Please do your own research. The information I share is only a catalyst to expanding ones confined consciousness. I have NO desire for anyone to blindly believe or agree with what I share. Seek the truth for yourself and put your own puzzle together that has been presented to you. I'm not here to teach, preach or lead, but rather assist in awakening the consciousness of the collective from its temporary dormancy.
What if I told you that a very powerful man has, in his own words, been “infiltrating governments” around the world to implement a surveillance state, strip you of your property rights, and remove your freedom of speech?
And what if this same man was pushing policies that benefited big corporations (too big to fail) while bankrupting millions of small businesses (too small to save)? More and more of the struggles that individuals and small businesses face point back to Klaus Schwab and the prison he is erecting, a prison few of us have ever even heard of. Its name? Technocracy!
Who is Klaus Schwab?
In the early months of 2022, a brigade of transport trucks descended on Ottawa, Canada. Many of them had traveled over 3,000 km across harsh Canadian winter prairie. They risked this trip to protest against a new COVID-19 mandate requiring them to be vaccinated.
We all recognize that the right to protest lies at the bedrock of a free society. However, did Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau deal with these protestors in a mature statesman-like manner? Or was his behavior more consistent with that of a reactionary authoritarian?
“We cannot and will not allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue,” Trudeau said, as he granted police powers to impose fines, imprison protestors, and instructed banks to freeze the protesters’ accounts.
With these financial sanctions and threats of arrest, the “Freedom Convoy,” as the protest came to be called, lost its momentum.
Tellingly, his mentor, Klaus Schwab, the founder and president of the World Economic Forum (WEF) said he was very proud of Justin Trudeau.
Klaus Schwab is a German economist and engineer who is the founder and executive chairman of WEF.
Schwab is concerned about elected officials who are “too often caught in traditional, linear (and non-disruptive) thinking or too absorbed by immediate concerns to think strategically about the forces of disruption and innovation”. Instead of trusting the open marketplace and the established rules and customs of the Western liberal democratic system, Schwab wants a planned economy based on what is called “public-private partnerships”.
In practice, these public-private partnerships resemble fascism, which its initiator, Benito Mussolini, described as the merger between the corporation and the state.
In this spirit of authoritarianism, Schwab works closely with China and has praised China as an optimal model. In fact, he keeps a bust of Lenin, who imposed communism onto the Soviet Union, in his personal study
On paper, the WEF’s annual meetings in Davos bring together many of the world’s elite leaders in business, government, civil society, and academia to discuss public-private cooperation on global issues such as inequality. This provides the WEF opportunities to persuade these groups to adopt the WEF’s philosophies and viewpoints.
The Davos group represents the elite 0.001% throughout the world, the one in a hundred thousand. Many of them have been in power for decades. If there’s a problem with income inequality or degradation of the environment, why not start by looking at these elites who’ve been in charge during this entire time?
Schwab wants “more agile forms of governance,” but doesn’t provide specifics. Just that you have to accept his ideas as to “how we live, work, and relate to each other”. And if you object? Schwab is curiously silent on this part of the plan.
Schwab is counting on big corporations to act as de facto governments, enforcing the WEF’s agenda through their terms of service. We have already seen how Big Tech companies have been able to censor opposing viewpoints.
How the WEF Used COVID-19
In Schwab’s technocracy, the rulers won’t send you to a physical gulag. An algorithm will declare your opinions to be hate speech or racist, and you’ll find yourself in a digital gulag, cut off from your bank account, employment, housing and from buying and selling.
In China, they “disappear” people. We haven’t gone that far in the West. Instead, as we saw during COVID, those who disagree are slandered, silenced and removed from positions of authority. For example, think of the treatment of the thousands in the medical community who signed the Great Barrington Declaration, opposing lock-downs, masking, vaccine mandates and passports, and other COVID-era rules and restrictions. Did these scientists get fair play on the evening news, or were they ignored and silenced by social media companies?
Have these 14,000 scientists been exonerated? Nearly every one of them was a victim of cancel culture.
Suppose the World Economic Forum is truthful about its desire to create a better world. In that case, they must realize that free speech and expression provide the cornerstone for all other values.
We need freedom of speech to determine what is “wrong” or false speech. The answer to bad ideas is good ideas and trusting people to be able to tell the difference. Without freedom of speech, how can one know what is objectionable? What is true or false? If we lose free speech, we forfeit the act of discovery enabled by the open discourse and argument with others, and with it, the ability to think critically and act independently. We are then left to blindly follow the dictates of those, who present themselves as having our best interests at heart.
The danger of a Technocratic surveillance state has never been more real. The merger of Big Tech with Big Government and Big Banking does not bode well for the future of humanity. It’s not difficult to see the threat of a government digital currency tied into a Global ID system, complete with domestic checkpoints requiring passports, governed by a social credit system to boot.
It is a digital prison claiming to supposedly provide safety, security, and convenience.
It has been called the Digital Dachau. As Benjamin Franklin said all those years ago, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Military personnel at a media event at a base in Poland. The event was to display to the public how the Polish military trains Ukrainian soldiers on the German Leopard 2 tanks
MARCH 02, 2023
NY Times: Scrounging for Tanks for Ukraine, Europe’s Armies Come Up Short
The struggle to deliver on promises to provide Leopard 2 tanks for use against Russian forces has exposed just how unprepared European militaries are.
This phony war which supposedly may lead to “World War III” is getting phonier and funnier by the day. Just three days ago, the ANYT published an analysis titled — US Weapons to Ukraine Are NOT Arriving! — which reviewed how the Ukraine will not be getting its US tanks and missiles for up to two more years! Oh well, at least the Germans and other European NATO members will be fulfilling their promises, right?
From the article:
“Nearly a month after Berlin gave European allies permission to send German-made tanks to Ukraine, the flow of tanks so many leaders vowed would follow seems more like a trickle. Some nations have discovered that the tanks in their armory don’t actually work or lack spare parts.” (emphasis added)
“And some armies had to pull trainers out of retirement to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to use old-model tanks.” (emphasis added)
“The (German) Leopard tanks are scarce on the ground. And some countries that clamored for permission to send them to Ukraine are having difficulties doing so, or second thoughts of their own.” (emphasis added)
Amazing! The famously organized, prepared and efficient Germans haven’t manifested such bumbling wartime incompetence since WW2.
Just a few days ago, we learned about America’s “incompetence” in delivering the promised weapons to Ukraine …
Today, we learn that the “scrounging” Germans (and other European states) cannot execute simple military deliveries either …
“Schultz, you dummkopf! Vat do you mean zee Leopard 2 tanks are not ready?!
The trio of dumb-asses who penned this Slimes article attribute NATO’s folly to a lack of preparation stemming from the belief that there was never going to be another European land war again. Of course, we all know that’s a bunch of horse-puckey because World War III — thwarted only by the emergence of Trump — had already been in the planning for years.
The comedy of this phony-funny war gets better:
Times: Despite Europe having an estimated 2,000 Leopard 2 tanks of different models — pledges for Ukraine are still short of the hundreds it says it needs. Analysis: “Pledges are still short” — How short, exactly?
Times: Germany has offered 18, and Poland another 14, but the numbers drop from there. Analysis: 18 & 14 tanks??? That’s all? And those are only what’s been “pledged!” Why even bother “pledging” anything, at all? That would be like promising your kid a weekly allowance of $1 — “Have a good time, Junior — and don’t spend it all in one place!”
Times: And once the currently pledged tanks go into battle and get hit or break down, it is not clear which Leopards — or which country — will replace them. Analysis: This is hysterical — and delightful! Of course, we all know that Slimes scribblers are a deceitful bunch; but are the clowns at the “paper of record” also this dull — this lacking in curiosity and intuition — that they haven’t yet figured out, or at least hypothesized, that this phony-funny war is a big joke? Clearly, this is a rigged conflict in which eastern Ukraine is to permanently remain part of Russia as a de-balled / de-fanged / obsolete NATO looks on in helpless humiliation — while chess master Trump continues to “warn” about a fictitious possibility of “World War III” (with both Russia & China) — which will seem real.
Well played, Presidents Putin, Trump and imposter “Biden” — well played.
“Standing With Ukraine” has turned into “Standing Up” Ukraine — or “Setting Up” Ukraine.
Do you see what the theater behind this phony-funny war is all about now?
The econo-propagandists at the Times will always spin a decline in the rate of inflation – which still represents an ongoing increase in prices – as positive news.
From the article:
“People across the country are finally experiencing some relief from what had been a relentless rise in living costs. After repeated false dawns in 2021 and early 2022 — when price increases slowed only to accelerate again — signs that inflation is genuinely turning a corner have begun to accumulate.”
Happy days are here again!
What nonsense. This is akin to a morbidly obese man reducing the rate of his monthly weight gain — yet still gaining a few pounds each month — and declaring progress. Along with their diversionary tricks, the seditious scribblers of Sulzberger’s Times have “memory holed” the fact that two years ago, the evil “paper of record” and their preferred quack-economists were actually cheer-leading for a “weakened dollar.”I rebutted one such piece. The article is re-posted below. See for yourself who called it correctly. (toot toot)
1. Times economics writer Jeanna Smialek knows more about shoes and handbags than she will ever understand about macroeconomics. // 2. Good news fatboy! Your rate of monthly weight gain fell from 7 pounds to “only” 3 this month! // 3. On the topic of inflation, we dug up a doozy from The Times Orwellian “Memory Hole.”
FLASHBACK / 03-02-21
Noam Scheiber
Rebuttal March 2, 2021: Only in the upside-down Orwellian world of Fake Economics — where the most basic dynamic of action & reaction is never understood — would the deliberate debasement of the national currency be considered a good thing if it increases exports sold to countries with a stronger currency (hence, theoretically, more manufacturing jobs here). Never mind the real income and wealth diminution of struggling elderly savers; or the decline in purchasing power of already strapped American consumers which such an insane policy would worsen. Those issues can be addressed separately — perhaps with even more money printing and debasement to pay for more welfare schemes.
This is some really crazy stuff — the equivalent of Stupid-19 insanity for economics. Let’s analyze and rebut a few lines. Hazmat suits and hip waders on, boys & girls, into Sulzberger’s macroeconomic muck we go.
Times: President Biden has made reviving American manufacturing a top priority. To deliver, he may first have to deal with something even more fundamental to the U.S. economy: the strength of the dollar. Rebuttal: The surest way to revive manufacturing (as the pre-Stupid-19 Trump years proved) is through aggressive deregulation, tax cuts, tort reform (lawsuit control), and protective tariffs. Instead, the eggheads want to debase the currency and drive up prices.
Times: “Dollar overvaluation is the big problem,” said Mike Stumo, chief executive of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, …. Mr. Stumo describes policies that prop up the dollar as a “war on the working class.” Rebuttal: Mike Stumo is out of touch with reality. We presume, given his title, that his salary and net worth in equities render his family immune to the ravages of a weakening currency. But for “working class” people living paycheck to paycheck with neither guaranteed salary increases nor higher-than-inflation capital gains each year, inflation is deadly. Nothing wages “war on the working class” like rising food and fuel prices. Nothing.
Times: Mr. Biden has hired a handful of senior economic advisers who are concerned about the dollar’s strength and have explored ways to reduce it.(emphasis added) Translation: Inflation coupled with stagnant wages is coming. Brilliant!
Times: At its simplest level, the trade deficit represents a kind of leakage from the U.S. economy: Americans buy more in goods and services from abroad than the rest of the world buys from the United States … If Americans bought more domestically made products and fewer imports, the spending would create jobs for U.S.-based workers. Rebuttal: But you’re creating another, even more serious problem (inflation, particularly on imported goods) in order to “solve” the import-export “imbalance.” It’s like trying to prevent weight gain by smoking a pack of cigarettes daily in order to tamp down the hunger pangs! Why not just exercise and gradually condition yourself to eat smaller portions? — And why not just maintain a strong currency (consumer purchasing power) anda vibrant manufacturing economy (through business friendly policies, sensible tariffs and, ironically, increased consumer purchasing power).
What is most dangerous about this system is the fact that the US dollar is already artificially propped-up due to its status as the world’s reserve currency. Worldwide dollar demand actually keeps the dollar much stronger and more stable than what it would otherwise be. If (((they))) were to start weakening the “strong” dollar, there’s no telling how fast the existing illusion would unravel as investors start dumping them. It’s quite a pickle.
1. British Sodomite crypto-Marxist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) distorted the field of Economics. At the behest of his Globalist Masters, Keynesian ideology replaced the free market with grand and disastrous schemes of boom-bust monetary manipulation and state intervention. // 2. Let the presses roll — at interest! // 3. The elites don’t really worry about rising food prices.
1. The government sinks businesses (especially manufacturing) — then proposes to debase the currency in order to help business? // 2. Mr. Stumo is Mr. Stupid. // 3. “If I smoke more cigarettes, I’ll eat less and lose weight.”
In a perfectly honest monetary system, no government nor Central Bank would be rigging its currency values up or down to achieve this or that economic metric. Ideally, the ratio of debt-free currency to “stuff” (GDP) should be kept relatively constant because the only legitimate functions of currency are to facilitate trade and act as a store of value. In such an honest system, your money should neither depreciate (no theft of citizens) nor appreciate (we don’t want speculative hoarding either) as actual wages and saved wealth increase along with GDP.
Indeed, from 1800 until 1913, wealth increased greatly as prices for clothes and food stayed pretty much constant as neither the state nor the banksters could steal it. But then came “The Fed” (1913); the gradual abandonment of the gold standard (starting in 1933 & ending in 1973); and the post World War II enthronement of “Keynesian” economic gibberish and manipulation on a global scale.
At this advanced stage in society’s mental and moral decline, the monetary error has become so institutionalized that even “educated” business leaders seriously and openly talk about degrading the value of what’s left in our pockets, salaries and bank accounts — as if its good thing for “the working class.” Nuts!
1. From 1800-early 1900’s — booming exports AND stable currency value. Why was that? // 2. The Fed destroys the value of the dollar. // 3. Hitler’s Germany: The strongest currency in the world AND a booming manufacturing with lots of exports. Why was that?
Operation Barbarossa. Did Stalin Foresee Hitler’s Invasion?
In attacking eastwards from June 1941 the Nazis intended to annex the Ukraine, all of European Russia, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, while establishing a satellite Finnish nation to the north-east. A greatly enlarged Germany would thus be created, serving as a homeland for hundreds of millions of those belonging to the so-called Germanic and Nordic races. As envisaged by Nazi planners, this expansion would provide the economic base to sustain the thousand year Reich.
According to Adolf Hitler’s Directive No. 18 issued on 12 November 1940, the goal of his eastern invasion was to occupy and hold a line from Archangel, in the far north-west of Russia, to Astrakhan, almost 1,300 miles southward; further conquering Leningrad, Moscow, the Donbas, Kuban (in southern Russia) and the Caucasus.
Nothing was mentioned as to what the Germans would do, once the Archangel-Astrakhan line had been reached. The Wehrmacht’s objective was, however, to annihilate the Soviet forces in western Russia through massive armoured spearheads and encirclements, thereby preventing the Red Army’s withdrawal further east.
It should be stated, firstly, that the USSR had no plans in 1940 or 1941 to attack Nazi Germany; nor did the Soviets hold ambitions to sweep across all of mainland Europe in a war of conquest. There really was no need for the world’s largest state to take control of other vast continents.
David Glantz, the US military historian and retired colonel, realised that Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin’s position in 1941 was that of a defensive one. Glantz wrote how, “Stalin was guilty of wishful thinking, of hoping to delay war for at least another year, in order to complete the reorganization of his armed forces. He worked at a fever pitch throughout the spring of 1941, trying desperately to improve the Soviet Union’s defensive posture while seeking to delay the inevitable confrontation”.
Glantz’ views are supported by other experienced historians like England’s Antony Beevor. He observed that “the Red Army was simply not in a state to launch a major offensive in the summer of 1941”; but Beevor did not entirely exclude the possibility that Stalin “may have been considering a preventive attack in the winter of 1941, or more probably in 1942, when the Red Army would be better trained and equipped”.
Was the Soviet leadership aware of the threat that Hitler posed to their state?; and which was gradually developing around them like a dark cloud. Early in July 1940 a report compiled by the Soviet intelligence agency, the NKGB, was sent to the Kremlin. It revealed that the Third Reich’s General Staff had requested Germany’s Transport Ministry to furnish details, regarding rail capacities for Wehrmacht soldiers to be shifted from west to east. It constituted the first hint of what lay ahead. This was the period, in the high summer of 1940, when serious discussions started between Hitler and his generals, relating to an attack on Russia.
As early as 31 July 1940 the German planning for an invasion of the Soviet Union “was in full swing”, as noted by US author Harrison E. Salisbury. Earlier in July Hitler had initially pondered attacking Russia in the autumn of 1940 but, by late July, he concluded it was too late in the year with poor weather fast approaching.
There is little indication that Stalin, or high-ranking Soviet officials, were at all worried by the first warning signals they received through intelligence about Nazi intentions. During early August 1940, the British obtained information suggesting Hitler was planning to destroy Russia, and London passed on their findings to Moscow. Stalin ignored them as he strongly distrusted the British, not without some reason. This was based in part on Stalin’s recent experiences in dealing with Conservative governments who were, to put it kindly, of an unfriendly disposition towards the Soviet Union.
London and Paris refused to sign a pact with the Kremlin in the spring and summer of 1939 – which would have aligned the British, French and Russians against Nazi Germany. Stalin had no choice but to then finalize an agreement with Hitler that autumn, and these unwanted realities have since been suppressed by institutions like the German-led European Union.
The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 23 August 1939 had served the Soviets well, until the Wehrmacht swiftly routed France from May to June 1940. The manner of the French defeat astonished and disturbed Stalin, who was expecting a long, drawn-out conflict in the west, as in the First World War.
Yet Stalin’s agreement with Hitler had kept Russia out of the heavy fighting for now, while the Kremlin made territorial gains by taking over the eastern half of Poland, on 6 October 1939. With the end of the Winter War against Finland, the Soviets absorbed around 10% of Finnish land in March 1940. At the beginning of August 1940 Stalin officially annexed the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, having first occupied those states in mid-June 1940, which resulted in pro-German officials fleeing the region. Stalin’s march into the Baltic came as a response to the Nazi triumphs on the western front, and his understandable fear of Baltic nationalism and possible German penetration near Soviet frontiers.
Basil Liddell Hart, the retired British Army captain and military theorist wrote, “Hitler had agreed that the Baltic states should be within the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence, not to their actual occupation; and he felt that he had been tricked by his partner; although most of his advisers realistically considered the Russian move into the Baltic states to be a natural precaution, inspired by fear of what Hitler might attempt after his victory in the west”.
During the days after the Fall of France, Stalin occupied the Romanian territories of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia. Until World War I, Bessarabia had belonged to the Russian Empire for about a century, but Northern Bukovina never before comprised part of Russia. In the eyes of Hitler and German generals, Stalin’s advance into parts of northern Romania was dangerous and provocative. Hitler first learnt of Stalin’s plan to reincorporate Bessarabia on 23 June 1940, when just after sunrise the Nazi leader was victoriously touring Paris in an open topped vehicle. Hitler became irritated when he heard the news. He felt that Bessarabia’s return to Russia would bring Stalin intolerably close to the Axis oil wells, at the city of Ploesti in southern Romania.
During a meeting with Benito Mussolini in the Bavarian Alps on 19 January 1941, Hitler told his Italian counterpart, “now in the age of airpower, the Romanian oil fields can be turned into an expanse of smoking debris by air attack from Russia and the Mediterranean, and the life of the Axis depends on these oil fields”.
Over the course of World War II, Ploesti’s wells furnished the Nazi empire with at least 35% of its entire oil, other accounts state as much as 60%; but the latter figure is most likely excessive and above the overall average. For many years Romania was Europe’s largest oil producing country by far, and the fifth biggest on earth in 1941 and 1942, having overtaken Mexico. The significant oil sources in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) fell under Axis control in early 1942, when that country was overrun by Japanese armies, and they would remain there for over three years.
Hitler wanted his Romanian oil fields to be formidably defended; he ordered the Wehrmacht to place scores of heavy and medium German anti-aircraft guns around the Ploesti refineries, and that smoke screens also be deployed; the latter were effective at obscuring the installations from enemy planes, which were shot down in large numbers.
The Germans created limited quantities of oil from synthetic hydrogenation processes, involving materials like coal. This mostly benefited the Luftwaffe, not so much the panzers and other ground vehicles. The terms of the non-aggression deal with Russia ensured the Reich received in total 900,000 tons of Soviet oil, from September 1939 to June 1941. This was not a huge amount, considering the Wehrmacht consumed three million tons of oil in 1940 alone.
Nazi Germany was also supplied with oil by the United States, then unrivalled as the world’s biggest oil producer and exporter; specifically the dealings that American corporations like Texaco and Standard Oil conducted with the Nazis, sometimes secretly through other countries, along with US-controlled subsidiaries based in the Reich. In addition, arriving from the globe’s third largest oil manufacturing state, Venezuela, then a major US client, came shipments of petroleum sent across the Atlantic, destined for the German war machine.
Altogether “around 150 American companies” had “business links to Nazi Germany”, the Israeli journalist Ofer Aderet outlined, writing for the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz. US business deals with the Nazis, Aderet wrote, “included huge loans, large investments, cartel agreements, the construction of plants in Germany as part of the Third Reich’s rearmament, and the supply of massive amounts of war matériel.
Meanwhile, Stalin’s reintegration of Bessarabia in early July 1940 was providing a buffer to the Soviet defence of its navy, in the Black Sea slightly further east; including added security to Russian naval bases, such at the port of Odessa in southern Ukraine. The Soviet advance into Romania “was worse than ‘a slap in the face’ for Hitler”, Liddell Hart observed as “it placed the Russians ominously close to the Romanian oil fields on which he counted for his own supply”. On 29 July 1940 Hitler spoke to his Chief-of-Operations, General Alfred Jodl, about the potential of fighting Russia if Stalin attempted to seize Ploesti.
On 9 August 1940 General Jodl issued a directive titled “Reconstruction East”, ordering that German transport and supplies be bolstered in the east, so that plans would be cemented by the spring of 1941 for an attack on Russia. It was at this time that Winston Churchill’s government began warning Moscow of the German invasion plans; but Stalin strongly suspected that the British wanted to drag him into the war, just to take the pressure off London. Stalin certainly believed that Soviet armies would have to fight the Germans some day, but not just yet.
Soviet designs towards Germany remained non-threatening. On 1 August 1940 the Soviet Union’s foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, said that the Nazi-Soviet Pact was centred not on “fortuitous considerations of a transient nature, but on the fundamental political interests of both countries”. Nevertheless by September 1940, Soviet commanders stationed along their western frontier began talking about Hitler’s “Drang nach Osten”, meaning the dictator’s proposal for eastward expansion. Soviet military men spoke about Hitler’s habit of carrying around a picture of Frederick Barbarossa, the red-bearded Prussian emperor who centuries before had waged war against the Slavs.
On 12 November 1940 foreign minister Molotov, a staunch communist, landed in Germany by aircraft. Upon Molotov’s arrival in Berlin, Stalin told him to indicate to the Germans that he wanted a wide-ranging deal with them. Stalin still thought a partnership with Hitler into the near future was attainable. Instead, during the talks Nazi officials presented to Molotov a junior partnership for Soviet Russia, in a German-dominated global alliance. Soviet policy, as the Nazis insisted, was to be focused on south Asia, towards India, and a conflict with Britain. This did not satisfy Stalin at all.
Following Molotov’s dispatching of the report on his disappointing discussions in Berlin, according to Yakov Chadaev, a Soviet administrator, Stalin was certain that Hitler intended to wage war on Russia. Less than two weeks later, on 25 November 1940 Stalin informed the Bulgarian communist politician Georgi Dimitrov “our relations with Germany are polite on the surface, but there is serious friction between us”.
Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky, a top level Russian officer who repeatedly met with Stalin, had accompanied Molotov to Berlin. Vasilevsky returned home convinced that Hitler would invade the Soviet Union. Vasilevsky’s opinion was shared by many of his Red Army colleagues. After Molotov had left Berlin, Hitler met German executives and made it clear to them that he was going to attack Russia.
In the autumn of 1940 draft plans for the strategic positioning of Soviet divisions along their western frontier, in preparation for a German invasion, were sent to the Kremlin by the Russian High Command. Stalin did not respond. Rather ominously, in the second half of November 1940 the central European countries of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania all joined Hitler’s new European order, by signing up to the Axis coalition. Hitler could now depend especially on the support of Romania, under Ion Antonescu. He was a fervently anti-communist and anti-Semitic military dictator, who at age 58 had come to power on 4 September 1940.
Romania is by no means a leading nation today, but during the war years it was indeed an important country. This was mostly due to her natural resources and to a lesser extent its strategic location, beside the Black Sea and the Ukraine.
Stalin was growing slightly concerned as 1940 reached its end. Addressing Soviet generals before Christmas, Stalin referenced passages from Hitler’s book ‘Mein Kampf’, and he spoke of the Nazi leader’s stated goal of attacking the USSR some day. Stalin said “we will try to delay the war for two years”, until December 1942 or into 1943. Shortly after the Wehrmacht’s crushing of the French, Molotov recalled him saying, “we would be able to confront the Germans on an equal basis only by 1943”.
On 18 December 1940 Hitler released his Directive No. 21 outlining, “The German armed forces must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign, before the end of the war against England”. On Christmas Day 1940, the Soviet military attaché in Berlin received an anonymous letter. It expounded that the Germans were preparing a military operation against Russia, for the spring of 1941.
By 29 December 1940 Soviet intelligence agencies had possession of the basic facts regarding Operation Barbarossa, its design and planned start date. In late January 1941 the Japanese military diplomat Yamaguchi, returning to the Russian capital from Berlin, said to a member of the Soviet naval diplomatic service, “I do not exclude the possibility of conflict between Berlin and Moscow”.
Yamaguchi’s remark was forwarded on 30 January 1941 to Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, a prominent Soviet officer who knew Stalin personally. Even before late January 1941, the Soviet Defence Commissariat was concerned enough to draft a general directive to the Russian border commands and fleets, which for the first time would name Germany as the probable enemy in coming war.
In early February 1941, the Soviet Naval Commissariat started receiving almost daily accounts, about the arrival of German Army specialists in Bulgarian ports; and preparations for the installment of German coastal armaments there. This information was relayed to Stalin on 7 February 1941. In fact, other senior figures such as Marshal Filipp Golikov, the chief of intelligence for the USSR’s General Staff, said that all Soviet reports on German planning were forwarded to Stalin himself.
As Molotov was about to make his way to Berlin the previous November, Stalin stressed to him that Bulgaria is “the most important question of the negotiations” and should be placed in the Soviet realm. On 1 March 1941 Bulgaria instead joined the Axis. In early February 1941, the Russian command in Leningrad reported German troop movements in Finland. This was no laughing matter as Finland shares an eastern border with Russia.
The Kremlin could not count on Finnish loyalty in the event of a German attack. Finland’s Commander-in-Chief Gustaf Mannerheim, in his mid-70s and an anti-Bolshevik, had been closely acquainted with the deposed Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Mannerheim previously kept a portrait of the Tsar and said, “He was my emperor”. The Finns were far from grateful when the Soviet military rolled into their country in November 1939, without a declaration of war. In February 1941 the Leningrad Command reported German conversations with Sweden, pertaining to the transit of Wehrmacht troops through Swedish land.
The Soviet political administration wanted to emphasize awareness to the Red Army, to be prepared for engagement. Stalin rejected this approach, because he was afraid it would appear to Hitler that he was gathering forces to start an offensive against Germany. Stalin warned General Georgy Zhukov that “Mobilisation means war”, and he did not want to risk a conflict with Germany in 1941.
On 15 February 1941, a German typist entered the Soviet consulate in Berlin. He brought with him a German-Russian phrase book, which was being published in his printing shop in extra large edition – included in it were such phrases as, “Are you a Communist?”, “Hands up or I’ll shoot” and “Surrender”. The ramifications were clear enough. Around this time, Russian State Security acquired reliable intelligence stating that the German invasion of Britain was suspended indefinitely, until Russia was defeated.
In late February and early March 1941, German reconnaissance flights were taking place over the Baltic states under Russian control. These were severe infringements into the Soviet zone. The appearance of Nazi planes became frequent over the coastal city of Libau, in western Latvia, above the Estonian capital Tallinn, and over Estonia’s largest island Saaremaa.
Russian Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, who intensely disliked the fascist states, granted the Soviet Baltic fleet authority to open fire on German aircraft. On 17 and 18 March 1941, Luftwaffe planes were spotted over Libau and promptly shot at by Soviet personnel. Nazi aircraft were then sighted near the city of Odessa, on the Black Sea. Admiral Kuznetsov was summoned to the Kremlin by Stalin, where he found him with the police chief Lavrentiy Beria. Stalin reprimanded Kuznetsov for giving the order to shoot at German planes, and he expressly forbid Soviet units to do so again.
Hitler’s Secret Directive 18
After the failed November 1940 discussions in Berlin, of the Soviet Union’s foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, both he and his leader Joseph Stalin occasionally remarked that Nazi Germany was no longer so prompt in fulfilling its obligations to Moscow. This was relating to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, of 23 August 1939, an agreement which was meant to last for 10 years. Stalin and Molotov did not attribute much significance to the slacking off in Berlin’s punctuality, as the delivery of German goods and technology to Soviet Russia increasingly did not appear on schedule.
Unknown to Stalin and Molotov, on the very day the Soviet foreign minister had landed in Berlin for talks, 12 November 1940, Adolf Hitler secretly issued Directive No. 18. It outlined the planned German invasion of the USSR, including the envisaged conquest of major cities like Kiev, Kharkov, Leningrad and Moscow. On 18 December 1940 Führer Directive No. 21 was completed, which stated that the Wehrmacht’s attack on the Soviet Union should proceed in mid-May 1941.
For Russia, as 1941 advanced beyond its opening weeks, the warning signs about the German threat were becoming difficult to overlook. False reports were featured in the Nazi press about “military preparations” being made across the border in the Soviet camp. The same German media tactics had preceded Hitler’s invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland.
On 23 February 1941, the Soviet Defence Commissariat published a decree stating that Nazi Germany was the next likely enemy. Soviet frontier areas were requested to make the necessary preparations to repel the attack, but the Kremlin did not respond.
On 22 March 1941, the Russian intelligence agency NKGB obtained what it believed to be solid material that “Hitler has given secret instructions to suspend the fulfillment of orders for the Soviet Union”, regarding shipments tied to the Nazi-Soviet Pact. For example the Czech Skoda plant, under Nazi control, had been ordered to halt deliveries to Russia. On 25 March 1941 the NKGB produced a special report, expounding that the Germans had amassed 120 divisions beside the Soviet border.
For months there were concerning cables coming from the Russian military attaché in Nazi-occupied France, General Ivan Susloparov. The German authorities had curtailed Soviet embassy duties in France, and in February 1941 the Russian embassy was moved from Paris southwards to Vichy, in central France. Only a Soviet consulate was left in Paris.
Image on the right: OKH commander Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and Hitler study maps during the early days of Hitler’s Russian Campaign (Public Domain)
During April 1941, General Susloparov informed Moscow that the Germans would attack Russia in late May 1941. Slightly later on, he explained it had been delayed for a month due to bad weather. At the end of April, General Susloparov collected further information about the German invasion through colleagues from Yugoslavia, America, China, Turkey and Bulgaria. This intelligence was forwarded to Moscow by mid-May 1941.
Again in April 1941, a Czech agent reported that the Wehrmacht was going to execute military operations against the Soviet Union. The report was sent to Stalin, who became angry when he read it and replied, “This informant is an English provocateur. Find out who is making this provocation and punish him”.
On 10 April 1941 Stalin and Molotov were given a summary by the NKGB, about a meeting that Hitler had with Prince Paul of Yugoslavia at the Berghof, in early March 1941. Hitler was described as telling Prince Paul he would begin his invasion of Russia in late June 1941. Stalin’s response to the alarming reports, such as this, was one of appeasement of Hitler, though a similar strategy had failed for the Western powers.
Remarkably, through April 1941 Stalin increased the volume of shipments of Russian supplies to the Third Reich, amounting to: 208,000 tons of grain, 90,000 tons of oil, 6,340 tons of metal, etc. Much of these essentials would be used by the Nazis in their attack on Russia.
Marshal Filipp Golikov, head of intelligence for the USSR’s General Staff, insisted that all Soviet reports relating to Nazi plans were forwarded directly to Stalin. Other accounts informing Moscow about an impending Wehrmacht invasion came from abroad too. As early as January 1941 Sumner Welles, an influential US government official, warned the Soviet Ambassador to America, Konstantin Umansky, that Washington had information showing Germany would engage in war against Russia, by the spring of 1941.
During the final week of March 1941 US Army cryptanalysts, experts at deciphering codes, started producing obvious indications of a German relocation to the east. This material was relayed to the Soviets. America’s cryptographers had cracked Japanese codes in the second half of 1940; including the Purple Cipher, Japan’s highest diplomatic code, which ensured that the Franklin Roosevelt government was uniquely well informed of Tokyo’s intentions.
The US commercial attaché in Berlin, Sam E. Woods, came into contact with high-level German staff officers opposed to the Nazi regime. They were aware of the planning for Operation Barbarossa. Woods was in a position to discreetly observe the German preparations from July 1940, until December of that year. Woods sent his findings to Washington. President Roosevelt agreed that the Kremlin should be told of these developments. On 20 March 1941, Welles once more saw Soviet Ambassador Umansky and forwarded the news.
Russia’s embassy in Berlin noticed that the Nazi press was reprinting passages from Hitler’s 1925 book ‘Mein Kampf’. The paragraphs in question were about his proposal for “lebensraum”, German enlargement at the Soviet Union’s expense.
The Russians had a formidable espionage agent, Richard Sorge, operating in Tokyo since 1933, the year that Hitler took power in Germany. Sorge, a German citizen and committed communist, established an especially close relationship with the imprudent Nazi ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott. The data Sorge received was not always 100% accurate, but it allowed him access to the most confidential and up to date German plans.
On 5 March 1941, Sorge dispatched to the Soviets a microfilm of a German telegram sent by the foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to the German ambassador Ott – and which outlined that the Wehrmacht attack on Russia would fall in mid-June 1941. On 15 May, Sorge reported to Moscow that the German invasion would start somewhere between 20 to 22 of June. A few days later on 19 May Sorge cabled, “Against the Soviet Union will be concentrated nine armies, 150 divisions”. He later increased this figure to between 170 to 190 divisions, and that Operation Barbarossa will start without an ultimatum or declaration of war.
All of this fell on deaf ears. Sorge, who had his vices being a heavy drinker and womaniser, was ridiculed by Stalin just before the Germans attacked as someone “who has set up factories and brothels in Japan”. To be fair to Stalin, at the late date of 17 June 1941 Sorge was not fully certain if Barbarossa would go ahead. Why? The German military attaché in Tokyo became unsure if it would proceed, and sometimes a spy is only as good as his or her sources.
Meanwhile in March 1941, Russia’s State Security forces acquired an account about a meeting the Romanian autocrat, Ion Antonescu, had with a German official named Bering, where the subject of war with Russia was discussed. Antonescu had in fact been informed by Hitler, as early as 14 January 1941, of the German plan to invade Russia, such was the prominent position Romania held in Nazi war aims. The German-controlled Ploesti refineries in southern Romania produced 5.5 million tons of oil in 1941, and 5.7 million tons in 1942.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini learnt of the German attack on Russia only after it had commenced – in part because Hitler believed he did not really need Italy, he had not asked for their help; and it was also hardly Italy’s fight, considering that country’s position cut adrift somewhat in south-central Europe. The Italian people, furthermore, would not want their troops involved in a brutal conflict against Russia, and which had nothing to do with Italy. The Duce had other ideas, and after the war the Austrian commando Otto Skorzeny correctly wrote, “Benito Mussolini was not a good wartime leader”.
By mid-March 1941, the Soviet leadership had a detailed description of the Barbarossa plan. The period, throughout March and early April 1941, saw tensions rise significantly between Berlin and Moscow, notably in south-eastern Europe. The American author Harrison E. Salisbury noted, “This was the moment in which Yugoslavia with tacit encouragement from Moscow defied the Germans, and in which the Germans moved rapidly and decisively to end the war in Greece, and occupy the whole of the Balkans. When Moscow signed a treaty with Yugoslavia on April 6 – the day Hitler attacked Belgrade – the German reaction was so savage that Stalin became alarmed”.
On 25 March 1941 the Yugoslav government of the regent, Prince Paul, had signed an agreement in Vienna, which effectively made Yugoslavia a Nazi client state. Nevertheless, just two days later patriotic factions in the Serbian populace, assisted by British agents and led by chief of the Yugoslav air force, General Dusan Simovic, overthrew the pro-German regency. They installed a monarchy headed by the teenage king, Peter II of Yugoslavia; and a new government was formed in the capital Belgrade which declared its neutrality. Upon hearing this, Winston Churchill declared it to be “great news” and that Yugoslavia had “found its soul” while it would receive from London “all possible aid and succour”.
Hitler was irate at Churchill’s gloating and the sudden reversal in Yugoslav policy. Feeling he had been betrayed somehow, he decided to teach the Yugoslavs a lesson. Hitler ordered his Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring to launch a furious air attack on Belgrade. In the days from 6 April 1941, thousands of people were killed in Belgrade from Nazi air raids. On the ground Yugoslav forces were no match for the Germans, who were helped by the Italians, and the fighting was all over after less than two weeks. Churchill’s aid and succour was sadly not forthcoming.
The Nazi-led Axis powers likewise invaded Greece on 6 April 1941, and by the middle of that month the Greek position had become untenable; therefore on 24 April British forces in Greece began their evacuation of the country. This was an operation the British had by now developed a real expertise in, as to escape the German blows they previously evacuated Dunkirk, Le Havre and Narvik.
Because of his subjugation of Yugoslavia and Greece, Hitler on 30 April 1941 postponed the attack on the Soviet Union until 22 June. It has sometimes been claimed that this delay, of just over five weeks, was a central factor in later derailing Barbarossa. Though an attractive one, this theory does not stand up under closer inspection.
The Nazi invasion eventually petered out, but largely due to strategic errors committed by the German high command and Hitler, such as not directing the majority of their forces towards Moscow, the USSR’s communications centre. Moreover, Canadian historian Donald J. Godspeed observed, “the middle of May was really too early for an invasion of Russia. Before the middle of June, late spring rains would ruin the roads, flood the rivers, and make movement very difficult except on the few paved highways. Thus, since the initial surprise thrust had to go rapidly to yield the best results, Hitler probably gained more than he lost by his postponement”.
The spring and early summer of 1941 were particularly wet, across eastern Poland and the western parts of European Russia. Had the Germans invaded as originally intended on 15 May 1941, their advance would have bogged down in the first weeks. It is interesting to note that the Polish-Russian river valleys were still overflowing on 1 June, according to the American historian Samuel W. Mitcham.
On 3 April 1941 Churchill attempted to warn Stalin, through the British ambassador to Russia, Stafford Cripps, that London’s intelligence data indicated the Germans were preparing an attack on Russia. Stalin gave no credence whatever to British intelligence reports, because he was distrustful of Britain even more so than America, and it is likely such warnings if anything increased his suspicions further.
In late April 1941 Jefferson Patterson, the First Secretary of the US Embassy in Berlin, invited his Russian counterpart Valentin Berezhkov to cocktails at his home. Among the invitees was a Luftwaffe major, apparently on leave from North Africa. Late in the evening this German major confided to Berezhkov, “The fact is I’m not here on leave. My squadron was recalled from North Africa, and yesterday we got orders to transfer to the east, to the region of Lodz [central Poland]. There may be nothing special in that, but I know many other units have also been transferred to your frontiers recently”. Berezhkov was disturbed to hear this, and never before had a Wehrmacht officer divulged top secret news like that. Berezhkov passed on what he heard to Moscow.
Throughout April 1941, daily bulletins from the Soviet General Staff and Naval Staff outlined German troop gatherings along the Russian frontier. On 1 May an account from the General Staff to the Soviet border military districts stated, “In the course of all March and April… the German command has carried out an accelerated transfer of troops to the borders of the Soviet Union”. Try as the Germans might, it was impossible for them to conceal the gathering of vast numbers of their soldiers. The German presence was obvious along the central River Bug boundary; the Soviet chief of frontier guards asked Moscow for approval to relocate the families of Red Army troops further east. Permission was not granted and the commander was upbraided for showing “panic”.
Nazi reconnaissance flights, near or over Soviet territory, were increasing as the spring of 1941 continued. Between 28 March and 18 April, the Russians said that German planes had been sighted 80 times making incursions. On 15 April, a German aircraft was forced into an emergency landing near the city of Rovno, in western Ukraine. On board a camera was found, along with exposed film and a map of the USSR. The German chargé d’affaires in Moscow, Werner von Tippelskirch, was summoned to the Foreign Commissariat on 22 April 1941. He met stiff protestations about the German overflights.
Yet Nazi planes were hardly ever shot at, because Stalin forbade the Soviet armed forces from doing so, for fear of provoking an invasion. In early May 1941 the German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary, “Stalin and his people remain completely inactive. Like a rabbit confronted by a snake”.
On 5 May 1941 Stalin received from his intelligence agencies a report detailing, “German officers and soldiers speak openly of the coming war, between Germany and the Soviet Union, as a matter already decided. The war is expected to start after the completion of spring planting”. Also on 5 May Stalin gave a speech to young Soviet officers at the Kremlin, and he spoke seriously of the Nazi threat. “War with Germany is inevitable ”Stalin said, but there is no sign the Soviet ruler believed a German attack was imminent.
On 24 May 1941, the head of the German western press department, Karl Bemer, got drunk at a reception in the Bulgarian embassy in Berlin. Bemer was heard roaring “we will be boss of all Russia and Stalin will be dead. We will demolish the Russians quicker than we did the French”. This incident quickly came to the attention of Ivan Filippov, a Russian correspondent in Berlin working for the TASS news agency. Filippov, also a Soviet intelligence operative, heard that Bemer was thereafter arrested by German police.
In early June 1941 Admiral Mikhail Vorontsov, the Russian naval attaché in Berlin, telegrammed his fellow Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, who was in Moscow, and stated that the Germans would invade around the 20th to the 22nd of June. Kuznetsov checked to see if Stalin was given a copy of this telegram, and he found that he certainly received it.
Nazi Germany’s Economic Exploitation of the USSR
Looking back over an eight decade time-span at the design for Operation Barbarossa, the June 1941 German-led attack on the USSR, its invasion plan betrays a pathological overconfidence. The strategic planning, of advancing across a breadth of many hundreds of miles of terrain, was excessively ambitious to the point of being grotesque.
Barbarossa’s intelligence details were also poorly worked out. Nazi estimates on Soviet military capacity were based more on guesswork than reliable information, and this underestimation of the enemy would come back to haunt them.
On 13 May 1941 in preparation for the invasion, Adolf Hitler’s close colleague Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel issued an order outlining that, upon capture, all Soviet commissars were to be executed immediately. The commissars were Communist Party officials attached to military units, in order to imbue Red Army troops with Bolshevik principles and loyalty to the Soviet state.
It was because of this that Hitler designated the commissars to be liquidated in their thousands. The order signed, on 13 May, continued that Soviet civilians suspected of committing offences against the Wehrmacht could be shot, on the request of any German officer. Most maliciously of all, it was made clear that German soldiers found perpetrating crimes against non-combatants need not be prosecuted.
Those Wehrmacht officers that did not believe in Nazism, i.e. because they were monarchists or conservatives, could still reprimand German troops for misdeeds if they wished to, and this did occur. One of the most prominent German Army commanders in the early 1940s, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock leading Army Group Center, was an avowed monarchist who disliked Nazism.
The Jewish Virtual Library, overseen by American foreign policy analyst Mitchell Bard, acknowledged that von Bock “privately expressed outrage at the atrocities” committed by SS killing squads on the Eastern front; but the field marshal was “unwilling to take the matter directly to Hitler” though he did send “one of his subordinate officers to lodge the complaint”. The Jewish Virtual Library noted that the crimes committed against Soviet civilians further “outraged many of von Bock’s subordinate officers”.
This is not to suggest the Wehrmacht, as a whole, was clean in its conduct in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. It was by no means that, which came primarily as a result of staunch Nazis being placed in positions of authority in the German Army; like the Chief-of-Staff Franz Halder and Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, commander of the German 6th Army.
Among the invasion’s goals was flagrant exploitation, looting and annexation. With this in mind, the Nazis established the Economic Office East, which was placed under the authority of Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering, the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Goering informed Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, that “This year [1941] between 20 and 30 million persons will die in Russia of hunger. Perhaps it is well that it should be so, for certain nations must be decimated. But even if it were not, nothing can be done about it”. Count Ciano, who was the Italian Foreign Minister since 1936, passed on Goering’s comments to Mussolini.
More than three weeks after the German attack, Goering wrote on 15 July 1941, “Use of the occupied territories should be made primarily in the food and oil sectors of the economy. Get to Germany as much food and oil as possible – that is the main economic goal of the campaign”.
It is still not entirely clear whether the Nazi method of systematizing the plunder and administering the occupied territories (known as Plan Oldenburg) was based on the belief that the Reich required this amount of foodstuffs, with the deaths of millions of Russians and Jews from starvation being a side effect; or whether their desire was the depopulation of the conquered regions, with starvation used as a convenient process for mass murder. Whatever the principal motive, the prospects of Soviet citizens unfortunate enough to fall under Nazi occupation was grim.
The German march onto Russian soil was hardly a new historical occurrence. A generation before, the eastern divisions of the Imperial German Army, commanded by Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg, had from late 1914 captured chunks of the Russian Empire’s territory; which on that occasion came after the Imperial Russian Army had marched into East Prussia.
German eastern expansion under Ludendorff and Hindenburg was concerned too with conquest, but theirs was more humane than Nazi policy, as it did not descend to the widespread killing of civilians or Jewish populations. Instead, Ludendorff and Hindenburg sought to commandeer livestock and horses, while exploiting “the extensive agricultural and forestry resources for the German war effort”, historians Jens Thiel and Christian Westerhoff observed.
Hitler’s East Prussian gauleiter Erich Koch, who would be in charge of ruling Nazi-occupied Ukraine, said that, “Our task is to suck from the Ukraine all the goods we can get hold of, without consideration of the feeling or the property of the Ukrainians. Gentlemen: I am expecting from you the utmost severity toward the native population”.
The 1941 German invasion force consisted of 136 divisions, which amounted to 3 million men. They were supported at the beginning by over half a million Finnish and Romanian troops, commanded by Gustaf Mannerheim and Ion Antonescu, two experienced career officers who for differing reasons desired the USSR’s destruction. Field Marshal Mannerheim of Finland, a monarchist and more moderate figure than General Antonescu, had never forgiven the Bolsheviks for shooting Tsar Nicholas II and his family on 17 July 1918; Mannerheim wept bitterly when he heard of the Tsar’s death, for he was both well acquainted with the Russian monarch and had served under him in the Imperial Russian Army.
Of the 136 Wehrmacht divisions which would attack the USSR on 22 June 1941, a modest 19 of them were panzer divisions and 14 comprised of motor divisions. In all, about 600,000 German motor vehicles would roll to the east, but the Germans deployed up to 750,000 horses in the invasion. It demonstrates that the Wehrmacht was not the ultra-modern, motorized army that Nazi propaganda insisted it was.
Facing the Germans across the border, in the western USSR, were three very large Soviet Army Groups, comprising of 193 equivalent divisions. Fifty-four of these were tank or motor divisions, significantly more than the Germans had. Since 1932, Joseph Stalin spent huge sums in equipping the military with motorized machines and heavy armor. In particular, the Russians possessed a far greater number of tanks than the enemy; but the experience and quality of Soviet tank crews was noticeably inferior to the Germans, who were battle-hardened and well-versed in the Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) style of combat.
There were other serious Russian weaknesses. Stalin’s purge of the Red Army high command from May 1937 “affected the development of our armed forces and their combat preparedness”, Marshal Georgy Zhukov wrote, the most lauded Russian commander of the 20th century. The purges, though they targeted a minority of the entire Soviet military corps, had inflicted “enormous damage” on “the top echelons of the army command” Zhukov stated. It meant that paralysis was endemic in the Red Army’s decision-making apparatus, which would have serious implications around the time of the German invasion.
Hitler’s calculations for attacking the USSR were audacious, to put it mildly. The Fuehrer expected to overthrow Stalin’s Russia in about 8 weeks, and once that was accomplished, he intended to turn back and finish off Britain. Hitler estimated that he would not really be embroiled in a two-front war and, in this he was right, for now. The British were in no position in 1941 to interfere with the Nazi plan for eastward enlargement.
The German offensive was indeed to be launched across a massive front, but the Schwerpunkt – the heaviest point of the German blow – was to land north of the Pripet Marshes in Soviet Belarus. Here, two formidable forces, Army Group North led by Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb, and Army Group Center led by Field Marshal von Bock, would implement a giant pincers movement against the Soviet armies opposing them. They would then as envisaged continue advancing and take the capital city, Moscow, European Russia’s communications hub. This indicates that Hitler had originally assigned Moscow as a primary objective.
Von Leeb’s Army Group North comprised of the German 16th Army (commanded by Ernst Busch) and the 18th Army (Georg von Kuechler), supported by four panzer divisions under Colonel-General Erich Hoepner.
Army Group Center was, by some distance, the biggest of the three Army Groups which attacked the USSR. It consisted of the German 2nd Army (Maximilian von Weichs), the 4th Army (Günther von Kluge) and the 9th Army (Adolf Strauss), bolstered by two armored groups totaling 10 panzer divisions and commanded by Generals Heinz Guderian and Hermann Hoth.
Gerd von Rundstedt’s Army Group South was made up of the German 6th Army (Walter von Reichenau), the 17th Army (Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel), a German-Romanian Army (Eugen Ritter von Schobert), and supported by four panzer divisions under Colonel-General Ewald von Kleist. Von Rundstedt’s Army Group was designated to advance south of the Pripet Marshes.
In doing so, von Rundstedt was expected to move rapidly in conquering eastern Poland and, specifically, to capture the ancient Polish city of Lublin, close to the Ukrainian border. This would provide a launching pad for Army Group South’s panzers to thrust into the Ukraine, and take its capital Kiev, the Soviet Union’s third largest city with 930,000 inhabitants. Thereafter, von Rundstedt’s divisions would be requested to occupy all of the Ukraine, with Hitler wanting that country’s resources for pillaging, such as wheat, for it to become “the breadbasket of the Reich”, as he put it.
While Hitler gathered his 136 divisions along the Nazi-Soviet frontier, he left 46 divisions behind to guard the rest of mainland Europe. That number does seem excessive and many of those German formations would be left idle. Military historian Donald J. Goodspeed wrote, “Certainly far fewer than 46 divisions could have countered any British initiative on the continent, a possibility that was in any case unlikely”.
Although the Soviet Army proved much larger than the Nazis thought, it was unprepared for the attack that was to come. A considerable proportion of the Red Army in June 1941 was positioned too close to the Nazi-Soviet boundary which, since 1939, had been extended across Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Romania.
The Stalin Line, a series of fortifications constructed from the late 1920s, and which guarded the western USSR’s pre-1939 frontiers, had merely been partially dismantled. The new forward defense positions were incomplete by mid-1941. The Soviet military’s armored formations had also been broken up, and the tanks allotted to infantry divisions. The latter error was corrected by Stalin as he repositioned the armored divisions, but they were still in the process of entering full working order when the Germans attacked.
Furthermore, Stalin and the Red Army high command believed the focal point of the German assault would fall south of the Pripet Marshes – that is through the Ukraine – whereas the Germans would, as mentioned, strike most heavily north of the Pripet Marshes across Soviet Belarus. The Russian defenses were placed at their strongest in the wrong sector of the front. This misjudgment in part enabled Army Group Center to advance rapidly into the heart of Belarus, where the Red Army was not fortified so strongly.
Why Nazi Germany Failed to Defeat the Soviet Union
As the First World War was erupting from late summer 1914, the great majority of political leaders believed it would be of short duration.
Only the rare far-sighted individual knew what was coming, such as Herbert Kitchener, Britain’s Secretary of War. At one of the first British Cabinet conferences at the conflict’s outset, Kitchener predicted the fighting would rumble on for three years, and that Britain would eventually be required to deploy its full resources. His estimation of a three-year war was shy of just one year.
Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, recalled that Kitchener’s prediction had “seemed to most of us unlikely, if not incredible”. On 8 August 1914 Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, estimated that the war would last for nine months, which was longer than many thought.
Kitchener’s colleagues failed to realize, such was mankind’s advancements in technology by the early 20th century – about 150 years after the Industrial Revolution had begun in Britain around 1760 – that a war between the great powers would most likely be lengthy, and a slaughter of unprecedented proportions could only ensue. After the bloodletting finally stopped on 11 November 1918, realistic analysts like Vladimir Lenin stated that the waging of war was “a survival from the bourgeois world”; while the German commander Hans von Seeckt said “war was no longer an intelligent way to conduct a nation’s policy”.
The rise to power in Italy and Germany of fervent warmongers, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, was a near guarantee that another large-scale conflict was in the offing.
Both Mussolini and Hitler’s taking of power, in 1922 and 1933 respectively, was assisted massively by the social upheaval and destabilisation induced as a result of World War I.
Neville Chamberlain, Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini Meet in 1938
The weak-willed response of the western democracies to Nazi enlargement from the mid-1930s, particularly the timid French reaction, emboldened Hitler on the path to war. British professor Evan Mawdsley, who specialises in Russian history, wrote of the Third Reich’s position by 1941 that “invading Russia was not the fatal mistake of Nazi Germany. After all, what was Hitler’s alternative? Not to invade Russia? Inaction would have allowed Germany’s enemies to become stronger, and would have left Germany economically dependent on Russia. The lethal mistake had been made earlier, when Hitler’s adventures in Czechoslovakia and Poland led Germany into a general war”.
The fighting initially went as well as the Wehrmacht could have hoped for; they routed Poland in September 1939 and then scored further routine victories in Scandinavia and across western Europe, during the spring and summer of 1940. The principal opposing force, the French Army, had been decaying ever since 1917. That year mutinies spread to no less than 54 French divisions by 9 June 1917. Even in those formations where no mutinies occurred, over 50% of French soldiers returning from leave reported back drunk. These amazing occurrences were hushed up as best they could by the French military command, and the silence needlessly continued long afterwards.
Canadian historian Donald J. Goodspeed explained,
“Shame and pride are bad counselors, and the causes of the catastrophe in French morale that occurred in 1917 were never brought out into full daylight, where they could have been analysed and perhaps cured. That no real cure was affected, the debacle of 1940 conclusively proved”.
The Nazis now turned their attention to the main target of their imperialist foreign policy: the Soviet Union, which Hitler had envisaged conquering for many years. Hitler was given encouragement by the Soviet Army’s underwhelming performance, in the 1939-1940 Winter War against Finland, with its population of around 4 million.
Yet as the Finns’ leading commander Gustaf Mannerheim fairly concluded, the Soviets learnt lessons from their opening military shortcomings on Finnish soil, and their performance “slowly improved” as the weeks elapsed. The gradual uptake in Russia’s military display here was unknown to the few German military observers, who had accompanied the Red Army on their Finnish incursion. The Germans were left unimpressed by the first Soviet raids, before departing homeward early.
The Wehrmacht meanwhile enjoyed more swift triumphs, over Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941, which only emboldened Hitler further. The German conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece compelled Hitler to postpone his invasion of the USSR by 38 days. This delay is often purported to be a crucial reason, in the Nazis’ failure to capture Moscow and overthrow the Soviet Union.
American military historian Samuel W. Mitcham, who focuses largely on the Nazi regime, revealed otherwise as “the spring rains in eastern Poland and the western sections of European Russia came late in 1941, and were much heavier than usual. Many of the Polish-Russian river valleys (including the Bug) were still flooded as late as June 1; therefore, the invasion of the Soviet Union could not have begun until after that”.
The ground in the western USSR had dried out by 22 June 1941. It was ideal for the panzers, half-tracks, and so on to move with ease. In addition, for weeks Joseph Stalin had refused to believe the swell of intelligence accounts he received in person from his own agencies, and from abroad, warning of a coming German attack.
Lt. Col. Goodspeed wrote,
“The reports from Soviet intelligence were the most plausible, accurate and detailed of all; and they displayed a remarkable convergence, which should have augmented their credibility. Victor Sukolov, the head of the Rote Kopelle [Red Orchestra] in Brussels, Rudolph Rössler in Switzerland, Leopold Trepper in Paris, and Dr. Richard Sorge in Tokyo all informed Stalin of Barbarossa”.
The Kremlin was clearly not expecting the German invasion to fall in the summer of 1941. Marshal Nikolay Voronov, a top level Russian commander in charge of the Red Army’s artillery forces, and a future Hero of the Soviet Union, remembered on the eve of Hitler’s attack, “I did not know in that time whether we had any kind of operative-strategic plan, in case of war. I only knew that the plan for artillery and combat artillery tactics had not yet been approved, although the first draft had been worked out in 1938”.
Further evidence of the lack of Russian preparedness was seen when, in the opening phase of the invasion, large numbers of Soviet airplanes were destroyed by the Germans, much of them on the ground. Air units of the Soviet Western Military District lost 740 of its 1,540 aircraft (a 48% loss) on the first day alone of the German attack; its local commander, General Ivan Kopets, viewed the destruction with despair and shot himself on 23 June 1941.
The ruin of the Soviet Air Force was even worse in the Baltic Military District. During the first three days of Operation Barbarossa, 920 Soviet aircraft out of a total of 1,080 were destroyed in the Baltic region, an 85% loss. Furthermore, many undamaged and repairable Russian planes had to be abandoned, as the Germans and their Axis allies (mainly Romanians and Finns at first) swarmed over Soviet terrain. By the first week of July 1941, the Soviets had lost almost 4,000 aircraft, while the Luftwaffe was shorn of just 550 of its planes at that point.
Stalin had been awoken by his security chief, Nikolai Vlasik, in the early hours of 22 June 1941, and he was told of heavy German shelling along the Nazi-Soviet frontier. Stalin at first refused to believe that the worst had occurred and he said, “Hitler surely doesn’t know about it”. Later in the morning of 22 June, Stalin ordered the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov to seek out the German ambassador to the USSR, Friedrich von Schulenburg. The latter confirmed Nazi Germany’s declaration of war on the Soviet Union.
A dismayed Molotov (image on the right) reported back to Stalin,
“The German government has declared war on us”. Robert Service, the British historian of Soviet history, noted that upon hearing this, “Stalin slumped in his chair and an unbearable silence followed”. When General Georgy Zhukov then suggested they put in place measures, to hold up the German advance, Service wrote “Stalin continued to stipulate that Soviet ground forces should not infringe German territorial integrity”.
Contrary to what is commonly claimed, on learning that the Germans had certainly attacked with Hitler’s agreement, Stalin did not suffer a breakdown and disappear. On 23 June 1941 for example, as Service wrote in his biography of the Soviet ruler, “Stalin worked without rest in his Kremlin office. For 15 hours at a stretch from 3.20 am, he consulted with the members of the Supreme Command”. As the hours went by Service writes that Stalin “called generals to his office, made his enquiries about the situation to the west of Moscow, and gave his instructions. About his supremacy there was no doubt”.
Only from the early morning of 29 June 1941 did Stalin suffer a relapse, and retire to his nearby dacha in a deeply depressed condition. This was quite probably a delayed reaction brought on by his difficult visit, on 27 June, to the Soviet Ministry of Defence. When Generals Zhukov and Semyon Timoshenko showed Stalin, on operational maps, the astonishing advancements made by the German Army, Service wrote that Stalin “was shocked by the extent of the disaster for the Red Army”.
Image on the left: General Zhukov
By 27 June, units from the German Army Group Centre had already reached Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belorussia, and less than 450 miles west of Moscow. Shaken and disturbed by this Stalin reportedly lamented, “Lenin founded our state and we’ve fucked it up”.
After Hitler had ordered the attack against Russia on 22 June, the authorities in Britain and America forecast another brisk German victory. Their views were influenced by the apparent invincibility of the Wehrmacht, their dislike of Bolshevism, and also Stalin’s recent purge of the Red Army. Outside observers mistakenly believed the purge had decimated Soviet fighting capacity. Mawdsley in his extensive study of the Nazi-Soviet war wrote, “Many able middle-level commanders survived the purges” while the “commanders and commissars who were shot made up a minority”.
A major offensive in the modern era, perhaps in any age, constitutes a huge gamble on the part of the invader, brutal as these attacks usually are, and the Nazi invasion was the most vicious of all. Various factors can combine to result in its failure: strength of the invasion force, strategic errors, quality of the terrain, underestimation of the enemy, the weather, etc. These elements are magnified when attacking the world’s largest country (Russia), as Napoleon had discovered and soon Hitler too.
Nevertheless, there are a couple of overwhelming reasons why the German attack would fail. Firstly, Hitler did not place the German nation on a Total War footing, until February 1943, much too late. The Nazi economy in the early 1940’s produced an “extraordinary degree of inefficiency and wastefulness”, the English historian Richard Overy discerned. It resulted in labour shortages, fewer German weapons, aircraft and panzers, and less soldiers, while German women for the most part remained at home, rather than working in the armament factories.
After the defeat of France, a full mobilization of German manpower would have produced a Wehrmacht attacking force of about 6 million men in June 1941. This is double the size of the 3 million German soldiers which invaded Russia that month. Taking into account strategic mistakes committed and heroic Russian resistance, a German invasion with 6 million troops would surely have been too much for the Soviets to contend with, and it was possible to achieve.
Albert Speer, German Minister of Armaments and Munitions from 1942-1945, wrote on 29 March 1947,
“In the middle of 1941, Hitler could easily have had an army equipped twice as powerfully as it was… We could even have mobilised approximately 3 million more men of the younger age-groups before 1942, without losses in production… 3 million additional soldiers would have added up to many divisions. These, moreover, could have been excellently equipped as a result of the increased production”.
Another monumental error, on the part of the German high command and Hitler, was the strategic design for Operation Barbarossa. This consisted of splitting their forces into three large Army Groups, and ordering them to capture three different objectives simultaneously (Leningrad, Moscow and the Ukraine); rather than directing their resources towards easily the most important goal – Moscow, the communications stronghold and heartbeat of Soviet Russia, which will be discussed further here.
Lt. Col. Goodspeed, a skilled military strategist, wrote that,
“Although in operations and tactics the German Army had proved itself far and away superior to the Red Army, the same could not be said of German strategy. The fault was so simple and obvious that a child might have foreseen it. The German high command had attempted too many things at the same time”.
The German attack was launched across almost the entire breadth of the western USSR. Its Schwerpunkt, that is the heavy point of the German blow, fell north of the famous Pripet Marshes in Belorussia. However, the Germans and their Axis allies were ordered to attack everywhere at once. The strategic planning for Barbarossa went beyond even the Wehrmacht’s military capabilities; it was breathtaking in its boldness, irresponsible and grotesque.
Goodspeed summarised,
“But Hitler wanted too much and, as a consequence, got nothing. This same fundamental error was repeated again and again. It recurs like a leitmotif in the Führer’s strategic thought. When the advance against Moscow might have been successfully resumed in August, and previous mistakes rectified, Hitler turned his thrust south into the Ukraine and north against Leningrad. Again, two objectives and both of them the wrong ones. When Leningrad might have been taken in September, Hitler diverted forces back from Army Group North to Moscow, and thereby captured neither Leningrad nor Moscow”.
This viewpoint is supported by Mawdsley who pinpointed the “mistake that Hitler and his high command made in 1941” which was “to attack everywhere”. Hitler did not designate primary importance to Moscow, until it was weeks too late. The Russian capital held critical significance as the centre of Soviet communications, which was recognised by military leaders like Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the commander of German Army Group Centre, which was supposed to capture Moscow. Virtually all roads and railways led to the capital, like spokes into the hub of a wheel.
This was not the case when Napoleon’s forces had occupied Moscow on 14 September 1812. Moscow at that time did not hold the same status, by comparison to its importance in the 20th century, when armies had become reliant on railways and motorised transport for supplies. The first railway line in Russia was built in 1837, a quarter of a century after Napoleon’s invasion.
Were Moscow to be captured in the autumn of 1941, the Russians would have had tremendous difficulty supplying and reinforcing their northern and southern fronts. This includes the Leningrad and Ukrainian sectors. The rail system of the western USSR would have been shattered, inflicting a hammer blow on the Soviet Army.
Goodspeed wrote that from Barbarossa’s outset,
“Quite conceivably, a single great thrust along the Warsaw-Smolensk-Moscow axis might have secured the Russian capital for the Germans by the end of August. Army Groups North and South could have acted as flank guards for such a thrust, and once the Russian centre had been demolished and the communications hub of Moscow taken, the Soviet northern and southern fronts would have been isolated from one another. Then a drive down the Volga in September might well have achieved a second victory, greater even than the Battle of Kiev. This done, Leningrad and the northern front could have been dealt with at leisure, and by another overwhelming concentration of force”.
One major thrust towards Moscow would, also, have taken the ferocious Russian weather out of the equation. The autumn rains and snow arrived in force from early October 1941, weeks after Moscow could have been taken. As events panned out, such weather seriously slowed the German advance.
The political ramifications of Moscow’s capitulation would have been considerable too. Stalin and his entourage were headquartered there. What would Stalin have done had Moscow fallen to the Germans in August or September 1941? He may have decided to stay and thereby seal his fate, or he could have chosen to relocate to Asiatic Russia, where it would have been arduous to hold together a government.
Most importantly of all, as Germany’s generals were aware, the bulk of the Red Army was centred in front of Moscow for the defense of the capital. If these Russian divisions were to be surrounded in a vast pincers movement and forced to surrender, the war would have been practically over.
Two months into the invasion, on 21 August 1941 Hitler fatefully intervened in the direction of the war, believing he would be proved right and the German generals wrong – as had been repeatedly the case on political matters. Hitler compounded Barbarossa’s early strategic mistakes by ordering on this date: “The most important objective to be taken before the coming of the winter is NOT the capture of Moscow, but the capture of the Crimea and of the industrial and coal-mining area of the Donets, and the cutting off of Russian oil supplies from the Caucasus; and to the north the investment of Leningrad and the linking up with the Finns”.
Hitler’s Chief of Operations, General Alfred Jodl, defended this decision by claiming that Hitler wished to avoid the blunders of Napoleon. As mentioned earlier, Moscow was of much greater importance in the year 1941 as opposed to 1812. Hitler was greedy and saw too many things at once, rather than focusing on a single goal at a time (similar strategic errors were committed in July 1942, when Hitler split up his forces to capture two objectives simultaneously, Stalingrad and the Caucasus).
Hitler’s wish, to strike everywhere, could have been influenced too because of his desire to spread as much death and destruction to the Soviet Union as possible, which he believed was the homeland of “Jewish Bolshevism”.
Upon hearing the new orders of 21 August 1941, two days later General Heinz Guderian travelled west to Hitler’s headquarters, situated in the dense forests near Rastenburg, East Prussia. Guderian, commanding the 2nd Panzer Group, informed Hitler that the taking of Moscow would paralyse the Soviet transportation and communication networks; the general stressed the political significance of Moscow’s demise, and the huge lift it would provide to German morale.
Moreover, Guderian insisted that the fall of the capital would make it easier to conquer other parts of the USSR, such as the Ukraine. Yet Hitler’s mind was firmly set and he told Guderian that his generals “know nothing of the economic aspects of war”. The orders were left unchanged.
Goodspeed observed,
“Thus, quietly, in a headquarters far from the sound of guns, Germany lost the war. The Führer directive of August 21, 1941, marked a great turning point in modern history. Many horrors were still to come, and mankind has by no means moved out from the darkness of these times, but at least the world was to be spared a Nazi victory”.
General Franz Halder, Chief of Staff of the German Army High Command, stated that Hitler’s above directive was “decisive to the outcome of this campaign”.
Operation Barbarossa, an Overview
The USSR’s hierarchy was caught unprepared, and unnecessarily so, when Nazi Germany invaded their country eight decades ago on 22 June 1941, in a military offensive titled Operation Barbarossa. It was named after King Frederick Barbarossa, a red-bearded Prussian emperor who in the 12th century had waged war against the Slavs.
On the sixth day of the attack, 27 June 1941, German Army Group Center had already reached Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus. Amazingly it meant, at this very early stage, that the Germans were closer to Moscow than Berlin: as the crow flies, the Wehrmacht was now 430 miles from the Russian capital as opposed to 590 miles from the German capital.
After a week of fighting, the Soviets had lost around 600,000 troops and thousands of their aircraft had been destroyed, the majority of them on the ground. When on 27 June the Soviet commanders, Georgy Zhukov and Semyon Timoshenko, showed Joseph Stalin on operational maps that the Germans had advanced on Minsk, he was visibly shocked by the magnitude of the disaster. Should Stalin have been so surprised, considering the unprecedented rapidity the year before at which the Germans had blazed through France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg?
In the middle of 1941, Stalin had been in charge of the Soviet Union for over a decade whereas, in Germany, Adolf Hitler was in control for little more than 8 years. By the early 1940s, the Wehrmacht was Europe’s most efficient military organization and killing machine. This was in some contrast to the larger Red Army, whose poor display against Finland’s paltry armed forces, from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940 (the Winter War), provided stark evidence of the harm imparted on the Soviet military by Stalin’s purges, which had begun in May 1937.
British historian Evan Mawdsley wrote that “the purges certainly played a most important part in what happened on and after 22 June 1941”. Marshal Zhukov, one of the most celebrated commanders in Russian history, was heavily critical of the purges after the war, which will be elaborated upon further here.
It can be mentioned firstly, however, that the extent of the Soviet military purges has tended to be exaggerated and distorted down the years. There were 142,000 Soviet Army commanders and commissars in 1937, just before the purges started. Mawdsley noted, “It is sometimes suggested that half the leadership of the Red Army was wiped out, which was certainly not the case” as “the Red Army commanders and commissars who were shot made up a minority” of the entire Russian military leadership corps.
The damage inflicted on the top ranks was still extensive. Three out of five marshals and 20 Soviet army commanders, along with dozens of corps and divisional commanders among others, were liquidated between 1937 and 1941. The loss of high-level officers inevitably undermined and weakened the Red Army’s command apparatus, and it came at a time when the clouds of war were ominously gathering in Europe.
Marshal Zhukov wrote in his memoirs of “unfounded arrests in the armed forces” which were “in contravention of socialist legality. Prominent military leaders were arrested which, naturally, affected the development of our armed forces and their combat preparedness”.
Altogether, more than 34,000 Soviet officers were dismissed from the military as the purges ran their course, but a third of these (11,500) were eventually reinstated; perhaps most notably Konstantin Rokossovsky, who became one of the most important Soviet commanders of World War II. English author Geoffrey Roberts, writing in his biography of Zhukov, realized that “the vast majority of the armed forces” had “survived the purges”, which is necessary to stress.
Yet in the weeks before and after the German invasion, when the initiative to make crucial and independent decisions was needed, much paralysis reigned in the Soviet high command; which had been disproportionately affected by the purges.
Mawdsley, who specializes in Russian affairs, wrote of the Red Army leaders that were victimized, “These men possessed the fullest professional, educational and operational experience the Red Army had accumulated… Despite professional and personal rivalries among themselves, these leaders had formed a fairly cohesive command structure. The paradox is that this is why Stalin mistrusted them”.
An eminent Soviet diplomat, Andrei Gromyko, who was the USSR’s Foreign Affairs Minister from 1957 to 1985, was first introduced to Stalin in 1939 and saw him many times thereafter. Gromyko became acquainted too with Soviet Army dignitaries like Zhukov. In Gromyko’s book ‘Memories: From Stalin to Gorbachev’, he wrote that Zhukov “spoke bitterly of the enormous damage Stalin had inflicted on the country by his massacre of the top echelons of the army command”.
Gromyko recalled Zhukov saying of the Soviet military men that were purged, “Of course, I regard them as innocent victims. Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state”. Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, known overseas as “the Red Napoleon”, was a central figure in the Russian Army’s modernization during the 1920s and 1930s. Zhukov first met Tukhachevsky in 1921 and he later described him as, “A clever, knowledgeable professional, he was splendidly conversant with both tactical and strategic problems… Tukhachevsky was an ace of military thinking, a star of the first magnitude among the great soldiers of the Red Army”.
Zhukov stated that he himself came under suspicion as the purges were unfolding, due to his connections to some of the accused. He vigorously defended his position and avoided censure. Moreover, Zhukov informed Gromyko, “Before the war, the political decision to arm fully was taken very late, and that was the main problem”.
While Zhukov’s criticism on the latter point is also valid, Stalin had engineered a massive increase in the Soviet arms budget from the early 1930s onward, and for this he should be commended. Part of Bolshevik ideology is a belief in the virtue of motorized machines and warfare, without which the Red Army could not have defeated the Wehrmacht and its panzer divisions. Five months before the German attack Stalin told his senior commanders, “the winning side will be the one with the greater number and the more powerful engines”.
Between 1932 and 1937, spending on the Soviet military increased by 340% in overall terms, undoubtedly as a result of Stalin’s direct influence. Through 1937 to 1940 expenditure doubled again on the Soviet defense budget. From 1939, the USSR was constructing over 10,000 warplanes per year, along with almost 3,000 tanks, more than 17,000 artillery pieces and 114,000 machine guns. Payment and conditions for Soviet officers had meanwhile improved greatly, so it was far from being all doom and gloom.
The above figures on Soviet armed capacity were unknown to the Germans; that is, until after they had attacked the USSR, when it soon became obvious the Red Army was much more formidable than Nazi intelligence had estimated. As Mawdsley revealed, German agencies calculated that the Russians had 10,000 tanks in June 1941, whereas in reality they possessed 23,100 tanks. The Germans thought there were 6,000 Soviet aircraft in mid-1941, but in the whole of the USSR there were 20,000 planes, with 9,100 of these positioned near the Nazi-Soviet border.
Under Stalin’s leadership the Russians achieved a remarkable relocation of industry eastwards, in the months following the German assault. This policy was critical to ensuring the Soviet Union could continue producing weaponry en masse, and largely secure from the Nazi onslaught.
Irish professor and geographer John Sweeney wrote, “Over 1,500 industrial enterprises were transplanted, between July and November 1941 alone, to what were considered relatively safe refuges in the interior. The Urals (which received 667 of these enterprises), Kazakhstan and Central Asia (308), West Siberia (244), the Volga Region (226) and East Siberia (78), benefited permanently from this massive injection of industrial investment, and it was in this heartland area that urban growth during the post-war recovery period was concentrated”.
Relating to manpower, the Red Army was likewise significantly bigger than Hitler and his generals believed. In June 1941 Soviet forces consisted of more than 300 divisions, amounting to 5.5 million personnel, 2.7 million of which were stationed in the western USSR. The Germans thought there were only 200 Russian divisions in existence, despite the fact the Soviet population was appreciably greater than Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe combined. In comparison the German invasion force comprised of 3 million men, supported by less than a million troops from its Axis allies such as Romania and Finland, led by the anti-Bolshevik military leaders Ion Antonescu and Gustaf Mannerheim respectively.
Seven weeks into the German invasion, General Franz Halder acknowledged in his diary, “The whole situation makes it increasingly plain that we have underestimated the Russian colossus”. Not long after, even Hitler admitted in a speech in central Berlin, “We had no idea how gigantic the preparations of this enemy were”.
Zhukov and Timoshenko were acutely aware of the massing of German, Finnish and Romanian divisions adjacent to the USSR’s boundaries. The Soviet Army’s foreign intelligence agency (the GRU) confirmed on 15 June 1941, just a week before Operation Barbarossa commenced, that a huge transfer had taken place of German forces to the Nazi-Soviet frontier; with 120 to 122 Wehrmacht divisions reportedly deployed there.
Zhukov told Stalin repeatedly, and as late as mid-June 1941, to be prepared in the case of a German attack. Stalin in turn insisted a few days before Wehrmacht-led armies invaded, “Germany has a Treaty of Non-Aggression with us. Germany is involved up to its ears in the war in the West, and I believe that Hitler will not risk creating a second front for himself by attacking the Soviet Union”.
From November 1940 to June 1941, Stalin personally received a total of 80 intelligence reports warning about a German invasion, according to English historian Andrew Roberts. In mitigation to Stalin, a fair proportion of the intelligence accounts proved inaccurate regarding the invasion start date; others constituted misinformation planted by the Germans; but most reports were genuine and some uncannily close to the mark, like the material sent to the Kremlin by Richard Sorge, a now famous Soviet spy then operating in the German embassy in Tokyo.
Stalin was further warned about Nazi intentions by Soviet agents like the courageous Leopold Trepper in Paris, and also Victor Sukolov in Belgium. The most plausible and detailed reports of all indeed came from Soviet sources, and they peaked in intensity during the first three weeks of June 1941 – along with alarming information forthcoming that Hitler’s allies Finland and Romania were mobilizing for war against Russia. This could not be ignored.
Robert Service, in his lengthy book on Stalin, wrote that, “For weeks the Wehrmacht had been massing on the western banks of the River Bug, as dozens of divisions were transferred from elsewhere in Europe. The Luftwaffe had sent squadrons of reconnaissance aircraft over Soviet cities. All this had been reported to Stalin by his military intelligence agency. In May and June [1941], he had been continually pressed by Timoshenko and Zhukov to sanction the dispositions for an outbreak of fighting. Richard Sorge, the Soviet agent in the German embassy in Tokyo, had raised the alarm. Winston Churchill had sent telegrams warning Stalin. The USSR’s spies in Germany had mentioned the preparations being made. Even the Chinese Communist Party alerted Moscow about German intentions”.
By the second half of June 1941, Stalin was counting on it being too late in the year for the Germans to attack. Regardless, the French commander Napoleon, generations before fast-moving motorized vehicles emerged, had launched his invasion of Russia on 24 June 1812, two days later in June than the Germans.
In addition the spring rains arrived late in the western USSR in 1941, and they were much heavier than normal. Many of the river valleys, including the strategically important River Bug in eastern Poland, were still flooded at the late date of 1 June 1941. This meant that an attack on the Soviet Union could not have proceeded until after then.
Hitler’s Early Victories, the Wolf’s Lair Headquarters
In Hitler’s goals to attain Germanic dominion of the planet, he enjoyed some of his most triumphant days secured away at the vast, virtually unheard of Wolf’s Lair. The complex was known in the German tongue as Wolfsschanze. Hitler had inserted “Wolf” into the title of many of his military headquarters, as it was a self-appointed nickname.
Situated over 400 miles from Berlin in East Prussia, Hitler arrived at the Wolf’s Lair for the first occasion during late evening of 23 June 1941. The advanced time was not an issue. From the days of Hitler’s “struggle” beginning in the early 1920s, he had developed a habit of remaining active until the small hours, often present in rowdy beer halls, and rising as late as noon.
On the night of 23 June 1941, the dictator was again in no mood for bed rest; his form was in fact jubilant as remarkable news filtered through from the Eastern Front. Less than 48 hours after the invasion began, German armies were smashing through the first bewildered Soviet lines, and had already reached the USSR republics of Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukraine.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Hitler’s most trusted military companion, also traveled eastwards to join his leader at the new Wolf’s Lair. As Operation Barbarossa rolled mercilessly along, Keitel’s disposition remained pensive and austere. It was the 58-year-old Keitel, almost standing alone in isolation, who had warned Hitler not to attack the Soviet Union.
Conservative and cautious by nature, Keitel detected the unmistakable sense of danger in the air. He was convinced that assaulting a landmass as great as the USSR – with its numerous complications – would be a task too much, even for the apparently unstoppable Wehrmacht. Due to Keitel’s reputation as a willing pawn of Hitler, he was held in poor esteem by an array of German generals and field marshals.
Yet Keitel’s military career had dated to the year 1901, and he possessed a distinguished record, claiming honours for bravery during the First World War while rising through the ranks. Keitel’s demeanour was that of a charming and approachable officer, educated in the old-fashioned virtues of the Prussian military establishment. Keitel possessed strong organizational and literary skills, but lacked the insubordinate, resolute nature to challenge Hitler directly.
Keitel had said later,
“It isn’t right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue”.
His subservience would inevitably lead to a complicity in some of the Nazis’ atrocious crimes.
Unlike Keitel, the great majority of German military leaders firmly supported Hitler’s decision to attack Russia, believing the conflict would last around two months with Stalin’s expected ousting and death. The Nazi war chiefs’ unrealistic confidence swayed Hitler, who believed the Red Army would fold like a pack of cards. By mid-1941 Hitler had still to assume personal command of men in the field, and he unavoidably lacked the required knowledge and expertise.
Meanwhile, on the same evening that Hitler first entered the Wolf’s Lair (23 June 1941), one of the largest tank engagements in military history was starting. It was called the Battle of Brody: A near forgotten clash in north-western Ukraine between 750 panzers and 3,500 Soviet tanks, stretching across the cities of Brody, Dubno and Lutsk. About 350 miles northwards Hitler was in tune to proceedings from the Wolf’s Lair, and awaiting further stunning reports. They would come.
Despite the Nazis being outnumbered by more than four to one during the Battle of Brody, their panzers bludgeoned a way to victory by 30 June 1941. The Germans destroyed many hundreds of Soviet tanks, while meting out 65,000 casualties upon the Red Army. For mile after mile, this section of north-western Ukraine was strewn with dead bodies and horses, shattered Soviet armoured vehicles along with battered heavy weaponry.
The triumph around Brody consolidated vital German gains on the Ukraine’s western boundaries. It was also an indication of the ferocity of Hitler’s troops, as they unleashed what would be the bloodiest invasion of all time.
Also on the night Hitler became acquainted with the Wolf’s Lair, the Battle of Raseiniai was under way in western Lithuania; it was another critical early meeting between around 240 panzers and 750 Soviet tanks. Outmatched by three to one, the Germans were again victorious in the face of seemingly daunting odds. By 27 June 1941, they had destroyed over 700 of the Soviets’ 750 tanks near Raseiniai, a medieval Lithuanian town. The Luftwaffe also provided telling air support when it was needed.
Further south Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, had easily been captured on 24 June 1941 and Kaunas, the country’s second largest city, capitulated that day too. Germany’s Army Group North, under Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb, was now positioned 600 miles from Moscow; yet his key objective was to seize the major Russian city of Leningrad closer to the north.
As a Blitzkrieg easily overcame Red Army resistance in Lithuania, an onlooking Hitler had been situated a mere 90 miles from the Lithuanian border at his Wolf’s Lair. In Hitler’s choice of headquarters across Europe, it was his desire to be as near the fighting as conceivably possible. Previously, as the Battle of France commenced (10 May–25 June 1940), Hitler’s compound, the Wolf’s Ravine (Wolfsschlucht), was erected in the Belgian village of Brûly-de-Pesche.
While the Nazi leader oversaw France’s swift and humiliating defeat, he became a resident for over two weeks at this Belgian hamlet. Brûly-de-Pesche is only five miles from the French northern frontier, and Paris was within comfortable driving distance.
Choice of location for the Wolf’s Lair was painstakingly assessed; in late 1940, construction began in the ancient and mysterious Masurian woods, near a small Prussian town called Rastenburg. The Wolf’s Lair was clear of urban centres and primary roads, while its entire complex covered 2.5 square miles. It was safeguarded by three security zones, and disguised by extensive netting that cleverly mimicked leaf cover when viewed from above.
Otto Skorzeny, the SS commando, wrote that
“I was ordered to the Wolfsschanze [Wolf’s Lair] nine times and also flew over it; it was so very well camouflaged from air attack that one could only see trees. The guarded access roads snaked through the forest, in such a way that I would have been unable to give the exact location of the Führer headquarters”.
Regardless of Hitler’s growing fears and precautions, not one bomb was dropped on the Wolf’s Lair, while his private secretary Traudl Junge later revealed “there was never more than a single aircraft hovering over the forest”. This is despite the fact that Hitler spent over 800 days immersed there.
As Germany’s victories mounted, the prevailing mood at the Wolf’s Lair became increasingly euphoric. At the end of June 1941, German forces had claimed a significant success when capturing Minsk, the sprawling capital of Belarus. By 11 July 1941, the Wehrmacht had conquered vast regions of Belarus, a state rivalling the size of Great Britain.
In doing so, the Nazis inflicted almost 420,000 casualties on Soviet divisions around the Belarusian capital, while the invaders lost only 12,000 men by comparison.
During fighting near Minsk, the Red Army further saw 4,800 of its tanks eliminated and up to 1,700 aircraft destroyed, while the Germans were shorn of just 100 panzers and 275 airplanes. The scale of victory is put into even sharper perspective when considering the Wehrmacht had a combined total of about 3,500 panzers, and little more than 2,000 warplanes.
While July 1941 proceeded, German infantrymen were pouring forward onto the very borders of Russia, taking the town of Ostrov on 4 July, in north-west Russia – followed, on 8 July, by their capturing Pskov 30 miles further north.
From the small city of Pskov, Moscow lay but 450 miles further east. As the world looked on in wonder, including the Americans and British, it seemed an eventuality the Nazis would cover these last few hundred miles, and overwhelm the Russian capital.
By 10 July 1941, the 13th Panzer Division (of Army Group South) had advanced to the Irpin River, just over 10 miles from Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine – a country with a rich agricultural base that would help sustain Germany’s foot soldiers. Yet it would not be for another nine weeks until Kiev itself fell, with the surrendering of almost 700,000 Soviet troops.
In the meantime, due to the incredible progression and devastation wrought, it was perhaps not surprising that on 8 July 1941 a boastful Hitler was telling propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, “The war in the east was in the main already won”. Hitler was simply echoing the views of his commanders.
As early as 3 July 1941 the 57-year-old Franz Halder, Chief of the Army General Staff, had written in his diary,
“So it’s really not saying too much, if I claim that the campaign against Russia has been won in 14 days”.
The experienced Halder was surely letting himself get carried away. In the autumn of 1942 Halder would be sacked by Hitler, due to their ongoing disagreements over Russian fighting capacity, with the dictator saying to him,
“We now need National Socialist ardour rather than professional ability to settle matters in the East. Obviously, I cannot expect this of you”.
Hitler replaced Halder with General Kurt Zeitzler, who was thought to be a genius in his ability to manoeuvre large formations across battlefields, and perceive danger. It was expected that Zeitzler would finally move German armies to where Hitler wanted them to go.
NY Times: The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance The ‘Ghetto Girls’ Fought the Nazis With Weapons and Wiles
By Dr. Judy Battalion
In attempting to snap normies out of the deep trance induced by the song that never ends about the event that never happened (the Holohoax) — one of the predictable objections that frequently comes up is: “Then why did Hitler put them in the camps in the first place?” To which, the proper reply should always be: “The internment was a necessary wartime security precaution because Jews were generally hostile toward Germany and clandestine Jewish partisans were actively killing German troops.”
Though that won’t be enough to satisfy 95 out of 100 normies, this piece appearing in “the paper of record” now gives us truthers the ability to say: “Even the New York Times confirms the nature of the deadly threat posed to German troops by well-organized Jewish-Marxist guerrilla partisans — including female assassins operating under cover!”
Don’t expect miracle conversions over this because we’re dealing with TV-addled zombies — but a story such as this could prompt 1 or 2 additional normies out of 100 to wanting to know more about “Holocaust Denial.” Let’s have a closer look.
(((They))) started the propaganda and economic war on Germany in 1933 and the “partisan” guerrilla war on German troops in 1939 — which is why, for the basic security of Germany and German troops, Jews in the nations which Germany had been forced to occupy had to eventually be interned, but not until 1941 and beyond.
Times: In 1943, Niuta Teitelbaum strolled into a Gestapo apartment in Warsaw and faced three Nazis. A 24-year-old Jewish woman who had studied history at Warsaw University, Niuta was likely now dressed in her characteristic guise as a Polish farm girl with a kerchief tied around her braided blond hair. …. She smiled meekly and then pulled out a gun and shot each one. Two were killed, one wounded. —- Niuta, however, wasn’t satisfied. She found a physician’s coat, entered the hospital where the injured man was being treated, and killed both the Nazi and the police officer who had been guarding him. Analysis: A mass-murdering young Jewess disguised as a Polish farm girl, then as doctor. This is the type of evil shit that Bolsheviks had been doing to Germans trapped in Poland long before the war had even started.
Times: “Little Wanda With the Braids,” as she was nicknamed on every Gestapo most-wanted list, was one of manyyoung Jewish women who, with supreme cunning and daring, fought the Nazis in Poland. Analysis: Ya hear that? “Many young Jewish women murdered Germans “with supreme cunning” — Geneva Convention rules of humane engagement be damned. Oh, by the way, these partisan gangs were the very same “Polish” characters who had volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War of just a few years prior — in which they carried out horrific massacres of priests, nuns and other assorted supporters of General Franco.
Times: One (book) I noticed, was unusual — “Freuen in di Ghettos,” Yiddish for “Women in the Ghettos.” I opened it and found 180 sheets of tiny script, all in Yiddish, a language I was fluent in. To my surprise, the book relayed tales of dozens of other young Jewish women who defied the Nazis, many of whom had the chance to leave Nazi-occupied Poland but didn’t; some even voluntarily returned. Analysis: The ranks of the Bolshevik “resistance” (and their non-combatant Jewish helpers) were filled with young Jewish women — and children too.
Times: All this was a revelation to me. Where I had expected mourning and gloom, I found guns, grenades and espionage. This was a Yiddish thriller, telling the stories of Polish-Jewish “ghetto girls” who paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in teddy bears, flirted with Nazis and then killed them. They distributed underground bulletins, flung Molotov cocktails and bombed train lines…. Analysis: These non-uniformed ferocious feminists were straight-up killers whose terrorist tactics necessitated the internment of all of their brethren — regardless of whether they were partisans or not.
Times: I was stunned. I was raised in a community of Holocaust survivors and had earned a doctorate in women’s history. Why had I never heard these stories? Analysis: Ya know why? Because if the full extent of the cold-blooded female and child participation in these murderous “resistance” cells were to become too widely known, then the true reason for the internment of the Jews starts to sound much more plausible than the standard old explanation of: “Hitler hated the Jews.”
Better take a cold shower and leave that flirty, shapely “Polish” girl alone, Fritz.
Times: I learned of the scope of Jewish rebellion: More than 90 European ghettos had armed Jewish resistance units. All this alongside daily acts of resilience — Women, aged 16 to 25, were at the helm of many of these efforts. I learned their names: Tosia Altman, Gusta Davidson, Frumka Plotnicka. Hundreds of others. Analysis: Speaks for itself.
Times: Women who were selected for undercover missions were required to look “good,” or passably “Aryan” with light hair, blue or green eyes, good posture and an assured gait. Analysis: How, especially during wartime, does a nation fight such an invisible enemy who resorts to such nefarious tactics —- other than by mass temporary incarceration of the greater group, innocent or not. Recall that the sainted FDR ordered the mass internment of Japanese-Americans (some Italians & Germans too) for not even doing anything wrong!
Times: In 1942, Hela Schupper met a “Mr. X” from the Polish underground on a Warsaw street corner, followed him to a safe house, stuffed her fashionable handbag, and brought five guns and clips of cartridges to Krakow’s “Fighting Pioneers,” who then bombed a Christmas week gathering at a cafe frequented by Nazi officers, killing at least seven Germans and wounding more. Analysis: Bolshevik Villainy! Now we can better understand why the big-bad “Gestapo” needed to identify the chosenites with Yellow Stars and ask: “Papers please.” It was because that cute flirty “blond,” or that harmless little “Polish” boy with a soccer ball — could actually have been a soulless mass killer.
As for any innocent Jews who may have lost their lives in the work camps (due to typhus or even Allied bombing) — they have the Bolshevik Jewish “resistance” (including “women age 16-25”) – to thank for their otherwise comfy stint at Bullshwitz, not Hitler. And this inadvertent “testimony against self-interest” appearing in Sulzberger’s Slimes absolutely confirms it.
The Jewish-Marxist Partisans were vicious killers — who incorporated undercover women, elderly and children into their covert schemes. After the war, many of these crazed brutes went down to Palestine and did to the Arabs and British what they had done to the Germans.
1941: Globalist agents FDR and Churchill want desperately to drag the United States into World War II. This becomes all the more urgent after Hitler had launched “Operation Barbarossa” in June of the same year — a justified preemptive invasion of the Soviet Union which now threatens to overthrow Stalin and his evil Bolshevik regime in Moscow.
Knowing that American entry into the war would endanger Germany’s war efforts, Hitler ignores repeated U.S. provocations of Germany. To further discourage U.S. entry into the war, Germany, Italy, and Japan sign on to a mutual defense pact in September of 1940- The TriPartite Pact. War against one means war with all three.
Ironically, the TriPartite Pact will have the unintended effect of facilitating FDR’s treasonous scheme to embroil the U.S. into the conflict. As a “backdoor” to the European conflict (which Germany was winning) FDR and Churchill intensify their instigation of Japan. When the aggressive moves become too much for Japan to bear (oil embargo, closure of Panama Canal to Japanese shipping, U.S. battleships cruising through Japanese waters, direct assistance to the Chinese aggressors etc.) Japan decides the make its first direct move against the U.S. aggressor — by attacking Pearl Harbor (the U.S. naval base in the territory of Hawaii) on December 7, 1941 ….exactly as FDR had intended! As a result of the attack, the powerful pro-peace movement in America is silenced in an instant.
In the ensuing days, war declarations between the TriPartite allies and the US/UK alliance were exchanged.
1. Hitler and Goering meet with Japanese foreign minister. // 2. Japanese poster celebrates the DEFENSIVE TriPartite Pact.
With his famous theatrical flair, the diabolical FDR, acting “surprised”, delivers his somber “Day of Infamy” speech to a confused and angry nation.
Exactly as FDR and the gang of Communists, Globalists, and Jews surrounding him had intended, the attack immediately put the pro-peace Charles Lindbergh, the “America First Movement” and the “Mothers Movement” out of business. Hence forward, the millions of patriotic Americans who had urged peace prior to Pearl Harbor would be ridiculed by Fake News and Fake Historians as “isolationists.”
1. Gullible young volunteers crowd military recruitment centers across America – 450,000 of these poor fools are destined to die in a war for International Jewry’s New World Order. // 2. The Five “Fighting Sullivan Brothers” volunteered after Pearl Harbor. They ALL died when the USS Juneau was sunk in November, 1942 — murdered by FDR.
But Japan tells a different story than the one spun by FDR and the Fake News — a story which (surprisingly) was printed once on page 2 of The New York Times on December 8, 1941, and has since disappeared into the black memory hole of forbidden history. Thanks to those of you who continue to support our monthly subscription fee for The New York Times Archives, The Real History Channel is pleased to bring you the actual text of Emperor Hirohito’s War Declaration — a message which rings far truer than the lies of FDR and company.
TEXT OF HIROHITO’S WAR DECLARATION
By the grace of heaven, Emperor of Japan, seated on the throne occupied by the same dynasty from time immemorial, enjoin upon ye, our loyal and brave subjects:
We hereby declare war upon the United States of America and the British Empire. The men and officers of our Army and Navy shall do their utmost in prosecuting the war. Our public servants of various departments shall perform faithfully and diligently their respective duties; the entire nation with a united will shall mobilize their total strength so that nothing will miscarry in the attainment of our war aims.
To ensure the stability of East Asia, and to contribute to world peace is the farsighted policy which was formulated by our great illustrious Imperial Grandsire and our Great Imperial Sire succeeding him and which we lay constantly to heart. To cultivate friendship among nations and to enjoy prosperity in common with all nations, has always been the guiding principle of our Empire’s foreign policy. It has truly been unavoidable and far from our wishes that our Empire has been brought to cross swords with America and Britain. More than four years have passed since China, failing to comprehend the true intentions of our Empire, and recklessly courting trouble, disturbed the peace of East Asia and compelled our Empire to take up arms. Although there has been reestablished the National Government of China, with which Japan had effected neighborly intercourse and cooperation, the regime which has survived in Chungking, relying upon American and British protection, still continues its fratricidal opposition.
Eager for the realization of their inordinate ambition to dominate the Orient, both America and Britain, giving support to the Chungking regime, have aggravated the disturbances in East Asia. Moreover these two powers, inducing other countries to follow suit, increased military preparations on all sides of our Empire to challenge us. They have obstructed by every means our peaceful commerce and finally resorted to a direct severance of economic relations, menacing greatly the existence of our Empire.
Patiently have we waited and long have we endured, in the hope that our Government might retrieve the situation in peace. But our adversaries, showing not the least spirit of conciliation, have unduly delayed a settlement; and in the meantime they have intensified the economic and political pressure to compel our Empire to submission. This trend of affairs, would, if left unchecked, not only nullify our Empire’s efforts of many years for the sake of the stabilization of East Asia, but also endanger the very existence of our nation. The situation being such as it is, our Empire, for its existence and self defense has no other recourse but to appeal to arms and to crush every obstacle in its path.
The hallowed spirits of our Imperial Ancestors, guarding us from above, we rely upon the loyalty and courage of our subjects in the confident expectation that the task bequeathed by our forefathers will be carried forward, and that the sources of evil will be speedily eradicated, and an enduring peace be established in East Asia, preserving thereby the glory of our Empire.”
December 8, 1941
“We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. … The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot.”
“When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that … a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.”
NY Times: Did Nazis Produce These Uranium Cubes? Researchers Look for an Answer.
Determining whether the cubes were produced by Nazi Germany could lead to more questions, such as whether the Nazis could have had enough to create a critical reaction.
As if the contemporary bogeymen of Stupid-19 and the Climate Con weren’t enough to keep the subjects of the overlapping kingdoms of Normiedom & Libtardia in a state of obedient bewilderment and 24/7 horror, now comes the recent “discovery” that the big bad “Nazis” of 77 years ago might have been closer to developing “the bomb” than we had known. Oy vey!
From the article:
“The failure of Nazi Germany’s nuclear program is well established in the historical record. What is less documented is how a handful of uranium cubes, possibly produced by the Nazis, ended up at laboratories in the United States. Scientists are working to determine whether three uranium cubes they have in their possession were produced by Germany’s failed nuclear program during World War II. The answer could lead to more questions, such as whether the Nazis might have had enough uranium to create a critical reaction. And, if the Nazis had been successful in building an atomic bomb, what would that have meant for the war?
Just to set the record straight, Germany’s underfunded and mostly pre-war research into nuclear fission has got nothing to do with any non-existent scheme to build such demonic weapons. Had Hitler wanted to, he could have built heavy bombers and carpet-bombed / fire-bombed London civilians from high above the cloud line — just as the British Royal Air Force had done to many German cities. The fact that the Germans refused to do mass genocide from the sky is all the proof one needs to debunk the persistent Jewish lie of a “Nazi Atomic Bomb” program.
The original “Weapons of Mass Destruction” scare slander was actually vomited out by (((the usual suspects))) shortly before the Polish-instigated outbreak of the 1939 German-Polish War which morphed into World War 2. Mediocre Marxist mathematician (note that I did not say “scientist”)Albert Einstein had left Germany for America shortly after “The Nazis” came to power in 1933. Though dismissed by scientific great Nikola Tesla as a “long-haired crank” (in a private poem), Einstein had achieved world fame in the (((press))) for his bizarre space-bending, time-warping “Theory of Relativity” — which some researchers now claim was plagiarized from the work of earlier physicists.
Einstein was an outspoken advocate of world government and became linked to more Communist front groups than one could shake a hammer and sickle at. While Europe was still at peace, he (at the urging of lesser known scientists) wrote a letter to FDR in which he described the power of a potential atomic bomb. He falsely insinuated that Germany was already working on such a weapon, and urged FDR to fund research into building atomic bombs. Though not stated so directly in the letter, it is clear that Mr. Einstein was hoping to murder millions of Germans with this devilish weapon. The “Manhattan Project” eventually grew out of this effort.
The 1942-1945 Manhattan Project, led by the U.S. with participation from Britain, would result in the first atomic bomb. From the start, there were concerns about the Project’s security. Physicist Gregory Breit, an important researcher, quit in 1942 because of concerns over lax security procedures. The Communist Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer then took over Breit’s research role, and was then appointed to head the secret weapons lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Under his leadership, Soviet spies and Communist sympathizers infested the Project (Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs et al).
Following up on the Einstein-Szilard lie of a few years earlier, in August of 1943, Oppenheimer wrote: “It is possible that the Germans will have, by the end of this year, enough material accumulated to make a large number of gadgets [atomic bombs] which they will release at the same time on England, Russia, and this country.” (here)
It was this horrible fear of an imaginary German bomb project which was used to justify the expense of the vast effort, and cover up the Satanic blood lust of the Jewish Mafia that was hell-bent on exterminating and then sterilizing Germans to the point of extinction.. The effort is still in effect today — only it’s in the form of engineered low birth rates and mass Turd World immigration.
‘IKE’ PARTIES IN MOSCOW WITH ‘UNCLE JOE’ WHILE MILLIONS ARE BEING RAPED AND MURDERED BY THE SOVIETS
“The striking aspect of the visit was the lavish reception the Russians gave the commander of a foreign nation’s army. Georgi Zhukov, General Eisenhower’s Soviet counterpart in Berlin, met us at Tempelhof Airport for the flight to Moscow in Ike’s C-54 four-engine aircraft. Zhukov, as the official host, was the soul of hospitality and congeniality. By this time the two commanders…had become friends, as close of friends as public life permits. In Moscow the party first attended a parade. Significantly, my father was invited to undergo a four-hour ordeal atop Vladimir Lenin’s tomb with Zhukov and Stalin. He was, I later learned, the first foreigner ever accorded that honor. One evening, The entire party was entertained at dinner, with Stalin himself officiating.”
John S. D. Eisenhower (son and aide of Ike)
FINAL DEATH COUNT OF WORLD WAR II AND AFTERMATH TOTAL KILLED: 40,000,000 + AMERICANS KILLED: 420,000 + BRITISH KILLED: 400,000 + GERMANS KILLED: 12 – 15,000,000 + ITALIAN KILLED: 450,000 + FRENCH KILLED: 500,000 + JAPANESE KILLED: 3,000,000 + RUSSIANS KILLED: 5,000,000 + during war; 7,000,000 + disappeared or killed afterwards (The official Soviet figure of 20,000,000 total dead cannot be substantiated and does not differentiate between war dead and Stalin’s victims) U.S. POW’s kidnapped by Stalin: *25,000 / 100’s executed *Liberated from German POW camps in the east, shipped to Siberian slave labor camps (Gulags), and then abandoned by US Government.
AUGUST, 1945
EISENHOWER AND HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS ISSUE A FAKE HOLOCAUST ATROCITY FILM
American audiences are horrified by newsreel footage of the ‘Nazi’ concentration camps. One full-length film, authorized by General Eisenhower, shows the homicidal “gas chambers” of Dachau, shrunken heads of inmates, and lamp shades that were made from human flesh at the request of a camp commander’s wife. German civilians were rounded up and forced to view these fake props. To add further credibility to such claims, the film includes images of the sworn affidavits of U.S. military officials. As it turns out, and as even Jewish “scholars” of the “Holocaust” now openly admit, the shrunken heads were fakes, the lamp shades were made of goat leather, and there were never any homicidal “gassings” at the Dachau camp. (3) But by the time these were admitted as hoaxes (40 years later) the damage to the German reputation had already been done.
1945 – 1950
EUROPE BECOMES A ‘SAVAGE CONTINENT’
World War II in Europe may have officially ended in 1945, but the period of anarchy and civil war that follows will last for 5 more years. Across Europe, landscapes are
ravaged, entire cities ruined, and millions of people are homeless. Institutions such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government are either gone or badly weakened. Crime rates soar; economies collapse; and hungry women and girls turn to prostitution as the European population hovers on the brink of starvation. Communists, liberals and Jews impose a cruel vengeance upon their helpless prey. German civilians and their anti-Communist allies everywhere are rounded up, raped, sodomized, drowned in cesspools, tortured, genitally mutilated, burned alive, and executed. Internment camps are reopened and filled with anti-Communists and Germans. After being starved to death, photos of the prisoners are then passed off as victims of Hitler’s “Holocaust”. Massacres and civil wars follow in Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and parts of Italy and France. In the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions are expelled from their ancestral homelands as Allied occupiers look the other way.
1944 – 1945
RED ARMY RAPES 2 MILLION GERMAN WOMEN!
As the Red Army rolls into Germany, Stalin’s Jewish chief propagandist, Ilya Ehrenberg, encourages the soldiers to rape and kill German women. Ehrenberg’s leaflets declare:
The orgy of violence and rape is one of the ghastliest episodes in human history. Two million German females ranging in age from 8-80 will be gang-raped, sodomized and beaten badly, often in view of their children or family members. Some are penetrated with broken bottles and bayonets in wild orgies of drunken violence. Even the terrified women who flee to churches and hospitals are hunted down and gang raped. Nuns, little girls, and elderly women are infected with venereal diseases. There are cases of breasts being cut off and victims set on fire after being raped. The most notable offenders are the mainly Jewish NKVD rear guard troops and the Mongoloid troops from the Asian Republics of the far eastern reaches of the USSR. Rather than submit to the horror, thousands of German women commit suicide. Eisenhower, Truman, and the Zionist Press are fully aware of the monstrous horror that the man they all refer to as ‘Uncle Joe’ is inflicting upon these poor women.
1945 – 46
‘IKE’ MURDERS 1.5 MILLION GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR! More than one year after the German surrender, General Eisenhower still holds millions of German Prisoners-of-War. The men are inhumanely crowded into camps without latrines, exposed to the elements and underfed. Germans dig holes for shelter and even take to eating grass! American guards who attempt to help the prisoners face disciplinary action. German civilians try to bring food and blankets to the men but are shot at by guards. Unlike Germany’s wartime internment camps which were open to international inspection, Eisenhower issues an order stating that Red Cross officials are not to be given access to the camps. As disease, exposure, and hunger take their toll, the German losses mount daily. By the end of their cruel incarceration, as many as 1.5 million German prisoners will have died a slow and torturous death.
1945 – 50
STALIN MURDERS AS MANY AS 1 MILLION GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR!
Not to be outdone by Eisenhower, Stalin’s mistreatment of German POW’s (as well as his own) is heartbreaking. Germans were often summarily executed, paraded like animals and, up until the 1950’s and perhaps beyond, worked to death in Siberia.
1945 – 1949
10 MILLION GERMANS EXPELLED FROM HOMES / 2 MILLION DIE / MASSIVE BRAINWASH CAMPAIGN ENSUES
After the war, the area of Germany historically known as Prussia ceases to exist. It is mostly transferred to Soviet occupied Poland and to the Soviet Union itself. Seven million Germans are expelled from their homes and forced to migrate west. Still more German territory is given to Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia, with 3 million more Germans expelled. The refugees are often attacked and raped by the Red Army as well as Jewish and Communist gangs. Two million will die during the forced migrations, and about 500,000 more are interned in Soviet labor camps. Displaced Jews are given preference in seizing and occupying the stolen homes of German refugees. As part of a psychological re-programming effort known as “De-Nazification”, the German people are deliberately subjected to hunger, mental trauma, and homelessness. Starving German women sell their bodies to American soldiers in exchange for a few cans of food. To add final insult to injury, the old debt payments originating from the post World War I Treaty of Versailles will be re-instituted in 1948, and not paid off until 2010!
DECEMBER 21, 1945
ANTI-RED, ANTI-ZIONIST GENERAL GEORGE PATTON IS ASSASSINATED (‘Auto Accident’)
General Eisenhower needed General Patton in order to win the war. But the outspoken Patton often bucked Ike, complaining openly about his halt orders (which stopped Patton from liberating Eastern Europe before the Soviets could get there) and ignoring Ike’s orders to continue holding German prisoners after the war. Patton urges his superiors to allow his army to evict the weakened Soviets from Europe. In letters to his wife, he expresses his disgust over the cruel extermination of the German people, the Red Army rapes, and what he describes as Jewish Communist efforts to advance Soviet influence. Patton’s “insubordination” causes Ike to remove him from command. In one of those letters, Patton reveals that upon leaving the Army and resettling in America, he will openly fight against the treason.
He never gets the chance…Patton is hospitalized following a strange, low impact auto accident near Mannheim, Germany. The American icon dies in the hospital two weeks later, apparently the victim of an assassination order, issued by Ike or higher.
1945-1947
‘OPERATION KEELHAUL’ / IKE DELIVERS 5 MILLION RUSSIAN POW’s, SS MEN & REFUGEES INTO STALIN’S ARMS Stalin brands Russian POW’s captured by Germany, and Russian refugees who fled west with the retreating Germans, as traitors. At Yalta, FDR and Churchill had agreed that Russian “traitors” and SS men should be sent to Stalin in exchange for American & British POW’s “liberated” by the Soviets. General Eisenhower eagerly carries out this atrocity; which was mockingly code named: “Operation Keelhaul” (after an old naval punishment that involved tying a rope around a sailor and then dragging him under the hull of a ship)! Up to 3 million terrified Russian POW’s are forced at gunpoint onto trains and trucks that bring them to their Soviet executioners. Many commit suicide.
U.S. troops, upon returning from the drop-off points, later report seeing rows of bodies already hanging from the trees. In separate operations, anti-Communist refugee families, who actually followed their German protectors as they retreated from Russia, are also shipped back to “Uncle Joe”, and subjected to special tortures, including rape of the women. As a final insult from our “ally”, Stalin holds on to 25,000 American POW’s and 30,000 British, sending them to his Siberian Gulags, and even summarily executing some.. Ike, Churchill, and Truman are aware of the missing POW’s but say nothing!
MARCH 5, 1946
CHURCHILL DECLARES THAT AN ‘IRON CURTAIN’ HAS FALLEN OVER EUROPE
By 1946, it is clear that Stalin has no intention of allowing the occupied nations of Eastern Europe to join the “European Family”. Nor is he interested in annexing the USSR to a western-controlled New World Order. The Globalist love affair with the Soviet Union ends in disillusion. Thus was born “The Cold War”. The now ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, who helped engineer this disaster, delivers his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri: “an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere.” Over the coming months and years, these nations, which had been given to Stalin at Yalta, will fall, one-by-one, to Soviet backed Communist Parties in each nation. The usual Red terror soon follows in each. General Patton had been right after all!
OCTOBER, 1946
NUREMBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS SENTENCE GERMAN LEADERS TO DEATH
During the 1943 Tehran Conference, Joe Stalin had proposed executing 50,000 German staff officers after the war. FDR joked that 49,000 would do! The murderous Allies were all in agreement that “trials” of Germany’s top leaders would take place after the war. When the show trials begin in 1945, an 8-panel tribunal (The Nuremberg Trials) is seated (2 judges each from the US, UK, USSR, & France). The primary American judge is Francis Biddle, of the Biddle Family that spawned the 19th century American Central Bank Chairman, Nicholas Biddle. Honorable German leaders are condemned as “war criminals” by governments that carried out the Hamburg, Dresden and Tokyo fire-bombings, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff & the Goya, the forced return of Russian refugees & POW’s, the starvation murders of 1.5 million German POW’s, the murders at Katyn Forest, the mass raping of German women, and the dropping of atom bombs! Several hundred prominent American and European political figures, writers, artists and military men, including a young John F. Kennedy, condemns the trials. Of the accused, 11 will hang, and 7 (including the peacemaking parachutist Rudolf Hess) will receive long, or life prison terms. Herman Goering, Head of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) cheats his executioners by taking poison in his jail cell. It is likely that a sympathetic American guard helped Goering by smuggling the poison into his cell. But simple murder wasn’t enough. The Allied executioners used a “short drop” instead of a neck-breaking “long drop”. The victims thus died a longer death due to strangulation. Additionally, the trapdoor was too small, such that several of the men suffered bleeding head injuries when they hit the sides of the trapdoor while falling. Adding final insult to injury, the bodies were cremated and scattered over a river, denying the families the right of burial.
1946-1948
ZIONIST TERROR SPREADS IN PALESTINE AS THE NEW ‘STATE OF ISRAEL’ COMES INTO BEING
With Britain tired, weakened and in debt from the war, the opportunistic Zionists escalate their attacks against the British protectors of Palestine. It was the Brits who had stolen Palestine for the Zionists’ sake after World War I, but now Britain is to be betrayed and chased out of Palestine. The deadly bombing of the King David Hotel (1946) in Jerusalem targets the offices of the British Military, killing 91 people. In 1948, after the three Allied powers of the War have recognized the new State of Israel, the massacre at Deir Yassin targets innocent Palestinian villagers, scaring them to flee from their villages. The Irgun terror gang, headed by future Israeli Prime Minister & Nobel Peace Prize winner Menachem Begin, is responsible for both. Due to sympathy gained from the fictitious “6 million” dead of World War II, Israel’s brutal dispossession and displacement of the Palestinians is tolerated.
JUNE, 1947
GLOBALIST ‘MARSHALL PLAN’ IS PROPOSED
The Marshall Plan is a massive US Foreign Aid scheme for post-war Western Europe. The Globalists use every propaganda trick in the book to cleverly sell the expensive scheme to the anti-Communist US Senate, and to a gullible American public. The Marshall Scam is hard-sold as an “economic recovery program” needed to prevent nations from “falling to Communism”. The scheme is named after, and announced by, recently named Secretary of State, General George Marshall – the “war hero.” The “poison pill” of the Marshall Scam is the sub-group that it creates in order to
administer the aid package: The Organization for European Economic Co- operation.
The OEEC consists of 18 nations. It is the “embryo” of the coming European Common Market as well as today’s socialist, single currency European Union.
1945 – PRESENT
THE 70 YEAR OCCUPATION & BRAINWASHING OF GERMANY From the days of the post war “de-Nazification” of Germany, throughout the 45 year Communist rule over East Germany, as well as the 70-year U.S. domination of a united Germany that continues to this day, perhaps the greatest crime of all is the psychological rape of three subsequent generations of Germans. From an early age, German school children are taught to hate the great accomplishments of previous generations and wallow in self-loathing. Most pathetic, Germans today fervently believe all the lies told about “Nazi” Germany as they continue to hunt down and imprison “holocaust deniers” and innocent 90-year old SS men for “war crimes”. Those Germans who are not full of self-loathing are too afraid to speak up, lest the occupation governments of Germany or Austria throw them in jail. Many Germans today actually enjoy self-flagellation! It’s like a woman who has been raped and battered to near death, blaming herself and apologetically groveling before the perpetrator.
WHY HAVE COUNTRIES BANNED “HOLOCAUST DENIAL”? Truth is its own defense. It does not require laws to protect it. Only lies do. The fact that so many countries now ban the practice of “Holocaust Denial”, is alone evidence that something isn’t right about the “official story”.
1960
WINNER’S HISTORY! THE ‘RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH’ IS PUBLISHED
After having received what he calls a “generous grant” from the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), American newspaper hack and former CBS mouthpiece William Shirer publishes his “definitive” and “comprehensive” history of World War II, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. In the book’s opening acknowledgement, Shirer thanks “the Council” – whose Globalist members were the very ones that engineered the war in the first place! Shirer’s Rise and Fall is heavy on the empty verbiage and page-count (1,245!), but extremely light on essential facts. Weaving truths with half truths and outright lies, while sprinkling in a few seemingly objective, even pro-German nuggets of truth; Shirer skillfully paints a deceptive facade; one which any reader of The Bad War should now be able to easily crack open. The Jewish publishing giant Simon & Schuster publishes the book, and the Jewish press hypes it to the stars. Shirer becomes wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. His putrid package of propaganda remains, to this day, the “go to” book for those who think they know anything about World War II. What a joke!
CLOSING STATEMENT
World War II, or ‘The Good War’ as modern day court-historian refer to it – is the gift that keeps on giving – giving us problems that is! This tragedy, and its aftermath, haunt humanity to this day, and will continue to well into the foreseeable future. Out of the aftermath of World War II comes the Cold War, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, the wars and ongoing problems in the Middle East, the financial schemes and distress caused by the IMF and the World Bank, the framework of the tyrannical and corrupt European Union, and so many other problems of the modern day. The Bad War was a complete disaster for the forces of civilization, stability, virtue, culture, and independent nationalism of blood-related kinfolk…But it was a total triumph for the overlapping dark forces of Globalism, debt-based “Crony Capitalism’, World Communism, misguided liberalism and Zionism.
Behold what the victorious “good guys” have wrought in the days since that tragic war. Europe, and by extension America, Canada and Australia, no longer exist as peoples with common history, heritage or values. The Globalists have reduced the beloved “Europa” of Hitler into a rootless, culture-less, godless, gender-less, alienated, infertile, pornographic, multi-cultural, homosexual mish-mash of mentally medicated tax and debt slaves. The true European essence that was once rooted in places like ancient Athens, Rome, Florence, Paris, London, Madrid, Dresden; and grand historical personages such as Plato, Aristotle, Pericles, Jesus, Marcus Aurelius, Charlemagne, Mozart, Kant, Dante, Shakespeare, Jefferson; and vital institutions such as family, farm, folk, community, church and civic groups, is, if not totally “gone with the wind”, certainly in the process of coming off its moorings. Collectively, the people of the West are no longer really even ‘peoples’ defined by common cultures, traditions, bloodlines and sets of eternal values. We are economies defined solely by the Gross Domestic Product.
Conchita Wurst: Austrian “transsexual” wins European Song Contest in 2014
As individuals, we are no longer persons defined by our virtues and intellects. We are soulless machines – disposable, pill-popping, TV-addicted “human resources” and “tax payers” defined solely by our “net worth” and ability to “consume” – a euphemism for going into debt to buy crap that we don’t need. In a broader philosophical sense, that’s what World War II was all about. It was a titanic struggle between the forces of classical Europa (as well as historic Japan) and those of the
culturally degenerate and predatory Capitalist-Communist hybrid New World Order in which
we live in, no, exist in today. And the true “good guys” lost! There is nothing that can be done to undo the evil folly of the past; but by correcting the misinformation associated with it, we can, perhaps, at least avoid more bloodbaths in the future. Make no mistake; this dirty game is still going on and may one day culminate in World War III; pitting the NWO against the “disobedient” sovereign powers of the new Russia and China. Only the players change; the great game does not.
Waddesdon Manor in England is just one of the many Rothschild estates throughout Europe. Inset: Awestruck groupies Warren Buffet and Arnold Swarzenagger visit Lord Jacob Rothschild (right) at his Waddesdon Palace.
BRITAIN & POLAND AGREE TO A MILITARY ALLIANCE The Polish-British Common Defense Pact contains promises of British military assistance in the event that Poland is attacked by another European country. This builds upon a previous agreement (March 1939) between the two countries, and also with France, by specifically committing to military action in the event of an attack. With this agreement, Zionist-Globalist forces in the UK have trapped the reluctant Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, as well as France. All that is left to do
now is for Polish-Jewish border thugs, under the protection of Marshal Edward Rydz- Smigly, to deliberately provoke Germany into action and get the war started. On the
nights of August 25 to August 31 inclusive, there occur many violent attacks on German civilians as well as German officials and property.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER:
“Chamberlain (speaking off the record to Ambassador Kennedy while golfing) stated that the America and the world Jews had forced England into the war”.
AUGUST 28, 1939
HITLER ISSUES AN OPEN PEACE LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
Now emboldened by Britain, France and, from ‘behind the scenes’, Roosevelt, Poland’s relentless and murderous abuse of its captive German population reaches the breaking point. Hitler is prepared for war with Poland but is still attempting to preserve peace, especially with France and Britain. In an open letter to French President Daladier, Hitler makes yet another impassioned plea for peace.
Some pertinent excerpts:
“My dear Minister President: I understand the misgiving to which you give expression. I, too, have never overlooked the grave responsibilities which are imposed upon those who are in charge of the fate of nations. As an old front line fighter, I, like you, know the horrors of war. Guided by this attitude and experience, I have tried to remove all matters that might cause conflict between our two peoples. As you could judge for yourself during your last visit here, the German people, in the knowledge of its own behavior held and holds no ill feelings, much less hatred, for its one-time brave opponent. On the contrary, the pacification of our western frontier led to an increasing sympathy. I am deeply convinced that if, especially, England at that time had, instead of starting a wild campaign against Germany in the press and instead of launching rumors of a German mobilization, somehow talked the Poles into being reasonable, Europe today and for twenty-five years could enjoy a condition of deepest peace. As things were, Polish public opinion was excited by a lie about German aggression.The Polish government declined the proposals. Polish public opinion, convinced that England and France would now fight for Poland, began to make demands one might possibly stigmatize as laughable insanity were they not so tremendously dangerous. At that point an unbearable terror, a physical and economic persecution of the Germans although they numbered more than a million and a half began in the regions ceded by the Reich. May I now take the liberty of putting a question to you, Herr Daladier: How would you act as a Frenchman if, through some unhappy issue of a brave struggle, one of your provinces severed by a corridor occupied by a foreign power? And if a big city – let us say Marseilles – were hindered from belonging to France and if Frenchmen living in this area were persecuted, beaten and maltreated, yes, murdered, in a bestial manner? I see no way of persuading Poland, which feels herself as unassailable, now that she enjoys the protection of her guarantees, to accept a peaceful solution. If our two countries on that account should be destined to meet again on the field of battle, there would nevertheless be a difference in the motives. I, Herr Daladier, shall be leading my people in a fight to rectify a wrong, whereas the others would be fighting to preserve that wrong.”
QUOTE TO REMEMBER
“German men and women were hunted like wild beasts through the streets of Bromberg. When they were caught, they were mutilated and torn to pieces by the Polish mob. . . . Every day the butchery increased. . . . Thousands of Germans fled from their homes in Poland with nothing more than the clothes that they wore.. On the nights of August 25 to August 31 inclusive, there occurred, besides innumerable attacks on civilians of German blood, 44 perfectly authenticated acts of armed violence against German official persons and property.”
William Joyce, Irish defector to Germany
AUGUST 31, 1939
‘THE GLEIWITZ’ (& other) BORDER ATTACKS / JEWISH-POLISH GUERILLAS ATTACK GERMAN RADIO STATION
Overestimating their strength, underestimating German strength, and believing that France and the UK would now back him, Marshal Smigly allows Polish-Jewish partisan terrorists to cross the border and attack a German radio station in Germany. It is actually the latest in a string of deliberate border instigations against Germany. The “Poles” then broadcast a message (in Polish) urging others to take up arms and start killing Germans. German police quickly arrive and retake the station, killing one of the Red terrorists. Jewish Red terrorists, their Polish government protectors, and their Globalist-Zionist masters have picked a fight with Germany! Modern fake historians claim that the Gleiwitz incident was staged by Germans dressed as Polish terrorists. But as is the case with the Reichstag Fire conspiracy
theory, they offer no evidence to support this oft-repeated lie, (beyond a forced “confession” obtained after the war) to support this theory – a theory that ignores the outrageous and repeated pattern of provocations directed at Hitler’s Germany ever since 1933, the numerous border incidents, the murders of Germans and also Hitler’s sincere attempts to negotiate a resolution to the Corridor and Danzig controversies.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER “I lived in Germany during the 1980’s when many people who lived during the war were still alive. I sought out anyone who lived near Poland in 1939 and was lucky enough to meet several people. One was a customs official who said it was so bad on the border they were armed and also had grenades in their office ready for attacks. Another told me his farm animals were often stolen by Polish (Jewish?) terrorists. Another told of his niece being raped by a Pole (Jew?) who crossed the border. He told me in 1940 they caught the man and showed me a copy of the death order signed by Heydrich, in which he ordered the man be put to death. This is just one of many stories told to me by German civilians who witnessed these border incursions just like had happened in 1919-1928. One thing many people fail to see is that Poland openly attacked Germany right after World War I, which led to many border battles. Once Germany started pressing Poland to work out a solution to the corridor, the attacks started again. .And one thing that is clear to me is that Germany did not make up for these attacks.”
–George H. Ohio, USA
Hitler has had about all he could take from Poland.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER
“This (Declaration of War) is the fault of the anti-appeasers and thefucking Jews.”
British Duke Arthur Wellesley (5th Duke of Wellington) was the great grandson ofthe famous Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.
SEPTEMBER 7-16, 1939
THE SAAR OFFENSIVE / FRANCE INVADES GERMANY The Saar Offensive is a French ground invasion into Saarland, Germany. The large scale assault is to be carried out by 40 divisions and 40 tank battalions. According to the Franco-Polish military convention, the French Army was to gain control over the area between the French border and the Siegfried Line of German defense. Much to the dismay of the fools in Poland, the full 40-division all-out assault never materializes. The empty promises of empire were just an Allied trick just to get stupid Marshal Smigly to start the fight with Germany. But a limited invasion and occupation of Germany’s Saar region does indeed occur. On October 16 & 17, the German army, now reinforced with troops returning from the Polish campaign, conducts a counter-offensive which retakes the lost territory from the invading French. In liberating what the French had invaded, the Germans lose 196 soldiers, plus 114 missing and 356 wounded. Hitler continues to plea for peace. So you see, dear reader, the Anglo-French Allies not only instigated the war, and not only were the first to declare war, they also drew first blood upon Germany.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1939
SOVIET UNION INVADES POLAND FROM THE EAST / ALLIES SAY NOTHING
With the Polish army being routed by the advancing Germans in the west, Stalin cleverly decides to break the Soviet-Polish Non Aggression Pact of 1932. Poland is stabbed in the back as Soviet forces pour in from the east. The advancing Reds carry out massacres, the most infamous being the Katyn Forest Massacre in which 10,000 Polish Army officers are shot in the head. Other than the pre-Versailles German areas which Germany reclaims, the Soviets will eventually take all of Poland. In a shocking double-standard, the anti-German, FDR, France & the UK remain oddly silent about this brutal Soviet aggression. Poland appeals to Britain and France for help, citing the Poland-British Defense Pact just signed a few weeks ago. The Polish ambassador in London contacts the British Foreign Office pointing out that clause 1(b) of the agreement, which concerned an “aggression by a European power” on Poland, should apply to the Soviet invasion. The UK Foreign Secretary responds with hostility, stating that it was Britain’s decision whether to declare war on the Soviet Union. The truth is, the Allies don’t give a rat’s ass about Poland. They only used its stupid ultra-nationalist leader (who by now has shamelessly abandoned his troops and fled to Romania), to instigate Hitler so that they could have their war. The horror that Poland will suffer under Soviet occupation is now Poland’s problem, not the Allies’.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1939
GERMANY DEFEATS POLAND / DANZIG AND ALL OF PRUSSIA REUNITED WITH THE REST OF GERMANY
Within a few weeks, the German-Polish War is already over. Hitler receives a hero’s welcome upon his arrival in liberated Danzig. Hitler addresses the Danzig crowd: “No power on earth would have borne this condition as long as Germany. I do not know what England would have said about a similar peace solution (Versailles) at its expense or how America or France would have accepted it. I attempted to find a tolerable solution – even for this problem. I submitted this attempt to the Polish rulers in the form of verbal proposals. .You know these proposals. They were more than moderate. I do not know what mental condition the Polish Government was in when it refused these proposals. …….As an answer, Poland gave the order for the first mobilization. Thereupon wild terror was initiated, and my request to the Polish Foreign Minister to visit me in Berlin once more to discuss these questions was refused. Instead of going to Berlin, he went to London.” Hitler rightfully mocks Smigly as a coward: “The Polish Marshal, who miserably deserted his armies, said that he would hack the German Army to pieces.”
OCTOBER, 1939 – MAY, 1940
HITLER PLEADS FOR PEACE WITH BRITAIN & FRANCE The German-Polish War has ended quickly. The Allies never had any intention of helping Poland. The French actually invade Germany on September 7th, advancing 8 km before stopping. The quiet period between the end of the Polish war until May 1940, is dubbed by a U.S. Senator as “The Phony War.” During this time, Hitler pleads for the Allies to withdraw their war declarations. Towards France he declares:.“I have always expressed to France my desire to bury forever our ancient enmity and bring together these two nations, both of which have such glorious pasts.” To the British, Hitler says: “I have devoted no less effort to the achievement of Anglo-German friendship. At no time and in no place have I ever acted contrary to British interests….Why should this war in the West be fought?” Hitler’s pleas for peace are ignored as the allies begin to mobilize more than 2,000,000 troops in Northern France. Plans are openly discussed to advance eastward upon Germany, via “neutral” Belgium and Holland, as well as establishing operations in “neutral” Norway and Denmark, with or without their consent.
NOVEMBER 4, 1939
FDR REPEALS THE NEUTRALITY ACTS
The Neutrality Acts prohibited the United States from selling arms to warring nations. The purpose of these acts was to prevent the U.S. from again becoming involved in Europe’s wars. Throughout the 1930’s, FDR and his Zionist advisor Bernard Baruch (who had also been an advisor to Woodrow Wilson), anticipating a new war against Germany, had unsuccessfully tried to amend the previous Neutrality Acts. Soon after Germany and Poland began fighting, FDR again urges Congress to repeal the Neutrality Acts. In November of ’39, a new Neutrality Act is passed. The sale of arms to the UK is now legal. The scheming FDR has taken a big step towards involving America in a war that his Zio-Globo handlers have long been agitating for.
APRIL 9, 1940
GERMANY IS FORCED INTO PRE-EMPTIVE, LIMITED OCCUPATIONS OF NORWAY & DENMARK
The Allied plan of attack is to disrupt Germany’s iron ore imports from Sweden by illegally mining Norwegian waters, and then occupying the important Norwegian port of Narvik. Plans are also made for imposing a base of operations in Denmark, Germany’s neutral neighbor to its north. A Norwegian politician named Vidkun Quisling confirms the existence of these Allied plots.
(Operation Wilfred and Plan R 4). Sympathetic to Germany, and not wanting his country to become a battlefield, Quisling informs Hitler of the Anglo-French plot to wage war from the two Scandinavian countries.
Germany moves quickly to secure the Norwegian port of Narvik just before the British can place their mines, and also to occupy Denmark. German diplomats assure the leaders of both Scandinavian nations that Germany seeks neither conquest nor interference in internal affairs. Life under limited German occupation goes on quietly for the Scandinavians during the war. Quisling’s name is now a dictionary word in the English language, synonymous with “traitor” – a totally unfair characterization.
MAY 10, 1940
GREAT BRITAIN INVADES NEUTRAL ICELAND
The British invasion of tiny, neutral Iceland is code named “Operation Fork.” It begins on May 10, 1940 (the same day that Churchill comes to power) with British troops disembarking in the Capital City of Reykjavik.
The British quickly move inland, disabling communications networks and securing landing locations.
The government of Iceland protests the violation of their neutrality, but to no avail. This force is then subsequently augmented, to a final strength of 25,000.
The recently thwarted British occupations of neutral Denmark and Norway, and the successful occupation of neutral Iceland, show that Rothschild Britain is the true aggressor of the coming war in Western Europe. Although FDR, up until December 1941, promises that America will remain non-belligerent, 30,000 US troops will relieve the British and occupy Iceland in spring of 1941.
MAY 10, 1940
WINSTON CHURCHILL BECOMES UK’s PRIME MINISTER With the preparations for war in place, the reluctant warrior Neville Chamberlain is finally pushed aside as the lunatic, drunken, cigar chomping Winston Churchill takes his place. Churchill’s record of treason already includes the World War I sinking of the Lusitania (when he was Lord of the Admiralty). Churchill, and his wealthy London (and New York) Zionist backers, have been advocating for war with Germany for the past 6 years. His warmongering had made him an outcast in British politics. But now, with the Zionist press of Britain misrepresenting the facts surrounding the German-Polish War, Churchill is portrayed as some sort of wise prophet. Hitler knows very well who Churchill is, and who he works for. He had even referred to Churchill in past speeches as part of Britain’s “government of tomorrow”. With Chamberlain gone and Churchill now in power, Hitler now knows for certain that “the Phony War” is about to become very real.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER:
“I emphasized that the defeat of Germany and Japan and their elimination from world trade would give Britain a tremendous opportunity to swell her foreign commerce in both volume and profit.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
MAY 10, 1940
GERMANY LAUNCHES PRE-EMPTIVE INVASION OF ‘LOW COUNTRIES’
Hitler’s pleas for peace have been repeatedly ignored as 400,000 British and at least 2,000,000 French troops have massed in northern France. The massive invasion of Germany’s industrial Ruhr region is to come through the ostensibly “neutral” League of Nations member states of Belgium and The Netherlands (Holland), whose governments are under intense Allied pressure to allow safe passage for the planned Allied attack on the bordering Ruhr region of Germany. Again, Hitler’s hand is forced. On the same day that Churchill comes to power, and that the UK invades Iceland, as an act of national self-defense, Germany takes the fight to the Allies before they can bring it to German soil and reinstitute a 2nd Versailles Treaty. In a stunning advance westward, the German Blitzkrieg quickly overtakes the smaller nations (known as the Low Countries because of their geography) and pushes the Allied armies into a full retreat towards the beaches of northern France. The Globo-Zionist press, as well as today’s history books, portrays the Blitz as “the Nazi conquest of Holland, Belgium, and France.” But the menacing presence of the massive Allied force on Germany’s industrial frontier is conveniently ignored, as is the undeniable and extensive collaboration between the “neutral” Low Countries and the Allies.
MAY 10, 1940
ALLIES BOMB GERMAN TOWN OF FRIEBURG / 20 CHILDREN KILLED IN A PLAYGROUND
The medieval and non-strategic German town of Freiburg is located just 20 miles from the French border. In the opening hours of the war in the west, new Prime Minister Churchill and his French allies waste no time in murdering civilians. About 60 bombs are dropped on or near Freiburg; killing 50 civilians including 20 children who were playing outside. This was the first bombing of civilians in World War II. In order to whitewash this horrific deed from the pages of history; and to maintain the historical myth that it was Germany that initiated the bombings of civilians; court historians have long promoted the ridiculous lie that the Germans accidentally bombed their own town and then blamed the event on the Allies in order to cover up the mistake. Subsequent terror bombings of German civilians will dispel any doubt that Churchill was indeed capable of deliberately exterminating civilians.
MAY, 1940
HITLER TRIES FOR PEACE THROUGH A SWEDISH CHANNEL After having just defeated the French and British invaders, Hitler, via a Swedish third party, proposes generous peace terms to Britain. The Germans contact the British ambassador in Sweden, Victor Mallet, through Sweden ́s Supreme Court Judge Ekeberg, who is known to Hitler ́s legal advisor, Ludwig Weissauer. Hitler ́s peace proposal demands nothing of Great Britain and implies that the states currently occupied by Germany would be de-occupied; as Germany ́s occupation was only due to the present war situation. But Winston Churchill is not interested in peace. The offer goes nowhere.
MAY 25-28, 1940
“THE WAR CABINET CRISIS” / CHURCHILL AND LORD HALIFAX DIVIDED OVER ITALIAN PEACE MEDIATION
Giuseppe Bastianini, the Italian ambassador in London, requests a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to discuss Italy’s neutrality. Halifax meets Bastianini later that afternoon. The discussion soon moves to that of Italian mediation between the Allies and Germany. Bastianini reveals that the goal of Italian leader Benito Mussolini (Hitler’s close ally) is to negotiate a settlement “that would not merely be an armistice, but would protect European peace for the century.” Halifax responds very favorably to the idea and takes it to the British War Cabinet. The following morning Halifax reports to the War Cabinet, summarizing his meeting with Bastianini and urging his colleagues to consider Italian mediation. Again, Churchill would have none of it! For several days, Halifax continues to press for the Mussolini mediation. In an apparent attempt to placate Halifax, Churchill states that he doubts whether anything would come of an approach to Italy, but that the matter was one which the War
Cabinet should consider. But Churchill is lying to Halifax. Never once did Churchill even consider Mussolini’s offer to mediate peace between Britain and
Germany. The matter eventually dies after Churchill outmaneuvers the peace- seeking Halifax. The conflict is known as ‘The War Cabinet Crisis’.
MAY 27 – JUNE 4, 1940
AS A SIGN OF FRIENDSHIP, HITLER ALLOWS THE ALLIED ARMIES TO ESCAPE AT DUNKIRK
After Germany’s stunning advance, the Allies are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, France. The entire force can be easily captured, but Hitler issues a halt order. As a show of good faith towards his western tormentors, Hitler believes that the British will be more likely to make peace if they can escape with their dignity intact. A massive boat lift involving British fishermen ferries the troops across the English Channel back to England. The Globalist Press maliciously spins Hitler’s gracious act as a “miraculous escape right under Hitler’s nose.” The cigar-chomping, Zionist-owned, alcoholic Winston Churchill vows to keep fighting as he frightens the British people with tales of imminent German invasion.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER:
“He (Hitler) then astonished us by speaking with admiration of the British Empire, of the necessity for its existence, and of the civilization that Britain had brought into the world. ….He compared the British Empire with the Catholic Church saying they were both essential elements of stability in the world. He said that all he wanted from Britain was that she should acknowledge Germany’s position on the Continent. The return of Germany’s colonies would be desirable but not essential, and he would even offer to support Britain with troops if she should be involved in difficulties anywhere.”
German General von Blumentritt
JUNE, 1940
SOVIET UNION INVADES 4 COUNTRIES AT THE SAME TIME! / LATVIA, LITHUANIA, ESTONIA, & EASTERN ROMANIA
With the eyes of the world focused on events in Western Europe, Stalin continues to expand his Evil Empire. The Reds annex the tiny defenseless Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Stalin also annexes parts of eastern Romania. The Soviet Union has now invaded 6 countries in just 9 months! Yet, the western Globalists only remain obsessed with attacking Germany, whose leader, just like the Kaiser had two decades earlier, continues to plead for peace.
JUNE, 1940
AFTER GERMANY’S DEFEAT OF THE ALLIES, MUSSOLINI’s ITALY JOINS THE WAR
Upon seeing Germany’s stunning victory in 1940, Benito Mussolini, the opportunistic, ego-driven Leader of Italy, ends Italy’s neutrality and allies himself with Germany. He declares war upon France (which was already beaten and occupied) and also upon the UK, (which is already being chased out of Europe at Dunkirk). Unlike Hitler’s defensive war, Mussolini dreams of conquest, hoping to restore a new Roman Empire in North Africa. But his reckless adventures will prove to be very costly to Hitler. In August of ’40, Italy occupies British Somaliland in East Africa. In September, Italy invades Egypt, which has been occupied by the British since a 1936 Treaty to protect the Suez Canal. In picking a fight with Britain, Mussolini bites off far more than the unimpressive Italian military can chew. The superior British land and naval forces dominate their Italian adversaries, giving Churchill a potential continental opening to invade a now non-neutral Italy from North Africa.
JUNE 22, 1940
NEW GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE MAKES PEACE WITH HITLER As the fleeing French government collapses, the Germans enter undefended Paris on June 14 ‘ 40. The new government is headed by the World War I hero Marshal Philippe Petain, who agrees to make peace with Germany. Unlike the brutality of the Versailles Treaty, the terms of this Armistice are very light, requiring only that Germany continues to occupy northern France as a defensive measure against a British invasion of the continent. The new French government has its administrative offices in the southern city of Vichy. Other than the strategic occupation in the north, France remains a sovereign nation. Life in occupied France goes on quietly. German soldiers establish an excellent reputation for good behavior, and charm with the French ladies. Meanwhile in the UK, Churchill and French General Charles De Gaulle fume over Marshal Petain’s refusal to continue fighting. Hitler wants Petain to ally his country with Germany, but Mussolini’s war declaration upon France leaves such a bad taste in the mouths of Frenchmen that they cannot possibly join a German-Italian alliance.
JUNE 24, 1940
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS CLAIMS THAT 6 MILLION JEWS ARE DOOMED IF GERMANY WINS THE WAR
Sing it Four Tops! – “It’s the same, old song, with a different …..
Not a single Jew has even been interned and Hitler is still pleading for peace; yet the “Holocaust” and the “6 million” have already been established!
JULY, 1940
CHURCHILL LAUNCHES AERIAL BOMBARDMENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN CIVILIANS
With British ground troops having been chased off of the European mainland, Churchill and his London/New York Banking Bosses can only continue the fight over air (and sea). The British Royal Air Force is ordered to bomb civilian areas. Churchill hopes to provoke a similar response from Hitler so that he and FDR can point to “German bombing of civilians.” In a July memo to the Minister of UK Air Craft production, Churchill writes: “When I look around to see how we can win the war I see that there is only one sure path. We have no Continental army which can defeat the German military power.. …there is one thing that will bring him (Hitler) down, and that is an absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland. We must be able to overwhelm them by this means, without which I do not see a way through.”
The notorious drunk will bomb German civilian areas seven times. But Hitler refuses to do the same. German bombers are under strict orders to limit their attacks to military/industrial targets only…Finally, in September; Hitler is forced to declare that any more British bombings of civilian areas will be met with a similar response. When the German Air Force drops its first bombs on British civilian areas, the world press declares “Germany Bombs Civilians.” As he had done with the orchestrated sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, Winston Churchill has again deliberately brought on the deaths of innocent men, women, and children in order to achieve political goals.
JULY 20, 1940
HITLER DROPS ‘PEACE LEAFLETS’ OVER LONDON! With Germany in total control of the continent and the war situation, Hitler responds to Churchill’s bombs by dropping mass quantities of leaflets over London. The 4- page broadsheet contains an English language summary of Hitler’s recent speech before the Reichstag. The speech is entitled, “A Last Appeal to Reason”, in which he closes with a final appeal for peace: “In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my own conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Great Britain as much as elsewhere. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal, since I am not the vanquished, begging favors, but the victor speaking in the name of reason. I can see no reason why this war must go on. I am grieved to think of the sacrifices it will claim. Possibly Mr. Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come.” The British respond to Hitler’s sincere plea with mockery, threats, and more bombs.
JULY 20, 1940
HITLER DROPS ‘PEACE LEAFLETS’ OVER LONDON! With Germany in total control of the continent and the war situation, Hitler responds to Churchill’s bombs by dropping mass quantities of leaflets over London. The 4- page broadsheet contains an English language summary of Hitler’s recent speech before the Reichstag. The speech is entitled, “A Last Appeal to Reason”, in which he closes with a final appeal for peace: “In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my own conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Great Britain as much as elsewhere. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal, since I am not the vanquished, begging favors, but the victor speaking in the name of reason. I can see no reason why this war must go on. I am grieved to think of the sacrifices it will claim. Possibly Mr. Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come.” The British respond to Hitler’s sincere plea with mockery, threats, and more bombs.
JULY 20, 1940
HITLER DROPS ‘PEACE LEAFLETS’ OVER LONDON! With Germany in total control of the continent and the war situation, Hitler responds to Churchill’s bombs by dropping mass quantities of leaflets over London. The 4- page broadsheet contains an English language summary of Hitler’s recent speech before the Reichstag. The speech is entitled, “A Last Appeal to Reason”, in which he closes with a final appeal for peace: “In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my own conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Great Britain as much as elsewhere. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal, since I am not the vanquished, begging favors, but the victor speaking in the name of reason. I can see no reason why this war must go on. I am grieved to think of the sacrifices it will claim. Possibly Mr. Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come.” The British respond to Hitler’s sincere plea with mockery, threats, and more bombs.
SEPTEMBER, 1940
‘AXIS’ NATIONS OF GERMANY, ITALY, & JAPAN SIGN ‘TRI-PARTITE PACT / HOPE TO KEEP THE U.S. OUT OF THE WAR
Germany and Japan are suspicious of FDR’s true intentions. To discourage American military involvement in either Germany’s war with Britain, or Japan’s unrelated war with China, the two nations and Italy sign the “Tripartite Pact”.
Japan, Germany, and Italy agree to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the contracting nations is attacked by a nation at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict. The hope is that this pact will keep America out of the war. Ironically, the defense pact will end up actually facilitating FDR’s scheme to draw America in.
SEPTEMBER, 1940
‘AXIS’ NATIONS OF GERMANY, ITALY, & JAPAN SIGN ‘TRI-PARTITE PACT / HOPE TO KEEP THE U.S. OUT OF THE WAR
Germany and Japan are suspicious of FDR’s true intentions. To discourage American military involvement in either Germany’s war with Britain, or Japan’s unrelated war with China, the two nations and Italy sign the “Tripartite Pact”.
Japan, Germany, and Italy agree to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the contracting nations is attacked by a nation at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict. The hope is that this pact will keep America out of the war. Ironically, the defense pact will end up actually facilitating FDR’s scheme to draw America in.
OCTOBER, 1940
UK PROMISES ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’ TO JEWS AFTER WAR Germany is in total control of the European war situation. As they had during their losing days of World War I, British politicians reach out to international Jewry for help. During World War I, Britain’s ‘Balfour Declaration’ promised Palestine to the Jews in exchange for bringing about U.S. entry. Now, Lord Arthur Greenwood’s Declaration’ offers them a “New World Order”. Greenwood makes an amazingly prophetic statement, ‘When we have achieved victory, and we assuredly shall…” But there is no chance of British victory unless the U.S. can be dragged into the conflict. Therefore, Greenwood must already suspect that the U.S. will enter the war (which it does 14 months later). The promise of a ‘New World Order’ is clearly intended to further encourage American Jewish support for entering the war. Greenwood promises: “In the rebuilding of civilized society after the war, there should and will be a real opportunity for Jews everywhere to make a distinctive and constructive contribution.” In other words, Lord Greenwood is saying: “Get America in and we’ll give you a say in Europe’s affairs after the war!” Greenwood’s imperialist ‘dance with the Devil’ will prove fatal. After the war, Britain ends up broke and loses her Empire.
“….Arthur Greenwood member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a New World Order”
OCTOBER 28, 1940 ITALY INVADES GREECE
Italy had occupied tiny Albania in the spring of 1939. Mussolini now turns his ambitions towards Greece. Greece has good relations with Germany, but Mussolini wants to claim the Ionian Islands. Italy’s invasion of Greece is completely unrelated to Germany’s war and creates unexpected problems for Hitler. The Greeks repel the invasion. The British then offer to send troops to assist Greece. Churchill now has an opening on the European mainland from which he can move north towards Germany and eastward towards Romania and the crucial oil fields which supply Germany.
NOVEMBER, 1940
AFTER LYING ABOUT HIS INTENTIONS, FDR WINS RE-ELECTION OVER GLOBALIST STRAW-MAN WENDELL WILKIE
Throughout the Election year of 1940, nationalist Republicans warn that FDR is plotting to bring the US into war. Because the public is strongly opposed to entry in another war, FDR reassures voters that the “isolationists” are misrepresenting his intentions. During the campaign, FDR gives his famous “Again and again” speech: “I say to you mothers and fathers and I shall say it again and again and again. Your boys will not be sent into any foreign wars.”
The Globalist wing of the GOP (Republican Party) hijacks the nominating process and puts up an unknown patsy, an “ex-Democrat” named Wendell Willkie to run against FDR. Many Republicans are shocked when the GOP (supported by the media’s hype of Willkie) anoints a New York lawyer who has never held any office. Willkie runs a half-baked campaign and loses badly. FDR is elected to an unprecedented 3rd (and later a 4th) term. Afterwards, FDR gives Willkie a job as an Ambassador. In 1943, Willkie publishes a book entitled: One World.
NOVEMBER, 1940
THE VATICAN PRESENTS HITLER’S PEACE PROPOSALS TO BRITISH OFFICIALS
As far back May of 1939, as revealed by the front page of the New York Times, the Vatican had been trying to mediate between Britain and Germany. Hitler was ready and willing to talk peace at all times. It was the British who said “no”. The peace-seeking Vatican and peace-seeking Germany remained in contact as the war raged. The following excerpt from Martin Allen’s ‘Himmler’s Secret War’ describes a meeting held in Spain between the Papal Nuncio and British officials Hoare and Hilgarth; and the latest peace offer from Hitler: “The nature of the concessions that the German Fuhrer was prepared to make in order to obtain peace with Britain must have astounded the men at the head of SO1.
This was not even a deal worked out through a process of hard negotiation. It was Hitler’s opening gambit….an offer so generous and pragmatic that it would be very tempting to anyone who genuinely wanted peace. His (Hitler’s) offer of such remarkable concessions was an extremely threatening development. Should the terms become public, it had the potential to render British resolve to stand firm against German aggression to a shuttering halt.”
FEBRUARY, 1941
GERMANS ARRIVE IN AFRICA TO BAIL OUT THE ITALIANS The first units of the German ‘AfrikaKorps’ arrive to rescue the collapsing Italian war effort in February of 1941. General Erwin Rommel, known as the Desert Fox, commands the German force in North Africa. Rommel will eventually establish the upper hand in Africa, but this diversion of manpower and resources to Africa proves to be a costly hindrance for Germany.
MARCH, 1941
U.S. ZIONIST THEODORE KAUFMAN PUBLISHES ‘GERMANY MUST PERISH!’ / CALLS FOR EXTINCTION OF GERMAN RACE!
‘’Germany Must Perish!’ is a 104 page booklet published by an American Zionist businessman named Theodore Kaufman. Kaufman calls for the complete extermination of the German people through forced sterilization and total
dismemberment and reapportionment of German territory. The murderous hate- fest starts out in the very opening lines of Germany Must Perish as follows:
“This dynamic volume outlines a comprehensive plan for the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth, of all her people. Also contained herein is a map illustrating the possible territorial dissection of Germany and the apportionment of her lands.” Incredibly, at a time when America is supposedly “neutral”, the hateful book is actually reviewed by The New York Times, Time Magazine and the Washington Post. Though not widely distributed in America, Germany Must Perish is read throughout Germany. Propaganda Minister Dr. Josef Goebbels states: “Thanks to the Jew Kaufmann, we Germans know only too well what to expect in case of defeat.” ‘Germany Must Perish!’ will inspire the frightened German people to fight harder. Kaufman’s work, along with the deadly Jewish Partisan guerilla warfare against German troops, will contribute to Hitler’s decision to intern the Jews of occupied Europe into wartime work camps later in 1941.
1941
FDR SIGNS ‘LEND – LEASE’ INTO LAW / UK TO BE SUPPLIED WITH U.S. MANUFACTURED ARMS
Britain is running short of arms and supplies as Germany continues to offer peace on terms favorable to Britain. Churchill will not listen to reason because, behind the scenes, FDR is reassuring him that the U.S. will support the UK at all costs. With his successful re-election campaign of 1940 out of the way, FDR now becomes even bolder in confronting the anti-war “isolationists”. The Lend-Lease program places the awesome industrial might of the US at the disposal of the UK, China, and later on, the USSR. America is to be “the Arsenal of Democracy” says FDR. Britain will eventually receive $31 Billion worth of war supplies (about $500 Billion at 2012 prices!)
APRIL 6, 1941
GERMANY BLOCKS BRITISH & SOVIET SCHEMES IN SOUTHERN EUROPE BY INVADING GREECE & YUGOSLAVIA Though unrelated to Germany’s war, Mussolini’s foolish adventure in Greece has already created a big problem for Hitler. As Italian forces meet stiff Greek resistance, Churchill uses the conflict as an opportunity to again establish armies on Europe’s mainland, in Europe’s “soft underbelly”. British troops begin arriving in Greece to help the Greeks in their fight against the Italians. Hitler offers to mediate peace between Italy and Greece, but the Greeks (egged on by the British) won’t come to the table as more British troops keep arriving. In March, 1941, Yugoslavia joins Hitler’s defensive Tripartite Pact. In response, British intelligence immediately triggers an orchestrated coup. The new Yugoslavian regime is now a British puppet state, which immediately signs a “Treaty of Friendship” with the USSR. Stalin’s Yugoslavian Communists take to the streets in support of the new government. Again, Hitler’s hand is forced. If he does not act now, the “soft underbelly” of Europe will be flooded with British troops destined for southern Germany, as well as the Romanian oil fields upon which Germany depends. On April 6, ’41, the Germans invade both Greece and Yugoslavia. The still small numbers of British troops are forced to evacuate, spoiling Churchill’s scheme to inflame southern Europe and invite the Soviets in to help. Naturally, the Globalist media simplistically portrays these events as: “Germans Invade Yugoslavia & Greece”.
MAY 10, 1941
RUDOLF HESS PARACHUTES INTO SCOTLAND WITH YET ANOTHER OFFER OF PEACE!
Rudolf Hess is Germany’s Number 2 in command and a close friend of Hitler. Recall that it was Hess who typed out the dictation for Hitler’s Mein Kampf. In May of 1941, Hess (who is fluent in English) flies a solo mission over Scotland and parachutes in, carrying an offer of peace. He is hoping to link up with the Duke of Hamilton, who he had befriended at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and convince his British acquaintance of Germany’s sincere desire for peace. But he is arrested instead. On Churchill’s orders, Hess is held in solitary confinement for the duration of the war. After the war, Hess is “tried” at Nuremberg and then sentenced to life in East Berlin’s Spandau prison. With the liberalization of the USSR in the 1980’s, there is talk of finally releasing him. But he is said to have committed suicide in his cell in 1987.
His family believes that the 93-year-old Hess was murdered so that the details of his peace mission would remain buried forever.
MAY – JULY, 1941
FDR ESCALATES HIS PROVOKATION OF GERMANY & JAPAN Long before the German-Polish conflict, FDR had waged a silent war against Germany. With Germany now in control of the European situation, FDR is even more desperate to drag America into Britain’s war. He relentlessly baits Hitler. To that end, the U.S. impounds German ships, sinks German subs, freezes German, Italian, and Japanese financial assets, assists the British Navy in spotting and sinking The Bismarck (killing 2200 German sailors), and ships large amounts of arms to Britain. Hitler bears the humiliating provocations quietly; knowing that US entry into the war would be disastrous for Germany. Realizing that Hitler will not take his bait, FDR further instigates the Japanese. Recall that the Axis Powers, (Germany, Japan, and Italy) are parties to a mutual defense pact (Tripartite Pact). An attack on one means war with all. FDR will turn the Tripartite Pact to his advantage.
JUNE 22, 1941
‘OPERATION BARBAROSSA’ / HITLER THWARTS STALIN’S PLAN TO CONQUER ALL OF EUROPE
As Germany and Britain exhaust each other in the air, at sea, and now North Africa, Stalin quietly gathers his massive Red Army along Germany’s eastern frontier, near the Romanian oil fields that supply Germany. Hitler knows that Stalin cannot be trusted. He recalls how Stalin broke a non-aggression pact and pounced on Poland while the Poles were pre-occupied with Germany. Another non-aggression pact was broken when Stalin attacked Finland. Soviet invasions of the Baltic States and eastern Romania, along with a recent Communist-backed coup in Yugoslavia all combine to offer still more proof that Stalin is up to something. Now, with Germany and Britain distracted, Stalin threatens all of Europe. Hitler had hoped to remove the Soviet threat in April, but invasion plans were delayed by Mussolini’s misadventures in Africa and Greece. When “Operation Barbarossa” is launched, the Red Army is caught flat-footed and bunched up in offensive positions. Millions of Soviet troops are taken prisoner, and the devastating loss of weaponry and equipment leaves the Red Army neutralized. Up to 65% of all Soviet tanks, field guns, .machine guns, and anti-tank guns are either destroyed or captured. The Germans rout the Reds all the way back to the gates of Moscow, liberating many cheering Ukrainian, Baltic, and even Russian people along the way. It is only the onset of the brutal Russian winter that forces the Germans to pause their stunning offensive. The 2 month delay due to Mussolini’s folly in Greece may have saved Stalin’s regime from a total collapse in 1941.
“Already in 1940 it became increasingly clear from month to month that the plans of the men in the Kremlin were aimed at the domination, and thus the destruction, of all of Europe. I have already told the nation of the build-up of Soviet military power in the East during a period when Germany had only a few divisions in the provinces bordering Soviet Russia. Only a blind person could fail to see that a military build-up of world-historical dimensions was being carried out. And this was not in order to protect something that was being threatened, but rather to attack that which seemed incapable of defense….. I may say this today: .If the wave of more than 20,000 tanks, hundreds of divisions, tens of thousands of artillery pieces, along with more than 10,000 airplanes, had not been kept from being set into motion against the Reich, all of Europe would have been lost.”
– Adolf Hitler, 12-11-1941
JUNE, 1941
FDR RESCUES STALIN / EXTENDS MASSIVE MILITARY AID With Stalin’s Evil Empire facing extinction at the hands of German forces, FDR moves quickly to rescue the murderous regime. He unfreezes Soviet assets that had been frozen after Stalin’s attack on Finland in 1939, enabling the Soviets to immediately purchase 59 Fighter aircraft. The “Arsenal of Democracy” is now, “The Arsenal of Communism.” By 1945, the staggering amount of Lend-Lease deliveries to Stalin include 11,000 aircraft, 4,000 bombers, 400,000 trucks, 12,000 tanks and combat vehicles, 32,000 motorcycles, 13,000 locomotives and railway cars, 8,000 anti-aircraft cannons, 135.000 sub-machine guns, 300,000 tons of explosives, 40,000 field radios, 400 radar systems, 400,000 metal cutting machine tools, several million tons of food, steel, other metals, oil and gasoline, chemicals etc. Without this ENORMOUS INFUSION of American aid, the Germans would probably have finished off Stalin after the spring thaw of 1942.
JUNE 29, 1941
STALIN ORDERS ‘PARTISAN’ GUERRILLA WAR UPON GERMAN WEHRMARCHT (ARMY) / JEWISH PARTISANS ALSO FORM
Stalin calls upon Party, Soviet, & Trade Union organizations to form “partisan divisions and diversion groups to pursue and destroy the invaders in a merciless struggle”.
In violation of commonly accepted rules of warfare, many Partisans neither wear uniforms, nor recognize international law. To grow the ranks of the Red Partisans, and prevent the Germans from winning over the civilian population, Soviet commandoes dress up in German uniforms and carry out “false-flag” atrocities against their own people, inciting hatred against the Germans. Communist and Jewish Partisans, aided by the OSS (forerunner to CIA), also form in other nations, using the same false-flag tactics, and menacing the safety of German troops unable to tell enemy from civilian. Massive Jewish support for and participation in non- uniformed Partisan groups, including women & children, is the main reason for Hitler’s decision to intern Europe’s Jews in work camps as a wartime security precaution.
THE SAD FATE OF THE VOLGA GERMANS
The Volga Germans are ethnic Germans living along the River Volga in southeastern Russia. Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the 18th century, they had always been allowed to maintain their German culture, language, and traditions.
After the German invasion in 1941, the Soviets consider the Volga Germans as potential collaborators. On August 28, 1941, Stalin dissolves the Volga-German Republic and orders the immediate relocation of ethnic Germans. About 400,000 Volga Germans are stripped of their land and houses; and transported eastward to Soviet Central Asia, and Siberia. By 1942, nearly all the able-bodied German population will have been conscripted to the NKVD slave-labor columns. At least one-third will not survive the camps.
THE GERMAN SOLDIER’s 10 COMMANDMENTS
The German soldier is the best behaved and honorable soldier of Europe. Every soldier receives a copy of ‘The German Soldier’s 10 Commandments and is expected to follow them to the letter or face serious punishment.
While fighting for victory the German soldier will observe the rules of chivalrous warfare. Cruelties and senseless destruction are below his standard.
Combatants will be in uniform or will wear specially introduced and clearly distinguishable badges. Fighting in plain clothes or without such badges is prohibited.
No enemy who has surrendered will be killed, including partisans and spies. They will be duly punished by courts.
P.O.W. will not be ill-treated or insulted. While arms, maps, and records are to be taken away from them, their personal belongings will not be touched.
Dum-Dum bullets are prohibited; also no other bullets may be transformed into Dum-Dum.
Red Cross Institutions are sacrosanct. Injured enemies are to be treated in a humane way. Medical personnel and army chaplains may not be hindered in the execution of their medical or clerical activities.
The civilian population is sacrosanct. Neither looting nor wanton destruction is permitted to the soldier. Landmarks of historical value or buildings serving religious purposes, art, science, or charity are to be especially respected.
Neutral territory will never be entered nor passed over by planes, nor shot at; it will not be the object of warlike activities of any kind.
If a German soldier is made a prisoner of war he will tell his name and rank if asked for it. Under no circumstances will he reveal to which unit he belongs, nor will he give any information about German military, political, and economic conditions.
Offenses of duty will be punished. Enemy offenses against the principles under 1 to 8 are to be reported. Reprisals are only permissible on order of higher commands. The only exception to these rules of conduct was in dealing with the murderous
Communist Partisans who refuse to recognize rules of warfare. For this reason, non- uniformed Partisan prisoners who refused to surrender were sometimes hanged or
shot as war criminals, not as legitimate POW’s.
LIFE IN THE GERMAN INTERNMENT CAMPS
Contrary to the popular belief that life in the SS-run internment camps was a brutal existence of slave labor followed by extermination, the German went to great lengths to keep the Jewish inmates well-fed, well-housed and even entertained. Officials from the International Red Cross visited the camps regularly and right up until the end of the war.
There were orchestras, soccer leagues and activities for children. There were weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and even maternity wards for pregnant women. The Auschwitz camp even had a swimming pool and a general store! It was only during the final year of the war that conditions began to deteriorate as typhus epidemics spread and supplies diminished. Because of the contagious nature of typhus, the corpses were cremated, not buried near groundwater. The destruction of so much of Germany’s critical infrastructure contributed to the deaths. Nonetheless, as the camps were liberated, many healthy and seemingly well-fed ‘Holocaust survivors”, as well as some not so healthy, were seen and photographed.
1941
THE WAFFEN SS: VOLUNTEERS FROM ACROSS EUROPE JOIN INTERNATIONAL FORCE UNDER GERMAN COMMAND Brave men from every nation in Europe (and some from Asia) volunteer to fight the Soviets. They are welcomed into Germany’s “Waffen SS” – an elite fighting force. The anti-Communist Waffen SS are motivated by a vision of a greater European family. For the European SS, the Europe of jealousies, border disputes, and economic rivalries is petty. They fight for ‘Europa’ itself. The Waffen SS is a true international army of the European peoples. One million men fight in the SS, of which, 600,000 are non-German. Officers of the Waffen serve in the front lines alongside their men. By war’s end, half of the SS commanders will have been killed in action. During and after the brutal winter of 41-42, it is the Waffen SS who will stand their ground and delay the massive Soviet counter offensive.
By the end of the war, 40% of the Waffen SS will have been killed or gone missing. Were it not for the tenacity and sacrifice of the heroic Waffen volunteers, all of Europe would have been lost to the Soviet hordes. It is not surprising that to this day, the “SS” is still vilified in the Globalist press.
HITLER’S JEWISH SOLDIERS AND HIS FAVORITE JEWISH DOCTOR
Hitler was not fanatically anti-Jewish as much as he was anti-Marxist, although there was large overlap between the two groups. As hard as it may be to believe, it is absolutely true that about 60,000 half-Jewish, and 90,000 quarter-Jewish soldiers
fought for Hitler’s Germany.Among these were decorated soldiers, officers, and even Generals and Admirals. As Fuehrer, Hitler personally intervened to assist Dr. Eduard Bloch, the noble Jewish doctor who had treated his cancer stricken mother. Hitler had never forgotten Dr. Bloch’s kindness, and inquired about him when he returned to liberated Austria in 1938.
On Hitler’s orders, Bloch was given “special protection”. When interviewed by the OSS (CIA) towards the end of the war, Bloch spoke very well of the young Hitler that he had known.
AUGUST, 1941
JAPAN APPEALS TO U.S. FOR PEACE TALKS TO END THE WAR WITH CHINA
FDR could easily have mediated an end to the war in Asia; but chose to continue arming the Chinese.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1941
CHARLES LINDBERGH JR. ACCUSES FDR AND JEWS OF PLOTTING TO DRAG THE U.S. INTO THE WAR
American patriots such as famed aviator Charles Lindbergh Jr. clearly see that FDR is plotting to involve America in the war. Lindbergh is a leading figure in the “America First” movement, or what Globalist propaganda cleverly refers to as “isolationism.” Lindbergh’s speech in Iowa accurately describes what is happening behind the scenes.
He warns: “The leaders of the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in this war.” Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador to England and Patriarch of the Kennedy Family Dynasty, also expressed this opinion, though not publicly.
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER, 1941
FDR REPEATEDLY AND DELIBERATELY BAITS JAPAN In the closing months of 1941, FDR’s provocations of Japan escalate to the level of “acts of war”. FDR imposes devastating oil and trade embargoes on Japan, denies her ships access to the neutral Panama Canal, and orders U.S. battleships to undertake “pop up” cruises through Japanese territorial waters.
Finally, on November 26th of ’41, FDR sends an impossible ultimatum to Japan, implying a military threat, and demanding that Japan withdraw all of its troops from China and Indochina as a pre-condition for lifting the oil embargo. The day before the hostile letter was sent, Secretary of War Henry Stimson recorded, in his personal diary, the topic of a meeting with FDR as follows: “The question was how we should maneuver them (Japan) into the position of firing the first shot.”
When Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party (DAP) in 1919, he becomes only the 7th member of the nationalist group. The now 30-year old, self-educated artist from Austria has little money and no political connections. But his oratorical, organizational, and marketing talents propel him to leadership of the tiny band of brothers. Hitler’s mesmerizing beer-hall speeches stop onlookers in their tracks. He denounces the Versailles Treaty, the occupation, the ‘November Criminals’, the Marxists, the Press, and the international bankers. DAP membership then grows rapidly, recruiting unemployed young men and disgruntled ex-soldiers betrayed during the war. Hitler appeals to veterans because he himself was a front-line soldier, twice decorated for serious injuries sustained, and twice more for conspicuous bravery on the battlefield. To draw recruits away from both the rival “right” Nationalist and “left” Socialist Parties, Hitler simply adds ‘National’ and ‘Socialist’ to the Party’s name, making it NSDAP. (They never called themselves “Nazis”!). To draw people away from the Reds, Hitler also uses red flags, with a symbol of the ancient Aryans of Asia.
Adolf Hitler: A talented painter with a dream to save Germany.
Hitler designed the NSDAP flag. The “swastika” was a symbol of the ancient
Aryan peoples who came from Asia and settled in Europe.
FEBRUARY 8, 1920
WINSTON CHURCHILL WARNS OF A WORLDWIDE JEWISHCOMMUNIST CONSPIRACY
Lord of the Admiralty and Lusitania war criminal Winston Churchill is a supporter of Zionism (Jewish state in Palestine), but opposed to Jewish Communism. Although
both movements trace back to the same Rothschild Crime Family, they sometimes appear – to this day- to operate at cross-purposes, and in conflict with each other. In an editorial appearing in the Illustrated Sunday Herald entitled, ‘Zionism vs Bolshevism’, Churchill argues that Jews should support Zionism as an alternative to Communism; missing the fact that both movements emanate from the same source. The future Prime Minister rails against “the schemes of the International Jews”: “This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution……It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”
1921 – 22
‘WAR COMMUNISM’ STARVES 10 MILLION TO DEATH! Lenin’s oppression of the Russian people breaks their strength and will to resist. The Famine of 1921 is partly due to the folly of central economic planning, as well as to a A deliberate effort to kill off any Russians still not willing to support the Red takeover. The Communists ran the money-printing presses to finance their civil war and welfare schemes. When inflation follows, they impose price controls, causing farmers to lose money by farming. Compounding the shortage is the Red seizure of seeds. The horrific famine is then used to selectively feed those regions submissive to the Reds, and starve out those loyal to the Whites. Starving Russians and Ukrainians resort to eating grass, or even cannibalizing the dead. The horror escalates when Lenin deliberately blocks foreign relief efforts. When the death toll reaches 10 million, Lenin finally allows relief. Were it not for the mostly American aid, the death toll for Lenin’s cruelty would have doubled.
JULY, 1921
NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHES SOVIET CLAIM THAT6 MILLION JEWS FACE EXTERMINATION BY ‘WHITE’COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES
Told you, a recurrent theme
1922
THE REDS WIN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR / THE ‘SOVIETUNION’ (U.S.S.R.) IS FORMALLY ESTABLISHED
At the conclusion of the Red Terror, Red Famine, and Red-White Civil War in 1922, Lenin and Trotsky formally establish the Soviet Union with its capital city in Moscow. The former Russian Empire is now also known as the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The Communist giant spans Eurasia. Of its multi-ethnic “republics” the Russian republic is by far the largest and most populated. The well-known criminal brutality of the Soviets shocks the world, as do the Communist declarations to overthrow all other nations. For these reasons, three consecutive Republican Presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover), will refuse to diplomatically recognize the Soviet Union.
OCTOBER, 1922
‘THE MARCH ON ROME’ / BENITO MUSSOLINI’S FASCISTS SAVE ITALY FROM THE COMMUNISTS & LIBERALS The global economic Depression that follows World War I gives the Reds and socialists an opportunity to agitate in post war Italy. Benito Mussolini and his Fascist Party decide to act before the “democratic” Reds can get any stronger. In October of ’22, Mussolini declares before 60,000 people at the Fascist Congress in Naples: “Our program is simple: we want to rule Italy.” Fascist “Black- shirts” capture the strategic points of Italy. Mussolini then leads a March of 30,000 men on the Capital City of Rome. On October 28, a sympathetic King Victor Emmanuel III – whose father had been murdered by a Red in 1900 – .grants political power to Mussolini. Mussolini is supported by veterans and the business class. The corrupt left-wing political parties are eventually shut down. Under “Il Duce’s” rule, the pro-business Fascist Party takes control and restores order to Italy. Fascism combines an honest and sound monetary system with a mix of free enterprise and state regulated corporatism.
JANUARY 11, 1923
FRANCE INVADES GERMANY’S RUHR REGION AFTERGERMANY IS LATE ON EXTORTION PAYMENTS
More than four years have passed since Germany’s complete and total surrender at the end of The Great War. The poor & hunger-stricken German nation is now having difficulty in making the massive reparations extortion payments imposed by The Treaty of Versailles. Having already destroyed the value of Germany’s currency, the Allies now demand to be paid in timber and coal. Extortionist allied troops move in for a “shakedown.” In a further humiliation of an already occupied Germany (Rhineland), 60,000 troops from Belgium, France, and the French African colonies expand the occupation into the defenseless Ruhr (an industrial region of Germany). While German children go hungry, the Allies collect their stolen loot of physical German commodities. Machine gun posts are set up in the streets as Allied troops take food and supplies from German shopkeepers. Other than stage passive demonstrations, there is nothing the disarmed, humiliated, and hungry German people can do about the French abuse.
1923
GERMAN SUPER-INFLATION WIPES OUT THE MIDDLE CLASS With Allied troops occupying the Ruhr, and the German Mark losing its value to inflation, Germany in ’22-23 goes through a horrific hyperinflation. The socialist Weimer Government and the Warburg/Rothschild Central Bank resort to massively expanding the money supply, mostly to cover the crushing debt imposed by the Versailles Treaty, but also to keep the Weimar Republic’s welfare state afloat. The life savings of the German people is wiped out as prices double every 2 days for 20 straight months! Workers are paid daily, so that they may go food shopping before prices double again. Many Germans refer to their devalued money as “Judefetzen”, (Jewish confetti). This leads to more chaos and another attempt by the Communists to stage a revolution. As they had during the war, the Marxist Trade Unions call for strikes at a time when Germany is most vulnerable. To pacify the striking workers, the Weimar / Reichsbank complex pumps even more paper debt money into the economy.
NOVEMBER 8, 1923
‘THE BEER HALL PUTSCH’ / HITLER ATTEMPTS A COUP INBAVARIAN CITY OF MUNICH
Righteous anger is boiling over the hyper-inflation and the new French-Belgian occupation. Hitler decides that the time is right to seize power from the local government in Munich. Hoping that war veterans will join the revolt and move against the national government in Berlin, Hitler uses a rally in a Munich ‘Beer Hall’ to launch a coup. The local uprising, or “putsch”, is ignited by Hitler’s moving speech, but fails to sustain itself as troops open fire on the nationalist rebels, killing 16 of them. Hitler and others are arrested and tried for treason. At his trial, Hitler uses the occasion to spread his ideas, which are then published in the newspapers. The judge is impressed, and issues a lenient sentence for the rebels. Though the Munich coup has failed, the legend of the great orator grows, attracting new followers by the day. Membership in Hitler’s NSDAP tops 20,000 by year’s end.
JANUARY 21, 1924
LENIN DIES / PSYCHO JOSEPH STALIN TAKES OVER THE USSR When Lenin dies in 1924, Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, skillfully outmaneuvers Red Army leader Lev Trotsky to take leadership of the USSR. Stalin will eventually expel Trotsky from the Party, then from the USSR itself. Finally, he will have his Marxist rival axed through his brain by a Soviet agent in Mexico. Stalin’s brutality instills fear not only in the enslaved people of the Soviet Union, but also in the hearts of fellow Communists that the paranoid Stalin believes may challenge his leadership. The egomaniac renames a city after himself (Stalingrad), and erects statues of his likeness in town squares. From time to time, Stalin will “purge” many of his own Red comrades, as well as wives. He dumps his first wife, and drives his second, (as well as one of his sons) to suicide. In years to come, Stalin’s chilling crimes against humanity will make Lenin’s Red Terror and Red Famine seem like minor infractions by comparison.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian historian and literary figure
AUGUST, 1924
THE DAWES PLAN / ZIONIST BANKERS REFINANCEGERMANY’S DEBT
In 1924, are financing of Germany’s reparations debt, as well as Allied debt to the US Treasury (which in turn is indebted to the Fed) is worked out. The terms are still harsh, but the German economy and currency are temporarily stabilized. In 5 years the Dawes plan will also fail, and be replaced by the Young Plan. The reality of the Dawes Plan, named after US Vice President Charles Dawes, is that Dawes himself has little to do with it. It was the Zionist-Globalist bankers imposing the new plan. Former UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George reveals: “The international bankers dictated the Dawes reparations settlement. The protocol, which was signed between the allies and Germany, is the triumph of the international financier. Agreement would never have been reached without the brutal intervention of the international bankers. They swept statesman, politicians, and journalists aside, and issued their orders with the imperiousness of absolute Monarchs, who knew there was no appeal from their ruthless decrees. The Dawes report was fashioned by the Money Kings.”
1925
HITLER PUBLISHES ‘MEIN KAMPF’
During his imprisonment of 1924, Hitler had dictated ‘Mein Kampf’ (My Struggle). His close associate Rudolf Hess, imprisoned with Hitler, typed out the dictation for the book, which was published in 1925. In it, Hitler places the blame for Germany’s sorry condition upon a Global conspiracy of Marxists and Finance Capitalists. According to Hitler, this global conspiracy for world government, directed by Jewish bankers, engineered Germany’s loss of The Great War, the Russian Revolution, the Versailles Treaty, and the resulting hyperinflation that devastated Germany. He accuses the elite Marxist Jews of Germany of controlling newspapers and banking, fomenting wars, and corrupting the art, culture and morality of Europe. Mein Kampf combines elements of a political manifesto and an autobiography along with discussions of history, philosophy, and economics. Originally written for the followers of National Socialism, Mein Kampf quickly grows in popularity, making Hitler a wealthy man.
1926
ZIONIST DAVID SARNOFF ESTABLISHES NBC RADIO David Sarnoff was born in a small Jewish village in Tsarist Russia and immigrated to New York in 1900. At the age of 15, he joined the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, starting a 60-year career in electronic communications. By 1919, Sarnoff is General Manager of RCA radio. In 1926, Sarnoff’s RCA forms NBC, the first major broadcast network in the U.S. Sarnoff is instrumental in building the AM broadcasting radio business which became the preeminent public radio standard for the majority of the 20th century. During World War II, he will serve under General Eisenhower as a “Communications Consultant” (psychological warfare). Sarnoff, who had no military experience, would be awarded the rank of Brigadier General. When television in America is born under the name of the National Broadcast Corporation, the first TV show aired at the New York World’s Fair and was introduced by Sarnoff himself. Leadership of RCA-NBC eventually passes down
to Sarnoff’s eldest son, Robert Sarnoff, one of the husbands of Felicia Schiff- Warburg of the two famous banking families. Franklin Roosevelt Jr. (son of FDR)
was also an ex-husband of Felicia Schiff-Warburg. The Sarnoff Family will control RCA-NBC TV for more than 60 years.
APRIL, 1927
CIVIL WAR IN CHINA / MAO’s REDS vs CHIANG’s NATIONALISTS
A major civil war breaks out in China between the governing Kuomintang (KMT or
Chinese nationalist Party) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). The anti- Communist Chiang Kai Shek leads the KMT. The Red guerillas are led by Mao Tse
Tung, who himself is supported by Comintern boss Joe Stalin. This bloody civil war will eventually blend into the Asian theater of World War II vs Japan, and finally end with Communist victory in 1949.
1928
STALIN SEIZES THE LAST OF RUSSIA’S FARMS / RESISTERS ARE KILLED
As part of Stalin’s first “5 Year Plan”, the small farmers of the Soviet Union are forced into a collectivization scheme. The government, not the market, now controls output and sets prices. Land, livestock, and equipment become property of “the people” (the State). Reluctant farmers (kulaks) are smeared in the Soviet press as “greedy” “capitalists.” Those who continue to resist the state’s directives are murdered or imprisoned. Thousands of private farmers are killed, but the really massive death tolls will occur during the famine of the early 1930’s. Like all centrally planned economic schemes, in which “intellectuals” think they know better than the actual farmer, Stalin’s collectivization, and other “5-Year Plans”, yield only low living standards for the Soviet people.
OCTOBER, 1929
THE FEDERAL RESERVE CRASHES THE STOCK MARKET / ENGINEERS ‘THE GREAT DEPRESSION’
In the late 1920’s, the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy of “easy money” had made it profitable for investors to borrow money at artificially low interest rates, and then purchase stocks with the money. Like two con men working a ‘mark’, the Zionist Fed pumps out credit while the Zionist press hypes the Stock Market “rally”. As surely as night follows day, a massive bubble is inflated. In 1929, the Fed suddenly hit the brakes on the money supply with a “tight money” policy. When the adjustment to the Fed’s bubble occurs, the Stock Market collapses. Investors big and small are ruined. Instead of loosening up the money supply to enable debtors to pay down old debt, the Fed tightens even more. The sudden shortage of currency creates a tidal wave of bankruptcies across the U.S., as debtors cannot get their hands on enough money to pay off old loans. The well connected then swoop in to buy up assets at bargain prices. The press, the Reds, and the idiot liberals will blame “capitalism” and Republican policies for the coming worldwide Great Depression, while deceitfully ignoring the deliberate role of Warburg/Rothschild Federal Reserve.
SEPTEMBER, 1930
HITLER’S NSDAP BECOMES 2ND LARGEST PARTY IN GERMANY The worldwide Great Depression hits debt-heavy Germany especially hard as loans from U.S. banks dry up. The people had already been worn out by the Versailles reparations, the unjust war guilt, the 1920’s inflation, and chronic unemployment. There is a real fear among many that a hungry Germany may yet fall to Communism. As a result, the NSDAP makes its first major electoral breakthrough. Hitler’s party wins 6 million votes (18% of vote), increasing its number of seats in the Reichstag (German parliament) from 12, to 107. NSDAP is now second only to the 143 seats held by Germany’s socialist party, the Social Democrats. The Communist Party also gains 23 seats, raising its Reichstag representation to 77 Reds in the Reichstag, plus any secret members posing as Social Democrats.
General Leon Degrelle on the education of Adolf Hilter
“Hitler was self-taught and he made no attempt to hide the fact. The smug conceit of intellectuals, their shiny ideas packaged like so many flashlight batteries, irritated him at times. His own knowledge he had acquired through selective and unremitting study, and he knew far more than thousands of diploma-decorated academics. I don’t think anyone ever read as much as he did. He normally read one book every day, always first reading the conclusion and the index in order to gauge the work’s interest for him. He had the power to extract the essence of each book and then store it in his computer-like mind. I have heard him talk about complicated scientific books with faultless precision, even at the height of the war. His intellectual curiosity was limitless. He was readily familiar with the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension. He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin, and Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Belgian SS volunteer General Leon Degrelle with Hitler Shakespeare and Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel. He trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower. His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists such as Clausewitz, and empire builders such as Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary. His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler’s knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of this century. Many times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, who had a merely cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.” – Leon Degrelle (1993)
DECEMBER, 1931
SHOCK CLAIM OF 6 MILLION JEWS FACING STARVATION IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
How can this be?
1932
STALIN & KAGANOVICH ENGINEER ANOTHER FAMINE The Holodomor (Ukrainian translation: Killing by hunger) was a man-made famine occurring mainly, but not exclusively, in the Ukrainian Republic of the Soviet Union during 1932-33. The famine was caused partly by the folly of Stalin’s latest economic scheme, and partly due to a deliberate, strategic terror plan engineered by Stalin’s powerful Jewish brother-in-law, Lazar Kaganovich. Encyclopedia Britannica estimates 8 million people, 5 million of them Ukrainian, were starved to death by the Stalin-Kaganovich famine. Some estimates run as high as 10 million. The famine-genocide is aimed at stamping out anti-communist resistance as well as starving anti-Red peasants in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. Despite Soviet denials of the famine and a news blackout in most of the US Zionist/Globalist press, the truth of the Holodomor was indeed known to the West. Unlike Lenin’s terror famine of 1921, this time no outside assistance is permitted into the Soviet Union. Millions die a slow death and people resort to cannibalism. With this famine, Stalin and his henchmen destroy any remaining resistance to the Red Revolution.
JULY & NOVEMBER, 1932
NSDAP SCORES BIG IN TWO ELECTIONS / BECOMES LARGEST PARTY IN REICHSTAG
German elections in 1932 are held under violent conditions. NSDAP “brown shirts” clash in the streets with Red paramilitary. Hitler’s party scores major gains, winning 230 Reichstag seats. It is now the largest political body, but it is still not a majority in the 608 member body. Political deadlocks trigger another election in November: NSDAP: 196, Social Democrats: 121, Communists: 100, Center Party: 70, and 9 minor parties split 100 seats. Germany’s chaotic politics are paralyzed and divided. The brutal “austerity” policies of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning had shrunk the economy by about 25%, but still did not prevent the German budget deficit from growing. Unemployment tops 30% as desperate Germans commit suicide by the 10’s of 1000’s. In addition to a Parliamentary Reichstag and a Chancellor, Germany has a President with unique powers. President Paul von Hindenburg was a World War I Field Marshall and is a national hero. Politically, he is a non-Party Independent. On the basis of the NSDAP’s 196 seats, and in order to end the gridlock, Hitler asks Hindenburg to appoint him as Chancellor. Hindenburg refuses Hitler’s request.
1866 – 1933
AN EPIDEMIC OF RED MURDER & TERROR
To better understand and appreciate the legitimate fear of Communist & Anarchist revolutionaries (Reds) that affected many Germans and Europeans prior to World War II, it is important to review the shocking record of high profile murders and acts of terror that occurred in Europe and America during the preceding decades. It is equally important to understand that the fanatical Anarchist & Communist street radicals (“Reds”), who carry out these bold attacks, are only the blind tools of the NWO Globalists who fund and control their organizations. 1866: Unsuccessful assassination attempt made on German Chancellor Bismarck. 1874: A 2nd unsuccessful assassination attempt is made on Bismarck. 1878: (May) Unsuccessful assassination attempt is made on German Kaiser Wilhelm. 1878: (June) A 2nd unsuccessful assassination attempt is made on Kaiser Wilhelm. 1881: Tsar of Russia is assassinated after four previous attempts had failed. 1893: Mayor of Moscow is assassinated. 1884: Reds kill 8 policemen in Chicago. 1894: Prime Minister of France is assassinated. 1897: Prime Minister of Spain is assassinated. 1900: King of Italy is assassinated. 1901: U.S. President William McKinley is assassinated. 1905: Unsuccessful assassination attempt made on King and Queen Consort of Spain. 1905: Grand Duke of Russia is assassinated. 1908: King and Crown Prince of Portugal are assassinated. 1911: Prime Minister of Russia is assassinated. 1918: Tsar of Russia and his entire family are murdered. 1919: Reds bomb Wall Street in New York; 38 people killed. 1919: Private home of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer is bombed. 1922: Unsuccessful assassination attempt is made on the President of France. 1932: Package bomb destroys home of U.S. Judge Webster Thayer, injuring his wife 1933: The Mayor of Chicago is assassinated. 1918-1933: The Soviet Union headed by former street-radicals Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin et al, murders, tortures and imprisons scores of millions of innocent people. That’s what happens when Red revolutionaries actually take over a government!
The World We Live In 