Chapter 75: Traces in Troubled Times

On summer nights, the raindrops can't hide the heat of the heat. In front of the window, wisps of white smoke contrast with the contradictions.

Nuclear war, the "world-destroying monster" that was discussed over and over again and again in the old time and space, which was approaching again and again due to current affairs, has always been just a purgatory in the painting, but in this time and space that has been changed or even subverted by itself, it has truly arrived on earth. Fortunately, it was only 1947, and the atomic bomb possessed by mankind was not enough to destroy the smallest continent on the earth, but this was Lynn's "foresight" as a later generation. Whether it is nuclear physics experts, war scholars or people of different classes, they are all afraid of the prospects of this unconventional war. However, people's rational fear and worry are like this coming rain. Although it has the effect of cooling down, it is not enough to extinguish the endless anger caused by indignation, sorrow, and worry.

The night rain without lightning, the world before Lynn was pitch black. Since the Netherlands announced its entry into the war, Amsterdam has officially issued curfews and light control orders, especially after the Eastern and Western camps attacked each other with atomic bombs, these defensive orders were implemented without fail. As a result, a beautiful city that was once vibrant and vigilant, turned into a dull camp, with chariots, posters, and gun-carrying soldiers and militias. Their attempts to appease the people in this way were counterproductive.

Extinguish the cigarette butts, pull up the curtains, and light the candles. Sitting at the quaint and heavy desk, Lynn began to carefully organize the letters sent by special liaison officers within the Baxing Party, three times a week, at the beginning, only three or four letters each time. With the rapid increase in investment and scale of the Baxing Party, the number of letters also showed explosive growth. The thick stack of letters sent today is roughly estimated to be as many as twenty. In addition to the handwritten letters sent by party leader Franz Stupfer, most of them are reports on the development of each district. From the perspective of language style and printing style, they should be briefings submitted by the heads of each district to the party headquarters. Stupfer has often signed preliminary opinions on it. According to Revival

The adjusted organizational structure and operation process of the Party must be reviewed by the two leaders, the chief and deputy leaders, before they can be transferred to the Supreme Committee for specific review and approval, or archived as a basis for grasping the development of the Party, or put forward operational practical opinions. This process itself is reasonable, but Lynn still plays the role of a German diplomat in the Netherlands, resulting in the fact that these important documents can only be taken by messengers to travel back and forth across the border. In theory, there are great risks. However, as the highest representative of the cooperation between the Empire and the Baath Party, Lynn cannot let himself take care of the direction of the empire's huge funding investment, the driving force of party development and the facts, and has to continue this hard part-time job in a short period of time.

In the past two months as deputy leader of the Baath Party, Lynn not only saw the rapid development of this party from the briefings of the headquarters and the districts, but also used his special forces and information from the imperial intelligence department to prove this fact. Beautiful wishes and real interests drove the party members from decadence to degenerate and devote themselves to this new struggle. The slogans that fit the current situation attracted a large number of disoriented people in Germany. The reason why they gathered under this bright banner was not only influenced by the waves of propaganda that were higher than the waves of propaganda, but also out of their longing for the country and nation to quickly get out of the trough and re-enter the strength of the country and the nation, perhaps because they still had honors, dignity and ambitions belonging to the old era.

With the support of the people, the Baath Party quickly became a new force with great attention from insignificant local parties. Stupfer wrote a letter to tell Lynn that he had been invited by Von Baben's office to go to Berlin within the month to hold a face-to-face meeting with the head of government with complex experience. If Lynn agrees, he can use this opportunity to introduce and recommend the young and promising deputy leader of the Baath Party. Since Lynn is now a formal government diplomat, then Von Baben can completely allow him to hold a more important position, if the Provisional Government intends to establish good relations with the Baath Party and use their power to maintain local stability.

Lynn knew little about von Baben and had never met during the Nuremberg Operation. He believed that he did not know that he was the end of the empire and the subversive of history. He wrote a brief letter to Stupfer, suggesting that the leader should not rush to achieve success in his first meeting, but try to use the Provisional Government to maintain a stable domestic mentality and later political strategies in the formal election to obtain support for the development and expansion of the Baath Party. If possible, he would be happy to return to Germany to serve as a communicator and coordinator between the Provisional Government and the Baath Party.

On the other hand, in northern Nordic, nearly 2,000 kilometers away from the Netherlands, fully equipped Soviet troops were evacuating from the northernmost stationed areas of Norway and Finland. They initially entered these cold, deserted and complex terrained areas to the beginning of 1946. Although Moscow's explanation for the military operation was that it was suspected that the remnants of the Third Reich were hidden in Northern Europe, their actions were fiercely criticized by Nordic countries and Western allies, and it was also regarded by historians as a beginning of the two major camps' feud. The Soviet army not only launched armed activities in the border areas of the Soviet Union, Finland and Norway, but soon sent troops deep into Norway, until it launched a landing operation that shocked the world on the northwestern coast of Tromso County, Norway, and then another "landing force" appeared.

The farce of "annihilation" was criticized by mainstream public opinion at that time. Most outside the world believed that this was a self-directed and self-acted by the Soviets, in order to provide support for their invasion and garrison in northern Norway. Later, the joint maritime intervention of Western allies, the nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea, and other incidents gradually pushed the two camps into the irreversible abyss of war, so that people compared the role of the Tromso region in northern Norway with the Balkans and Danze Corridor in the first two world wars. To this day, the burning flames of war have lasted for one year and three months. The war has affected the Eurasian continent and major sea areas. The total number of casualties in various countries has reached millions. The direct property and economic losses caused by the war are incalculable. The Soviet army quietly withdraws troops from the disputed areas, which is like a black humor that slaps himself.

The entire battalion and company of Soviet troops withdrew with the cover of haze weather and night. Their barracks and facilities and a considerable part of heavy equipment and ammunition and drug supplies remained intact, which seemed contrary to people's previous impression of the Soviet army. Of course, in the face of the Allied sea and air blockade and offensive, the Soviet air and sea transportation power had been greatly weakened compared to before the outbreak of the war. If the military supplies that had been transported to Norway and northern Finland were to be transported away, it was indeed difficult to deal with with the existing manpower alone, but the real reason was by no means this superficial load logic, but it was actually unconvincing. Shortly after the Soviet army withdrew, a large number of armed personnel attacked Norway and Finland.

The banner quickly took over these arms equipment that could cope with the cold north in the middle of winter and play an important role in mountain defense and offense. However, since Finland surrendered in 1944, the army has moved from regularization to militia. The size of the army and military investment naturally returned to a degree that matched the country's economic and political strength. The northern border defense forces could not carry out such a scale and efficiency action. As for Norway, which currently has a population of only 3 million, with the support of the Allied forces, the military scale is less than 100,000, and the military deployment in the northern region is even close to zero, and it is even more impossible to organize large groups of people to stay away from the supply base and go deep into the barren land in the extreme circle.

In the summer when the ice and snow melt, the Soviet officers and soldiers evacuated from Norway and Finland would travel hundreds of kilometers to the Murmansk area, where they strengthened the northern coastal defense or returned to the hinterland of the Soviet Union through railways that ran across the north and south. As the saying goes, before the troops moved, food and grass came first. Before the tens of thousands of outbound officers and soldiers arrived, the railway line connecting Murmansk and Leningrad was already busy in advance. However, the long-lost army not only brought a large amount of supplies, but also carried thousands of Germans. During the war operations in the autumn and winter of 1946, the German team who served in the Soviet camp made considerable contributions to the victory of the Soviet army, and the quality of the Germans was once again proved. However, with the changes in the international situation, the German government, which regained its independence, declared war on the Soviet Union. These comrades from Germany naturally became in the eyes of the Soviets.

Unreliable partners, most German voluntary corps evacuated the front line, and their combat armed forces were gradually contacted. During this process, more than one million Germans performed relatively well, thus avoiding the tragedy that people least wanted to see. Despite this, many senior Soviet military officials still felt that these Germans with good combat qualities and rich experience were time bombs that did not know when the explosion would occur, but the urgent war situation did not allow the Soviet military to draw enough troops to "protectively guard" them. Therefore, a small number of them continued to stay in Europe to carry out auxiliary tasks such as bridges and road construction, urban air defense, mine clearance and barrier cleaning, and most of them were transported back to Siberia to engage in agriculture, forestry, labor, and mining labor. This not only solved its own supply problems, but also increased the output of war resources for the Soviet Union.

The Germans who came to Smolensk did help repair port facilities with the serious attitude of the Germanic nation, but before the war ended or the Red Navy broke through the Western blockade, these work seemed to lack practical significance, but the Soviets soon saw their results - several unsightly cargo ships appeared like ghost ships. The sea and air strength of the Western allies led by the United States and Britain was so strong that they easily blocked the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. Soviet cargo ships, regardless of size, speed or transformation, were suspended.

With foreign flags, few people were able to successfully go to the neutral country through the allied blockade and transport back the materials and equipment that the Soviet Union was urgently needed, but these ships with Spanish flags did it. The Soviets had no way of knowing where they set out and how they broke through the Allied blockade. They could only watch the empty-handed Germans boarding the ship. The first batch of more than 800 people, and a few days later, there were nearly a thousand people. After several batches, thousands of Germans who arrived in Murmansk by railway left under their noses...


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