Chapter 448: Thunderstorm Plan

"We will never admit defeat, never surrender! We will defend our homeland at all costs. We will fight on the beaches, we will fight at the enemy's landing points, we will fight in the fields and streets, and we will fight in the mountains.

We will never surrender, even if our island or most of it is conquered and starved; of course, I never believe that this will happen. Our imperial subjects overseas will continue to fight until the new world, when God sees fit, uses all its strength to save and liberate the old world. Long live Britain! Long live freedom!!"

Listening to Churchill's hysterical speech on the radio, Yannick curled his lips in disdain. "Crazy."

"It seems that Prime Minister Churchill is already struggling to death." Elder Bloom, who was sitting opposite, smiled and echoed.

Yannick waved his hand and asked the secretary to turn off the radio. "Elder Bloom, what are you doing here today? I know that the Jewish youth in the army are fighting hard, and I know that you have made a lot of efforts in the United States."

At this time, the number of Jewish soldiers in the German army has exceeded 500,000, and this number is still increasing gradually. This is not surprising. The disaster of the Jews in World War II in the original time and space is well known. But at that time, there were at least 150,000 Jewish soldiers serving in the German army, and even Air Force Marshal Elhard Milch was of Jewish descent.

As for how these 150,000 Jewish descent appeared in the German army, Germany proved its descent in World War II by relevant institutions. Although the Jews in the German army were cleared out at the beginning, as the war changed later, Germany began to relax its policies, allowing some people of Jewish descent to join the army.

At the same time, most of the German high-ranking officials in World War II would also find ways to protect the Jewish soldiers in the army. At the same time, the head of state himself could also have privileges on whether he was a Jew. For many Jews or people with only Jewish descent, the head of state would also issue corresponding certificates. In other words, as long as the head of state said that you were not a Jew, you were not a Jew.

Germany's second-in-command Goering also helped his Jewish officers change their descent certificates, because many Jewish officers made great contributions to the German army.

And at that time, it was a very safe way for Jews or people with Jewish descent to serve in the German army. As long as the Jews can join the army, their families will be spared from persecution. Although these Jewish soldiers do not have many opportunities for promotion, this is related to their bloodline. Soldiers with a quarter of Jewish bloodline still have the opportunity to be promoted.

"It should be, it should be." Elder Bloom said humbly. "I heard that General Rommel has conquered Egypt?"

Yannick smiled. "Elder Bloom is here to remind me not to forget our agreement, right?"

"I dare not, I dare not."

"Don't worry, I'm not a forgetful person, and I always keep my word. But now is not the time. Elder Bloom also knows that the Soviet Union is attacking Finland, so do you know what the Soviet Union's next target is?"

Elder Bloom asked doubtfully. "Will it not be Germany?"

Yannick nodded. "That's right, we have received accurate intelligence that the Soviet Union's next target after taking Finland is us. They have even formulated a plan called "Thunderstorm."

Whether the "Thunderstorm" plan is true or not, there are many different opinions in later generations.

The "Secret Archives of World War II" (written by Russian scholar Boris Vadimovich Sokolov) published in 2001 believes that the Soviet Union had a "Thunderstorm Plan" to attack Germany!

The little mustache is a warmongerer, but the big mustache is not a pushover. Britain and France practiced "appeasement" back then, wanting to divert the war to the Soviet Union, and then sit back and reap the benefits after watching the two countries suffer losses, but ended up playing themselves into it. The little mustache fought hard on the Western Front (at that time, only Britain was left in Western Europe to resist stubbornly with the Channel), so would the big mustache have the same idea, wanting the little mustache and Western Europe to suffer losses, and then...

It was based on this strategy that in March 1941, the Soviet Army Supreme Command formulated the "Western Front Expansion Strategic Plan", which was to attack Germany (the 1939 "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Agreement" made the Soviet Union and Germany directly border each other)! The original plan was to attack on June 12, but due to insufficient preparations, it has been postponed.

But Stalin and other high-ranking officials of the Soviet Union had no idea of ​​the madness of the mustache: they invaded the east before the battle on the Western Front was even underway, which made the Soviet army helpless.

This is what is said in the "Secret Archives of World War II".

From another perspective, even if the "Big Thunderstorm" plan did not exist, the Soviet Union must have had other military plans to attack Germany. Normal countries would imagine their neighbors as imaginary enemies and formulate military strategies, so-called "prepared for danger". For example, Canada has formulated the "Ministry of National Defense Plan No. 1" to invade the United States.

At the beginning of the last century, intelligence obtained by the Canadian military showed that the United States was studying a combat plan to invade and annex Canada. In response, the Canadian military and political circles were very nervous and urgently called in people to study countermeasures. Since the United States is much stronger than Canada, no matter how it defends, the US military will be crushed. Faced with this situation, a radical officer proposed that since it cannot be defended, why not adopt a preemptive offensive strategy? If the Canadian army can invade the US mainland, the US military will definitely not dare to invade Canada!

According to the Canadian military's vision, on the eve of the US military's invasion, the Canadian Army will concentrate its elite forces to launch an attack on the United States from the western front, seizing cities such as Seattle and Portland with lightning speed. They sought to disrupt the U.S. military's offensive plans and thereby preserve Canadian territory. Of course, in addition to the western front, Canada also set up two offensive routes: the eastern and central lines. However, these two fronts do not focus on offense. Instead, they adopt defensive, guerrilla and other tactics to delay the US military's attack as much as possible, and if possible, sneak attacks on other American cities. At the same time, the Canadian army that invaded the United States did not take it as its mission to occupy cities. Instead, it wanted to destroy various facilities in the United States as much as possible and weaken the United States' war potential. When the combat objective is achieved, the Western Front troops must quickly retreat to assist other troops in resisting the US attack.

The question is: Is the Soviet Union's "Western Front Expansion Strategic Plan" part of a general military plan, or is it really the Soviet Union's national strategic war? Tragic reasons), what are so many troops used for? Are they used for attack or defense?

German Field Marshal von Manstein's analysis in his book "Lost Victory" is that the Russian army should be a strategic preparation that can "respond to a variety of situations" and be used for defense in peacetime, but once "the world changes", They tore up the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" and moved westward, but overall they were still on the defensive, but this was also a great threat to Germany. Of course, this was the German view, as was also stated in The Lost World Empire by another German general, Armin von Roon.

In fact, this can also be seen as an excuse. The Germans said: We are not that "guilty", we just took action earlier than the Soviets. If we don't take action, the Soviets will beat us.

However, even if this plan really existed according to this Russian scholar, the Soviet Union's performance was not much better.

"Even if the Soviet army really takes action ahead of the enemy, such as launching an attack on June 12 as previously planned, the losses they will suffer will not be smaller than the losses they suffered during the implementation of the 'Barbarossa' plan. ."——"Secret Plans of World War II"