Chapter 203: Schwartz's Insight
Long Sword Street, Berlin, Germany.
As treasurer of the Socialist Workers' Party, Franz Xavier Schwarz received a special order.
Originally, Schwartz was the man who should have been Reinhardt's boss in history. Without Reinhardt's crossing, he would have been second only to Himmler in the SS of the entire Third Reich.
However, the current situation is that Himmler, who was supposed to be the head of the SS and the head of the Gestapo, was nothing more than a low-ranking cadre under the command of Ross.
The SS and the Gestapo, which were originally in charge of Himmler, were handed over by Reinhardt to Steve and Ross respectively, and the management was divided. As for Schwartz, who was originally Reinhardt's boss, he is now a subordinate of Reinhardt's subordinates.
Fortunately, Schwartz does not like to show off by nature, and he is not at all dissatisfied with Reinhardt's appointment.
After all, Schwartz had joined Hitler's group in 1922, before Reinhardt's had crossed over. Hitler's SA then fought against Reinhardt's SS and suffered two defeats, which led directly to the collapse of the SA and Hitler's death.
In Schwartz's view, Reinhardt was able to reactivate and reinforce the members of these hostile groups, including Goebbels and himself, and to give them a heavy responsibility.
As for the fact that he was supposed to be Reinhardt's superior, he didn't know at all.
Now, as the party's treasurer, Schwartz is in fact very conscientious. Under his management, the economic affairs of the Socialist Workers' Party were kept in order.
The treasurer, who has passed the test of history, rarely appears in public on weekdays, and he often participates in many important party events in civilian clothes, and rarely speaks.
Historically, Schwartz has received no less praise than Reinhardt. If there had been no crossing accident, Reinhardt would have been known as a model image of the Third Reich because of his "shrewdness, ability, wisdom and courage, and self-preservation". And Schwartz, who was supposed to be an honorary commander of the SS at a higher rank than Reinhardt, was also appreciated by many of the upper echelons of the Third Reich.
Hitler's propaganda minister, Dr. Gobel, wrote in his diary: "Schwartz has always been a loyal old comrade and comrade-in-arms of our party. Unlike those who love to brag, he is always good at doing practical things. ”
Now, Goebbels is still the Minister of Propaganda, but he has become Reinhardt's Minister of Propaganda. As an official who was also promoted by Reinhardt from Hitler's camp, Goebbels certainly did not recommend Schwartz, who also worked for Hitler's group, to Reinhardt.
However, Reinhardt himself knew Schwartz's ability and personality, so he retained Schwartz's position as treasurer in the party.
In any case, after he crossed over, he was originally a dove occupying the magpie's nest, and the establishment of a party forcibly set up the Socialist Workers' Party established by Hitler. For those who have passed the character test and have the ability in place, Reinhardt has left them all.
Those who are fanatical in thought, if they are willing to follow themselves, stay. Those who missed the Führer's theory went to the Labor Construction Corps to experience life and establish friendship with the Jews.
This time, Schwartz was given the task of dealing with the growing number of labor construction corps in the east.
Due to the influx of more than 500,000 Polish prisoners of war, the originally built labor camps could no longer accommodate so many laborers, and there was a surplus of labor.
In order to better absorb the extra labor force, there will already be more than 100,000 Polish prisoners of war in the future. Reinhardt urgently ordered the Reich Treasury to allocate funds for the construction of two large labor camps.
At the same time, the Socialist Workers' Party was asked to fund the construction of a labour camp to bear the financial burden on the government.
This is not because the German government lacks that money, but because Reinhardt is working for the benefit of the party's finances.
Once the construction of the labor camp is completed, it will bring a steady stream of profits. In the future, more and more members of the Labor Construction Corps, that is, prisoners of war and labor prisoners, will become the cheapest labor force in the world.
Reinhardt knew all this.
To build a labor camp, the foundations needed could be drawn directly from Polish land. Supervisors can also be transferred free of charge from the old and weak SS troops on the second line, and the Socialist Workers' Party only needs to spend a little cement money to easily get a cheap production factory where the workers only need to take care of food and housing.
However, this time the task was special, Reinhardt asked Schwartz to send a group of imitation workers from the former labor construction corps to the newly established camp to act as a small leader in managing the workers.
"Two hundred imitation workers from the local labor camps will be assigned to the new camp in the east........" Schwartz paced back and forth after reading Reinhardt's instructions.
After receiving the instructions, several party members and cadres on the side looked at them several times, but they did not find anything wrong. Among them, one of the youngest party members and cadres was the first to step up and asked: "Treasurer, this order is just for us to send two hundred good workers to the eastern camp, and there is nothing difficult about it, but why do you seem worried?" ”
"No difficulty?" Schwartz smiled bitterly and said leisurely: "In addition to the one in the hands of the government, there is another labor camp in the local area that belongs to the leadership of our party in name. However, in fact, the production arrangements and personnel scheduling there were all controlled by the Rhine consortium. How could this power, which had risen to become the No. 1 conglomerate of the empire in less than 20 years, be at the mercy of our party and cede 200 imitation workers. ”
"However, don't they give us a part of the profits of the Labor Construction Corps every year as party funds?" A cadre thought for a moment and comforted Schwartz: "Besides, more than 90 percent of the members of the Rhine consortium are our party members, and many of them are cadres. I don't think they're going to have a fight with our party because of these 200 people, right? ”
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Schwartz patted the cadre on the shoulder: "You are still too young to understand how much those capitalists value profits." The reason why they gave me money was not all because of the Führer's face, because to give us money was to curry favor with the Führer. ”
After speaking, Schwartz sighed alone: "You only know that more than 90% of the people in it are our party members, but you don't know that none of these known party members is one of the leaders of the highest level of the Rhine consortium!" Not to mention whether they are our party members or not, even who they are, even I, the treasurer of the party, do not know at all! Dare to use our party members in such a large number and hide their identities so deeply, their backstage decision is not simple! ”
"I think the reason why the Führer didn't go directly to them to ask for someone was because he was afraid of their backstage. That's why I asked me to test the water on his behalf first to see if the mastermind behind the Rhine consortium could sell this face. Schwartz shared for the party cadres present: "After I go, even if I am rejected, it will make sense." After all, it's a layer apart, so the head of state can continue to deal with them in the future........"
"I see!"
"Makes sense!"
"It's still the treasurer who can see clearly!"
For a moment, Schwartz's office was filled with the voice of sudden realization........
At the same moment, in the Führer's mansion a few blocks away.
"I'll go!" When Reinhardt went to the toilet, he suddenly patted his head and said to himself: "The instructions seem to be in the wrong place, I should arrange the transfer of people separately to the company!" ”