My German Empire - Chapter 15: Order

Wilhelm’s narrative begins with Brausic’s life experience.

“On April 9, 1241, your family officially moved from Poland to Germany. On December 7, 1259, your settlement was officially renamed Brauchitschdorf by the king at the time.”

Unfortunately, due to the decline of the family and the repeated setbacks in the competition among the nobility, the territory of the Brausic family was taken back in 1636. By the end of the 17th century, the family itself could be said to have fallen and scattered to different parts of the world.

“Colonel Brausic, you are the sixth of the seven children in your family. You were in school just in time for the Prussian army reform trial phase in 1877, so you studied a year earlier than others, and entered the military academy at the age of 14. (Voranstalten), and then successfully admitted to the main school in Berlin-Gross-Lichtfeld (Gross-Lichtfeld). “This school enrolls 15-year-old boys, and most of them are from aristocratic families. The school system is four years. The students who enter will go through various hard tests and layers of screening to exercise their perseverance and loyalty, and finally only 20% will be left for graduation. Brausic is one of these graduates.

At the time, 17-year-old Brausic passed the alternate officer examination with the second grade of Grosslichfeld.

On April 1st of the same year, he was elected to Selekta (the name of the elite class of the school). (I will explain a little bit here. This Selekta is not accessible to ordinary people. Not only is there no non-noble member, but also the academic performance and military training requirements are super high. So there are about 60 to 80 selected in each session. Finally, Only about 40 can really persist in graduation.) In Brausic’s class, 47 junior officers successfully graduated.

In addition, all students from the Selekta elite class can be sent to the palace to serve as royal housekeepers or personal guard.

“Colonel, you served as Queen Victoria’s personal attendant, and you also had a lot of contact with my grandfather. Everyone knows that my grandfather’s temper is not very good, it can be said to be violent.

During a court football match, Colonel, you accidentally kicked my grandfather’s stomach while acting as a defender, so you got two big slaps, right? ”

Listening to Wilhelm’s narration as if telling a story, Brausic only felt that his back was soaked in cold sweat. What kind of intelligence power is needed to investigate this carefully? “His Royal Highness…”

Wilhelm waved his hand. “If you still hate this thing, then I apologize on behalf of my grandfather.”

Brausic was really panicked. If the car was not too narrow, maybe he would jump up to show his loyalty. “His Royal Highness, you are too serious. I didn’t take that matter to heart. There is nothing to hate. My loyalty to the royal family can be learned from the sun and the moon!”

Wilhelm stared into his eyes tightly and asked. “Then if the German imperial power conflicts with the interests of the Junker nobility, which one would you choose?” The Junker class in Germany is actually the elite class in Germany. Since the founding of Prussia in 1704, Junkers began to take shape. They received advanced education and were the actual rulers of Germany. Even the subsequent bourgeois revolution did not affect them, but some of them became the bourgeoisie, which means that Junker in Germany later evolved into a mixture of the landlord class and the bourgeoisie.

Even if the Hohenzollern family fell after the First World War in the original time and space, Junker did not. The Hohenzollern family is actually the general representative of Junker. After the war, they had to rely on Junker to support Germany.

“…” Brausic opened his mouth, but couldn’t speak for a while. The driver in front of him slowed down while he was suffering. “Your Highness, it seems we have arrived.”

Geer on the co-pilot also pointed forward. “Yes, I saw the two characters ‘Lenin’.” As the car stopped, he got out of the car and went to the back seat and opened the door for Wilhelm.

Wilhelm looked at Brausic, who had sweat dripping down his forehead, and smiled. “You don’t need to answer now, wait a few years. I hope you can make the right choice by then.”

After dropping this sentence, he got out of the car, closed the car door before the people behind got off, and asked Geer in a low voice. “Have you ever heard that Nicholas II had an orphan?”

The orphan of Nicholas II? Geer was taken aback, quickly tossed the information in his head and shook his head. ” I only know that the tsar’s family was destroyed.”

“Yeah, the real one was destroyed. But it is not certain that Nicholas II has no illegitimate orphans.” Wilhelm lowered his voice again and ordered. “When I go back, tell Reinhardt, let him search for the blood of the Romanov dynasty, but don’t be too public.” In fact, there is no big deal to publicize. Can that arrogant Stalin care if the tsar has an orphan? He would sneer at most, right?

But now Germany can’t afford to provoke anyone, it can only be someone with its tail sandwiched.

“If you really can’t find it, then look for other related people in the palace at that time. Such as servants, cooks, priests, etc.. Collect enough details as much as possible, so that even if you fake an orphan out of thin air, there will be no point of doubt.”

Just as Geer was about to nod, Wilhelm added. “By the way, I thought of someone when I passed through Poland the day before yesterday. There is a Polish man named Marian Reyevsky who should be studying at the University of Göttingen now, let Reinhard Secretly monitor this person.”

Marian Reyevsky, keeping this guy is definitely a curse!

The Enigma cipher (Enigma cipher machine used for communication) used by the Germans during World War II was first cracked by his deciphering team.

Then Britain and France obtained this method. The Allied intelligence department called the decoded code ULTRA, which greatly helped the Allied forces. How much ULTRA contributed is still being debated, but a typical evaluation of it is that the victory of the Allied forces against Germany, was two years ahead of schedule only because the Allied forces decoded the German code.

Prior to this, in cryptanalysis, the code was mainly deciphered by using the patterns and statistical characteristics of natural language, with the help of “pencil and scratch paper”. Reyevsky used pure mathematics for the first time and invented a cryptanalysis instrument called “Bomba”. He not only deduced the rotor wiring system of the English code cipher, but also gave a decipher method feasiblefor cryptography to put into use, fundamentally developing cryptanalysis. With the assistance of his colleagues, he designed and manufactured a copy of the Ingrid code machine and an instrument for cryptanalysis, deciphering nearly 100,000 pieces of German intelligence on the eve of World War II.

After Poland was occupied, Reyevsky and others fled to Paris with instruments to form the team. They continued their code-decoding work at the Vichy intelligence station in France. During that period, they deciphered more than 9,000 pieces of German intelligence, which directly or indirectly led to The German defeats in Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Soviet Union supported Allied North African operations plan.

Although this guy is a scourge, if he is willing to work for Germany to decipher British and American codes then it will be great.

Geer nodded. “Understand, Your Highness.”