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Night falls, and the entire Waldorf Astoria Hotel is still brightly lit, with all the arriving Juncker nobility dancing and singing in the lobby on the ground floor. However, on the balcony of the hotel's top floor, Miss Anna von Sievers is lazily swaying her wine glass, feeling bored as she looks at Goebbels standing respectfully beside her. Although Goebbels is a master of psychology, he lacks experience in dealing with women, after all, judging by his appearance, he doesn't look like someone girls would like.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Miss Anna." Just as Anna was about to make an excuse to step outside for a stroll, a familiar voice called out. Strasser had searched around the hotel and finally found the slightly naive girl. "You're here, Mr. Gregor. How did your conversation with my grandfather go?"
Anna smiled sweetly, and beside her, Goebbels instinctively stepped back, clearly indicating that his emotional intelligence was high in areas other than love.
"Not bad, General Siket is an innovative person who is willing to embrace new ideas," Strasser added in his mind, although he thought that sometimes he could still be too rigid.
"Yes, even though I don't know much about the military, I do know that my grandfather contributed to the reconstruction of the German Army," Anna said convincingly.
At this point, Strasser strongly agrees, and it can be said that the later title of "Father of the German Army" bestowed upon Seeckt after World War II is the best praise for his contributions.
From 1920 to 1926, Seeckt served as the Commander-in-Chief of Germany's General Staff of the Army. In the face of the limitations imposed on Germany's military by the Treaty of Versailles, he decided to establish a highly elite force, transforming the German Army, which was limited to only 100,000 men, into a top-tier military unit.
He formulated plans for rearmament and morale restoration, allowing the greatest advantage of the German Army—the officer corps—to be retained. Rather than saying that Germany had an army of 100,000 men, it would be more accurate to say that Germany had an officer corps of 100,000. Once war began, these 100,000 National Defense Forces could quickly transform into non-commissioned officers at all levels of the military and expand into a force of over a million in a short period.
Seeckt is still brave enough to innovate, Germany lacks the conditions, without tanks, artillery, they use cardboard, wood to imitate. The German army may be the only army that uses toy planes to simulate real plane air-to-air shooting in training. In the exercise, a single soldier has to call himself a certain platoon, or represent an 8-man machine gun team. All of this constitutes von Seeckt's "hundred thousand army!"
"General Siket has made great contributions to the future of Germany. I also want to be like him and make Germany great again."
"But doesn't making Germany great again mean going to war? Won't that cause a lot of deaths?" Anna asked timidly.
Strasser looked at the girl with a tragic background and couldn't help but sigh. No wonder the later Anglo-French appeasement policy was so lenient towards Germany; the trauma of war was simply too great for people. Many relatives and friends may have perished in the conflict, so it is not surprising that pacifist sentiments were rampant.
"If we do not rise up in resistance, then our descendants will have to toil like beasts of burden for a lifetime. The Treaty of Versailles constantly oppresses the German people. What we can do is wage a comprehensive, conclusive war that will end all wars. After that, the German people will no longer have to worry about the hardships of life; all exploitation will come to an end."
"I believe you can do it, Mr. Gregor," Anna said instinctively as she looked at Strasser's tall figure.
At that moment, the night sky over Berlin was filled with countless fireworks soaring into the air, bursting into brilliant flames, as if a painting had been projected above the city.
"Such beautiful fireworks," Anna said, looking up at the sky, her eyes sparkling like stars.
Strasser decided to comfort the girl, hoping to help her temporarily forget her sorrows. He told a kind-hearted lie.
"Do you like it? It's prepared for you."
"I love it so much. I hope I can see it every year in the future."
"Okay."
"Let's make a pinky promise."
Strasser looked at the delicate girl in front of him, hesitating for a moment before extending his pinky to meet hers.
On the top floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, two figures leaned silently against each other as brilliant fireworks exploded and faded in the sky, their glow illuminating the world in front of them.
The street outside the Hotel de l'Europe, a long line is passing by the balcony on the second floor of the hotel, with a band playing accompaniment.
"We are the Black Troops of Gavroche,
Hey ho, hey ho."
We want to overthrow tyranny,
Hey ya ho ho.
Raise the spear,
Move forward.
The red rooster stands on the monastery.
Raise the spear,
Move forward.
The red rooster stands on the monastery."
The powerful drumming, accompanied by the densely packed formations carrying torches, continuously passes through the main street, causing everyone present to be filled with excitement.
This is the masterpiece of Goebbels and Strasser, who deliberately referenced the methods of later Hitler. Minzeir's "Black Army of Geyer" is truly hard to refuse.
Soon, the procession arrived in front of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Strasser had already brought Anna to the balcony on the second floor. He stood before the crowd as the music suddenly came to a halt.
"Hail Germany! Long live National Socialism! Long live Chancellor Strasser!"
Everyone shouted in unison, raising their left hands at a forty-five-degree angle to salute Strasser, their leader and the direction they were heading.
"In the future, I will make the salute no longer a symbol of Germany's sins, but a symbol of glory."
Strasser calmed his excited heart and then raised his left hand high, pointing it like a sword straight into the night sky.
"Hail Germany！Long live the people!"
"What a magnificent procession. I'm starting to believe that under the leadership of the National Socialist Party, the spirit of Prussia can be restored. I am willing to support it," said a member of the Juncker nobility from a military family, as the others around him nodded in agreement.
"It seems we don't need to say much more; the aristocracy downstairs has already been persuaded by him," Seeckt said. He had originally intended to persuade each member of the aristocracy individually.
"This lieutenant is really quite interesting; he deserves my support."
Ludendorff was pleased with Strasser's arrangements. In his view, Germany should be like this—soldiers, invincible under the spirit of Prussia.
"Everyone," Seeckt raised his glass and announced to the people downstairs.
"For the future of Germany, and for the future of our Juncker nobility soldiers, cheers."
"Cheers!" Ludendorff and the people in the hall said together.
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