Chapter 44:
September 6, 1939
Kassel, 9th Military District, Central Germany, Provisional Headquarters of the New Government in Frankfurt A day after the Crown Prince and his wife arrived in Frankfurt. The New Government had formally welcomed the Crown Prince and was now laying out its blueprint for the future.
"Public opinion is now on the side of the New Government. Though some who dare not follow the legitimacy of the Hohenzollern Imperial Family still remain in the Nazi Wehrmacht, the army of the New Government is loyal to the Imperial Family!"
Doctor Goerdeler was passionately explaining this to the Crown Prince, while the far-right monarchists, thrilled at the thought of re-establishing the empire in this land, nodded along, deeply moved.
Do they truly believe that the public's support for the New Government is directed at them and the Kaiser?
"We plan to sweep the dregs of the Nazis from our sacred Germany, bring His Majesty Wilhelm II from the Netherlands, and restore his rightful throne! We are not ushering in an age of mobs, but reopening the age of the Kaiser and the nobility!"
To think that just 80 years before the era I originally lived in, fossils like these still proudly existed among the upper echelons of society. Good grief.
The Crown Prince's reaction, however, was lukewarm.
"I see, Doctor. But it does not seem we are at the stage to discuss such matters just yet."