Chapter 34 Stranger Road
It was late at night, and Nuremberg, which had temporarily interrupted contact with the outside world, became a noisy place covered by wind and snow. As the searchlight in the direction of the prison suddenly went out, his vision returned to the deep dark abyss. In the heavily guarded prison, the interruption of power supply forced the Allied guards to fight against opponents who were very good at night battles in a dark environment. With the sudden burst of gunfire and falling down, most of the British and French soldiers who fell to the ground were unarmed or used leather sticks, tables, chairs, and restaurant knives. In order to openly try senior German war criminals, the Allied forces did not want them to be injured during the detention period, so they stipulated that the internal guards of the prison only allowed the use of leather sticks, a soft killing weapon. Since being detained, senior German war criminals represented by Hermann Goering and Karl Denitz have acted properly. Except for occasionally complaining that they were not tasted, they never
There was no attempt to escape through any means, which also led to the Allied managers' detention strategy of relaxing the inside and tightening the outside. As a result, when the armed invaders attacked the prison, the Allied guards, both officers and soldiers, could only resist in seemingly absurd and helpless ways. The anti-aircraft machine guns laid on the towers were originally just beautiful decorations, which were completely helpless in this situation. They had no time to hide and walked forward ignorantly.
The corridor and the foyer were killed by the guns of the night warriors. Those who were smarter took advantage of the large space of the prison, and the houses were mostly hidden and did not fight. Some guards tried to ask for help from the guards outside the prison. However, when the prison gate opened, a group of "thugs" in US uniforms rushed in. They easily shot and killed the guards like slapping mosquitoes, and then used the terrain to firmly control the only passage inside and outside the prison.
The task force first entered the prison has basically controlled the situation. A small group of people climbed onto the roof, but the Allied officers and soldiers responsible for manipulating searchlights and anti-aircraft machine guns have given up these useless decorations and evacuated from the roof. The rest of the personnel had to find the detained German officials while cleaning up the rooms inside the prison one by one. The kitchen, dining room, library and gym became the main battlefields for both sides to fight, and the British guards who escaped into the hidden cellar were not
I have been to a civil service on the battlefield. I have seen those enemies who are like demons who have come to the world before, and I am already afraid of fighting with teeth. I have no courage to stage a good show of lone heroes. But these lucky unlucky guys don’t know. The enemies who successfully occupied the prison were also very confused at this time. The conflict is not because the rescue target was killed or unable to be found. But because the 21 senior war criminals who were included in the first batch of trials by the Allies are alive, who can walk, dance, speak and sing... [..com]
To outsiders, it would be better to go deep into the tiger xué so easily and find the detained person and rescue him.
Imagination is simple, reality is complicated.
This Imperial Task Force that invaded Nuremberg Prison was fully commanded by Lieutenant Victor Wiesenfeld. He was an old member of the "Vampire" Night Fight Commando. His loyalty to the Empire was understandable. When the "Fruit of Victory" beyond imagination appeared in front of him, the first thing he did was to salute the senior military and political officials who could only look at the parade at most at the military parade and parade, Gorene, Hess, Denitz, Keitel, von Ribbentrop, Redel, Jodel... These names alone were enough to hold his breath and his night fight elites for a long time. But what should we do next?
As the chief planner and executor of Operation Nuremberg, Lynn has considered this issue countless times. Due to lack of understanding of the specific situation in the prison, there is no internal response to the Allied top leaders. He is unable to determine whether the power of the Western allies will set aside the extreme danger elements in the Nuremberg prison, that is, to decisively kill the most likely to cause huge waves - or kill them without leaving any ground. As a complete action plan, Lynn included these two situations in the scope of consideration.
If he was subjected to stubborn resistance from the prison guards, he only asked the task force to try his best to rescue the "only target" appointed by the head of state, the armed madman Albert Spel. As for the others, he was not convenient to say that he would stay or leave. After all, from the standpoint of any imperial warrior, these were people who made extraordinary contributions to the establishment and rise of the Third Reich. Whether they committed crimes in the empire should be tried by the head of state or the court designated by the head of state, rather than a base camp staff officer who became rich from ordinary soldiers, Governor Tromso, who decided to kill.
Whether God fooled or fate coincided, the heaviest decision at this time had been passed on to Lieutenant Victor Wiesenfeld. After the initial emotion, he looked at the group of equally at a loss in front of him. It was certainly not good to be in a mess, but for some of them, they would not worry about food and drink more than that in a panic and embarrassing and desperate life. Moreover, some people had already disgusted with the Hitler regime. As soon as the Third Reich collapsed, they couldn't wait to cooperate with the Allies, but only because they had taken an important position during the Third Reich and entered this prison - the former German Chancellor Franz Baben, and the declining former Ribbintrov bank president Yemar Schacht was the prominent representative of this kind of person.
At this moment, the battle outside the prison is still ongoing. No matter how strong the imperial troops, with the night warriors as the main force, only more than 200 people, and they barely control the situation by destroying the Allied Command Center and the Snowy Night Raid. Not to mention that the Allied troops outside the prison are difficult to kill in a short time. There are two Allied barracks in a radius of dozens of kilometers, and one at an airport. Not to mention that the combatants are over a thousand, there is also a British tank unit transferred a few weeks ago. The reason for quick decision is that Wisenfeld, who was promoted to lieutenant earlier than Lynn, was well aware of the instructions that the commander repeatedly explained before the operation began, "protecting Spel's evacuation as the primary task" - when the secondary task conflicts with it and cannot coexist, in theory, we should adopt the strategy of abandoning the second and protecting the head without hesitation, but which of the "secondary figures" here is not enough?
In the corridor in the basement, the arrogant Imperial Marshal Gorene shook his still fat body toward Wiesenfeld, with his chin facing his nose: "Who are you? Who sent you here? What are your plans?"
Before the Third Reich was defeated, Gorene was removed from all positions for angering the Head of State, but the crime of treason was not tried. Gorene was arrested by the SS and was only under house arrest. For such a big man with a special relationship with the Head of State and having a high status and power for most of the time since the founding of the Third Reich, how dare Wiesenfeld, a low-level officer, be neglected? Fortunately, before the action, Lynn had an explanation in person, and the lieutenant only briefly revealed the rescue plan in front of the stage. As for the secret behind the scenes, he would make excuses "naturally know afterwards."
Faced with the contemptuous look from the Imperial Marshal, Wiesenfeld had to respond to the scalp. With the retreat route arranged by this action, it should be smooth to cover several people to leave, but the rescued people are not "several people" but a total of 21 people, including Von Niu Wright, Von Baben, Erich Redell, William Flick, etc., who are in their seventies, who are in a tough state, can still deal with it. They are old and weak like Von Niu Wright, who is pampered and thin as Von Baben. No matter how you look at it, they don't seem to be able to cross mountains and ridges.
The number one target Speer? This guy is a "young young" who is just in his early 40s!
Goering and others could waste their lives indifferently, but Wiesenfeld was not. He finally mustered up the courage to speak loudly to these formerly high-ranking officials: "Sir, we are here today to escort you from the hands of the Wan Qian Alliance Team to leave safely. Before that, we have followed the will of the head of state and fought for the revival of the Great German Empire. The road ahead will be very difficult, but we have done our best to make arrangements, so that we can leave Germany and go to a safe place."
"Safety" is mentioned twice in a passage. Wiesenfeld simply wanted these big men who had spent more than a year under the Allied Army's custody to go with him. The Imperial Marshal Gore held his hands in front of Xiong. He still had a rebellious expression, but he was the first to walk outside unexpectedly. This also means that he would rather take a risk for freedom. William Kettle, who was slightly confused but meticulous in appearance, followed closely behind - Gorene, von Ribbentrop, and other guys who had their own thoughts before the defeat of the Empire.
Differently, the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command was loyal to his beloved head of state until the last moment of the empire. Of course, due to the signing of a series of notorious orders such as authorizing German field commanders to execute captured Soviet political commissaries, performing terrorist assassinations in occupied countries, especially France and Low Countries, and executing captured Allied pilots in non-military operations or near battlefields as spies, and executing railway workers who were strikers in the Netherlands, it is generally believed that a deadly hard-working member like Keitel could not escape the death penalty, and only if he left this prison could he survive.
Next, in the public opinion of allies, the "heinous" Austrian SS leader Ernst Kartenbrunner, Nazi Party ideological leader Alfred Rosenberg, Army General Staff Alfred Yodel, Germany stationed
The Governor Hans Frank, Governor of the Land-occupied Area, Fritz Schoker, the General Representative of the Permit of Labor Power Allocation, William Flick, the Imperial Minister of the Interior, the German Minister of Economy and the Head of the Committee on the Plenipotentiary of the War Economy, and others also walked out without hesitation.
Wiesenfeld silently counted the heads and did not walk over one. His heart was trembling. If the revival of the empire failed, he would at most follow the "glory" and the revival was successful. Those who were regarded as senior war criminals by the Allied forces may transform themselves and continue to call the wind and rain in the German political circles. These guys' methods are famously cruel and cruel. I must not offend them now - at least it is absolutely impossible!
More than half of the people decisively walked out of the basement of the Nuremberg Prison, while others stood in the corridor without moving. In the Weimar era, Von Baben, who served as German Chancellor, only served as envoys to Austria and Turkey in the Hitler government. He was completely inequality. He had neither political voice nor participated in war planning, which was completely contrary to Hitler's political philosophy. The most important thing to be included in the first batch of German war criminals to be tried was because of the identity of this former German Chancellor. The possibility of being punished in the Allied Trial was very small. The escape from prison would smear himself. It was an excusable one. In the 1930s, Europe
The continental financial industry is called for the wind and rain. Schacht, who is also very well-known on the other side of the ocean, does not seem to have planned to leave. As a famous financial and economic genius, he has an indescribable relationship with Britain, the financial consortiums and even politicians. More importantly, he mainly actively raised war funds for the Hitler regime in the early and early stages of the war. In the middle and late stages of the war, he lost power due to disagreement with Hitler in economic and financial policies. After that, although he retained his posts such as member of the War Economic Commission, his impact on the war was decreasing and he did not interfere in areas other than economic and financial, so he did not have to worry about retreat.
Compared with these two former German politicians who did not need to leave, the rest of the other people who stayed in place had their own concerns. Karl Denitz, the German "Wolf King" who changed the course of World War II by almost his own efforts, was the last head of the Third Reich. Although he worked diligently for the most part of the war, his short career as a head of head still made him look different in terms of mental outlook and temperament. He wore military uniforms with military ranks and accessories removed in prison. He was mostly silent. The Allied personnel list noted him as "Admiral" rather than a marshal or head of state. In the eyes of the Allied guards, he was like a moving pine tree, always maintaining the same posture and expression. Even when eating with other war criminals, he rarely spoke.
Another spiritual figure of the German Navy, Erich Redel, who had already left the post of commander-in-chief of the navy in the middle of the war, seemed to have no special reason to leave here and get rid of the Allied Trial. This professional soldier who had been rooted in the German Navy since the Second Empire had been trying to avoid being involved in political events while serving as the head of the navy, and also urged the German Navy to be detached from politics. These efforts were also effective before the collapse of the Third Reich. If you stay in prison, the result of the Allied Trial would probably be a jail disaster, leave the prison. Where can you go and what role can you play in your sixties? This kind of entanglement is written on Redel's vicissitudes and fatigue.
Von Ribbentrop did not leave, perhaps because he was ashamed of his sneak out of Berlin at the last moment, or because he was not optimistic about the prospects of these desperadoes; Hans Fritz, the former director of the Domestic News Department of the Propaganda Department, did not leave, perhaps because he had a clear conscience about his actions during the war. Perhaps he had reached some kind of secret cooperation agreement with the Allies. Another special person present, Rudolf Hess, who had been away from the German public eye for many years, was the "mental ill" claimed by the Third Reich government, and the carrier of the huge "mystery of going to Britain", but he looked at the task force who helped him open the prison door with an extremely complicated expression. His irresistible eyes
Just moving slowly on these agile, serious and vigorous young men, there was a brief stay on Wiesenfeld's face. Compared with Goering's arrogance, Denitz's indifference, and Radell's vicissitudes, this burly "former German deputy head of state" gives people a feeling of weakness and pathology, and his face turns white. It seems that he lives in a world without sunshine all year round, and he is slightly hunched over. It seems that he is suffering from malnutrition and may move more slowly than the 70-year-old man. His unique face is still angular, but his cheeks are deeply sunken, making people worried that his energy is not enough to support him to stay awake for a long time...
Seeing these former strong men put themselves in the end of their own difficulties, Wiesenfeld suddenly felt extremely sad. This Germanic man who only shed tears when paying his dead comrades-in-arms wanted to cry like this. The glorious era of confidence and courage has finally passed away. Even if the corpses of the empire can be resurrected on the spot, can its spirit that fell into hell be retrieved?
Wiesenfeld had never had such doubts, but at this moment, almost all the spiritual pillars disappeared without a trace, and the impression of the head of state standing at the base camp to make a call to the imperial soldiers became so vague and fragile...
When the night war commando officer suddenly became distracted, a man in a very ordinary figure, wearing a gray suit and holding a long coat in his hand walked slowly past him and reached the corner of the stairs. He turned around and looked at his colleagues who were left in place with various mentalities, and said in a small but very clear voice: "If God gives us another chance to fight for Germany, why refuse?"
In an instant, Wiesenfeld's whole body seemed to have electricity, and his thinking was like the fields after heavy rain, clean without a trace of dust. Given the quality and purpose of this mission, the rest of the people were unwilling to leave, and he had no need or right to force it. He just solemnly raised his hand to them - for this etiquette, the people in front of him may never want to see them again since they entered this prison.
After saluting, Wiesenfeld decisively ordered a retreat, and he turned around and chased Albert Spel's figure toward the steps. When he passed by the corner, he deliberately looked back and saw that the few people had returned to the single room one after another, allowing the iron gate to open and draw the jail alone...
On the highest mountain west of Nuremberg Prison, Lynn, dressed in casual clothes, silently stared at the fires leaping west of the city. The battle between more than 200 task force members and more than 1,000 Allied garrison troops continued. The former had an advantage with night vision equipment and rich night battle experience. The remaining Allied personnel could only rely on the houses and fields to defend themselves. The wind and snow all over the sky could not isolate the sound of restless guns and cannons. The Allied troops stationed nearby quickly came to support. With the cold mechanical hissing of mg-42, the lightning-like operation Nuremberg also moved from decisive attack to the second stage of decisive retreat.!
Chapter completed!