Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 289: Preparation (Part 2)

The reason why strategic bombing can be called a strategy is that the target it attacks may affect the national strategy. The possibility here is 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 the United Kingdom tried this tactic at the beginning of the war, but the facts proved that this did not allow the enemy’s low-level people to yield. Instead, under the impetus of the government and public opinion, the death and destruction The fear of the country has transformed into national cohesion and a deep-seated 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 propaganda in disguise, so that ordinary people will become enemies of the same enemy and unite closely with the steel father. .

In history, the United States launched an incendiary offensive against Tokyo, which burned almost a quarter of Tokyo’s urban area. The U.S. military deliberately avoided the imperial palace and government agencies in order to let those in power witness the terrifying destructive power. . But the hellish scene could not scare politicians and warlords. In front of the powerful state apparatus, the voices of the people were faint and pitiful. On the contrary, nationalist sentiments across the country rose again, and civil organizations began to spontaneously hunt down those parachuting American troops. Bombing crew members.

In history, what really made the Japanese succumb was not the massacre of civilians, but the fear of Japan’s possible overthrow. If the US military continued to insist on overthrowing Japan’s emperor system, then 200 million jade pieces would no longer be a fool. The slogan of civilians is more likely to become a fact created by a sea of ​​blood.

In the list of German strategic bombing targets, the first to be crossed out is the residential area, whether it is Moscow or Leningrad. The work of destroying the internal buildings of the city will be carried out by the army and affiliated aviation units.

The industrial production system of the Soviet Union, 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 effectiveness will be the hunting targets of the German strategic bomber group.

So the importance of intelligence collection is once again placed in front of the head of the empire. He needs detailed information on these strategic goals. If you don't even know what the target is or where it is, then talk about strategic bombing operations.

Germany’s intelligence collection work has always been a shortcoming of the Wehrmacht. Xu Jun already knows this well, and he can’t all put the blame on the ability of German intelligence agents. Of course, some of them are indeed stupid enough. Realm, but considering their opponents in reality, whether it is FBI or MI6, GRU or KGB, any of these institutions is more professional than the German Security Administration.

There is no need to mention the British Military Intelligence Bureau. With a small German pistol, James Bond is invincible. Don't think that the movie is all made up. The facts are actually more exaggerated than the movie. Few German spies sent to the UK have lasted three weeks. Apart from the basic training problems, the most important thing is that the UK has a bunch of unwritten customs and habits. If you don’t live there for ten or eight years, you will simply It is impossible to understand. As a result, German spies are often full of loopholes on these issues that are regarded by the British as common sense, and they add a lot of jokes to the other side.

The problems in the Soviet Union are actually the same. The Soviets were established more than 20 years ago, and many customs and habits in the country are completely different from those in the Tsarist Russia. Just a way of addressing each other is divided into superior to inferior, inferior to superior, there are differences in seniority between each other, there is no difference in seniority, within the department, between different departments, etc., this set is outside Human eyes can't distinguish the rules of difference at all, but the staff in the system can distinguish clearly. So if you change to a German spy who knows nothing about this, maybe two or three greetings might show up.

After the Soviet Union's domestic cleansing expanded again, the entire society was wide-eyed. It seems that everyone is maintaining a high degree of vigilance and is always ready to discover the traitors and foreign spies hidden around them. In this environment, the German intelligence officers trained in the past have no chance of survival.

Now the intelligence officers sent by the German authorities to the Soviet Union are semi-public because of the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty. Relatively speaking, the living conditions of Soviet spies are much better. They often hold third-country citizenship, which makes it difficult for the German Security Service to identify them in a short time.

The Imperial Intelligence Agency, also known as the "Eye of Odin", did not offer many countermeasures against the special environment of the Soviet Union. The first is to hire Russian spies as much as possible, and it is best to live in Russia for some time. Kind of.

To say that the exile of Belarus should be the best choice, but in fact the Belarusian ethnic group is the most infiltrated by the Soviet intelligence services. Regardless of differences in beliefs, these people are still Great Russians in their bones.

Of course, Belarus is not completely untrustworthy. Indeed, many of them still harbor hostility and hatred towards the Soviet Union. However, those who are extremely anti-Soviet among these people shouldn't, because hatred has flooded their minds, and the task of spies is to gather intelligence. Calm and clear thinking is especially important.

In addition to the descendants of White Russia, the other main source of recruitment for the "Eye of Odin" is the exiles who fled from the Soviet Union to Europe. Many of these people were former members of the Soviet system and were familiar with the operation of the entire system. There may be some changes in the details because of the time continuation, but these problems can easily be corrected with care.

The "Eye of Odin" also recruited a group of intelligence agents from Soviet-Russian immigrants in Germany. These people have the highest personal qualities among all Russian employees. Most of them have higher education, and some even have universities. Bachelor of Science. Many of these Russian nationals grew up in Germany, and apart from being fluent in Russian, they are almost the same as Germans in other respects.

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

After intensive training by the General Security Bureau, the members with excellent grades have been dispatched to various parts of 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 also chaotic. , So as long as there are no problems with the local personnel responsible for the reception, these people can easily obtain the legal status of the Soviet Union.

At the same time, Odin’s Eye also recruited a group of Polish spies. After the "Polish Government in Exile" was united by Britain, France and Germany, the voice of resistance in Poland also disappeared. Poles are not unacceptable. For foreign rule, don’t forget that Poland actually perished for a hundred and twenty-three years before the Versailles peace treaty was re-established. Of course, the Poles have actually jumped a few times in more than a century, but as long as the ruler is strong enough , Life can go on again, ordinary Poles will not die with the elite.

Moreover, Poles hate the Russians even more than the Germans~IndoMTL.com~Poland and Russia are fateful enemies. The grievances and hatreds between the two nations have lasted for centuries.

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

Among them, experts, scholars and military officers who were die-hard and anti-German were not persecuted by the SS. The Germans just handed them all over to the Soviet side.

As far as Xu Jun knows, the massacre in the Ardennes forest still happened as it did in history, but this time Germany used diplomatic channels to exchange some Polish officers. The Soviet Union did not deliberately obstruct it out of consideration of the relationship between the two countries, but triggered a cleanup of the supervisory system after the incident. Beria couldn't figure out where the Germans got such a detailed list.

In addition to Polish officers, Odin’s Eye has recently recruited a group of Soviet Red Army officers, to be precise, former Red Army officers, current traitors, foreign spies, and public enemies of the Soviet state.

Before, for various reasons, some unlucky ones were put on the cleansing list. Just before the arrest order was issued, they all received a mysterious letter. The person who received the notice had been screened before. First of all, it should not be a dumb fool. 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 his family had disappeared. What makes the police officers of the Insider Committee feel incomprehensible is that these people are as if they have evaporated in the air, and there is no trace of their activities in the Soviet Union.

In fact, these people have indeed left the border of the Soviet Union. When they reappear, they are already in a German town thousands of miles away, and the whole family has changed into a seamless identity.

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