After the Warsaw Conference ended, Adolf remained in Poland. To mislead Britain, France, and the other countries, he traveled to Poland's eastern border to inspect the armies of Germany and the other Axis powers.
Near the border between Poland and Soviet Union, as well as along the Baltic Sea coast, more than 900,000 troops had gathered. Germany's land, sea, and air forces, together with Axis troops, launched a massive military exercise with Soviet Union as their hypothetical enemy.
Armored units surged across the plains of Eastern Europe. The once-white snowfields were crushed beneath heavy steel treads, leaving black pits of slush and mud behind.
German infantry followed closely, seizing high ground and the strategic targets and facilities laid out for the exercise. Propeller planes roared over the soldiers' heads, while the uninterrupted thunder of artillery along the Polish-Soviet border relentlessly plucked at the sensitive nerves of the Soviet Army across the line.
On the Soviet side of the border.
Battalion Commander Kacheryev stood atop a hill within the Soviet Army's border defenses, gripping military binoculars as he stared fixedly at the grand spectacle of the Axis exercise across the border. The rising and falling sounds of Axis gunfire and artillery during the drills filled his ears.
"Those German bastards put us through hell last night." Battalion Commander Kacheryev pursed his lips as he spoke to one of his company commanders. "To keep an eye on them, none of us got a decent night's sleep. Those war-crazed lunatics ought to go straight to hell."
The Soviet Army company commander said, "Commander, I heard that Germany's Little Hitler personally came to Poland to observe this joint Axis exercise."
"These Germans are putting on such an energetic performance now precisely to please that military maniac from Germany."
Adolf's arrival in Poland to inspect