Chapter 1781 The aftermath of the earthquake (Part 1)
The Grossdeutschland Panzer Division was destroyed and was completely annihilated by the Soviet army on the Belarusian border battlefield. No unit escaped alive and made contact with the outside world.
Such news not only caused a major earthquake for the entire German army on the Eastern Front, but also for the entire Wehrmacht and even the SS. The earthquake was so strong that even those in high positions felt unsteady.
"The Führer was very angry. Those idiots in the Wehrmacht screwed things up so badly this time. Now the whole world is watching our joke. Germany's invincibility collapsed in an instant and became a laughing stock. I heard others tell me
, even those Japanese monkeys sent a "condolence" telegram to Ribbentrop, expressing their condolences for the annihilation of the Grossdeutschland Division."
"Guess who leaked the news? Those Russians immediately publicized the matter. The newspapers and radio publicized it to the whole world."
A pair of dark, thief-like eyes flashed with a strange and fierce light under the small glasses, just like a habitual thief waiting for an opportunity to find the target of a crime. Just a casual glance is enough to make people tighten their wallets and feel uncomfortable.
Some people dare to call him a "chicken farmer", but looking at the whole of Germany, the people who dare to call him such a name and are not afraid of him even though he knows it are only a very small minority among a very small number, probably not even those with two hands.
SS leader Himmler has been in a very bad mood recently. The gentleness and gentlemanly demeanor he usually pretends to be are often destroyed recently.
Himmler himself didn't want to do this, but sometimes and some things just don't develop in the direction and results you want, forcing you to get angry and curse others.
Himmler was already overwhelmed by the assassination of the Führer and the related follow-up investigations. Now he has received a new task assigned to him by the Führer: to investigate whether the order was not implemented properly when the Grossdeutschland Division was wiped out, and how many front lines there were.
The general was disobeying the orders of the Führer, and even the remaining accomplices of Stauffenberg's stinking rat had not yet been found.
There was no reason not to accept the task assigned to him personally by the Führer. Himmler, who was specifically called to the Chancellery Office to discuss the matter, could only nod his head to make assurances, and did not dare to say no to the angry Führer. It was just that this was tricky.
How to complete the next work has become the most troublesome problem for Himmler at the moment.
He sat behind his desk with his hand on his aching forehead and slowly shook his head. Recently, Himmler, who was often troubled by all kinds of troubles and suffered from insomnia, was in a very bad mental state.
Himmler, who was busy investigating the assassination of the Führer but still had no complete results, really had no extra energy to take over new tasks. He had to find a reliable strongman to share the pressure, and the person he had already identified was standing in front of him at the moment.
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"Tell me your opinions and thoughts, Ernst. You need to be responsible for helping me in this matter."
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who actually took over the power of the SS after Heinrich died in 1942, was the second-ranking figure after Himmler.
Like his dead predecessor, "Hitler's blond beast" Heinrich, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was also a ruthless guy who would do anything to achieve his goals.
If necessary, killing people is basically the same as killing pigs in his opinion. Oh, it is really a bit different from killing pigs.
Pigs are very energetic. If they know that you are going to kill them, they will resist with all their strength and flop around.
But people are different. As long as you scare them silly and torture them to death mentally, even if their bodies are intact, they won't resist desperately before they die.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was very fond of studying how to kill people to such a state that they can make those who are about to be killed give up resistance and embrace death and despair. He called it "the murderous method" in his diary.
"Art", this bastard really thinks of himself as an artist.
Regarding the "request for assistance" from his immediate superior, Ernst, who had long been an expert in assassinations and underground investigations, thought about it for a while. It didn't take long to basically come up with a rough plan and blurt it out.
"This requires giving me great power. I must mobilize the SS and even all other resources that need to cooperate with departments and forces. Only in this way can we find out the ins and outs of this matter and give an explanation to the head of state."
Ernst came straight to the point and made his words clear. Himmler, who knew that now was not the time to talk nonsense, replied almost without thinking.
"That's no problem, it's very simple! The head of state has given me full authority to investigate. The SS is qualified to use all power and necessary resources to investigate this matter."
"I can delegate power to you again, Ernst, but you have to tell me how you plan to do it?"
It's not that Himmler was worried about the deputy in front of him, it was just that the matter was so important that the Führer was so furious that even the garden of the Chancellery was almost overturned in anger.
Himmler really didn't dare to handle this matter with that "non-interfering" attitude. He had to supervise the whole process and supervise the implementation of this important task.
The Führer has lost trust in the Wehrmacht. Himmler does not want such a thing to happen to the SS again. This is the capital for his livelihood. Without the Führer's trust, he is nothing. If it were left with the Führer,
If he falls out of favor, the enemies he has provoked before will immediately swarm in and eat him alive. Himmler has always been very clear about this.
The uneasiness and worry of his immediate boss could be seen from the expression on his face that was obviously wrong. Ernst, who also knew the seriousness of the matter, spoke solemnly and gave an answer.
"Use all the power of the Central Security Service and the secret police to investigate, starting with the top brass of the Wehrmacht in Berlin."
"I even think that the current opportunity is the best, and it comes at the right time. We can use the assassination of the Führer as a cover to investigate the case of the Grossdeutschland Division together. No one will dare to hinder the follow-up of the assassination of the Führer.
Investigative ones, if there are any, then even better, the boys in the torture chamber can pull whatever we want out of these people's mouths."
Himmler frowned when he heard this. He knew very well what the "merger investigation" Ernst meant.
A lot of people have been arrested and executed recently due to the assassination of the Führer. Himmler can get the latest "death list" every day. Allowing Ernst to do this means that the length of this list is expected to be quite long in the future.
Over a long period of time, it will increase several times or even more.
Himmler didn't care about the life and death of those people in the Wehrmacht who were just eating corpses. This group of garbage that even the Führer dared to murder had more killing points to serve as a warning to others.
What Himmler really cares about is whether such a large-scale operation will cause dissatisfaction or even counterattack from some people. These high-level trash of the Wehrmacht dare not do anything to the Führer in person, but they still have the courage to do it themselves, and they still have it.
No small matter. If the matter gets so big that the head of state confronts him, but he still can't come up with the result, then the fun will be great.