Chapter 303: Welcome
The Führer's plane landed at Tempelhof Airport in the south of Berlin at 7:11 a.m. German time on 21 September, and all the senior government officials who remained in Berlin that day went to the airport to welcome the Reich Führer's return. The welcome ceremony was unprecedented, and even Hitler, who loved large-scale events, may not have experienced such a grand and glorious scene during his lifetime.
A convoy of 50 Mercedes-Benz convertibles left the airport with the Führer and his team, and in front of the convoy were 64 three-wheeled motorcycles for the task of escorting the road, driven by officers and men of the Great German Infantry Regiment in ceremonial costumes. In order to transport these officers and soldiers to this ceremony, the Air Force also specially dispatched transport planes in order to reproduce the scene of Hitler's national celebration procession, and in order to distinguish it from the previous Führer, the number and scale of the convoy have greatly surpassed. Now that the German government was not short of funds, Goebbels believed that the right amount of extravagance could bring out the greatness of the Third Reich and at the same time inspire national pride among German citizens.
From the airport on the outskirts of the city to the heart of the city, hundreds of thousands of Berliners were organized to stand in the aisles along the roads to welcome them. The police department in Berlin was all out that day, and every five meters a policeman in a ceremonial uniform stood on the side of the road to maintain order, and when the motorcade passed in front of them, everyone raised their right arms to salute the great leader, and some even burst into tears because they saw their idol.
Xu Jun sat in the passenger seat of the car, with a gentle smile on his face all the way, and from time to time he waved to the crowd on both sides, or stood up and saluted the military police who stood and saluted. The young and handsome Führer always displayed his noble and elegant temperament and heroic and majestic demeanor in front of people, which made all the German people present fall in love with him.
Compared with Hitler, who was not good-looking and even a little gloomy, the current Führer was sunny, handsome, and extraordinary. The temperament is noble and elegant, which is more in line with the image of a wise leader in the minds of the Germans. The leader of the Nazi party was more like a professional icon, and Hitler was very concerned about his image in public during his lifetime, and whenever he appeared in front of the public, he was always surrounded by a group of reporters and writers, providing the newspaper media with his every move. Hitler succeeded in making himself a part of the life of the German people. Traces of his existence can be seen everywhere in society, and every day people see, hear, and read news about him, making people believe that all Germans should love and worship him, because he is an unprecedented great man, and people can't help but believe every word he says and obey every order he gives.
Hitler did a very good job, and of course Goebbels played a very important role in the stabilization of Hitler's regime. Now, the same thing is happening to Xu Jun. His Excellency, who had seen the charm of the media of the future, gave Goebbels a lot of new inspiration in the development of propaganda means, which literally opened a new door for the Minister of Propaganda and made him truly feel the miracle of God's apostles for the first time. Goebbels had now become one of Xu Jun's most loyal admirers and followers, and he was convinced that the young Führer was a better imperial leader than Hitler, and that under his leadership the great revival of the German nation would be achieved, and that he would be recorded in the annals of the empire with this leader.
In this day and age, there is no dense global computer network. People's sources of information are all from word of mouth, government broadcasts and newspapers, and ordinary people rely on books, newspapers and magazines to learn about the world. You can only believe what the media says. Because the aviation industry at that time had not yet reached the level of development that later generations, even if there were doubts about the authenticity of the news, it was impossible for people to go to the local area to verify it in person.
Although Xu Jun never returned to Germany, the German media never cut off news about him. Every victory in a front-line battle set off a wave of praise for God's apostles in Germany. When the news of the successful landing of the German Army in England came. It has pushed this wave to its peak. This is a feat that no one in the history of Germany has ever achieved. Feng. Stadler immediately became a hero of the Germanic peoples. In the minds of the German people, he was like the legendary knight Czechofried, who single-handedly stabbed the ferocious dragon with a spear.
One can imagine what kind of fanatical attitude the citizens of Berlin would use to welcome Xu Jun when they learned that he would return to the capital. The crowd of people in the middle of the road waved the small national flag in their hands. New flag tents were also hung on lampposts and flagpoles along the roadside.
Although Xu Jun has not publicly canceled the swastika flag at present, Goebbels and Borman have already understood the apostle's intentions, how can they not firmly seize this opportunity to curry favor with the new master and behave well in front of the new head of state. So at this moment, in addition to the Nazi party flag, there is also a black eagle flag of the base camp designed by Xu Jun himself hanging side by side on the streets of Berlin, which is a flag with gold edges on white ground, and the pattern in the middle is an imperial eagle emblem with a claw and iron cross, surrounded by olive leaves and cornflowers. This is already the limit of what they can do at present, Xu Jun knows that this kind of thing can only come step by step, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, if you want to reverse the people's thinking, for Xu Jun, this work has a long way to go, and he still has his eyes on the present.
The convoy passed through the embassy district, turned at the Bismarck street junction and drove onto Charlottenburg Strasse, the main thoroughfare in the core area, which was historically renamed June 17th Strasse. It is a straight, wide main road that leads to the famous Unter den Linden Strasse at one end and the famous Unter den Linden Strasse at the other, leading to the landmark Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin.
The street runs right through Berlin's Tiergarten Park, and more than 100,000 Berlin citizens have gathered on both sides of the road to see for themselves what the new Führer will look like. There was also a large number of members of the Nazi regional organizations and industrial guilds, dressed in tawny long-sleeved uniforms, leather boots and breeches, and red armbands wrapped around their arms, and the front row members held high the flags of their respective organizations, shouting slogans of praise and allegiance to the leader, and when the convoy passed by, only the right arms were neatly raised on both sides, like patches of brown bushes.
Xu Jun is not very interested in these organizations, this is a method of domination adopted by the Nazis, they want to label every industry with 10,000 words, it seems that the organization is strong, but the actual management is not as efficient as imagined, but before the war crisis is completely resolved, Xu Jun believes that this kind of organization and guild that is conducive to government management still has its necessity.
The convoy slowly passed in front of the crowd, the citizens let out waves of cheers and screams, Xu Jun frequently raised his right arm to greet the crowd, just as the citizens expected, the Führer was as perfect as described in the newspapers, no, obviously more perfect than the newspapers described, this is the style of the German Führer, sure enough, it is the apostle given by God to the Germanic nations, the great man who led the empire to the throne of European hegemony, and the satisfied citizens of Berlin shouted and declared their loyalty to the Führer.
In particular, the female supporters of Reinhardt in the crowd were more loyal to the Nazis than many men. Hitler's peculiar charm once charmed a large number of German women, but compared with Reinhardt today, Hitler is clearly inferior to this aspect. Young, handsome, energetic, brave and strong, noble, noble-born, and intelligent, he seems to be the most perfect prince in the minds of German women. This time, Xu Jun finally felt the enthusiasm and frenzy of the female advocates, and when Xu Jun's car drove by, every now and then a petite and cute Berlin lady threw a bouquet of flowers at his car in the standard grenadier technique. One of the bouquets of flowers flew over a distance of ten meters and accurately hit the head of Martin Borman, who was sitting behind him, giving Xu Jun a new understanding of the explosive power of women at special moments.
In addition to various bouquets and handkerchiefs and sweets, some citizens also climbed the big trees on both sides, splashing shiny pieces of paper and petals from the branches, as well as rolls of colored paper ribbons, when these beautiful colored papers began to fly all over the sky, people on the side of the road rushed to reach out to catch, and the carnival-like atmosphere of the scene was pushed to the extreme at this moment.
One participant at the time later recalled that the moment brought him a sense of relief that he had never felt before, and all the stresses in his life were vented at this moment, and all his worries disappeared in this moment, because what he saw before his eyes was a symbol of the empire becoming stronger. (To be continued.) )
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