Saturday, August 3, in the conference room of the General Headquarters of the German Navy.

The long oak table was filled with senior admirals of the German Navy, and the conference room was filled with the sound of the generals talking.

As the door to the conference room was pushed open again, the sound in the conference room instantly became quieter and then disappeared.

The man who pushed open the door was dressed in an admiral's uniform, and he looked too young, only in his twenties.

Seeing the young man who pushed the door in, all the generals had a common question, why did he come?

It was Chen Dao who came in, because he wore many hats and often went to the front line to fight with various enemies in Germany, Chen Dao rarely attended the large meetings of the German Navy, and most of the time he was replaced by Colonel Leibniz, chief of staff of naval aviation.

It is precisely because he always maintains the style of seeing the head of the dragon without seeing the end, every time Chen Dao appears, it can cause a shock among the senior generals of the navy, and this time is no exception.

"Heinz, it's rare that you finally showed up." This was stated by the commander of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Lütjans.

Chen Dao pulled out a chair with a backrest, sat opposite Lu Teyans, and asked Lu Teyans, "You have something to do with me?" ”

"When will the naval part of the Knight's Iron Cross be announced? The army version and the air force version have already come out, only the navy's award criteria have not yet come out, do you have any inside information? Lütjans asked.

Chen Dao stroked his hair, his eyes quietly swept over the conference room, and he saw that all the officers were staring at him, and the conference room was silent.

"I don't know the specific details, but it should be easy to guess that the navy must calculate the merit value according to the tonnage of the enemy ships sunk." Chen Dao said.

"When will the Army launch a general offensive on Leningrad, at the moment in the whole world, it seems that only the Baltic Fleet of the Russians is our enemy. To accumulate enough tonnage, we can only start with the Baltic Fleet. But they hid in Leningrad and did not come out. We can only let the army drive them out first, and then we will attack. "said the commander of the submarine forces, Vice Admiral Dönitz.

"If there are no accidents, the army will be able to hit Leningrad this month. But whether the Russian Baltic Fleet will come out and give you the results, I can't guarantee it. Maybe at the last moment, they will shout about the rainbow. It is possible to sink in the military port. ”

As Chen Dao chatted with the other admirals, the door to the conference room was pushed open again.

Including Chen Dao, everyone subconsciously looked at the door, but they didn't recognize who the person who came in.

The officer who came in was holding a tall stack of books in both hands, which covered his face.

Seeing the stack of books, a smile flashed across Chen Dao's face.

The book was placed on the conference table, revealing the face of Colonel Leibniz.

Chen Dao asked with a "blank" face: "What are you doing with so many books?" Do you want to change careers to become a bookstore owner? ”

Colonel Leibniz wiped the sweat from his head and said to Chen Dao: "I plan to work in the Navy until the day I retire." I'm not going to do anything else. These books were given to me by a friend of mine who runs a publishing house, called "Rabe's Diary". The book has sold out in the United States and the United Kingdom. My friend got the rights to the German version of Rabe's Diary, which was a finished book, and asked me to help promote it in the Navy. ”

"Rabe's Diary, isn't this book banned by the Propaganda Department? Is it the lifting of the ban? Chen Dao asked curiously.

Leibniz's and Chen Dao's four eyes collided with two fires in the air, and Leibniz resisted the urge in his heart and tried not to laugh out loud.

"Of course, the ban has been lifted, and my friend will definitely not do anything illegal. I think this book is very informative. That's when I decided to help him get the word out. ”

Leibniz's hand reached for the thick stack of Rabe's Diary on the table, handing it one by one to his colleagues in the conference room.

Chen Dao took the book very cooperatively. Leaning back in the chair and flipping through.

The appearance of "Rabe's Diary" turned the conference room, which was originally full of chat, into a library, and fell silent again.

Five minutes passed, and four more officers entered the conference room one after another, and were immediately presented with a copy of Rabe's Diary by Leibniz, and the four officers also sat at the conference table and read it as hard as everyone else.

Chen Dao secretly looked at the expressions of the officers around him.

The commander of the High Seas Fleet, Ruthyans, frowned. The mouth is pursed high.

The commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, Rear Admiral Lindemann, had a cigarette in his right hand and forgot to smoke it.

Admiral Machar, commander of the Baltic Fleet, opened his mouth slightly, and his eyes were deeply absorbed in the "Rabe's Diary" in his hand, as if he had forgotten everything around him.

In the unspeakable silence, Chen Dao felt a storm brewing in the hearts of the admirals. All it takes is one moment to trigger a storm in the conference room.

Chen Dao and Colonel Leibniz exchanged a look, nodded to each other, and sat in their chairs without speaking.

When the hands of the watch pointed to 8:58, the door to the conference room was pushed open, and Marshal Raeder walked into the room, breaking the silence of the room.

All the naval officers withdrew their gaze from Rabe's Diary and stood upright, saluting Field Marshal Raeder.

Field Marshal Raeder saluted the officers before the officers sat down again.

Raeder was slightly stunned when he saw Chen Dao, and then saw a book on the table in front of each officer, and he was stunned again.

Seeing that Marshal Raeder noticed the existence of "Rabe's Diary", Chen Dao spoke first.

"Marshal, here's a book called Rabe's Diary. Personally, I would suggest that you have to read this book. The content of this book is really ・・・・・・alas・・・・・・"

Chen Dao let out a long sigh, successfully arousing Marshal Raeder's curiosity.

"Mr. Marshal, I also suggest you read this book first." Dönitz said.

"Marshal, you must read this book." Lütjans's tone was more direct.

Without waiting for Marshal Raeder to agree, Leibniz picked up a copy of Rabe's Diary and sent it to Marshal Raeder.

Raeder glanced at the cover, and under the gaze of many subordinates, he opened the picture of the book, and was greeted by a series of photographs.

Seeing the picture on the first photo, Marshal Raeder instantly felt a surge of blood rush over his head.

It shows a captured soldier crouching on the ground, his hands tied behind his back. The chest is bare in the picture.

A man in military uniform stood to his left, his right hand pulling at his hair, while another soldier in the same uniform held a rifle and kept a thrusting motion, his slender bayonet sinking into the captured soldier's chest.

Could it be that captured soldiers were used for live assassination training?

Marshal Raeder turned to the next page with a straight face, and sure enough, he saw the following pages. They are all photos of the Japanese army using living people as assassination targets.

The next photo made Marshal Raeder even more sick to his stomach.

A Japanese soldier wearing a steel helmet stands in the center of the frame, with three corpses lying at his feet.

The Japanese soldier was smiling at him, holding a katana in his right hand and a human head in his left.

Flipping through the dozen or so pages of photographs, Raeder looked at the text of Rabe's Diary.

Every time he read a short and bloody text, the evil thoughts in Marshal Raeder's heart deepened.

After hastily passing a few pages of text, Marshal Raeder placed Rabe's Diary on the table with a heavy load.

"I have never seen an army with such bad military discipline, and I did not expect that our allies would be able to behave in such inhumane ways."

"I can't imagine it. How would our soldiers react if they knew that our allies were such people? Ruetjens said.

"The thought that my right hand had ever shook hands with the despicable Japanese made me feel like my hand was going to rot." This was stated by the Chief of Staff, Senior General Schneidwin.

In the conference room, the naval officers' crusade against Japan resounded.

Leibniz said: "We have to react to the Führer and draw a line with the Japanese. If we continue to be allies with the Japanese, the whole world will see us as accomplices of the Japanese. The German army, and indeed Germany as a whole, would be humiliated by this. ”

"We have to report this to the Führer・・・・・・"

"Kick the Japanese out of our alliance."

Reddell gasped and waved his hand. Interrupt the admirals' crusade.

"Let's have a meeting first about what's on the book. I will personally respond to the Führer, and the honour of the German army must not be tarnished by the meanness of the Japanese. ”

Raeder was in the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia in the operations command room of the Air Force Command while he was in a meeting at the Navy Command.

Goering held a cigar in his left hand, and his index finger, the thickness of a twenty-millimeter machine gun, dangled in front of his eyes. Facing a senior general of the Air Force, he foamed at the mouth and said: "You have all seen the content of "Rabe's Diary". Shameless, shameless, I have never overestimated the moral standards of the Japanese. Unexpectedly, they were so shameless as to rob and rape and massacre civilians and prisoners of war.

You say, 'What should we do?' The book has already been sold on a large scale in the United States and Great Britain, and it will not be long before the whole world will know how despicable our allies are. Wherever the Luftwaffe went, someone would point to our back and say, look, that's an accomplice of the Japanese. ”

Field Marshal Milch, the second man in the Luftwaffe, said: "Now that this book has been circulated, we must find a way to undo what the contents of this book have done to us, and ・・・・・・ how could they do such a thing?" ”

The Chief of Staff, Admiral Jeshunek, asked with a calm face: "Does the Führer know about this book?" What does Führer mean? ”

Goering jumped to his feet and said to everyone: "Not just the Führer, I would like to know, what is the reaction of the army?" And what is the reaction of the Navy? And Himmler・・・・・・ in short, after the content of this book was exposed, it was not only our Luftwaffe that suffered, but the whole of Germany. ”

"What should we do? React directly to the Führer? Milch asked.

"No, I think we should join forces with the Navy and the Army and react to the Führer, after all, this is not our Air Force's own business, but all the Germans, even our Axis bloc." Goering said.

When Goering, Milch and others discussed how to deal with the negative impact of "Rabe's Diary", in the army headquarters not far away, Army Commander-in-Chief Brauchitsch and Chief of General Staff Halder successively put down "Rabe's Diary".

Brauchitsch said: "What does the Imperial Marshal mean by taking the initiative to send us these books? ”

"It doesn't matter what he means anymore, it's what we do about the negative impact of this book. We have repeatedly stressed that loyalty and honor are the second life of a German soldier, and yet we have become allies with such an army with no sense of honor. What would the soldiers think of us if they knew what the book was about? ”

"However, allying with the Japanese is a political matter, and we have no power to decide." Brauchitsch said.

"We don't have the last say, but we have the right to protest, and we have to take a stand on it," Halder said. ”

After being silent for a few seconds, Brauchitsch suddenly asked: "You say, Marshal Goering suddenly remembered to send us these books, did he want to join forces with us to protest to the Führer?" ”

Halder gave a thoughtful expression.

"I have heard Goering satirize the Japanese in front of the Führer more than once, and it is quite possible that your inference is correct."

"Let's find a time to ask him. If possible, it would be better to take him with you to meet the Führer. Brauchitsch said.

・・・・・・

In another office in the wolf's den, Field Marshal Keitel, chief of staff of the German High Command, put down the book in his hand and said to General Jodel, the chief of operations next to him: "Have you read the book sent by the Imperial Marshal?" What do you think? ”

"The Japanese make it unbearable for me." Yodel said in a sullen voice.

"After the book is released on a large scale, if it spreads to the army, it will definitely have an impact on morale, and we have to go to the army command and discuss how to deal with the negative impact of this book."

・・・・・・

Berlin, SS headquarters, in Himmler's office.

No sooner had Himmler walked into his office than the adjutant placed a package on his desk.

"This is a package sent by the Imperial Marshal, saying that you are asked to open it as soon as possible."

Himmler sent the adjutant away and unpacked the package.

"Rabe's Diary? Wasn't the book banned from circulation? ”

Himmler knew the name of "Rabe's Diary", but he didn't know the content of "Rabe's Diary", and now when he saw "Rabe's Diary" in front of him, he couldn't help but be curious in his heart, and turned through the contents of it page by page.

What did Goering mean by sending me this book?

・・・・・・

Berlin, in the office building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the office of Foreign Minister Ribbentrop.

Ribbentrop walked around the office with his hands behind his back in a nutshell.

"The Rabe's Diary has already been released in the United States and England, and the German edition is officially released in Germany today, and we must consider the adverse effects of this book on the relations between our two countries. I will find out the attitude of the Führer as soon as possible, and you should also find a way to find some helpers, preferably someone who can have enough influence on the Führer, the sooner the better, and try to minimize the impact of this book on the Führer. ”

"The book was suddenly unbanned, and there must be someone behind it." Hiroshi Oshima said.

"I don't know who it is, you send someone to investigate, and I will also go to find someone to inquire about the news・・・・・・ it's just that the book is now on the market, and it's too late for us to say anything, so we can only do remedial work."

Leaving the office building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hiroshi Oshima returned to the embassy with a full stomach full of sorrow.

"Quick, contact me at the Polish Governor's Palace, and I want to see Mr. Governor." (To be continued.) )