episode_0032

Astrakhan Military Academy, an officer training center located more than a hundred kilometers from mainland Germany. Looking at the location alone, it may seem like an institution established by the Soviet military to train its own officers, but in fact, it is a place to nurture the germ of the German army that will destroy the Soviet army in the near future.

Currently, as one of those sprouts, I am standing on the parade ground inside the military academy with my classmates, wearing the stylish uniform prepared for the cadets, and seeing that the officers trained at the military academy built on land lent by the Soviet Union are making great achievements in Operation Barbarossa. I was imagining an ironic yet enjoyable future.

Let’s see… Since it is January 1929, there are about 12 years and 5 months left until June 22, 1941, when Operation Barbarossa begins. Since I am here in this world’s Germany with a vision of the future, they may be prepared to attack the Soviet Union on May 15th or even earlier than the original date of operation, rather than June 22nd… but for now, that’s it. .

After successfully completing Operation Barbarossa, we should launch a powerful navy in the Atlantic and launch V-series rockets loaded with nuclear warheads as a surprise gift to the UK and US hiding behind it.

I am not confident that I can raise the meager power of the Kryx Marine to a level where it can break through the British and American navies and carry out a landing (I am not a bad shipper), so if World War II is to end with a victory for our country (Germany), nuclear weapons are necessary. It is absolutely necessary.

And a really big nuclear weapon.

Just imagining a future in which our country (Germany) creates a huge mushroom cloud over London, Moscow, and Washington and ultimately wins makes me smile, but if a freshman who has just entered school and is not a senior is grinning, there will be people who will point out this. This could happen, so I had to be careful not to raise the corners of my mouth without realizing it.

For example… the instructors standing right below the podium. Although these people are now in a position to teach cadets, they may be trying to take out the anger and resentment they have accumulated while being bullied as cadets just like us, on innocents like us. In the name of keeping the discipline of our juniors growing up.

What was surprising was that among the instructors who were watching us with indifferent eyes, there were women like me and Elysia. I know that in the original world, our country (Germany) took women and made them work in munitions factories (since all the men were taken to the military) or used them as medical soldiers, but in this world, our country (Germany) has quite a lot of female soldiers. .

Negative perceptions of female soldiers have not completely disappeared even in the 21st century. It is surprising that our country (Germany), an authoritarian country in the 20th century, allows women to carry out the important task of nurturing young men. However, in reality, it is only in fiction. The correct order would be to start by pointing out that visible magic is real in this world.

Anyway, among the instructors, there are people who hate reasonless absurdity and have a tendency to stop the senior cadets when they see them bullying their juniors, but if you just believe in that and go forward, you will end up in the rear unit even after you graduate from this school and will not have the opportunity to pursue your major. Since this can happen, it is best not to give them a reason to be angry from the beginning.

My fellow classmates must have had similar thoughts as I did. During the principal’s speech on the podium (explaining this and that mission as a soldier who protects the German nation and people), instead of talking, they remained motionless without even moving their arms or legs. maintained. Even Elysia, who had constantly sexually harassed me until I passed through the military academy’s main gate, stood very calmly.

There is no way that Elysia, who is Jewish, would be so moved by the speech of the Aryan principal that she would do something like that… Is she just listening to the speech and thinking about something else?

Well, originally, the principal’s speech was meant to be heard through one ear and out of the other. A military academy is ultimately a school, so it cannot be an exception to this rule. Among the seniors, there may be people who get tired and say, ‘I need to check if my junior has memorized all of the principal’s great speech today,’ so you may need to remember the important parts, but that’s it.

If Elysia, who had strange tattoos on my body, had tried her hand at me, I would not have been able to resist even once, and during the entrance ceremony I would have looked unfit to become an officer in the proud army of Greater Germany, but I would have listened to what the principal said without even giving me a glance. I was very grateful to just quietly listen.

Uh… am I right in saying thank you for this? Am I being overly grateful when all I’m doing is protecting the duties that must be followed as a person? If I dig too deep, I’ll probably end up giving myself a headache, so I’ll have to think about something else.

As mentioned earlier, our country (Germany) in another world is using female soldiers more actively than in reality. Since there are female soldiers among the high-ranking officers in the combat units, I was concerned that even our dear Father, His Excellency the President, might have the body of a woman rather than a man, so I once read a newspaper that contained a black-and-white photo of his face. Fortunately, his gender was the same as in reality.

In real life, there is a conspiracy theory that Our Dear Father, His Excellency the President, was actually a woman, but that is nonsense. How could a weak woman, not a strong man, handle the responsibility of leading the great Aryan nation?

According to what I know, the way the conspiracy theory spread was as follows.

As defeat approached, His Excellency the President, unable to bear the prospect of being arrested by the Allied Powers and put on trial for war crimes, swallowed a cyanide capsule to ensure certain death and at the same time shot himself in the head with a Walther PPK pistol. I shot it.

After the death of our dear Father, the Fuhrer, the remaining subordinates followed his will by putting the body in a pit, pouring oil on it, and burning it. This was, of course, to prevent the body from being captured by the Soviet Army, but it was due to the Soviet Army’s shelling of the city of Berlin. It failed to completely burn the body in this falling mess.

In the end, the Soviet military succeeded in securing the burned body of our dear Father Fuhrer. They collected only the few pieces that could be used to positively identify them, sent them home, and roughly dumped the rest in the sewer. In the process, they buried your body and The fact that the bones were found mixed with the burning bones of a woman in the same pit is the strongest reason for the spread of the conspiracy theory.

‘uh? For a man, his burnt skeleton looks similar to that of a woman. The logic is, ‘Wasn’t she actually a woman?’

This is the officially known end of His Excellency the Dear Father, President. In fact, as mentioned in another conspiracy theory, he may have fled to a place like Argentina or Chile to plan his future, but was ultimately unable to achieve his goals… Long after the end of World War II. As a later-born child, this was all I could figure out.

While I was thinking about this and that, time passed quickly and the principal’s speech, which seemed like it would never end, finally came to an end.

“…This concludes the entrance ceremony speech.”

As soon as we heard those words, we all clapped as if we had made a promise. Not only at military academies, but also anywhere where people gather, after the high-ranking person’s speech, there is a warm applause and ‘That was a great speech!’ If you don’t appeal ‘I’m really touched!’, you can’t survive.

Regardless of whether the listener truly understood the words of the High One or not, applauding enthusiastically after the speech is finished is as natural as common sense as the sun rising in the east.

Wouldn’t the local residents of the Soviet Union, who gave us land to build a military academy and weapons research center, take this common sense more for granted than we do? There is still a long way to go before the great purges take place, but even now, if you do not show that you are moved by the words of Comrade General Secretary Stalin, you may wonder, ‘What is he hiding from Comrade General Secretary Stalin? You will often be suspected of ‘Are you a Trotskyist?’

Look at that. When a cadet is unnecessarily noisy, the instructors who are responsible for disciplining them are also applauding. Even the instructors, who seem like wild beasts to the cadets, are ultimately nothing more than limbs with someone over their heads.

So is the principal, who is receiving applause from all the cadets and instructors, a completely free head of the food chain? If you do that, it’s not like that. The principal is also in a position to obey the military leadership of the mainland. To use an analogy, cadets are herders, instructors are herbivores, principals are small carnivores, and mainland military leaders are large carnivores.

Since you are in the military, you will need to become familiar with the pyramid food chain. A sergeant craves a private, that sergeant craves a non-commissioned officer or a platoon leader, a lieutenant-level officer is polished by a warrant-rank officer, and a warrant-rank officer bows down in front of the general again… If he gets screwed over, he earns merit (+offers some gold to the higher-ups). There is no choice but to hold on to the enemy’s peak and stand in a position where one can destroy others.

When I remember that even generals and marshals have to be careful in front of the military commander-in-chief, tears come to my eyes, but I will definitely graduate from the military academy with excellent grades and then be transferred to the Royal Guard, so it’s not a star. Would it be correct to say that the goal is to wear a rank insignia made of oak leaves and diamonds?

The story digressed for a moment, but no matter what difficulties await me, I will steadily move forward as a member of the SS and become a top-level group leader (= senior general of the National Defense Forces) like General Paul Hausser. Just leave it somewhere and see.