Looking at the senior generals who walked towards the conference room door with their heads held high, Heydrich could not help but stand up in a panic.
The idea of demonstrating to the army and coercing it into submission by assigning responsibility for the stagnation on the French front at today's military meeting was his idea, and he had assured Hitler in advance that it would work.
He encouraged Hitler to take advantage of the fact that the apostle behind the army was now in a state of uncertainty to confront the cowardly generals, and it would be better to show some toughness to make the generals come to their senses and let them know who was now the real master of Germany. According to the past performance of the army generals and marshals, this time they will definitely give in to the Führer again and submit to the great Führer again.
But to Heydrich's surprise, things did not develop as he had predicted. The generals showed themselves to be tough right from the beginning of the meeting, and their behavior struck Heydrich as illogical. The Führer used all the hard or soft tactics but could not get those guys to give in, it finally developed to the point that the commanders and army commanders resigned from Hitler, which made Heydrich's glasses fall from his face.
This is the first time in the history of Germany that the senior commanders resigned on masse, but also at a time when the German army was winning victories on the front and was at the peak of its glory. The news of the resignation of those hard-working generals to the Führer at such a time will be like a heavy bomb that will seriously shake the prestige of the Führer in the army, it will also bring irreparable damage to the glorious image of the Führer in the eyes of the German public.
What is even more terrible is that this incident foreshadows the complete break between the Führer and the German Army officer corps. The German army was still firmly in the hands of the officer corps, and the head of state who lost the support of his own army would not be far from stepping down. Heydrich felt a chill down his back when he remembered that this situation was due to his own ideas, and thought of the responsibility he would have to bear afterward.
Now he looked fearfully at the generals walking firmly toward the door, he knew that if he let these people go out like this today, he would be completely finished, he could not help but scream in anger: "Stop! All of you, stop!"
Heydrich's scream was so loud that it startled the officers, and the generals stopped in their tracks and looked toward the source of the noise.
"How can you do this! How can you do this?!"
Heydrich stood at the conference table and shouted with his finger pointing at the officers, while shouting he also secretly looked at Hitler's reaction from the corner of his eye, he hoped to get some support from Hitler. But the sight he saw made him very disappointed, the German dictator was now looking down at the pile of papers in front of him with a dark expression as if everything that was happening now had nothing to do with him, and it seemed that he could not expect to get any support from him.
"Oh?" Field Marshal Brauchitsch looked at the Reich Security Chief who was shouting furiously and indiscriminately in front of him, the former Army Chief felt a strong feeling of disgust welling up from the bottom of his heart, and he turned to Heydrich and said coldly: "Why can't we do that, it's our right. Who are you to interfere in the affairs of our Army officers? You'd better mind your own business, it's not your turn to dictate our affairs."
Field Marshal Brauchitsch's cold reply almost choked Heydrich alive.
"You are openly betraying the Führer. You are committing treason! You must know the consequences of your actions!" Heidrich shouted, jumping to his feet.
The generals gave Heydrich a scornful look, thinking that it was a waste of time to talk to such an idiot, if they were not prepared for anything, how could they make such a determination. The generals stopped talking to the security chief, who was still jumping to his feet, and they turned around and continued to walk out of the conference room.
Von Brauchitsch opened the door unhurriedly, and the guards standing at the door stood at attention and saluted the marshal with their guns, Von Brauchitsch put on his military cap and straightened his uniform, he raised his marshal's staff and returned the salute to the guards, and then walked out of the door with dignity. Then all the other officers followed him out of the room.
"No! We can't let them just..." Heydrich wanted to go after the generals to stop them from leaving, but a voice stopped him from doing so.
"Sit down, Heydrich, sit down!"
Heydrich's body trembled involuntarily when he saw Hitler's eyes that were flashing with a cold gaze, and he hurriedly sat down honestly.
"Führer, why didn't you stop them, they are openly rebelling against you." Heydrich was a little puzzled by Hitler's failure to stop the officers from leaving.
"And how do you want me to do that? Arrest them? Execute them by firing squad? Or leave the officers at your disposal?" Hitler said coldly, "These men are all important figures in the German army, they are the heads of the German officer corps. Wouldn't you use your brain to think about how the army would react if they were arrested or harmed in the slightest? Do you want the Army to do another march on Berlin? My Heydrich, you are still too young and too impulsive."
Hitler couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"These men have really surpassed my expectations today. I didn't expect these generals to find their courage. I really underestimated their determination."
"My Führer! You are still the Führer of Germany, you still have Germany." Heidrich was relieved to hear from Hitler that the Führer did not hold him responsible, but he also heard from Hitler that the Führer's self-confidence had been badly shaken by the incident. "They will pay the price for this foolishness."
"Of course, they will!" Hearing Heydrich's words, Hitler's eyes fiercely radiated a sinister cold light.
"All those who betrayed me and the National Socialist German Workers' Party will pay the price. I vow to make those traitors suffer all the horrors of the world and then be slowly hanged one by one in front of me." Hitler gritted his teeth and said, "But not now, we have a greater enemy who is secretly watching our every move, and we must now crush this enemy completely before we can make those traitors taste the bitter fruit of their treachery."
"You mean Reinhardt Von Stade."
"Who else could it be but him!" Upon hearing this name Hitler could no longer contain his anger, and he roared and shouted: "He deceived me, I trusted him like this, and he repaid me like this. I gave him great power second only to me, and now he is using the power I gave him against me."
Hitler suddenly stopped ranting and stared blankly at the empty conference room in front of him, a look of intense sorrow slowly appearing on his face. He lowered his head and said bitterly, "It is useless to say anything now, now that I have been forced into a desperate situation by this apostle, I can no longer retreat. Although I am the German Führer, I now no longer own Germany. I can't even mobilize a division of my army now, what kind of Führer am I! Germany's great revival will be aborted in the middle because of a traitor, and the Germanic nation will sink again, I feel unwilling to think of this. But from the present situation, it seems that I may fail. I know very well the power of that little friend of mine, who is really as invincible as God's apostle."
"But you still have the SS and our entire party. And that man is the only one behind those rebels. If we get rid of him, then everything will come back under your control." Heydrich comforted the Führer, who had suddenly become very depressed.
"Get rid of him! Yes! My Heydrich, it's just like you said. We must get rid of him. What are the generals, and what are the bishops. They are just tools in that man's hands, just pawns in that man's hands. As long as we find a way to remove him from the world, the generals and bishops will not be able to do anything without their heads. At that time! I will regain the power I gave him, and the generals will kneel before me and cry for forgiveness for their sins. And then I will do it a hundred times over, no! I will return to them a thousand times the humiliation I have suffered today. I will let them know the price of betraying me and betraying a great leader like me. Hahaha."
Once again a frenzied look erupted in Hitler's eyes and he shouted wildly, "I am still the master of Germany, I am the man chosen by God, I am the savior of the German nation. No one can take my place! Germany can only be revived under my leadership. I will trample the whole world under my feet. Let the conspirators watch, the final victor in this battle will be me, only me, as in the past, and I will never fail!"
Hitler stood in his place and shouted in a frothy voice, his eyes unfocused on the wall opposite him, completely absorbed in his personal imagination.
"I will conquer France, I will crush England, and Russia, yes, those lowly Russians, they will finally be crushed like ants under the feet of my invincible army. I will make the Slavs disappear from this world, just like those Jews. Those damned Jews, after destroying them I should find another enemy, which inferior nation should it be? Yes! And America, who is manipulated by the International Jewish Organization, who will be motivated by those Jews to make an enemy of me! Any nation that turns against me will be destroyed! I believe in that! As long as I am alive, Germany cannot be defeated! Mussolini is nothing, I can forgive him once for this, but when I have destroyed England, if he dares to test my patience like this arrogantly again, I will send my troops to occupy his Italy, and no one will be able to stop my plans. By the way, I have to defeat France first. Damn the Army, how dare they stop the attack at the front, inexcusable. Reinhardt, he'll pay for his treachery. I'll have him stripped of his uniform and hanged in the center of Berlin, yes! Hanged, all traitors to be hanged."
Heydrich looked fearfully at the Führer, who had clearly fallen into a state of semi-madness before him; the confused thinking and the grim expression on the Führer's face that he was now showing scared the security chief, and he was deeply afraid that his backer had suddenly gone insane like that.
"Führer! Führer!" Heydrich called up eagerly.
"What! What is it!" Hitler was brought back to reality from his wonderful dream world by Heydrich, who was obviously displeased with Heydrich's interruption of his thoughts, and looked coldly at the young man as he calmed his breathing.
"My Führer, I think we'd better not think that far ahead yet." Heydrich spoke carefully: "I believe, no, I am firmly convinced that Germany, under your leadership, will be able to achieve everything you have said earlier. But, my great Führer, should we not now first consider how to solve the problems we are now facing."
"Oh? What problems?" Hitler had obviously not yet recovered from his imagination.
"About how to deal with your Vice Führer's..." Heydrich hastened to remind.
"Ah! Yes, yes, yes! What can you do now, do you have any plans yet? We're going to destroy that villain once and for all, and I'm going to show those people what will happen to them if they make an enemy of me." Hitler finally came to his senses, and he eagerly asked Heydrich.
"It seems that now we will have to use force to solve this problem. My Führer."
Hearing Heydrich's words Hitler sat down, he looked down and pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Now that he has the entire Polish Waffen SS under him, we do not have the strength to defeat him now."
Hitler may have been a little crazy but never a fool.
"My Führer, I mean to destroy him, not to defeat him," Heydrich spoke with a grim smile.
"You mean assassination? That's one way to do it. But he has just been hit by a bomb attack and must be under the tightest protection now, how sure are you about that." Hitler asked.
"According to the information I have now, he and his most loyal henchmen were wounded in the attack, and he should be out of danger now, but he won't be able to recover his health for a few months. We can use this to our advantage. We can have our men disguise as doctors to infiltrate the hospital and get rid of this bane once and for all. You can give an order that you are very concerned about his health and have sent a group of the best doctors from Berlin to Poland to treat him. Now that you have not confronted him, he has no reason to prevent these doctors from treating him. When the agents mixed with the doctors approach him, the life of the apostle will be in our hands. Until then you must show your love and concern for your young comrade in front of the German people so that no one will associate the death of the apostle with you. Do you think my plan is feasible?" Heydrich looked at Hitler expectantly.
Hitler looked up at the ceiling for a moment and nodded, then he turned to Heydrich and said, "It is a very good plan, and I think it has a good chance of success. But also have to be careful that these people have to be absolutely reliable, to know that that person's party is spread all over the country, do not leak this plan to their people. And I think this plan can be implemented together with our previous "Jack Flood" plan. Have the two Waffen-SS captains prepare to secretly arrest the Apostle's Polish henchmen as soon as he dies, and take control of those government agencies. We will also mobilize a group of reliable SS officers in Germany to be ready to fly to Poland as soon as the situation there changes and take over the departments and units controlled by the Apostle's henchmen there. Then those prisoners will be screened in the shortest possible time, and those who are useful will stay, and those who are useless will all be destroyed. Do you understand?"
Hitler was back to his shrewd and powerful self as he commanded Heydrich in a majestic manner.
"Understood, my Führer, I will make the arrangements. But now how do you want to handle this matter of the resignation of those officers of the command."
"Since they want to go to the front, then let them go, they will have to cry for this stupid decision they are making now. Now the matter of their resignation must be kept strictly confidential, not to let that person notice what is happening here, otherwise according to his kind of keen sense will definitely be ready to deal with us. This matter will be left to you to do. I'll give you command of the two Waffen SS regiments of the Berlin garrison. Do not fail to live up to my expectations of you. By the way, how are you doing there with the removal of the bishops."
"That matter is still in progress, we have obtained a lot of useful information, we have captured a number of suspects, and are now stepping up interrogation, I believe we will have results soon."
"The speed should be accelerated, and the operation should be tight, and no word should leak out. There is no need to try to capture the bishops once they are confirmed, they will be shot directly on the spot, you understand? Also, you go and pick some more SS men to strengthen my defenses, I want to go to the front line just in the next two days."
"Your Excellency the Führer, you want to go to the front?"
"Yes, the generals want to delay the army's movements on the French front in order to try to steal my victories to please the apostle. I want to go to the front, I want to talk to the commanders one by one, and I want to bring them back to me. I'm going to take back the victory that belongs to me, and I'm going to walk into Paris with my army. This is the greatest merit and glory in German history, and as soon as I take this victory into my hands, then no general or marshal will be able to stop their soldiers and the German nation from worshipping me." Hitler smiled and said.
"By that time I will be the hero of the German nation. Even the Apostle, no matter how popular he is, will no longer be able to shake me from my seat. I will be the final victor."