WITNESS TO HISTORY
A book by Michael Walsh
CHAPTER 10
WITH THESE 26 SOLDIERS OF LEAD --
I WILL CONQUER THE WORLD
I WILL CONQUER THE WORLD
THE PRESS:
LEADING TOMMY INTO WAR
LEADING TOMMY INTO WAR
"History will judge the Press generally to have been the principle cause of war.
. . of all Germans, believe it or not, Hitler is the most moderate as far as Danzig
and the Corridor are concerned." -- Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, 16th
August, 1939
"I would feel confident if it were not for the British Press, or at any rate that
section of it which is inspired by an intelligentsia which hates Hitler and the
Nazis so much that they see red whatsoever the facts are, or by alarmists by
profession and Jews." -- Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin
"Scarcely a day passes without the Press slinging mud at Germany. The British
Press is almost unanimous in agreeing that our erstwhile enemies are out for
revenge, that the members of the Nazi government are thugs, thieves, liars, and
even murderers; that nothing good can come out of the German government;
that it would be better to march into that country now and crush the Nazis
rather than wait until they have re-armed. Every item of news is falsified and
exaggerated to meet the exigencies of a lying campaign." -- G.E.O. Knight, In
Defence Of Germany
THE GURU OF BRITISH
PROPAGANDA IS CANDID
"Whilst by their over emphasis the Press may be blunting the edge of anti-German feeling at home, they are inflaming anti-British feeling in Germany
and elsewhere. The most scurrilous and insulting references are made to
leaders, who, though no doubt accurately described as dictators, are equally
heads of foreign states; references which can only exacerbate an already
strained situation. This sort of thing passes as a gesture of 'democracy' or
'peace', I am not clear which." -- Sidney Rogerson, The Next War
"Not a few of the foreign correspondents I met in Berlin were feeling rather
sore at the ruthless manner their editors had misinterpreted -- that was the word
used -- their telegraphed messages. The campaign of 'assaults' on foreigners in
Germany had the effect of keeping thousands of tourists out of the country. . ."
-- G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of Germany
"The British public, ever slow to understand the truth, is now asking nasty
questions. Was it all true? Who was behind the 'atrocity' stories? Is the British
Press controlled by Jews? In whose hands lies the power of Fleet Street? . . .
should the public be permitted to know that Germany is the only country that
has honoured the Treaty of Versailles, whilst the ex-allies and associated
powers have no intention, whatever, now nor in the immediate future, of
carrying out the most vital clauses of that instrument -- their own
disarmament." -- G.E.O. Knight,
In Defence of Germany
"Nine-tenths of all the difficulties under which we are suffering can be traced to
malicious news reports." -- Dr. Dietrich, German Secretary of State
DIRECTING GOVERNMENT POLICY
"I would feel disposed to make it a legal offence for any foreign correspondent
in the country to which he is accredited, to send false or exaggerated accounts
of happenings when his sole objective is to do harm to that country because his
own government is pursuing a policy calculated to bring discredit on it for
political purposes. . . " -- G.E.O. Knight. In Defence of Germany
THE PRESS -- A NEST
OF SECRET AGENTS
Journalists with their professional accreditation, freedom to go anywhere, see
anyone, ask questions, are ideally placed and suited for the purpose of
espionage abroad and that of the role of agent provocateur wherever.
The British establishment and not the least the British Press are notorious for
harbouring political moles not only acting on behalf of the KGB but a wide
diversity of 'foreign interest' paymasters.
"The Foreign Office is well aware that quite a number of men attached to
newspapers in foreign countries are employed for the purpose of espionage. . .
in the course of my wanderings around the foreign capitals I have met
newspaper men who have openly boasted of having been employed in this and
that country's secret service, who have accepted the hospitality of people whom
they have wantonly betrayed.
"That, you will argue, is all part of the business. But it seems to me a pity that
foreign correspondents should not be above suspicion and devote themselves to
specific jobs and their specific jobs alone." -- G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of
Germany
ERNEST BEVIN
"A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain,
and the rest is to mislead." -- British Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, London
Conference of Foreign Ministers, February 10th, 1946
THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER 106s
"Unhappily, bad feeling between nations is fomented daily by poisonous
propaganda in the Press and by other means. I cannot help feeling that if only
we halt this war of words and some action is taken which would tend to restore
confidence of the people in the peaceful intentions of all the statesmen of
Europe -- if only that could be done, then I still feel that I know of no question
that could not and should not be solved by peaceful discussions.
"The gain would be enormous. On the other hand, if war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate victory, nothing is more certain than the victor and vanquished would glean a gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering." -- Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, July 1939
In his Reichstag speech after five years of National Socialism, Chancellor Hitler spoke of this open wound in the life of the nations. He gave a clear answer to those who incite the public, and appealed to the governments not only to make international arrangements to prevent the dropping of explosive, poison-gas and inflammable bombs, but also to stop the publication of all newspapers which have an even deadlier effect on international relations. . .
"I have received many letters from journalists who agreed with me. These are proof that many press men are working under the compulsion of circumstances. It is the same with many democratic statesmen as with many journalists. They have long recognised the depressing Press problem, but dare not deal with it." -- Adolf Hitler
"Day after day the bourgeois world are witnesses to the phenomenon of spreading poison among the people through the instrumentality of the theatre and the cinema, gutter journalism and obscene books; and yet that are astonished at the deplorable 'moral standards' and 'national indifference' of the masses. As if the cinema bilge and gutter Press and suchlike could inculcate knowledge of the greatness of one's country, apart entirely from the earlier education of the individual." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p.29
"One should never forget the regrettable effects of false reports, which might threaten that international harmony among the nations, for which one should work more than ever, and jeopardise the peace desired by all."
"The man who was mad enough to write his own personal opinion would soon be out on the street. A New York journalist had to lie and to sit at the feet of Mammon. He had to sell himself and his nation for the sake of his daily bread. The speaker concluded by referring to journalists as the tools and vassals of the rich who sat behind the scenes and pulled the strings. The time and talents of journalists belonged to them, and Press men were mental prostitutes." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, The Press and World Politics
"A New York firm of publishers recently brought out a book entitled, The Washington Correspondent, in which some extremely interesting statements appeared. The author records the answers to a questionnaire placed before several hundred journalists. The question of how far the freedom of a journalist extended was often laconically answered to the effect that everyone knew they had to write what their editors wanted, or that they would be thrown out of the editorial departments if they did not write what was wanted. The writer of the book, Leo C. Roston, remarks that in a society where freedom is a nice slogan, limited by economic reality, a clear conscience is a luxury restricted to those who have enough money to refuse a compromise at the expense of their personal ideals."
"This book was not written by National Socialists, but published in the United States, would be excellent reading for those who believe they can reproach us with lack of Press freedom." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, The Press and World Politics
"The freedom of the Press is a phantom, a mere label. There is not, and never has been, freedom of the Press in any part of the world." -- Ferdinand Lunberg, America's 60 Families
"Half a dozen men controlling the film industry (Hollywood) were bent on inflaming the American people to clamour for war." -- Senator Clark, 10th September, 1941
"It is not only the dictators who are sensitive to criticism. Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their industry and ability. Few papers will risk any attack on the Jews, however well-founded, for fearing of appearing even distantly anti-Semitic." -- Sidney Rogerson, The Next War
"Appearing before a Senate Committee investigating propaganda in films, he (Senator B.C Clark) said the industry was turning out dozens of pictures to infect the minds of their audiences with hatred and to arouse their emotions. America's 17,000 cinemas virtually constitute daily and nightly mass meetings for war." -- Daily Express, September 11th, 1941
"There is scarcely a newspaper or reputable review in this country that will open its columns to the realities of the German situation; indeed, anything that is favourable to the Hitler regime is turned down by the British Press with scorn." -- G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of Germany
"Money is easier made by lying than by telling the truth. The Press has been responsible for numerous wars." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, German Secretary of State
"The reports of atrocities which have been spread abroad for reasons of political propaganda are in no way in accordance with the facts. Arbitrary and unauthorised acts, a few of which occurred in the first days of the national revolution, have been effectively stopped by energetic measures on the part of the government." -- German Red Cross
"Lurid as were the details of bodily mistreatment, it must be emphatically stated that this form of National Socialist attack on Jewry was exaggerated by the foreign Press far out of proportion to its importance in the German anti-German movement and was a far removed from the general tone of German life as Negro lynchings in our south is from normal American life." -- John B. Holt, American observer in Germany
"The alleged anti-Jewish activities in Germany, which people are taking pains to make known to the world, are in substance such that the most stupid reader of the most mendacious boulevard paper can not be taken in. There is an excess of lies and slander which simply negates itself. One can almost do nothing better in the interests of a real enlightenment concerning the developments in Germany than to disseminate these lies in the world and also in Germany itself." -- Karl Rauch, (anti-National Socialist), Die Literarische Welt, February 23rd, 1933
"The Press is our greatest evil." -- Thomas Moore, M.P., House of Commons, May 25th,1938
"During the time that a national revolution was taking place in Germany, which, unlike the French and Russian revolutions, did not indulge in human carnage or murder hostages, did not, as in the times of the rising in Paris and of the red revolutionaries in Bavaria and Hungary, destroy buildings and works of art by fire, but which, on the contrary, did not smash a single shop window, and neither plundered shops nor damaged houses." -- Adolf Hitler
"Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War." -- Adolf Hitler
"Nine-tenths of the difficulties under which we are suffering can be traced in malicious news reports." -- M. Vladimir d'Ormesson, Confidence in Germany, 1928
"Calumny reigns supreme in the country. Daily exaggerations weaken public opinion and overthrow it. In certain spheres, money plays an unholy role. Certain financial and economic groups are able to destroy mankind at will." -- M. Henry Cheron, French Keeper of the Seal, November 13th, 1934
"Realising the position the Fuhrer clearly stated in May, 1936, at a meeting of the Reichstag that all attempts to relax this international tension would be in vain as long as successful measures were not taken to avoid the pollution of international public opinion by irresponsible poisoners." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, German Secretary of State.
[Note - JP: It would be appropriate at the end of this chapter to quote from the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" regarding their power over the Press. You'll see what an important part it plays in their deadly 'game'.
From Protocol No. 2:
"In the hands of the States of today there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and create discontent.
"It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation.
"But the goyim States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade."
From Protocol No. 7:
". . . We must compel the governments of the goyim to take action in the direction favoured by our widely-conceived plan already approaching the desired consummation, [written 100 years ago] by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" -- the Press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands.
"In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan."
And from Protocol No. 12, this is a bit protracted; however it does demonstrate the immense power they wield by using the "26 soldiers of lead". And this should bring home to our reader the gift received when their plan is made clear, as well as the gift of a book such as this Witness To History, by Michael Walsh:
"We shall deal with the press in the following way. What is the part played by the press today? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves.
"We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press [i.e. books, magazines, pamphlets, etc.], for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books?
"The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State. . .
"No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us, but they will attack exclusively points that we have predetermined to alter.
"Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them. . .
"All of our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical -- for so long, of course, as the constitution exists. . .
"They will have a finger on any one of the public opinions required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestions. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us."
This tirade continues on stating how they will use the press to attack themselves and give the 'impression' that there is, in fact, free speech, while all the time it will be them, manipulating the minds of the stupid goyim who believe they are following the lines of their party. With that control over a hundred years ago, be clear that there is nothing today, nor form of media nor entertainment that emanates from the mainstream that will not carry their message into the minds of the unsuspecting.
ENGLAND: 28 %
FRANCE: 26 %
SPAIN: 23 %
RUSSIA: 22 %
AUSTRIA: 19 %
TURKEY: 15 %
POLAND: 11 %
SWEDEN: 9 %
ITALY: 9 %
NETHERLANDS: 8 %
GERMANY: (INCLUDING PRUSSIA) 8 %
DENMARK: 7 %
Likewise, Pitirim Sorokin, Vol. III, Part. II, Social and Cultural Dynamics, shows that from the 12th Century to 1925 the percentage of years in which leading European powers have been at war is as follows. (p.352).
POLAND: 58 %
ENGLAND: 56 %
FRANCE: 50 %
RUSSIA: 46 %
HOLLAND: 44 %
ITALY: 36 %
GERMANY: 28 %
Sorokin concludes therefore, "that Germany has had the smallest and Spain the largest percent of years at war."
Of leading modern European states, England, France and Russia show clearly twice the aggressive tendencies of Germany. From the years 1815 to 1907 the record stands as follows:
Britain: 10 wars
Russia: 7 wars
France: 5 wars
Austria: 3 wars
Prussia-Germany: 3 wars
As so often, the lie is the direct opposite to the truth. On the other hand, Britain has a reputation for seeking world domination and the elimination of trade competition.
"You must understand clearly that this is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but rather against the power of the German nation, which it is desired to destroy forever, whether it lies in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest." -- English explanation to a German political opponent of Hitler
"I can think of no man I ever met who would so quickly and so bitterly eat his heart out in Paradise." -- F.S Oliver, English Publicist
"Despite all the beautiful words, we have infinitely less justification for this war than the previous one. This time we and France set out to stiffen the back of Poland in its resistance to Germany's demands, certainly not out of any love for Poland, but rather in an attempt to check the increasing power of Germany. In this way, we, together with France, wanted to maintain ascendancy on the continent." -- The Spectator, January 22nd, 1940
"The German people, together with the so-called dictatorships and totalitarian countries, of course, form the great obstacle to Britain in her victorious career towards world domination. As the methods of peaceful propaganda which the British Government previously employed did not prove sufficient for the refutation of the thesis of German intellectual equality of rights, Britain resorted to war. As the Great War had failed to realise Britain's ambition, the German nation was now to be utterly destroyed." -- Sidney Rogerson, The Next War
"Britain was taking advantage of the situation to go to war against Germany because the Reich had become too strong and had upset the European balance. To correct the fundamental trouble, from Britain's point of view, Germany, after her defeat, must be weakened as a protective measure. No morality enters into the matter, only consideration of power politics and British survival." -- Ralph Franklin Keeling
"The English would never have contrived World War Two if they had not been sure of Roosevelt's help. . . what is the net result? First, the Asiatic barbarians, held at bay since 1683, have been let loose in Western Europe. . ." -- H.L. Mencken, Life Magazine, August 5th, 1946, p.46
"This (the American declaration of war) is what I dreamed of, aimed at and worked for and now it has come to pass." -- Winston Churchill, 15th February, 1942
"England is fighting to preserve the balance of power for this reason and no other. . . in the general assumption, that Germany began this war in order to rule the world is, in our opinion false. Germany wanted to be a world power, but world power is not the same as world domination." -- The Nineteenth Century, London, September, 1939
"We never thought of making a separate peace even in the years when we were all alone and could easily have made one without serious loss to the British Empire and largely at your expense." -- Churchill letter to Joseph Stalin, 24th January, 1944
"Germany has become a dangerous competitor for the principle imperialistic powers of Europe, Great Britain and France. They therefore declared war on Germany and under the pretext of fulfilling their obligations to Poland.
"It is now clearer than ever how far the real aims of the governments of these powers are from the purpose of defending disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia. This is shown only by the fact that the governments of Great Britain and France have proclaimed that their aim in this war is to smash and dismember Germany, although this is still being concealed from the mass of the people under cover of slogans of defending 'democratic' countries and the rights of small nations." -- Soviet Foreign Commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, 6th Session Supreme Soviet, 29th March, 1940
"We will of course be told tomorrow morning, that Hitler has attacked Poland. Certain people have been waiting and longing for this moment. They were expecting this attack, having been hankering and praying for it. These men are called Mandel, Churchill, Hore-Belisha and Paul Reynard.
"The great league of Jewish reaction was determined to have its own war. This was its holy war. They knew very well that only such an attack would give them a chance to capture public opinion.
"It will not be very difficult to find the necessary proofs in the German archives that certain gentlemen in cold blood prepared the conditions which made this attack inevitable. Woe betide them should the true history of the war ever be written." -- Prof. Maurice Bardeche, France
"One of the most priceless incidents in the course of the discussion took place when a black exchange student asked Prof. Jacobsen, in good German, how it was that Germany and not England could be chiefly responsible for the war, considering the fact that the German leaders were severely disappointed when Great Britain and France declared war, while the English leaders were delighted and in a good mood when they were able to carry out the British and French declarations of war against Germany.
"This is a classic example of the question which no one can answer who adheres to the thesis of the primary guilt of Germany." -- Prof. David L. Hoggan, The Artificial War
"During war, I realised the truth is so precious, it ought never to appear without a bodyguard of lies. . .
"Stalin and his collaborators took great pleasure in the quip after it was translated. The official meeting thus ended in a cheerful mode." -- Winston Churchill, The 2nd World War, V, Vol.2
"At that time I did not have any idea yet, what a great and undoubtedly helpful role the swindle plays in the existence of those great nations, which enjoy the status of democratic freedom." -- Winston Churchill, Weltabenteuer im Dienst, Leipzig, 1946, p.61
"The Primary and direct responsibility for the European war, which grew into the Second World War, was almost solely that of Great Britain and the British war group, made up of both Conservatives and Labourites.
"If Britain had not gratuitously given Poland a blank cheque, which was not needed in the slightest to assure British security, Poland surely might not have risked a war with Germany. Nevertheless, there would still have been no justification for British intervention in such a war or for the provocation of a European war." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
". . . virtually no truth has been told in England on the Second World war since 1939. No public, even the British public, can stand too large a dose of truth all in one batch. A complete account of the origins of the Second World War could not have been accepted or digested all at one time. Even Professor Taylor's (A.J.P. Taylor) personal safety might have been placed in jeopardy." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
Note: Harry Elmer Barnes is perhaps the most respected revisionist historian in the United States of America, of whom the noted and foremost British authority, George Peabody Gooch said;
"No other American scholar has done so much to familiarise his countrymen with the new evidence and to compel them to revise their wartime judgements in the light of this new material."
"If another war comes and the history of it is ever written, the dispassionate historian a hundred years hence, will not say that Germany alone was responsible for it, even if she strikes first, but that those who mismanaged the world between 1918 and 1937 had a large share of responsibility in it." -- Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to the U.S., March, 1938
"The revival of revolutionary action on any scale sufficiently vast, will not be possible unless we succeed in utilising the existing disagreements between the capitalistic countries, so as to precipitate them against each other into armed conflict.
"The doctrine of Marx-Engels-Lenin teaches us that all war truly generalised should terminate automatically by revolution.
"The essential work of our Party comrades in foreign countries, consists, then, in facilitating the provocation of such a conflict. Those who do not comprehend this know nothing of revolutionary Marxism. I hope that you will remind the comrades, those of you who direct the work. The decisive hour will arrive." -- Joseph Stalin, Third International Comintern, Moscow, May, 1938
"We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique." -- Pravda, November 7th, 1938
". . . the former Soviet general, Alexi Markoff, who had a troop command on the Soviet western frontier in the spring of 1941, made public a statement in the American magazine, Saturday Evening Post, May 13th, 1950, according to which Stalin ordered 'war preparations against Germany' after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, 'because Hitler won too quickly'.
"It is to be assumed that the final decision (for an eastern campaign) was first made after the quick success of the Balkan war, in connection with which Russia's hostile attitude towards Hitler was clearly evident.
"The decision for the assault on Russia was a very difficult one for Hitler. The warnings of his military advisers preoccupied him, the shadow of Napoleon, with whom he liked to hear himself compared lay over the mysterious depths of the country. On the other hand there was his strong and unfounded conviction that Russia was preparing for an attack on Germany. We know today on good grounds that he was right on this (blocked out by General Halder)." -- Former Chief of General Staff, Generaloberst Halder, 1949
"It was undoubtedly a genuine preventive war. That which we subsequently ascertained was, in any case, the proof of a colossal Russian military preparation against our borders. I will forego particulars; however I can say that the tactical surprise, with regard to the day and the hour, was successful, the strategical surprise was not. Russia was completely prepared for war." -- From the deposition of Colonel General Jodl
"There can be no doubt that he (Hitler) broadened the war in 1941 only on preventive grounds." -- A.J.P. Taylor, British War Historian
"On the 1st April, (1941) and no earlier, his decision was made to carry out the attack, and on April 1st he ordered it to be prepared for about the 22nd June. The order of attack itself, therefore the real release of the campaign, was dictated for the first time on the 17th June, which rests firmly on documentation." -- From the deposition of Colonel General Jodl
"The captive Soviet General Vlassow declared, during his interrogation, that the Russian attack (on Germany) was prepared for August/September, 1941." -- (From: H.G. Seraphim, 'Die Deutsch-Russischen Beziehungen 1939/1941', Hamburg, 1949, p.83)
"-- and now the official Soviet history confirms that the Non-Aggression Pact was only concluded to gain time; that the decision for an attack had already been made in the Spring of 1940." -- Kommunist, Moscow, Nr.5, April, 1958. p73/86
"If war does not occur of its own accord, so it has to be plotted. . . no power in the world can stop the course from the Communist world revolution to the Soviet world republic." V.I. Lenin, Ausgewahlte Werke, Vol.2 [emphasis ours jp]
"Shirer declares that the German note to Russia on June 22nd, 1941, 'topped all the previous ones for sheer effrontery and deceit' because it charged that Russia had practised sabotage, terrorism and espionage against Germany, had resisted German attempts to establish a stable order in Europe, had conspired with Great Britain in the Balkans, and had menaced the Third Reich with troop concentrations.
"As a matter of fact every word in these charges was true." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S War Historian
Note: The Jewish author, William L. Shirer's, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is probably the most hyped book on the Third Reich in existence; there can be few who do not have a copy and who use it to base their opinions on the period. In fact, it is no more authoritative and reliable than are for instance notorious tabloids such as The News of the World and The Sun. It had been at one time my intention to conclusively expose each of its falsehoods, deliberate distortions, half-truths and omissions, using only the most reliably-sourced documented evidence. It quickly became apparent that the task would take too long for the time available, as the book is from first page to last a calculated distortion.
I trust that Witness to History will help to set the record straight, and recommend also A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War and Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War.
"It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time." -- Harry Elmer Barnes
"Although Hitler offered very generous terms to Poland in 1938 - 1939, they were nothing compared with those he offered Molotov in Berlin in November, 1940.
"Izvolski would quite literally have swooned with ecstasy over such a prospect -- not only the freedom of the Straits but access to the Persian Gulf and the great riches of the Middle East. The fact that Russia rejected these brusquely is the best proof that Stalin wished war rather than a peaceful adjustment with Hitler." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
"Terror is a means of persuasion." V.I. Lenin, Werke, 3, Ed. Vol. 27, Moscow, 1937, p. 296
"It was a system that got into power by armed revolt, that dispersed the constituent assembly.
"It was a system that liquidated political opponents without any judicial proceedings, that suppressed the strikes of the working men, that pillaged the villages so insufferably thus driving the peasants to rebellion, which were crushed bloodily.
"It was a system that destroyed the Church, that drove twenty governments of the country into starvation.
"It was a system that was first to introduce concentration camps in the twentieth century, as well as the method of taking hostages. i.e. not by catching the persecuted ones, but rather their families or indiscriminately any one to shoot them down.
"It was a system that deceived the working people with all its decrees; the decree concerning the land reform, the decree concerning peace, the decree concerning the manufacturing plants, the decree concerning the freedom of the Press.
"It was a system that liquidated all the other parties. I ask you to get me right; it did not alone destroy the parties as such, it did not only dissolve the parties, but it liquidated their members.
"It was a system that introduced the genocide of the peasants: fifteen million peasants have been deported for liquidation.
"It was the system that introduced serfdom anew.
"It was the system that provoked an artificial famine in the Ukraine during peace time. Six million people died of hunger in the Ukraine at the border of Europe during the years 1932 and 1933.
"During the years 1918 and 1919 the Tcheka shot more than 1,000 people a month without legal procedure. At the climax of Stalin-terror, during the years 1937-1938, the number of people shot to death averages more than 40,000 a month.
"-- and with this country, with this Soviet Union, the whole allied democratic world entered a war alliance in 1941." -- Alexander Solschenizyn, June, 30th, 1975. U.S. -- American Union Organisation
"The gain would be enormous. On the other hand, if war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate victory, nothing is more certain than the victor and vanquished would glean a gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering." -- Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, July 1939
THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR
"Many a time public opinion has been poisoned by untruthful statements in the
Press, and by that irresponsible sensationalism which endangers the peace of
nations." In his Reichstag speech after five years of National Socialism, Chancellor Hitler spoke of this open wound in the life of the nations. He gave a clear answer to those who incite the public, and appealed to the governments not only to make international arrangements to prevent the dropping of explosive, poison-gas and inflammable bombs, but also to stop the publication of all newspapers which have an even deadlier effect on international relations. . .
"I have received many letters from journalists who agreed with me. These are proof that many press men are working under the compulsion of circumstances. It is the same with many democratic statesmen as with many journalists. They have long recognised the depressing Press problem, but dare not deal with it." -- Adolf Hitler
"Day after day the bourgeois world are witnesses to the phenomenon of spreading poison among the people through the instrumentality of the theatre and the cinema, gutter journalism and obscene books; and yet that are astonished at the deplorable 'moral standards' and 'national indifference' of the masses. As if the cinema bilge and gutter Press and suchlike could inculcate knowledge of the greatness of one's country, apart entirely from the earlier education of the individual." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p.29
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT
"Thus, M. Lebrun, the French President seriously warned the editors of his
country not to abuse the so-called Press freedom at their annual meeting of the
French Journalists Organisation, on February 8th, 1937." "One should never forget the regrettable effects of false reports, which might threaten that international harmony among the nations, for which one should work more than ever, and jeopardise the peace desired by all."
THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER
"At a lunch of the Foreign Press Association in Paris, the French Foreign
Minister, M. Delbos, recently spoke against the custom of issuing false or
unfair reports, stating that the common duty of the Press in all lands was to
allay the fever which had arisen. The Press would have, he continued, to do
more for the reconciliation of their nations than their separation."
THE CZECH PRESIDENT
"According to the Prague Press of April, 21st, 1935, the Czech President
Benesch asked whether it was possible to overlook the fact that the moral state
of our generation was being ruined by the revolutionary, demagogic, immoral,
corruptible, sensational, etc. points of view and aims which guided the Press."
THE IRISH PRESIDENT
"In an address before the Irish branch of the Institute of Journalists, President
deValera asked whether the freedom of the Press should or should not be
restricted. He said that the expression 'freedom of the Press' must have a
reasonable explanation, and might not be regarded as meaning power without
responsibility. . . the nation would have to be protected against the abuse of the
influence of the Press."
ADOLF HITLER
"I should be happy if all belonged to the kind who serve their people by
preparing the way for truth. One saying may also be quoted, which also applies
to the correspondent abroad: 'Respect everyone's country, but love your own."
THE PRESS SAYS
"In 1913, the American journalist, John Swinton, stated at the Annual Meeting
of the American Press Association that there was no independent Press in
America, apart from the papers in small provincial towns. He went on to say
that the fact was known to everyone, but that no one dared to express an
opinion about it, while it would never appear in print if he did. "The man who was mad enough to write his own personal opinion would soon be out on the street. A New York journalist had to lie and to sit at the feet of Mammon. He had to sell himself and his nation for the sake of his daily bread. The speaker concluded by referring to journalists as the tools and vassals of the rich who sat behind the scenes and pulled the strings. The time and talents of journalists belonged to them, and Press men were mental prostitutes." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, The Press and World Politics
"A New York firm of publishers recently brought out a book entitled, The Washington Correspondent, in which some extremely interesting statements appeared. The author records the answers to a questionnaire placed before several hundred journalists. The question of how far the freedom of a journalist extended was often laconically answered to the effect that everyone knew they had to write what their editors wanted, or that they would be thrown out of the editorial departments if they did not write what was wanted. The writer of the book, Leo C. Roston, remarks that in a society where freedom is a nice slogan, limited by economic reality, a clear conscience is a luxury restricted to those who have enough money to refuse a compromise at the expense of their personal ideals."
"This book was not written by National Socialists, but published in the United States, would be excellent reading for those who believe they can reproach us with lack of Press freedom." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, The Press and World Politics
"The freedom of the Press is a phantom, a mere label. There is not, and never has been, freedom of the Press in any part of the world." -- Ferdinand Lunberg, America's 60 Families
"Half a dozen men controlling the film industry (Hollywood) were bent on inflaming the American people to clamour for war." -- Senator Clark, 10th September, 1941
"It is not only the dictators who are sensitive to criticism. Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their industry and ability. Few papers will risk any attack on the Jews, however well-founded, for fearing of appearing even distantly anti-Semitic." -- Sidney Rogerson, The Next War
"Appearing before a Senate Committee investigating propaganda in films, he (Senator B.C Clark) said the industry was turning out dozens of pictures to infect the minds of their audiences with hatred and to arouse their emotions. America's 17,000 cinemas virtually constitute daily and nightly mass meetings for war." -- Daily Express, September 11th, 1941
"There is scarcely a newspaper or reputable review in this country that will open its columns to the realities of the German situation; indeed, anything that is favourable to the Hitler regime is turned down by the British Press with scorn." -- G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of Germany
"Money is easier made by lying than by telling the truth. The Press has been responsible for numerous wars." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, German Secretary of State
JEWS AND THE RED CROSS PROTEST AT ANTI-GERMAN PRESS
DISTORTION
"Not a few Jews found these statements (Samuel Untermyer) and many
others far too strong to swallow. They were so startling that some American
associations made direct enquiries. Judge John Payne, Chairman of the
American Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, had received a
report from the German Red Cross, which said: "The reports of atrocities which have been spread abroad for reasons of political propaganda are in no way in accordance with the facts. Arbitrary and unauthorised acts, a few of which occurred in the first days of the national revolution, have been effectively stopped by energetic measures on the part of the government." -- German Red Cross
PURE INVENTIONS
"All such reports are pure inventions. The Central Union states emphatically
that German Jewry cannot be held responsible for these inexcusable distortions
which deserve the severest condemnation." -- Central Union of German
Citizens of Jewish Faith, March 25th, 1933 "Lurid as were the details of bodily mistreatment, it must be emphatically stated that this form of National Socialist attack on Jewry was exaggerated by the foreign Press far out of proportion to its importance in the German anti-German movement and was a far removed from the general tone of German life as Negro lynchings in our south is from normal American life." -- John B. Holt, American observer in Germany
"The alleged anti-Jewish activities in Germany, which people are taking pains to make known to the world, are in substance such that the most stupid reader of the most mendacious boulevard paper can not be taken in. There is an excess of lies and slander which simply negates itself. One can almost do nothing better in the interests of a real enlightenment concerning the developments in Germany than to disseminate these lies in the world and also in Germany itself." -- Karl Rauch, (anti-National Socialist), Die Literarische Welt, February 23rd, 1933
INFORMATION BLACKOUT:
"In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than
in Great Britain. Here, it has been ingenuously christened, 'The Iron Curtain of
Discreet Silence', by the able English lawyer and historian of warfare,
Frederick J.P Veale. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about
British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results." --
Harry Elmer Barnes
THE 'DANCING FUHRER' LIE
"For twenty-years a Birmingham M.P., Boyle has a deep interest in the
Chamberlain family. . . he also disclosed that the British version of the famous
film in which Hitler skips with joy at the defeat of France was doctored by us
for propaganda purposes. Hitler's tread that day was in fact remarkably sober."
-- Sunday Telegraph, 26th March, 1972 "The Press is our greatest evil." -- Thomas Moore, M.P., House of Commons, May 25th,1938
ADOLF HITLER
"The rest of the world, however, whom we have done no wrong and whom we
ask nothing but to be left to go our way in peace, has for months past been
engaged in spreading lying reports and slander about us. "During the time that a national revolution was taking place in Germany, which, unlike the French and Russian revolutions, did not indulge in human carnage or murder hostages, did not, as in the times of the rising in Paris and of the red revolutionaries in Bavaria and Hungary, destroy buildings and works of art by fire, but which, on the contrary, did not smash a single shop window, and neither plundered shops nor damaged houses." -- Adolf Hitler
"Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War." -- Adolf Hitler
"Nine-tenths of the difficulties under which we are suffering can be traced in malicious news reports." -- M. Vladimir d'Ormesson, Confidence in Germany, 1928
"Calumny reigns supreme in the country. Daily exaggerations weaken public opinion and overthrow it. In certain spheres, money plays an unholy role. Certain financial and economic groups are able to destroy mankind at will." -- M. Henry Cheron, French Keeper of the Seal, November 13th, 1934
"Realising the position the Fuhrer clearly stated in May, 1936, at a meeting of the Reichstag that all attempts to relax this international tension would be in vain as long as successful measures were not taken to avoid the pollution of international public opinion by irresponsible poisoners." -- Dr. Otto Dietrich, German Secretary of State.
[Note - JP: It would be appropriate at the end of this chapter to quote from the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" regarding their power over the Press. You'll see what an important part it plays in their deadly 'game'.
From Protocol No. 2:
"In the hands of the States of today there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and create discontent.
"It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation.
"But the goyim States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade."
From Protocol No. 7:
". . . We must compel the governments of the goyim to take action in the direction favoured by our widely-conceived plan already approaching the desired consummation, [written 100 years ago] by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" -- the Press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands.
"In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan."
And from Protocol No. 12, this is a bit protracted; however it does demonstrate the immense power they wield by using the "26 soldiers of lead". And this should bring home to our reader the gift received when their plan is made clear, as well as the gift of a book such as this Witness To History, by Michael Walsh:
"We shall deal with the press in the following way. What is the part played by the press today? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves.
"We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press [i.e. books, magazines, pamphlets, etc.], for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books?
"The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State. . .
"No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us, but they will attack exclusively points that we have predetermined to alter.
"Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them. . .
"All of our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical -- for so long, of course, as the constitution exists. . .
"They will have a finger on any one of the public opinions required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestions. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us."
This tirade continues on stating how they will use the press to attack themselves and give the 'impression' that there is, in fact, free speech, while all the time it will be them, manipulating the minds of the stupid goyim who believe they are following the lines of their party. With that control over a hundred years ago, be clear that there is nothing today, nor form of media nor entertainment that emanates from the mainstream that will not carry their message into the minds of the unsuspecting.
CHAPTER 11
BUT BY JINGO WHEN WE DO
"We have grown accustomed to hear it insinuated that all the adventures and
anxieties and austerities of the past half century carried our country on until, in
1940, it came to 'its finest hour'; and that may be, provided it is stressed that
what is meant is, not the finest hour of the politicians who, if the truth be told,
have shown grievous ineptitude, bringing Britain to the very edge of
catastrophe by their imbecility's, but the finest hour of the fighting men." --
Algernon Cecil, Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers, p.338
THE AGGRESSORS
GERMANY NOT WARLIKE
Even today, Germany is described in terms of her being a European pit bull
terrier; never happy unless spoiling for war with her neighbours, bent on world
domination. Hence the justification to curb its power. This is all pretty rich
coming from Britain, which whatever the merits or otherwise, created by force
of arms a world empire 'upon which the sun never set.'
WHAT ARE THE TRUE FACTS?
A Study of War by Prof. Quincy Wright, shows that in the period from 1480 to
1940 there were 278 wars involving European countries, whose percentage
participation was as follows: ENGLAND: 28 %
FRANCE: 26 %
SPAIN: 23 %
RUSSIA: 22 %
AUSTRIA: 19 %
TURKEY: 15 %
POLAND: 11 %
SWEDEN: 9 %
ITALY: 9 %
NETHERLANDS: 8 %
GERMANY: (INCLUDING PRUSSIA) 8 %
DENMARK: 7 %
Likewise, Pitirim Sorokin, Vol. III, Part. II, Social and Cultural Dynamics, shows that from the 12th Century to 1925 the percentage of years in which leading European powers have been at war is as follows. (p.352).
COUNTRY PERCENTAGE
OF YEARS AT WAR
SPAIN: 67 % POLAND: 58 %
ENGLAND: 56 %
FRANCE: 50 %
RUSSIA: 46 %
HOLLAND: 44 %
ITALY: 36 %
GERMANY: 28 %
Sorokin concludes therefore, "that Germany has had the smallest and Spain the largest percent of years at war."
Of leading modern European states, England, France and Russia show clearly twice the aggressive tendencies of Germany. From the years 1815 to 1907 the record stands as follows:
Britain: 10 wars
Russia: 7 wars
France: 5 wars
Austria: 3 wars
Prussia-Germany: 3 wars
As so often, the lie is the direct opposite to the truth. On the other hand, Britain has a reputation for seeking world domination and the elimination of trade competition.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
"The war was not just a matter of the elimination of Fascism in Germany, but
rather of obtaining German sales markets." -- Winston Churchill, Fulton,
March, 1946 "You must understand clearly that this is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but rather against the power of the German nation, which it is desired to destroy forever, whether it lies in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest." -- English explanation to a German political opponent of Hitler
THE STRATEGY OF PROPAGANDA
"The European war which Britain unleashed on 3rd September, 1939 is,
considered in its proper relation to world history during the last hundred years,
a tremendous undertaking the object of which is to save in the eyes of the world
British glory, British prestige and the British creed.
"The British Empire represents a political structure which, like no other
hitherto known, has been built up on propaganda; propaganda which conceals
the troublesome and often painful voice of history and facts. No country in the
world has achieved such perfection in this way as Britain.
"There, even truth has become the servant of propaganda." -- The Legacy and
Strategy of the British War Propaganda, Wilhelm von Axies, Berlin, 1941
CHURCHILL THE CHARACTER
"From his youth up Mr. Churchill has loved with all his heart, with all his
mind, with all his soul, and with all his strength, three things; war, politics and
himself. He loved war for its dangers, he loves politics for the same reason, and
himself he has always loved for the knowledge that his mind is dangerous --
dangerous to his enemies, dangerous to his friends, dangerous to himself. "I can think of no man I ever met who would so quickly and so bitterly eat his heart out in Paradise." -- F.S Oliver, English Publicist
"Despite all the beautiful words, we have infinitely less justification for this war than the previous one. This time we and France set out to stiffen the back of Poland in its resistance to Germany's demands, certainly not out of any love for Poland, but rather in an attempt to check the increasing power of Germany. In this way, we, together with France, wanted to maintain ascendancy on the continent." -- The Spectator, January 22nd, 1940
"The German people, together with the so-called dictatorships and totalitarian countries, of course, form the great obstacle to Britain in her victorious career towards world domination. As the methods of peaceful propaganda which the British Government previously employed did not prove sufficient for the refutation of the thesis of German intellectual equality of rights, Britain resorted to war. As the Great War had failed to realise Britain's ambition, the German nation was now to be utterly destroyed." -- Sidney Rogerson, The Next War
"Britain was taking advantage of the situation to go to war against Germany because the Reich had become too strong and had upset the European balance. To correct the fundamental trouble, from Britain's point of view, Germany, after her defeat, must be weakened as a protective measure. No morality enters into the matter, only consideration of power politics and British survival." -- Ralph Franklin Keeling
"The English would never have contrived World War Two if they had not been sure of Roosevelt's help. . . what is the net result? First, the Asiatic barbarians, held at bay since 1683, have been let loose in Western Europe. . ." -- H.L. Mencken, Life Magazine, August 5th, 1946, p.46
"This (the American declaration of war) is what I dreamed of, aimed at and worked for and now it has come to pass." -- Winston Churchill, 15th February, 1942
"England is fighting to preserve the balance of power for this reason and no other. . . in the general assumption, that Germany began this war in order to rule the world is, in our opinion false. Germany wanted to be a world power, but world power is not the same as world domination." -- The Nineteenth Century, London, September, 1939
"We never thought of making a separate peace even in the years when we were all alone and could easily have made one without serious loss to the British Empire and largely at your expense." -- Churchill letter to Joseph Stalin, 24th January, 1944
"Germany has become a dangerous competitor for the principle imperialistic powers of Europe, Great Britain and France. They therefore declared war on Germany and under the pretext of fulfilling their obligations to Poland.
"It is now clearer than ever how far the real aims of the governments of these powers are from the purpose of defending disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia. This is shown only by the fact that the governments of Great Britain and France have proclaimed that their aim in this war is to smash and dismember Germany, although this is still being concealed from the mass of the people under cover of slogans of defending 'democratic' countries and the rights of small nations." -- Soviet Foreign Commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, 6th Session Supreme Soviet, 29th March, 1940
"We will of course be told tomorrow morning, that Hitler has attacked Poland. Certain people have been waiting and longing for this moment. They were expecting this attack, having been hankering and praying for it. These men are called Mandel, Churchill, Hore-Belisha and Paul Reynard.
"The great league of Jewish reaction was determined to have its own war. This was its holy war. They knew very well that only such an attack would give them a chance to capture public opinion.
"It will not be very difficult to find the necessary proofs in the German archives that certain gentlemen in cold blood prepared the conditions which made this attack inevitable. Woe betide them should the true history of the war ever be written." -- Prof. Maurice Bardeche, France
"One of the most priceless incidents in the course of the discussion took place when a black exchange student asked Prof. Jacobsen, in good German, how it was that Germany and not England could be chiefly responsible for the war, considering the fact that the German leaders were severely disappointed when Great Britain and France declared war, while the English leaders were delighted and in a good mood when they were able to carry out the British and French declarations of war against Germany.
"This is a classic example of the question which no one can answer who adheres to the thesis of the primary guilt of Germany." -- Prof. David L. Hoggan, The Artificial War
"During war, I realised the truth is so precious, it ought never to appear without a bodyguard of lies. . .
"Stalin and his collaborators took great pleasure in the quip after it was translated. The official meeting thus ended in a cheerful mode." -- Winston Churchill, The 2nd World War, V, Vol.2
"At that time I did not have any idea yet, what a great and undoubtedly helpful role the swindle plays in the existence of those great nations, which enjoy the status of democratic freedom." -- Winston Churchill, Weltabenteuer im Dienst, Leipzig, 1946, p.61
"The Primary and direct responsibility for the European war, which grew into the Second World War, was almost solely that of Great Britain and the British war group, made up of both Conservatives and Labourites.
"If Britain had not gratuitously given Poland a blank cheque, which was not needed in the slightest to assure British security, Poland surely might not have risked a war with Germany. Nevertheless, there would still have been no justification for British intervention in such a war or for the provocation of a European war." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
". . . virtually no truth has been told in England on the Second World war since 1939. No public, even the British public, can stand too large a dose of truth all in one batch. A complete account of the origins of the Second World War could not have been accepted or digested all at one time. Even Professor Taylor's (A.J.P. Taylor) personal safety might have been placed in jeopardy." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
Note: Harry Elmer Barnes is perhaps the most respected revisionist historian in the United States of America, of whom the noted and foremost British authority, George Peabody Gooch said;
"No other American scholar has done so much to familiarise his countrymen with the new evidence and to compel them to revise their wartime judgements in the light of this new material."
"If another war comes and the history of it is ever written, the dispassionate historian a hundred years hence, will not say that Germany alone was responsible for it, even if she strikes first, but that those who mismanaged the world between 1918 and 1937 had a large share of responsibility in it." -- Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to the U.S., March, 1938
THE SOVIET UNION
"The First World War gave us Russia, while the Second World War will hand
Europe to us." Vladimir I. Lenin "The revival of revolutionary action on any scale sufficiently vast, will not be possible unless we succeed in utilising the existing disagreements between the capitalistic countries, so as to precipitate them against each other into armed conflict.
"The doctrine of Marx-Engels-Lenin teaches us that all war truly generalised should terminate automatically by revolution.
"The essential work of our Party comrades in foreign countries, consists, then, in facilitating the provocation of such a conflict. Those who do not comprehend this know nothing of revolutionary Marxism. I hope that you will remind the comrades, those of you who direct the work. The decisive hour will arrive." -- Joseph Stalin, Third International Comintern, Moscow, May, 1938
"We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique." -- Pravda, November 7th, 1938
". . . the former Soviet general, Alexi Markoff, who had a troop command on the Soviet western frontier in the spring of 1941, made public a statement in the American magazine, Saturday Evening Post, May 13th, 1950, according to which Stalin ordered 'war preparations against Germany' after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, 'because Hitler won too quickly'.
"It is to be assumed that the final decision (for an eastern campaign) was first made after the quick success of the Balkan war, in connection with which Russia's hostile attitude towards Hitler was clearly evident.
"The decision for the assault on Russia was a very difficult one for Hitler. The warnings of his military advisers preoccupied him, the shadow of Napoleon, with whom he liked to hear himself compared lay over the mysterious depths of the country. On the other hand there was his strong and unfounded conviction that Russia was preparing for an attack on Germany. We know today on good grounds that he was right on this (blocked out by General Halder)." -- Former Chief of General Staff, Generaloberst Halder, 1949
"It was undoubtedly a genuine preventive war. That which we subsequently ascertained was, in any case, the proof of a colossal Russian military preparation against our borders. I will forego particulars; however I can say that the tactical surprise, with regard to the day and the hour, was successful, the strategical surprise was not. Russia was completely prepared for war." -- From the deposition of Colonel General Jodl
"There can be no doubt that he (Hitler) broadened the war in 1941 only on preventive grounds." -- A.J.P. Taylor, British War Historian
"On the 1st April, (1941) and no earlier, his decision was made to carry out the attack, and on April 1st he ordered it to be prepared for about the 22nd June. The order of attack itself, therefore the real release of the campaign, was dictated for the first time on the 17th June, which rests firmly on documentation." -- From the deposition of Colonel General Jodl
"The captive Soviet General Vlassow declared, during his interrogation, that the Russian attack (on Germany) was prepared for August/September, 1941." -- (From: H.G. Seraphim, 'Die Deutsch-Russischen Beziehungen 1939/1941', Hamburg, 1949, p.83)
"-- and now the official Soviet history confirms that the Non-Aggression Pact was only concluded to gain time; that the decision for an attack had already been made in the Spring of 1940." -- Kommunist, Moscow, Nr.5, April, 1958. p73/86
"If war does not occur of its own accord, so it has to be plotted. . . no power in the world can stop the course from the Communist world revolution to the Soviet world republic." V.I. Lenin, Ausgewahlte Werke, Vol.2 [emphasis ours jp]
THE RUSSIAN -- GERMAN
DECLARATION OF WAR
"The common view is stated with the usual abandon in W.L Shirer's The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich, of which, incidentally, the A.J.P. Taylor book,
Origins of the Second World War, is a devastating refutation. "Shirer declares that the German note to Russia on June 22nd, 1941, 'topped all the previous ones for sheer effrontery and deceit' because it charged that Russia had practised sabotage, terrorism and espionage against Germany, had resisted German attempts to establish a stable order in Europe, had conspired with Great Britain in the Balkans, and had menaced the Third Reich with troop concentrations.
"As a matter of fact every word in these charges was true." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S War Historian
Note: The Jewish author, William L. Shirer's, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is probably the most hyped book on the Third Reich in existence; there can be few who do not have a copy and who use it to base their opinions on the period. In fact, it is no more authoritative and reliable than are for instance notorious tabloids such as The News of the World and The Sun. It had been at one time my intention to conclusively expose each of its falsehoods, deliberate distortions, half-truths and omissions, using only the most reliably-sourced documented evidence. It quickly became apparent that the task would take too long for the time available, as the book is from first page to last a calculated distortion.
I trust that Witness to History will help to set the record straight, and recommend also A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War and Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War.
"It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time." -- Harry Elmer Barnes
"Although Hitler offered very generous terms to Poland in 1938 - 1939, they were nothing compared with those he offered Molotov in Berlin in November, 1940.
"Izvolski would quite literally have swooned with ecstasy over such a prospect -- not only the freedom of the Straits but access to the Persian Gulf and the great riches of the Middle East. The fact that Russia rejected these brusquely is the best proof that Stalin wished war rather than a peaceful adjustment with Hitler." -- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
"Terror is a means of persuasion." V.I. Lenin, Werke, 3, Ed. Vol. 27, Moscow, 1937, p. 296
COMMUNISTS PAID BY MOSCOW
"We should avoid. . . "even appearing to encourage a small, noisy and corrupt
war group here." which he later identified as, "The Communists who are paid
by Moscow." -- Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to France
ALEXANDER SOLSCHENIZYN
"I would like to remind you about the kind of system the foreign relations have
been taken up with. Here it is: "It was a system that got into power by armed revolt, that dispersed the constituent assembly.
"It was a system that liquidated political opponents without any judicial proceedings, that suppressed the strikes of the working men, that pillaged the villages so insufferably thus driving the peasants to rebellion, which were crushed bloodily.
"It was a system that destroyed the Church, that drove twenty governments of the country into starvation.
"It was a system that was first to introduce concentration camps in the twentieth century, as well as the method of taking hostages. i.e. not by catching the persecuted ones, but rather their families or indiscriminately any one to shoot them down.
"It was a system that deceived the working people with all its decrees; the decree concerning the land reform, the decree concerning peace, the decree concerning the manufacturing plants, the decree concerning the freedom of the Press.
"It was a system that liquidated all the other parties. I ask you to get me right; it did not alone destroy the parties as such, it did not only dissolve the parties, but it liquidated their members.
"It was a system that introduced the genocide of the peasants: fifteen million peasants have been deported for liquidation.
"It was the system that introduced serfdom anew.
"It was the system that provoked an artificial famine in the Ukraine during peace time. Six million people died of hunger in the Ukraine at the border of Europe during the years 1932 and 1933.
"During the years 1918 and 1919 the Tcheka shot more than 1,000 people a month without legal procedure. At the climax of Stalin-terror, during the years 1937-1938, the number of people shot to death averages more than 40,000 a month.
"-- and with this country, with this Soviet Union, the whole allied democratic world entered a war alliance in 1941." -- Alexander Solschenizyn, June, 30th, 1975. U.S. -- American Union Organisation
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