Chapter 57:
October 27, 1939
Kassel, 9th Military District, Central Germany, and the New Government Building in Frankfurt Operation Widerstand, that is, nearly two months since the outbreak of the civil war. The New Government was now fully and smoothly functioning as the new government of Germany.
After ousting the royalist Military Government, we had laid the foundation for the future democratic government by appointing major figures from various factions of the Weimar Republic era to each department of the emergency war cabinet.
We first appointed Konrad Adenauer from the Catholic conservative liberal camp, representing the Rhineland, as the Minister of Finance to represent the interests of companies and conservatives.
Then, we appointed Kurt Schumacher, a representative of the Social Democratic Party who advocated for workers' rights, as the Minister of Labor to check and complement Adenauer and the conservatives.
Finally, we appointed Editor-in-chief Theodor Heuss, representing the centrist forces and free journalists, as the Minister of Propaganda, entrusting him with the media war.
The fact that a war cabinet mixing the military, with its strong royalist forces, with liberals, and even those with socialist leanings could harmonize was likely thanks to our unique characteristic of having risen against the common enemy of the Nazis, and the system of a constitutional monarchy.
The military situation had also stabilized.
The Italian Army almost broke through the Austrian Border Guard, but Major General Eglseer fully defected to the New Government's side, and we succeeded in holding the front line by dispatching a large number of the Freedom Corps.