Chapter 8: The Party Guards - Advance! (Part 2)
Raise high the flags! Stand close together, storm troopers march forward! For revival, our model. For rise, our dignity. Brothers stand together forever. German women, German loyalty, German beer, German war song. Their reputation for being strict, diligent, persevering and loyal; Inspires us to engage in noble undertakings, even if it costs us our lives. Loyalty and honor, for the fatherland, for unity, sovereignty and freedom; For the honor of fulfilling this mission, for the eternal prosperity of the German fatherland!
Even in the face of difficulties, we are still brave and moving forward!
With a resounding and powerful pace, we thrust the weapons in our hands towards the sky, shattering the unjust status quo. As a brave member of the Party Guard, I am willing to sacrifice my life at any time to fulfill this oath!
The Red Guards are advancing!
With neat and powerful strides, one square formation marched by, and another would immediately follow, singing stirring battle songs. The soldiers' faces were very determined, they used all their strength to make their waists stand up straighter, every step seemed to be able to crush a shackle that bound Germany.
Xu Yang looked on in amazement, his mouth agape, feeling deeply incredulous; could the marching pace of Adolf Hitler's guard flag squad still be considered a goose step?
No, their gun-toting marching posture is just like...
"Himmler, that bastard!" These SS men didn't march in the traditional goose step, with their powerful strides and upright posture, gripping their rifles and advancing in lockstep. Instead, they imitated the marching style of Xu Yang's former unit!
From a bystander's perspective, the Germans' rigor is once again fully embodied. They are not completely imitating, only when marching forward with guns do those steps full of sunshine appear. After all, not everyone can walk through the 2-3 kilometer Charlottenburg Street with such strides.
Other SS troops still marched with the unique goose step, as if only Adolf Hitler's bodyguard battalion had learned that drill.
The crowd on Charlottenburger Chaussee no longer waved the flags in their hands, they opened their eyes to watch the infantry phalanx pass by, those beautifully shaped cars were not what they cared about, it had been a long time since they saw 'their own soldiers' fully armed and performing a parade-like ceremony.
No one shouted, and even more so no one spoke. Some elderly people had tears streaming down their faces, they didn't wipe them away, but just trembled with their lips as if singing a song they had just learned. How many years has it been? It's been so many years since they've seen their own children participate in such a ceremony, for a moment, the sourness in their hearts seemed to thicken even more.
"We have to help them!"
Nothing is more depressing than never having seen one's own country's armed forces, and since Germany's defeat in 1919, children under the age of thirteen had no opportunity to see a soldier.
This is a national tragedy.
The Germans on Sudetenland suffer from discrimination every day, the Germans there dare not speak loudly, and when they are bullied, they do not even dare to report to the police. Because they will not get any response at all, they can only repeat the life of being discriminated against every day. Just because their homeland has only a miserable army of one million, they have no backing, and even if they have the courage to resist, it is definitely the Germans who are unlucky when trouble arises.
The Germans of Czechoslovakia are no longer what they used to be. The former Austro-Hungarian Empire was an ally of Germany, and after the defeat in World War I, it split into Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Yesterday's allies have become today's competitors, and it is hard to imagine that the people of Czechoslovakia would not resent the Germans who came to take away their jobs and livelihoods after the global economic crisis in 1929. The competition between the two nations has made their relations increasingly worse.
The German nation after defeat was like a cursed nation, as if anyone could come and bully it at will.
The Rhineland demilitarized zone, the Germans living there could hardly see their own country's soldiers. Those Belgian soldiers, Dutch soldiers, and even Luxembourg soldiers, whoever could make the Rhineland demilitarized zone a hunting ground for autumn winds, would often run to the homes of German residents to extort them.
How sad!
Poland, this once weak country, at the time of Germany's difficulties, suddenly became arrogant. She has already occupied Danzig, now called Gdansk by Poles, and the situation of Germans living in Polish Gdansk is not worth describing. Now! Poland has set its sights on German territories of Elbing, K?nigsberg and Memel, they want to occupy all of East Prussia!
"What about our army? Why didn't they appear when we were suffering humiliation?! What about our country? Why was it silent when we were in difficulty?!"
What a heart-wrenching silent scream.
"SS Troops - Forward!!!"
It's been heard, the people have finally heard this blood-filled slogan again. At this moment, no one cares whether the armed party guards are the country's armed forces or not, people want to change their dissatisfaction with iron and fire, let Germany be reborn in Nirvana, continue the ancient glory!
When the armed party army disappeared from people's sight, people were reluctant to move for a long time. They hoped that their country could stand up quickly and no longer let the masses live in hunger and hardship. Use weapons to regain dignity, rather than use dignity as a weapon.
……
"National Defense Army - Charge!!!"
Suddenly... a loud roar awakened the crowd from their grief. People looked at the source of the sound in astonishment, and what appeared in their field of vision was first fifteen armored vehicles, on which the 7.92mm machine gun seemed like a fierce beast, plus the ferocious armor-plated vehicle body shape and rolling tracks gave people a strong feeling.
Hmmm... The manufacturer's logo on the car body seems a bit more obvious; Stark Industries!
People were stunned, they saw a young lieutenant standing on the top cover of the first armored vehicle, maintaining the military salute of the National Defense Army. The lieutenant had a head of enviable pure black short hair, a physique that was very sturdy, and his young face showed no childishness, but a resolute determination. Was it just now that loud shout came from his mouth?
"Country... country... national defense military?" People thought it was too unbelievable! How could the national defense military hold such a ceremony, they were strictly restricted from armed parade by the international community!
The roar of the engine made people believe that all this was not a dream, and the excited ones became even more excited, they couldn't wait to let out two loud shouts to vent their emotions!
"Our defense forces!?" "It's our defense forces!!" The crowd began to chant, they were seeing the defense forces fully armed in public for the first time in 13 years, and they took it as a sign that the country would no longer remain silent.
A single excited shout infected more people, those old men who had been soldiers raised their right hands with excitement, palms facing outwards, thumbs close to the palm, and the other four fingers closed together to salute. The children may have seen an armored vehicle for the first time, they whispered to the adults: "What is that?"
The adults around them will excitedly tell the children: "That is our hope to regain our own dignity! They are all!"
Yes!
"SS Troops - Forward!!!"
This is the spark of hope in people's eyes.
"National Defense Army - Charge!!!"
This is a national vow shouted out in anger.
Both are advancing, although they don't match, but they have the same idea. That is - Revive Germany and Italy!
The fully motorized experimental troops did not march on foot like the armed party guards, but either stood on trucks or drove motorcycles or rode bicycles, passing by in front of people in formation after formation. When 88mm cannons, 105mm cannons, and 81.4mm Gr.W.34 mortars were displayed on platforms towed behind trucks, as they passed by in front of people, they forgot to shout, only sobbing softly - our national armed forces have revived!
