THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnu5uW9No8g Produced and researched by Dennis Wise PART 1 “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” Adolf Hitler. Since the mid 20th century, the world has only ever heard one side of an incredible story, the story of a boy from an ordinary family, whose ambition it was to become an artist, but who, instead, became a drifter. His destiny, however, was not to drift into the awaiting oblivion but rise to the greatest heights of power, eventually to become one of the most influential men whoever lived. Now for the first time, here is the true and factual account of a story many believe to be, The Greatest Story Never Told: The Untold Story of Adolf Hitler. The story began April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria, with a child born in this house, Adolf Hitler. At his peak, the most popular rule in Europe. The child born here in Branau, belonged to that handful of human beings, who have clearly and decisively changed the history of the 20th century. Linz, Austria, the site of the only memorial to the Hitler family, the grave of Hitler’s parents. Nothing about his parents or Adolf’s early life gave any hint of the extraordinary career that was to come. His father, Alois, was a stern, short-tempered customs official, who beat his son. His mother, Klara, tried to protect him. When she died, young Adolf was broken by grief. He kept her portrait with him for the rest of his life. The infant Adolf was baptized and brought up as a catholic. At the age of 6, he entered the monastery school at Lambach. Soon, he was top of his class. Hitler was a chorister at the Great Abbey Church at Lambach. “I used,” he said, “to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the services.” Every day when he sang in the choir, he saw the memorial to an earlier habit. Above it was an emblem which a quarter of a century later, Hitler was to adopt for the (Nazi) party, the swastika. In his teens, Hitler became a moody adolescent. At secondary school in Linz, he lost interest in most of his work. His ambition was to go to Vienna and become an artist or architect. Once there, he produced architectural drawings of water colors like these, competent but not good enough to win the place he longed for at the Viennese Academy Arts. Austria 1907. Little by little, all Hitler’s early ambitions in Vienna turned sour. After the shock of being turned down by the Academy of Fine Arts, he became a drifter. (Vienna, Austria 1913) Hitler later called his period in Vienna, “the most miserable time of my life. Three of those miserable years were spent here in a Viennese back street with other homeless men in a hostel. In this depressing hostel, the future fuhrer passed much of the day sitting with other inmates, churning out drawings and water colors, which earned him a modest income. When he drifted from Vienna to Germany in 1913, he was still dreaming of becoming a great artist or famous architect. Munich, 1 August 1914. A cheering crowd welcomes the outbreak of the First World War. On the right is a photographer and among the crowd he’s photographing is the 25-year-old Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler, the war hero. You look at the tenacity of his service - he was a fanatic. He petitioned King Ludwig III of Bavaria to enlist in, what is referred to as the King’s own regimen. That’s an elite Bavarian unit. He was accepted but put in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry and WWI was a major influence on Hitler’s life. Now, he served his basic training without complaining, but he was always willing to offer his fellow comrades help. He spoke about the evil of tobacco and alcohol to his fellow shoulders. They liked him because of his drawings that he did for them. He would do sketches for them. So, he really got along with his fellow soldiers. At one point during the trench duties in between 1914 and 1918, he would have a dog, someone would steal from him. During WWI, Adolf Hitler repeatedly volunteered for hazardous duty. His first combat was October 29, 1914. Hitler’s unit lost 3,000 of its 3,600 men after making five assaults on the enemy position. Now, Hitler had one of his sleeves shot off. He walked out of the tent, where he had been talking with some men and a couple of seconds later, a shell hits and blows it to Kingdom come. For his fighting in this unit, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for bravery under fire and he was promoted to corporal. This was a well-deserved award. Later, he became a runner, which meant he moved messages from the rear to the front, and it is a very high-mortality job. He always liked that job. Then in December 1914, when they had the famous Christmas truce on December 25, Hitler wouldn’t leave the trench and his comment was, “Such a thing should not happen in wartime.” Then he told his buddies that participated that they were wrong to get involved. So, now fun while the war goes on. Those are your enemies. Now between 1914 and 1916, in the final stages of the Battle of the Somme, Adolf Hitler was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment. They sent him back to Germany to recover and he was there for about 5 months. Hitler could have stayed back in Germany on light duty because of his wounds, but demanded to be sent back to the front, so he is no shirker. You have to give the guy some due here for not being a chicken. A lot of people look for a way to get out of there. Then you have Hitler back again on trench duty and he shows up again during the first German offensives. Now during the Ludendorf offensives, he was armed with a pistol and he captured five French soldiers and for that, he received the Iron Cross 1st class. You didn’t get those at any time in the war for free. You can’t dismiss his decorations. He wins the Iron Cross 2nd class in 1914, 1st class in 1918 and then mid October, he got another battlefield decoration, but he was never promoted. He had a captain, Capt Fritz Wiedemann said he lacked the capacity for leadership. (You just can’t make up these statements.) As the war turned against Germany, he believed that the pacifists and the shirkers, which are people trying to get out of duty were losing the war and the thing that enraged him even worse was referred to as defeatism in the ranks. There were actually non-commissioned officers (sergeants) who said it was stupid to keep fighting. He beat one up. You have a corporal beating up a non-commissioned officer and didn’t get into trouble for it. He was a fanatic. At the end of the war, Hitler was gassed by the British forces advancing there at Ypres in mid October 1918. It bloated his face up and particularly his eyelids, constantly watering eyes, had a hoarse voice. He then had this terrible pain. He referred to it, “piercing pain in my eye socket”. He hated leaving the front to go to the hospital. He considered it the happiest chapter in his life, being there, being something, being with people. He had friends and he had comrades while he was in the war. He was not a loner. He had the respect of his fellow soldiers. He had purpose. By early November, Hitler’s spirits had come back and it’s very common for people who have been gassed, to plunge into depression because they’re concerned about being blind the rest of their lives. On November 9, this is two days before the armistice, a local pastor came to the hospital and told the patients that on November 8, that the Kaiser had abdicated and Germany was now a republic, and he told them that the war was lost. Defeat was followed by a humiliating peace at Versailles. The injustice of Versailles rankled with most Germans for the next 20 years. [Wikipedia: Hitler was outraged by the subsequent Treaty of Versailles, which deprived Germany of various territories, demilitarised the Rhineland and imposed other economically damaging sanctions.] Unable to accept that the German army had lost the war, Hitler convinced himself that the soldiers had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by communist revolutionaries and parliamentary politicians. The stab in the back, he believed was part of the great Jewish conspiracy. Suddenly, Hitler discovered the greatest talent he possessed - the gift of public speaking. He joined a small group of fanatical nationalists in Munich. They became the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) or “Nazi’s”. In 1921, Hitler became their leader. Munich 1921. The word ‘Nazi’ was used by the Allies as a derogatory term, popularized by the international media for propaganda purposes. After WWI, Germany was in serious danger of a communist takeover with 6 million German communist party members in the country. Adolf Hitler was only the 55th member of the NSDAP and although the membership rapidly grew under his leadership, the early meetings were often held under threats of violence. Vastly outnumbered, the National Socialists would often find their meetings infiltrated where brawls would inevitably break out. 1922, the first film of the apprentice fuhrer campaigning shows him still a rather awkward figure, not yet certain of his role as Germany’s ‘messiah’. In 1923, Hitler felt strong enough to try and seize power in Munich. Hofbrauhaus Beer Hall, 8 November 1923. Emil Klein, the only stormtrooper still alive, who marched with Hitler, now retraces their steps: Everything went well until the marchers found armed police blocking their exit from a narrow street. “ We were still singing as we marched down the street. Suddenly, we heard shots being fired at us. The procession stopped. We were speechless. Couldn’t explain what had happened. After words came from the front of the march, saying, ‘Hitler was dead.’ I saw men with tears in their eyes. I myself was very moved too. I had great difficulty to bring myself under control.” So, Hitler, in fact, survived the hail of bullets. He was arrested and locked in a cell at Landsberg Prison. But first, he was so depressed, he refused to eat. Then his confidence returned as he discovered that the failed uprising had made him a local hero. Munich, German, 24 February 1924: At the trial, Hitler rounded on his accusers. He told the judges, who game him a prison sentence, “History will tear to tatters the verdict of this court.” (The Judge): You have been accused of high treason and found an enemy of the state. Hitler said: “If I am guilty of anything, then I am guilty of fighting to defend the rights of Germans. The judge: “Herr Hitler, the court finds you guilty of treason. You are hereby sentenced a fine of 200 gold marks, 5 years in Landsberg Prison. You will be eligible for parole in 9 months.” (Adolf Hitler will serve the next 12 months in Landsberg prison.) PART 2 Landsberg Prison, April 1924. After the propaganda trial for his trial, Hitler set out to write the “bible” of national socialism. He dictated much of the text in his cell to his faithful follower, Rudolf Hess. On Saturday evenings, the other prisoners sat around as Hitler read out the completed chapters to them. The book dwells on the great obsessions, which had come to dominate Hitler’s political thought: The Jews, races, living space for the German people, the evils of communism and parliamentary democracy, but it also includes Hitler’s views on a variety of other topics, ranging from boxing to syphilis. Mein Kampf will become one of the best-selling books of all time, despite being banned in many countries after the war. The amazing appeal Hitler was later to exercise was on his mastery of the spoken word. After prison, the leader, or Fuhrer, as he now called himself, had a new political strategy. Instead of planning another coup, he aimed to win power at the polls. What was to win him millions of votes was, instead, his vision of a great national revival. Hitler’s election opportunity came with the onset of the depression. In a few years, one in three of the labor force was out of work. Ilsa Ventil (sp) was a church social worker during the depression, among the unemployed in the Berlin slums: The despair was so terrible and I can’t describe it, but everywhere, millions of beggars, wherever you went in Berlin. The democratic political parties offered no solution. To millions of Germans, the only hope was Adolf Hitler: “You’ve been to the market place. Do you know how much it costs for a loaf of bread these days? 500,000 marks. 500,000 MARKS!!! The wheelbarrows aren’t big enough to carry the money in. He’s afraid I’ll stir things up. You tell Commissar Karl this is not a time for silence.” I supported Hitler because he, after seeing all the depravity ... was the only one who could do social justice to the people here. He had that ability, the ability derived from his readiness to throw himself totally open to appear, as it were, bare and naked before his audience, to tear open his heart and display to throw on a few extra generators, to suddenly become absolutely charged with energy. Presidential elections: 26 April 1925: Paul von Hindenburg running. Reichstag: Berlin Nazi Party 3 seats, April 1925. Election campaign, 1929, It wasn’t as though he was using words, it was as though the emotions came without words. It was a rawness about them. Reichstag election, Nazi party 107 seats, 14 September 1930; 6.5 million votes, 107 seats, the biggest party in the Reichstag. (“Get me Hitler.) Reichschancellory, Berlin, 30 January 1933. Nobody’s ever had this power, nobody says it the way he says it. Hitler comes to power, not as he had hoped through outright victory of the polls, but as head of a coalition government, as this withering glance suggests, Hitler despises his coalition partners (Von Pappen, Hugenberg) He quickly outmaneuvers them and establishes his own dictatorship. A month after he comes to power, the Reichstag building, parliament building in Berlin is set on fire (27 February 1933). This happens to come at the time when he is constantly insisting that there is a communist plot to overthrow the new government and to carry out the revolution. The Reichstag fire goes up in flames, which everybody can see. Before that night was over, he had gotten a set of decrees drawn which transformed the situation, particularly, all the guarantees which people in a democratic state: freedom of speech, freedom from arrest, all this is swept away. 1933 Berlin, the sin capital of Europe: In the 1920s, Berlin was known as the center of sexual perversion, drugs and depravity. Once in power, Hitler ordered the city cleansed of these elements. Obscene books, pornography and communist literature were all burned by the national socialists. The clampdown will force jews, promiscuous liberals and gays, such as Marlene Dietrich, a known bisexual, to leave for the U.S. [Lucky us]. [From the end of the documentary, repositioned here. From the Book of Revelation, Chapter 17: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand with all the abominations and filthiness of her fornications. And upon her forehead was name written, “Mystery Babylon, the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.” During the 1920s, Berlin became known as the cesspit of Europe, a city where any and every depraved sexual activity could be had at a price. With drugs, prostitution, pedophilia and homosexuality and even bestiality were rampant. It was a place dangerous and unfit for any self-respecting German family to reside. Against all odds, in 1933, one man would drive the “whore of Babylon” from Berlin and out of Germany, restoring family morals once again. BABYLON BEFORE HITLER: After the armistice, the guns went silent across Europe, but not in Berlin, where Germans were fighting Germans. News of the loss by the Fatherland had come as a shock to Berliners and now, the old order was gone. In its place came chaos. The streets of what was once a quiet, conservative town became free fire zones. The nationalists of the extreme right battling it out with the communists of the extreme left. And out of this struggle emerged a new democratic state, the Weimar Republic. In the 20th Century after the first world war, the world’s great metropolis of vice was Berlin. Berlin in the 1920s was the sex capital of Europe. David Clay Large, author BERLIN: If you knew what to look for, you could find it... anything, anything known to man in the sexual world was available on the streets of Berlin. On any given night, as many as a100,000 prostitutes walked the streets or worked the sex clubs across the city. There were all different whores with different kinds of makeup on the street. For instance, one was called, “Mutsi”. Mutsis who were prostitutes hung out on just one street, Mutstrasse (?) And these were pregnant prostitutes. There were prostitutes who looked horrible, who had acid-scarred faces or hunchbacks or were lame or crippled. These were called, “grasshoppers”. They had mother and daughter teams on one street. They dressed exactly alike. Here in Berlin, sex-for-sale offered every sort of perversion or fetishism imaginable. There was not a sexual appetite that could not be satisfied in this city. Ean Wood, author, DIETRICH, A BIOGRAPHY: There were clubs where lesbians liked to whip school boys and you’d find military officers sitting there with children sitting on their laps. So, a lot of it was play acting, though there were quite a lot of people who indulged in it. Berlin in the 1920s was the sex capital of Europe. Its very name became synonymous with perversion, debauchery and creativity. Places that you hadn’t noticed would turn into outrageous strip clubs. The basements of restaurants would be homosexual or lesbian romper rooms, sex clubs. Every intellectual, leftist. The whole political right wing, which basically came from Munich, did not play any role in the beginning. The whole town was in the hands of leftist ideas. But outside Berlin, the right wing nationalist movement was attracting scores of disillusioned Germans, including one obscure Austrian corporal by the name of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, like many of the right wingers, hated this new Berlin, the city bursting with Bolsheviks, socialists, revolutionaries and Jews. But in the early 1920s, Berliners had more immediate concerns. Anton Gill, author, A DANCE BETWEEN THE FLAMES: BERLIN BETWEEN THE WARS: By 1922, inflation was spiraling wildly out of control. People would be paid in the morning and have suitcases full of bank notes and they would have to then run to the shop because the time between being paid and the time where they bought their goods, the food, the prices would have risen. Berlin was in a state of total chaos. Hundreds of thousands of dispossessed, starving in the streets. At the same time, you had very rich people. On the one hand, the poor eating turnip soup, the butchers selling crows, squirrels even rats and on the other side, people who could afford it, eating the most sumptuous meals like they never paused for thought. With virtually every currency in the world more valuable than the German Mark, foreign tourists flocked into the city to take advantage of the cheapest sex on the continent. $10 in American money could buy you anything you wanted. Every possible sexual taste was traded for. Hausfraus became harlots. Teenagers turned tricks and Papa became a pimp. When you have unemployed, you also have an increase in sex workers. Mel Gordon, author, VOLUPTUOUS PANIC: THE EROTIC WORLD OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC. But it wasn’t just Berliners, it was tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of young boys and young girls, who were coming to Berlin to participate in this hard currency sex traffic. It was a city that was filled with lesbian life. There was the idea that everywhere you went, you didn’t have to hide what you were. Marlene Dietrich, bisexual. When it came to sex, Marlene Dietrich could be omnivorous, as long as she found them attractive, she couldn’t care less if her lover was a man or a woman. Dietrich was an omnipotent sexual figure. She was an icon for gay women around the world at a time when there was no one else. With this new, ‘anything-goes’ attitude, Berlin overnight replaced Paris as the center of hedonism. That was why Berlin was the Babylon of the 20s. Alexander Richie, author, FAUST’S METROPOLIS: A HISTORY OF BERLIN: Things that would considered to be immoral/amoral became irrelevant and anything went. Drugs were available in Berlin. Every variety of drugs: morphine, cocaine, opium. The morphine and the cocaine, you could probably get prescribed by your local doctor or pharmacist. Opium was widely available and also drugs were used in sexual science. Sexual scientists were very interested in the effects of, for instance, morphine would have on the orgasmic rate of a lesbian. So there was a complete scientific culture. Berlin had become the center of sexual experimentation. It also became the center of scientific research of sex, led by a pioneering doctor. This was a very funny character called, “Papa” or “the Einstein of sex”. In Berlin, it was Magnus Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld was queer, Jewish, social democrat, who really defined the liberal spirit of Berlin. The crusading doctor for sexual freedom was also the founder of the world’s first institute devoted to the scientific study of sex. David Clay Large, author, BERLIN. You could go and look at various fetish items, for example, he had these trousers that you wore a trench coat. You could walk around Berlin. It looked like you would have pants on, because the lower parts of the trousers were there, but then you had nothing on above them and you could flash this way. This was thought to be very titillating, very amusing. So, it was this sort thing you could see in the institute for sexual research. Unlike his fellow [Jewish] doctor in Vienna, Sigmund Freud, Hirschfeld advocated the radical notion that human sexuality could be studied without imposing moral judgments. Hirschfeld is also credited with operations and surgeries of sex change and sexual rejuvenation. He had a clinic for people to be consulted about sexual problems. But Berlin’s reputation as a hotbed for the new and risque was not just limited to its bars and bedrooms. They also strained into the city streets and clubs of Berlin. From all across Europe, artists, writers and intellectuals with homosexual leanings were drawn to this metropolis. David Clay Large, author, BERLIN: Berlin was unquestionably the most open gay city in the world. It attracted first W.H. Auden, great British poet and his friend, Christopher Isherwood. Auden came first, was interested in the gay scene there and talked about Berlin being a bugger’s paradise. Christopher Isherwood, fed up with Cambridge and in England, openly hostile to homosexuals, chose to move to Berlin. His novels about the wild side of life in the city, its cabarets were eventually turned into a hugely successful stage play and movie. There were about 160 completely different lesbian and gay male nightclubs and lounges. Like most cities, with their one “red light district”, Berlin’s erotic clubs were scattered throughout the vast metropolis. Bizarre sexual fantasies of domination were turned into works of arts, while they would indulge in a wide variety of strange sexual experiments involving violence and death, all in the name of “art”. In 1928, a Nazi propaganda sheet denounced Berlin as a melting pot of everything that is evil. When Goebbels got off the train in 1926 to take over the city, he found the Nazis could scrape together maybe 200 members and the communists, at that point, had about 250,000. And it they didn’t particularly take to a group of people who came in from outside and said that everything that the city had stood for was, all of a sudden, to be abandoned or to be considered decadent or to be pushed aside. Hitler had personally appointed him to go to Berlin. It looked at the time like an impossible mission. He was a good choice for the Nazis because he understood the city. It was he was designated to turn the city from a bastion of communism, a red city into a brown, as a bastion of the Nazis. This was a difficult proposition. Berlin, to them, was foreign territory. They shared the typical provincial conservative German’s notion about Berlin as a decadent. It was too avant gard. They hated the place. Berlin was in an upheaval. Street fights were common. Unemployment was worsening. And then on January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. He made it clear what his plans for the city were. “What is ugly in Berlin, we shall remove.” What happened in 1933, especially, was that the gay Berlin dive bars started to be raided. Those things were allowed to kind of exist under the radar up until 1933 really. The Nazi police started paying attention to the dive bars. They were harassing the customers. They were closing them down. You might get arrested. The Eldorado, home to some of the most famous transvestites in the city was taken over and turned into a Nazi headquarters. Goebbels sang out the name of every book as it was consigned to the flames, legend has it. The exodus was almost immediate. Bertolt Brecht, George Grosz, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, just a small number of the thousands who were driven into exile. Berlin, for a short 14 years had been a crucible of history, brimming with the volatile things of sex, arts and politics, laced with disillusionment and spiked with decadence. The Babylon in the river Spree was no more.] 1933, Berlin, the burning of pornography and communist literature. The majority of Germans tolerated the burning of books, the banning of other political parties and the setting up of a police state. Because Hitler offered a way out of the depression. “If he’s doing things, which are not so good, well you said, ‘well, you have to take the rough with the smooth’. Dictatorship seemed to be the only way to get out of the mess. And so I thought that most of the things that he cut away .... did something.” He eliminated the crushing unemployment that Germany suffered, and he gave millions of people new confidence and, indeed, welfare. They were doing better, much better. When Hitler assumed power in 1933, there were 7 million unemployed Germans, the highest per capita unemployment rate in Europe at the time and only his first year in office, an unprecedented 3,374,000 were helped back to work. Hitler’s brilliant and innovative ideas included building motor ways, the length and breadth of the country with housing units provided for workers. The workers’ families would then eagerly spend the newly earned wages contributing to a fast-growing economy. Priority was given to the health and fitness of the nation, especially the youth. Free health care and generous financial support was provided for expectant mothers. The world’s first anti-smoking campaigns were also introduced. In addition, it was now government policy to protect the environment and wildlife. Crime was virtually eliminated, with city streets made safe to walk again. Workers subsidized by the government, would take holidays abroad. Hitler was the first in Europe to introduce the 40-hour work week with extra pay for overtime. Factories are now required to provide workers with restrooms and a cafeteria. The NSDAP leadership looked upon the charging of interest on loans as immoral and by forcing banks to abolish the practice of usury, millions were freed from the slavery of debt. It was a spectacular financial recovery, not witnessed before or since and often referred to as the greatest economic miracle of all times. Meanwhile, most western countries were still mired in the Great Depression. THE NUREMBERG RALLIES: THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM: They came in by tens of thousands, full of youthful idealism to ‘worship’ the Fuhrer in the awesome surroundings of the Nuremberg stadium. Among the worshippers of the Hitler Youth was Alfons Heck, now a writer of the Nazi period: The decisive turning point in my life occurred at the age of 10. From that moment on, I would remain beholden to Adolf Hitler ... I was one of 82,000 members of the Hitler Youth, lined up in the Siblings Field, stood in the first row. When Hitler began to speak, we were just tingling with nervousness, finally to see ‘our god’. Then he appeared on the podium. I was afraid to look at my neighbor because I didn’t want him to see the tears in my eyes. My knees were shaking. And Hitler beamed down on us and called us, lifting both hands several times and he began to speak. When he began to speak, it was in a very condescending tone, man to boy, father to son. And he said how fortunate we were to live in this new age and he said, “... from now on, you no longer have to fear any class distinction; we are all one.” But the essence and the emphasis occurred in the final sentences. He leaned over the podium and I know he looked straight into my eyes and he said, “You, my boys, the young of Germany live in a fortunate time because you are the standard bearers of the movement. You will inherit what we have, so far, created.” And from that moment, without any doubt, I was bound to Adolf Hitler and he said: “Before us lies Germany; within us Germany is stirring; behind us all Germany is following.” The mid 1930s were the halcyon years of Hitler’s Germany. Germany was at peace. Prosperity restored and national pride recovered. To those who preferred to ignore or justify the police state, it seemed a beautiful Germany. A host of distinguished foreign visitors, many with impeccable democratic credentials, came to call on the Fuhrer at his mountain retreat, the Berchtesgarden, Sept 4, 1936. Among them was the former British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. With LG, was his secretary, Albert Sylvester: Hitler runs down a flight of stairs to welcome LG as he got out of his car, shook hands with him most warmly and conducted us into the inside of the Berghoff. This massive room, the only light of which came from a massive window, which was terrific. I’d never seen such a window. Lloyd George said you have done great things for Germany. You have restored her honor, as you have gained for her equal rights.  PART 3 1920, THE ORIGIN OF THE NSDAP SWASTIKA: Adolf Hitler: “.... politicians care more about their money than the country.” A compatriot: “You have to admit, (looking at a communist poster) color captures the eye.” Unlike the Soviets with their hammer and sickle, the National Socialists had no such flag or emblem. Hitler not only wanted a symbol to represent the NSDAP, but one powerful enough to strike fear in the communists. The once failed art student would now set about designing the most recognized flag in history. After 1945, the NSDAP flag will be banned and portrayed by the media as a symbol of hate. It will also be hijacked by extreme political groups and others such as motorcycle gangs, who have no concept of its anti-communist design. The Blutfahne (Blood) Swastika Flag. The Blutfahne displayed at the attempted Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in 1923, ended up covered in blood of the National Socialist members either wounded or killed by Munich police. It was thereafter treated as a sacred object used at the Nuremberg rallies by Adolf Hitler to ‘sanctify’ new flags. This most treasured of all NSDAP artifacts was last seen on 18 October 1944. To this day, it’s whereabouts remains unknown. 1938, THE ANSCHLUSS, BLUMENKRIEG (WAR OF FLOWERS): German soldiers crossed the border into neighboring Austria (March 3, 1938). They were greeted not with bullets and guns but with roses and carnations, so much so that the action became known as the Blumenkrieg, the war of flowers. Most of the Austrian people envying what they saw as the economic success and prestige that Hitler had brought to Germany, now welcome their German neighbors: (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer) One people, one Reich, one leader. In a demonstration of how central he was personally to this whole system, Hitler traveled across Austria on a campaign tour. Hitler: “In the future, I want to be nothing other than what I have been in the past, an alerter of my people, teacher of my people and the Fuhrer of my people.” As German troops crossed the border of Austria, Austrian troops simultaneously entered the German cities of Munich, Dresden and Berlin, a sign to the rest of the world of the peaceful reunification. An overwhelming 99.7% of Austrian citizens will democratically vote to reunite with Germany. Hitler: “And this people do not come to the Reich with hat in hand. I myself bring you home.” I think at some period, around the end of 1938, Hitler feels, well this is fine, but I didn’t come to power just to restore German self confidence, there is more .... he changes gear, I think and then, getting rid of a number of the old guard in the army and foreign office. He becomes more aggressive. It was 12 March 1938. Austria was showered with swastikas. He crossed the border near his birthplace of Branau. People rejoiced at the Anschluss, which they saw as the fulfillment of an old dream of the German nation and emphatic display of self determination, a right denied to the German people under the Versailles treaty, whose terms were generally considered unjust. Visibly moved, he entered Vienna. The city that had seen his early failures, now gave him a heroes reception. Homage was being paid to the main, who had achieved unification of the German people. While in Leonding, Hitler visits the grave of his parents, situated across the street from his childhood home. THE BERGHOF, THE BAVARIAN ALPS: It was here, far from the millions of his followers that Hitler felt most able to relax. The inner circle at the Berghof saw a quite different man from the charismatic Fuhrer of the party rallies. Life at Hitler’s retreat was both reassuring and agreeable and there was an entertaining side to the off-duty Fuhrer as Ribbentrop’s private secretary discovered: “I was overwhelmed by the possibility to meet the Fuhrer personally. And, for instance, from the beginning, he was a sort of a ‘messiah’ for me. He was a man who liked to joke. He could laugh a lot. He didn’t accept two sorts of jokes - dirty jokes and political jokes. They were bad. But all the other jokes he enjoyed terribly.” Hitler had no close friends in whom to confide his innermost feelings. He could never admit human weakness to anyone, but the inner circle discovered one secret of his private life, which was unknown to ordinary Germans. Ribbentrop’s secretary: “When Hitler was talking for hours and I was standing near to the wall, waiting until there were some papers or something, and the curtain opened. Eva Braun appeared and said, ‘Adolf, you must have lunch now.’ She didn’t bother him with political questions and he didn’t want to give her influence and he thought that as long as he is a bachelor, he has love from the German women because if he was married, that impression is not the same from the other women. And she gave him a little bit at home of a bourgeois quality with tea, with cake and, I think, with sex.” You think it was a sexual relationship? Ribbentrop’s Secretary: “Certainly.” 1938: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: In 1919, the Allies at Versailles formed a new country called Czechoslovakia. Population will now consist of 6.7 million Czechs, 3.1 million Germans, 2.0 million Slavics, 700,000 Hungarians, 460,000 Ukrainians. With Czech violence against ethnic German minorities on the rise, Sudeten Germans are forced to call for the unification with Germany. Czech President Edvard Benes will, instead, order martial law imposed on the Sudeten provinces forcing a furious Adolf Hitler to demand their return. 26 September 1938: Hitler: I have put forward an offer for Herr Benes ... an offer that is nothing other than the realization of his promises. The decision is his now.... be it war or peace. He can either accept my offer and give the Germans their freedom or we Germans will go get it ourselves. Newspaper headline, Mason City Globe-Gazette: 4-Power Conference Called By Hitler Averts Czech Invasion. 28 September 1938: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN DEPARTS FOR GERMAN: The Munich Peace Conference “It is peace with honor says Chamberlain.” A wave of relief and gratitude for the Fuhrer swept Germany. His iron nerve had freed the Germans in Czechoslovakia and yet averted war. Rudolf Hess: “You secured us victory. Now you secure us peace.”  PART 4 The U.S. State Department in its 3-volume report on the origins of communism in Russia, published in 1931, reveals how Jewish-controlled German banks under the leadership of Max Warburg, conspired as early as 1914 to send large payments to Lenin, Trotsky and others in their attempts to bring down the Czar. When the white Russian patriots heroically attempted to regain their freedom from the Jews, the Judaica says, “compact Jewish masses were utilized the Bolsheviks to suppress such counter revolution. Clearly Jews and native Russians were engaged in a death struggle over the destiny of Russia. Unfortunately, the Jewish masses won..... Hitler drama: “We will survive. That’s what they tell us. What they mean is THEY will survive. We surrendered in November, stab in the back ..... how do we fight them? We unite. We join together for the pride in Germany. We will hang the profiteers, smash the communists, disinfect Germany of the Jewish vermin. Sacrifice. We will struggle, yes! But only then will we triumph and WE WILL TRIUMPH!” What exactly was the great “stab in the back” that Hitler had always talked about? In 1961, former zionist, Benjamin Freedman gave a speech at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC on the WWI betrayal of the German people. WORLD WAR ONE: 1914 was the year in which WWI broke out. Within 2 years, Germany had won that war. The German submarines, which were a surprise to the world, had swept all the convoys from the Atlantic Ocean and Great Britain stood there without ammunition for her soldiers, stood there with one-week food supplies and after that starvation. At the time, the French army had mutinied. They lost 600,000 of the flower of the French youth. The Russian army was defecting. They didn’t like the Czar. And the Italian army had collapsed. Not a shot has been fired on German soil. Not an enemy soldier had crossed the border into Germany and yet, here was Germany, offering England peace terms. Well England, in the summer of 1916, was considering that seriously. They had no choice. The action going on, the Zionists in Germany, went to the British War Cabinet: “Look here. You can win this war if the United States will come in as your ally. The price you must pay up is Palestine after you have won the war and defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. They made that promise in October 1916. Now that is something that the people in the United States had never been told. They never knew why we went into WWI. After we got into the war, the Zionists went to Great Britain and they said, “Let’s have something in writing that shows that you are going to keep your bargain and give us Palestine after you win the war”. And that was called the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration was merely Great Britain’s promise to pay the Zionists that they had agreed upon as the consideration for getting the United States into the war. That is where all the trouble started. Munich, Germany, April 1919: The Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, and the Treaty of St. Germain on 20 September 1919, ensured that the German people would be thoroughly humiliated. With millions unemployed, revolutionary Jewish communist leaders, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg will attempt a “red” revolution. British Prime Minister, Lloyd George wrote: The international bankers swept statesmen, politicians and journalists all to one side and issued their orders with the imperiousness of absolute monarchs. The Daily Mail reported 10 July 1933: “The German nation was rapidly falling under the control of alien elements. In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime, there were 20 times more Jewish government officials in Germany than had existed before the war.” Jews of international attachments and with communist persuasions had successfully insinuated themselves into the German administrative system. In 1933, as the new National Socialist government is removing these Jews from influential positions, the worldwide Jewish boycott of German goods begins. The German boycott of Jewish business concerns came in April 1933 only after the Jewish declaration of war was announced earlier in March. Hitler (Drama): “Above all, we must remove the Jews. They run our banks. They lost us the war. They alone are responsible for the economic disaster we live in.” When you ask what have the Germans done to the Jews? you must always ask, what had the Jews done to the Germans? Since 1850, when the Jews got all the political rights in Germany, they have done three things which are really dramatic: 1) They were a small minority of 2% of the population. At the time when Hitler came to power, 500,000 within 60 million German people. They were a small minority. This small minority managed to control about 50% of the media, about 70% of all judges, to have a tremendous influence in movies and in theater and in literature; they were over represented. This was one thing. They were absolutely over represented, as today in England, in France and in the United States. 2) Jews were at the origin of a lot of catastrophic financial bank crashes in Germany between 1870 and 1920. In that time, they made a lot of crashes (this is all documented... it’s not Nazi propaganda or antisemitic propaganda.... a lot of books that have been published, even by Jewish journalists about this problem). Millions of German fathers have lost their incomes, their fortunes, their savings because of these Jewish gangsters, bank gangsters and speculation people. 3) The third point, which was psychologically the most dangerous of all, they had introduced into German art and culture and theater and movies decadence, immorality. The first homosexual theater plays were made in Berlin in the 1920s. The first adultery, to see at the plays was made in the 1880s and 1890s, hundred years ago by Jewish authors. Adultery then sexual perversion of all sorts, sadism, masochism, a lot of homosexuality. All these things and then decadent art, art, which is absolutely ridiculous, so-called modern art. It was all pushed by Jewish intellectuals and this created among the German people a big revolt. And also, they wrote books ridiculing Christianity, ridiculing Jesus and there were furious reactions in Germany and this is why Adolf Hitler came to power. You see then, Hitler, in 2 years from 1933 to 1935, he brought 6 million unemployed Germans back into their jobs. He created 6 million jobs; it’s incredible! Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938: The 7 November 1938 assassination of a German diplomat, Ernst Von Rath in Paris by the Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, was the pretext for the pogroms against the German Jews that followed. At the time, Josef Goebbels was negotiating to overturn the international Jewish trade embargo. He moved quickly to halt the violence fearing it would derail the talks. The Transfer Agreement, 22 April 1984, Channel 5 News: Secret negotiations between the Nazis and the Zionists in 1933, which allowed German Jews and their assets to go to Palestine. A group of Zionists, at the same time, was quietly negotiating an agreement with the Nazis to allow the emigration of German Jews and the transfer of their assets to Palestine. That deal reported in August 1933, was the Transfer Agreement. Palestine, partly settled by Jews at the time, was radically changed as a result. Elderly Jewish Person: “I lived in Palestine from 1933 to 1936 and we saw every week, transports of German Jews coming to settle in Palestine.” German Jewish settlement in Palestine was, for a time, official Nazi policy. The photos of Jewish life in Palestine along with a text appeared in 1934 in the Berlin paper, Der Angriff. The publisher, Hitler’s propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels. “A Nazi visits Palestine”, title of the multi-part series. A medal was struck by Goebbels in commemoration. On one side, the swastika. On the other, the star of David. Hitler maintained that the cause for a boycott of the Reich raised by Jews here and elsewhere be rejected by the Zionists. The Zionists made that concession. The Transfer Agreement, AKA the Haavara Agreement, was a pact to allow Jews to emigrate from Germany to Palestine with their wealth intact. This is contrary to all anti-Hitler propaganda. The agreement was concluded in August 1933, following talks between German officials and the Palestine Center of the World Zionist Organization. Each Jew bound for Palestine, deposited money into a special account in Germany. The funds were used to purchase German goods, which were exported to Palestine and sold there by the Jewish old Haavara Company in Tel Aviv. Profits from the sales were then given to the Jewish emigrant upon his arrival, an amount corresponding to the initial deposit in Germany. Thus, the agreement served the Zionists’ aim of bringing Jewish settlers and development capital to Palestine while simultaneously advancing the German goal of freeing the country of an unwanted alien group. As a result, Hitler’s government vigorously supported the emigration of Jews to Palestine from 1933 to 1940-1941 when the Second World War prevented further collaboration. Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Approximately 150,000 soldiers with Jewish blood would eventually fight for the armed forces of the Third Reich. These included: 2 field marshalls, 15 generals, 8 lieutenant generals, 5 major generals. Together, they commanded up to 100,000 troops. Twenty Jews would also win the Reich’s highest military honor, the Knight’s Cross. Emil Maurice was a personal friend of Hitler’s and his one-time chauffeur and body guard. He was also an early member of the NSDAP and one of the founders of the SS. The Fuhrer stood by his old friend when Maurice’s Jewish ancestry was discovered, declaring him an “Honorary Aryan”. He was allowed to remain in the SS. Geitner and Goldberg PART 5 (58:31) 1914, Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina: On 28 June 1914, Serbian radical, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austrian Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. One month later on 28 July 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia, initiating WWI. Munich, Germany, May 1914 (Drama): England, France and Russia are recruiting forces against our ally, Austria. We must stand with her, unite, ready to sacrifice. Eventually, the victorious allies would hold Germany alone responsible for WWI. The next 20 years would see the German population suffer terribly from the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles. To understand the causes of WWII, we must first study the aftermath of WWI. 1919, Versailles, France: The Allied leaders were arguing their way over the whole future of the German people. Under their hands, the map of Europe was drawn and redrawn again. At last, after more than three months of discussion, they presented the terms of their treaty to the Germans. Germany lost land to the East, the West and the North. In the East, the most important of those losses was the wide strip of territory given to the newly independent Poland, separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany. While on the West, France took back the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and was also given the right to mine coal in the Saar, an area placed under League of Nations control for 15 years. To protect France, Germany was forbidden to station soldiers in the Rhineland, an area, which was to be occupied by allied troops until 1935. It was not only the loss of territory, which Germany resented, but also the fact Czechoslovakia and Poland now contained large numbers of Germans and as if to add insult to injury, the treaty forbad German-speaking Austria to unite with Germany. Her fortifications were to be destroyed. Her army was to be reduced to 100,000 men. No air force, no submarines, and to accept blame for starting the war and pay reparations. So, in the high summer of 1919, the German delegates were brought to the great Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign the peace treaty. It was a compromise peace that satisfied not even one single allied leader and predictably, the Germans loathed it. The Germans argued that the Germany to which they were returning, had suffered property and unemployment in the years since the war and couldn’t afford the vast sums demanded by the allies. But these arguments didn’t impress the Allies, who fixed the sum of 6,600 million pounds for the Germans to pay. That sum would have to be paid in goods as well as money. Most would come from here in the Ruhr, the industrial heart of Germany. But at the end of 1922, the Germans fell behind with their payments and Raymond Poincare, the new French Prime Minister, decided to act. If Germany wouldn’t pay in full and on the nail, then France would help herself. So on 11 January 1923, French and Belgium troops entered the Ruhr and forced the Germans to pay up. There was, of course, after Versailles, no German army big enough to stop them. At first, the French believed that they could make the Germans work for them, but suddenly, German politicians and people were united in a common cause, hatred of the French and huge protest meetings were held all over Germany. Their attitude towards the Germans in the Ruhr began to harden. They tried to cut the Ruhr off from the rest of the country. German visitors were searched as if they were entering a foreign land. 1923 was disastrous for Germany. In that year, the great German inflation reached its peak. For some time, the value of the Mark had been dropping. As the value of the notes decreased, so the amount of notes needed to buy things grew. Banks became more and more hard pressed to meet the ever increasing demands for paper money. Without customers, suitcases replaced wallets. As Germany slipped towards disaster, Gustav Stresemann was appointed Chancellor. The loss of production in the Ruhr was making inflation even worse and Stresemann realized that the only way to help the economy back to normal was to call off resistance there and get production going again. The government also announced that Germany would resume the payment of reparations. It was the only possible way of getting the French out. But to the nationalists, it looked like yet another pathetic surrender to Germany’s enemies. General Ludendorff, who had never accepted that Germany had been defeated, gave his support to Adolf Hitler, the leader of the new National Socialist party. 1939 The Polish Conflict: Problems had arisen in Poland over access to the German territory of East Prussia and the costal city of Danzig. Hitler on several occasions presented proposals to try and resolve both situations peaceably, but the Poles refused to seriously negotiate. Now in Poland, just as in Czechoslovakia, the safety of ethnic Germans was again becoming a concern for Hitler. Danzig: Until 1934, conflicts between Germany and Poland smouldered. Danzig, next to East Prussia, had been completely cut off from the Reich. Warsaw continued to try to wrest total control over the strategically important harbor city. In West Prussia, the situation was similar. East Prussia was now completely cut off from the German Reich. Bolstered by English and French guarantees of war support, Poland has no further incentive to negotiate in good faith with Germany. In the meantime, in Warsaw, maps are suddenly starting to circulate, which contain a new western Polish border, extending to just west of Berlin. All across Poland, the so-called pogroms against the minorities begin. Night after night, Polish border officials shot at the fleeing Germans (their homes being burned). Shortly before the official outbreak of war, there were already 80,000 ethnic Germans in refugee camps in both Danzig and the German border area. The misery of the minority Germans in Poland had now developed the third and most pressing reason that would lead to the outbreak of war. Hitler: “The democratic states should not be so vain as to think this state of affairs will last forever.” 1939. The Danzig Massacres: Hitler now has a problem that Britain and France will declare war on them. At this point, Poland is actually committing pretty bad atrocities (see note below) against the German minority in West Prussia, the German part of Poland at that time. [TRANSCRIBER COMMENT - From: D'Etchegoyen, Olivier: Pologne, Pologne . . . Paris 1925. "The minorities in Poland are to disappear, and it is Polish policy that they shall not disappear only on paper. This policy is being pushed forward ruthlessly and without the slightest regard for public opinion abroad, for international treaties, and for the League of Nations. The Ukraine under Polish rule is an inferno -- White Russia is an even more hellish inferno. The purpose of Polish policy is the disappearance of the national minorities, both on paper and in reality."] and [THE POLISH ATROCITIES AGAINST THE GERMAN MINORITY IN POLAND , EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND BASED UPON DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE SECOND REVISED EDITION BERLIN 1940 Compiled by Hans Schadewaldt VOLK UND REICH VERLAG BERLIN: More than 58,000 Dead and Missing - were lost by the German minority in Poland during the days of their liberation from the Polish yoke, as far as can be ascertained at present. The Polish nation must for all time be held responsible for this appalling massacre consequent upon that Polish reign of terror. Up to November 17, 1939, the closing day for the documentary evidence contained in the first edition of this book, 5,437 murders, committed by members of the Polish armed forces and by Polish civilians on men, women and children of the German minority had already been irrefutably proved. It was quite apparent even then that the actual number of murders far exceeded this figure, and by February 1, 1940, the total number of identified bodies of the German minority had increased to 12,857. Official investigations carried out since the outbreak of the German-Polish war have shown that to these 12,857 killed there must be added more than 45,000 missing, all of whom must be accounted dead since no trace of them can be found. Thus the victims belonging to the German minority in Poland already now total over 58,000. Even this appalling figure by no means covers the sum total of the losses sustained by the German minority. There can be no doubt at all that investigations which are still being conducted will disclose many more thousand dead and wounded. The following description of the Polish atrocities which is not only confined to murders and mutilations but includes other deeds of violence such as maltreatment, rape, robbery and arson applies to only a small section of the terrible events for which irrefutable and official evidence is here established.] So given that Poles are committing atrocities against the German minority in Poland, Hitler is now facing a very tough situation. Basically, it’s: Alright, if I don’t declare war on Poland, if I don’t go in and help these Germans out, well, then the German minorities are just going to keep getting slaughtered. It’s not an insignificant amount of Germans in that area who were being killed. It was pretty bad what was going on, what the Poles were doing in that area. So, he was basically saying, “Well, if we don’t go in, then those Germans are just going to keep getting slaughtered. If we go in, we’re going to find ourselves at war with Poland, France and Britain and possibly the Soviet Union.” But in a move of brilliant cunning, he astonished the world in the summer of 1939, by doing a deal with Stalin. With Stalin on his side, Hitler was sure nobody else would interfere when he attacked the Poles. The western powers are still negotiating in Moscow with the view of enlisting Russia in their front in East Germany, Reich Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop flies to the Soviet capitol to sign a pact of nonaggression and consultation with Mr. Stalin and foreign commissar Molotov. 1 September 1939: The applause reached the Fuhrer, who had just arrived to address the Reichstag which has been called for an extraordinary session. Hitler: Danzig was and is a German city. Have only Germany to thank for their cultural development. I told the Polish ambassador 3 weeks ago that if the situation continues as it was, if Danzig was persecuted and was attempted, by Poland, to ruin Danzig economically, the situation could not be tolerated.” We interrupt this broadcast of Adolf Hitler’s speech just momentarily, to report a dispatch from Paris who said that Premier Daladier of France has now called the French Council of Ministers for an emergency meeting. (Polish troops are mobilized.) Hitler: “I, therefore, resolve to speak to Poland in the same language in which Poland has addressed us for such a long time ... from now on, bomb will be met by bomb.” (Danzig liberated the same day.) Once again we interrupt, very briefly, this talk by Chancellor Hitler to announce that in London, Parliament has been summoned to meet at 6:00 p.m. in London. Poland, for the first time this evening has shot at regular soldiers [instead of unarmed men, women and children] upon our territory. Poland had greatly underestimated the German armed forces, the tactic of attacking the enemy with great speed, known as Blitzkrieg or ‘lightening war’ is utterly devastating. The plight of the German minorities had become clear. During the last weeks before the outbreak of war, racial propaganda in the Polish press played a major role in the persecution of Germans, already hounded and harassed. Acts of violence against the Germans continue and would eventually include a total of 58,000 slaughtered. The worst massacres will take place between 31 August and 6 September. The climax came on 3 September in Bromberg in what is now known as “Bloody Sunday”. The mass murders would only end on 18 September with the arrival of German troops to Lowitsch. Those found guilty of taking part in the brutal killings now faced death by firing squad. London, England, 3 September 1939. (At 11.15 a.m. Mr.Chamberlain had broadcast to the nation the following statement announcing that a state of war existed between Britain and Germany: 3rd September, 1939): "This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”  PART 6 (1:13:25) Within 2 days, the issues involving the human rights of German minorities as well as disputes over Danzig and isolated East Prussia would turn into WWII. From the beginning, the civilian population feels the impact of the invasion. As casualties mount, Polish citizens, with the full support of their miliary, hunt down ANY German still in Poland. Following the invasion, there is a wave of house searches, as the Germans are beaten and raped and at least 5,000 murdered. The massacres, especially in the city of Bromberg, will be hidden from the history books. They will eventually emerge as one of the most heinous of crimes to be inflicted upon a civilian population. Danzig, 16 September 1939. Hitler: “As a soldier in the World War, who only fought in the west, I never had the opportunity to witness such deeds. The thousands of slaughtered Volksgennossen, the brutally butchered women and children, the countless German soldiers and officers who fell wounded in the hands of the enemy and who were massacred and bestially mutilated with their eyes gouged out and worse yet, the Polish government has openly admitted this in a radio broadcast. The Luftwaffe soldiers that were forced to parachute were to be killed in a cowardly fashion.” The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact: In securing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Soviets and offering Stalin the eastern half of Poland, Hitler hoped that the Russian presence there will prevent Britain and France from declaring war. This would now allow Hitler to protect the German minorities and, at the same time, reclaim the territories lost at Versailles. Although, both Germany and the Soviets invade Poland, war by the Allies was only declared on Germany. On September 17, 1939, Stalin invades Poland and claims the eastern territories agreed upon. Meanwhile, Hitler, on 3 separate occasions, offered the opportunity of unconditional surrender to the Polish commander in Warsaw. Poland refuses all ultimatums and the German assault begins. Warsaw capitulates in just 24 hours at the cost of 40,000 dead or injured. The war with Poland lasts just 29 days. Hitler didn’t want a general war. What he wanted, and there is no doubt about this, he wanted a war to destroy Poland. For that he was prepared. For the moment, he was disconcerted to find that he might be involved in war with Britain and France because this had never been planned. He had always regarded Britain as his natural ally. But in the end, he accepted it. Look, I have a Nazi-Soviet Pact, which guarantees that this will not develop into a general war. I should be able to knock Poland out in 3 weeks, which he more or less did. After that, the west is afraid to start up a war again. May 1940. In their quest to prevent Germany from reclaiming territories lost under the Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France refuse any offers of peace. In reality, they are worried about Germany’s rapid economic growth and will not suffer further German advancement. At stake are the British and French empires, that the British alone are ruling over 480 million people. British and French Empires 1919-1939. 10 May 1940, with French troops mobilizing and more British troops arriving on the mainland by the day, Germany had no alternative but to go on the offensive. The British establishment replaces Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, choosing Winston Churchill instead, the same day Hitler invades France through Belgium. The armies of Britain and France are no match for this new German war machine. There will be no WWI trench warfare as the tactic of the Blitzkrieg once again proves devastating. In a matter of weeks, Germans seize vital territory resources in Europe and eventually outflank and trap the allies on the coast of France. With their backs against the English Channel, both the world’s leading colonial armies face total annihilation. Hitler delays the attack 2 days, leaving the British time for a chaotic evacuation from the Port of Dunkirk. Although, most historians see this as a gesture of peace, others feel this was consistent with a military blunder. Humiliated, the British Empire now has to rely on civilian sailing vessels and merchant fishing boats to help ferry troops back across the English Channel. With all their heavy artillery, tanks and armored vehicles left on the shores of France, they are a spent force, but will look for other means of continuing the war. In 6 weeks, the German Blitzkrieg defeats France. Paris is Hitler’s. Hitler will have the French authorities surrender at Compiegne, using the very same carriage in which the Germans had been compelled to ask for an armistice in WWI. Carriage #2149D was rolled out of its protective building, the precise spot it occupied on 11 November 1919. 1940, France. France asked Hitler for an armistice. Shortly before 3:00 o’clock on the afternoon of 21 June 1940, he arrived in the forest of Compiegne. Hitler himself took the seat where Marshal Foch had sat. The French delegation, led by General Huntziger followed closely behind. When the French delegation entered the carriage, Hitler could fully relish the peak of his career. Long ago on entering politics, he had sworn never to rest until the shame of Nov 1918 was wiped out. Now, he had done it. The dream of his lifetime, he says, has been fulfilled. 1940, Berlin: Berlin greeted him with flowers and jubilation. Hitler’s triumphal return to Berlin was in a flood of respect and adulation. This man seems to be a superhuman being, sent by Providence. This is the man who had obliterated the humiliation of the first world war. The same day in a speech of the Reichstag, Hitler presented Britain would get another offer of peace. LONDON, ENGLAND: Secret government documents revealed that the British received over 2 dozen offers of peace between 1939 and 1941, despite their desperate military straits, after evacuation at Dunkirk. Prime Minister, Winston Churchill; however, would have none of it, because he is aware that Britain cannot defeat Germany alone, he will do his utmost to drag the U.S. into the war [again]. It will, however, mean the eventual loss of the British Empire. 1940 BRITAIN: Germany was absolutely in a position to direct the course of the war. All we had to defeat now, we believed was Britain. The German fighter Ace, Adolf Galland, Lt. Col, German Air Force, also thinks the next priority is the Battle of Britain. But when he meets Hitler, he discovers that the Fuhrer’s priorities are different. I told him that our good time would come and we could bomb London and the fighters could take off. He said, “No, no, no”. Stop this. I don’t like this. I really don’t like the fight against England. The English people are such similar people to the Germans and I have the highest respect for the English building up an Empire. So you must understand, I am forced to fight this fight against England, but I don’t like it!” I think that he, himself had not had any great wish to be engaged on an invasion of Britain, because all the time, by now, he was already beginning to get ‘itchy’ and wanting to turn eastwards after defeating France. But Goering insisted that with the Luftwaffe, with the Air Force alone, he could knock Britain out. So, he gave him this, he had to try. Initially, Hitler had insisted that only military installations were to be bombed; however, on 4 September 1940, he explained in a speech to the Reichstag: “Why after months of the British targeting German civilians in nightly bombing raids, he now had no choice but to retaliate in kind. While the German planes fly over English land day by day, no Englishman has managed to so much as cross the North Sea by daylight. That is why they come at night and drop their bombs. You know it well, indiscrimately and on civilian resident farms and villages; wherever they see a light, they drop a bomb. I did not answer for 3 months because I was of an opinion that they would ultimately stop this nonsense. Mr. Churchill perceived this as a sign of weakness. He would surely understand that we are now giving our answers night after night and this at an increasing rate.”  PART 7 (1:28:39) “Hello, America. This is Edward Morrow, speaking from London. There were more German planes over the coast of Britain today than at any time since the war began.” Despite the British Empire’s vast resources and millions of men at her disposal, including 1 million Australians, 2 million Indians, 1 million Canadians, Churchill and Roosevelt would push for the U.S. to enter the war; however, polls consistent show that ordinary Americans have no wish to be involved in what, to them, is yet another European civil war. In spite of this, Roosevelt will now force laws to Congress, making a mockery of the U.S. supposed neutrality. 1939. The U.S. neutrality act was repealed in favor of a one-sided supply of arms to Germany’s enemies. In the same year, Roosevelt freezes all assets to defeated European countries, refusing to recognize their new governments. 1940. The “destroyers for U.S. bases” agreement is passed, whereby 50 reconditioned U.S. Navy destroyers are transferred to the Royal Navy in exchange for British bases in the Caribbean. Roosevelt would persuade Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, which officially ends the pretense of being neutral. He will also allow American citizens to enter the British Air Force. 1941. Roosevelt freezes all German assets in the U.S., a violation of international law. The U.S. announces an oil embargo against aggressor nations. $1 million in Lend-Lease aid is sent to Britain. The U.S. will eventually ship a total of $31.4 billion in supplies, the equivalent of $445 billion in today’s money. The loans will take Britain 51 years to repay, with the last installment made in 2006. By an overwhelming majority in Congress passed Lend-Lease, Bill #1776. (Lend-Lease Act passed the House: 317-71 and the Senate 60-31). Roosevelt: I ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations. Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. We shall send in ever-increasing numbers ships, planes, tanks, guns. That is our purpose and our pledge. The enormous amount of U.S. funds along with the covert U.S. operations in the Atlantic helped Britain sustain the war against Germany. The quick knock-out blow Goering had hoped for now seemed unlikely and the Battle of Britain will shortly give way to a more important fight. Hitler will now concentrate on the battle he believes will eventually decide the outcome of WWII. On 11 December 1941, he gives the speech describing the growing Soviet menace. Already in 1940, it became increasingly clear from month to month that the plans at the Kremlin were aimed at the domination and thus the destruction of Europe. Only a blind person could fail to see that a military buildup of unique world historical proportions was being carried out. Clearly, the Soviet Union had been expanding West. 30 November 1939. Finland is attacked. 21 February 1940. Sweden is bombed. 18 June 1940. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania are invaded. 27 June 1940. Romania is forced by Stalin to surrender Bessarabia (Moldavia). Hitler feels that not only is Germany in grave danger but, indeed, the whole of Europe. He knows the horrors the Bolsheviks will bring. Rather than wait after the meeting with his generals, Hitler will now plan a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union in what will be known as “Operation Barbarossa”. To understand Hitler’s fears for Europe, we must first look at the Bolshevik regime and Stalin, the man President Roosevelt would affectionately call, “Uncle Joe”. STALIN: Stalin came to power on the death of Lenin and ruled the Soviet Union by fear and torture for nearly the next 30 years. During that time, he was responsible for some 40 million deaths. Stalin spent his first years in power consolidating his position. He managed to sideline Trotsky, who he perceived as his major rival. In 1929, Stalin implemented a policy known as “collectivization”. Lenin’s experiment in nationalizing the lands had remained half finished and Russian peasants were still working their own land and selling their own produce in the market. By means of collectivization, Stalin meant to complete Lenin’s initiative and to take away all the peasants’ lands and produce in the name of the state. In 1930, peasants’ produce began to be collected up. The Red Army, one by one, seized the produce from every single field. Some peasants managed to hide their goods rather than give them up, but communist party officials searched every nook and cranny, eventually discovering the hiding places. The officials also seized the peasants’ agricultural equipment. The peasants were left with nothing to eat and nothing to work the soil with. Eventually, that catastrophe that Lenin had described as “the most useful for communism” raised its head again - famine. In the Ukraine alone, 6 million people starved over the next few years; 2 million died in Kazakhstan and 1 million in northern Caucasus. Children reduced to skin and bones, died in agony. There was another ghastly result of the famine inspired by Stalin - cannibalism. Peasants maddened by hunger began to eat corpses. Then an even worse horror emerged . Some peasants had kidnapped children and eaten them. In front of these two Russian peasants, caught eating human flesh, laid the remains of the children they had snatched. Stalin’s regime had turned human beings into savage animals, just as communism had intended. Everyone who opposed Stalin’s collectivization policy paid with his life. Tens of thousands of Kulaks were detained and shot. In actual fact, the regime branded everyone it saw as opposed to its ideology as “Kulaks”. Large numbers of priests and even members of their congregation, who attended church frequently were arrested as Kulaks. Some were executed. Others were sent to the labor camps where a slow, lingering death awaited them. These camps were set up all over Russia and were simply another of Stalin’s killing machines. [The Russian Kulaks: The Russian Kulaks were a class of peasant farmers who owned their own land. The term "Kulak" was originally intended to be derogatory. Soviet propaganda painted these farmers as greedy and standing in the way of the "utopian" collectivization that would take away their land, livestock, and produce. "Kulak" means "fist" in Russian and may have had something to do with the supposed tight-fistedness of the Kulak class.1 Peter Stolypin a minister under Czar Nicholas II undertook agrarian reform in 1906. His program was to dissolve peasant communes and buy land from the nobility, then to divide the land among the peasants. This actually increased efficiency and boosted food production in the country-side by over 40%. Stolypin felt that by making peasants actual owners of the land and the product of their labor they would take a keener interest in land improvement and productivity. He felt that these peasants would also be more supportive of a stable Czarist state. In this he proved to be correct.2 During the Russian Civil War (1918-21) the Kulaks generally supported the White Russians who were fighting to restore the Czarist regime.3 The Kulaks in general understood that the Bolshevik government was antithetical to property ownership and would strip away the rights and land the Kulaks had worked so hard to acquire and maintain. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks won the Civil War. After the Russian Civil War there was widespread famine throughout Russia. This was partly due to the war and partly due to the inefficiencies of collectivization. To relieve the hunger, Lenin attempted to confiscate grain from the peasants, including the Kulaks. Because not enough grain was collected he blamed the Kulaks and ordered not only that the Kulaks be deprived of grain themselves, but also any seed grain. He declared "Merciless war against the Kulaks! Death to them."4 This, of course, only had the effect of making the shortage more severe. After Lenin's death, Stalin took power in the Soviet Union. He continued the policy of collectivization. But the repeated failure of communist policies continued, and supply problems became even more endemic as the policies were more rigidly enforced. A scapegoat had to be found. The Kulaks were blamed for recalcitrance and a campaign of deportation was begun that amounted to wholesale slaughter. Kulaks were transported to Siberia, which was bad enough. However, they were simply dumped off in the middle of nowhere, without food, supplies, or resources of any kind. Many more were forced to work their farms but not allowed to keep any of the their production - even for sustenance. Literally millions of Kulaks died. The exact number is not known, but estimates range from 4 to 8,000,000. http://www.indepthinfo.com/russia/kulaks.htm] Millions of people regarded as enemies of the state were worked to death in them, under the most terrible conditions. Some were put to work laboring on canals in the blazing heat. Others were sent off to break rocks in the freezing cold of Siberia. These people, forced to perform hard labor under the worst possible conditions, soon turned into living skeletons. The great majority never left the camps alive. The Soviet Union, like every communist country was an economic basket case. It could not produce enough to survive and so, every communist/socialist state has been dependent upon aid from the capitalist-producing states. So, Russia was desperate for our aid, both in terms of direct government aid but also in terms of opening up the spigots for private capital markets, particularly New York bankers and corporations to move into Russia in a big way. In 1933, the Roosevelt administration invited a Soviet representative to Washington to negotiate terms of diplomatic recognition. Number of deaths in the Ukraine in 1929: 538,700; in 1930: 538,100; in 1931: 514,700; in 1932: 668,200; in 1933: (off the charts, must be over 2 million). In 1934, 483,000. 1941 POLAND: Hans Frank was reported Governor General of Poland and the country disappears from the headlines of the world press. Jews must wear the star of David on their arm, not carry them in their pocket. In Warsaw, there is a street car exclusively for Jews. A district of 1.5 mile square is transformed into a ghetto. There is condemnation from the Allies over the Jewish ghetto and yet it bears no comparison to the many black ghettos in America, a country where Negroes were still being lynched and hanged from trees. Britain’s record on the “human rights” of her many colonies, was likewise cruel and racist. Winston Churchill served in the Boer War, when thousands of women, children were left to starve in British concentration camps. No one was ever brought to account for the many crimes against humanity in India, Africa and Australia or for the mass drugging of the population of China in the opium wars. Mexican Repatriation Act in the U.S. the years between 1929 and 1939, saw the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans as first authorized by President Herbert Hoover. Of those, 1.2 million were born American citizens. In 1890, one year after the birth of Adolf Hitler, the final U.S. Army massacre of the Indians occurs at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. By 1924, they are almost completely wiped out. Children of survivors sent to boarding schools for re-education, where teachers are instructed to “kill the Indian in them”. American racism throughout WWII and up until the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through the use of Jim Crow laws. States could impose legal punishment on those consorting with members of a different race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and mandated that businesses and public institutions segregate blacks and whites. Here is just a sampling of the various state laws. Arizona. Intermarriage: the marriage of a person with Caucasian blood with Negro, Mongolian, Malaysian or Hindu shall be null and void. Florida. Cohabitation: Any Negros or white persons who are not married to each other and occupy the nighttime in the same room shall be punished by imprisonment or fines. Missouri. Intermarriage: All marriages between white persons and Negroes or Mongolians are prohibited and declared absolutely void. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had time and time again resisted any Republican party efforts to pass a federal law prohibiting lynching. In 1922, future president Harry Truman joined the Ku Klux Klan. 1936 BERLIN: THE MYTH OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES Anti-German propaganda in the U.S. will claim that a furious Hitler had ignored 4-time Olympic gold medalist, Jessie Owens. In his 1970, autobiography, Owens wrote, “When I passed the Chancellor, he arose, waved his hand at me and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.” On his return to the U.S., Owens would not be invited to the White House. He later said that “Hitler didn’t snub me. It was FDR who snubbed me - the president didn’t even send me a telegram.” The Olympic champion later had to make a living by racing horses. In 1960, almost a quarter of a century later, a young Cassius Clay threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after a waitress in a restaurant told him, “We don’t serve niggers here”. PART 8 (1:43:50) Italy, which had allied with Germany in 1940, was now fighting the British in Greece and the Middle East. War had also broken out in the Balkans, where the worse atrocities of WWII would soon take place. Before Germany could invade the Soviet Union, Hitler would first have to send the Wehrmach to help secure these regions. Within 6 weeks, the British would be forced to retreat from both Greece and the Middle East. In Yugoslavia, the British-backed government was quickly overthrown. Croatia is now independent for the first time in 900 years. To this day, many Croats honor Adolf Hitler as a liberator. THE JAPANESE CONFLICT: Throughout the 1930s, Japan had been at war with China. When Japan allied with Germany and Italy in 1940, the new Vichy French government consented to the Japanese occupation of France’s Indochina’s colony. The British Empire; however, which also had colonies in the region together with the U.S., froze Japan’s assets in July 1941. New York Times 26 July 1941, “these measures, in effect, bring all financial and imports and export trade transactions in which Japanese interests are involved under the control of the U.S. government.” On 1 August 1941, Roosevelt, still looking for a way to enter the war, forces an oil embargo on Japan, an intentional act of hostility. Both these actions were taken before the fateful December 7th Pearl Harbor attack. The result, Japan lost access to 75% of her overseas trade and 88% of her imported oil. Soon, there would be insufficient resources to continue the war with China. To try and resolve this, the Japanese entered into negotiations with U.S. officials, who demanded that Japan first withdraw from China before the embargos would end. The Japanese would never permit themselves to be humbled in such a way; a fact, which Roosevelt must have known. New York Times, July 1941, U.S. and Britain freeze Japanese assets, oil shipments and silk imports. In his book, ICEBEAKER, Russian historian, Victor Zuvorov gives compelling truth that Hitler was forced into a reluctant pre-emptive strive against the massive Soviet military machine, poised to invade the whole of western Europe. Zuvorov quotes top secret Soviet documents, which make it crystal clear that the Soviet military was being built as an offensive force. The collateral damage inflicted on the 11 European countries involved in Hitler’s protective measures against Britain and France, had created an unprecedented situation, where their armies, governments and political parties had been destroyed. Now with Europe totally exposed, Stalin was hoping Germany will expand the war by sending troops to Britain. Instead, he’s caught completely off guard as 3 million soldiers prepared to invade the atheistic Soviet Union, wearing belt buckles, engraved with the words, “Gott mit Uns” (God with us). 22 JUNE 1941, OPERATION BARBAROSSA: From the Baltic to the Black Sea, 3 million German soldiers are moving into position to launch, Operation Barbarossa; the most brutal conflict between two nations in recorded history is about to begin. On the first day of Barbarossa alone, 1200 Soviet aircraft are destroyed in a single strike. Panzer units sweeping east are already deep inside Soviet territory. Chaos multiplies the catastrophe. Without orders from the Kremlin, Red Army field commanders lose control of their units. Dazed, cut off, surrounded, thousands of Soviet soldiers surrender. And at the height of the Wehrmacht’s ferocious onslaught, Stalin disappears completely. He has every reason to hide from his people. Captured German newsreel footage shows Soviet frontier troops overwhelmed, a retreat under fire in total confusion. Whole formations surrendering. Hundreds of thousands of men entangled with fleeing civilians in scenes of biblical disorder. Yet, there are some Soviet citizens who welcome the invader. To many in the Ukraine, the arrival of the Germans is a heaven-sent opportunity to throw off Stalin’s yoke. Local women bless the Germans as they pass! Their men folk destroy reminders of a man who has terrorized them for years. Stalin is, above all, stunned by the sheer speed of the German advance. Still the Germans drive East. They are at the outskirts of Kiev, Smolensk and Leningrad. Yet fierce pockets of Red Army resistors fight on behind enemy lines. The fortress city of Brest. The besieged, Red Army garrison fights on and on for more than a month until they are finally compelled to surrender. Hitler is so impressed by the tenacity of the Russian troops, that he exercises rare clemency. Only one survivor is shot. The political officer at the fortress, Mikhail Fomin. The Fuhrer cites the defense at Brest as a heroic effort, an example to his own soldiers. And he visits the fortress with Mussolini, to acknowledge a hard-earned victory. But for Stalin, the defenders of Brest are not heroes. Years later, after they are released from German capture, he will send survivors to the Gulag. The Wehrmacht’s rapid, relentless advance seems unstoppable. Traveling at up to 50 miles a day, panzer divisions are already approaching the heart of Stalin’s empire. And in the middle of July, Stalin is forced to consider offering the Germans a negotiated peace. While Stalin contemplates a way out of the war, he is drawing up plans to punish his own troops, if they surrender. In a desperate attempt to halt the rout, he issues order #270: All officers and political officials taken prisoner at the front are to be considered traitors. If every they return to the Soviet Union, they will be arrested and executed. But the barbarity of order #270 does not stop there. The wives of captured troops also face imprisonment in the Gulag. Hitler now forms the Einsatzgruppen units for the necessary removal of the diehard Bolshevik leadership and NKVD, later known as the KGB (Soviet Secret Police) from all Soviet towns and cities. However, on hearing of the German invasion, many civilians refuse to wait and take immediate revenge on their communist oppressors and associated colaborators. Meanwhile, Roosevelt extends the Lend-Lease Act and sends more financial and military aid to the Soviet Union: $11.3 billion or around $150 billion today to help keep the communist regime in the war. Stalin is now rumored to have suffered a breakdown. Now with Moscow in the range of the Luftwaffe, Stalin’s own citadel of power comes directly under attack. German armies race for the capital. Elsewhere, Army Group North, headed for Leningrad. Army Group Center makes a pincer movement towards Smolensk. Army Group South strikes towards Kiev and the Ukraine. The suburbs of Kiev, the beginning of August. In a vast pincer movement, German Army Group South threatens to encircle the city. During August and the first two weeks of September, the Wehrmacht encircled the vast area, crammed with Red Army troops. Four Soviet armies perish. On 18 September, the city falls. The Fuhrer is now lord of all he surveys. It seems as if he is on course to meet his objective, to crush Stalin’s Russia before winter sets in. Leningrad lies ahead of the Wehrmacht, defenseless. As September draws to a close, Leningrad is totally cut off with no land link left to the Soviet Union. At the end of September, the Fuhrer launches Operation Typhoon, the final drive along the road to Moscow. Fourteen German tank and 74 infantry divisions, a total of 1.8 million officers and men take part in the offensive. Stalin has good cause for panic now. Facing a disaster that might sweep away the whole Soviet Union, they have one last hope, that the weather will save them. [TRANSCRIBER’S COMMENT: The war should have ended here. The Soviets would not have rallied save for Roosevelt’s interference and who helped usher in one of the if not the worst REGIMES of all time.) Sleet is turning to snow. The ground frozen at night, is now a quagmire during the day, paralyzing Hitler’s overstretched war machine. On 2 December, German units reach Krasnaya Polyana, 17 miles from the center of Moscow. As the weather intensifies and temperatures plummet, the bleak truth is, time turns decisively against them. Five days later and after 5 months of U.S. sanctions, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 December 1941. Two army privates at a radar station are suddenly startled by blips on the screen - 50 planes headed for Oahu. Immediately, they report the sightings to the operations center. They are dismissed as U.S. planes coming from the mainland. Aircraft designated for the second wave of the attack kick off. [Best dramatic account was TORA, TORA, TORA. Acquired from Hawaii Aviation: http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/world-war-ii/december-7-1941] [ATTACK! Now over Kahuku Point, Commander Fuchida fired his flare pistol and propelled a “black dragon” into the sky. His position as aerial commander was made clear by the distinctive red and yellow strip around his plane’s tail. This was the order to attack. As pre-arranged, at this signal the 183 planes of the first wave broke formation. Dive bombers headed upward for the 12,000 foot mark, horizontal bombers to 3,500 and torpedo bombers plunged to sea level then into mountain passes to avoid detection as they headed for Honolulu military targets. A second flare confused the attackers, who nonetheless formed a cloud of fire power on a deadly mission. The second wave had taken off 45 minutes after the leading element. Consisting of 50 horizontal bombers, 80 dive bombers and 40 fighters, they varied course on signal and made for their targets. 1941 December 7 27At 7:55 a.m. the first Japanese planes were seen southeast of Hickam Field, fighters soon joined by 28 bombers. They made three separate attacks in a savage 10-minute assault on the flight line, shops and buildings. Seven fighters later strafed aircraft taxiing on the field for defense after a lull of 15 minutes, then pounded the base a third time at 9 a.m. In all, Hickam suffered 42 planes totally destroyed and many more damaged extensively. Marine Air Group 21 at Ewa, located adjacent to Pearl Harbor, was hit. Situated there, also wing-tip to wing-tip per instructions, ...

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