"I am ready to change my attitude towards the Baltic states and the Ukrainians, support them in their independent statehood, and at the same time adjust the policy towards the surrender of the Soviet troops, consider the formation of anti-Stalin forces - the 'Russian Liberation Army' and consider them as part of the future Eastern policy." Hoffman's short sentence was like a 500-kilogram aerial bomb thrown into the venue, causing a commotion.

It was clear to everyone that these words were contrary to the political positions that the Führer had always emphasized and adhered to in the past, and that the Führer had always sought to exterminate these Eastern peoples as "inferior peoples", and that on more than one occasion there had been attempts by front-line generals to recruit "volunteer" troops from among the captured Soviet troops, but without exception they were opposed by the Führer and Himmler. Only a small number of captured soldiers were selected to serve as the "Oriental Battalion" for the German transport, security and logistics forces, and although almost all of the main forces had "Oriental Battalions", they had not yet formed a unified whole, let alone military status, and were only servants at best.

Is the Führer ready to change course?

Military generals such as Keitel and Zeitzler immediately agreed, while Himmler, Goebbels and others waited quietly for Hoffmann's follow-up speech, and they needed a reasonable explanation.

"Based on the theory of population warfare and previous examples, we may be prepared to sacrifice 3 million or more to fight until Stalin submits, which is too heavy a price for the German people. Eliminating the **** threat of the Bolsheviks to Europe is not the task of our German family, it is necessary for the Russians to raise up their own army and Stalin's attrition, which is conducive to saving the lives of German soldiers and consolidating the base of forces of the greatest majority. Hoffman said earnestly to these henchmen, "Gentlemen, man is the most precious resource, and it takes 18 years and a lot of hardships for a qualified soldier to produce and grow. And it only takes one bullet to destroy him, and it doesn't even take 1. 8 sec...... The Americans could give the Soviets all kinds of supplies and equipment, but the Americans would never send hundreds of thousands of people to Stalin, and Stalin did not dare to accept hundreds of thousands of American troops - this did not benefit his rule in the slightest. If we come forward to form a Russian anti-Stalin armed force, the Russian people who are currently under Stalin's control and forced to die for him will see another way out - a way out of working with us to eliminate the **** threat, which will be of great benefit to the collapse of the Stalin regime. ”

Goebbels reacted quickly. After Hoffman finished speaking, he linked this decision to the European Union just now, touting it as another good move by the Führer.

"Although I have great misgivings about the formation of an army of these inferior nationalities, in view of the protracted war against the Soviet Union, in order to save the lives and blood of German soldiers, I agree in principle with the Führer's proposal to form an army in the East." Himmler, who had a gloomy face, thought about it for a long time before speaking, "But will this cause problems after the war?" His Majesty the Emperor supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks during the First World War, and 20 years later they in turn posed a threat to us. ”

Before Hoffmann could speak, Baumann immediately retorted: "Whether there is a problem or not depends on ourselves, as long as Germany is a strong and unified empire, these are not problems. World War I, if it weren't for the Jews stabbing them in the back, led to the collapse of the empire. The Russians did not dare to tear up the Brest Treaty. ”

The others who said this nodded frequently, and Hoffman immediately struck while the iron was hot and elaborated on his initial vision for the Russian Liberation Army:

First, the main leadership of this force should be the former Soviet generals who agree with the spirit of the European Union, the higher the status, the better, but the pure political commissar should not be a single one, and a political organization should be formed at the same time as the formation of the troops, and similar names such as the "Russian Liberation Front" can be considered, and the commander of the unit will also serve as the leader of the political organization;

Second. The strength of the force was carefully selected, with preference given to non-Russian officers and soldiers who had been persecuted during the Soviet anti-insurgency campaign on a voluntary basis. consider arming them with captured Russian-made weapons, first forming 3 divisions by the end of the year, then increasing to 6-8 divisions and forming an army group, and only after becoming an army group will it be considered to be equipped with armored forces;

Thirdly, before the soldiers were enlisted, they had to carry out a public ceremony to break with Stalin and the Bolsheviks, and to appoint representatives of the Reich who knew how to do military affairs and management in each unit. Generally, an officer or sergeant major is responsible for liaison and supervision, and the representative must be assigned at least to the battalion level;

Fourth, it is necessary to step up propaganda work, and award medals and promotions to outstanding elements who have distinguished themselves. It is necessary to send the Russian representatives who are sincere and cooperative to Germany for training, to show them the good German way of life, and to appropriately relocate the families of the soldiers in order to strengthen their sense of identity and centripetal force in the European Union;

Fifth, in the early stage, it should mainly undertake the tasks of rear security and anti-guerrilla warfare, and after the initial formation of combat effectiveness, it can enter the front-line struggle, and after being under the leadership of the relevant German group army, it can undertake the tasks in a certain direction of the campaign after the group army is formed and fully matured.

Sixth, it is necessary to paint a clear picture of the future - after the victory in the war against the Soviet Union, the non-Russian ethnic forces will create a series of non-Russian national states (which are relatively numerous) and become the national defense forces of their own peoples, and the ethnic Russian forces will take control (or partially control) the Russian regime.

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Hoffmann said ten ideas in one breath, and General Zeitzler, who had been listening, suddenly had a strange thought: This is what the Führer should consider as a political leader...... In turn, he thought: the Führer is probably not at ease with Halder, so he does everything himself, and he seems to have gotten along very well with the Führer for more than a month as chief of the General Staff, which shows that the Führer is not a stubborn person who cannot hear the opinions of others, and his attitude towards the Jews and his Eastern policy are not being revised? If it weren't for the fact that Halder had long had the idea of usurping the party and seizing power, how could he have accused the Führer so much?

"After this Serbian conference, I will convene an Eastern Conference to discuss the political arrangements and future development of these countries, and the Russian territories currently occupied will be appropriately distributed to our allies and followers - this holy war cannot be sacrificed without seeing anything in return."

Himmler interjected: "If they are all allowed to establish an independent state, what will happen to the eastern territories of the empire?" ”

"Of course we have to keep the best, biggest piece for ourselves, but we can't swallow it all, it's going to break us." Hoffman smiled and said, "As long as the allies and followers get the benefits, they will grit their teeth and cooperate with us to fight the war to the end." ”

Only Speer and Schuckel complained that this would reduce the Russian labor imports and bring trouble to the management of the existing prisoners of war, but after Hoffman recommended the Jews to them, they did not say much, anyway, there were too many prisoners of war on the Eastern Front at present, and the transportation could not be exhausted, and it would be beneficial to manage a proper liberation of a batch.

After initially reaching a unified understanding, Hoffmann instructed Goebbels to give a briefing to the outside world first, and formally decided to wait until the Eastern Conference was held in early October before making the announcement. General Zeitzler asks you to lead the General Staff of the Army, with Field Marshal Manstein in charge, to draw up a battle plan and consider using the method of luring the enemy into depth on the Southern Front to fight a battle with a scale of less than 500,000 men, and after this battle it is time to spend the winter......"

"The main issue of the war against the United States is to oppose air raids and resist landing, and the matter of resisting landing will be discussed at a special meeting." Hoffman turned his head and asked the Chief of the Air Staff, Senior General Jeshunek, "How is the recent anti-air raid?" ”

"In the past half a month or so, the US Army Air Force and the British Air Force have launched three and four relatively large bombing operations respectively, and we have seized the opportunity to shoot down and damage quite a number of enemy planes; through the interrogation of the captured pilots and the statistics of the results of the battle, the enemy's preliminary estimate of the battle loss ratio is about 12 percent, which is still some distance from the 15 percent you requested, but it is much better than a few months ago, and the losses of our pilots are not large, and there are almost no losses worth mentioning on ground targets. The Americans were probably dampened by this loss and did not attack for 5-6 days, and the scale of the night raids by the British began to decline but continued. "We have begun to expand the construction of the reserve pilot team according to your requirements, and the current focus is on fighter planes, and the original flight instructors have all been drawn back to undertake the teaching task and no longer fight in the sky, and at the same time, we have also asked each wing to send two pilots with more than 50 downed records to undertake the teaching task for at least three months, which is very effective and has great demonstration significance." ”

"Have the wings of the North African Air Force also been transferred?"

"Yes! Among the people they sent was Marseilleu, who was the last to arrive......" Jeshunek couldn't help but laugh and introduced the current situation of this "African star", "General Guderian gave him a leave of absence to return to China to get married and complete his teaching mission by the way, he is currently the youngest and fastest ace pilot to achieve the record of 200 shot down, he has been surrounded by people before he even arrives at the flight school, and in the past few months, there have been dozens of kilograms of letters sent to the Air Force Command alone, from all over Germany who wrote him letters and courted him and sent photographsPoor girls don't know that their Prince Charming is going to get married soon......"

The crowd burst out laughing.

Goebbels added: "There is a film based on him being filmed, called Top Gun, and he will make a cameo on the screen, and there will not be much time to delay his normal work, and I can guarantee that it will be a patriotic and heroic film that will make a national sensation." ”

"Very good, please continue to strengthen the training of anti-air raids and reserve personnel." Hoffmann expressed satisfaction with Jeshunek's work, and instructed Goebbels, "The film actor must be handsome, worthy of our hero, and at the end of the line is addressed to the courting girls - 'I love you, but I'm sorry I'm married, but there are still a lot of great boys in the flying team'......"

Hahahaha, the scene burst into laughter. (To be continued.) )