1st May 1923
The french occupation is fact of life for the german people. There are some who resist, either peacefully or violently but the french do not care. All are removed. The peaceful ones are thrown out of the occupied territories and the violent people are shot if caught immediatly after the attack or after a trial if taken later.
Meanwhile the captain has looked up all information he could find. But one night it is all about to change.
(COMMENT: I now give these persons names I invented. So the captain will be namend Holthausen.)
Captain Holthausen is drinking in the casino of his regiment when a drunken officer stumbles to his desk and lets out a string of obscenities better suited to the red light district than to an officers casino. Before it ends in fisticuffs the captain finds out its about his treatise given to the german High command.
2nd May 1923
The punishment is swift and brutal. The superiors of Captain Holthausen decide to kill two birds with one stone. But what they get will give them nightmares for decades to come....
Captain Holthausen and Captain von Malthus (the attacker) are ordered to work together as their destruction of the casino has shown they are capable of great things when they work together.
May 1923
The german press attacks the german politicians as they do nothing against the french.
Unknown location near Weimar, 28th May 1923
Nearly all Colonels and Generals of the german Army are assembled. In the shadows sits a man nobody recognizes as a member of the german government.
Trancript of the meeting that never happened:
"Gentlemen, we are gathered here together to talk about the liberation of the sacred soil of Germany from the french. No subject will be taboo, but everything stays in this room. Mister H, your turn."
Captain Holthausen, in civilian clothes as the rest moves to the front.
"Gentlemen. We have few resources and fewer weapons to liberate our country. But as Miyamoto Musashi, a great japanese warrior said: What is made by men can be unmade by men. The rules of Versailles are strict, but can be circumvented. Take for instance the machinegun. Longrange killingpower. But for guerilla warfare you need something more efficient. Take the carronade. One shot, short ranged, but lethal and in a certain range and angle nobody can escape. On flat area you can kill a company with five of these. And you risk only one person.
I could tell you all night about weapons to kill, but what we need is the right mindset. And therefore i give you Mr. M."
"Gentlemen, we do not have the right mindset for guerilla warfare. Because we are to open and we have no spine."
Angry comments are heard.
"No this is the truth plain and simple. Our last Kaiser liked the british to much as he had british blood in his veins but: a state has only interests, but no friends. And as we have seen with the americans, they like mighty words but come short in fulfilling them. Just remember the 14 points. So there are a few points to be very open:
1) No fraternization. You may like your counterpart in the other nations armed forces but if you divulge even one word you are a traitor and must be shot.
2) No rules until victory. The german subs obeyed the rules of warfare and what did the british do? They deployed Q-ships and later put weapons on civilian ships to drag the US into the war. And what did we do? We complained but sunk back into the shadow. Nothing more. Not this time. Everybody is the enemy, regardless if he is a soldier standing before you or a civilian in the middle of France.
3) Propaganda and Spine. Remember the story that german troops hacked of the hands of civilians of belgium? This is a lie and they did not retract it. We have to do the same. Paint the enemy in the worst picture.
And our politician have to have backbone too. If the french accuse us of using guerilla warfare the first politician who says sorry is to be shot. Tell the french that they are back in Spain when Napoleon invaded Spain. Tell them to look up their newspapers. When the german troops were in belgium the french lauded the franctireurs of Belgium as heroes and the methods of the germans to shut them down as the methods of Lucifer himself. Now tell them to take these articles and just exchange the words belgium for german and german for french.
And why did nobody had the guts to tell Clemenceau that yes, Germany marched into France two times between 1870 and 1919, but he should answer the question how many times did France march into Germany from 1000 till 1870?
Now, if the politicians do not have that sort of spine I think Krupp can manage to produce some steel rods that can be inserted into the backs of the politicians to give them a spine.
A lot of faces are white. Because of anger or shock nobody is willing to divulge.
(COMMENT: I know that many will not like Point 2. But in another thread in this forum I was told by a british, no sorry scottish guy and another one, that warcrimes are not warcrimes if the other side committed a war crime first and that in response to really reprehensible warcrimes little warcrimes are to be forgotten.
Thread:
Why did the WW2 Allies insist in unconditional surrender? )