Returning to Berlin from Munich shocked Jiang Baili and Xu Haoyu. About two weeks ago, when they left Berlin. Although there is some turmoil and depression here, it still does not lose the charm of the capital of a big country. And now, in less than two weeks, GCD and GC International have turned this place into a slaughterhouse-like place!

When their car managed to enter the city through the highway in Guò, which was crowded with refugees and vehicles fleeing from Berlin. They didn't see anyone digging trenches or building fortifications - it was necessary to defend the city, and no one was doing it! However, they found that many revolutionaries wearing red armbands were digging pits with shovels, and on both sides of the road they saw at least dozens of pits being dug or already dug. Just as they were wondering what the German GCDs were going to do with the pits, hundreds of wagons lined up from the direction of the city center, full of corpses! Among them are the elderly, women, children......

In his report to Nanjing, Jiang Baili described the scene as follows: "...... I noticed that all of these victims were shot, and each body had a lot of blood on it, and some of the heads had large holes, which is a masterpiece of 7.92mm caliber rifle bullets. I guessed they were shooting them one by one with rifles, but as our car approached the Parisian square, I knew I had guessed wrong, because I heard Maxine machine gun fire! A large group of unarmed civilians was also seen being driven in the direction of the square! This is truly an unheard-of crime...... Later, when I came to the Chinese Embassy, I learned about it from Liu Peng, the education counselor who stayed behind. Those who were shot were the so-called counter-revolutionaries! The most numerous of them are the White Russians, who are the most hated people by the Soviet GCD, so they must be killed indiscriminately! However, this goal of the Soviet GCD was not achieved, and some White Russians hid in the homes of the Germans, while others hid in the embassies of various countries, and our Chinese embassy took in dozens of them. In addition, the aristocracy and capitalists were also the focus of extermination, especially the Jewish capitalists in Berlin, the Germans did not like them very much, so they worked harder to eliminate them! Capitalists of Germanic origin were placed in lower positions for execution. In the end, most of them survived by the time the Nazi Party and Wehrmacht entered Berlin. As for the old military officers, intellectuals and former government officials. It was said that he would have been shot. However, after Thälmann read Mr. Hitler's letter, the scope of the execution was much narrower, and it seems that the letter still had some effect.

In addition to seizing the time to destroy the class enemy, another task that the Soviet power in Germany did was to arrange a retreat. The Great Retreat began the day after we entered Berlin. Tens of thousands of German Red Army, revolutionary workers and their families left the city and moved northwest. Most of them marched on foot, but they were accompanied by hundreds of trucks laden with supplies and munitions.

Since Poznan was still in the hands of the Polish White Army, loyal to Pilsudski, the direction of retreat was Danzesk in the northwest. However, the situation is said to have been very chaotic, and the local German population also launched an armed uprising after the defeat of the Polish White Army, although the revolt was led by Germanic nationalists, who expelled the local Polish army. An autonomous government was formed. It is expected that there will be a clash with the German Red Army, which has moved to East Prussia, and the Danzig question may also become another major focus of disputes between Germany and the Soviet Union and Poland in the future......

April 3rd. The combined forces of the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht moved to the outskirts of Berlin, and skirmishes ensued. By this time most of the GCD and the German Red Army had evacuated from Berlin. Thälmann did not leave Berlin, and remained in the Chancellery to command the few Red Army troops to resist in order to delay the fall of Berlin and cover the retreat of their main forces into Polish territory. The next day, the fighting began to become fierce, and the offensive of the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht broke through the thin defensive line hastily set up by the German Red Army on the outskirts of the city, and fierce street fighting broke out in the city of Berlin. Looking down from the top floor of the embassy, there were large and small pillars of smoke everywhere, and in some places huge blue-black smoke balls that only appeared after heavy artillery bombardment. In addition to the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing, there were more cries in the city, which later became known as the retaliation of the Nazi stormtroopers who had stormed the city. All the German Red Army and German GCD captured by them were treated cruelly, and shooting them on the spot was already the most merciful way to die, and many were doused with gasoline and burned alive. Others were cut into pieces with axes! The German Red Army, which was originally a makeshift rabble, no longer had a strong will to fight, and if it were not for the atrocities of the Nazis, the battle might have ended in the surrender of one side. This way the whole city can also leave a little less blood.

Even so, the main fighting was largely over on the evening of April 6. At this time, the Elector Avenue was full of patrolling stormtroopers and Defence officers. This was followed by a city-wide manhunt, the targets were still the German GCDs and German Red Army soldiers who were in hiding, and the sporadic gunfire continued all night, and it was not known whether it was an execution or an exchange of fire? It wasn't until the early morning of April 7 that the whole of Berlin fell silent. But this tranquility didn't last long, and was overshadowed by the victory parade of the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht, and the 'Hey! Hitler! The cheers were broken. And we, the people from the Chinese embassy, were also invited to visit the parade and now listen to Adolf at the Brandenburg Gate. Mr. Hitler's speech. ”

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"Today, we stand here! Stand on the land of the Germans! Stand in Berlin, the land that our ancestors watered with blood and dignity! Behind me, the Brandenburg Gate! A place to celebrate victory and the rise of the Second German Reich! It is a place that witnessed the atrocities of GC International and German GCD! It is the place where Soviet Russia and its lackeys slaughter our people at will and trample on our dignity! ”

Adolph. Hitler stood at the foot of the Brandenburg Gate, tens of thousands of stormtroopers and Wehrmacht officers and soldiers stood in front of him in a neat formation, and many more Berlin citizens who had just experienced a catastrophe watched from afar. Hitler felt that his whole being was inflated. He knew that the opportunity for Germany to rise had arrived, and that the fate of the whole of Germany would be in his hands! His rhetoric became more and more fierce towards the Germans who followed him and would follow him.

“…… And in front of me, standing is a people, a people groaning in humiliation! After the end of that war, the pride of our nation was gone! Not only did the victors ride on our necks, but now even the Slavs we defeated climbed on top of us, hoisted their red flags in front of the Brandenburg Gate, and slaughtered our people on Pariser Square! You sue me. You are choosing like choosing like Benjamin. Like Martin, be a freedom fighter or a slave?!

You may say: Mr. Hitler, I need a job, a piece of bread. Yes. You're right, life is so important. But I'm going to sue you. There is one more important thing in this world than life, and that is freedom! That's dignity!

As long as the red flag of GC International is still flying over Danzesk and East Prussia for a day, our dignity will not exist! As long as the Bolsheviks, who have done so much harm to our nation on our soil, have not come to their rightful end, our dignity will not exist! As long as the map of Europe, the country called Germany is fragmented and weakened. Our dignity does not exist! As long as people from other countries laugh contemptuously when they say the word Germany in a chat. There is no zài in our dignity......

When others insult us, even the weakest nations come to trample on us, we will only cry: we express strong indignation and protest, such people have no bones! Such a person is lowly! We should make the enemy tremble with the deafening sound of cannons! We should crush their dignity, their lives, and let them know that we are not a bunch of cowards who only know how to protest!

You have to remember that a country that only knows how to protest is a country without bones! A government that only knows how to protest. It's a government without bones! When our dignity, territory, and living space are trampled on, we don't need a government that is still shameless in protesting! You'll abandon them eventually!

So when we take up arms and use our guns to drive away the Soviet enemy who is entrenched and ravaged our capital, Berlin! What our government has to do is not to make any protests to Moscow! It's a declaration of war! Declare war on this behemoth called the Union of Soviet Socialist Countries! Let 140 million so-called Soviets learn the power of 70 million Germans!

And I, Adolf. Hitler would be like Benjamin. Martin like that. Hold the banner that belongs to our Germany and rush to the front! Even if I die in battle, I will enter heaven with a smile! I will meet the glorious ancestors of Germany, I can walk up to the great Frederick the Great with my head held high, and I can proudly say to him: I. Your children and grandchildren, I have not disgraced you, I shed my last drop of blood for the great Germany!

We don't fight for enslavement! We fight for freedom! We are not machines, we are not cattle and horses, we are people! The Germans who never succumbed!

We unite in the name of freedom! Fight for a new, fair world! We fight for the reunification and rise of Germany! Fight for those who enslaved us to get out of the land of the Germans! Fight because we don't need to shout and protest all day! Fight for our dignity! Fight for our promises!

Fight for the liberation of this country! Germans, we fight for the glory of our ancestors! Preach to our children and grandchildren that we are Germanic people who never give in!

Long live my compatriots, Germany and the German people! Freedom, long live! ”

As soon as Hitler's words fell, a tsunami-like "Hi! Hitler! Cheers. This ordinary German, who had no background and no money, came out of the sea of corpses and blood of the world war, a corporal, now shouted the slogan buried in the heart of every German - war! A war that could completely change the miserable status quo of the German Empire and nation, a war against the Soviet state!

It was the day after Hitler's Brandenburg Gate speech. Hindenburg and Ludendorff entered Berlin, the capital of the German Empire, and declared their Provisional Government to be the only legitimate government of Germany. The original legitimate government was forced to announce its resignation. The first thing the Provisional Government did when it entered Berlin was to declare war on the Soviet Union - a decision that seemed to some to be completely unreasonable, since the German Provisional Government had very limited military power at its disposal, but it had only 100,000 Wehrmacht troops and hundreds of thousands of paramilitary forces of various kinds.

On the Soviet side, the regular Red Army alone amounted to more than two million people! Moreover, East Prussia, an enclave in eastern Germany, was now under the wing of the Red Army, and there was no possibility of defense there, and the reason why the Red Army did not enter was because of the attitude of Britain and France.

The declaration of war by the German Provisional Government on its own initiative has only relieved the Red Army's concerns. Having declared itself no ambition for German territory, an army group of the Soviet Red Army invaded East Prussia on 6 April and completely occupied it within a week! At the same time, they drove into the Danzig area. After the bloody suppression of the German-Poles who had revolted there, they joined forces with the German Red Army, which had retreated to Poland.

Britain and France, on the other hand, once again retreated in the face of the aggressive Soviet offensive, limiting their "defense" to Germany itself. After the Soviets had completely captured East Prussia and launched an offensive against the remnants of the Polish army in Poznan, British Foreign Secretary Curzon and French Foreign Minister Briand jointly proposed an armistice - they wanted to use the former Polish-German border as a new military demarcation line.

Naturally, such an establishment was rejected by the German Provisional Government. At the same time, the German Provisional Government could not wait for the consent of Britain, France, the United States, and other countries, so under the pretext that "the Soviet invasion was imminent", violated the restrictions on German forces in the "Versailles Treaty" and the "Shanghai Treaty", announced the restoration of the compulsory military service system in Germany, and expanded the number of Wehrmacht land forces from the original 100,000 to 1 million! At the same time, the formation of the Luftwaffe began, but no plans for the revival of the Navy were announced. For Germany's blatant revival of force. Except for France, which has expressed some concerns, Britain and the United States have a welcoming attitude. In particular, the major newspapers in Britain also used red headlines to inform the British people of the good news. Even Winston Churchill, the Minister of Colonial Affairs, who had always been deeply hostile to Germany, openly stated: "Someone has to stand up to contain the Bolsheviks' westward advance, right?" Since neither the British nor the French are willing to go. Then let the Germans go and fight the Bolsheviks! It's one of the best good news I've ever heard in my life......"

The isolationist United States also reacted most positively to Germany's arms resurgence – the stock market had risen sharply since the March Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Poland, Wall Street was jubilant, and American billionaires clearly saw a rearmed Germany as the savior of the capitalist world.

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China seems to have been the first country to recognize a cobbled together Provisional Government of Nazis and Germans, and the Chinese ambassador had served as a courier for the Provisional Government – in a way, saving the lives of some Germans. Therefore, China can barely be regarded as a friendly country of Germany now, but because China also maintains good relations with the Soviet Union, Sino-German friendship is far from reaching the point of deepness. Instead, some "personal friendships" were established between the Chinese ambassador Jiang Baili and military attache Xu Haoyu and Hitler.

They are now regular visitors to the German Ministry of Defense in Tsosen. One day at the end of April 1922, the two Chinese diplomats were invited by their old friend Hitler to the small reception room of the German Minister of Defense. Sitting side by side on a large brown couch, drinking coffee and waiting. Adolf now. Hitler was probably the busiest man in all of Europe. As the Minister of Defense of a country at war, he needed to turn the pocket-sized Wehrmacht into a truly formidable army in the shortest possible time, and although he had the best officer corps in the world to work with him, the work was still extremely heavy, and he was plagued by a large number of contingencies, so it was often a long time to meet him now.

Coffee was drunk cup after cup. Minister Hitler was slow to show up. However, Jiang Baili and Xu Haoyu had no impatience to get up and say goodbye. Because they also came to deal with Monsieur Hitler with a mission, Chang Ruiqing asked them to find out the real intention of Germany to declare war on the Soviet Union -- did they really want to fight, or did they use this excuse to revive Germany's economy and armaments? Moreover, Chang Ruiqing also clearly told them on the telegram that Germany had true intentions. It is especially important for China's national policy! Jiang Baili and Xu Haoyu fully understand this.

Just look at the map and see what is the relationship between China, the Soviet Union, and Germany at the moment! The Soviet behemoth was sandwiched between China and Germany. Therefore, uniting Germany to flank the Soviet Union has always been one of Chang Ruiqing's "choices", and of course it is only one of them.

Then the door to the parlor opened. Hitler's secretary Rudolf. Hess appeared in the doorway. "Ambassador Chiang, General Xu, please come with me. Mr. Defence Minister will meet you in his office. ”