The Patriotic War of nearly three and a half years was arduous and unbearable, and it seemed like a nightmare for every Soviet person, especially for the Bolshevik Party, which retreated east of the Ural Mountains.

Although the Red Army began to retreat and move in an orderly manner from July onwards from the Axis coalition forces out of a state of engagement, the twists and turns and fears along the way have always plagued East Russia, and even after the relocation of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to Omsk nearly five months later, this tension has not been completely eliminated.

The opportunity presented by the armistice was obvious, and in a few months the Bolshevik Party had completed the transfer of nearly 9 million people and troops with great perseverance, and that it would complete the goal of evacuating nearly 10 million people on 31 December 1945 as scheduled.

Before the ceasefire between the two armies, the total number of soldiers and civilians east of the Ural Mountains was less than 18 million, and it was already very difficult to feed these 18 million people. Observers generally believed that Stalin would be a great victory if he could transfer his millions of troops and nearly a million administrative cadres east of the Ural Mountains in the next few months, but in the end, Stalin did not expect that Stalin had fully delineated the great migration of nearly 10 million people - more than 4 million military and party officials, 5 million other family members and people, and then in Bolshevik-controlled East Moscow, Stalin also moved and left behind nearly 500,000 red men and horses - all carefully selected.

It is important to know that the migration of people is not simply the transportation of people, but the establishment of an organization for the maintenance of life and the resumption of production in the areas under their control, and during these five months, the Bolsheviks transferred not only the population, but also a lot of materials, books, and party and government facilities - this is also a very huge project.

It was not that no one suggested that Hoffmann take advantage of Stalin's migration and army dismantling to tear up the contract and kill him, but it was not necessary because it was not good for Germany's international image and because he was unwilling to lose too many lives to destroy what little Bolshevik force remained. Besides, once Germany eliminated Stalin's power, Vlasov would immediately take over the territory, and in 10 or 20 years it would develop into a new Stalin.

In other words, the Bolshevik-controlled population of nearly 28 million by the beginning of 1945 was obviously not comparable to the 180 million figures before Barbarossa, but it was much more substantial than the empty part of the Soviet Union.

Everyone is well aware of the importance of population and territory. In the war, which lasted nearly three and a half years, the Soviet Union lost nearly 30 million people, the total number plummeted from 180 million to 150 million, and excluding the remaining 18 countries, the total population of the two Russians was just over 100 million — Vlasov controlled more than 70 million of them, and Stalin controlled the remaining nearly 30 million.

If we look at East and West Russia as a whole, it can barely be regarded as the most populous country in Europe, but if we exclude the part of East Russia, which is already counted as an Asian country, the population of West Russia can only rank second in Europe, and the first place is Germany, which has a population of 97 million.

However, Germany's 97 million people are not purely Germans, of which less than 80 million are pure Germans (more than 75% of German ancestry), plus at least half of the German-born mestizos and honorary Aryans are just over 86 million, and the other 10 million or so are very complex: including nearly 3.5 million Danes (excluding German-ethnic Danes), more than 6 million Czechs (including Moravians, but the German-German population of the former Czechoslovakia) and scattered populations of other ethnic groups have been excluded.

Purely outwardly, there is no difference between Czechs, Danes, and Germans, but there are clear linguistic differences: Czechs speak Czech, Danes speak Danish, and many do not understand German. There are also some differences in religious beliefs: the Czechs are mostly Catholic, while the Danes, like most Germans, are Protestant, Lutheran.

In order to provide a sufficient legal and historical basis for Germany's territorial expansion, Hoffmann instructed Goebbels to invent two terms: one "since ancient times" and the other "sacred".

The Danes have been an important part of the Germanic nation "since ancient times", the Czech Republic is a territory that has been "sacred and indivisible" since the time of the Holy Roman Empire, and Western Poland is the "sacrosanct" traditional territory of Prussia.

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Hoffmann readily admits that the Poles were never Germans, so he stuffed all the Poles, including some Jews, Czechs, Gypsies, and other scattered peoples, into Little Poland, the former Russian Poland.

After the end of the European War, Germany began to change its territory on a large scale, and the smoothest part of the entire territorial merger process was probably Luxembourg - this traditional German area that was cut from Germany after the First World War has always considered itself German, and now it is just time to go home, and Luxembourg, which is a small country and a weak people, is certainly not as famous as Germany!

The merger of Alsace and Lorraine has also been relatively smooth, with a majority of German population, and a small number of French either running back home or continuing to live under German governance, in view of the Franco-German rapprochement, Hoffmann has instructed the local authorities to treat them kindly, but the official attitude is clear, Germany does not recognize dual citizenship of non-Germans - Germany is the natural homeland of Germans, and it is easier for any qualified German to obtain German citizenship and retain their original nationality as long as they apply, but if they are not Germans, it is difficult to obtain German citizenship, French people in Alsace and Lorraine can automatically acquire German citizenship after the territorial change, but if they still want French nationality, they are sorry and have to be forced to relocate.

There is a practical basis for the recovery of Alsace and Lorraine and Luxembourg, and there is also a historical basis for eating Bohemia, Moravia and Western Poland, but the annexation of Denmark is more far-fetched, but Hoffmann, who is very good at talking about the "living space" in Eastern Europe, has a tough attitude on the Danish issue - it must be eaten!

In his opinion, with Denmark, Germany is completely open to the North Sea. More importantly, it is immediately logical to eat Denmark and take Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and other Danish territories, Greenland is not of much practical significance at this time, but the Faroe Islands and Iceland are effective weights to restrain Great Britain, and he will never allow it to be left out.

As a result of this hard-line policy, Iceland and the Faroe Islands soon held referendums, with German occupation forces outnumbering the population, and no other result would have been achieved after 1 million votes. Only Denmark's referendum took a lot of effort, after all, Denmark is a country with a population of nearly 4 million, even if there are hundreds of thousands of Germans, there are millions of Danes who are willing to join Germany and are pro-German, at least the other half of the Danes are unwilling to merge with Germany - it doesn't matter if Iceland, the Faroe Islands or even North Schleswig (part of Denmark was included after World War I), the key is Denmark itself, but Hoffmann knows that it is not feasible - how can it be logical not to eat Denmark to take these overseas territories?

After numerous riots, rumors, non-violent non-cooperation, and even partisanism, the Gestapo and the SS desperately tried to keep the situation under control – and the four remaining concentration camps came in handy at this time. At the height of the urgency, 250,000 well-armed German troops who had just been withdrawn from the Eastern Front were hoarded in Denmark, ensuring for the first time that more than half of the Danish "polls" chose to merge.

Hoffmann could not be intransigent either, and he also had a lot of soft means, such as some economic and political arrangements and statements, vigorous praise for Danish SS officers and soldiers, and an unprecedented task force sent to Denmark to talk door-to-door - Denmark raised tens of thousands of German orphans in the late World War I, and these boys grew up to serve either in the Wehrmacht or in the SS, and they were all urgently withdrawn by the High Command to "work" in the homes of their former adoptive parents, demanding that their former families, relatives and even close neighbors agree to the referendum.

The workers' associations, doctors' associations, engineers' associations, and teachers' associations, which usually have close ties with Denmark and interact frequently, have all been asked to "do work" with their Danish counterparts, and even Heisenberg wrote to his teacher Boll and other Danish professors in his busy schedule, appealing: "Please unite all Germans at this historic moment!"