Unternehmen Barbarossa
Treachery
Treachery
0200 July 20th 1941
Heeresgruppen Mitte
Secret Meeting
After the initial shock of Rundstedt's murder, the group went straight to work. Eventually it was decided to stage a coup d'etat against the government in Berlin, purging the NSDAP from top to bottom. Major party figures were to be imprisoned and executed after a trial. The SS was to be dismantled, absorbed into the Wehrmacht and its leadership destroyed.
The main coup was to be followed by similar ones in the German occupied administrations, (ie. France and the Low countries and occupied Soviet Union territories.
The makeup of the new government was also decided. Each major general in the conspiracy was to hold a new, and as of yet, undetermined office in the administration. Raeder is to be held as Chief of the Navy and allowed the reconstruction of the Kriegsmarine into a carrier-focused fleet to dominate the seas.
The OKW reserve in Berlin, which contains 18 battle ready divisions, is to be used to clear any 'obstacles'. (Mainly SS and SA combat elements). Afterwhich, they are to be sent to the Finnish front.
It was also decided that the war against the SU was to be continued, the German leadership was determined to maintain its lebensraum in the east. A "Ost Kolonial Office" was also established to overlook the colonization of the Eastern territories. Lands east of the Volga would continue to belong to the Soviet Union, or any power that rose out of the ashes.
The planned date for the coup is decided at September 15th. Codeword "Freidrich".
[Signature of Feldsmarshall von Bock]
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