Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea
When the first rays of sunlight rose on the sea level, Tian Jing, who had been busy until 1 o'clock in the morning before going to bed, was awakened by the alarm clock, and some Tian Jing, who liked to lie in bed, lay on the bed and stretched her waist, this kind of hard bed slept on her back, but the conditions of the refugee camp were like this, and Tian Jing, who volunteered to come here to help the Jews, could only follow the local customs. Karina, who got up a little earlier than her, was combing her hair in the mirror, and today another group of Jewish refugees will be sent to Bremerhaven, Tian Jing, who is currently the chairman of the camp management committee, is the busiest person, and Karina is Tian Jing's administrative assistant.
"Honey, it's still early, you can sleep for a while" Karina saw Tian Jing who was lying on the bed stretching out in the mirror, busy for half a month, Bremerhaven has sent away two batches of 70,000 Jewish refugees, but there are still Jews who have been sent one after another gathered in Bremerhaven, Tian Jing, as the chairman of the committee, has only slept for four hours for several days. Looking at Tian Jing's haggard face, Karina was a little unbearable, if those Jews outside hadn't been messy and disobedient to the arrangement all day long, maybe Tian Jing would have been more relaxed.
"Zhongtian, the Germans have called, a new batch of Jews has arrived outside the town, they want you to come and receive them in person" Ashley, who had a six-pointed star armband on her arm, pushed open the door and walked in. Aceli, who just turned 22 this year, is a Jewish girl who takes care of Tian Jing and Karina's lives, and some of the things in Tian Jing and Karina's residence are handled by this Jewish girl who can speak German and English.
"Did the Germans say how many people there were?" Tian Jing, who was busy getting dressed, asked, the current Jewish ghetto is set up in a town 3 kilometers from Bremerhaven, right by the sea. More and more Jews rushed here when they heard the news, and the already small town could no longer accommodate so many Jews, so Tian Jing had to use the houses vacated by the Germans to house the old and weak women and children among the Jews, and the young and strong Jewish men could only live in tents set up in open fields.
Ai Sili was making Tian Jing's bed, listening to Tian Jing's inquiry, and said without looking back, "They didn't say, they just said that you should go to their headquarters" Bremerhaven is a Jewish repatriation port ordered by Hitler himself, in order to prevent the Jews sent here from returning to the German occupation zone, the German army has deployed an infantry unit and an unknown number of SS troops on the periphery of Bremerhaven, and their headquarters is located in Bremerhaven, which is 3 kilometers away from the refugee camp.
Tian Jing thought about it slightly, explained everything she needed to do today, and then took a piece of bread and took a few mercenaries left by Zhao Zhi into the jeep and went straight to Bremerhaven. Tian Jing's jeep was provided by the German army, with a red cross flag on the front of the car, red cross emblems painted on both sides of the door, and even Tian Jing, who was wearing a black SS uniform, wore a red cross armband on his arm. The camp management committee was a façade, and seven of the 12 members were non-Germans like Tian Jing, and the rest were sent by the Red Cross, and in order to distinguish the committee members from the Jewish refugees, the committee members, including Tian Jing, were usually dressed in SS uniforms.
The speed of the jeep was very fast, it was only the distance of Highway 3, and when the jeep drove into the German headquarters, Tian Jing only ate half of the bread in his hand. He followed the orderlies to the commander's office on the second floor, and before the orderlies could raise their hands and knock on the door, the door was opened from the inside, and a tall young woman in a black coat walked out, with a feather fan in her hand and a white lady's hat covered with white veils, followed by a well-built German officer.
"China Tian, you are coming" Seeing the somewhat cramped Tian Jing, the German officer who followed the young woman had a smile on her face, this weak looking Chinese girl is not a simple person, a huge Jewish refugee camp is well managed, and she is also the person the SS indicates to protect, looking at the mercenaries who protect her all day, you know that this girl occupies a high position in the heart of that mysterious Chinese man.
"Are you Chinese?" The woman in the black coat covered her face with a feather fan, just showing her eyes to look at Tian Jing, it is not very difficult to see Asians in Europe, but it is even more difficult to see a Chinese in an SS uniform with your own eyes. Margaret suddenly didn't believe her eyes, there was a Chinese girl in an SS uniform in Bremerhaven, a sensitive place, and it seemed that this Chinese girl looked like an acquaintance with the German officers stationed in Bremerhaven, Margaret's heart was full of questions.
The German officer whom Wada knew was Salen, the commander of the SS in the area, and he was in charge of handing over the Jews, and the SS was tasked with identifying the Resistance soldiers lurking among the Jewish refugees who had been sent to Bremerhaven. "Margaret, this beautiful Chinese girl is the chairman of the management committee of the Bremerhaven Jewish refugee camp, and all Jews in Bremerhaven should listen to her management," Salen introduced Tian Jing and Margaret to each other.
"Hello, my name is Margaret, I am Salen's fiancée, and I just came from Berlin" Margaret, who had hidden her profession, held back the shock in her heart and stretched out her hand towards Tian Jing. Big news, absolutely big news, as a journalist, a Chinese girl who manages hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees, this is definitely big news, if it weren't for shaking hands with Tian Jing, Margaret would even want to write a press release right away and send her discovery back to the agency immediately.
"My dear, China Tian can't be the protagonist of your report, this is the meaning of the Supreme Command, don't mess around" Xu is Margaret kept staring at Tian Jing with her eyes revealing her thoughts, and Saren reminded her fiancée in a whisper. Tian Jing, who was yellow-skinned but wearing an SS uniform, was a special existence in Bremerhaven, and many German high-ranking people believed that the reason why Zhao Zhi left Tian Jing to manage the refugee camp was because Tian Jing was Zhao Zhi's mistress. Only the people in the SS know that there has always been only one woman by Zhao Zhi's side, and that is Rowling of the Rockman family, and it is Rowling's intention not to let Tian Jing be exposed.
"Why?" Margaret's question was nipped in the bud by a look from Salen, and she had to secretly guess in her heart about the relationship between this Chinese girl and the German high command. "Hey, Regan, I was about to send someone to find you," Salen greeted the officer as he slowly walked up the stairs. Colonel Regan, the commander of the German infantry unit on the outskirts of Bremerhaven, was a soldier of distinct Aryan descent, about thirty-four or five years old, and an old acquaintance of Wada.
Tian Jing and Zhao Zhi admired the Germans' rigor of their work very much, and the two commanders and Tian Jing were all there, and after sending Margaret, Saren ordered his orderlies to stay outside the door of his office, and there were only three people in the office, Tian Jing and Regan. "China Tian, this is the letter that Mr. Zhao asked me to give you, after you finish reading, we will talk about things" Salen took out an envelope with fire paint on the seal from his personal pocket and handed it to Tian Jing.
Zhao Zhi's letter to Tian Jing was written in Chinese, and even if Saren opened the envelope privately, they were afraid that they would not be able to find the Chinese who translated the content for them for a while, and there was no secret in Zhao Zhi's letter to Tian Jing. "Mr. Zhao said that this group of Jews boarded the ship, let me obey your arrangement" Tian Jing only read the letter hastily, and then burned the letter on Regan's lighter, which Zhao Zhi specially ordered Tian Jing when he left, and all the written words of Chinese participation in the Bremerhaven refugee camp must be destroyed.
"Since this is the case, then I will tell you, with this group of Jews came to Bremerhaven and a batch of weapons sent by the high command, which is the weapon that Germany supported Mr. Zhao to bring back to China to fight against the Japanese" Reagan scratched his head, he suddenly couldn't bear to deceive this kind Chinese girl, this batch of weapons to be loaded on the refugee ship was not to be sent to Zhao Zhi to bring back to China at all, but to be quietly sent to the port of Southampton and Portsmouth Shipyard to establish a German forward base. "You know we don't trust the Jews, so we've already loaded this batch of weapons on a separate ship, but we need you to negotiate with the head of the fleet to add these two ships to the fleet when the refugee ship departs."
As soon as Tian Jing heard that this batch of weapons was brought back to China by Zhao Zhi, she immediately agreed, and the next batch of ships coming to Bremerhaven came from an ocean-going fleet in the United States, and the time of arrival at the port was tomorrow, Tian Jing was sure enough to convince the person in charge of the fleet, but she didn't know that the person in charge of the fleet had already privately accepted Zhao Zhi's benefits, and let Tian Jing go out just to act, Zhao Zhi and the German army wanted to form a routine for the weapons ships that temporarily joined the refugee ship, In the future, every refugee ship will transport weapons to Britain to a greater or lesser extent, but Zhao Zhi and Saren don't want Tian Jing to know about it.
Bremerhaven was chosen as the port of repatriation for Jews because it was the farthest port in Germany from Poland and other German-occupied countries, and it was impossible to send Jews from Eastern European countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic to Bremerhaven in less than half a year. Zhao Zhi's plan for Germany was to use this time to quietly send weapons to Britain with the help of ships transporting Jewish refugees, and when the elite troops of the German army were sent to the British forward base by the refugee ships, the destruction of the British Isles was almost imminent.