Germany does not seek survival

Germany does not seek survival

Author: Yuwen

Summary:

Introduction: In 1917, the Red Superman came to Germany, picked up a mustache, and joined hands with the German Communist Party to build a red Germany.

The communist formula = one-cup-of-waterism + socialized upbringing + universal basic income + Knight Order education + division of the state and dukes + 95% inheritance tax + mandatory inheritance trust + regular redistribution of social wealth

Volume 1: Ragnarok

Chapter 1 Young Faust

In the darkness deep in the universe, a meteor flew towards the blue earth.

The meteor spun through the atmosphere until it was completely destroyed, leaving no ripples on the planet except for bits of debris that fell on the western end of the planet's largest continent.

The landing point of the planetary debris is only a few hundred kilometers away from the ocean, which is almost negligible on the scale of the universe.

But for the Germans living in this land, the distance of more than 100 kilometers to Paris became a chasm that they seemed unable to cross forever. It was like a nightmare, causing millions of German soldiers to struggle in muddy trenches.

The winter from the end of 1916 to the beginning of 1917 was a time of dead silence.

The First World War began with the sound of gunfire in Sarajevo and has lasted for three years.

The war dragged hundreds of millions of people into unprecedented conflict, and famine spread.

Before the war, Germany, the most industrially developed country in Europe, suffered the most severe famine because it was heavily dependent on imported nitrate and phosphate fertilizers.

Hundreds of thousands of German civilians starved to death. Not to mention wheat and bread, even potatoes, the most common food in German farmland, became a luxury.

The Germans had no choice but to start eating turnips, which were originally used as livestock feed...

The turnip winter of 1916 also affected the food rations of soldiers on the front line. After several days of fighting, all the soldiers of the 7th Company except Faust were starving.

Everyone had to queue up for bean soup, and when some people discovered that at least one-third of the newly rationed cans of beans were mixed with sawdust, one can imagine the anger, frustration and disappointment they felt.

The night was gloomy and Faust did not sleep. The whistling sounds outside the trenches became louder and louder, snowflakes swirled, and the cold wind and snow attacked the positions of the German Imperial Army on the Saint-Quentin front.

The infantrymen had only simple canvas to cover themselves and keep warm, and even the trenches reinforced with logs were filled with snow. Some of the melted snow mixed with the soil and turned into dirty sewage. As long as they walked in the communication trenches, they would inevitably be covered in black mud.

"Signalman, tell everyone to put out all the fires! Do you hear me?"

Rommel hunched his back slightly, leaning against the camouflage net on one side of the shelter and whispered instructions.

Erwin Rommel, a civilian officer whose name did not contain the word "von", was the company commander of the 7th Company of the "Wilhelm I" Guards Infantry Regiment where Faust was stationed. He was very talented.

"As you command, sir."

Faust is the duty soldier of the Seventh Company today. He must be familiar with Rommel's name. Following the order of the company commander Rommel, he rode the signalman's bicycle to other trenches and asked the infantrymen to extinguish the fire for warmth.

However, in the bitter cold and snow, most soldiers did not want to extinguish the fire just because of their superiors' orders. One veteran even pushed Faust away and cursed:

"Red boy, get out of here! Believe it or not, I'll blind your other eye too! I'm afraid your pretty face will become even more horrible!"

Faust was silent. He had not yet fully adapted to this body. The turbid air on Earth seemed to limit his body's functions. In addition to the blind eye covered by the eyepatch, the other eye could not see very far. Faust's vision was only five or six times stronger than that of an ordinary person.

Faust felt a dull sting in the blindness behind his eye patch. He checked his vague memories in his mind and recalled that the original owner of this body had a mother who doted on him.

Witt Faust, his name does not have the "von" that is unique to the German Junker aristocracy, but is just a commoner, and the poorest commoner at that. Faust has no father, and he comes from the most difficult single-parent family of that era.

Faust's advantage is that he studies very hard and his academic performance is outstanding in the slums of Munich. This is also thanks to the imperial education reform implemented by Chancellor Bismarck. The 30,000 public primary schools established during the tenure of the Iron Chancellor allowed people from a family background like Faust to afford primary school.

But if you want to take higher exams, it is not enough to just be smart and study hard.

The German Empire needed compulsory primary schools to improve the quality of soldiers and workers, but it did not require soldiers and workers to have secondary school or university education.

The empire's achievements in universal primary education were very remarkable. The illiteracy rate in Germany was less than 0.02%. However, the empire also had a strict education diversion system. Only 7% of primary school students could enter middle school, and only one in ten of these students could take the university entrance examination. Finally, the pass rate of the university entrance examination was less than one in ten.

Only one in a thousand people in Germany can go to university. The cost of education and tutoring is definitely not something a family like Faust's can afford.

Fortunately, Faust had a face more handsome and delicate than Julien's. This face won Faust the favor of the wife of the principal of a liberal arts high school in Munich, and he received financial support, which gave him the opportunity to go to university.

When the war just broke out, Faust, like his classmates at the University of Munich, was eager to sign up for the army. However, because of Faust's eye disease since childhood, he was rejected by the conscription office.

When Faust's mother was pregnant, she suffered from malnutrition due to extreme poverty, which caused Faust to be born with a disability. His left eye was amblyopic, and although he looked similar to that of an ordinary person, his actual vision in his left eye was no different from that of a blind person.

Faust became a member of the Social Democratic Party at school, which was consistent with his poor family background. The person he admired most was Rosa Luxemburg, the leader of the left wing of the Social Democratic Party.

However, when the world war came, even the left-wing Social Democratic Party, except for a very small number of internationalists, most of the Social Democratic Party members, like Faust, threw themselves into the arms of the national defense faction and chose to fight for the German Empire.

It's just that Faust failed the physical examination and was unable to join the army immediately. This was not Faust's fault. At least he rushed to the conscription office to sign up on the first day of the war, which was enough to prove his patriotic enthusiasm.

However, among Faust's classmates and neighbors around his family, people regarded Faust as a coward who evaded national service.

Amid the contempt, scorn and bullying of all his German compatriots, Faust persevered and managed to get through it himself, but Faust's mother could not.

In 1914, the first year of the war, Faust's mother committed suicide because she could not bear the insults and bullying from the neighbors because she gave birth to a son who failed the conscription physical examination.

Faust himself was drafted into the army in 1916 even after Germany relaxed its conscription requirements due to a shortage of troops.

The infantrymen in the trenches were all clamoring. The German army on the Western Front had experienced two fierce battles in a row last year, the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme. No, the word "fierce battle" alone was not enough to describe the brutality of the battle.

Those were two hellish battles that were more terrifying than a human meat grinder. The soldiers who could survive these two battles must have some mental problems.

Even though the German army performed well in these two battles and obtained a slightly advantageous exchange ratio compared to the Allies, this did not prevent the morale of the German army on the Western Front from gradually declining. The German soldiers, who had always been known for their strict discipline, began to become as sloppy and rogue as the drunkards on the streets of Vienna.

Dirty water in the trenches, rats, mosquitoes, plague...

Endless torture, fear and death can make even the most hardened soldier collapse physically and mentally, and even burst into tears.

The battle of the previous day had just ended, and German soldiers were still cleaning up the excess "debris" in the trenches - these "debris" included the remains of soldiers who died in the battle the day before, as well as the maggots and rats on the corpses.

Fortunately, there are not many flies and insects in winter.

Several corpses torn apart by shrapnel, grenades, machine guns and engineer shovels were in grotesque shapes, some missing arms and legs, some without heads. The dried blood had turned into a thick black and purple stain. The large intestine, small intestine, brain and feces were all mixed together and soaked in the accumulated water from the melted ice and snow, so that the trenches were filled with the disgusting stench of corpses.

"We need to keep warm! We're freezing to death! Red boy, get away from me and don't piss me off. Otherwise, I'll shoot you, bastard, and I'm afraid I'll burst your mother's belly."

Faust's emotions were originally very indifferent, but as he further combined with this new body, the strong emotions of the original owner of the body were in turn affecting his character.

Whenever Faust thinks of his mother who committed suicide, an indescribable sadness will burst out, and Faust will develop a strong urge to change Germany.

Faust's mother was the most hardworking and honest woman, but she died so miserably. The Second German Empire was unfair to Faust's family. Therefore, Faust had the right to judge the old empire and rebuild and design a new Germany according to the ideas already in his body.

The moment the old soldier's dirty words insulted Faust's mother, Faust raised his head coldly and stared at the old soldier with one eye. His eyes were harsh, as if he was looking at a corpse in the trench.

This look made the veteran who had experienced the bloody sea tremble in his heart, but he still refused to accept it:

"You fucking bastard, if you don't fucking get out of here, I'll beat you to pieces..."

Before the old soldier could finish his words, Faust had already taken a step forward.

He quickly stretched out his right hand, pinched the old soldier's face with his palm, and then lifted the old soldier into the air and held him high.

The old soldier wanted to resist, but he couldn't pry open Faust's palm with both hands. An indescribable fear surged in the old soldier's heart. He felt that this one-eyed boy could really crush his facial bones with one hand.

Faust gritted his teeth and said, "If you can't control your mouth, I can help you tear it apart."

"Hey Hey hey!"

The other soldiers quickly ran over, trying to separate the two men and mediate, but even with their combined strength, they couldn't pull Faust's hand away. The old soldier's face flushed red as he painfully replied, "Okay, okay... I was wrong. I'm sorry, brat... No, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have humiliated you..."

Faust still didn't let go: "You shouldn't humiliate my mother."

"Yes, yes...I shouldn't humiliate your mother."

Faust then let go of his hand. A bright red handprint had appeared on the old soldier's face, and his nose was bleeding from the pressure. The old soldier wiped the blood from his nose. The soldiers around him found it unbelievable. What kind of person could have such great strength?

Faust was also a little surprised. After traveling through time, he was not very familiar with this body. He just felt that his vision and hearing were extremely sharp. He did not expect that the power of his hands was so huge, far beyond the human body. The word "king of soldiers" was difficult to describe it. It was even more exaggerated than the super soldier in "Return to Castle Wolfenstein".

Not only that, Faust's brain activity is also extremely active. His thinking is quick and his thinking speed is like lightning. In just a short moment, a large number of thoughts from the original owner of "Werther Faust" emerged.

Marx, Social Democracy, Germany, Communism, Spartacus, Rosa Luxemburg...

Finally, an ideal country.

"The ideal country..."

Faust muttered to himself as he gradually digested all the memories, thoughts and emotions of the original owner of this body. Apart from his deep feelings for his mother, the most that remained was the original owner's obsession with creating a socialist ideal country.

It seems that "Werther Faust" is an extremely radical and idealistic young man.

Faust subconsciously clenched his hands. As a left-leaning young man, since he had traveled through time and space and was going to live on in place of "Werther Faust", it would not be a bad idea if he had the chance to help "Werther Faust" realize the ideal of Red Germany.

only……

It is not easy to bring about a revolution in Germany, and it requires long-term planning.

The rest of the soldiers were terrified. They looked at each other in a daze, not daring to speak anymore.

A veteran from the Seventh Company pointed to a trench at the front of the position and said, "Look, there are fireworks there too. Even if we put out the fire, as long as the unit in front still has the fire lit, it will help the enemy identify our position clearly."

Faust asked, "What are the numbers of the troops ahead?"

"Same troops as you, boy," replied the old soldier, "from Munich, a company of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment."

Chapter 2 Bavarian Corporal

16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment.

Faust had some impression of the unit's number.

Because anyone who has read a little about German history in World War II will remember this unit.

The unit in which Adolf Hitler served during World War I was the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, where Adolf served as a communications soldier.

Yes, the same position as Faust.

Bismarck used a federal system to unify Germany, so there were still different states within Germany. For example, the Kingdom of Bavaria still had an independent army.

Faust's hometown, Munich, is the capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria, or the provincial capital. Logically, Faust should also be incorporated into the troops under the Bavarian Army Group.

However, after the war reached the winter of 1916, the German Empire was in a state of total mobilization, and the newly recruited soldiers were no longer incorporated into the troops of their birthplaces, but were directly added to wherever they were needed.

After all, Faust was an outstanding student at the University of Munich with excellent academic qualifications and was considered a high-quality military source, so he was added to Rommel's 7th Guards Company.

Grayish-white snowflakes were still floating on the dark fields and trenches. On the left front side of the 7th Company's position, there was a company of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment.

Together, the two companies held the forefront of Saint-Quentin, the gateway to the Somme.

The German army, which was known for its strict discipline, became lax in discipline by the winter of 1916. The 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment ignited far more fires and smoke than the 7th Guards Company where Faust was stationed.

Who doesn't want to sleep in a warm house during war?

Although the Battle of the Somme ended with the victory of the German army, and the foolish British army foolishly left behind 500,000 corpses in the Somme, the offensive momentum of the Allied forces was not completely exhausted. Fighting continued on the front line every day. The first trench at the front of the position was the most dangerous, as artillery shells, tracer bullets, flares or poison gas could fall there at any time.

There is something even more terrifying.

The "Water Tank" tanks used by the British in the Battle of the Somme had left a very terrifying memory for the German soldiers. The depressed German officers and soldiers in the long winter nights did not want to go to the trenches at the front at all, as going there would mean death.

Even the soldiers in the front trench had to light a fire to keep warm, risking being killed by Allied artillery fire.

Simply because people's hope for victory had been exhausted by the endless trench warfare, the soldiers were filled with a religious desire to commit suicide. After a battle, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people would be killed. Since they were all going to die anyway, why not live comfortably before death?

"Get out, get out, I want to make a fire..."

A soldier squatted by the fire, his whole body trembling slightly. It didn't look like a tremor, but more like he had "trench sickness", that is, nerve damage caused by intense shelling, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

A rat scurried past his military boots. Several other soldiers who were sorting the corpses were also rummaging through the body, as if they were trying to find something useful, such as watches, jewelry, or other valuable items. However, apart from daggers and ammunition, the most common things people could find were just worthless photos.

Seven or eight photos that no one cared about fell to the ground in the biting cold winter wind. Faust picked up one of the photos and wiped off the snowflakes covering it.

The photo shows a handsome young man posing with a young woman holding a baby. The young man is wearing a military uniform and leather shoes, a Prussian iconic pointed helmet on his head, and a saber in his hand. The young woman is wearing a tight dress full of southern style and a beautiful smile. The baby in her arms seems to have responded to the naval call of His Majesty William II and is wearing a very cute sailor suit.

Faust's eyes swept across the trenches. There was a corpse covered in mud and blood. The dead man's pale and bloodless face was exactly the same as the young man in the photo. His right leg was cut off below the knee by a shell. A large group of white maggots were wriggling between the bone marrow and rotten flesh, gnawing at his soul.

Faust shrugged, the night fire shining on his slightly pale face. Faust's hearing could not hear the sounds from the other side of the earth, but it was much more sensitive than that of ordinary people. He had noticed that in the no-man's land between the French and German positions, the faint roar of engines was getting closer and closer.

"Old fellows, do you hear the engine?"

"Engine sound?"

The veterans were full of suspicion, but Faust immediately understood that his hearing seemed to be far superior to that of ordinary humans. Faust now clearly felt that he possessed extraordinary physical fitness.

Faust's body is so strong that it is almost supernatural. If he could not fly and his eyes could not emit lasers, Faust would almost think that the Kryptonian Superman did not fall on a farm in Kansas, USA, but fell on the German front in the winter of 1916.

What is a true Aryan superman?

Faust covered his ears with one hand and reminded everyone: "The French cannons are coming."

The old German soldiers in the trenches looked at each other, not knowing what the young red devil was doing. But at this moment, suddenly, the gray-white snowflakes swirling in the air trembled, and with a loud bang, like thunder, the sound of artillery suddenly came from the front line, which was much stronger than the previous harassing artillery fire.