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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,190 --> 00:00:06,400 OPERATION BARBAROSSA 2 00:00:07,390 --> 00:00:11,170 Stalin violated the Soviet-Polish non-aggression pact 3 00:00:11,180 --> 00:00:15,110 by invading Poland in 1939. 4 00:00:15,290 --> 00:00:18,650 Stalin violated the Soviet-Finnish non-aggression pact 5 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:22,930 by invading Finland in 1939 without any declaration of war, 6 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:25,610 starting the winter war. 7 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:30,120 The heroic Finns fought back the big Red Army. 8 00:00:32,550 --> 00:00:35,400 Stalin bombed Sweden in 1940. 9 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:39,810 Stalin violated a provision of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, 10 00:00:39,820 --> 00:00:46,140 Ribbentrop-Molotov, by invading Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in 1940. 11 00:00:46,150 --> 00:00:49,600 Bolsheviks rolled in to terrorize, torture and kill the people 12 00:00:49,610 --> 00:00:51,900 in the standard communist practice. 13 00:00:51,910 --> 00:00:54,340 The Soviet cattle car deportations 14 00:00:54,350 --> 00:00:58,250 afflicted more than a half million Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian. 15 00:00:58,260 --> 00:01:01,090 Christian Europeans were shipped to the Gulag. 16 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:05,360 12% of the entire Baltic population was either deported to Siberia 17 00:01:05,370 --> 00:01:09,350 or executed by the Jewish Soviet Secret Police. 18 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,720 Stalin grabbed a piece of eastern Romania in 1940 19 00:01:12,730 --> 00:01:16,740 and forced (?) Romania to surrender Bessarabia, Moldavia. 20 00:01:16,750 --> 00:01:18,610 In a sickening double standard, 21 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:22,750 the Allies remained silent about this brutal Soviet aggression. 22 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:28,240 Instead, the Churchill-Stalin pact was signed on 15th of October, 1939. 23 00:01:28,250 --> 00:01:32,350 Secretary of State for War, Churchill, signed the executive documents 24 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,540 of this pact on 8th of February, 1940, in London. 25 00:01:36,550 --> 00:01:39,860 The Allies did not give a rat's ass about Poland. 26 00:01:39,870 --> 00:01:42,690 They only used her to start the war against Germany. 27 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:47,920 And now, still no boycotts and no war declarations on Soviet. 28 00:01:47,930 --> 00:01:50,890 No anti-communist propaganda in the media 29 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:54,330 and no 'Stalin is the warmongering'. 30 00:01:54,340 --> 00:01:55,390 Nothing. 31 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,580 Since 1933, when he befriended the Soviets, 32 00:01:58,590 --> 00:02:01,890 Roosevelt had consistently maintained close relations with people 33 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:05,210 who are either communists or communist sympathizers. 34 00:02:05,220 --> 00:02:09,420 Hitler was well aware that Stalin was on his way to invade Europe. 35 00:02:09,430 --> 00:02:10,810 His suspicions about Stalin 36 00:02:10,820 --> 00:02:14,350 have since the fall of Soviet been proven as being legitimate. 37 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:22,280 Document N� 103202/06 signed chief of staff, Kirill Meretskov, on 1940, 38 00:02:22,290 --> 00:02:27,300 revealed that Stalin was preparing to invade Western Europe in July 1941, 39 00:02:27,310 --> 00:02:33,340 in a massive invasion called Operatsia Groza (Operation Thunderstorm). 40 00:02:33,350 --> 00:02:36,450 It is dated 18th of September, 1940, 41 00:02:36,460 --> 00:02:41,150 three months before the German "Operation Barbarossa" was signed. 42 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,500 After Georgy Zhukov became chief of the General Staff in February 1941, 43 00:02:46,510 --> 00:02:51,490 the plan was called MP 41 (Mobilisatsyonni Plan 41). 44 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:54,870 It can be found in the so-called "Osobaya Papka", 45 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:00,040 a file which contains about 100,000 top secret documents. 46 00:03:00,050 --> 00:03:05,210 In the book 'Ledokol' or 'Icebreaker', Russian Jewish historian Viktor Suvorov 47 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:09,700 gives us compelling proof that Hitler was forced into a preemptive strike 48 00:03:09,710 --> 00:03:12,350 against a massive Soviet military machine 49 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,010 ready to invade and destroy the whole of Western Europe. 50 00:03:16,020 --> 00:03:19,950 Suvorov quotes top secret Soviet documents, which proves that 51 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,490 the Soviet Army was entirely built as an offensive force. 52 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:27,330 Stalin was using the classical divide and conquer strategy. 53 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:29,910 He was first hoping for Britain, France and Germany 54 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,160 to be exposed, destroyed and exhausted 55 00:03:32,170 --> 00:03:36,480 so that the Red Army would be able to invade their territory in the West. 56 00:03:36,490 --> 00:03:41,200 All Bolshevik preparations were for invasion, not defense. 57 00:03:41,210 --> 00:03:44,140 The Soviet Union had already moved division after division 58 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:46,120 closer to the German border. 59 00:03:46,130 --> 00:03:49,900 It was producing five to ten times the number of tanks, machine guns, 60 00:03:49,910 --> 00:03:53,670 cannons and airplanes that Germany was able to produce. 61 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,630 For every month that passed by, Germany's odds got worse. 62 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,840 Given the communists openly stated ambition of conquering the world, 63 00:04:01,850 --> 00:04:03,650 there could not have been any doubt 64 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:07,060 that Stalin was ready for an assault on Germany. 65 00:04:07,070 --> 00:04:12,870 In 1941, Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov was a soviet navy minister, 66 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,090 as well as a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. 67 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:19,470 In his post-war memoirs, he recalled: 68 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,760 "For me there is one thing beyond all argument, 69 00:04:22,770 --> 00:04:27,270 Stalin not only did not exclude the possibility of war with Hitler's Germany, 70 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,040 on the contrary, he considered such a war... inevitable... 71 00:04:31,050 --> 00:04:35,250 Stalin made preparations for war... Wide and varied preparations, 72 00:04:35,260 --> 00:04:37,840 beginning on dates... which he himself had selected. 73 00:04:37,850 --> 00:04:40,410 Hitler upset his calculations." 74 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:43,960 Germany and Italians have learned of the planned Soviet attack on Europe 75 00:04:43,970 --> 00:04:48,850 and prepared the counterplan: Operation Barbarossa. 76 00:04:49,050 --> 00:04:55,400 On 22nd of June, 1941, Hitler invaded Soviet in a preemptive attack. 77 00:04:55,410 --> 00:04:57,140 This German preemptive strike 78 00:04:57,150 --> 00:05:00,850 saved Europe from the Red Army, at least for a while. 79 00:05:00,860 --> 00:05:04,780 Stalin was about to strike Western Europe with 3 million soldiers 80 00:05:04,790 --> 00:05:06,840 when getting caught with their pants down, 81 00:05:06,850 --> 00:05:10,070 as German soldiers carried belt buckles engraved with the words 82 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:15,900 Gott mit uns, God with us, entered their now anti-christian Red Land. 83 00:05:15,910 --> 00:05:18,200 From the Baltic to the Black Sea, 84 00:05:18,210 --> 00:05:23,700 German soldiers were getting into positions to launch the invasion. 85 00:05:23,710 --> 00:05:26,040 The most brutal battles in recorded history 86 00:05:26,050 --> 00:05:30,290 took place along the Eastern Front, which stretched back to Germany 87 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,090 through the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, 88 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:38,420 the Balkans, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and the Baltic states. 89 00:05:38,430 --> 00:05:42,920 In these landscapes, Europe's bravest soldiers sacrificed their lives 90 00:05:42,930 --> 00:05:48,140 to liberate Europe from the terror of the Bolsheviks. 91 00:05:48,150 --> 00:05:52,600 Ukrainians, Russians, Estonians, Latvians and other Eastern Europeans 92 00:05:52,610 --> 00:05:55,670 welcomed the Germans as they were liberated from the slavery 93 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,290 and torture previously endured under Soviet hands. 94 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:02,560 Local women blessed the Germans as they passed. 95 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,690 Women gave the soldiers food 96 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:14,790 and the soldiers even helped them restoring homes and churches. 97 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,320 ...the German villages, what was left of us 98 00:06:17,330 --> 00:06:21,620 was herded into the cattle trains and shipped to Siberia. 99 00:06:21,630 --> 00:06:25,030 And quite a few villages really disappeared that way. 100 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,980 And it was literally a matter of hours, if not minutes, 101 00:06:27,990 --> 00:06:31,060 until our turn in Halbstadt came. 102 00:06:31,070 --> 00:06:35,670 And I understand that actually half of Halbstadt was exiled. 103 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,230 And we were already sitting at the railroad station. 104 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,980 This was September 1941, when the German army overrun the Ukraine 105 00:06:43,990 --> 00:06:48,730 and stopped the exiling, stopped the trains, they stopped the trains. 106 00:06:48,740 --> 00:06:53,340 And it was to us as if the Lord had sent us the angels. 107 00:06:53,350 --> 00:06:57,850 Here were people who spoke German, who spoke high German, 108 00:06:57,860 --> 00:07:02,300 who stopped the terror that had been upon us for 25 years, 109 00:07:02,310 --> 00:07:05,290 who came and opened the churches for us and said 110 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:08,160 "you can have all the services you want". 111 00:07:08,170 --> 00:07:09,770 It was like heaven. 112 00:07:09,780 --> 00:07:14,290 My mother, to the day she died, never... 113 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:18,610 never stopped talking about the wonderful two years that she had, 114 00:07:18,620 --> 00:07:23,370 was the German army, when the German army came and took over the villages. 115 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:25,010 They moved in on us. 116 00:07:25,020 --> 00:07:28,590 They took over the houses, we gave them gladly. They could have... 117 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,990 My grandmother started cooking as if cooking was out of fashion 118 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,350 and it was magnificent when the Germans came. 119 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,260 And they set up, apparently, certain headquarters there. 120 00:07:39,270 --> 00:07:42,260 They had some radio broadcasts, certain stations and so on, 121 00:07:42,270 --> 00:07:44,280 but most of them moved, of course, 122 00:07:44,290 --> 00:07:47,500 ran over us and moved east in their fight toward Moscow. 123 00:07:47,510 --> 00:07:50,700 And then they pushed toward Moscow. 124 00:07:51,250 --> 00:07:55,240 But some stayed back and we were absolutely convinced 125 00:07:55,250 --> 00:07:58,860 that the Germans had come to save us from communism. 126 00:07:58,870 --> 00:08:01,860 And never was there any reason for us to change our minds. 127 00:08:01,870 --> 00:08:05,520 Why should we? The Germans were heroes in our eyes. 128 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,960 As the Germans advanced east, millions of Russians refused to fight for Stalin 129 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:34,470 and, instead, surrendered to the Germans. 130 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,850 Stalin's tyranny was hated by every freedom-loving Russian, 131 00:08:37,860 --> 00:08:40,890 so hated in fact, that whole formations 132 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:43,990 surrendered and volunteered to fight for the Germans instead, 133 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,150 taking back their motherland from the terror of Jewish Bolshevism. 134 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,080 Hitler viewed communism as a poison to Europe 135 00:08:51,090 --> 00:08:55,450 and decided that his life's purpose was to root out and destroy it. 136 00:08:55,460 --> 00:08:58,180 The Germans had nothing against the Russians as people, 137 00:08:58,190 --> 00:09:00,320 but instead, against communism. 138 00:09:00,330 --> 00:09:03,210 Many Russians volunteered to fight for Hitler instead. 139 00:09:03,220 --> 00:09:06,630 Nearly half a million Russian volunteers served on the front lines 140 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:12,440 and another 100,000 or more serving in other non combat positions. 141 00:09:12,450 --> 00:09:15,590 The anti-communist soldiers of the Russian Liberation Army 142 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,590 wore German uniforms with a Russian patch. 143 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,430 In 1944, it was officially renamed: 144 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,350 The Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. 145 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,480 They were led by General Andrey Vlasov, but under German high command. 146 00:09:30,490 --> 00:09:35,610 They fought bravely, primarily in key roles against the communist partisans. 147 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:39,740 General Vlasov and Heinrich Himmler met and ironed out details 148 00:09:39,750 --> 00:09:43,520 of the formation of a massive new army composed of Russians. 149 00:09:43,530 --> 00:09:48,810 They went over what was called 'The Smolensk Manifesto', written in 1942, 150 00:09:48,820 --> 00:09:53,510 which outlined goals of liberating Russia from the communist occupation. 151 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,700 It stipulated that in the new Russia 152 00:09:55,710 --> 00:09:58,060 "...Every people will obtain national freedom, 153 00:09:58,070 --> 00:10:00,500 including the right of self-determination. 154 00:10:00,510 --> 00:10:04,620 The realization of this right to national independence and freedom is possible, 155 00:10:04,630 --> 00:10:08,150 however, only after destroying Stalin and his clique." 156 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:12,150 Himmler and Vlasov agreed that there were initially to be 157 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,440 5 divisions organized from Russian POWs and workers 158 00:10:15,450 --> 00:10:17,430 from the occupied eastern territories, 159 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:22,330 whose number by then had reached over 5 million. 160 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:27,650 Hitler also formed the Einsatzgruppen � units for the necessary removal 161 00:10:27,660 --> 00:10:32,180 of the bloodthirsty Jewish Bolshevik leadership from the Soviet cities. 162 00:10:32,190 --> 00:10:36,280 Criminal communist partisans were executed and hanged 163 00:10:36,290 --> 00:10:39,840 as punishment for what they had done to the Christian Russians. 164 00:10:39,850 --> 00:10:43,880 Stalin was now rumored to have suffered a breakdown. 165 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,110 Adolf Hitler explained: 166 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,310 "You probably all felt that this was a bitter and difficult step for me. 167 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,750 The German people have never had hostile feelings towards the peoples of Russia. 168 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,910 During the last two decades, however, 169 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,040 the Jewish-Bolshevik rulers in Moscow have attempted 170 00:11:00,050 --> 00:11:03,820 to set not only Germany, but all of Europe, aflame. 171 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:05,560 Germany has never attempted 172 00:11:05,570 --> 00:11:09,380 to spread its National Socialist worldview to Russia. 173 00:11:09,390 --> 00:11:13,220 Rather, the Jewish-Bolsheviks rulers in Moscow 174 00:11:13,230 --> 00:11:15,760 have constantly attempted to subject us 175 00:11:15,770 --> 00:11:18,410 and the other European peoples to their rule. 176 00:11:18,420 --> 00:11:21,200 They have attempted this not only intellectually, 177 00:11:21,210 --> 00:11:24,700 but above all through military means. 178 00:11:24,710 --> 00:11:27,660 The results of their efforts, in every nation, 179 00:11:27,670 --> 00:11:31,890 were only chaos, misery and starvation." 180 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:33,840 Before the Battle of Moscow, 181 00:11:33,850 --> 00:11:39,020 Hitler succeeded in defeating the Soviet Army and taking numerous prisoners. 182 00:11:39,030 --> 00:11:41,970 Then an unbelievable freeze happened. 183 00:11:41,980 --> 00:11:45,320 40 to 50 degrees Celsius below zero. 184 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:47,820 The cold caused problems for the Germans. 185 00:11:47,830 --> 00:11:50,140 The German troops had only summer uniforms 186 00:11:50,150 --> 00:11:52,620 and equipment was also freezing on the spot. 187 00:11:52,630 --> 00:11:54,270 No tanks could move. 188 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,380 The weather would intensify and temperatures plummet. 189 00:11:57,390 --> 00:12:00,520 Time would decisively turn against the Germans, 190 00:12:00,530 --> 00:12:05,970 and before the last push of Wehrmacht into Moscow, Germany was stuck. 191 00:12:16,310 --> 00:12:19,650 Meanwhile, Roosevelt extended the Lend-Lease Act 192 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:24,510 which would send even more financial and military aid to the Soviet Union. 193 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:30,300 11,3 billion or around 150 billion dollars today 194 00:12:30,310 --> 00:12:32,290 to save the communist regime. 195 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,540 It was at that time masses of Siberian troops 196 00:12:35,550 --> 00:12:37,960 were brought back from the Russian Far East 197 00:12:37,970 --> 00:12:40,060 and thrown against the Germans. 198 00:12:40,070 --> 00:12:42,610 The Germans did not manage to take Moscow 199 00:12:42,620 --> 00:12:45,090 and were instead pushed back again. 200 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:48,880 Stalin felt a need to have his troops backed by blocking units, 201 00:12:48,890 --> 00:12:52,950 tasked to execute anyone retreating from the front. 202 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,960 He also branded anyone captured as a traitor 203 00:12:55,970 --> 00:12:58,600 and later executed these former prisoners 204 00:12:58,610 --> 00:13:01,270 while sending their family members to the camps. 205 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:06,300 You have to remember that when the Red Army marched, 206 00:13:06,310 --> 00:13:10,200 behind the Red Army was a second army, the NKVD army 207 00:13:10,210 --> 00:13:13,710 which had its own tanks, it's own machine guns and so on. 208 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,280 Firing forward, so that nobody could move back. 209 00:13:17,290 --> 00:13:23,310 Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1942. 210 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,850 The Wehrmacht offered to exchange German prisoners 211 00:13:25,860 --> 00:13:28,280 with Stalin for the return of his son. 212 00:13:28,290 --> 00:13:30,050 Stalin rejected this and stated: 213 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:33,070 "I have no son named Yakov." 214 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,630 Although the circumstances are unclear, Yakov later died in captivity. 215 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,230 Some say that he ran into a fence surrounding a POW camp. 216 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,350 Some say that he was shot while trying to escape. 217 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:53,220 Closing in to Stalingrad, Stalin now cowardly fled the city. 218 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:57,430 The Battle of Stalingrad between the Germans and the Soviets 219 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,990 was fought for control of the strategically vital Soviet city 220 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,130 that Stalin had named after himself, 221 00:14:03,140 --> 00:14:05,260 today known as Volgograd. 222 00:14:05,270 --> 00:14:08,020 The battle was one of the bloodiest in history, 223 00:14:08,030 --> 00:14:11,920 with military and civilian deaths of nearly two million. 224 00:14:11,930 --> 00:14:15,120 Stalin's refusal to pull the Red Army out of the city 225 00:14:15,130 --> 00:14:17,900 led to a long battle and tremendous amount of suffering 226 00:14:17,910 --> 00:14:19,880 for the hungry citizens. 227 00:14:19,890 --> 00:14:24,690 In July 1942, Stalin issued an order preventing any civilians, 228 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:27,270 even women and children, from leaving the city. 229 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,000 After the German ofense captured most of the city, 230 00:14:30,010 --> 00:14:33,030 the U.S. Lend-Lease equipped Red Army 231 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:37,480 destroyed the Germans with bloody house-to-house fighting. 232 00:14:37,490 --> 00:14:42,230 The losses suffered by the Germans would make victory in Russia impossible. 233 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,740 Germany's war economy was not set to total war mode until 1943, 234 00:14:46,750 --> 00:14:49,530 i.e., too late. 235 00:14:50,660 --> 00:14:53,250 On February the 2nd, 1943, 236 00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:57,100 field Marshal Friedrich Paulus finally surrendered to the Soviets. 237 00:14:57,110 --> 00:15:02,730 300,000 German, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian and Italian soldiers, 238 00:15:02,740 --> 00:15:07,060 including 35,000 Russian volunteers fighting for Germany 239 00:15:07,070 --> 00:15:10,200 against the communists, had now been surrounded. 240 00:15:10,210 --> 00:15:14,640 Over 11,000 refused to lay down their weapons at the official surrendering, 241 00:15:14,650 --> 00:15:19,290 preferring instead to fight until death against the Bolsheviks. 242 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:23,840 By early March, all resistance had been wiped out. 243 00:15:23,850 --> 00:15:26,110 Those who remained were forced to march east 244 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,670 or worked himself to death in soviet death camps. 245 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:36,010 Historians have now confirmed that of the 11,237 letters 246 00:15:36,020 --> 00:15:38,330 that were sent by soldiers to their families, 247 00:15:38,340 --> 00:15:42,400 almost all of them expressed a willingness and determination 248 00:15:42,410 --> 00:15:46,570 to fight communism and die fighting for National Socialism 249 00:15:46,580 --> 00:15:48,840 and the F�hrer Adolf Hitler. 250 00:15:48,850 --> 00:15:54,010 The Battle of Stalingrad would be a turning point in the war. 251 00:15:54,350 --> 00:15:59,720 After the Battle of Kursk in 5th of July to 23rd of August, 1943, 252 00:15:59,730 --> 00:16:02,730 the Germans were outnumbered by more than two to one 253 00:16:02,740 --> 00:16:05,890 and suffered casualties of around 203,000, 254 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:08,930 while the communists lost 803,000 thousands. 255 00:16:08,940 --> 00:16:10,980 The Germans did not achieve their goal. 256 00:16:10,990 --> 00:16:13,740 Germany was forced into a full-scale retreat 257 00:16:13,750 --> 00:16:16,700 as the U.S. opened a new front in Italy. 258 00:16:16,710 --> 00:16:22,140 Germany would never again regain the initiative in the war. 259 00:16:24,230 --> 00:16:27,790 The Germans were steadily forced completely out of Soviet territory, 260 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,610 after which, the Soviets pursued them across Eastern Europe 261 00:16:30,620 --> 00:16:33,210 and into Germany itself in 1945. 262 00:16:33,220 --> 00:16:36,190 The Germans were now fighting freezing weather conditions 263 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,130 and at the same time offered much-needed protection 264 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:41,820 to refugees fleeing the murderous communists. 265 00:16:41,830 --> 00:16:44,780 More and more people desperately fled West 266 00:16:44,790 --> 00:16:47,300 to reach safety from the communists. 267 00:16:47,310 --> 00:16:50,460 And then, of course, in 1943, the story changed. 268 00:16:50,470 --> 00:16:52,750 And the Germans were pushed back. 269 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,630 And in the push back, they moved us with them, 270 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,410 what was left of us and we went willingly. 271 00:16:59,420 --> 00:17:02,470 There was no moving at gunpoint. 272 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,240 Had we stayed back, the communists would have taken us and executed us 273 00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:08,060 and shipped us to Siberia, 274 00:17:08,070 --> 00:17:13,390 so we very willingly moved, retreated with the Germans... 275 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,530 You know, here we were walking toward the Reich, toward Germany, 276 00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:21,130 which had always been in our minds a fictitious place. 277 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:23,940 We absolutely believed in Adolf Hitler. 278 00:17:23,950 --> 00:17:27,170 We believed in the nature of his struggle, 279 00:17:27,180 --> 00:17:29,710 in the merits of his struggle. 280 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:34,030 We had this magnificent German soldiers protecting us all the way 281 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,240 and we were walking into the Reich. 282 00:17:36,250 --> 00:17:39,180 So, there was, there were lots of songs 283 00:17:39,190 --> 00:17:41,640 along the way in the beginning in the fall. 284 00:17:41,650 --> 00:17:45,410 There were all this Hitler Youth with their beautiful snappy clothing 285 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:48,730 and on bicycles and they were giving us fresh water, 286 00:17:48,740 --> 00:17:54,190 and the girls were cooking, and you know, serving us coffee and so on. 287 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,390 We always were fed by the army. 288 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,960 They had the kitchen, field kitchens, travelling ???. 289 00:17:59,970 --> 00:18:04,060 Then the winter came and food was getting short, 290 00:18:04,070 --> 00:18:08,460 the horses were getting sick, the road was getting narrower. 291 00:18:08,470 --> 00:18:10,070 It was extremely cold. 292 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,680 When I think of the war and of the track, 293 00:18:12,690 --> 00:18:17,350 I do not think of hunger so much as of cold. It was always, always cold. 294 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:19,630 That's what I remember. 295 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:25,560 And then, of course, once the winter came, it became harder and harder. 296 00:18:25,570 --> 00:18:29,430 We had to often stay overnight in strange houses. 297 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,880 The army would confiscate houses, would put the refugees there. 298 00:18:33,890 --> 00:18:36,480 The army protected us to the end. 299 00:18:36,490 --> 00:18:41,650 The army never ever let us down, never let us down to the very end. 300 00:18:41,660 --> 00:18:46,400 Keep in mind also that Germany, at that time, did not need refugees. 301 00:18:46,410 --> 00:18:50,120 You know, they were starving, they were struggling, they had nothing. 302 00:18:50,130 --> 00:18:53,900 They took us in as family. 303 00:18:57,770 --> 00:19:02,040 "The purpose of this front is no longer the protection of the individual nations, 304 00:19:02,050 --> 00:19:06,440 but rather safety of Europe, and therefore the salvation of everyone." - Adolf Hitler 305 00:19:06,450 --> 00:19:11,940 PEARL HARBOR 306 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:15,520 While the soldiers on the ground were battling to end the war, 307 00:19:15,530 --> 00:19:18,510 leading politicians were doing all they could 308 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,250 for political reasons to continue the conflict. 309 00:19:22,260 --> 00:19:27,830 In October 1940, when Germany was in total control of the European war, 310 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,770 there was no chance of British victory, 311 00:19:30,780 --> 00:19:34,140 unless the US could be dragged into the conflict. 312 00:19:34,150 --> 00:19:39,240 A prominent member of the British War Cabinet, Lord Arthur Greenwood, 313 00:19:39,250 --> 00:19:44,290 offered the Jews a new world order in hopes of enlisting their support 314 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:48,480 to bring a reluctant America into the war conflict in the same way 315 00:19:48,490 --> 00:19:52,130 it had done in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration 316 00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:57,180 that promised Palestine to the Jews in exchange for bringing about U.S. entry. 317 00:19:57,190 --> 00:19:59,670 Greenwood made a prophetic statement: 318 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,620 "When we have achieved victory, and we assuredly shall..." 319 00:20:03,630 --> 00:20:04,980 Greenwood promises: 320 00:20:04,990 --> 00:20:07,940 "In the rebuilding of civilized society after the war, 321 00:20:07,950 --> 00:20:12,060 there should and will be a real opportunity for Jews everywhere 322 00:20:12,070 --> 00:20:14,930 to make a distinctive and constructive contribution." 323 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:15,530 And that: 324 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:20,250 "Ten million American boys will be needed to do the job." 325 00:20:20,260 --> 00:20:24,250 The U.S. would enter the war 14 months later. 326 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:28,280 Chaim Weizmann said to Churchill in September 1941: 327 00:20:28,290 --> 00:20:31,840 "We managed to drag the United States into the First World War 328 00:20:31,850 --> 00:20:35,190 and if they (the U.S.) do what we demand 329 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,090 in regards to Palestine and the Jewish armed forces, 330 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:40,340 then we can get the Jews in the USA 331 00:20:40,350 --> 00:20:45,060 to drag the United States into this one too." 332 00:20:45,070 --> 00:20:50,030 Already in 1939, Brigadier General George Van Horne Mosely 333 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,190 exposed the plan in the New York Tribune: 334 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,620 "The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishing 335 00:20:56,630 --> 00:21:00,760 Jewish hegemony throughout the world." 336 00:21:00,770 --> 00:21:04,120 Even though the British Empire already had vast resources 337 00:21:04,130 --> 00:21:08,120 and millions of men at her disposal, Churchill and Roosevelt 338 00:21:08,130 --> 00:21:10,990 would now push for the U.S. to enter the war. 339 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,770 Never before in history were the American people as anti-war 340 00:21:14,780 --> 00:21:18,340 or as united in their views as they were in 1939, 341 00:21:18,350 --> 00:21:22,680 about staying out of what they saw as yet another European civil war. 342 00:21:22,690 --> 00:21:27,180 The Gallup poll showed 94% of the American people 343 00:21:27,190 --> 00:21:33,770 was absolutely against participation in the war when it began in September 1939. 344 00:21:33,780 --> 00:21:37,970 The ordinary people were tired of these wars. 345 00:21:38,610 --> 00:21:42,820 Despite this fact, Roosevelt forced laws through Congress 346 00:21:42,830 --> 00:21:44,870 contradicting U.S. supposed neutrality. 347 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,130 In 1939, Roosevelt repealed the U.S. Neutrality Act 348 00:21:49,140 --> 00:21:53,460 in favor of a one-sided supply of arms to Germany's enemies. 349 00:21:53,470 --> 00:21:56,420 The year after Roosevelt passed the Lend-Lease Act, 350 00:21:56,430 --> 00:22:00,590 which officially ended his pretence of being neutral in the war, 351 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,960 he also allowed American citizens to join the British air force. 352 00:22:03,970 --> 00:22:06,240 In a violation of international law, 353 00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:09,860 Roosevelt proceeded to freezing all German assets in the U.S. 354 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:13,290 and announce an oil embargo against aggressor nations. 355 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,500 1 billion dollars in lend-lease aid was sent to Britain. 356 00:22:16,510 --> 00:22:19,700 Benjamin Gitlow, founding member of the U.S. Communist Party, 357 00:22:19,710 --> 00:22:23,530 wrote in 'I confess' in 1940: 358 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:26,700 "When I was in Moscow, the attitude towards the United States 359 00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:28,700 in the event of war was discussed. 360 00:22:28,710 --> 00:22:33,550 Privately, it was the opinion of all the Russian leaders to whom I spoke 361 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,910 that the rivalry between the United States and Japan 362 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:41,400 must actually break out into war between these two." 363 00:22:42,270 --> 00:22:46,820 Because Roosevelt was well aware of the amount of popular feeling on this issue, 364 00:22:46,830 --> 00:22:51,050 he would repeatedly lie to the American people about his love of peace 365 00:22:51,060 --> 00:22:54,480 and his determination to keep the U.S. out of war, 366 00:22:54,490 --> 00:22:58,260 while simultaneously actually doing everything in his power 367 00:22:58,270 --> 00:23:01,890 to take both Europe and America into war. 368 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:03,530 As with the case of Germany, 369 00:23:03,540 --> 00:23:06,970 Japan had also broken the shackles of Rothschild's interest 370 00:23:06,980 --> 00:23:11,010 and experienced an economic miracle an a national rebirth. 371 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:12,610 It could not be allowed. 372 00:23:12,620 --> 00:23:18,120 Japan had to be taken out to become a milking cow of the bankers again. 373 00:23:18,610 --> 00:23:21,140 On 23rd of June, 1941, 374 00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:24,770 the United States Interior Secretary, Harold LeClair Ickes, 375 00:23:24,780 --> 00:23:27,530 wrote in a memo to Roosevelt: 376 00:23:27,540 --> 00:23:29,370 "There will never be so a good time 377 00:23:29,380 --> 00:23:32,810 to stop the shipment of oil to Japan as we now have. 378 00:23:32,820 --> 00:23:37,900 There might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a situation 379 00:23:37,910 --> 00:23:40,060 as would make it, not only possible, 380 00:23:40,070 --> 00:23:43,500 but easy to get into this war in an effective way. 381 00:23:43,510 --> 00:23:46,660 And, if we should thus indirectly be brought in, 382 00:23:46,670 --> 00:23:51,750 we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communist Russia." 383 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,700 Roosevelt was, of course, still looking desperately for a way to enter the war. 384 00:23:55,710 --> 00:23:58,430 He then froze all Japanese assets in the U.S. 385 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:03,650 and later forced an oil embargo on Japan in an international act of hostility. 386 00:24:03,660 --> 00:24:08,910 As a direct result, Japan now lost access to 75% of our overseas trade 387 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,600 and 88% of her imported oil. 388 00:24:11,610 --> 00:24:14,540 This led to Japan now having insufficient resources 389 00:24:14,550 --> 00:24:17,290 to continuing her war with China. 390 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:22,210 To avoid war, the Japanese first entered into negotiations with US officials 391 00:24:22,220 --> 00:24:25,670 who demanded that Japan first would withdraw from communist China 392 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,920 before any embargos would end. 393 00:24:27,930 --> 00:24:30,590 Roosevelt, of course, knew that the Japanese 394 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,140 never would let themselves be humiliated in such a way. 395 00:24:34,150 --> 00:24:37,770 If the Japanese refused it, the embargo would continue 396 00:24:37,780 --> 00:24:40,490 and they would collapse from economic strangulation. 397 00:24:40,500 --> 00:24:43,770 If they complied and withdrew all troops from the mainland, 398 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:45,900 communism would sweep eastern Asia, 399 00:24:45,910 --> 00:24:47,980 exactly as happened after the war, 400 00:24:47,990 --> 00:24:52,140 resulting in communist China and the Korean and Vietnam wars. 401 00:24:52,150 --> 00:24:55,210 The Japanese were given a 2-headed coin: 402 00:24:55,220 --> 00:24:58,730 die by starvation or die by communism. 403 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:03,660 They decided to reject both of these options and fight instead. 404 00:25:03,670 --> 00:25:07,050 War Secret ary, Henry Stimson, phrased it in his diary: 405 00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:10,920 "We face a delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done 406 00:25:10,930 --> 00:25:14,420 so as to be sure that Japan is put into the wrong 407 00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:17,060 and makes the first bad move - overt move... 408 00:25:17,070 --> 00:25:20,790 The question was how we should maneuver the Japanese 409 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,950 into the position of firing the first shot..." 410 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,710 The major organization which propagated up public support 411 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,450 for U.S. involvement in the European war before the Pearl Harbor attack 412 00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:36,630 was the cleverly named Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. 413 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,840 By at the end of 1940, West Virginia senator, Rush D. Holt, 414 00:25:40,850 --> 00:25:43,820 issued a detailed examination of the committee: 415 00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:47,990 "The committee has powerful connections with banks, insurance companies, 416 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,580 financial investing firms, and industrial concerns. 417 00:25:51,590 --> 00:25:56,010 These in turn exert influence on college presidents and professors, 418 00:25:56,020 --> 00:26:00,510 as well as on newspapers, radio and other means of communication." 419 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,690 If the committee succeeded in getting the U.S. into war, Holt warned: 420 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,050 "American boys will spill their blood 421 00:26:07,060 --> 00:26:10,150 for profiteers, politicians and 'paytriots'. 422 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:15,490 If war comes, on the hands of the sponsors of the white committee will be blood - 423 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:19,100 the blood of Americans killed in a needless war." 424 00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:23,050 In March 1941, a list of most of the committee's financial backers 425 00:26:23,060 --> 00:26:25,430 was made public and revealed the forces 426 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,040 eager to bring America into the European war. 427 00:26:28,050 --> 00:26:31,390 Powerful international, primarily Jewish, banking interests 428 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,930 were well represented. 429 00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:38,410 In his diary entry of the 1st of May, 1941, 430 00:26:38,420 --> 00:26:42,660 Charles A. Lindbergh, the American heroic aviator and peace leader, 431 00:26:42,670 --> 00:26:46,740 exposed the coalition that was pushing the United States into the war: 432 00:26:46,750 --> 00:26:49,310 "The pressure for war is high and mounting. 433 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,790 The people are opposed to it, but the administration seems to have 434 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,030 'the bit in its teeth' and is hell-bent on its way to war. 435 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,910 Most of the Jewish interests in the country are behind war 436 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,480 and they control a huge part of our press and radio 437 00:27:04,490 --> 00:27:06,650 and most of our motion pictures." 438 00:27:06,660 --> 00:27:11,620 Dr. Milton Eisenhower was general Eisenhower's brother. He said: 439 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:15,410 "President Roosevelt found it necessary to get the country into World War II 440 00:27:15,420 --> 00:27:18,070 to save his social policies." 441 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,410 Early in 1941, congressman Martin Dies committee 442 00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:26,400 came into possession of a strategic map which gave clear proof 443 00:27:26,410 --> 00:27:30,450 of the intentions of the Japanese to make an assault on Pearl Harbor. 444 00:27:30,460 --> 00:27:32,500 The strategic map was prepared 445 00:27:32,510 --> 00:27:36,370 by the Japanese Imperial Military Intelligence Department. 446 00:27:36,380 --> 00:27:37,620 Martin wrote: 447 00:27:37,630 --> 00:27:39,630 "As soon as I received the document, 448 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,500 I telephoned Secretary of State Cordell Hull and told him what I had. 449 00:27:43,510 --> 00:27:48,200 Secretary Hull directed me not to let anyone know about the map 450 00:27:48,210 --> 00:27:52,430 and stated that he would call me as soon as he talked to president Roosevelt. 451 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,160 In about an hour, he telephoned to say that he had talked to Roosevelt 452 00:27:56,170 --> 00:27:58,750 and they agreed that it would be very serious 453 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,120 if any information concerning this map reached the news services... 454 00:28:03,130 --> 00:28:05,560 I told him it was a grave responsibility 455 00:28:05,570 --> 00:28:08,320 to withhold such vital information from the public. 456 00:28:08,330 --> 00:28:10,600 The secretary assured me that 457 00:28:10,610 --> 00:28:14,970 he and Roosevelt considered it essential to national defense." 458 00:28:14,980 --> 00:28:18,210 General Elliott R. Thorpe served as a military attach� 459 00:28:18,220 --> 00:28:21,010 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, 461 00:28:25,540 --> 00:28:29,690 (?) the intercepted message referred to a planned Japanese attack on Hawaii, 462 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,060 the Philippines and Thailand. 463 00:28:32,070 --> 00:28:35,150 He immediately cabled the information to Washington 464 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,960 and promptly delivered copies of the decoded text to including 465 00:28:38,970 --> 00:28:42,180 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. 83966

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