Battle of the Third Reich

The reason why strategic bombing can be called strategy is that the target it attacks may have an impact on the national strategy. This is possible because the actual situation of each country is different. Even if the same target is bombed, the consequences will be different.

For example, in the bombing of civilian targets, Germany and Britain tried this tactic in the early days of the war, but it turned out that this did not allow the enemy's bottom-level people to succumb, but instead promoted the fear of death and destruction under the promotion of government public opinion. It has become a national cohesion and a bitter hatred of those terror makers.

Xu Jun believes that this tactic is not suitable for use in the Soviet Union. Any bombing against Soviet civilians is tantamount to helping Moscow to propagate in disguise, so that ordinary people will become enemies and be closely united with the steel father.

Historically, the United States launched a molotov cocktail offensive against Tokyo, which almost burned out a quarter of the urban area of ​​Tokyo. The US military deliberately avoided the palace and government agencies with the purpose of letting those in power witness the horrific destruction power. But the hell-like scenes did not scare politicians and warlords. In front of the powerful national machine, the voice of the people was weak and pitiful. Instead, the nationalist sentiment throughout the country rose again. Civil groups began to spontaneously kill the parachuting American troops. Bomber crew members.

It is not the slaughter of civilians that really succumbed to the Japanese in history, but the fear of the Japanese overthrow. If the US military continued to insist on overthrowing the Japanese emperor system, then 200 million jade pieces would no longer be a slogan that fools civilians. , It is more likely to become a fact created by the sea of ​​corpses.

In the list of German strategic bombing targets, the first area crossed out is the residential area. Whether it is Moscow or Leningrad, the work of destroying the internal buildings of the city will be handed over to the Army and affiliated aviation units.

The Soviet industrial production system, from raw material mining to smelting and processing, from transportation to energy systems, all those industrial and mining enterprises that directly or indirectly transform into real combat power will be the hunting targets of the German strategic bomber fleet.

So the importance of intelligence gathering is again placed in front of the head of empire. He needs detailed information on these strategic objectives. If you don’t even know what your target is and where you are, then what are the strategic bombing operations?

Germany’s intelligence collection work has been a shortcoming of the National Defense Forces before. Xu Jun already knows this very well, and cannot all put the responsibility on the capabilities of German intelligence officers. Of course, some of them are indeed stupid to a certain level, but Considering their real opponents, whether it is FBI or MI6, GRU or KGB, any of these institutions is more professional than the German Security Agency.

There is no need to mention the British Military Intelligence Agency. It is equipped with a German small pistol and the brave and invincible James Bond. Don’t think that the film is all edited. The fact is actually more exaggerated than the film. Few German spies sent to the UK lasted for more than three weeks. In addition to basic training problems, the most important thing is that there are a lot of unwritten customs in the UK. You haven’t lived there for ten or eight years. It is impossible to understand. As a result, German spies often have loopholes on these issues that are considered common sense by the British, and plainly adds a lot of laughs to the other party.

The problem on the Soviet side is actually the same. After the Soviets were established more than 20 years ago, many customs and customs in the country are completely different from the Tsarist era. It is just a way of calling each other, it is divided into superior to subordinate, subordinate to superior, there are differences in qualifications between the same level, there is no difference in qualifications, internal department, between different departments, etc., this set is outside The rules of the difference cannot be discerned at all in the human eye, but the staff inside the system are clearly distinguished. So if you replace it with a German spy who knows nothing about it, maybe two or three greetings may show off.

After the internal cleansing of the Soviet Union expanded again, the entire society widened its eyes. It seemed that everyone maintained a high degree of vigilance and was always ready to discover the traitors and foreign spies hidden around them. Under such circumstances, the kind of German intelligence officers trained in the past could never have had a chance of survival.

Today, German intelligence officials sent to the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union and Germany do not infringe on the treaty, the identity is basically semi-open. Relatively speaking, the survival conditions of Soviet spies are much better. They often hold the citizenship of a third country, making it difficult for the German Security Directorate to screen them in a short time.

The Imperial Intelligence Agency, or the “Odin’s Eye”, responded to the special environment of the Soviet Union with very few countermeasures. The first is to hire Russian spies as much as possible, and it is best to live in Russia for a period of time. .

To say that exiled Belarus should be the best choice, but in fact the Belarusian group is the most infiltrated by the Soviet intelligence, regardless of differences in beliefs, these people are still big Russians.

Of course, Belarus is not completely untrustworthy. There are indeed many people among them who still harbor hostility and hatred towards the Soviet Union. However, these people should not be extremely anti-Soviet, because hatred has filled their minds, and the task of spies is to gather intelligence, and calm and sober thinking are particularly important.

In addition to the Belarusian descendants of that year, the other main source of recruitment for the Eye of Odin was the exiles who fled from the Soviet Union to Europe. Many of these people were once members of the Soviet system and were familiar with the operation of the entire system, perhaps because of the continuation of time. There may be some changes in the details, but these problems only need to be taken care of, and can be easily repaired.

The Eye of Odin also recruited a group of intelligence officers from Soviet Russian immigrants in Germany. These individuals have the highest personal qualities among all Russian-American employees. Most of them have higher education, and some even have university degrees. Many of these Russian diasporas grew up in Germany. They are almost the same as the Germans except for fluent Russian.

These people have different purposes for participating in intelligence organizations. Some people want to prove their ability, some are purely ideological, and others want to express their loyalty to the empire.

After intensive training by the General Administration of Security, their outstanding members have now been sent to various places along the Baltic Sea coast. Those areas have just been annexed by the Soviet Union. The locals still retain their original living habits, and their household registration information is relatively confusing, so as long as There is no problem with the local personnel responsible for the response, these people can easily obtain the legal status of the Soviet Union.

At the same time, Odys Eye also recruited a group of Polish spies. After the "Polish Government in Exile" was united by the three countries of England, France and Germany, the voice of resistance in Poland also disappeared, and the Poles were not unacceptable to foreign rule. Don’t forget that before the Versailles peace treaty was re-established, Poland had actually perished for 123 years. Of course, in more than a century, the Poles have actually leaped a few times, but as long as the ruler is strong enough, the days are again In the end, ordinary Poles will not die with the elite.

And the Polish people hate the Russians more than the Germans. Poland and Russia can be called deadly enemies. The grudges and grudges between the two peoples have been going on for centuries.

At this time, history has changed, because of the intervention of a deputy head of state, most of the Polish elite groups in the German occupation zone have survived.

Among them, the hardened anti-German experts, scholars and officers were not persecuted by the SS. The Germans only handed them over to the Soviet side.

As far as Xu Jun is aware, the massacre in the Ardennes forest still happened as in history, but this time Germany used diplomatic channels to exchange some Polish officers. The Soviet Union did not deliberately obstruct it because of the consideration of the relationship between the two countries, but it triggered a cleansing of the regulatory system afterwards. Beria could not figure out where the Germans got such a detailed list.

In addition to Polish officers, Odin’s Eye recently recruited a number of Soviet Red Army officers, to be precise, former Red Army officers, now traitors, foreign spies, and Soviet national enemy.

Before, for various reasons, some bad luck eggs were put on the cleaning list. Just before the arrest order was issued, they all received a mysterious letter. The people who received the notification had been screened before, and the first thing was not to be a dumb idiot, so when the arrester in the uniform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs rushed to the target residence, he found that the arrested object and the whole family disappeared. What made the police officers of the Insider Committee unintelligible was that these people, as if evaporating in the air, could not find any trace of activities in the Soviet Union.

In fact, these people have indeed left the border of the Soviet Union, and when they reappeared, they were already in a German town thousands of miles away, and the whole family changed their seamless identity.

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