„Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt of the Second World War“

Winston Churchill in 1936:

„We will impose war on Hitler, whether he likes it or not.“

(Source: Das Neue Reich Nr. 15, 11.4.1959 p. 4 H. Grimm)

In June 1939, Marshal Rydz-Smigly told Polish officers:

„Poland wants war with Germany and Germany will not be able to avoid it, even if it wanted to.“

(Source: quoted in: Heinz Splittgerber:Unkenntnis oder Infamie? – Darstellungen und Tatsachen zum Kriegsausbruch 1939. Recklinghausen 1996. p. 7)

In 1936, Marshal Rydz-Smigly’s paper, the Warsaw Kurjer Porany, commented on this subject:

„It cannot be said that the Germans will succeed in stopping the progressive process of Germanization of the western parts of the country, but there is no doubt that they are about to put obstacles in the way of this process.“

„The Poles could therefore be sure that they would continue to come closer to their goal of displacing or absorbing the German ethnic group. What they only had to fear from the German Volkstumsarbeit was a slowdown in the pace.“

Through expropriation and land reform, Poland had appropriated three-quarters of a million hectares of private German land by 1939. But neither England nor the League of Nations opposed this policy, neither before 1933 nor after. On the contrary, they supported them by their attitude even at the time when the further territorial claims of Poland must have made clear the dangers to European peace in England as well!

Certainly, French and British politicians protested from time to time in Warsaw, but without force and without effect.

The „Manchester Guardian“ reported from Poland on 14.12.1931:

„The minorities in Poland should disappear. It is Polish policythat ensures that they do not just disappear on paper. This policy is being pursued ruthlessly and without the slightest attention to world public opinion, to international treaties or to the League of Nations. Ukraine has become hell under Polish rule. The same can be said of Belarus with even greater justification. The goal of Polish policy is the disappearance of national minorities, on paper and in reality.“

The same British weekly a year earlier, on 17.10.1930:

„Polish terror in Ukraine today is worse than anything else in Europe. Ukraine has become a country of despair and destruction, which is all the more provocative because the rights of Ukrainians are guaranteed under international law, while the League of Nations is deaf to all appeals and explanations and the rest of the world knows nothing about it or does not care about it.“

U.S. General Robert E. Wood told a Senate committee that W. Churchill had told him in November 1936:

„Germany is becoming too strong, we have to destroy it.“

(Quelle: J. F. C. Fuller ,,Decisive Battles of the Western World“ Seite 306 und E.  Hughes ,Winston Churchill – his career War and Peace“ S. 145 und ,,Hearings on Lerid and Lease“ Febr. 1941 Seite 275)

A senior Polish general staff officer, H. Baginski, defined in a book awarded by the „Polish Commission for International Intellectual Cooperation“, published in Warsaw in 1927, the main objectives of Polish foreign policy: annexation of Danzig, East Prussia and most of Silesia.

„As long as there will be no peace in Europe, until the Polish lands are completely returned to Poland, until the name of Prussia, which is the name of a people that no longer exists, will be erased from the map of Europe, and as long as the Germans do not move their capital from Berlin further west, to the former capital Magdeburg on the Elbe or Merseburg on the Saale, as long as they do not return to the old name of the German Reich and as long as they do not cease to dream of the correction of the borders in the East.“

(Source: Chr. Höltje, The Weimar Republic and the Ostlocarno Problem 1919-1934 – pp. 137 and 141.)

The magazine, which is also state-censored and is close to Pilsudski, „Mocarstwowiec“ – „The League of Great Powers“ – wrote in 1930:

„We are aware that war between Poland and Germany cannot be avoided. We must prepare systematically and vigorously for this war. The present generation will see that a new victory at Grunwald (allusion to the Battle of Tannenberg in 1410) is inscribed in the pages of history. But we will beat this Grunwald in the suburbs of Berlin. Our ideal is to round off Poland with borders on the Oder in the west and the Neisse in Lusatia and to incorporate Prussia from the Pregel to the Spree. In this war, no prisoners will be taken, there will be no place for humanitarian feelings. We will surprise the whole world with ourwar against Germany.“

(Quelle: B. de Colonna ,Poland from the Inside“ page 90 )

On 15.8.1939 the Polish ambassador in Paris, Lukasiewicz, told the French Foreign Minister Bonnet:

„It will be the Polish army that will invade Germany on the first dayof the war.“

(Source: M. Freund, Weltgeschichte der Gegenwart in Dokumente“ Vol. III p. 90 and G. Bonnet „Vor der Katastrophe“ page 252)

On 26.8.1939 the Ambassador of the USA in Moscow, E. Davies:

„One of the highest officials under Beck said to me, very firmly, that his government would never admit that Poland and Germany would come together to settle their difficulties over the Polish corridor and Danzig. He expressed outrage at what he called the usual exaggeration of German military power. His government, he said, would show it to the world. Three weeks after the outbreak of war, Polish troops would be in Berlin. The „Westwall“ or the Siegfried Line are nothing but a cotton thread. Poland does not need Russian help. They could deal with the Germans alone.“

below are quotes from the book

„Das Deutschland Protokoll“ by Ralf Uwe Hill

 which you will most likely find on the Internet as a free PDF file.

„We made Hitler a monster, a devil. That’s why we couldn’t move away from it after the war. After all, we had mobilized the masses against the devil personally. So after the war we were forced to play along in this devil’s scenario. We could not possibly have made it clear to our people that the war was only an economic preventive measure.“

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III. in „Der Spiegel“, ed. 13 of 1992

„The unforgivable crime of Germany before World War II was the attempt to separate its economic power from the world trading system and to create its own exchange system, in which world finance could no longer earn.“

Winston Chruchill in his memoirs (The Silesian 05.06.1992)

„The statesmen will invent cheap lies and blame the nation under attack, and everyone will be pleased with such conscience-appeasing falsifications, and he will eagerly learn them and refuse to consider any counter-arguments.“

Mark Twain

„Which Federal President was not a Nazi? It is known that the former Federal President Scheel had previously become Foreign Minister as a Nazi.

That is why Werner Nachmann, the director of the Board of Trustees of Jews in Germany, could dictate correspondence in the Foreign Ministry, not the Foreign Minister. How could he dictate, how could he experience everything? Please, that’s a fact. Then Scheel became President of the Federal Republic. Why? Normally, one remains Federal President for two legislative periods. With Scheel (FDP) one made an exception. The CDU wanted revenge because the FDP had separated from it and formed an SPD/FDP government. So Carstens (CDU) should become Federal President. The other side immediately indicated that Carstens was an official Nazi. The CDU returned according to the motto Haust du meinen Juden, haue ich deinen Juden and revealed that Scheel was also a Nazi.“

The Jewish publicist J. G. Burg in „Jewish-German Dialogue“

„Above all, it is true that we English have always waged war against our competitors in trade and transport. And our main competitor in trade and transport today is not France, but Germany. In a war with Germany we would be in a position to gain much and nothing to lose…“

The English weekly „Saturday Review“, on 24.08.1895

„It was not Hitler’s political teachings that plunged us into war.

The reason was the success of its growth to build a new economy. The roots of the war were envy, greed and fear.“

The historian and Major General J. F. C. Fuller in The Second World War, 1950

„Now it is clear that a warning must be issued against the whole (Wehrmacht) exhibition. Why has no German historian uncovered the many errors and deceptions? History professors only give the answer if we promise not to give his name: Every historian has immediately seen how sloppy and suggestive the exhibition was arranged, but who wants to be publicly beaten? The persecutors of dissenters have come a long way.“

Editor-in-chief Helmut Markwort in his weekly

„FOCUS-Tagebuch“ 43/1999

„We did not go to war in 1939 to save Germany from Hitler, the continent from fascism. As in 1914, we entered the war for the no less noble reason that we could not accept German domination in Europe.“

„Frankfurter Allgemeine“ of 18.09.1989

„The first casualty of war is the truth.“

Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917

„Now we have forced Hitler to go to war, so that he can no longer peacefully repeal one piece of the Versailles Treaty after another.“

Lord Halifax, English Ambassador in Washington, 
1939 and member of the Committee of 300

„I will crush Germany.“

Frank Roosevelt, 1932 from: „Wider Willkür und Machtrausch“, p. 241

„We will impose war on Hitler, whether he likes it or not.“

Winston Churchill in 1936, when he saw the economic successes after Hitler broke away from the interest slavery of the international banks and introduced the labor currency, which made the German Reich self-sufficient and brought unprecedented economic prosperity to the Reich.

„Poland must insist that it cannot exist without Königsberg, without all of East Prussia. We must now demand in Locarno that the whole of East Prussia be liquidated. It can obtain autonomy under Polish sovereignty. Then there will be no corridor (via the free city of Gdansk – author’s note) To give. If this is not done peacefully, then there is a second Tannenberg.“

The Polish newspaper „Gazeta Gdanska“, 09.10.1925

„Poland wants war with Germany and Germany willnot be able to avoid it, even if it wanted to…“

Marshall and Inspector General Rydz-Smnigly 1939 in a public lecture to Polish military officers.

„Before the Nuremberg Tribunal, I – together with my Russian colleagues – condemned Nazi aggression and terror. Today I believe that Hitler and the German people did not want war, but that we, Britain, declared war on Germany with the intention of destroying it in accordance with our doctrine of balance of power. And we were encouraged by those Americans who surrounded Roosevelt. We ignored Hitler’s appeals not to start a war.

Today we have to admit that Hitler was right. He offered us cooperation with Germany. Instead, since 1945 we have been facing the immense power of the Soviet empire. I feel shame and humiliation when I see that the aims for which we accused Hitler are being relentlessly pursued today – only under a different name.“

Sir Hartle Shawcross, Chief Prosecutor of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, speaking at Stourbridge on 16 March 1984

 „The point here is that Hitler – unlike Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin – did not want a general outbreak of war in 1939.“

„Blasting of the historical Blackout“, 1962

 „As Christians, we must ask ourselves before God and man:

What was the real cause that led us to war through Roosevelt? One thing is already certain: it was not an ideological war to destroy National Socialism, since we were allied with the even more dangerous Bolshevism. The only true answer must be:

The old cardinal sins of humanity – selfishness, greed and greed – led our nation to war. Under the Roosevelt administration, we did not want to allow the course of history to be reversed, for us to become the have-not sand other nations the haves. We wanted to continue to live in abundance and leave others forever in want, wanted to continue to be the rich and keep the others in their poverty, wanted to enjoy undisturbed what we had gathered in earthly goods through conquest, extermination and slavery. We wished to continue to live on the sunny side of existence and to know the others in the shade, to always be on top and tokeen the others on the ground. We wanted to stay on our American way of life with the highest standard of living, while the others starved. But above all, we wanted to get rid of our biggest and most successful rival on the world market.“

„America’s Responsibility for the Crime against the German People“ by the German-born Reverend Ludwig A. Fritsch from 1947. On the basis of this writing, the US President allowed Truman to send „love gift packages“ to Germany in order to spare the starving millions a painful death. Until then, foreign aid to the German people had been banned by the United States.

„Roosevelt knew exactly what he meant when he called for unconditional surrender. According to its barbaric interpretation, this concept included the right to dispose of everything, people and material, property and intellectual goods. The patents and manufacturing secrets that our troops stole and brought here alone outweigh the billions we spent on warfare. Even the kidnapping and forcible accommodation of German scientists and experts to East and West is taken for granted.

In the face of God, I ask our nation, I ask you, you servants.

of the Gospel: Have the Germans in all our history ever done us such injustice as we inflicted and still do to them in the two world wars? What have the Germans done to us Americans that we have punished them twice in one generation in the most cruel and inhumane way that history has never known? Is this American gratitude for all the hard work and loyalty with which German people built our country here and won our victories?“

„America’s Responsibility for the Crime against the German People“ by the German-born Reverend Ludwig A. Fritsch from 1947.

 „What we did not really want to understand in the German resistance during the war, we learned afterwards completely: that the war was ultimately not waged against Hitler, but against Germany.“

Eugen Gerstenmaier, from 1954 President of the Bundestag in the „Resistance“

„With atrocity propaganda we won the war (…) And now we’re really getting started. We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will increase it until no one will accept a good word from the Germans, what sympathies they have had in other countries and they themselves will be so confused that they no longer know what they are doing.

When this is achieved, when they begin to stain their own nestand not gnashing their teeth, but in hasty read inessto please the victors, then only is victory complete.

It is never final. Re-education requires careful, constant care like English lawns. Just a moment of negligence and the weeds break through – that ineradicable weed of historical truth.“

The former British chief propagandist Sefton Delmer on the German international law expert Prof. Grimm after the military capitulation in 1945

 „For the purposes of the Nuremberg Trials, it was sufficient to insinuate that the war with all its consequences was due to Hitler’s aggression. But this explanation is too simplistic. Nor does it correspond to the facts, because Hitler wanted anything but a world war.“

The British military writer and historian Hart on 03.09.1949 in the London „Picture Post“

 „The German consciousness of war guilt represents a case of almost in comprehensible self-incrimination unparalleled in the history of mankind. In any case, I know of no other example in history of a people showing this almost insane addiction to take upon itself the dark shadows of guilt for a political crime that it has not committed, except the crime of blaming itself for World War II…“

The US historian and philosopher of history Barnes 1951

„It is still to be complained that the final article of the old Basic Law, Article 146, which stipulated that a new constitution be submitted to the German people in the event of German unity, has not been observed. I am sure that if we continue to live with this breach of the Constitution, we will all experience enormous and almost compensable damage. The fathers and mothers of the Basic Law of the old Federal Republic understood the constitution of the Federal Republic as a provisional solution with regard to a unity that might be possible at a later date. Accordingly, the preamble was worded and, accordingly, the final article. We have to stick to that.“

Günter Grass in his book „Questions on German Unity“

„You can say what you want about it today: Germany was a prosperous, happy country in 1936. On his face lay the radiance of a woman in love. And the Germans were in love – in love with Hitler … And they had every reason to be grateful: Hitler had conquered unemployment and brought them a new economic boom.

He had given the Germans a new awareness of their national strength and their national task.“

The British chief propagandist Sefton Delmer in:
„The Germans and I“.

„I have just returned from a visit to Germany. I have now seen Germany’s famous leader, including the great changes he has caused. Whatever one thinks of his methods – and these are certainly not those of a parliamentary country – there can be no doubt that he has brought about a wonderful change in people’s minds, in their behaviour among themselves, in their social and economic self-presentation. It is not the Germany of the first decade after the World War, which lived broken, dejected, oppressed, with a sense of incapacity and fear. It is now full of hope and confidence and a renewed sense of destiny to direct one’s own life without the influence of any forces beyond its limits. For the first time in Germany after the World War, a sense of security has generally taken hold among people. It is a happy Germany. I saw and got to know it everywhere.“

Lloyd Georges in the „Daily Express“ of 17.09.1936 
after his visit to Berchtesgaden with Adolf Hitler

 „I asked Joe Kennedy (U.S. Ambassador in London) about his conversations with Roosevelt and N. Chamberlain in 1938. He said that Chamberlain’s conviction in 1939 was that Britain had nothing in hand to fight and that therefore she could not dare to go to war against Hitler. Neither the French nor the English would have made Poland a reason for war if they had not been relentlessly incited by Washington. America and world Jewry would have driven England to war.“

US Secretary of Defense J. Forrestal on 27.12.1945 in his Tagebuch „The Forrestal Diaries“, New York page. 121 ff

 „We Germans should learn to endure the truth even if it is favorable for us“

Heinrich von Brentano

 „President Roosevelt and the Jews throughout the world put pressure onme to refrain from any understanding with Hitler.“

Neville Chamberlain am 15. Januar 1952 im „New Chronicle“

 „The Poles have lost their last sense of measure and greatness. Every foreigner who looks at the new maps in Poland, whereupon a large part of Germany up to the vicinity of Berlin, further Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia and a huge part of Russia have already been annexed in the exceedingly rich imagination of the Poles, must think that Poland has become a huge lunatic asylum.“

The Flemish writer Ward on 03.08.1939;

see: „Nie wieder München“, page 207

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And now again two quotes from the book „true for Germany“ from Udo Walendy

Winston Churchill in November 1935:

„While all these terrible changes were taking place in Europe, Private Hitler was fighting his long, tiring battle for the German heart. The history of this struggle cannot be read without admiration for the courage, sincerity and strength of personality that enabled him to challenge, defy, overwhelm or reconcile – at least to assert him self against all authorities and resistance that blocked his path. He and the ever-growing multitudes of those who joined him showed in their patriotic fire and patriotism that there was nothing they were not prepared to do or dare, no sacrifice of life, health, liberty that they would not bring themselves or impose on their opponents.“

(Source: W. Churchill „The truth about Hitler“ in Strand Magazine November 1935 quoted in: Sündermann ,Alter Feind was nun?“ Page 70 )

In Churchill’s view, Hitler’s success was the responsibility of the Allies, Great Britain and France, and the execution of how the tables were turned against the complacent, incompetent and half-blind victors deserves to be regarded as a miracle in the history of the world and a miracle inseparable from the personal efforts and lifetime commitment of one man. Those who met Hitler face to face in public, on business, or on social issues met a very competent, cool, well-informed functionary with a pleasant nature, a noticeable smile, and few remained untouched by his fine personal magnetism.

This impression is by no means due to the brilliance, the blinding of power. He acted in this way on his co-workers at every stage of his struggle, even when his for tune had sunk to the deepest depths. One may disapprove of Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. Should our country ever be defeated, I would hope to find such an admirable fighter that will restore our courage and lead us back to our place among nations.“

( Source: E. Hughes „Winston Churchill – his career in War and Peace“ page 144 and L. P. Lohner „The Mighty and the Tyrant“ page 214 )