of Akijiwize, near the halfway point of the mountain, next to a blue lake, and the scenery is as beautiful as a painting.

Hersman placed Karl Stockhausen and the other three "coolies" there, and spent another hour setting up the radio. Then he put his arm around Heinsberg's slender waist and walked up the mountain together. He found that the baroness was not as fat as she looked at first glance. Her waist was still quite thin, but her chest was too fat, which made her wide tweed skirt stand up.

However, Hersman's mind was not on women at this time, because he was about to meet the great mentor! That was a lively Comrade Lenin! Although he had met German marshals such as Ludendorff and Kesselring before, as a Chinese progressive youth who grew up under the red flag, joined the Communist Youth League, and swore an oath under the bright red flag. Comrade Lenin had a very high status in his mind for a while, basically like the Red Dynasty Taizu.

Moreover, Hersman had thought about it repeatedly along the way. In order to prevent the US imperialism from putting a noose around his neck, he must vigorously promote the Soviet-German alliance!

Only by uniting with Russia and the Communist Party... at least maintaining the Soviet-German alliance before completely defeating Britain and the United States, can the Third Reich win the next world war.

And the alliance with Russia and the Communist Party is also completely possible in Hessman's view. Because the existence of the German Empire is actually good for the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union dominated by GCism and Germany dominated by nationalism are both unacceptable to international capitalism. The German Third Reich must be strangled, and the Soviet Red Empire must also be eliminated!

In the original history, international capitalism that controlled the United States did achieve these two goals! The former was eliminated by force, and the latter was disintegrated through a Cold War that lasted for more than 40 years.

The Soviet Union lost the Cold War, of course, due to its institutional flaws. But it is undeniable that the Soviet Union, together with some not-so-rich and developed Eastern European allies, was much weaker than their capitalist opponents in terms of overall strength.

Whether it was economy, technology, population, resources, or land area, the Soviet Union was at an absolute disadvantage. The only way to fight the West was to concentrate financial and material resources on military power. The final result was naturally that the military was the only one that flourished, while people's livelihood and other industries withered... In fact, it was not particularly withered, but it was far from the legendary GC paradise.

But what if the Soviet Union could have won the Cold War against the West? I'm afraid it would have died faster!

But what if the German Third Reich, which ruled Western Europe, Central Europe, and Southern Europe, still existed?