Witness To History
By Michael Walsh
CHAPTER 12
THE PEACEMAKERS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES
"The undersigned who believe that real friendship and cooperation between
Great Britain and Germany are essential to the establishment of enduring peace
not only in Western Europe but throughout the world, strongly deprecate the
attempt which is being made to sabotage an Anglo-German rapprochement by
distorting the facts of the Czecho-Slovak settlement.
"We believe that the Munich Agreement was nothing more than the
rectification of one of the most flagrant injustices of the Peace Treaty. It took
nothing from Czecho-Slovakia to which that country could rightly lay claim,
and gave nothing to Germany which could have been rightfully withheld.
"We see in the policy so courageously pursued by the Prime Minister (Neville
Chamberlain) the end of a long period of lost opportunities and the promise of a
new era to which the tragic years that have gone since the War will seem like a
bad dream." -- It bore the signatures of the following:
"Lord Arnold, Captain Bernard Ackworth, Prof. Sir Raymond Beazley, Mr.
C.E Carroll, Sir. John Smedley Crooke, M.P., Mr. W.H. Dawson, Admiral Sir.
Barry Domville, Mr. A.E.R Dyer, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Viscount Hardinge
of Penshurst, Mr. F.C. Jarvis, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Sir. John Latta, Prof. A.P
Laurie, The Marquess of Londonderry, Vice-Admiral V.B Molteno, Captain
A.H. Maule Ramsey, M.P., Mr. Wilmot Nicholson, Lord Redesdale, Captain
Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, Capt. Arthur Rogers, OBE, Maj-Gen, Arthur SollyFlood, Mrs. Nesta Webster, Mr. Bernard Wilson." The Times, October 6th,
1938
This letter was held up for five days before The Times reluctantly agreed to
publish it.
BACKGROUND TO THE
MUNICH AGREEMENT
The dismemberment of Germany following the Great War meant that the
Sudetenland (Bohemia and Moravia), part of Germany for 700 years and with a
population of over 3 million Germans, being moved -- against their wishes --
out of their homeland to become part of a newly-created country, populated
mainly by Czechs and Slovaks, which was to be called Czechoslovakia.
The Sudeten Germans suffered greatly under Czech rule. On March 4th, 1919,
public meetings calling for self determination were brutally broken up and 52
German civilians were murdered. Lord Rothermere described Czechoslovakia
as a 'swindle'
Conditions imposed upon the Sudeten-Germans were so harsh that during
1919, 600,000 were forced to leave their settlements of centuries. Throughout
the ensuing years, the Czech President, M. Benes, saw to it that conditions
became so intolerable that even England and France felt it necessary to concede
this injustice of Versailles and agreed to its return to Germany.
"The worst offence was the subjection of over three million Germans to Czech
rule." -- H.N Brailsford, Leading left wing commentator
The Czech administration which wanted the German territory but not its
population, agreed, but refused to do so and instead began a reign of terror
aimed at driving the German population over the borders into Hitler's Germany
in a program that has since been termed ethnic cleansing.
THE GRUESOME RESULTS
"Let us examine the gruesome tale of figures. On one single day 10,000
refugees, the next day 20,000, then 37,000. Two days later 41,000, then 62,000
and 78,000. Soon it was 90,000, 107,000, 137,000 and today the figure is
214,000. Whole districts are being depopulated. Villages are being burnt down
and shrapnel and gas used to exterminate the German population." -- Adolf
Hitler, September 26th, 1938
Similarly, when under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, a large part of
Germany and its German population was awarded to Poland, so began an anti German racist pogrom resulting in widespread murder and mayhem resulting in
over a million Germans being 'ethnically cleansed' from their homelands of
centuries.
"Let there be no mistake; the 30th January was not the beginning of the
agitation against Germany; in 1923 over half a million Germans had to leave
their historical homelands, Posnia-West Prussia, and this number increased --
according to Polish statements -- to a million by 1931." -- Heinz Roth,
publisher
Hitler's Germany could no longer act as bystanders to the grim unfolding
tragedy. When German troops re-entered their former territory, the
Sudetenland, there was rejoicing in the streets.
THE TIMES RECOGNISED REAL POLITIK
"It was one of the mistakes of the Peace Treaty that though the principle of self determination was much in evidence in Paris, the wishes of the Germans in
Bohemia as of their fellows in Austria were never consulted; or, insofar as by
their self-organised efforts those wishes found some expression, they were
harshly brushed aside. What remains to be done is rectify the error of 1919." --
The Times, June 14th, 1938
[Note - JP: It wasn't a 'mistake'. It was ALL done intentionally laying the
groundwork for what the perpetrators knew would result in a second World
War]
THE MUNICH PACT
The Munich Pact is the name given to the agreement which recognised the
injustice of that section of the Versailles Treaty, which had delivered over 3
million Germans and their homelands to a newly formed state, and subjected
them to the antagonisms of a hostile government.
"The Munich Pact . . . was a triumph for all that was best and most enlightened
in British life." -- Prof. A.J.P. Taylor, Historian
Neville Chamberlain on his return from Munich was denounced for having
negotiated a peaceful settlement and his effigy was burnt -- in Moscow. On the
strength of a report, later found to be false, Mr. Chamberlain guaranteed
Poland's borders. The irony was that Hitler himself was prepared to guarantee
those very same borders but had his proposals rejected.
LORD LOTHIAN
Lord Lothian, in his last speech to Chatham House, remarked:
"If the principle of self-determination had been applied in Germany's favour, as
it was applied against her, it would have meant the return of the Sudetenland,
Czechoslovakia, parts of Poland, the Polish Corridor and Danzig to the Reich."
"Personally I am sorry to say I am convinced that we cannot permanently
prevent these Sudeten Germans from coming into the Reich if they wish it and
undoubtedly, the majority today do so." -- Neville Henderson to Lord Halifax
"I am gratified beyond measure to observe that since the 7th March there has
come in foreign countries a growing realization that Germany -- speaking
through the mouthpiece of her Leader -- has a sincere pragmatic desire for
peace for the worried, suspicious European countries." -- Douglas Chandler,
American journalist
"I cannot see what else Europe could expect. No mobilisation except
commonsense. We should take Hitler at his word." -- George Lounsbury, Ex-Chairman of the Labour Party
"The Locarno Pact is dead. It goes unhonoured and unsung into the tomb of
political errors." -- Lord Rothermere's newspapers
"Hitler has given new hope to humanity. His points are inspired by a most
generous spirit which, if accepted, will surely blow away the dark fears." -- Sir.
Philip Gibbs
"There is no more reason why German territory should be demilitarised than
French, Belgian or British."
"As one of Hitler's greatest friends put it to me recently; 'You can start a
preventive war; you can bomb our cities and occupy our territory. But this time
you will not break our spirit. There will be no November, 1918 in the next
war." -- H. Powys Greenwood. Hitler's First Year
NATIONAL SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY
CONTRARY TO WAR AND
CONQUEST
"The repeated declaration, for example, that it is against Nazi convictions to
want to turn Poles, Frenchmen or Czechs into Germans is based on the idea that
the process must lead 'to the destruction of the German elements, and that the
'victors would thus in reality become the vanquished'.
"When Nazis assure me that they regard the conquest of non-German elements
as likely to weaken them, I am inclined to believe it, as racial purity is a
fundamental article of their faith. It is this faith itself which is leading them to
adopt a more conciliatory attitude towards the adjoining races." H. PowysGreenwood, Hitler's First Year
"However, she does not want to fight at all if it can be helped; and the racial
idea itself leads her to be thoroughly alive to the terrible threat of modern
warfare to women and children, the bearers of the race, and to the dangers that
would threaten the white races in the event of another internecine struggle." H.
Powys-Greenwood, Hitler's First Year
"If their legitimate aspirations are thwarted and their tentative moves towards
reconciliation with former enemies rejected; if their attempts to get in touch
with other people -- the British people above all -- and evoke sympathetic
understanding at least of some of their aims, are met by a persistent barrage of
uncomprehending criticism; the chance of influencing the still young plant of
National Socialism will be thrown away and the New Germany, leaders and led
alike, may in despair turn to the blatant gospel of force.
"A preventive war, which always seems to me to be the acme of defeatism, the
action of men or nations who have no confidence in their future, would at any
rate be more logical." H. Powys-Greenwood, Hitler's First Year
"One young S.S. Man from the Rhineland, who had been telling me harrowing
tales of the Negro occupation, added that as a German nationalist nothing
would please him better than a war of revenge against France, but as a National
Socialist, with the good of the people at heart, he earnestly wished to end a
thousand years of futile conflict with the hereditary enemy." -- H. Powys Greenwood, Hitler's First Year
PRIME MINISTER CHAMBERLAIN
"In three days last week I had 2,450 letters, and 1,860 (76%) of these were 'stop
the war', in one form or another." -- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain,
October,
1939
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
"He (Hitler) is totally convinced that England wants to strike Germany down
again, and that everything which he himself undertakes, therefore, has a
defensive character. Nevertheless, not very long ago, in an intimate circle on
the Obersalzberg, Hitler expressed this opinion:
'A European war could be the end of all our efforts even if we should win,
because the disappearance of the British Empire would be a misfortune which
could not be made up again. If they, the British Government, force me into
belligerency however, then I will seize the initiative and will use every means
at my disposal'." -- Carl. J. Burckhardt, High Commission of the League of
Nations, 1938
WHEN WAR WAS
DECLARED (GERMANY)
When Britain declared war on Germany, (3rd September, 1939) and the
contents of the British Declaration of War were read out to Hitler, it was, 'as if
he had been turned to stone. For a while dead silence prevailed in the room.
Finally, Hitler turned to Ribbentrop, his Foreign Minister, and said;
"What now?"
WHEN WAR WAS
DECLARED (BRITAIN)
"In Britain, Lord Halifax was reported as being 'redeemed'. He ordered beer.
We laughed and joked." -- H. Roth, Why Are We Being Lied To?
AND AFTERWARDS:
"I considered the Nuremberg Trials unjust for condemning the conquered
Admirals as war criminals when, in reality, they did nothing other than defend
their country with acknowledged patriotism." -- Vice Admiral Carlos Torres
Hevia, Republic of Chile
BRITONS WHO OPPOSED
WAR WITH GERMANY
During the war, thousands of British people were gaoled [imprisoned] under a
hastily contrived piece of legislation entitled 'Regulation 18B', as being
potentially sympathetic towards National Socialism or, simply but actively
being opposed to war with Germany. They were rounded up and without trial
imprisoned. It was said 'that every decoration from the Victoria Cross
downwards, could be seen on the prison yard at Brixton'.
"Let us be fair to these people who were imprisoned under 18B, and let us
remember that they have never been accused of any crime; not only have they
not been convicted of any crime, but they have never been accused of any
crime. This should be remembered in all fairness to them." -- Lord Jowett, The
Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords, December 11th, 1946
BRITISH PEOPLE FOR PEACE
"The largest indoor meeting ever held in Britain occurred when over 20,000
people packed Earls Court in London, to support a peace meeting organised by
the British Union." -- Michael McLaughlin, For Those Who Cannot Speak
DAILY MAIL EDITORIAL:
A VISION WHICH
EXCEEDED CHURCHILL'S
"I had the privilege of enjoying the close friendship of Mr. Lloyd George for
nearly twenty years, and it is clear from the Lord Gladwyn letter (July, 28th) that
he never knew him. He had all the courage of Churchill and even greater
vision. Churchill once described him to me as 'our most illustrious citizen, who
was always in the next field but one,' and Lord Birkenhead, when Lord
Chancellor; 'I have not yet discerned his equal, and doubt if I ever shall.'
"Contrary to what Lord Gladwyn says, in the words of Harold Nicolson (who
was there); 'He fought like a tiger' in Paris for a better peace treaty at
Versailles. He failed, not because of Clemenceau -- a 'rude but reasonable man'
-- but because of the obstinacy of President Woodrow Wilson. Afterwards he
said to me: 'The world is too torn and miserable and hurt just now for a just and
lasting peace. But this is not the end, it is the beginning.'
"I asked him what he planned to do, and he said; 'Revise the Polish frontier in
Silesia; abolish the Polish Corridor between East and West Germany, which is
a running sore; abolish reparations, and with them all inter-allied debts; and get
a good international monetary system. After that, we shall get, I hope, steady
and agreed disarmament and closer European co-operation.'
"He started well at the Genoa Conference of 1922 which he dominated. Then
everything crashed. Rathenau was assassinated. He himself fell from power,
Stresemann died, Briand was consigned to the political wilderness. The era of
the political pygmies had arrived.
"Lord Gladwyn goes on to say that he was an appeaser of the Nazis before the
1939 - 1945 war, 'when the Foreign Office was increasingly firm and resolute'.
This is flatly untrue. Lloyd George was never at any time an appeaser, nor did
he ever advocate unilateral disarmament.
"On the contrary, he frequently condemned Neville Chamberlain's
disarmament, 'which I never would have allowed', and even Franklin
Roosevelt's hinting at the possibility of Pearl Harbour. He was persuaded by
Tom Jones, his Welsh Secretary, and later Baldwin's, because Jones, who
accompanied him, thought he was the only man alive who could now prevent a
second world war.
"But George gave nothing away, and afterwards Hitler said, 'what a pity for
them that they have no one else like that now.' He reckoned without one.
"At the Foreign Office, Sir. Horace Wilson replaced Lord Vansittart. If this is
Lord Gladwyn idea of 'increased firmness and resolution' it isn't mine. I went
to lunch later with Lloyd George and Vansittart in the South of France. On the
way back Vansittart remarked grimly: 'We have no one of that calibre now'.
"I find myself in agreement with Lord Gladwyn on only one point. While the
treasure has been almost consistently wrong over the past 50 years, the Foreign
Office has had occasional flashes of sanity, especially under Bevin, Home and
Carrington. But the real miracle is that the British people have been great
enough to survive them both for so long." -- Boothby, House of Lords, Daily
Telegraph
"Indeed he went even further (Con O'Neill 'brilliant Whitehall mandarin'). He
told his boss, the then Foreign Secretary, Rab Butler, that Britain had always
gone to war against cross-border organisations like the Community. Our
traditional foreign policy, after all, had been to keep the continental powers
divided." -- Daily Mail editorial. 2nd January, 1995
AMERICANS AGAINST THE WAR
Seldom in American history were the American people as united in their views
as they were in 1939 about staying out of the war in Europe.
"When hostilities began in September 1939, the Gallup Poll showed 94% of the
American people against involvement in war. The figure rose to 96.5% in
December 1939. On June 3rd, 1941, 83% of the American population was
against entering the war." -- Gallup Poll
"The entry of America into the war would lead to chaos lasting several
generations." -- Charles Lindbergh
FRANCE
"All that is best in France is against war, almost at any price." -- Eric Phipps,
Britain's Ambassador to France
HITLER ON GERMAN-
BRITISH RELATIONS
"I feel it to be a great misfortune that on August 4, 1914, these two great
Germanic nations (Germany and Britain) which, through all the fluctuations of
German history, have lived in peace for hundreds of years, were plunged into
war. I would be very happy if this unnatural state of things came to an abrupt
end and our two kindred peoples found their way back to the old relations of
friendship." -- Adolf Hitler speaking to a British journalist, October 18, 1933
THE BRITISH LEGION
"The English have fought against the Germans only once. We, the
representatives of the British Legion, are of the opinion that it was a mistake.
This mistake must never occur again. I can well speak in the name of the
soldiers of the British Empire when I say that during the war we had an
extraordinary high esteem for the German soldiers. For me this esteem was
confirmed when I came with the army of occupation in Cologne and saw how
the Germans know how to bear great misfortune and hard times." -- Major
F.W.C. Featherstone-Godley, British Legion
"He (Hitler) disclosed on 20th January, 1943, that the Germans in 1940 offered
to retire Hitler if by doing so they could make peace with Britain." -- Joseph E.
Davis, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1936/38
"Most Germans think the war is stupidly unnecessary and that the British were
sticking their noses into what is none of their business. 'Just think of it!' they
exclaim. Here we are so busy making over our country, and now we have to lay
aside our fine construction plans to go and fight it out with those damned
Englishmen'." -- Lothrop Stoddard, American philosopher, Daily Mail, January
1st, 1940
GERMAN/POLISH FRIENDSHIP
"On the contrary, he (Hitler) wanted to remove Danzig as an obstacle, so that
he could strengthen their friendship (between Germany and Poland)." -- Lipski,
Polish Ambassador to Berlin
CHAPTER 13
WAR! POLAND PROVIDES
THE EXCUSE
SIR BASIL
LIDDELL HART, Military Historian.
"The western allies entered that war with a two-fold object. The immediate
purpose was to fulfil their promise to preserve the independence of Poland. The
ultimate purpose was to remove a potential menace to themselves, and thus
ensure their own security. In the outcome they failed in both purposes. Not only
did they fail to prevent Poland from being overcome in the first place, and
partitioned between Germany and Russia, but after six years of war which
ended in apparent victory they were forced to acquiesce in Russia's domination
of Poland -- abandoning their pledges to the Poles who had fought on their side.
"At the same time all the effort that was put into the destruction of Hitlerite
Germany resulted in a Europe so devastated and weakened in the process that
its power of resistance was much reduced in the face of a fresh and greater
menace -- and Britain, in common with her European neighbours, had become
a poor dependent of the United States." -- Sir. Basil Liddell Hart, The History
of the Second World War
It is important to remember that the 'menace' that Germany presented was
solely that of a trade competitor. At no time did Hitler's Germany offer a
military or territorial threat to Britain, but on the contrary offered to provide
whatever assistance that might be required to maintain the British Empire.
On the other hand, the 'fresh and greater menace' that the British Government
had conspired and allied itself with to 'devastate Europe', undeniably had as its
aim the overthrow and occupation by whatever means of Great Britain and the
destruction of its Empire.
THE POLISH PATSY
On February 1st, 1945, Poland's General Anders reproached Winston Churchill
for not adhering to the English guarantees:
"What shall we say to our soldiers? Soviet Russia is now confiscating half of
our territory and wants the remaining part of Poland to be managed according
to her own fashion. We know from experience where that leads." -- General
Anders
CHURCHILL REPLIED
"You yourself are to blame for that. . . we did not guarantee your eastern
frontiers. Today we have enough soldiers and do not need your aid. You can
remove your divisions. We are not using them anymore!" -- Winston Churchill "You did not say that during the last few years." -- General Anders
Such duplicity!
By his words, Churchill openly admits that Poland was
cynically used to provide the excuse and justification for declaring war on
Germany, with the catastrophic results we are now familiar with. Little wonder
that so much regarding the Second World War all these years on has to be
wrapped in a tissue of lies and omissions.
THE EUROPEAN AND
ENGLISH JOURNAL
"In terms of personal success, there has been no career more fortunate than that
of Winston Churchill.
"In terms of human suffering to millions of people and the destruction of the
noble edifice of mankind there has been no career more disastrous." -- The
European and English Journal
Thus, the war to defend Poland's illegally acquired territories ended with eleven
Christian European nations and dozens of Christian cultures subjugated by the
eastern anti-Christ. The heirs to Ghengis Khan had at last reached deep into
Europe, and the great tragedy was that it could not have been achieved without
the connivance and collaboration of the West. Today, the mosques proliferate.
THE FIRST ACTS OF AGGRESSION
The first acts of aggression of the Second World War were carried out by the
Polish armed forces in a serious of serious border attacks which took place over
a considerable period of time. Repeated complaints by Germany were answered
by further military border violations.
THE FIRST INVASION OF
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
". . . was again carried out by Poland which in March, 1939, -- six months
before the outbreak of war
"exploited the chance to seize a slice of Czech
territory." -- Sir. Basil Liddell Hart. The History of the Second World War
POLISH AGGRESSION
Poland's borders, thanks to the Versailles Treaty were well inside what was
historically German territory. The artificial and illegal new border was
constantly subjected to border violations and skirmishes by the Poles. As early
as October 3rd, 1930, three years before Adolf Hitler was elected, the
influential Polish newspaper, Die Liga der Grossmacht carried the following
declaration.
"A struggle between Poland and Germany is inevitable. We must prepare
ourselves for it systematically. Our goal is a new Grunewald (The Battle of
Tannenberg in July 15th, 1410 when the Teutonic Knights were defeated).
However, this time a Grunewald in the suburbs of Berlin.
"That is to say, the defeat of Germany must be produced by Polish troops in the
centre of the territory in order to strike Germany to the heart. Our ideal is a
Poland with the Oder and the Neisse as a border in the West. Prussia must be
reconquered for Poland, and indeed, Prussia as far as the Spree.
"In a war with Germany there will be no prisoners and there will be room
neither for human feelings nor cultural sentiments. The world will tremble
before the German-Polish War. We must evoke in our soldiers a superhuman
mood of sacrifice and a spirit of merciless revenge and cruelty."
"Poland wants war with Germany and Germany will not be able to avoid it
even if she wants to." -- Marshall Rydz-Smigly, Poland
When the Polish dictator, Marshall Pilsudski (1867-1935) received the
proposals of the German representative concerning the peaceful settlement of
the German-Polish territorial problems, the Polish Marshall replied:
"I believe strongly in the honourable intentions of your Fuhrer, however, tell
him he should not overlook the fact that the ancient hatred of my people against
everything German is abysmal." -- Deutscher Anzeiger, December, 1969
"Let us be quite clear about the fact that Poland can hear of no peace before she
has reached the Oder." -- M. Mikolajczyk, President, Agricultural Assoc.' of
Greater Poland, June 21st, 1939
"This is our vital space which we must demand. Our real 'Festival of the Sea'
will not begin before Polish divisions are sweeping forward, irresistibly
towards the Baltic." -- Merkurjusz Polski, July 2nd, 1939
"In 1410 we defeated the Germans at Tannenberg, now we are going to lick
them at Berlin. The Polish-German frontier is now about 1,000 miles long.
After the victory of Berlin, the crowning feature of the unavoidable war with
Germany, it will amount to about 270 miles only." -- University of Posen, May
4th, 1939
"The precise effect of the Mutual Assistance Pact was to give Poland a clear
signal that aggression and belligerency was tolerable and a warning to
Germany that any retaliation would be met by force." -- Sir. Basil Liddell Hart,
The History of the Second World War
THE PACT
"There is widespread belief that Great Britain was committed by treaty to the
defence of Poland. That is not the fact. It is true that on August 25th, 1939,
Lord Halifax as Foreign Secretary (with the Polish Foreign Secretary) signed
an agreement pledging mutual support should either nation be attacked by a
European power, but this did not constitute a treaty, which, according to
constitutional practice has to be ratified by Parliament and can only be made by
heads of state.
"The Halifax document was published in 1943 as a White Paper, and again in
1945, but the first White Paper omitted a curious protocol which expressly
stated that by a European power was meant Germany. It is difficult to
understand the purpose of such a clause if the intention was not to indicate that
the British Government declined to intervene if Poland should be attacked by
the Soviet Union alone. . .
"The British Government therefore acted in default and declared war. . ." --
A.K. Chesterton
"Great Britain advances, leading France by the hand, to guarantee the integrity
of Poland -- of that very Poland which with hyena appetite only six months
before, joined in the pillage and destruction of the Czechoslovak state." --
Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 1, pp 311/312
THE WARMONGERS
"Uneasiness ruled in the House of Commons. A delegate of the Labour Party
met with the British Foreign Minister Halifax on September 2nd, (1939) in the
lobby of Parliament. 'Do you still have hope?' he asked. 'If you mean hope for
war,' answered Halifax, 'then your hope will be fulfilled tomorrow.'
'God be thanked!' replied the representative of the British Labour Party." --
Professor Michael Freund
"For Churchill himself had, in the heat of the moment, supported Chamberlain's
pressing offer of Britain's guarantee to Poland. It is only too evident that in
1939 he, like most of Britain's leaders, acted on hot-headed impulse -- instead
of with cool-headed judgment, that was once characteristic of British
statesmanship." -- Sir. Basil Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War
"We entered the war of our own free will, without ourselves being directly
assaulted." Winston Churchill, Guild Hall Speech, July, 1943
"One of the most unwise decisions ever made by a British government." -- Lord
Arnold
WHO WERE THE REAL AGGRESSORS?
"Germany is too strong. We must destroy her." -- Winston Churchill, Nov.
1936.
* Poland occupying German territory stolen in 1914 invades Czechoslovakia
(March, 1939) Numerous violations of German borders. Germany retaliates,
Sept, 1939
* Britain and France declare war on Germany, 3rd Sept, 1939. Germany
retaliates. 10th May, 1940. British and French Troops routed.
* Russia invades Finland, Nov 30th, 1939.
* Britain and France invade Norway's neutrality, 8th April, 1940. Germany
retaliates. 9th April. 2,000 German troops rout 13,000 British troops.
* Canada declares war on Germany, 10th Sept, 1939.
* Russia invades Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania, June, 1940.
* Britain declares war on Finland, Romania and Hungary, 7th Dec, 1941.
British backed coup overthrows Yugoslav government, 27th March, 1941,
British troops enter Greece, 6th April, 1941. Germany retaliates -- Britain
retreats.
* Britain prepares to invade neutral Portugal, June, 1940. Germany retaliates.
'Neutral' America attacks German shipping, Aug, 1941. Germany retaliates.
"There can be no doubt that he (Hitler) broadened the war in 1941 only on
preventive grounds." -- A.J.P. Taylor, British Historian.
BRITAIN'S UNPREPAREDNESS
Little or no thought was given to Britain's inability to provide a military
guarantee of Poland's independence.
"Unless we know the duration of the war and its intensity, we can form no
estimate of what will be the state of Europe when victory is won." -- The
British Foreign Secretary, 2nd November, 1939
"It was surely a chastening thought that we were now alive as a British
Commonwealth and Empire more by the mistakes which the enemy made in
1940 than by any foresight or preparation which we had made before that date."
-- Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production, May 6th, 1944
"Those of us who had access to all the information available, who knew the full
extent of our unpreparedness, were fully aware that it would take at least two
years from the outbreak of war before we could organise, train and equip an
army proportionate to our needs, and we all knew that during these two years
we were bound to be involved in a series of disasters." -- Lt. Gen. A.E. Nye,
Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff, May 6th,1944
FOREBODING
"A war of such unprecedented devastating and crippling a character must mean
that not only this country but the whole world would be much poorer and
disabled. We should live in a fool's paradise if wishful thinking led us to
believe that cruel war would bring in its train happier times and better days." --
Sir. Kingsley Wood, February 2nd, 1943
"Britain gave a foolish guarantee to Poland and then that nation by its
intransigence plunged us into war. Poland was not saved. Our guarantee meant
nothing, but Britain was brought into bondage to United States bankers and
brokers after spending £227,000,000,000 in fighting that foolish war, to say
nothing of the terrible casualty lists." -- Daily Express, 16th August, 1961
"The fact is that the only real offer of security which Poland received in 1938
and 1939 emanated from Hitler. He offered to guarantee the boundaries laid
down in the Versailles Treaty against every other country. Even the Weimar
Republic had not for a moment taken this into consideration.
"Whatever one may think of Hitler's government or foreign policy, no doubt
exists on this point; his proposals to Poland in 1938/39 were reasonable and
just and the most moderate of all which he made during the six years of his
efforts to revise the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means." -- Professor Harry
Elmer Barnes, American Historian
"The last thing Hitler wanted was to produce another great war. His people, and
particularly his generals, were profoundly fearful of any such risk -- the
experiences of World War One had scarred their minds." - Sir. Basil Liddell
Hart, The History of the Second World War
"Of all the Germans, Believe it or not, Hitler is the most moderate as far as
Danzig and the Corridor are concerned." -- Sir, Neville Henderson, British
Ambassador to Berlin, 16th August, 1939
". . . no factor in the life of Europe today offers so grave and certain a menace
to peace than the Corridor, which cuts Germany into two parts, and severs
Danzig, one of the most German of cities, from the fatherland. Can Europe
afford to ignore this menace and allow matters to drift? To do so would be
tantamount to inviting and hastening catastrophe, for instead of improving, the
conditions in the Corridor after and because of 12 years of Polish occupation,
are steadily growing worse.
Because it is now abundantly clear that all the needs of Polish trade, present
and future, can be satisfied without the corridor, and because good relations
between Germany and Poland, which are so essential to the settlement of peace
in Europe, will be impossible so long as that political monstrosity continues.
The greater part of the territory should go back to the country to which it owes
its civilisation." -- William Harbutt Dawson, English Authority on Germany,
Germany Under the Treaty, 1933, p. 169-70
For the sake of the Polish Corridor,
"No British government ever will or ever can risk the bones of a British
grenadier." -- Austen Chamberlain
WHY DIE FOR STALIN?
Text of leaflet dropped behind British lines by the 3rd Reich's British
collaborators:
"In dying for Stalin your soldiers are not dying for democracy or the
preservation of the democratic form of government -- they are dying for the
establishment of Communism and a form of Stalinist tyranny throughout the
world. Furthermore, they are not dying for the preservation of the integrity of
small nations (England's old war-cry) but are dying so that Poland shall be a
Soviet state; so that the Baltic states shall be incorporated in the Soviet Union
and so that Soviet influence shall extend from the Baltic to the Balkans. [Exactly how it turned out D.C]
"Every British soldier who lays down his life in this war is not only a loss to his
own country; he is a loss to the common cause of European civilisation.
Germany and England's quarrel is a form of traditional rivalry. It is more in the
nature of a private quarrel which Germany did not seek. The Soviet Union's
quarrel, however, is a quarrel with the WORLD. It is a quarrel with our
common heritage and with all those values -- moral, spiritual, cultural and
material which we have, all of us -- Englishmen and German alike --
recognised, cherished and striven to maintain. TO DIE FOR THE
DESTRUCTION OF THESE VALUES IS TO DIE IN VAIN.
"Stalin, with all the diabolical power of Communism behind him, is seeking to
profit from Britain's and Germany's preoccupation. The amount of influence
which Britain can exercise on Stalin can be measured by the latter's undisputed
claims to the sovereign territories of other nations. The only controlling
influence left on Stalin is the strength and tenacity of the German Wehrmacht
and of the European volunteers who support Germany in her fight for the
survival of Europe, and its opposition as the cradle of our common civilisation.
"Every British soldier who dies for Stalin is another nail in the coffin of
Britain's hopes of maintaining a 'balance of power' in Europe. Should the
'equilibrium' pass to Stalin then the equilibrium of the world is at an end.
THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE -- THINK IT OVER!" Text of leaflet
dropped behind British lines by the 3rd Reich's British collaborators
"I, M. Daladier, struggle, together with my people, for the reparation of an
injustice inflicted upon us, and the others strive to maintain that injustice." --
Hitler's letter to French President Daladier, 27th August, 1939
"He (Neville Chamberlain) had no difficulty in recognising where this injustice
lay. There were six million Germans in Austria to whom national re-unification
was forbidden by the peace treaties of 1919. Three million Germans in
Czechoslovakia whose wishes had never been consulted, three hundred and
fifty thousand people in Danzig who were notoriously German." -- A.J.P.
Taylor, British Historian
"Now we have forced Hitler into war, so that he can no longer neutralise one
part of the Versailles Treaty after another by peaceful means." -- Lord Halifax
"Germany is becoming too strong. We must neutralise her." -- Winston
Churchill, November, 1936, to U.S. General Wood
"If Germany becomes too strong, she will be broken up once again." -- Winston
Churchill, 1937, to German Foreign Minster von Ribbentrop
Note: It is interesting to note that it was Ribbentrop, who, along with other
leaders of the German nation, were hanged for waging aggressive war!
"Just imagine going to war over Danzig -- such a world catastrophe, just to
prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because
Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong." -- Joachim von Ribbentrop
THE FIRST SHOTS OF
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
"Late at night on Thursday, August 31st, 1939, the editor was listening to
Gleiwitz, a radio station on the German-Polish frontier but just inside Germany.
Suddenly, after midnight, the musical programme stopped and excited German
voices announced that the town of Gleiwitz had been invaded by Polish
irregular formations marching towards the emitting station. Then the station
'went dead'. When received again about 2.00am (Friday) Polish was being
spoken.
"Cologne Radio gave out that German Police were repelling the attackers at
Gleiwitz. At 6.00am (Friday) 1st, September, the German Army invaded
Poland." -- Louis Marschalko. The World Conquerors
THE FIRST SOLDIER OF THE REICH
". . . just as there have occurred, recently, twenty-one border incidents in a
single night, there were fourteen this night, among which three were very
serious. . .
"Since dawn today we are shooting back. I desire nothing other than to be the
first soldier of the German Reich. I have again put on that old coat which was
the most sacred and dear to me of all. I will not take it off until victory is ours
or -- I shall not live to see the end. There is one word that I have never learned:
capitulation." -- Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech, 1st September, 1939
ADOLF HITLER, 10th MAY, 1940
"Soldiers of the Western Front:
"The hour of the decisive battle for the future of the German nation has arrived.
"For three hundred years it has been the aim of the British and French rulers to
obstruct every real consolidation of Europe and, above all, to hold Germany in
weakness and impotence.
"For this purpose France alone has declared war on Germany thirty-one times
in the course of two centuries.
"But for decades past it has also been the aim of British world rulers at all costs
to keep Germany from unity, to deny the Reich those vital possessions
necessary for the preservation of a nation of 80 million people.
"Britain and France have carried out this policy of theirs without worrying
about the regime that happened to rule Germany at the time.
"Their object was always to strike at the German people.
"Their responsible men admit this quite frankly.
"The object is to smash Germany and to resolve it into a number of small
states. With that the Reich would lose its political power and with it the
possibility of securing for the German people their vital rights on this earth.
"For this reason all my attempts at peace were rejected and war declared on us
on September 3rd last year.
"The German people had no hatred and no enmity for either the British or
French peoples.
"But today we are confronted by the question whether we are to exist or perish.
"In the space of a few weeks our brave troops crushed the Polish enemy who
was in the service of Britain and France, and thus eliminated danger from the
east. Thereupon Britain and France decided to attack Germany from the north.
"Since April 9th, the German armed forces have also nipped this attempt in the
bud.
"Now something has happened that for months past we have regarded as a
threatening menace. Britain and France are attempting, by their employment of
a gigantic manoeuvre of distraction in southeastern Europe, to thrust their way
forward into the Ruhr district by way of Holland and Belgium.
"Soldiers of the Western Front!
"The hour for you has now arrived.
"The struggle which commences today will decide the fate of the German
nation for the next thousand years.
"Do your duty.
"The German people, with its fervent wishes, is with you." -- Adolf Hitler, 10th
May, 1940
A.J.P. TAYLOR
"There can be no doubt that he (Hitler) broadened the war in 1941 only on
preventive grounds." A.J.P. Taylor, War Historian
". . . neither the French nor the British would have made Poland a ground for
war, if Washington had not continually pressed for it.
"Bullitt, (Ambassador William C.Bullitt) he said, had declared time and time
again that the Germans would not fight, he (Kennedy) that they would fight and
overrun Europe. Chamberlain, he said, had declared that America and world
Jewry had pushed Britain into war. In his telephone conversations with
Roosevelt in the summer of 1939, the President had said to him (Kennedy)
repeatedly that he should press a hot iron to Chamberlain's backside. Kennedy
claims to have answered each time that it would lead to nothing to press a hot
iron to his backside, so long as the British had no iron with which to fight. . ."
-- American Ambassador Kennedy, December, 1945
THREATS AGAINST NEUTRALS
Many countries throughout the world maintained neutrality, and remained on
friendly relations with Hitler's Germany. All were threatened with trade
embargoes and similar measures designed to ensure their compliance with the
American-Jewish-Communist alliance.
"We must not ask questions as to what these small powers want, nor listen to
explanations of what they are prepared to do. We must tell them frankly that we
demand, what part each of them has to play in the alliance to destroy the
German menace. If one or other of them show signs of hesitation, we must act
so as to ensure that such hesitation will be immediately overcome. It is time
similar measures were taken with regard to Holland and Belgium." -- Duff
Cooper, Privy Counsellor.
In 1944, a fuel blockade was imposed upon neutral Spain to enforce
compliance in taking action hostile to German interests. Similar measures were
taken against neutral Portugal and threats were made against Argentina.
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TORAH! TORAH! TORAH -- PLEASE!
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