The snow under the tree just a few meters away reflected a miserable white light against the moonlight, as if it were a pile of bones piled under the tree, which made Hitler suddenly frightened.
Hitler, who had already swallowed the bitter fruit of the defeat in 1941, had already acquiesced to the misery of the Soviet Union in winter. The photos and oral experiences brought back by those frontline reporters did not allow Hitler to refute it. The snow in winter thus became Hitler's most disgusting and disgusting thing.
Something invisible.
Hitler, who felt very dizzy when he saw the snow, felt a little dizzy at the moment. The adjutant who followed closely behind him quickly stepped forward to support the crumbling body of the Führer, fearing that Hitler would lose his balance and fall to the ground.
On the ground.
Hitler signaled that his outing could end here, and turned around and returned to the Wolf's Lair. Scenes of past experiences since the launch of Operation Barbarossa began to replay before Hitler's eyes like a slideshow.
"The enemy has been defeated! The door of the evil Bolsheviks has been kicked to the ground by our kick. Stalin can no longer stand up!"
The impassioned speech he made when the troops marched directly to the city walls of Moscow in September once again echoed in Hitler's ears. The ecstasy at that time seemed to be a thing of the past now.
The horrific cold wave that occurred once in 140 years caused the unlucky German army to collapse in a cold winter that even Stalin had never seen before.
The Siberian troops transferred by Stalin from the Far East Military Region made the German army's situation even more difficult. These experienced hunters with skis on their feet and Mosin-Nagant rifles on their backs hunted German soldiers like wild wolves and were frozen to death.
The German soldiers armed with German sticks simply could not withstand this flexible attack with hammers and sticks.
The bad war situation on the front began to reach Hitler's ears more and more in the form of unstoppable fire.
Hitler instinctively realized that the Wehrmacht, which was dominated by the Junker aristocracy, would probably betray him just as they betrayed the Kaiser. After firing Guderian, his distrust and suspicion became more and more serious day by day. On a certain day in December
Hitler, who could no longer hold back his anger due to the bad situations that followed one after another on the front line throughout the day, finally picked up the phone.
"My head of state, we can't hold it any longer! Those Russians are charging at us like crazy, and they can overwhelm our position with just their numbers!"
"The barrels of our machine guns were overheated in the winter, but the Russians were still charging in dense numbers! The people in front fell down, and the people behind stepped on the corpses and rushed up again, shouting "Ula" in their mouths. This is really too much.
It’s terrible!”
"We can't hold it any longer, Führer! The soldiers have begun to collapse, it's time to retreat!"
The prayers coming from hundreds of kilometers away made Hitler extremely angry. He almost threw the microphone out of the window. He suppressed the anger in his heart and asked sharply.
"Sir, where do you want to evacuate? To Paris or to Berlin? How many kilometers do you plan to evacuate?"
Unexpectedly, the head of state would ask such a question. The panicked infantry division commander of the National Defense Force almost subconsciously answered.
"I...I don't know either, my head of state."
An inconspicuous spark completely exploded the powder keg in Hitler's heart. The furious Hitler released all the anger in his heart almost instantly.
"Since you don't know, let me tell you! Even if you retreat dozens of kilometers, it will be just as cold! Can you take away heavy weapons when you retreat? If you can't take them away, are you going to use your head to butt the Russian bayonet in the future?
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"You said you have no choice. Well, I now officially allow you to retreat back to Germany! Leave the army to me! If you can't fight, let me take command for you! Because at least I am still a soldier
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Hitler's gesture of throwing the phone was particularly well described in a well-known movie of later generations. Hitler, who was so angry that he was about to explode with anger, added an order to hold the front line German troops not to take a step back.
Any Wehrmacht officer who dared to disobey the Führer's will was fired by Hitler as a matter of course. On the contrary, the armed SS on the front line were still shouting "Long Live the Führer" like a fire in winter, burning with fighting spirit and counterattack against the Soviet Union.
The army does not want to fight to the death.
The sharp contrast made Hitler more convinced of his judgment. Those senior Wehrmacht officials composed of Junker nobles were deliberately deceiving themselves. Moscow's defeat was caused by these fools not following through on their orders.
Recalling these past scenes, Hitler felt a burst of anger and inexplicable humiliation. Thinking that in a few months, the winter would be completely over and the snow would melt. Hitler gritted his teeth and almost chewed the bones with his teeth.
The tone came out word by word.
"Everything must end in 1942!"
The two heads of state in the East and the West vowed to put each other in place in 1942. The only difference was that Stalin chose to use a high-level military meeting to show his determination to strengthen the generals, while Hitler planned to use his best
To use his natural skills to persuade the young German officers to serve their country, this is speech.
Hitler, who is respected by world historians as "the most powerful orator of the 20th century", used his own words to accomplish impossible miracles one after another, and finally climbed to the throne of the head of state.
Now, Hitler decided to perform a miracle again and use his explosive oratory talent to win the victory for the Third Reich.
When the appointed day came, 10,000 young officers who had just been decorated filled the entire Berlin stadium to a packed house. When Hitler, wearing an ordinary soldier's Iron Cross on his chest, appeared on the podium, these people in the audience
The grass-roots associate officers of the National Defense Force, who were as young as babies, immediately burst into wild applause.
At the beginning of his speech, Hitler unexpectedly did not avoid the tragic winter defeat outside Moscow, but bluntly admitted it all and described all the heavy losses in a real way.
But it would be a big mistake to think that Hitler was carrying out a "self-inflicted edict".
The eloquent Hitler lived up to the nickname "the most powerful orator of the 20th century" given to him by later historians. With a wave of his hand, Hitler, who seemed to be recreating the scene of kicking out a number of senior Wehrmacht officials, began to shirk responsibility and take credit.
A large number of senior Wehrmacht officials including Brauchitsch who were fired were pulled out by Hitler and "whipped" on the spot. Hitler mocked that it had become a "glorious tradition" for German generals to submit their resignations at critical moments.
He also said that under such circumstances, he alone withstood the pressure and turned the tide to save the German soldiers on the front line.
Faced with Hitler's hysterical roaring speech that confused right and wrong, the young officers in the audience even shed tears without knowing whether they were moved or angry. The waves of applause sent Hitler to the top one after another.
"You know, we have defeated a fate! This fate once destroyed another person more than 130 years ago, a man who was revered as the greatest emperor by our defeated generals! Germany has won the victory over fate, and the third
Long live the Empire!"
The hysterical and crazy roars and the right hand raised into a fist beside the forehead were like a high tower, radiating infinitely powerful spiritual power into the hearts of every young and fanatical person in the audience, no less than the roar of the Soviet army's charge.
The ceiling of the Berlin Stadium was blown away. It is a pity that the Berlin Stadium built in the open air does not have such a ceiling.
"Heil Hitler!!!"
In the 21st century, the Western world would definitely be drowned out by the speech that confuses black and white. It not only plunged the young officers into hysterical fanaticism, but also almost all the German government and the general public who listened to the broadcast.
accept.
In the latest German poll statistics conducted immediately after this speech, Hitler's support rate climbed directly from the original 91% to an even more astonishing 93.2%. This is enough to make any Western politician wake up from his dreams in future generations.