: Different paths and the same destination

The dull time always makes people feel like it is a flash. Since the Allies defined dozens of kilometers around Nuremberg as a special warning area, traffic was basically stagnant, and people could not travel between towns even if they had cars. Lynn and Tanze quickly stayed in this inconspicuous town for two days. In another forty hours, Christmas Eve in 1946 will arrive as scheduled, which is an important festival in the entire Western world. Regardless of the national borders, opposite the strait, and across the ocean, the atmosphere of the festival is still relatively strong, and every household is carrying out a grand cleaning inside and outside the house. The martial law of the Allied forces and the news spread in the taverns did not transfer people.

Their attention. However, it is obviously not enough to have an atmosphere and mood for the peaceful holiday. In order to prevent those fleeing war criminals from "colluding" with local German residents, they launched an investigation in towns and villages without success. The Allied Command issued a "confinement order", that is, local residents in Bavaria are not allowed to leave the town without permission. During this special period, the Allied forces will distribute bread, butter and milk to the residents according to their heads. If the order is followed, the residents will naturally not be able to go to the surrounding mountains and forests to cut down fir trees to dress up Christmas trees. You should know that modern Christmas trees originated in Germany and gradually became popular around the world. Christmas without Christmas trees is worse for them than for smokers to force quit smoking and alcoholics to force quit drinking.

A custom gradually formed based on cultural beliefs and beautiful aspirations often has extraordinary spiritual significance in the minds of the people. The town's sheriff and household registration officer - informal officials who assisted the Allied forces in managing local affairs, came to the inspection station with the hopes of the people to find Danmer, hoping that the allied occupation forces would allow them to organize local residents to cut down suitable fir trees nearby. Danmer did not brutally refuse, but did not agree immediately. Seeing two older German officials leaving the inspection station with a frown, Lynn suddenly had an idea: The "confinement order" had a great impact on the normal life of local residents. Although this was only temporarily implemented in the Bavarian state, it was

Similar constraints are common in the areas occupied by allies. Some of them reduce the quality of life, while others directly restrict people's freedom. The political status of both sides makes the German people dare to be angry but not speak out at the beginning. Their resistance will rise until they reach a peak of reversal. At that time, people gradually get used to this rule and also abide by the unchangeable reality. The resistance gradually weakens until they return to numb peace. Throughout history, the assimilation of the victorious countries against the defeated countries is such a process, so that from the perspective of life change and growth, no nation cannot be conquered. The key lies in time.

Fortunately, it only took more than a year for Germany to be occupied and divided by the Allied forces, and everything is still possible.

After finding a chance without others, Lynn told Danmer: "For families who have been tragically damaged by war, a peaceful Christmas is more important than bread butter. Sir, I believe your family is also actively preparing for Christmas at this time!"

After talking to the local sheriff and household registration officer, Danmer's face looked bad. He replied coldly: "There is no way. Since the destructionists deliberately take advantage of the opportunity of our guards to relax and create trouble as Christmas approaches, this disappointing situation can only be attributed to their stupidity and conceit!"

In the past two days, although the allied occupying forces have intentionally stopped the spread of news, in this era when communication methods are already very developed, whether anyone deliberately does it, it is much more difficult to completely cover up such a big thing than isolate the air transmission. Danmer can say this, at least he can see that he is not a person who covers up his ears and steals the bell.

"From ancient times to the present, ordinary people have not wanted to see war happen most of the time, but there is no war in a century, and there is no era without killing. Do we have to judge that the people are supporting war and inciting war?" Lynn asked softly.

The truth is easy to explain, Danmer shook his head and said, "But I won't violate the orders of my superiors because of simple sympathy! This may lead to serious consequences, my friend."

Hearing Danmer calls himself "my friend", Lynn knew that his performance in the past two days had achieved certain results. He pretended to be thinking seriously, and then said with a flash of ejaculation: "I think we should be able to come up with a way that will not violate the orders and let everyone have a good Christmas."

"Oh? If there is such a perfect solution, I don't mind giving it a try, but is there any?" Danmer looked at Lynn with disbelief. He had not thought about it before. If it was so easy to think about it, there would be no trouble and entanglement between reason and emotion.

Lynn walked to the door of the inspection station and the snow stopped temporarily. Although the sky was still gloomy, the view had been much wider.

"If we understand the scope of the town as a place with houses and fixed residences, the foot of the mountain opposite should also belong to this scope!"

He has been in office for several months. Danmer naturally has a better understanding of this German town than Lynn. He glanced at it and then clearly saw the location of Lynn. It is true that human society has defined various nouns in the process of development. Towns are basically recognized as settlements between cities and villages in different countries, but no one can use specific quantifiers to define its absolute range. Lynn uses this conceptual non-absolute limitation.

Lynn seized the opportunity to persuade: "We can mobilize the people. We don't have to set up a Christmas tree for every household, but use a family or a voluntary neighborhood as a unit. In this way, only 50 to 80 fir trees are needed, all of which are as small as possible. More than a dozen adults with logging experience can handle it in a day, and transport them to two or three times by truck. At this time tomorrow we will see a beautiful and peaceful town. Everyone is mentally satisfied and their emotions will be stable. What do you think?"

"Your idea is reasonable, but I can't get anyone to take care of these loggers throughout the process - the current situation does not allow me to draw soldiers from important positions." Danmer was a little shaken, and the tone of the latter sentence obviously made Lynn think of some ways to make the idea perfect.

Lynn smiled sly and said, "I vaguely remember when I arrived here from Nuremberg, I passed a checkpoint. There were many small fir trees two or three meters high within a hundred meters of the surrounding area, and there was also a wooden house next to the stream."

"There has been abandoned for a long time, and since we entered, it has become a place for patrol sentries to rest." Danmer argued powerlessly.

Lynn curled his smile a little to avoid causing the other party's disgust. At the same time, he said incisively: "Then it should be regarded as an area within the town!"

Danmer faced Lynn and stared at her eyes: "Sometimes you don't look like a Red Cross staff member, like a kind evangelist, or maybe an ambitious man who is accumulating political capital for himself. We won't stand on the opposite side one day in the future, right?"

"The Red Cross and the Church have many similarities, as for the ambitious people." Lin Neng completely put away his smile, showed his sense of vicissitudes of saving the world and worrying about the country and the people, and said generously: "Since the moment I witnessed the destruction of the war, I no longer have any illusions about politics and military. In fact, whether it is a soldier or a politician, to put it bluntly, it is to sacrifice another group for the benefit of one group. Sometimes this sacrifice is tens of thousands of lives."

"I don't quite agree with you," said Danmer. "Every force itself has no good or evil. The key is that it is in the hands of justice or evil people, and democratic institutions can maintain justice to the greatest extent and abandon evil."

Lynn nodded: "Today is not the time to talk about it. If you allow it, I want to convey this good news to everyone in the town and let them select a group of reliable lumberjacks as soon as possible."

When things got to this point, Danmer no longer offered a different opinion, but added: "Single or who have served in the German team are not here."

"If we can't get the truck, can you please transfer one temporarily?" Lynn asked as he walked.

"It depends on the situation! I can't guarantee it!" Danmer grinned and naturally revealed his sharp little tiger teeth.

In Lynn's impression, people with tiger teeth are often emotional, straightforward and stubborn. Now, the feeling that Danmer gives him can be basically summarized by these three points. After finding the sheriff and household registration officer, they were both surprised and happy with the news that Lynn brought. The town was not big and there was not much time left. They each summoned the residents to discuss and quickly determined the minimum number of Christmas tree materials and the woodcutters. 17 relatively strong adult men will bring back 48 fir trees to the residents, which is quite close to the figures that Lynn expected.

As a self-compared gentleman, Danmer did not break his promise. He personally waited for these German lumberjacks at the checkpoint, and Lynn and two informal officials also came to help. The Allied officers and soldiers stationed at this checkpoint, the vast majority of the British, were indeed at least twice as many as Lynn's first arrival here, but their efforts regardless of the cold were obviously futile. After nearly four days, the slowest task force was probably more than 100 kilometers away from Nuremberg. At this Saint

When Christmas is approaching, some of them are still moving in the vast mountains and forests, and some are temporarily hidden in secret hiding places. No matter how many troops the Allied countries have, they can only deploy tens of thousands of second-line troops to adopt martial law and investigation in southern Germany. Taking advantage of their huge home field advantages, the Imperial Task Force and the personnel they rescued have turned into invisible ghosts. As long as they are not exposed on their own initiative, it will be difficult for the Allied countries to find them out. This is the key consideration for Lynn to not rush to make wartime adjustments and deployments.

The action plan formulated by Lynn after careful consideration is indeed exquisite, but it is said that "a wise man will make a mistake." At this time, on a rural farm north of Munich, the Imperial Marshal Hermann Goring seemed to be a irritating lion in a zoo. What bound him here was not a cold iron cage, but a basement that was not only cold but also invisible to the sun. The early history of this farm cannot be traced back. It was purchased by a wealthy Jewish businessman in the early 1920s. After the rise of Hitler's regime, this one was named

The Tai merchant was imprisoned and his assets were confiscated. Soon after, he became the private property of a SS captain. The good times did not last long. Germany was defeated. The allied occupying troops confiscated the assets of the Third Reich government and SS officials, and some of them were auctioned. The fertile and remote farm was bought by the Imperial Intelligence Department as a resettlement personnel for contact and transfer. Therefore, a secret basement was expanded on the basis of the original storage cellar and wine cellar, which was enough to accommodate dozens of people for a long time.

"The Head of State is still alive, and the Head of State is still alive. He must urgently need me. We are unswerving comrades-in-arms. We understand each other and trust each other. We are close comrades! Yes, he must urgently need me and cannot wait for a moment!"

Wearing the uniform of the Imperial Marshal who was found from somewhere in the intelligence department, Golin paced back and forth in the basement with his stomach, muttering words, and increasing the volume from time to time. At the beginning, Kettle, Yodel and others, who were in this underground shelter, were surprised and excited by the news that the task force lost, but it was less excited after a while. Only Golin was extremely excited as if he had been knocked out of medicine. In fact, after being detained by the Allied forces, this guy had been gradually quitting his dependence on morphine under the supervision of Allied medical staff, but this did not seem to improve his irritability, neuroticism and irritable bad temper.

When the task force outside came down in casual clothes to deliver food, Gorin began to scold in a high tone: "Where is your commander? Let him run to see me! I can't stay in this dark and cold place. The cause of the empire needs my strength. The head of state needs my help. You should escort me to meet with the head of state as soon as possible. Where is the head of state? Don't pretend to be stupid and answer my questions!"

As before, these task force members could only answer timidly, "Sorry, we really don't know about these", "The Allies have martial law inspections everywhere, please wait patiently for your safety reasons", but these obscene words will only make Gorene even more annoyed. He has overturned the food on the table several times, not only did he not eat, but also greatly affected the appetite of others.

"The nerve tightness release collapse." Keitel sarcastically defined his symptoms. Of course, his audience was only Yodel, because the others who were traveling with Gorene were obviously closer.

After barely ate something, Gorene waved his thick arms and danced his "speak" in the middle of the basement:

"Upstein! Uprising! Only the nationwide uprising can drive away the Americans, the British and the French. We must stand up without hesitation and lead the German people to carry out a national uprising. Taking advantage of their desperate efforts to fight the Soviets in Eastern Europe, this is the best time for us to revive the Great German Empire. Once we miss it, we will be trampled by them forever!"

I have listened to the speech with similar content several times along the way. Someone among the former senior officials of the Third Reich finally made a voice of doubt. Yodel said: "Even if the main forces of the Allies are concentrated on the front line of the battlefield, and those stationed in Germany are only second-rate goods, but they have machine guns, cannons, tanks and planes. Our people are stunning. Where should we get enough weapons?"

"We don't have to worry about this. The Allies are fighting in Eastern Europe, and Germany has become their rear. As long as we disrupt the situation with an uprising, their troops will be finished! The wise and great head of state must have reserved many weapons, and an elite combat force gathered on standby. Ah, my air force, my air force should have hundreds of aircraft to be dispatched. We can destroy the Allied airports - from the air and from the ground, and use our imagination to the fullest. Ah, the head of state may

Still trying to stop the Soviets from being worried about how to stop the Soviets from being stabbed in the back. Yes, it must be like this. Alas? Why isn't Ashim with us? He must know how high the chance of us working with the Soviets again. The Soviets need us to restrain the Allies. They fear the air force of the Allies, and we hold a sharp dagger that can cut off the Allies' arrows. Look, guys, I said that the Head of State needs me, and I need this head with infinite wisdom!"

Keitel and Yodel looked at each other, and their eyes showed contempt, as if saying: "Priorate the hope of German revival on establishing a fragile cooperative relationship with the Soviets? Be stupid!"

Taking advantage of the break when the Imperial Marshal's breathing, Frick whispered to his companion next to him: "Tomorrow is Christmas!"

"Yes, I thought it was a Christmas without hope, thank God for letting us see hope again," Saukel replied, "I hope we can spend the next Christmas with our family comfortably."

At this moment, Goren was in a state of excitement and his hearing was not lost. He suddenly turned around and walked to Shauker, shocking the labor leader of the Third Reich who was ridiculed as a "slave owner".

"No, we should not thank God, but the Head of State. His intelligence and wisdom have retained the spiritual fire for Germany, and the people all look forward to his return." Golin said with his eyes wide open.

"That's for sure, there's no doubt!" Shaokel ​​quickly responded.

After making a mess, Goreen finally got tired. When his fat body sat on the wire bed, the harsh creaking made others worried that he would crush the bed directly.

The Imperial Marshal lay down hatefully, murmured with his eyes open: "The Head of State needs me, and the Head of State needs me more than ever. He did not adopt my suggestion to cooperate with the Allies unilaterally. Looking back now, it is indeed the only way to maximize the retention of German political system and military power. The situation has changed. Western allies have occupied the entire Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania. The Soviets can only seek our help, and we also need their military assistance..."
Chapter completed!