by John Hamer
A little later in the speech, more history lessons are offered by Hitler, especially with regard to the violent history of the USA, which remains pertinent to this day considering the actions of their current government.
“For not statesmen, including those of the United States, especially her greatest, made the outstanding part of their countries' history at the conference table. The freedom of the United States was not achieved at the conference table any more than the conflict between the North and the South was decided there. I will not mention the innumerable struggles which finally led to the subjugation of the North American continent as a whole. I recite all this only in order to show that your view, Mr. Roosevelt, undoubtedly deserving of all respect, is not confirmed by the history either of your own country or of the rest of the world.”
Hitler then openly declared his purposes and deeper allegiances…
“I took the leadership of a state which was faced by complete ruin thanks to the promises of the outside world and the evil of its democratic regime. Billions of German savings accumulated in gold or foreign exchange during many years of peace were extorted from us. We lost our colonies. In 1933 I had in my country 7 million unemployed, a few million part-time workers, millions of impoverished peasants, trade destroyed, commerce ruined; in short, general chaos.
Since then, Mr. Roosevelt, I have only been able to fulfil one single task. I cannot feel myself responsible for a world, for this world took no interest in the pitiful fate of my people. I have regarded myself as called upon by Providence to serve my own people alone and to deliver them from their frightful misery. Thus, for the past six and one half years, I have lived day and night for the single task of awakening the powers of my people in face of our desertion by the rest of the world, and of developing these powers to the utmost and for utilising them for the salvation of our community.
I have conquered chaos in Germany, re-established order, immediately increased production of all branches of our national economy, by strenuous efforts produced substitutes for numerous materials which we lack, prepared the way for new inventions, developed transportation, caused magnificent roads to be built and canals to be dug, created gigantic new factories. I have striven no less to translate into practice the ideal behind the thought 'community', and to promote the education and culture of my people. To protect them against the threats of the outside world, I have not only united the German people politically, but also rearmed them, I have likewise endeavoured to rid them of that [Versailles] treaty page by page, which in its 448 articles contains the vilest oppression which has ever been inflicted on men and nations.
I have brought back to the Reich its provinces stolen from us in 1919; I have led back to their country millions of Germans who were torn away from us and were in abject misery; I have reunited the territories that have been German throughout a thousand years of history and, Mr. Roosevelt, I have endeavoured to accomplish this without bloodshed and without bringing to my people and so to others, the misery of war
For my world, Mr. President, is the one which Providence has assigned me and for which it is my duty to work. Its area is much smaller. It comprises my people alone. But I believe I can thus best serve that which is in the hearts of all of us, justice, well-being, progress and peace for the whole community of mankind.”
This speech was not deemed worthy of a reply by the Allies, who of course predictably, totally ignored and buried it in the graveyard of unwanted history and thus the escalation of the war continued.
Pearl Harbour
It had already been planned that America would take part in World War II, the vast profits available for the military-industrial Elite corporations in an operation of this scale, being too good an opportunity to pass-up. However, the huge stumbling block to the US entering the conflict was Roosevelt’s reticence to commit American forces as he had been re-elected on a ‘no European war’ ticket and at that time over 80% of the American population were not in favour of partaking in yet another European war which they felt (quite correctly) was ‘none of their business’.
It is now also known that Roosevelt, under pressure from Elite industrial and financial interests and Churchill, desperate for the US to enter the war to aid a floundering British war effort, conspired together and with others to set in motion events to create a situation which would turn public opinion and generate the outcry that would make war inevitable.
Despite the fact that FDR had won a second term as President largely due to his oft-repeated promise that American soldiers would not become embroiled in the ‘European war’, he knew only too well that that is exactly what had been planned.
“But our boys are not going to be sent abroad says the President. Nonsense, Mr. Chairman; even now their berths are being built in our transport ships. Even now the tags for identification of the dead and wounded are being printed by the firm of William C. Ballantyne & Co, in Washington.” Representative Philip Bennett, Missouri, 1939
Also in 1939, Senator Nye of North Dakota, quoted words in the Senate from a volume named ‘The Next War’, printed in London some years previously. In it was detailed the plan to drag America into WWII by whatever means it could muster and it said…
“To persuade the US to take our part will be much more difficult, so difficult as to be unlikely to succeed. It will need a definite threat to America, a threat moreover, which will have to be brought home by propaganda, to every citizen, before the Republic will again take arms in an external quarrel...
...The position will naturally be considerably eased if Japan was involved and this might and probably would bring America in without further ado. At any rate, it would be a natural and obvious effect of our propagandists to achieve this, just as in the Great War they succeeded in embroiling the United States against Germany.”
Since the war it has been established without doubt that intercepted messages from Japan and warnings from other countries of the Japanese intent to attack Pearl Harbour, went deliberately unheeded in order to provide a justification to enter the war.
“We face the delicate question of diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put in the wrong and makes the first overt move.” Henry Stimson, US Secretary of War, 1941
In 1940 FDR ordered the fleet to be transferred from the West Coast of the US mainland, to its exposed position in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii and ordered that the fleet remain stationed there despite complaints by its commander Admiral Richardson that there was inadequate protection from air attack and no protection at all from torpedo attack. Richardson felt so strongly about this that he twice disobeyed orders to berth his fleet there. He raised the issue personally with FDR in October and he was unsurprisingly replaced soon after this. His successor, Admiral Kimmel, also brought up the same issues with FDR in June 1941 and was also ignored or forestalled.
Then on the 23rd June 1941, FDR’s advisor Harold Ickes sent a memo to FDR the day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, “There might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a situation as would make it not only possible but easy to get into this war in an effective way. And if we should thus indirectly be brought in, we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communist Russia.”
FDR was pleased too with Admiral Richmond Turner's report on 22nd July 1941 which read; “It is generally believed that shutting off the American supply of petroleum will lead promptly to the invasion of Netherland East Indies [by Japan].....it seems certain she would also include military action against the Philippine Islands, which would immediately involve us in a Pacific war.”
On the 24th July, FDR told the Volunteer Participation Committee, “If we had cut off the oil, they probably would have gone down to the Dutch East Indies a year ago, and you would have had war.” The very next day FDR froze all Japanese assets in the US cutting off their main supply of oil and forcing them into some kind of desperate action against the US. Intelligence information regarding the Japanese threat was deliberately withheld from th
e military command in Hawaii from this point forward.
After the Atlantic Conference on 14th August, Churchill noted the “…astonishing depth of Roosevelt's intense desire for war.” Churchill cabled his cabinet “FDR obviously was very determined that they should come in.”
“December 7th [the attack on Pearl Harbour] was... far from the shock it proved to the country in general. We had expected something of the sort for a long time.” Eleanor Roosevelt, NY Times Magazine, October 8th, 1944.
“Yes, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, but we [the US] pulled off an international sting operation to trick them into doing it. Roosevelt actually moved the shipping lanes so that the Japanese fleet would not be discovered and reported by some uninvolved ship's captain. Our own early attempts at radar picked up the incoming Zeros but that was explained as just a flock of birds, which given the unknown capabilities of radar at the time was believable. The fact remains that Roosevelt knew that Pearl Harbour was to be attacked because we had broken the Japanese code. Pearl Harbour was not warned because we wanted to get rid of the WWI ships and be forced to buy new ones and because that war, like all the others was never about nation-states, it was always about the money that every nation needed just to fight in these contrived wars. It has ALWAYS been about the money. And those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbour were just the price of doing business”. Jim Kirwan, Researcher November 2010
And so, by this elaborate deception and subterfuge, America joined the war, as had been planned all along. Among other horrors, this resulted in the deaths of more than one quarter of a million American servicemen and appalling injuries to many hundreds of thousands more.
Dresden – An appalling War Crime
On the night of 12/13th February 1945, over 1000 allied bombers attacked a non-military, civilian target in Germany, the town of Dresden. Dresden was (and is still) famous for its china pottery industry and at that time towards the end of the war, was the adopted home of several hundred thousand refugees from the far east of Germany, who were attempting to flee the marauding Russian hordes, rapidly advancing westwards towards Berlin.
There were no military installations in Dresden, no military headquarters or camps, no munitions factories and no heavy engineering of any kind that could have been linked to Germany’s by this time seriously crippled, war efforts. In short, Dresden was a medium-large sized, rural, historical town with no strategic importance whatsoever.
What happened in the space of 12 terrifying hours in Dresden should live forever in the annals of the shame of the human race. It is thought by many credible commentators that as many as 4-500,000 innocent people died that night. Far more than double the two atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. In many cases, theirs was not a quick death but a slow agonising death through being ‘eaten alive’ by the phosphorus and subsequent firestorms generated by the half-million+ incendiary bombs dropped by the Allies.
More than 12,000 houses in the centre of the city were reduced to dust, not rubble, dust during the hellish firestorm. In view of the fact that, in addition to the 600,000 inhabitants of Dresden, another 5-600,000 people, all refugees, had found shelter in the overcrowded city, one can safely assume that each of these 12,000 houses contained no fewer than 20 people. But of these houses virtually nothing remained and the people who had been sheltering in them were transformed into ashes due to a heat of greater than 1600 degrees Celsius being generated by the fire-bombs.
The ‘official’ figure of 35,000 dead only represents the small part of the victims who could be fully identified. Erhard Mundra, a member of the ‘Bautzen committee’ wrote in the daily German newspaper ‘Die Welt’ on 12th February 1995...
“According to the former general staff officer of the military district of Dresden and retired lieutenant colonel of the Bundeswehr, D. Matthes, 35,000 victims were fully and another 50,000 partly identified, whereas a further 168,000 could not be identified at all.”
It also goes without saying that the hapless children, women, invalids and old people whom the firestorm had transformed into nothing more or less than ashes, could not be identified either.
At the time of the attack, Dresden had no anti-aircraft guns and no military defence. It possessed no military industry at all and served as a shelter for refugees from the East, many of them ill, starving, emaciated and disabled. Indeed, many roofs of buildings where they were housed were marked with huge red crosses.
On that terrible night from 12th to 13th February 1945, one of the greatest war criminals of all time, Winston Churchill, was complicit, indeed instrumental in the senseless, pointless mass-murder of around half a million unarmed, helpless citizens, mostly women, children, the disabled and the aged.
“It cannot be disputed that the principles of international law forbade total carpeting bombing …..The historians considered the indiscriminate bombing as an abomination, but refused to lay the whole guilt on Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris or the Bomber Command. According to them, the entire staff of the RAF, but even more the political leaders, especially Churchill and Roosevelt, plus the majority of their peoples shared the burden of guilt.” The joint conclusions of military historians from five countries at a conference in Freiburg, 1988
On the 13th February 1990, exactly forty-five years after the destruction of Dresden, the British historian David Irving spoke in Dresden. In his speech, Irving quoted the war criminal, Churchill, thus… “I don't want any suggestions how to destroy militarily important targets around Dresden. I want suggestions as to how we can roast the 600,000 refugees from Breslau in Dresden.”
But for Churchill, simply ‘roasting’ Germans was nothing like enough. On the morning after the firebombing of Dresden, he ordered low-flying planes to machine-gun the survivors on the banks of the river Elbe where they had dragged themselves to try and find shelter from the suffocating heat by water immersion.
However, to backtrack slightly, as the morning of the 12th February 1945 dawned in Dresden, the streets and squares were filled with refugees and the meadows and parks had been transformed into huge camps. When the fatal hour approached, about 1,130,000 people were living in Dresden. Here is an eyewitness account from a ten year old girl describing (many years later as an adult) what followed later that day...
“About 9.30pm the alarm was given. We children knew that sound and got up and dressed quickly, to hurry downstairs into our cellar which we used as an air raid shelter. My older sister and I carried my baby twin sisters; my mother carried a little suitcase and the bottles with milk for our babies. On the radio we heard with great horror the news: ‘Attention, a great air raid will come over our town!’ This news I will never forget.
Some minutes later we heard a horrible noise - the bombers. There were non-stop explosions. Our cellar was filled with fire and smoke and was damaged, the lights went out and wounded people shouted dreadfully. In great fear we struggled to leave this cellar. My mother and my older sister carried the big basket in which the twins were laid. With one hand I grasped my younger sister and with the other I grasped the coat of my mother.
We did not recognise our street any more. Fire, only fire wherever we looked. Our 4th floor did not exist anymore. The broken remains of our house were burning. On the streets there were burning vehicles and carts with refugees, people, horses, all of them screaming and shouting in fear of death. I saw hurt women, children, old people searching for a way through ruins and flames.
We fled into another cellar overcrowded with injured and distraught men women and children shouting, crying and praying. No light except some electric torches. And then suddenly the second raid began. This shelter was hit too, and so we fled through cellar after cellar. Many, so many, desperate people came in from the streets. lt is not possible to describe! Explosion after explosion. It was beyond belief, worse than the blackest nightmare. So many people were horribly burnt and injured. lt became more and more difficult to breathe. lt was dark and all of us tried to leave this cellar with inconc
eivable panic. Dead and dying people were trampled upon and luggage was left or snatched up out of our hands by rescuers. The basket with our twins covered with wet cloths was snatched up out of my mother’s hands and we were pushed upstairs by the people behind us. We saw the burning street, the falling ruins and the terrible firestorm. My mother covered us with wet blankets and coats she found in a water tub.
We saw terrible things: cremated adults shrunk to the size of small children, pieces of arms and legs, dead people, whole families burnt to death, burning people ran to and fro, burnt coaches filled with civilian refugees, dead rescuers and soldiers, many were calling and looking for their children and families, and fire everywhere, everywhere fire, and all the time the hot wind of the firestorm threw people back into the burning houses they were trying to escape from.
I cannot forget these terrible details. I can never forget them. Now my mother possessed only a little bag with our identity papers. The basket with the twins had disappeared and then suddenly my older sister vanished too. Although my mother looked for her immediately it was in vain. The last hours of this night we found shelter in the cellar of a hospital nearby surrounded by crying and dying people. In the next morning we looked for our sister and the twins but without success. The house where we lived was only a burning ruin. The house where our twins were left we could not go in. Soldiers said everyone was burnt to death and we never saw my two baby sisters again.