Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 42: Ribbentrop
"This thing looks like a pile of shit, Ribbentrop." Xu Jun threw a document on the desk with a disdainful face.
"Yes, my head of state, I agree with you. This document is full of stinking lies."
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich, Josim von Ribbentrop, humbly replied.
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After ten days of investigation and questioning at the Berlin Army Special Prison in Germany, Ribbentrop almost gave up any hope of survival.
Speaking of it is a special army prison, but the personnel who interrogated him were all members of the Gestapo, and the rules were the cold and rigid Waffen SS like a robot.
Ribbentrop is very clear about who is behind this investigation, and what will happen to him who has always regarded himself as Hitler's cronies, Ribbentrop doesn't even bother to think about it.
The interrogators seem to be very aware of this. The Gestapo did their utmost to humiliate the empire’s dignitaries in those days. Although they did not use the notorious punishments against him, they were only spiritual. Torture almost drove the sensitive former Champagne merchant crazy.
At the beginning, Ribbentrop still had a hint of luck. Perhaps he still had value for the new head of state, but after several humiliating interrogations, he completely gave up that expectation.
Had it not been for his concern for his family that he had been supporting him, the foreign minister who claimed to be "Bismarck II" would have found an opportunity to cut himself off, just like the imperial labor minister Fran held next door to him. Like Zelted, the imperial worker leader hung himself on the window fence with socks.
Ribbentrop finally confessed his fate after struggling a bit. As long as he can get rid of this terrible torture, he is willing to bear any accusations raised by the Gestapo.
But, just as he was about to break his bowl, the Gestapo suddenly stopped interrogating him and left him alone.
As the days passed, Ribbentrop's spirit almost collapsed.
Although his food level has obviously improved, and the guards showed a hint of kindness to him, Ribbentrop no longer believes that a miracle will happen. He waited silently for the execution captain to come. Go to the door to announce the moment when the sentence was pronounced for his shooting.
Ribbentrop stood in front of the iron gate with bloodshot eyes every day, watching from the narrow window on the iron gate those colleagues who had been equally prominent disappear one by one in the depths of the corridor.
William Frick, the cunning Secretary of the Interior, it seems that he is not as brave as he usually claims to be. In the end, he was almost dragged onto the execution ground by two powerful armed SS members. of.
William Onezerg, Minister of Posts of the Empire, the Minister who could not sleep without wearing Indian silk pajamas was wearing only a crumpled suit before his execution, and his face was so pale that he looked like a corpse. Of course, he also went to the execution ground with the "help" of the Waffen SS.
In contrast, the great thought leader that made all the Nazis awe, Hitler’s ideological mentor, and the famous Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, performed much better, he was like a martyr. He walked through this corridor with his head straight and chest, which made the prisoners on both sides of the corridor sigh.
But I heard that he played a little abnormally at the last moment before his execution. It is really hard to imagine that such a weak person would burst out such terrible power at the end of his life. The four strong Waffen SS members almost did not. He was able to tie him to a torture stake, and finally solved the problem with the **** of the rifle. He was regarded as the most painless death of all.
Franz Ritter von Ep, the governor and chief executive of Bavaria, was tortured terribly. In the end, the governor who fell into a deep coma was dragged to the execution ground.
Such tragic things happen every day. . . .
The new head of state used iron and blood to carry out his cleansing activities freely. Few Nazi leaders who depended on Hitler to climb to the stage escaped his liquidation.
Ribbentrop learned from the guards' words that the purge was sweeping across the entire German territory like a fire. There are at least 30 places like the Berlin Army Special Prison all over the country. They are interrogated, investigated and executed with German-style efficiency every day. These "traitors and enemies of Germany" are executed.
Usually those high-ranking Nazi district officials were dragged into military vehicles from homes, streets, and offices by heavily armed army soldiers like dead dogs, and then escorted to these special prisons for investigation, and the final result was often guilty .
When the family members found the place of detention, all they saw was a box of cold ashes. The efficient Gestapo even arranged the cremation work.
To Ribbentrop's surprise, under this terrible cleansing, the lives and work of German civilians were not disturbed at all.
The arrests and trials only involve the senior leadership of the Nazi Party and the leaders of the SS, and they seem to be confined to the party of the Nazi Party. There are only a small number of people in the middle and lower levels of government leadership closely related to social life. Be affected.
And in the conversation between the guards, it was revealed that Ribbentrop felt a chill on his back. This purge was obviously premeditated because all arrest warrants were prepared in advance. When the list was issued, the Gestapo immediately provided conclusive evidence of those people’s crimes, and the arrested persons had no room for denial.
What's even more frightening is that they even have already prepared replacement personnel.
All positions vacant due to the arrest of the owner were replaced by corresponding personnel. There was no interval of one minute in between, and the replacement personnel were very familiar with their new positions, and the government’s work was not affected at all. influences.
This really made the shrewd Foreign Minister compelled to admire the foresight of the new head of state. This kind of scheming is really terrifying.
German society is operating as usual, government agencies work normally, and the social order is calm and orderly. The unprecedented terrorist cleansing of the Third Reich did not make the German civilians feel scared and panicked. Instead, it became their after-dinner talk.
Days are still passing by. As the understanding of this purge gradually deepens, Ribbentrop feels more and more terrible about the new head of state.
Although he had been in contact with Reinhardt, he remembered that person was just a bragging and clever dude, impeccable as a noble, but as the head of government, he lacked too much Up.
But now it seems that he, like Hitler, was deceived by the gorgeous disguise of the "Apostle of God".
Where is the dude? He is a genius conspirator who is foresight and careful thinking.
To be honest, this Reinhardt Steader seems to be more suitable than Hitler to take the top spot as the dictator of the Third Reich, because he is not only more like a soldier than Hitler, but also more like a politician.
Ribbentrop was in that prison for twenty-five days, but after the horrific interrogation of the first ten days, no one came to him.
The surrounding cell gradually became empty. Most of the inmates went where they should go. Ribbentrop squatted lonely on the cold floor of the cell, shaking his fingers while calculating his last days. .
But just as the foreign minister was about to collapse, a mysterious visitor came to his cell.
He knows the people who came, and it can even be said that he is very familiar with them.
Because he had worked under this person for two full years, and finally he borrowed Hitler's power to steal this person's position.
Baron Constantine von Neuwright, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich.
Ribbentrop did not know why he saw this person in such a place at this time.
It seems that the former Minister of Foreign Affairs has had a good life these days. He is so well-dressed and dignified, and his face is flushed. There is no trace of depression and decadence that he encountered in the previous two years.
Ribbentrop suddenly felt an urge to cry for a while, and his 30 years of hard work ended up in this field. What happened to this world?
Looking at the former boss with a gentle smile outside the door, Ribbentrop regretted for the first time why he didn’t learn from the "foreman" and hanged himself so readily. The former boss came to an end with wanton humiliation.
But what I didn't expect was ~IndoMTL.com~ Newright just said faintly "follow me", then turned and left.
Ribentrop’s first thought was that he was finally crazy, so much so that he had such a ridiculous hallucination.
So when the guard smiled and asked him to leave the cell, he grabbed the frame of the iron bed and refused to move. In the end, the two Waffen SS members dragged him out of the small room. Cell.
Ribbentrop cried and asked the guards to send him back. He thought he was going to be shot, and when he was dying he had to take pictures of his family.
But the guards did not agree. In their opinion, this guy must have a brain disease. When others were released from here, which one could not run faster than the rabbit? How could there be such a thing that wanted to go back, just a photo, After returning home, a lot of living people can look at them and do what they want with photos.
After verifying the body according to the regulations, two Waffen SS members who were so strong that they could be compared with a bear dragged the poor Ribbentrop to the bathroom, washed and stripped them, put on a clean suit and kicked him. Kicked out the prison gate.
At the gate of the prison, Newright stood by a black and bright high-level official car waiting for the embarrassed prisoner.
Until then, poor Ribbentrop truly believed that he had been released. The feeling of being alive is really wonderful. This simple truth was realized after Ribbentrop spent 25 days of terrible prison and watched countless people die.
Looking at the blue sky, bathed in sunlight, the former minister of foreign affairs of the empire knelt on the concrete floor in front of the prison and started crying.