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OPERATION BARBAROSSA
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Stalin violated the
Soviet-Polish non-aggression pact
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by invading Poland in 1939.
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Stalin violated the
Soviet-Finnish non-aggression pact
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by invading Finland in 1939
without any declaration of war,
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starting the winter war.
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The heroic Finns fought
back the big Red Army.
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Stalin bombed Sweden in 1940.
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Stalin violated a provision of the
Soviet-German non-aggression pact,
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Ribbentrop-Molotov, by invading
Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in 1940.
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Bolsheviks rolled in to terrorize,
torture and kill the people
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in the standard communist practice.
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The Soviet cattle car deportations
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afflicted more than a half million
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.
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Christian Europeans were
shipped to the Gulag.
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12% of the entire Baltic population
was either deported to Siberia
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or executed by the Jewish
Soviet Secret Police.
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Stalin grabbed a piece of
eastern Romania in 1940
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and forced (?) Romania to
surrender Bessarabia, Moldavia.
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In a sickening double standard,
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the Allies remained silent about
this brutal Soviet aggression.
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Instead, the Churchill-Stalin pact
was signed on 15th of October, 1939.
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Secretary of State for War, Churchill,
signed the executive documents
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of this pact on 8th of
February, 1940, in London.
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The Allies did not give
a rat's ass about Poland.
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They only used her to start
the war against Germany.
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And now, still no boycotts and
no war declarations on Soviet.
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No anti-communist
propaganda in the media
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and no 'Stalin is the warmongering'.
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Nothing.
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Since 1933,
when he befriended the Soviets,
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Roosevelt had consistently maintained
close relations with people
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who are either communists
or communist sympathizers.
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Hitler was well aware that Stalin
was on his way to invade Europe.
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His suspicions about Stalin
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have since the fall of Soviet
been proven as being legitimate.
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Document N� 103202/06 signed chief
of staff, Kirill Meretskov, on 1940,
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revealed that Stalin was preparing
to invade Western Europe in July 1941,
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in a massive invasion called Operatsia
Groza (Operation Thunderstorm).
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It is dated 18th of September, 1940,
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three months before the German
"Operation Barbarossa" was signed.
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After Georgy Zhukov became chief of
the General Staff in February 1941,
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the plan was called MP 41
(Mobilisatsyonni Plan 41).
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It can be found in the so-called
"Osobaya Papka",
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a file which contains about
100,000 top secret documents.
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In the book 'Ledokol' or 'Icebreaker',
Russian Jewish historian Viktor Suvorov
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gives us compelling proof that Hitler
was forced into a preemptive strike
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against a massive
Soviet military machine
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ready to invade and destroy
the whole of Western Europe.
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Suvorov quotes top secret Soviet
documents, which proves that
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the Soviet Army was entirely
built as an offensive force.
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Stalin was using the classical
divide and conquer strategy.
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He was first hoping for Britain,
France and Germany
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to be exposed,
destroyed and exhausted
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so that the Red Army would be able to
invade their territory in the West.
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All Bolshevik preparations
were for invasion, not defense.
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The Soviet Union had already
moved division after division
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closer to the German border.
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It was producing five to ten times
the number of tanks, machine guns,
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cannons and airplanes
that Germany was able to produce.
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For every month that passed by,
Germany's odds got worse.
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Given the communists openly stated
ambition of conquering the world,
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there could not have been any doubt
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that Stalin was ready for
an assault on Germany.
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In 1941, Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov
was a soviet navy minister,
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as well as a member of the Central
Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
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In his post-war memoirs, he recalled:
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"For me there is one
thing beyond all argument,
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Stalin not only did not exclude the
possibility of war with Hitler's Germany,
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on the contrary, he considered
such a war... inevitable...
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Stalin made preparations for war...
Wide and varied preparations,
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beginning on dates...
which he himself had selected.
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Hitler upset his calculations."
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Germany and Italians have learned of
the planned Soviet attack on Europe
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and prepared the counterplan:
Operation Barbarossa.
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On 22nd of June, 1941, Hitler invaded
Soviet in a preemptive attack.
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This German preemptive strike
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saved Europe from the Red Army,
at least for a while.
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Stalin was about to strike
Western Europe with 3 million soldiers
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when getting caught
with their pants down,
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as German soldiers carried belt
buckles engraved with the words
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Gott mit uns, God with us, entered
their now anti-christian Red Land.
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From the Baltic to the Black Sea,
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German soldiers were getting into
positions to launch the invasion.
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The most brutal battles
in recorded history
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took place along the Eastern Front,
which stretched back to Germany
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through the Soviet Union,
Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
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the Balkans, Ukraine, Belarus,
Poland and the Baltic states.
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In these landscapes, Europe's bravest
soldiers sacrificed their lives
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to liberate Europe from the
terror of the Bolsheviks.
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Ukrainians, Russians, Estonians,
Latvians and other Eastern Europeans
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welcomed the Germans as they
were liberated from the slavery
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and torture previously
endured under Soviet hands.
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Local women blessed the
Germans as they passed.
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Women gave the soldiers food
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and the soldiers even helped them
restoring homes and churches.
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...the German villages,
what was left of us
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was herded into the cattle
trains and shipped to Siberia.
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And quite a few villages
really disappeared that way.
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And it was literally a matter of hours,
if not minutes,
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until our turn in Halbstadt came.
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And I understand that actually
half of Halbstadt was exiled.
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And we were already sitting
at the railroad station.
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This was September 1941, when the
German army overrun the Ukraine
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and stopped the exiling, stopped
the trains, they stopped the trains.
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And it was to us as if the
Lord had sent us the angels.
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Here were people who spoke German,
who spoke high German,
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who stopped the terror that
had been upon us for 25 years,
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who came and opened the
churches for us and said
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"you can have all the
services you want".
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It was like heaven.
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My mother,
to the day she died, never...
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never stopped talking about the
wonderful two years that she had,
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was the German army, when the German
army came and took over the villages.
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They moved in on us.
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They took over the houses,
we gave them gladly. They could have...
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My grandmother started cooking
as if cooking was out of fashion
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and it was magnificent
when the Germans came.
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And they set up, apparently,
certain headquarters there.
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They had some radio broadcasts,
certain stations and so on,
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but most of them moved, of course,
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ran over us and moved east
in their fight toward Moscow.
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And then they pushed toward Moscow.
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But some stayed back and we
were absolutely convinced
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that the Germans had come
to save us from communism.
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And never was there any reason
for us to change our minds.
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Why should we?
The Germans were heroes in our eyes.
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As the Germans advanced east, millions
of Russians refused to fight for Stalin
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and, instead,
surrendered to the Germans.
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Stalin's tyranny was hated by
every freedom-loving Russian,
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so hated in fact,
that whole formations
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surrendered and volunteered to
fight for the Germans instead,
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taking back their motherland from
the terror of Jewish Bolshevism.
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Hitler viewed communism
as a poison to Europe
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and decided that his life's purpose
was to root out and destroy it.
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The Germans had nothing
against the Russians as people,
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but instead, against communism.
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Many Russians volunteered
to fight for Hitler instead.
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Nearly half a million Russian
volunteers served on the front lines
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and another 100,000 or more serving
in other non combat positions.
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The anti-communist soldiers
of the Russian Liberation Army
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wore German uniforms
with a Russian patch.
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In 1944, it was officially renamed:
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The Armed Forces of the Committee for
the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.
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They were led by General Andrey Vlasov,
but under German high command.
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They fought bravely, primarily in key
roles against the communist partisans.
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General Vlasov and Heinrich
Himmler met and ironed out details
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of the formation of a massive
new army composed of Russians.
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They went over what was called 'The
Smolensk Manifesto', written in 1942,
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which outlined goals of liberating
Russia from the communist occupation.
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It stipulated that in the new Russia
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"...Every people will
obtain national freedom,
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including the right
of self-determination.
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The realization of this right to national
independence and freedom is possible,
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however, only after destroying
Stalin and his clique."
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Himmler and Vlasov agreed that
there were initially to be
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5 divisions organized from
Russian POWs and workers
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from the occupied
eastern territories,
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whose number by then had
reached over 5 million.
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Hitler also formed the Einsatzgruppen �
units for the necessary removal
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of the bloodthirsty Jewish Bolshevik
leadership from the Soviet cities.
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Criminal communist partisans
were executed and hanged
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as punishment for what they had
done to the Christian Russians.
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Stalin was now rumored to
have suffered a breakdown.
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Adolf Hitler explained:
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"You probably all felt that this was
a bitter and difficult step for me.
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The German people have never had hostile
feelings towards the peoples of Russia.
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During the last two decades,
however,
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the Jewish-Bolshevik rulers
in Moscow have attempted
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to set not only Germany,
but all of Europe, aflame.
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Germany has never attempted
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to spread its National
Socialist worldview to Russia.
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Rather, the Jewish-Bolsheviks
rulers in Moscow
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have constantly
attempted to subject us
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and the other European
peoples to their rule.
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They have attempted this
not only intellectually,
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but above all through military means.
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The results of their efforts,
in every nation,
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were only chaos,
misery and starvation."
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Before the Battle of Moscow,
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Hitler succeeded in defeating the Soviet
Army and taking numerous prisoners.
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Then an unbelievable freeze happened.
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40 to 50 degrees Celsius below zero.
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The cold caused problems
for the Germans.
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The German troops had
only summer uniforms
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and equipment was also
freezing on the spot.
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No tanks could move.
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The weather would intensify
and temperatures plummet.
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Time would decisively turn
against the Germans,
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and before the last push of Wehrmacht
into Moscow, Germany was stuck.
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Meanwhile, Roosevelt
extended the Lend-Lease Act
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which would send even more financial
and military aid to the Soviet Union.
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11,3 billion or around
150 billion dollars today
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to save the communist regime.
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It was at that time
masses of Siberian troops
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were brought back from
the Russian Far East
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and thrown against the Germans.
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The Germans did not
manage to take Moscow
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and were instead pushed back again.
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Stalin felt a need to have his
troops backed by blocking units,
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tasked to execute anyone
retreating from the front.
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He also branded anyone
captured as a traitor
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and later executed
these former prisoners
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while sending their family
members to the camps.
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You have to remember that
when the Red Army marched,
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behind the Red Army was a second army,
the NKVD army
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which had its own tanks,
it's own machine guns and so on.
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Firing forward,
so that nobody could move back.
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Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili,
was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1942.
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The Wehrmacht offered to
exchange German prisoners
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with Stalin for the return of his son.
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Stalin rejected this and stated:
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"I have no son named Yakov."
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Although the circumstances are unclear,
Yakov later died in captivity.
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Some say that he ran into a
fence surrounding a POW camp.
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Some say that he was shot
while trying to escape.
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Closing in to Stalingrad,
Stalin now cowardly fled the city.
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The Battle of Stalingrad between
the Germans and the Soviets
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was fought for control of the
strategically vital Soviet city
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that Stalin had named after himself,
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today known as Volgograd.
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The battle was one of
the bloodiest in history,
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with military and civilian
deaths of nearly two million.
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Stalin's refusal to pull
the Red Army out of the city
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led to a long battle and
tremendous amount of suffering
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for the hungry citizens.
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In July 1942, Stalin issued an
order preventing any civilians,
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even women and children,
from leaving the city.
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After the German ofense
captured most of the city,
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the U.S. Lend-Lease equipped Red Army
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destroyed the Germans with
bloody house-to-house fighting.
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The losses suffered by the Germans
would make victory in Russia impossible.
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Germany's war economy was not
set to total war mode until 1943,
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i.e., too late.
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On February the 2nd, 1943,
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field Marshal Friedrich Paulus
finally surrendered to the Soviets.
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300,000 German, Croatian, Hungarian,
Romanian and Italian soldiers,
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including 35,000 Russian
volunteers fighting for Germany
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against the communists,
had now been surrounded.
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Over 11,000 refused to lay down their
weapons at the official surrendering,
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preferring instead to fight until
death against the Bolsheviks.
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By early March, all resistance
had been wiped out.
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Those who remained were
forced to march east
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or worked himself to death
in soviet death camps.
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Historians have now confirmed
that of the 11,237 letters
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that were sent by soldiers
to their families,
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almost all of them expressed a
willingness and determination
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to fight communism and die
fighting for National Socialism
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and the F�hrer Adolf Hitler.
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The Battle of Stalingrad would
be a turning point in the war.
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After the Battle of Kursk in 5th
of July to 23rd of August, 1943,
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the Germans were outnumbered
by more than two to one
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and suffered casualties
of around 203,000,
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while the communists
lost 803,000 thousands.
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The Germans did not achieve their goal.
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Germany was forced into
a full-scale retreat
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as the U.S. opened a
new front in Italy.
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Germany would never again regain
the initiative in the war.
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The Germans were steadily forced
completely out of Soviet territory,
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after which, the Soviets pursued
them across Eastern Europe
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and into Germany itself in 1945.
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The Germans were now fighting
freezing weather conditions
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and at the same time offered
much-needed protection
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to refugees fleeing the
murderous communists.
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More and more people
desperately fled West
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to reach safety from the communists.
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And then, of course, in
1943, the story changed.
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And the Germans were pushed back.
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And in the push back,
they moved us with them,
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what was left of us
and we went willingly.
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There was no moving at gunpoint.
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Had we stayed back, the communists
would have taken us and executed us
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and shipped us to Siberia,
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so we very willingly moved,
retreated with the Germans...
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You know, here we were walking
toward the Reich, toward Germany,
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which had always been in our
minds a fictitious place.
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We absolutely believed
in Adolf Hitler.
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We believed in the nature
of his struggle,
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in the merits of his struggle.
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We had this magnificent German
soldiers protecting us all the way
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and we were walking into the Reich.
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So, there was,
there were lots of songs
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along the way in the
beginning in the fall.
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There were all this Hitler Youth
with their beautiful snappy clothing
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and on bicycles and they
were giving us fresh water,
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and the girls were cooking, and you
know, serving us coffee and so on.
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We always were fed by the army.
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They had the kitchen,
field kitchens, travelling ???.
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Then the winter came and
food was getting short,
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the horses were getting sick,
the road was getting narrower.
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It was extremely cold.
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When I think of the
war and of the track,
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I do not think of hunger so much as
of cold. It was always, always cold.
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That's what I remember.
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And then, of course, once the winter
came, it became harder and harder.
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We had to often stay
overnight in strange houses.
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The army would confiscate houses,
would put the refugees there.
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The army protected us to the end.
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The army never ever let us down,
never let us down to the very end.
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Keep in mind also that Germany,
at that time, did not need refugees.
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You know, they were starving,
they were struggling, they had nothing.
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They took us in as family.
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"The purpose of this front is no longer
the protection of the individual nations,
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but rather safety of Europe,
and therefore the salvation of everyone."
- Adolf Hitler
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PEARL HARBOR
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While the soldiers on the ground
were battling to end the war,
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leading politicians were
doing all they could
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for political reasons
to continue the conflict.
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In October 1940, when Germany was in
total control of the European war,
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there was no chance
of British victory,
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unless the US could be
dragged into the conflict.
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A prominent member of the British
War Cabinet, Lord Arthur Greenwood,
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offered the Jews a new world order
in hopes of enlisting their support
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to bring a reluctant America into
the war conflict in the same way
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it had done in 1917 with
the Balfour Declaration
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that promised Palestine to the Jews in
exchange for bringing about U.S. entry.
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Greenwood made a prophetic statement:
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"When we have achieved victory,
and we assuredly shall..."
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Greenwood promises:
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"In the rebuilding of civilized
society after the war,
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there should and will be a real
opportunity for Jews everywhere
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to make a distinctive and
constructive contribution."
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And that:
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"Ten million American boys
will be needed to do the job."
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The U.S. would enter
the war 14 months later.
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Chaim Weizmann said to
Churchill in September 1941:
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"We managed to drag the United
States into the First World War
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and if they (the U.S.)
do what we demand
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in regards to Palestine and
the Jewish armed forces,
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then we can get the Jews in the USA
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to drag the United States
into this one too."
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Already in 1939, Brigadier
General George Van Horne Mosely
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exposed the plan in
the New York Tribune:
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"The war now proposed is for
the purpose of establishing
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Jewish hegemony throughout the world."
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Even though the British Empire
already had vast resources
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and millions of men at her disposal,
Churchill and Roosevelt
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would now push for the
U.S. to enter the war.
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Never before in history were
the American people as anti-war
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or as united in their views
as they were in 1939,
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about staying out of what they saw
as yet another European civil war.
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The Gallup poll showed
94% of the American people
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was absolutely against participation in
the war when it began in September 1939.
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The ordinary people were
tired of these wars.
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Despite this fact,
Roosevelt forced laws through Congress
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contradicting U.S.
supposed neutrality.
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In 1939, Roosevelt repealed
the U.S. Neutrality Act
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in favor of a one-sided supply
of arms to Germany's enemies.
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The year after Roosevelt
passed the Lend-Lease Act,
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which officially ended his pretence
of being neutral in the war,
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he also allowed American citizens
to join the British air force.
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In a violation of international law,
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Roosevelt proceeded to freezing
all German assets in the U.S.
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and announce an oil embargo
against aggressor nations.
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1 billion dollars in lend-lease
aid was sent to Britain.
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Benjamin Gitlow, founding member
of the U.S. Communist Party,
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wrote in 'I confess' in 1940:
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"When I was in Moscow,
the attitude towards the United States
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in the event of war was discussed.
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Privately, it was the opinion of all
the Russian leaders to whom I spoke
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that the rivalry between
the United States and Japan
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must actually break out
into war between these two."
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Because Roosevelt was well aware of the
amount of popular feeling on this issue,
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he would repeatedly lie to the
American people about his love of peace
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and his determination to
keep the U.S. out of war,
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while simultaneously actually
doing everything in his power
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to take both Europe
and America into war.
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As with the case of Germany,
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Japan had also broken the
shackles of Rothschild's interest
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and experienced an economic
miracle an a national rebirth.
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It could not be allowed.
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Japan had to be taken out to become
a milking cow of the bankers again.
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On 23rd of June, 1941,
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the United States Interior Secretary,
Harold LeClair Ickes,
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wrote in a memo to Roosevelt:
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"There will never be so a good time
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to stop the shipment of oil
to Japan as we now have.
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There might develop from the embargoing
of oil to Japan such a situation
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as would make it,
not only possible,
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but easy to get into this
war in an effective way.
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And, if we should thus
indirectly be brought in,
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we would avoid the criticism that we had
gone in as an ally of communist Russia."
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Roosevelt was, of course, still looking
desperately for a way to enter the war.
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He then froze all Japanese
assets in the U.S.
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00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:03,650
and later forced an oil embargo on Japan
in an international act of hostility.
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As a direct result, Japan now lost
access to 75% of our overseas trade
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and 88% of her imported oil.
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This led to Japan now having
insufficient resources
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to continuing her war with China.
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00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:22,210
To avoid war, the Japanese first entered
into negotiations with US officials
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who demanded that Japan first
would withdraw from communist China
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before any embargos would end.
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00:24:27,930 --> 00:24:30,590
Roosevelt, of course,
knew that the Japanese
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never would let themselves be
humiliated in such a way.
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If the Japanese refused it,
the embargo would continue
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and they would collapse
from economic strangulation.
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If they complied and withdrew
all troops from the mainland,
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communism would sweep eastern Asia,
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exactly as happened after the war,
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resulting in communist China and
the Korean and Vietnam wars.
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The Japanese were
given a 2-headed coin:
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die by starvation
or die by communism.
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They decided to reject both of
these options and fight instead.
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00:25:03,670 --> 00:25:07,050
War Secret ary, Henry Stimson,
phrased it in his diary:
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"We face a delicate question of
the diplomatic fencing to be done
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so as to be sure that
Japan is put into the wrong
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and makes the first bad move -
overt move...
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00:25:17,070 --> 00:25:20,790
The question was how we
should maneuver the Japanese
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into the position of
firing the first shot..."
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00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,710
The major organization which
propagated up public support
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for U.S. involvement in the European
war before the Pearl Harbor attack
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was the cleverly named Committee to
Defend America by Aiding the Allies.
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By at the end of 1940,
West Virginia senator, Rush D. Holt,
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issued a detailed
examination of the committee:
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"The committee has powerful connections
with banks, insurance companies,
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financial investing firms,
and industrial concerns.
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These in turn exert influence on
college presidents and professors,
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as well as on newspapers,
radio and other means of communication."
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If the committee succeeded in getting
the U.S. into war, Holt warned:
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"American boys will spill their blood
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for profiteers,
politicians and 'paytriots'.
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If war comes, on the hands of the sponsors
of the white committee will be blood -
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the blood of Americans
killed in a needless war."
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In March 1941, a list of most of
the committee's financial backers
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was made public and
revealed the forces
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eager to bring America
into the European war.
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00:26:28,050 --> 00:26:31,390
Powerful international,
primarily Jewish, banking interests
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were well represented.
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In his diary entry of
the 1st of May, 1941,
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Charles A. Lindbergh, the American
heroic aviator and peace leader,
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00:26:42,670 --> 00:26:46,740
exposed the coalition that was pushing
the United States into the war:
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"The pressure for war
is high and mounting.
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The people are opposed to it,
but the administration seems to have
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'the bit in its teeth' and is
hell-bent on its way to war.
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Most of the Jewish interests
in the country are behind war
436
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and they control a huge
part of our press and radio
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00:27:04,490 --> 00:27:06,650
and most of our motion pictures."
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00:27:06,660 --> 00:27:11,620
Dr. Milton Eisenhower was general
Eisenhower's brother. He said:
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00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:15,410
"President Roosevelt found it necessary
to get the country into World War II
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to save his social policies."
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Early in 1941,
congressman Martin Dies committee
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came into possession of a strategic
map which gave clear proof
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of the intentions of the Japanese
to make an assault on Pearl Harbor.
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00:27:30,460 --> 00:27:32,500
The strategic map was prepared
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00:27:32,510 --> 00:27:36,370
by the Japanese Imperial
Military Intelligence Department.
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Martin wrote:
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"As soon as I received the document,
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I telephoned Secretary of State
Cordell Hull and told him what I had.
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Secretary Hull directed me not
to let anyone know about the map
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and stated that he would call me as soon
as he talked to president Roosevelt.
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In about an hour, he telephoned to
say that he had talked to Roosevelt
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and they agreed that it
would be very serious
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if any information concerning this
map reached the news services...
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I told him it was a
grave responsibility
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to withhold such vital
information from the public.
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The secretary assured me that
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he and Roosevelt considered it
essential to national defense."
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General Elliott R. Thorpe
served as a military attach�
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in Dutch controlled Java,
Netherlands Indies.
460
00:28:21,020 --> 00:28:25,530
In 1941, when the Dutch broke
a Japanese diplomatic code,
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00:28:25,540 --> 00:28:29,690
(?) the intercepted message referred
to a planned Japanese attack on Hawaii,
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00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,060
the Philippines and Thailand.
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He immediately cabled the
information to Washington
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00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,960
and promptly delivered copies
of the decoded text to including
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President Roosevelt,
Secretary of State Cordell Hull,
466
00:28:42,190 --> 00:28:44,220
Secretary of War Henry Stimson,
467
00:28:44,230 --> 00:28:46,950
Army Chief of Staff
General George Marshall
468
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,630
and the Chief of Naval
Operations Admiral Harold Stark.
469
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,350
Copies also went to Harry Hopkins,
FDR's communist advisor.
470
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,810
Because the US and Britain
471
00:28:56,820 --> 00:29:00,040
now had tracked Japan's
naval communication codes,
472
00:29:00,050 --> 00:29:02,910
all important Japanese
codes were broken.
473
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,780
Roosevelt knew about the
coming surprise attack,
474
00:29:06,790 --> 00:29:12,210
but no warning was sent to the
commanders at Pearl Harbor.
475
00:29:12,220 --> 00:29:14,760
Naval intelligence
intercepted and translated
476
00:29:14,770 --> 00:29:18,110
numerous Japanese naval dispatches,
some clearly revealing
477
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,680
that Pearl Harbor had been targeted.
478
00:29:20,690 --> 00:29:23,240
If a break in U.S.
relations was forthcoming,
479
00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:25,760
Tokyo would issue a
special radio warning.
480
00:29:25,770 --> 00:29:29,190
The message to be repeated three
times during a weather report was
481
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:34,010
Higashi no kaze ame,
East wind, rain.
482
00:29:34,020 --> 00:29:37,570
"East wind"
signified the United States;
483
00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:41,960
"Rain"
signified diplomatic split (war).
484
00:29:41,970 --> 00:29:44,630
This prospective message
was deemed so significant
485
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,040
that U.S. radio monitors were
constantly watching for it,
486
00:29:48,050 --> 00:29:51,990
and the Navy Department typed
it up on special reminder cards.
487
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,050
On December 4th,
Higashi no kaze ame
488
00:29:55,060 --> 00:29:59,290
was broadcast and picked up
by Washington intelligence.
489
00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,160
While issuing the final
provocations of Japan,
490
00:30:02,170 --> 00:30:05,120
FDR and his military
chairman George Marshall,
491
00:30:05,130 --> 00:30:09,060
they set the bait for the
Japanese fish to bite.
492
00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:12,010
Newspaper exposed that
Roosevelt planned for a war
493
00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:15,910
before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"F.D.R's War Plans!"
- Chicago Daily Tribune
494
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:22,960
Japanese May Strike Over Weekend!
- The Honolulu Advertiser
495
00:30:22,970 --> 00:30:29,980
Japan May Strike Over Weekend!
- Hilo Tribune Herald
496
00:30:29,990 --> 00:30:32,820
The Japanese, in the hopes of
gaining an early advantage,
497
00:30:32,830 --> 00:30:36,810
decided to impose as much danger
to the U.S. Navy as possible.
498
00:30:36,820 --> 00:30:40,230
On the morning of
7th of December 1941,
499
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,400
Japanese planes launched
from aircraft carriers
500
00:30:43,410 --> 00:30:47,020
attacked the American fleet
at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii,
501
00:30:47,030 --> 00:30:50,030
sinking or heavily damaging 18 ships,
502
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,360
including 8 battleships,
destroying 188 planes.
503
00:30:54,370 --> 00:30:57,570
The attack on Pearl Harbor
ignited a sudden press frenzy
504
00:30:57,580 --> 00:31:01,320
and a wave of patriotic
enthusiasm for entering the war.
505
00:31:01,330 --> 00:31:05,660
Roosevelt and the people around him
would finally have their World War.
506
00:31:05,670 --> 00:31:07,730
The attack was not a surprise.
507
00:31:07,740 --> 00:31:14,850
Roosevelt deliberately allowed 2,400
U.S. sailors to die without any warning.
508
00:31:14,860 --> 00:31:16,690
From the Diary
of Henry Stimson,
509
00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:20,840
we can see that Stimson's immediate
feeling was not one of sorrow
510
00:31:20,850 --> 00:31:26,330
or outrage over the lost lives at
Pearl Harbor, but rather of relief:
511
00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:29,220
"When the news first came
that Japan had attacked us,
512
00:31:29,230 --> 00:31:34,210
my first feeling was of relief
that a crisis had come (...)"
513
00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:37,570
Oliver Lyttelton,
wartime British Production Manager,
514
00:31:37,580 --> 00:31:40,220
was undeniably correct
when he declared:
515
00:31:40,230 --> 00:31:42,560
"It is a travesty on
history ever to say
516
00:31:42,570 --> 00:31:44,980
that the United States
was forced into the war.
517
00:31:44,990 --> 00:31:48,140
America provoked the
Japanese to such an extent
518
00:31:48,150 --> 00:31:50,250
that they were forced to attack."
519
00:31:50,260 --> 00:31:54,210
The text of Hirohito's war declaration
have appeared once in the New York Times
520
00:31:54,220 --> 00:31:58,220
before it's allegation disappeared
in the winners of official history.
521
00:31:58,230 --> 00:32:03,610
"...We hereby declare war upon the United
States of America and the British Empire
522
00:32:03,620 --> 00:32:08,450
to ensure the stability of East Asia
and to contribute to world peace...
523
00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:10,580
...To cultivate
friendship among nations
524
00:32:10,590 --> 00:32:13,880
and to enjoy prosperity
in common with all nations
525
00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:17,630
has always been the guiding principle
of our empire's foreign policy.
526
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,680
It has truly been unavoidable and
far from our wishes that our Empire
527
00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:26,160
has been brought to cross swords
with America and Britain (...)"
528
00:32:26,270 --> 00:32:31,070
Hamilton Fish made the first speech
in Congress on 8th of September,1941,
529
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,920
asking for declaration
of war against Japan.
530
00:32:33,930 --> 00:32:37,490
In his book
"FDR: The Other Side of the Coin",
531
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:41,020
Fish says he is ashamed
of that speech today,
532
00:32:41,030 --> 00:32:45,950
and if he had known what Roosevelt had
been doing to provoke Japan to attack,
533
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,890
he would never have asked
for a declaration of war.
534
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:52,540
Fish said Roosevelt was the main
firebrand to light the fuse of war,
535
00:32:52,550 --> 00:32:54,800
both in Europe and the Pacific.
536
00:32:54,810 --> 00:32:58,100
CHURCHILL'S FAMINE
537
00:32:58,110 --> 00:33:03,760
In 1943, when Japan occupied the
important rice export of Burma,
538
00:33:03,770 --> 00:33:07,500
the British bought up massive
amounts of rice and hoarded it.
539
00:33:07,510 --> 00:33:10,820
Churchill then ordered the
diversion of food away from India
540
00:33:10,830 --> 00:33:13,900
in order to feed his
own troops instead.
541
00:33:13,910 --> 00:33:18,510
Now a rare commodity,
the price of rice went up fourfold.
542
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:19,830
The wheat from Australia,
543
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,430
which could have been delivered
to starving Indians before,
544
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,290
was instead transported
to British troops.
545
00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:31,280
Even worse, British colonial authorities
again under Churchill's leadership,
546
00:33:31,290 --> 00:33:35,090
actually refused offers from
Canada and the United States
547
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,300
to ship free food to
the starving country.
548
00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:45,750
Churchill intentionally starved more
than 4 million innocent Bengalis to death
549
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,870
to pump resources into the
war against the Axis powers.
550
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,520
Churchill hated Indians almost
as much as he hated Germans,
551
00:33:55,530 --> 00:33:59,040
because India wanted its
independence from Britain.
552
00:33:59,050 --> 00:34:02,980
Gandhi was also very
positive to Hitler.
553
00:34:02,990 --> 00:34:07,410
Later at a war cabinet meeting,
Churchill blamed the Indians themselves
554
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:13,210
for the famine, saying that
"they breed like rabbits. "
555
00:34:13,220 --> 00:34:18,170
These victims were not Jewish and
that's why you never hear about them.
556
00:34:18,180 --> 00:34:23,390
Churchill did not even try to hide the
fact that he hated Indians and Germans:
557
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,260
"I hate Indians...
They are beastly people."
558
00:34:27,270 --> 00:34:29,140
He also said that Gandhi:
559
00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:33,020
"Ought to be lain bound hand
and foot at the gates of Delhi,
560
00:34:33,030 --> 00:34:36,470
and then trampled on
by an enormous elephant
561
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,900
with the new viceroy
seated on its back."
562
00:34:39,910 --> 00:34:43,170
Churchill's colorful commentary
may have been a product
563
00:34:43,180 --> 00:34:45,360
of his terminal alcohol addiction
564
00:34:45,370 --> 00:34:49,110
or just his overall
anti-social impulsivity.
565
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,330
What makes it all a bigger tragedy
566
00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:54,180
is that the victims have
never been compensated
567
00:34:54,190 --> 00:34:56,690
and the person
responsible for the famine
568
00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:59,010
has never even been held responsible;
569
00:34:59,020 --> 00:35:04,240
Instead,
he has been celebrated as a hero.
570
00:35:15,150 --> 00:35:21,200
D-DAY
571
00:35:28,170 --> 00:35:31,820
The soft underbelly of Europe
was left vulnerable to an attack
572
00:35:31,830 --> 00:35:35,550
and the oil fields of Romania
fuelled the German military.
573
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,010
Hitler worried that the Allies
would invade Yugoslavia, Greece
574
00:35:39,020 --> 00:35:42,240
and the Balkan nations to
cut up Germany's oil supply
575
00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:47,170
and launch a final push upon Germany
from the south and southeast.
576
00:35:51,130 --> 00:35:54,690
Such an attack would be disastrous
and detrimental to Germany,
577
00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:58,100
but instead of just taking this
opportunity to put an end to the war,
578
00:35:58,110 --> 00:36:01,810
Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower,
Montgomery and George Marshall
579
00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:04,780
instead insisted upon making
preparations for an invasion
580
00:36:04,790 --> 00:36:08,480
of heavily fortified northern
France to prolong the war,
581
00:36:08,490 --> 00:36:12,930
kill more Europeans and buy the Soviets
much needed time to march westward,
582
00:36:12,940 --> 00:36:14,590
and eventually enable Stalin
583
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,770
to take the whole of Eastern
Europe as they had agreed.
584
00:36:22,670 --> 00:36:25,900
The reason for this was that
Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau
585
00:36:25,910 --> 00:36:29,720
envisioned a post-war world in which
the Soviets and the United States
586
00:36:29,730 --> 00:36:31,720
would join forces to
lay the foundations
587
00:36:31,730 --> 00:36:35,930
for a communist international
world government, a UN.
588
00:36:35,940 --> 00:36:40,680
At the 6th hour of the 6th
day of the 6th month of 1944,
589
00:36:40,690 --> 00:36:43,920
British, American and Canadian
forces crossed the English Channel
590
00:36:43,930 --> 00:36:45,790
and launched the D-Day invasion,
591
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,130
landing in German-occupied
France by the coast of Normandy.
592
00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:52,660
Roosevelt and Churchill had for
years provided the Soviet Union
593
00:36:52,670 --> 00:36:54,770
with military and financial aid.
594
00:36:54,780 --> 00:37:00,270
Now, they were finally sending their
troops to fight and die for communism.
595
00:38:07,890 --> 00:38:14,090
Nearly 10,000 men were killed storming
Hitler's fortified beaches of Normandy.
596
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:33,130
In the end, (Operation) Overlord
successfully established
597
00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:36,400
an initial beachhead
of 100,000 troops.
598
00:38:36,410 --> 00:38:38,120
From this base in northern France,
599
00:38:38,130 --> 00:38:42,150
the Allies were reinforced
for the push towards Germany.
600
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,000
At the same time,
the Red Terror advanced from the east,
601
00:38:45,010 --> 00:38:49,520
equipped to the teeth with advanced
American aid from Roosevelt.
602
00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:52,660
With Italy also under
Allied occupation,
603
00:38:52,670 --> 00:38:57,730
Germany now had three fronts to defend:
west, south and east.
604
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,660
In order to intentionally
give the communists
605
00:39:01,670 --> 00:39:04,940
even more time to conquer
and rape Eastern Europe,
606
00:39:04,950 --> 00:39:08,600
Generals Eisenhower and
Marshall delayed the advance
607
00:39:08,610 --> 00:39:10,390
of General Patton's Third Army,
608
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,040
going so far as to cut up shipments
of gasoline to Patton's army.
609
00:39:15,050 --> 00:39:17,810
Patton said in August 1944:
610
00:39:17,820 --> 00:39:20,890
"At the present time, our chief
difficulty is not the Germans,
611
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,170
but gasoline.
612
00:39:22,180 --> 00:39:26,890
If they would give me enough gas,
I could go all the way to Berlin!"
613
00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:31,670
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
614
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,470
Between December 1944
and January 1945,
615
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,890
the German forces made a last desperate
effort to drive back the Allied forces,
616
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:42,370
which took the Allies
completely by surprise
617
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:44,640
and almost turned
the war on its head.
618
00:39:44,650 --> 00:39:47,680
Fought in the forest around
the mountain region of Belgium,
619
00:39:47,690 --> 00:39:52,230
the mighty German offensive would
be known as the Battle of the Bulge.
620
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:56,410
American forces were met with German
Panzer divisions in the Ardennes forest,
621
00:39:56,420 --> 00:39:59,470
battling the frigid weather
as they fought each other.
622
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,630
It was a decisive
moment in World War II,
623
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,970
which would give Hitler a
last chance to drive back
624
00:40:03,980 --> 00:40:06,460
the approaching Allied
armies to the coastline.
625
00:40:06,470 --> 00:40:10,680
His wish was to force them back
again to a negotiated peace.
626
00:40:10,690 --> 00:40:12,880
A quarter of a million
German soldiers
627
00:40:12,890 --> 00:40:15,570
rolled towards the Western
Front and moved their units
628
00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:19,850
in secret towards points east
of Ardenness in late October.
629
00:40:19,860 --> 00:40:21,940
The Allies underestimated the Germans
630
00:40:21,950 --> 00:40:26,120
and thought they did not have the
military strength for such an attack.
631
00:40:26,130 --> 00:40:29,220
(?) In December, with the Germans
advance and surround Bastogne,
632
00:40:29,230 --> 00:40:31,940
(?) then drived the Meuse river,
633
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,490
American troops discovered German
troops in front and behind them.
634
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,020
Thousands of Allied soldiers
destroyed their weapons
635
00:40:39,030 --> 00:40:42,470
and gave up in one of the largest
surrenders in military history.
636
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,430
The ammunition was short as battalions
were down to 10 rounds per gun
637
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,190
and the weather conditions
were still cold and snowy.
638
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,650
The freezing cold conditions
639
00:40:50,660 --> 00:40:53,220
did not make it easy for
any side in the battles.
640
00:40:53,230 --> 00:40:58,990
Frostbite was rampant and the bitter
cold caused additional casualties.
641
00:40:59,290 --> 00:41:03,630
The Germans flowed in (?) to encircle the
Allies in Bastogne from all sides.
642
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,310
If they wanted, the Germans could
now have easily taken Bastogne,
643
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,150
but instead they gave the Americans an
ultimatum over an honorable surrender.
644
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,840
The Allies would have none of it.
645
00:41:12,850 --> 00:41:16,640
Allied planes instead arrived and
started strafing and bombing the Germans,
646
00:41:16,650 --> 00:41:18,560
and dropping supplies to the Allies,
647
00:41:18,570 --> 00:41:21,300
enough to make the
Americans turn the tide.
648
00:41:21,310 --> 00:41:24,840
On January 3rd,
the Allies launched a counter-attack
649
00:41:24,850 --> 00:41:28,390
and on January 16th,
patrols from the 1st and 3rd armies
650
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,450
met north of Bastogne and
pushed back the Germans again.
651
00:41:31,460 --> 00:41:36,040
By early February, the Germans had been
pushed back where they started again.
652
00:41:36,050 --> 00:41:40,350
At the same time, the Soviets have
taken the vital oil fields in the east,
653
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,590
which caused lack of fuel for
the German tanks in the West.
654
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,640
This lack of fuel prevented them
from reaching the Meuse river
655
00:41:46,650 --> 00:41:49,550
and left the Luftwaffe
permanently stranded.
656
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:55,420
German losses exhausted the last
reserves and amounted at 84,834.
657
00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:59,650
The remaining German forces would now
be driven back to their retreat in Berlin.
658
00:41:59,660 --> 00:42:02,300
The Battle of the Bulge was
also the bloodiest battle
659
00:42:02,310 --> 00:42:06,180
U.S. forces fought in the war,
which resulted in 19,000 dead,
660
00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:11,550
47,000 wounded and 23,000 captured.
661
00:42:19,220 --> 00:42:25,270
DEATH FROM ABOVE
662
00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:30,470
Winston Churchill appointed
the Jewish professor Lindemann
663
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,210
as his personal adviser.
664
00:42:32,220 --> 00:42:34,790
Lindemann together with
Churchill decided that
665
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,480
Germany would be subjected to area
carpet saturation, unrestricted bombing,
666
00:42:39,490 --> 00:42:43,060
or what the victims themselves
called the terror bombing.
667
00:42:43,070 --> 00:42:45,910
Lindemann suggested the
bombing of German cities
668
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,580
and that working-class civilian
areas were legitimate targets.
669
00:42:49,590 --> 00:42:52,660
These bombings began
on 10th of August, 1940,
670
00:42:52,670 --> 00:42:55,060
with the bombing in the
small town of Freiburg.
671
00:42:55,070 --> 00:42:58,410
This was before the Germans
began bombing British cities.
672
00:42:58,420 --> 00:43:02,310
The goal of the bombings was to
break the spirit of the Germans.
673
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,600
Between 1940 and
1945, 61 German cities
674
00:43:06,610 --> 00:43:09,680
with the total population
of 25 million souls
675
00:43:09,690 --> 00:43:13,160
were destroyed in the bombing
campaigns by the Allies.
676
00:43:13,170 --> 00:43:16,590
The Allies specifically
targeted innocent civilians.
677
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,590
Many large cities such
as Cologne and Essen
678
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,370
experienced more than 250 raids each.
679
00:43:23,380 --> 00:43:25,060
Churchill's deliberate strategy
680
00:43:25,070 --> 00:43:28,610
was killing as many German
civilians as possible.
681
00:43:28,620 --> 00:43:31,520
"Perhaps the next time
round the way to do it
682
00:43:31,530 --> 00:43:34,960
will be to kill women,
children and the civilian population",
683
00:43:34,970 --> 00:43:36,910
Churchill explained.
684
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,400
In 1943, when the U.S. finally
had rearmed the British,
685
00:43:40,410 --> 00:43:43,430
the civilization the Germans
had fought fiercely for
686
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,420
was now surrounded from
every single angle.
687
00:43:46,430 --> 00:43:48,060
Each plane heading for Germany
688
00:43:48,070 --> 00:43:52,040
was loaded with tons of high
explosives and incendiary bombs.
689
00:43:52,050 --> 00:43:54,250
Over the cities,
the Americans strategically
690
00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:56,640
bombed industrial
plants during the day,
691
00:43:56,650 --> 00:44:00,050
while the British purposely
targeted innocent civilians at night,
692
00:44:00,060 --> 00:44:02,910
aiming at houses of the
working-class communities.
693
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,580
The plan was to inflict as much damage,
to destroy as many homes,
694
00:44:06,590 --> 00:44:10,390
and to kill as many women,
children and elderly as possible.
695
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,440
Churchill wanted more than
two cities a month demolished
696
00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:15,160
until none would be left.
697
00:44:15,170 --> 00:44:17,820
Bomber Harris,
championed the bombing of cities.
698
00:44:17,830 --> 00:44:20,440
The city he was most
focused on was Berlin.
Arthut Harris
699
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:23,700
In documents from Operation
Thunderclap, he stated that
700
00:44:23,710 --> 00:44:28,000
he wanted the total
devastation of the center of Berlin.
701
00:44:28,010 --> 00:44:31,850
More bombs wide-weight (?) wait would be
dropped on the city of Berlin
702
00:44:31,860 --> 00:44:36,400
than on the whole of Great
Britain during the entire war.
703
00:44:44,780 --> 00:44:47,490
"German cities...
will be subjected to an ordeal
704
00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:49,590
the like of which has
never been experienced
705
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,500
by a country in continuity,
severity and magnitude...
706
00:44:53,510 --> 00:44:58,680
To achieve this end there are no lengths
of violence to which we will not go",
707
00:44:58,690 --> 00:45:01,720
guaranteed Winston Churchill.
708
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,590
As swarms of British bombers began
a systematic destruction of Germany,
709
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,310
tons of high-explosives
were unleashed on the nation,
710
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,490
as schools, hospitals,
homes, beautiful ancient art
711
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:17,500
and architecture were all obliterated.
712
00:45:17,510 --> 00:45:19,990
The Allies thought that this
would lower German morale,
713
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,380
on both the home and battle fronts,
to the point that
714
00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:26,630
absolute collapse was
inevitable for the Third Reich.
715
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:31,530
In the horrific war crimes instigated
by Churchill and Arthur Bomber Harris,
716
00:45:31,540 --> 00:45:35,900
hundreds of thousands of German
civilians would now be burned alive
717
00:45:35,910 --> 00:45:39,590
in consequential fire
storms in German cities.
718
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:44,550
Many of these raids consisted of initial
attacks using high-explosive bombs
719
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,160
to break up buildings,
followed with attacks using thousands
720
00:45:48,170 --> 00:45:51,380
of incendiary bombs to set
alight all the fabrics,
721
00:45:51,390 --> 00:45:55,300
furnishing and upholstery
exposed by the explosives.
722
00:45:55,310 --> 00:45:59,140
In this way, fire storms were
created under the right conditions,
723
00:45:59,150 --> 00:46:02,240
which burned tens of
thousands of people alive,
724
00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:04,410
especially the women
and children at home,
725
00:46:04,420 --> 00:46:07,310
while the men were at the front.
726
00:46:07,620 --> 00:46:10,970
The first explosive bombs
blasted a row of buildings,
727
00:46:10,980 --> 00:46:13,590
in preparation for incendiary devices
728
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,720
knocking out the
air-raid warning systems
729
00:46:15,730 --> 00:46:18,130
and causing massive
destruction and death.
730
00:46:18,140 --> 00:46:22,100
Firewalls and water mains
were also completely destroyed.
731
00:46:22,110 --> 00:46:25,150
When the roaring bombers
released her lethal cargo,
732
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,790
a crescendo of fire
descended on the cities.
733
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,600
Dresden was turning
to an ocean of fire.
734
00:46:32,610 --> 00:46:36,140
Air temperatures rose
to 600� Celsius.
735
00:46:36,150 --> 00:46:41,860
Winds up to 45 metres per second sucked
all oxygen into the center of the storm.
736
00:46:41,870 --> 00:46:45,290
Hundreds of thousands of
people were burned alive.
737
00:46:45,300 --> 00:46:47,520
A RAF crewman said:
738
00:46:47,530 --> 00:46:51,780
"There were people down there being fried
to death in melted asphalt on the roads.
739
00:46:51,790 --> 00:46:53,780
They were being burnt up
740
00:46:53,790 --> 00:46:57,230
and we were shuffling incendiary
bombs into this Holocaust.
741
00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:02,250
I felt terribly sorry for the people
in that fire I was helping to stoke up.
742
00:47:05,270 --> 00:47:06,210
It was evil.
743
00:47:06,220 --> 00:47:08,770
Thousands of fire bombs
dropping all over the place.
744
00:47:08,780 --> 00:47:13,800
Explosions, heat, fire, people screaming,
people burning, people alive,
745
00:47:13,810 --> 00:47:16,900
but it wasn't after
about half an hour...
746
00:47:16,910 --> 00:47:21,440
it started developing
something which was really bad.
747
00:47:21,450 --> 00:47:25,100
They came over and dropped
all these incendiaries
748
00:47:25,110 --> 00:47:29,000
and then, of course,
there's wave after wave came over...
749
00:47:29,010 --> 00:47:32,000
so the impact were heavier,
750
00:47:32,010 --> 00:47:35,000
35 minutes,
40 minutes after the first...
751
00:47:35,010 --> 00:47:38,970
bombs were dropped, bombs were
dropped outside the building he was in,
752
00:47:38,980 --> 00:47:43,720
killed my mate, Harry and the...
753
00:47:43,730 --> 00:47:47,930
and about three-quarters of
the people in there were killed,
754
00:47:47,940 --> 00:47:51,640
and so you go out, and you come out
there now and rise (?) to the furnace.
755
00:47:51,650 --> 00:47:56,110
It's a furnace, because we
were in the center of Dresden...
756
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,600
It was the...
757
00:48:04,610 --> 00:48:09,030
It was the second wave which really
brought the tornado into being...
758
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:13,090
because then they started dropping
the 4000 pound blockbusters,
759
00:48:13,100 --> 00:48:16,060
4000 pounds of napalm,
760
00:48:16,070 --> 00:48:17,550
(?)which if he dropped anything,
761
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:18,990
(?) we've been about 300 yards...
762
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,900
There was... Them made it incinerated
763
00:48:20,910 --> 00:48:23,950
to feed the fire,
so you get the wind coming in.
764
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:28,410
That's really tornado
force and you just can't...
765
00:48:28,420 --> 00:48:33,120
It dehumanizes everything, anything
that you've experienced before...
766
00:48:33,130 --> 00:48:35,520
They tried ????
767
00:48:35,530 --> 00:48:38,790
and the first lot of them
got stuck in the middle of it...
768
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,930
they couldn't get away...
769
00:48:40,940 --> 00:48:42,550
and in the end...
770
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,760
(?) they alight
771
00:48:44,770 --> 00:48:46,200
They were still alive...
772
00:48:46,210 --> 00:48:48,780
and then... and then...
773
00:48:48,790 --> 00:48:50,790
(?) then they exploded.
774
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,430
Wave upon wave of phosphorus
and incendiary bombs
775
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,680
washed over the defenseless
civilian German population.
776
00:48:59,690 --> 00:49:03,500
Thousands of German elderly,
women and children suffocated
777
00:49:03,510 --> 00:49:07,390
or was burned alive in basements
and tunnels where they were hiding
778
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,280
as the oxygen was sucked
out of their hiding places
779
00:49:10,290 --> 00:49:13,080
and pulled toward the
blaze to feed the flames.
780
00:49:13,090 --> 00:49:15,130
Thousands more were
hurtling to the air
781
00:49:15,140 --> 00:49:17,560
and sucked by the winds,
right into the fire.
782
00:49:17,570 --> 00:49:20,000
Some perished in the
blasts of white heat.
783
00:49:20,010 --> 00:49:22,860
Heat intense enough to
melt the human flesh.
784
00:49:22,870 --> 00:49:25,050
Wherever there was a
water fountain or canal,
785
00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:28,570
the city's inhabitants jumped
in only to be boiled alive.
786
00:49:28,580 --> 00:49:31,710
The attacks left the cities
in a raging sea of fire.
787
00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:36,330
Hundreds of smaller fires merged
into single huge conflagrations.
788
00:49:36,340 --> 00:49:39,760
Huge masses of air were then
sucked in to feed the inferno,
789
00:49:39,770 --> 00:49:42,500
causing an artificial tornado.
790
00:49:42,510 --> 00:49:47,630
The firestorm in Dresden was so massive
that pilots reported that their cockpits
791
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,700
actually were illuminated
by the great fire.
792
00:49:50,710 --> 00:49:53,120
The air suction of the
fire was so powerful that
793
00:49:53,130 --> 00:49:57,520
it uprooted trees and lifted
roofs from houses miles away.
794
00:49:57,530 --> 00:50:00,740
Total panic struck the people.
795
00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:13,410
Then it became so huge,
that there was nothing left.
796
00:50:13,420 --> 00:50:19,880
It was burning all around...
797
00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:26,370
it was just burning, everything,
everything was burning.
798
00:50:36,860 --> 00:50:42,390
And the town was burning!
There was a glowing fire,
799
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,070
darkness and at the same
time the glowing fire.
800
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:50,600
It was indescribable - so cruel!
801
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:07,120
A woman and her daughter burned.
My sister lived in the house next door.
802
00:51:07,130 --> 00:51:13,610
There were about twenty children
living there altogether.
803
00:51:13,620 --> 00:51:18,450
They were burned alive.
804
00:51:50,380 --> 00:51:53,790
They went down in my knees,
trembled and cried.
805
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:57,450
Several women laid there with
their bellies burst open.
806
00:51:57,460 --> 00:52:01,860
And one could see the babies,
for they were hanging half outside.
807
00:52:01,870 --> 00:52:04,360
Many of the babies were mutilated.
808
00:52:04,370 --> 00:52:07,490
Things like that one,
I saw everywhere.
809
00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:10,150
And very slowly, one became numbed.
810
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:14,020
One acted like a zombie.
811
00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:17,690
Some found missing loved ones...
812
00:52:17,700 --> 00:52:21,240
most, however, did not.
813
00:52:34,340 --> 00:52:43,160
When the attack was over, I went out
into the street, towards the fire storm.
814
00:52:43,170 --> 00:52:50,380
I saw dead people, naked,
and I thought: Why are they naked?
815
00:52:50,390 --> 00:52:55,230
They were naked because their
clothes had been on fire
816
00:52:55,240 --> 00:52:58,270
and they had torn
them off their bodies.
817
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:07,610
I never saw so many dead,
as after this attack.
818
00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:42,040
"It was horrible, it was horrible!
819
00:53:42,050 --> 00:53:47,160
My daughter came to the Sachsen Platz,
we went up the steps
820
00:53:47,170 --> 00:53:56,110
and there lay nothing but corpses,
and my daughter asked me:
821
00:53:56,120 --> 00:54:00,180
Mummy, what is that lying there?
822
00:54:00,190 --> 00:54:04,480
And I said to her: Don't look,
they are all dead bodies."
823
00:54:04,490 --> 00:54:11,750
"It was utterly senseless,
it is difficult to describe.
824
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,970
Anyway, in the darkness there
is a man coming towards me
825
00:54:16,980 --> 00:54:19,690
from the Klein-Schachwitzer
bank and he stops.
826
00:54:19,700 --> 00:54:26,020
He is holding a small suitcase in
his hand and he's laughing loudly,
827
00:54:26,030 --> 00:54:28,210
as if he were mad.
It was frightening.
828
00:54:28,220 --> 00:54:33,640
I thought the devil was walking
the earth and suddenly he said:
829
00:54:33,650 --> 00:54:38,600
We Polish and Czech,
we knew, we knew
830
00:54:38,610 --> 00:54:41,030
and tomorrow there
will be another attack.
831
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:48,960
I was in a state of shock,
first the town and then this man.
832
00:54:48,970 --> 00:54:53,600
I stood there, frozen with horror."
833
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,990
After first having blasted
targeted towns to splinters,
834
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,770
the British and American
bombers soon returned to strafe
835
00:55:01,780 --> 00:55:06,260
terrified groups of refugees and
rescuers as they tried to escape.
836
00:55:06,270 --> 00:55:10,670
The Allies lured the civilians from
their shelters into the open again.
837
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,870
As they thought it was all over,
838
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,750
twice as many bombers returned with
massive loads of incendiary bombs
839
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,440
and ignited all that remained
and spread raging fire storms
840
00:55:20,450 --> 00:55:23,040
to the places where
refugees Germans have fled.
841
00:55:23,050 --> 00:55:28,470
U.S Mustangs appeared low over the
cities, strafing anything that moved,
842
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:32,430
including columns of rescue
vehicles and animals.
843
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,370
The low-flying Mustangs
machine-gunned helpless patients
844
00:55:35,380 --> 00:55:39,120
as well as thousands of old men,
women and children,
845
00:55:39,130 --> 00:55:41,590
everyone who had escaped the city.
846
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,710
When the last plane had left the sky,
the cities were left in ruins.
847
00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:49,650
The streets were filled with rats
swarming over piles of corpses.
848
00:55:49,660 --> 00:55:52,130
People have been liquefied
into a ??? mass
849
00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:57,040
that melted into the asphalt of the road
and some were left in ashes.
850
00:55:57,050 --> 00:55:59,520
Millions of refugees fled the cities,
851
00:55:59,530 --> 00:56:04,220
taking with them stories of the most
terrible horror they had ever witnessed.
852
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:10,520
After the attack, I went on running.
Suddenly I was alone, everyone scattered
853
00:56:10,530 --> 00:56:14,520
and I went to the meadows on
the banks of the river Elbe.
854
00:56:14,530 --> 00:56:21,010
I turned around and for the first time
I looked around and cried for Dresden.
855
00:56:25,860 --> 00:56:31,730
I cried and cried for my hometown.
856
00:56:33,020 --> 00:56:35,640
The RAFs relentless
campaign against Germany
857
00:56:35,650 --> 00:56:39,150
during the final months of the
war was a massive war crime
858
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,200
which served absolutely
no military purpose.
859
00:56:42,210 --> 00:56:45,680
The worst of all the raids was
the one unleashed on Dresden.
860
00:56:45,690 --> 00:56:50,380
It had no strategical or tactical gain
in the war whatsoever for the Allies.
861
00:56:50,390 --> 00:56:53,720
Dresden had no military bases,
no communication centers
862
00:56:53,730 --> 00:56:56,610
or heavy industry and no air defence.
863
00:56:56,620 --> 00:56:58,740
It was known as a
showplace for culture
864
00:56:58,750 --> 00:57:01,320
and one of the most
beautiful cities in Germany.
865
00:57:01,330 --> 00:57:06,710
This allied air raid left
24,866 homes destroyed.
866
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:08,830
11 square miles of prime real estate
867
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,510
and irreplaceable cultural
treasures totally devastated.
868
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:16,410
35,000 recognizable corpses
available to be identified
869
00:57:16,420 --> 00:57:19,800
and hundreds of thousands
of unrecognizable ones.
870
00:57:19,810 --> 00:57:24,040
More than three-fifths of Dresden was
completely destroyed by bombing raids
871
00:57:24,050 --> 00:57:26,580
that lasted more than 14 hours.
872
00:57:26,590 --> 00:57:30,050
Because of so many refugees fleeing
eastward resided in Dresden,
873
00:57:30,060 --> 00:57:33,100
it is difficult to say
exactly how many were killed.
874
00:57:33,110 --> 00:57:36,620
Most honest revisionists
estimated death toll to range
875
00:57:36,630 --> 00:57:40,120
from total 350,000 to 600,000 dead.
876
00:57:40,130 --> 00:57:42,440
It was called terror
bombing among the Germans.
877
00:57:42,450 --> 00:57:45,410
I think even some of
the RAF British pilots
878
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:47,820
and the Americans also
knew it as terror bombing.
879
00:57:47,830 --> 00:57:50,150
They weren't kidding themselves,
they knew what they were doing.
880
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,220
They were slaughtering
women and children
881
00:57:52,230 --> 00:57:54,190
down below in the German cities.
882
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:58,440
This was sanctified, that was sanctioned
by the British and American governments.
883
00:57:58,450 --> 00:58:02,040
This deliberate attempt to kill
as many people as possible,
884
00:58:02,050 --> 00:58:06,710
a deliberate attempt to scorch from
the face of the earth every German city
885
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,930
above a certain size,
let's say 25,000 people.
886
00:58:09,940 --> 00:58:13,260
We've all heard of Dresden. If we
haven't, we should've heard of Dresden.
887
00:58:13,270 --> 00:58:15,190
But what most people
don't know is that,
888
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:18,840
almost every German city suffered
a similar fate that is
889
00:58:18,850 --> 00:58:21,630
terrible devastating
bombing and then a firestorm
890
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,970
that's created by dropping phosphorous
bombs to ignite the rubble
891
00:58:25,980 --> 00:58:28,770
that's blown this town to bits.
892
00:58:32,230 --> 00:58:35,130
Nothing prepared me for
seeing women and children
893
00:58:35,140 --> 00:58:37,480
alight and flying through the air.
894
00:58:37,490 --> 00:58:38,900
Nothing prepared me for that.
895
00:58:38,910 --> 00:58:44,120
After Dresden, I was... a nutcase,
took me 40 years to get over it.
896
00:58:44,130 --> 00:58:46,810
I don't think I even
laughed for 40 years.
897
00:58:46,820 --> 00:58:49,020
I couldn't even laugh or anything.
898
00:58:49,030 --> 00:58:52,440
(?) I said and I still say,
and ???
899
00:58:52,450 --> 00:58:55,830
I'll never forgive the people
who all did those raids
900
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,980
and that goes for all of them,
Churchill, Attlee, all of them,
901
00:58:58,990 --> 00:59:00,440
(?) whatever they can say.
902
00:59:00,450 --> 00:59:03,280
(?) They were still carrying on
bombing another cities like this
903
00:59:03,290 --> 00:59:06,450
and then, of course, they tried to
put the blame on somebody else.
904
00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:10,080
(? ) No,
we were supposed to be the good guys
905
00:59:10,090 --> 00:59:13,540
and we finished up in worse scenario.
(?)
906
00:59:13,550 --> 00:59:17,490
What annoys me is all
this was done in our name.
907
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,720
The terror bombings of Germany
during World War II
908
00:59:21,730 --> 00:59:26,740
left about 3 million Germans dead,
500 thousands of them children,
909
00:59:26,750 --> 00:59:31,840
up to 10 million wounded
and 25 million homeless.
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