"General! We are saved! Reinforcements are on the way, and the Skeleton Division will be here soon!"
"..."
For a moment, Manteuffel almost thought that his ears had heard wrongly, or that there was something wrong with his head and he had "auditory hallucinations". In short, he couldn't believe that what he said was true.
Whether it is true or not, it is easy to confirm. Just take the telegram and have a look at it. Manteuffel happened to think so too.
Seeing an emergency, the chief of staff didn't care too much. He quickly signaled a few guards to let go. He took the telegram from the communications staff and quickly sent it to Manteuffel.
Pick it up and watch it together.
The answer was indeed beyond expectation. No one could have expected that the Totenkopf, one of the elite members of the SS, would actually come to the rescue for a group of Wehrmacht troops. The most important and core sentence in the brief telegram was
Is such that.
"Hold on, we'll be there soon! The Skeleton Division will save you from danger!"
"..."
With the words clearly written in black and white in front of him, Manteuffel really couldn't believe it now. No matter how outrageous or unbelievable it was, he had to believe it in the end.
As for why Manteuffel finds this unbelievable, the reason is actually very simple.
After the Battle of Cherkasy, the SS launched a secret attack on the Wehrmacht and grabbed supplies. It was obviously a deliberate publicity campaign in the Soviet Union, and the whole world wanted to know about this outrageous propaganda campaign.
Next, everyone in the upper echelons of Berlin knew about it, and the soldiers on the front line also heard about it.
It’s true that the SS did it, but these fanatical lunatics don’t think it’s wrong to do so. On the contrary, they think it’s okay to do so. You guys, the spineless Wehrmacht, are planning to surrender. We won’t have supplies to fight to the end.
It was used by the SS, could it be possible that it was intended to be used by the enemy and given to the Russians?
The right thing to do is grab it! No matter what method you use, it doesn't matter, as long as the goal is achieved. At least it is better than leaving these valuable materials that can be used to break out to this bunch of useless National Defense Forces who are planning to surrender.
Although it sounds crazy, it is clearly a crazy talk that can only be said by any means necessary for the purpose. But what is outrageous is that this view is actually very popular within the SS! From lower-level soldiers to upper-level commanders, there are countless fanatical lunatics.
They all believed this fallacy and didn’t think the fallen Vikings were wrong in doing this.
At least the Viking division fought to the end and faithfully fulfilled its oath to the leader.
As for those rubbish from the Wehrmacht, how could they talk about bullshit honors after they were all sent to a Russian prisoner-of-war camp? Do prisoners of war have honors? Anyway, these SS fanatics think there is no such thing.
Of course, such crazy ideas and remarks cannot only circulate within the SS. Some things are bound to spread like wildfire.
The people of the Wehrmacht, who had been stabbed in the back by their teammates, were even more furious when they heard such remarks. They angrily criticized the shameless betrayal and told lies. The criticism and curses came one after another, especially the chicken farm owner and SS leader Xi
In Himmler's office, he was "bombed in turns" by Keitel, Jodl, and Krebs all day long. Himmler was so fed up that he was "sprayed every day."
What's even more disgusting is that, strictly speaking, this matter is indeed caused by the SS being unreasonable. Himmler did not dare to get angry openly even if he was so angry that he almost ran away. In the end, he could only go to the hair-washing man and cry.
He cried out for injustice and begged the omnipotent head of state to settle the matter quickly, otherwise it would be difficult for him to carry out normal work in the office.
This mess caused a lot of trouble in the end, but these are not the focus of the problem.
The point is that the relationship between the Wehrmacht and the SS, which had always been "you look down on me, and I look down on you," already existed, suddenly became wider. Even if the Führer finally took charge of the matter himself.
Even if it is settled, it is just the final result of peace and mud. The National Defense Force, which feels that it has suffered a big loss, has never been able to swallow this sigh of relief.
The SS, who had been in trouble for a time, also resented joining the Wehrmacht. The SS still thought that these idiot Wehrmacht soldiers, who were getting worse and worse and surrendering more and more, were not very good at dealing with the Russians.
He yelled louder than anyone else when dealing with his own people. This was clearly a deliberate attempt to make things difficult for our SS soldiers and to punish them to their death.
You hate me, I hate you, and the end result is that both parties treat each other as enemies.
If there is any interaction on the battlefield, then try to avoid it as much as possible. If there is really no way, if you can't avoid it, let's talk about it. This situation is still the same even now.
Therefore, under such circumstances, the skeleton master could actually rush to rescue people, which made Manteuffel very puzzled and found it unbelievable.
After all, Manteuffel, who was still serving as the commander of the 1st Grossdeutschland Division at the time, advocated that this matter must be dealt with strictly, and that the SS must give the Wehrmacht a "hard-liner" representative to explain.
The well-known Wehrmacht division commander among the front-line troops was the one who made the most public comments. He almost called the SS a stinky, hard-smelling piece of shit that could be greeted by eighteen generations of ancestors.
This resulted in the young officers of the National Defense Force worshiping Manteuffel almost to the extent of being their own fathers. Isn’t that what real men and pure men have to do?
In contrast, Manteuffel certainly knew that the SS secretly hated him so much that some lunatic might even want to eat him alive.
As for saying that "if you encounter trouble in the future, you may need to be rescued by the SS", to be honest, Manteuffel has never considered this matter and does not care at all. He feels that he is carrying out justice and dealing with the SS.
Some villains cannot be cowarded. The more you coax them, the more aggressive they will be. If you have to be tough, you have to be tough. Only in this way can they remember it and not dare to do it again next time.
But who could have expected that fate can be so magical sometimes and like to make big jokes on others.
I once called the SS a stinky piece of shit, but now I need the help of these former stinking pieces of shit.
And judging from the current known situation, these "stinky bitches" are actually the only saviors that the Grossdeutschland Division can count on.
To put it bluntly, Manteuffel felt as if he had been smeared on the face by "stinky dog shit". A lump of shit came over and slapped his face until it made a crackling sound.
Even though Manteuffel was quite experienced and well-educated, he still had an expression as if he had eaten a fly and could not utter a single word.
"General, general? Should we call the Skeleton Division back?"