"Captain Paulus, how much oil did you put on your head! Is there a veteran like you? Quickly wash it off and wash it in cold water! ”

Hersman was yelling at a very handsome-looking "veteran" with a cleanly shaved face, greased hair, and very neatly combed back. This "veteran" was a desk officer who had been withdrawn from a German office on the Southern Front, named Friedrich. William. Ernst. Paulus. He entered the Army with a diploma from the Naval Academy, and had known Hersman before the war - the two had served together as alternate officers in the 111th Infantry Regiment. It's just an acquaintance, and Hersman and him are completely different people, so there is not much to say.

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel!" Paulus, who was dressed as a veteran, saluted Hersmann a little depressed, and then rushed to the Reichstag to find cold water to wash his hair - his official luck was really good, without a serious army military academy diploma, and without any merits, he could be promoted to captain, which is absolutely a miracle in the German Army. But he didn't expect to meet Lieutenant Colonel Hersmann in Berlin who was even more amazing than him! Not only did he become a lieutenant colonel, but he also had the Blue Max Medal, and when he heard that the emperor ran away, he got down from the carriage and talked to him......

Hersmann looked at Paulus's tall and slender back, but he was thinking of his later surrender to the Bolsheviks. Then he sighed softly, and turned his gaze to the "Trojan Revolutionaries" standing in a row in front of him—these "Trojan Horses" had just been summoned by Schleicher and sent to him for command, and many of them were not properly dressed, either too clean, or hung up high-ranking medals that should not have been hung.

Near noon on 9 November, Schleicher assigned Hersmann a new task, to lead a "revolutionary contingent" of cadets from the Grosslichfeld Military Academy and young officers in the Grand General Staff to occupy the Reichstag, the original plan, to be occupied by the workers who supported the Social Democrats.

On the afternoon of the 8th, however, Albert and Scheidman changed again, and the workers they gathered shouted the slogan "Long live the Republic", but Albert tried to save the empire.

Wilhelm II was definitely going to step down, but the emperor had to be replaced by a different person, and at the same time there would be a constitutional monarchy, just like England. This had the advantage of uniting the Junkers as a support force for the stability of the country – historically, without an emperor, the Junkers were mostly hostile to moderate centrists such as the Weimar Republic and the Social Democrats.

The working class, the original supporters of the SPD, fell into abject poverty due to the post-war recession of the German economy and turned to the extreme Nazi and Bolshevik parties. Without the centrist political forces supported by Juncker, naturally there was no power to suppress the proletariat on the right and on the left, so Germany was left with only two options: the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.

So Germany's choice for the future was in the hands of the present Entente. If they were to completely liquidate Germany's war responsibilities and destroy the Junker officer class, then Germany would become a real Soviet state - and the Junker officers would have to cooperate with the Bolsheviks! Then World War II would have broken out in January 1919. Germany (including Austria), Hungary, and Soviet Russia will stand together against Britain, France, and the United States.

If the Entente had been attacking and limiting the Junkers (but not destroying them), Germany would have become the Nazi world, and World War II would have broken out twenty years later.

And the only way to keep peace for a long time is to spare Germany. Let the Kaiser and Juncker continue to maintain their power in order to suppress the extremist forces in Germany. In this way there would be a stable, war-averse Greater German state. And this country will destroy Soviet Russia in 1919 and restore the Russian Empire. This will allow Europe to maintain the balance of power in the future. Moreover, the German people will have more political power after the war, Germany will become a constitutional monarchy, and Germany will have enough power to restrain the war.

Albert saw this very clearly, so he was reluctant to give up the imperial system until the last moment.

But the power to decide the fate of the future is not in the hands of Albert, nor is it in the hands of Hersmann. And in the United States President Woodrow. Wilson, British Prime Minister Lloyd's. George and French Prime Minister Clemenceau in the hands of the trio.

Time passed, but the good news did not come from the German headquarters in Belgium - as long as there was news of an "unconditional truce", the uprising would have been quelled without firing a single shot.

But until noon on the 9th, there was still no good news. And the huge uprising has approached the official residence of the royal city and the parliament building.

"Ludwig, are your men ready?" Hindenburg's adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Schulenburg, rushed out of the Reichstag, his face pale.

"No good news?" Hersman already knew the answer, but he asked the question anyway.

"No," Schlenburg sighed. "Mr. Albert demands that we revolt immediately and occupy the Capitol...... Hopefully we can delay a little longer. It was hoped that the Entente would change their minds a little when they saw Berlin fall into the hands of the revolutionaries. ”

Of course they will change their minds. Hersman said in his heart that the original outright suppression of the Junkers aristocracy was transformed into a serious weakening of the Junkers, only weakening, not eliminating. Because Anglo-American-French did not dare to face a new world war.

But this change would still cause Juncker to lose the power to maintain stability in Germany. At the same time, Juncker would be hostile to the Social Democrats who signed the Treaty of Versailles and ended the monarchy. In this way, the Entente paved the way for the Nazi Party to come to power!

By this time, the ranks of the uprising had already appeared on Unter den Linden Street, which led to the Parliament building. There was a sea of people, holding high the red flag and singing the "Internationale", and most of them had no weapons, except for soldiers in gray military uniforms in the wilderness. If an army armed with machine guns and artillery comes to suppress it, it can easily crush them.

But the Kaiser could not be forgiven by the Entente, even if he had a tsar in his hands. So he couldn't mobilize the army, and the end of the Second German Reich is today! And the origin of the Third Reich, too, is today!

"Okay!" Hersman beckoned to his men who had been temporarily assigned to his command, and they gathered. "Raise the red flag! Bring a weapon...... Let's go occupy the Capitol! This is to save the empire from falling into the hands of the Bolsheviks! I would like to conclude by saying that we are now champions of Social Democracy. No armed person is allowed to enter without the orders of Mr. Albert and Mr. Shcheidman! Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"No, not a lieutenant colonel, from now on, no one shall be commensurate with a military rank." "You should call me Comrade Braun!" ”

"Yes, Comrade Braun!"

"All right, comrades, now sing the Internationale and march to the Capitol!"

At noon on November 9, the Berlin Revolution finally ushered in the moment of victory. A group of soldiers mobilized by the Social Democrats, singing the Internationale, holding high the red flag, lined up as if they were participating in a military parade, swaggering to occupy the undefended Reichstag. Just 800 metres from the Reichstag, the official residence of the Intramural in Berlin also fell into the hands of the insurgents - Schleicher led people to occupy it.

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