Chapter 112 The Trap (2)

　　A few days after Marshal Vorosilov's return, the Soviet Union announced that Marshal Tukhachevsky, who was to be the representative of the Soviet Union to London to attend the coronation of King George VI, would not be able to make the trip due to "health reasons".

　　A week later, he was dismissed from his post as Deputy People's Commissar for Defense and relegated to the Volga Military District. A month later, Pravda suddenly published a prominent editorial: "Today we have published a notice from the Soviet prosecutor's office that the eight spies caught in flagrante delicto have been handed over to the court for judgment. They, these foreign lackeys, despicable traitors ... Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Ubolevich, Kolker, Edelman, Feldman, Primakov, Putna, these are the extremely odious and hateful names of the core members of the enemy's special services that have been uncovered so far."

　　And on the same day that the editorial was published, a Soviet court sentenced these villains, spies, bourgeois-bred clowns and enemies of the Soviet people to death by firing squad, and the Ministry of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs has carried out the sentence. This sudden news caused a great shock, and people were surprised how Tukhachevsky, known as one of Lenin's best students and a notorious hero of the Soviet Union during the civil war, could become a spy for another country. World public opinion also reacted with mixed reactions, ranging from expressions of surprise, to regrets, to reticence.

　　When Anne sent a secret telegram Wilhelm is organizing a small party, to participate in the party there are Reinhard, Speer, Goebbels, Rommel, Manstein, Guderian and other Wilhelm single-handedly promoted the "civil and military generals". Received the message scanned, roughly content is. "Tukhachevsky refused to defect and was shot this morning."

　　Tsk, what a stubbornness.

　　After sighing Wilhelm raised the cup in front of him. "Here, gentlemen, a toast to Marshal Tukhachevsky. Just this morning he was executed by order of Beard himself."

　　"!!!" Hearing this the crowd was stunned, their first thought was that this Stalin was crazy, right? Executing a marshal? Isn't he afraid that the military will be destabilized? Even Germany, which they called the all-abominable capitalism and imperialism, had never done such a crazy thing. Those who opposed His Highness's downgrading of the command were only forced to resign and kicked out of the army, and most of them are still alive and well. This Stalin is good, directly clicked a marshal.

　　Only Wilhelm knew that this was just the beginning!

　　A terrible "storm" would sweep across the Soviet Union.

　　There had been a few "storms" before, but they hadn't affected the army. Now this bloody "storm" is aimed at the army.

　　Three of the five marshals, 13 of the 15 army group cadres, 57 of the 85 army commanders, 110 of the 196 division commanders, 220 of the 406 brigade commanders, all 11 deputy people's commissars of defense, and 75 of the 80 members of the Supreme Military Council will be purged!

　　Manstein asked curiously. "On what charges was he executed, Your Highness?"

　　"They said the men were foreign lackeys, despicable traitors. General Guderian, it looks like your letters played a big role. Maybe even the song I sent him was misinterpreted by them as a sign of collusion with foreign agents, hahaha."

　　Guderian, Rommel, and Manstein looked at each other with some vicious chills. Only they knew that letting Guderian communicate with Tukhachevsky was ordered by His Highness himself nine years ago. Could it be that at that time His Highness had planned to get rid of Tukhachevsky by Stalin's hand? Tukhachevsky was only a general at that time.

　　But they didn't know that Wilhelm's arrangement could be more than that. Although in the original time and space on the network there are a lot of articles analyzing the bearded man is not in the moustache "divisive plan" to kill Tukhachevsky wrongly. But he still did not dare to be careless, seriously follow the original time and space of the steps step by step implementation of the stratagem, framing Tukhachevsky. Until today he received the news of Tukhachevsky's death, he completely put down his heart.

　　The original space-time Reinhard in order to carry out this countermeasure, can be described as painstaking. First, he had his burglary experts sneak into the secret archives of the German High Command to steal Tukhachevsky's files, which contained records of conversations between German officers and representatives of the Soviet Command, including Tukhachevsky's meetings, meetings, and meetings with representatives of the German General Staff and the military attaché's office in the USSR during the period of 1925-1928 when Tukhachevsky was the chief of staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. There are also records of meetings and conversations between Tukhachevsky and representatives of the German staff headquarters and their military attachés in the Soviet Union. However, these meetings and conversations were of an official nature and were not of any value.

　　Undaunted, Reinhard set up a laboratory with all the technical equipment and took personal responsibility for the secrecy. When everything was ready, he ordered that the file which had come to him be "processed," adding words and phrases to the transcripts of conversations and correspondence, supplementing them with new letters, changing the dates, and finally making the file appear to be complete. It would be perfectly convincing in any country to bring any general with such a full set of incriminating evidence before a military tribunal and find him guilty of treason.

　　Reinhardtich had carefully examined all the technical work of his experts in forging the document, and he was very satisfied with the result. The next step was to get the "realistic" document into Stalin's hands.

　　At the end of January '37, Heydrich finally seized an opportunity. The Czechoslovak ambassador in Berlin, Mr. Mastene, sent a coded telegram to his president, Mr. Benes, stating that a German diplomat he had known in the past had divulged to him the "secret" that the Germans were in contact with one of the anti-Stalinist groups in the Red Army. Benes was deeply disturbed by this information, because Czech-Soviet relations were characterized by mutual trust and strong friendship. The Soviet Union also favored the Czech side in the Sudetenland issue in Czechoslovakia. Once the Soviet Union sided with Moustache, there was nothing to prevent Germany from cutting up the Sudetenland. With this in mind, Benes immediately summoned the Soviet ambassador in Prague, Alexandrovsky, to convey this information from Mastene to the Soviet ambassador. Alexandrovsky, having learned this information from Benes, hurriedly flew to Moscow. Heydrich thus made a detour and the information reached Stalin.

　　To enhance credibility, two or three days later, the same information reached the Soviet ambassador in the Paris embassy, Bozhonkin, who then telegraphed the information to Moscow.

　　However, this time and space is much simpler, Tukhachevsky and Guderian have correspondence, Wilhelm directly from Guderian to ask for a few Tukhachevsky's reply to the letter, handed over to Reinhard, to the "Andrews factory" processing.

　　"Andrews factory" in the most lack of is the master of forging documents, these people are very easy to forge several points Tukhachevsky "hand" written collusion against the country and other letters.

　　After that, things were even simpler. According to the information provided by Natasha, Reinhard had a lot of lists of Soviet spies lurking in Germany. According to Wilhelm's instructions, he did not alert them, but temporarily turned a few of them.

　　One of the spies who had been turned immediately reported the situation to Moscow after receiving Reinhard's notification, and also came with a large sum of money for information, and then sent a document bearing the "top secret" seal of the German Intelligence Service to Moscow.