One Hundred and Ten Dark Night Swords
Tukhachevsky, who had reached the door, suddenly turned his head, looked at Akado and asked, "By the way, Mr. Chancellor, can I ask, what will you do with the German Communist Party?"
"This time they are challenging our bottom line, Mr. General." Akado didn't look at Tukhachevsky's eyes and said in a low voice: "Everyone who supports me now hopes that I can handle it tough. Communist Party of Germany."
He did not explain how to be tough, but the meaning of the word tough made Tukhachevsky understand that the cleaning had begun, and the streets and alleys of Germany were full of blood that could not be wiped clean. Here, at least now, is not a communist ideal country, on the contrary, it is the hell of the Communist Party.
Akado, and the interest groups represented by Akado, are the enemies of the Bolsheviks, so they don't mind stabbing the Bolsheviks when it makes the most sense. Just two days ago, Tukhachevsky, who was waiting to get on the plane, heard that several comrades who had passed letters had been hanged.
"Based on our personal friendship, and the Soviet Union's concessions in Austria and Czechoslovakia, can I ask you to let some people go?" Tukhachevsky finally asked with a sigh.
"Okay, I'll give you an upper limit of 500 people, no more! Choose from the middle-level management cadres. I'll keep the upper-level celebrities and give my followers an explanation." Akado thought for a while. wanted to answer.
Tukhachevsky nodded, with a very sad smile on his face: "Thank you, my friend. To be honest, you and I both know what actually happened, and those poor comrades have to do it for you personally. The ambition bleeds dry."
"Many times we have to choose helplessly. These choices are not based on morality and truth, but on interests and power." Akado didn't defend anything. In fact, everyone knew that those lives were nothing more than two. It's just a bargaining chip between interest groups.
"I said, I don't want to meet you on the battlefield." Tukhachevsky said suddenly: "Now I have changed my mind. If possible, I will defeat you with my own hands and nail you to the cross. Dig out your intestines."
"I don't want to meet you on the battlefield, this is the truth, it is my heart." Akado smiled, his expression was inexplicable: "I will try to avoid you, really."
Tukhachevsky left, came in a hurry, and left in a hurry. He took away several bruised German Communists, who were the face of the Comintern that the Soviet Union valued and deserved to be protected and won by the Soviet Union. More freed German Communists were crammed into trains to the Soviet Union, who at this moment did not know that they still had influence for their lives, and the Soviet government gave up two distant German-speaking regions.
In fact, in the list of people Tukhachevsky asked for, the owners of many names were no longer there, and had to be replaced by other less important members of the German Communist Party. Because the massacre against the German Communist Party had already begun, if Tukhachevsky came a few days later, there might not be a single person left by the Soviet Union.
Just the night before, the purge of the German Communist Party was in full swing, all trade unions throughout Germany were abolished, and all workers leaders were arrested. The recorded communists were all arrested, and not even the communist members who entered Congress were spared.
Reinhard Heydrich is not a man and a believer. On the contrary, he is a manic and furious shark when he smells blood. This night, the SS under his command went out into the streets and caught all the suspicious elements he could find. Got a clean one.
The SS has a long list of arrests,
Most of them are the backbone of the Communist Party, and there are many free people who are inclined to the Communist Party. Of course, some of this list is from the Greater Deutsches Party and the Wehrmacht.
The consortium controlled by the Greater Deutsches Party has many opponents. Krupp, Jereinke, Cassia, Bosch and others do not mind taking such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to eradicate these opponents, so when the SS took action, they formulated a plan. A long list was handed over to Reinhard Heydrich.
The businessmen of the Greater Deutsches Party hoped to use this purge to crush their rivals, knowing that as long as they didn't go too far, they wouldn't make Arkado unhappy. What's more, Arcardo also needs a lot of confiscated assets to support his "Milford vouchers" to expand the National Defense Forces.
The politicians of the Greater Deutsche Party also hope to clear their political enemies in this large-scale operation. Obviously, Akkado will not give up such an opportunity to strengthen his dictatorship, so the names of some veteran neutral politicians appear in On the list, they have to pay the final price for their frivolous behavior.
The Wehrmacht has always been very annoyed by the misbehavior of the stormtroopers, so it also hopes to take this opportunity to weaken the stormtroopers' strength. Unlike Accardo's SS, the SA was not a group of thugs recognized by the Wehrmacht.
Because of his deep military background, Arkado assured the Wehrmacht from the very beginning that the SS would not threaten the military's status. On the contrary, the SS was also a shelter for retired military personnel. At that time, this unit was cultivated as a military reserve unit loyal to the Akkado individuals.
When Arcador founded the SS, he told his confidant Reinhard Heydrich that the SS would be formed as a loyal main force under the leadership of the Wehrmacht. What is needed is to be loyal to him personally and to obey the unified command, not to set up a separate faction. Reinhardt was a man of understanding and did so. So now this SS is a paramilitary organization formed with retired military officers as the skeleton and the fanatics who worship Akado as the flesh and blood.
But the stormtroopers did not have such self-knowledge. The leader of the stormtroopers, Rom, planned to replace the Wehrmacht from the very beginning. This strategy made the relationship between the stormtroopers and the Wehrmacht become inexorable. The hostile relationship between the different forces represented behind the individual, the SA has been unable to repair the rift between it and the Wehrmacht.
Therefore, the Wehrmacht can tolerate the SS, who are closely related to it, sitting in the big position, but it can't ignore the slightest provocation of the stormtroopers. So this time the Wehrmacht also sent a list to the SS, hoping that the SS could take advantage of this incident to get rid of some active members of the SA.
However, when Reinhard Heydrich performed these tasks, he slightly changed some standards, making this purge list more in line with some of Arcardo's personal interests.
For example, he ignored many high-level personnel of the stormtroopers, and deliberately let go of the number one leader of the stormtroopers, Rom. This is to ensure that the stormtroopers do not collapse immediately, giving Arkado more opportunities and excuses to integrate the forces of the Wehrmacht.
For example, he left behind a lot of influential business leaders who were not members of the Greater Deutsches Party, in order to put a little pressure on the businessmen in the Greater Deutsches Party and prevent them from forming a monopoly. And avoiding the more sensitive ethnic issues has other troubles.
All in all, during this purge, about 3,000 Communist Party members were arrested or shot dead in Berlin alone, and more than 700 so-called militants were expelled from the country with their property confiscated.
Of course, this is not the final death toll. In fact, more than 4,100 people died in the purges over the past few days. The German people ignored this brutal crackdown out of love for this country. Understand that the war is not far away, so at this time, facing the terrible threat of communism, the whole of Germany is united as never before.
Others died in the crackdown, and the SA lost 19 senior management cadres, including Himmler, an insider who was not well known outside. I don't know why Arcador personally ordered this little-known Himmler to be killed, but the SS carried out the task very faithfully. A large number of middle-level cadres of the stormtroopers were killed, and the Nazi party lost control of the entire stormtroopers for a while. This violent organization was severely damaged and was in a state of severe paralysis.
The additional members of parliament were all appointed by the Greater Deutsches Party, which this time won an overwhelming majority of seats. So Arcador's proposal was passed.
Party elections will be disqualified, and all legislative work will be undertaken by the executive branch, and the executive branch will revise the constitution. Freedoms of speech, assembly and association, and the press will be temporarily suspended. The privacy regulations regarding the protection of freedom of calls and communications shall be repealed. The government has the right to interfere in anything in order to restore a new order. In addition, the government will have the power to legislate on its own. And by the prime minister, acting as the executive powers of the president.
President Hindenburg, who was far away in East Prussia, was seriously ill and in a coma. He couldn't even sign the bill in person. In the end, the medical staff took the old president's fingers and pressed the handprint on the document. But anyway, Ah Cardo was legally empowered to become the country's legitimate dictator.
And the first thing the dictator did after he came to power was to announce the ban on the Communist Party of Germany, and to carry out notarization of resignation from the Communist Party of all registered Communist parties in the country. Communist Party members who were unwilling to carry out this order were either sent out of the country as a gift, or They were taken to a special camp for reform through labor, and these camps responsible for their detention were called concentration camps.
After doing this, Accardo's second thing was to invite Italian leader Mussolini to visit Germany through diplomatic channels. On the issue of Austria and Czechoslovakia, understanding consultations between the two countries were launched.