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It is undoubtedly the greatest coup de

théâtre of the 20th century. It will

change the destiny of millions

of Europeans

and trigger the Second World War.

On August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and

the Soviet Union concluded a

non-aggression pact named after the two

signatories, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.

It is the

improbable rapprochement of two sworn enemies,

doomed to mutual destruction by

Hitler and Stalin.

But for Europe, this astounding pact is

only the tragic outcome

of a descent into hell that began

five years earlier.

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Adolf Hitler is convinced that he is obeying a

divine voice that makes him infallible. and

who ordered him to build a

brutal, merciless, and purebred sprawl.

He also promised Germany, humiliated,

amputated, and disarmed after the defeat of

1918, that it would regain its former power. How far will he go?

For the moment, he himself does not know,

but in his fictionalized autobiography and

program book, Hitler's Mein Kampf, he

sets out his vision of the world.

When he demands a living space for

the German people, he

turns his gaze eastward,

determined to reduce the Slavs to slavery

and eradicate communism from the

face of the globe.

Hitler is burning to engage one day or

another in a fight to the death with the

Soviet Union and its master, Joseph Stalin. [

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Stalin is nicknamed by his propaganda,

worth throwing away the guide.

He has ruled the Soviet Union since the end of the 1920s,

the largest

state on the planet, which the rest of the world

treats as a plague victim for fear of

communist contagion

of a nature. Terribly anxious and

suspicious, Stalin mistrusts

the outside world like the plague

for fear of capitalist contagion

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He first considered Hitler to be

a capitalist enemy like any other

before admitting that he represented a

much more worrying peril and Hitler is

not his only problem

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In the Far East, Japan, which is pursuing an aggressive

policy of colonial expansion,

has brutally invaded

Manchuria and is now threatening the

borders of the Soviet Union. Stalin

is obliged to concentrate significant forces there,

while the Japanese army does

not hide its intention to continue

its advance at the slightest sign of

weakness in the army

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Surrounded by mortal danger, Stalin wants to

break his isolation and try to get

closer to his old enemies, the

French and British capitalist democracies.

Given the climate of paranoia that

reigns between the West and the Soviet Union,

this is a real challenge to take up and to

achieve this feat,

Stalin will count on the talent of his

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxim

Litvinov. A revolutionary from the very

beginning, Maxime Litvin of was in 1919

the first representative of

Soviet Russia, let's go, when he

knew nothing about diplomacy

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Litvin of quickly became an

accomplished diplomat and extremely skillful. It was

he who managed to convince the

United States to officially recognize

the Soviet Union. He was Jewish and fiercely

anti-Nazi. Hitler was a thug for him.

You only understood the language of

force.

Litvin of was convinced that all

European countries must form a

military alliance and show

unwavering solidarity.

This policy, which bears the

evocative name of collective security, has

even become the obsession of the Nov case.

To implement it, he hopes

first of all to obtain the support of France.

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France is a great power shaken

by repeated political and financial scandals

and which suffers from

chronic governmental instability.

The Communist Party, under Stalin's orders,

worries the rulers while

the extreme right sows chaos and

wants to impose a fascist order

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but his weapon emerged victorious from the

war of 14-18 and is considered the

best in the world

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who

yves enough wants to resuscitate the

Franco-Russian alliance that had taken Germany

in a vice during the First World War

hoping that the fear of

Nazi Germany will prevail over the

visceral anti-communism of French officials and

military

Lê duy nov immediately finds

unexpected support

I the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Louis Barthou

old anti-communist of 72 years everywhere

no longer has any qualms from then on it is a

question of the security of France

he knows that he needs the

Soviet Union to prevent Hitler at night

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thanks to the support of Louis Barthou

the Soviet Union is thus

officially admitted to the League of

Nations

a great success for Litvine off whose

country is no longer treated as a pariah by the

international community is even if

teeth are grinding in the

French government Barthou negotiate with the case

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a military alliance that will have to be

signed soon

litvin of could not dream better

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but a few weeks later

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louis barthou and the collateral victim

of an attack that targeted the king of

yugoslavia

in the crowd louis barthou

was first accidentally injured by

a policeman's shot then evacuated in

haste

while the nurse placed the guard in the

wrong place and caused a

fatal hemorrhage

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and while the coffin of louis

barthou is repatriated to paris

maxime litvinov wonders if it is

not the franco soviet military alliance

that we are going to bury

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since the end of the first

world war the british have

largely withdrawn from

european affairs on which they only

retain a distant and indifferent view

their diplomacy is turned towards the

open sea and the preservation of their

immense colonial empire

deeply anti communist they

perceive hitler at most as a

nationalist a little excited that a threat

absolutely not their interest in

short the idea of ​​an alliance between

England and the Soviet Union

is for the moment science

fiction

it is however the mission with which Litvinov

's trusted man

in London is invested the

Soviet ambassador Ivan risk

corn who elects devine off met

in exile in London before the

Russian revolution and remained linked by a

deep friendship corn who did

not belong at the time to the Bolshevik party which

finally seized power

but to the competing movement it was

a match eric as much to say a traitor a

serious error of youth that

Stalin and his entourage never fail to remind him of

weiss who is happily married to an

authentic Bolshevik anyama isc a

brilliant and sparkling woman who

always appears in the most beautiful

London-style outfits

jewish and fiercely anti-nazi maisky at

diplomacy dance he knows how to attract the

sympathy and confidences of his

interlocutors essential qualities

to win the favor of a

British establishment that is

by nature viscerally hostile to him. Ivan

Corn, who has become friends with the

young Conservative minister who

represents Great Britain in the League of Nations,

Anthony Id. He has the physique of a young first-class

student at Oxford. Hidden represents the best that

the British high class can produce.

He speaks five languages, including

Russian fluently, and he is a little more

open-minded than his colleagues. Corn,

who believe he has a bright

future and has decided to bet on him.

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according to his propaganda, Hitler

only wants peace,

but you would have to be deaf and blind

to believe it.

Even the new motorways have a

military interest.

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but for the moment they

only have the small army authorized by the

Treaty of Versailles, which

also forbids any modern weapons. On

February 26, 1935, Ickler orders his second-in-command,

Hermann Goering, to create a

modern air force, violating

his international obligations for the first time.

Only two weeks later, they

transgress a new interest said in

announcing the reestablishment of military service

the English ministers coming from London

Arif will call it Berlin airfield

this time the British government

finally decides reacts the foreign minister

John Salmons and

Anthony Hidden are sent to Berlin

to bring Hitler to his senses

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he arrives at the Reich Chancellery

confident in the success of their

mission

soon followed by a Hitler wound up like

a clock

Hitler will refuse bluntly to interrupt

their rearmament of Germany

totally inflexible he will even

boast by claiming that his

air force is already at the same level as

the British air force Hitler lies like

a tooth puller to sow

confusion

but the two British believe him and

will report this information to their

governments where a

wind of panic will suddenly reign which does not escape

Ivan Maisky who immediately takes advantage

of the British disarray to invite

Jones Imon and Anthony Hidden to Moscow

Moscow

as much as to say the planet Mars for

British ministers John Simone

categorically refuses

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Anthony Y donner is interested and

he is authorized half-heartedly by

his government to accompany Maize

Maxim Litvinov very skeptical about this

minister of this tale order he represents

the future replies Maize who and then

anyway we will not have better while

waiting for the arrival of Anthony Y donner

Ivan Maize who Litvinov talks with

the British ambassador

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Maxime 18 Nov wants to prove to his guest

that the communists are

respectable people first steps he hopes for

an alliance with England

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the devine of enamel which leads

with pride Anthony Donne in the

Moscow metro which has just been

inaugurated history to underline that the

Soviets are turned towards progress

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and history to show that they

too are attached to traditions

the legendary Bolshoi Theatre gives a

special performance in honor of the

British minister

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but it is the next morning that

the big event is to take place to this day

no Western official has

ever met Stalin Anthony

enters the Kremlin

accompanied by the British ambassador

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the meeting takes place in Molotov's office

head of the Soviet government close

among Stalin's close associates Molotov is

suspicious like the plague of the politics

that Lidwyn of Men with the

capitalist states Corn who despite his

smile has a knot in his stomach

the presence of Stalin always

tends to make him anxious

as for hidden he feels a certain

jubilation at being the first to meet

Stalin

once the cameras are out

Anthony he improvises a small

friendly speech for the occasion

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yes yes the koup Stalin there are six of us

in this room

let's suppose that 5 of us conclude a

military alliance and let's suppose that

comrade Corn who decides to attack a

member of our alliance

what would happen it had to

fall on me says Corn who towards

which all eyes are

now fixed solar Stalin and well if

comrade Corn who dared to attack us

by the combination of our military forces

we would give him a well-

deserved correction that is collective security

I see answers Tony gives that is

also why comrade Corn who

always behaves so humbly

jokes Molotov to close

Stalin's demonstration

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Litvinov and Miles who accompanies Iden to

the station hoping that his meeting

with Stalin will bear fruit

but as soon as he is back in London

Hidden will report to his government all

his perplexity and will call Stalin too

bad there is a tic with a detached

and cruel character for the British

the Soviets remain above all

communists with whom a

rapprochement is impossible

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meanwhile Lidwine's fears

offers concerning France are confirmed

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the new government has buried

the Franco-Soviet military alliance

at the same time as Louis Barthou

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from London Corn who informs Litvinov

that this It is in reality the British

who dissuaded the French from

finalizing the military agreement with the

Soviets

since Barthou's death. France no

longer has a diplomacy independent of the

British. The

French general staff, totally

panicked by the speed of

German rearmament, is convinced of its inability

to defeat Hitler without the help of allies. And

when it thinks of allies, France

counts above all on Great

Britain.

But the British, who of

course assure the French of their full

sympathy, stubbornly refuse to

engage in a military alliance

with the French in whom they have no

confidence at all.

French diplomacy therefore has

only one concern: to do everything

to please the Angles and it will

now systematically align itself

with their will.

Meanwhile, Hitler has entrusted this

man with a special mission to the

British.

His name is Joachim von Ribbentrop.

He is an unscrupulous upstart who is very

full of himself. A former wine

and spirits merchant who has a

late but dazzling career in the entourage

says the air

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Ribbentrop proposes to the British

to accept that Germany reconstitutes

its navy and commits in

exchange to the eastern limit so

that the Royal Navy remains the first

navy in the world in doing so they clare

tries a particularly crude poker move

which aims to pass a

third transgression of the Treaty of

Versailles

but to the general surprise the

British accept and thus without even having

taken the trouble to warn

anyone England authorizes

Nazi Germany to equip itself with a

galley navy Corn

who is dismayed by this

decision which undermines all efforts in

favor of collective security

Stalin sees it as proof of a plot

by the English of the Nazis against the Soviet Union

even the 8,9 short of arguments near

Stalin gives in to discouragement

one must remain patient writes to him Corn

who I am certain that the British

will quickly understand that they made a

big mistake by giving Hitler the reins

on September 16, 1935 during the

annual congress of the Nazi party the regime

proclaims the racial laws

and German Jews are now deprived

of their citizenship

which opens the door to all excesses

violence and expropriations

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trapped in their own country

those who can flee or

put their children to safety in France

and Great Britain no

one can now pretend

to ignore the true nature of Nazism

yet since his embassy

ivan corn who notes that the

British conservatives refrain

from publicly denouncing these racial laws

except one

literally revolted by

anti-semitism

winston churchill has for years not stopped

alerting his colleagues and

public opinion that

hitler must be stopped by all

means

before it is too late

m he is preaching in the desert after a

long ministerial career to his

credit judged and gifted but uncontrollable

they pass in his own camp for an

eccentric and to tell the truth a pain in the neck

still as isolated stalin is determined

to make it known that it will cost very

dearly to anyone who dares to do so take from

the Soviet Union

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the Red Army represents on paper

a titanic force but the Japanese

as well as the Europeans with a certain

arrogance doubt its effectiveness

Stalin orders gigantic

maneuvers in Ukraine and invites all

foreign observers

the Red Army shows all its know-

how

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lightning offensive combining infantry

and tanks with massive air support

to literally dislocate the

enemy cold use on the

enemy rear of a new weapon

in which the Western armies do

not believe

the paratroopers

the British general who attends the

maneuvers does not believe his eyes and

reports to his government not

only does the Red Army have more

tanks and planes than all the countries

of the world combined but its

technical superiority is overwhelming in all

areas

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on March 7, 1936 Ickler suddenly orders

the remilitarization of the Rhineland the

German region bordering

France in which any

military presence is strictly prohibited

they flout for the fourth time

International law and

Nazi propaganda impress the whole world by

showing the welcome of the German population

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But on this occasion Hitler is scared

he only sent 3000 soldiers to whom

he ordered to withdraw immediately

in the event of a French reaction

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In Paris, Prime Minister Albert

Sarraut and the crowd are raging

he orders the head of the French army,

General Gamelin, to

immediately expel the German troops

but Gamelin refuses to obey until he is

certain of being supported by

the English

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In London, but who cables to Litvinov who

is in Geneva

here it is the weekend impossible to

meet a minister but after

reading the newspapers I can already

tell you that the English are in the mood for a

test ferry clear

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To the League of Nations, Litvin of

warned the Serb and Mein Kampf

teaches us that Germany is determined

to dominate Europe by all means,

we now need a

collective reaction to oppose it

before it is too late and as

no voice joins his,

Litvinov sharply challenges Anthony

Did.

I don't see the point of what is

happening here. We are just waiting with our

arms hanging. If we joined

forces,

Germany would fall into line.

There will be no armed intervention

to oppose the remilitarization of

peace.

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In three years, Hitler got rid of the

Treaty of Versailles without encountering the

slightest opposition. [

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And he now feels he has

wings.

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And on September 14, 1936, in front of 160,000

faithful,

he launched a great crusade against

communism.

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Hitler swore to destroy both the

Jews and the Soviet Union in a

fight to the death against those he called

Judeo-Bolshevism.

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The fascist dictator Mussolini, who

came to power long before the Nazis,

long considered them a

vulgar anti-Semitic counterfeit of

Italian fascism,

but the Duce, so stunned by the

successes, made it clear that they were beginning to

recognize him as

the dominant male,

and the two dictators sealed an

alliance that once again strengthened

Hitler's position.

A few weeks later, he entrusted

Ribbentrop with the signing of a pact with

Japan, openly directed against

the Soviet Union.

Hitler also wanted to stifle all

attempts at collective security,

always in the name of anti-communism. He

would now try to seal an

alliance with Great Britain.

He appointed a new ambassador in the shadows.

The inevitable Ribbentrop, now a

direct rival of Corn, who, in order to gain

England's favor,

Ribbentrop was determined to obtain this

alliance with England as quickly as

possible,

contrary to all

diplomatic practices. Ribbentrop decided

to improvising a speech upon his arrival

the Führer thinks that the only danger that

threatens England and communism

communism is the most terrible of

diseases because people only realize

the danger when it is too late

that is why the Führer wants to become

a friend of Great Britain

the next day even the most

anti-communist press is scandalized by

Ribbentrop's speech by recalling that

Great Britain is a democracy

in which communists have the

right to live and to express themselves

ivan and anja corn who is amused by the

incendiary reactions which proves that

the Nazi ambassador really does not understand

anything about the English

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when the day came to present his

credentials before the king

brings maisky ribbentrop gave him the

nazi salute in front of 500 people instead of

bowing as required by protocol did

he even realize that he had just

offended all the British

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as for the diplomat of the embassy

from Germany they are literally

devastated by the fanaticism of their

new boss who now requires them to

give the Nazi salute

every time they meet a

British person

in a few weeks Ribbentrop will

accumulate so many blunders and

rudeness that the British press will

nickname him bricks a drop a version

2 to drop break make a blunder

meanwhile Ivan Corn who

tirelessly continues his lobbying with

the British establishment

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while anti-communism is one of the

favorite business lines of the English newspapers

Corn who manages to establish

friendly relations with all the press bosses

and incredibly the

best-selling newspapers

in England are gradually stopping their

anti-Soviet campaigns

during an evening Corn they

finally meet Churchill who rush

towards him Nazism has changed everything

armed with the Soviet Union is no longer

a threat we urgently need to

pursue a policy of collective security

the alliance between the Soviet Union and

England is now to mask

a certainty

this It's only a matter of time

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It's then that Neville Chamberlain is

appointed Prime Minister,

Corn, who doesn't know him well, but he

soon learns a lot

more.

Chamberlain falls into the category of the

ignorant, who thinks he's always

right,

condescending and brusque towards his

interlocutors.

He is a specialist in

financial matters who knows absolutely

nothing about foreign policy.

They consider the communists to be

perfidious beings with whom one

should have no dealings and

privately describe Ambassador Mahistre as a

dangerous little Jew,

but Corn, who was not mistaken about the

fate of Anthony Ide, who is appointed

Minister of Foreign Affairs,

is now opposed to any

conciliation with Hitler, but

Chamberlain has decided to pursue a

policy of appeasement with the Nazis,

which he will inaugurate with another

minister, Lord Halifax. Lord

Halifax,

Corn, who knows him well, and they

paint a portrait of him for them since

November. An

aristocrat who spouts platitudes,

totally indifferent to the fate of

other countries in the world, is very hostile to

towards the Soviet Union

like a scout Halifax undertakes a

private trip to Germany

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Halifax must first pay a

courtesy visit to Hermann Goering

Uhring and number two in the

Nazi protocol order, formidably

intelligent, he is also a being with

infantile egocentrism and a

totally unhinged mind

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during a pleasant morning the

Nazi dignitary announces to the

English aristocrat that Claire has decided on an

excellent Austria

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Halifax replies to them that Great

Britain will not oppose it provided that

it does not cause too much disorder

this response delighted Goering who will

hasten to report to Hitler that

the British are giving him

free rein in Austria then Halifax must be

received at Bercoff Hitler's private residence

in the Bavarian Alps

barely out of the car he

carelessly leaves his hat to the one he

takes for a lackey

before to realize his mistake

and Hitler gives him back his hat from his

trip to

Halifax will report the following impression:

the Nazis are certainly nationalist and

racist,

but if we were in their place, we would

feel the same way. We disagree

with the policy of appeasement.

Anthony Den resigns from the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs and goes on vacation

with his wife.

This is a hard blow for Maisky, who has just

lost his only entry into the

government.

Immediately followed by a second

blow, it is Clumsy from Halifax who

replaces ID,

but this deluge of bad news

is nothing compared to the

terrifying ordeal that awaits Corn, who is his

boss.

Litvin Off

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July 30, 1937, Stalin

secretly calls for the elimination of all

counter-revolutionary elements and sets

quotas for arrests and

death sentences in each region

of the SSR. He has decided to purge all of

Soviet society.

No one should be safe, he specifies to

Nicolai and Geof,

the chief executioner. responsible for

the operation

Stalin sets an example by authorizing

the purge of his own sister-in-law and

brother-in-law Local officials

then engage in a race for

efficiency to please Stalin and will

quickly exceed the quotas

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The machine races and you have the channel

750 thousand people arrested at random

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Foreign Affairs officials are themselves

particularly targeted and many of

Litvinov's collaborators will

disappear overnight

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Some will prefer to commit suicide to

escape the uncertainty

Stalin also decides to attack the

only international asset he has

in the eyes of the world

the experienced and ultra-

qualified general staff of the Red Army

All these excellent generals without

exception will be arrested on the

delusional grounds of fascist military conspiracy

horribly tortured and executed after

having confessed their alleged crimes in

exchange for the promise that Stalin

will spare their families

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promise that Stalin does not keep orders he will

then have four officers eliminated

superiors out of five and will leave a

totally decapitated Red Army

it is a catastrophe for

Soviet diplomacy why would the English the

French now ally themselves

with a headless duck and a leader

capable of mutilating his own army

even Hitler is shocked this guy is crazy

he confides to his entourage

expert word the work of Litvinov is

done corn which has become almost

impossible

they who are in contact with the

outside world must constantly justify

reassure lie hold the line

we are facing a fascist plot

the elimination of enemies from within will make

us stronger maxime case 9

finds himself on the list of an

imaginary plot but fortunately

for him Lenin's widow is also

on this list and even if he hates her

Stalin retreat which saves the quotes nov

as for corn who he lives in terror

especially since he has things to

reproach himself for to reassure and sometimes

influenced Stalin and did not hesitate to

falsify certain diplomatic reports

it is high treason and if this

were to be discovered

he would have no chance of getting away with it

for a Nazi dignitary to be invited to the

Bercoff the supreme honor

one can rub shoulders with the Führer in complete

relaxation it is above all the place where

the big decisions are taken

the heart of power

Ribbentrop is now one of the

regulars of Father Kof

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he has made a place for himself among the small

circle of TVO fanatics who vie with each other

in fervor around their were

at the beginning of 1938 Hitler appoints

Ribbentrop Minister of

Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich

he

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since there is no one to stop him

Hitler seizes Austria six months

before the date he had set himself

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if Hitler has decided to rush

the annexation of Austria it is because

the German economy can no longer

support the frenetic pace of

rearmament and rather than slow down the

pace

Hitler has decided to seize

all Austrian industry as quickly as possible

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the annexation of Austria is only the

first step in a predatory enterprise

where each conquest will

now strengthen its war machine

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Churchill had retained his own government at the SAB Le Mans

it will soon be too late what will

we do when the German army is more

powerful than the French army

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Maxime Litvine of again demands that

Europeans join the

Soviet Union to contain Hitler before it

is too late

but it is still not the policy

of the British blindly followed by

the French

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in France Edouard Daladier is appointed

President of the Council

a position he takes on like a

burden Daladier is a

veteran never sickened by the war

totally lucid about the imminence of a

new conflict with Germany

formerly pugnacious in character

now a man a DC deeply

depressed since the death of his wife

and who often smells of pastis early in

the day

like all his predecessors for the past

four years he makes the

military alliance with Great Britain

his absolute priority an alliance that

Chamberlain continues to stubbornly refuse him

as for the key

foreign ministries it is now occupied by

a supporter of conciliation at all

costs on crutches clair georges bonnet

known to be dissembling and evasive he is a

schemer one of whose

favorite pastimes is to spread rumors

about one and all

in europe those who are lucky enough

can escape for a few weeks

for a well-deserved summer break

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the holidays will however be very

controlled and laborious for most

young germans while the

english middle class crowds in

brighton for sunbathing

interspersed with the traditional more

scattered

ivan and anja corn who always spend

the summer on the shores of the black sea in

sochi

sochi and the seaside resort of the

soviet officials

it is the place where you absolutely have to

spend your holidays to cultivate his

relationships

especially in the context of the purges that

never end

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but that year

there is no trace of the corn who in

Sochi

Ivan Corn who was arrested in Moscow

he was told that two of his

collaborators had confessed under

torture to elements very compromising

for him before being executed

Corn who must now confess his

crimes in writing Stalin will judge

as for the case Nov he was placed under

the surveillance of a

special commission composed of Stalin and his

close guard including the inevitable Molotov

Molotov remains opposed to any idea of

collective security

let the capitalists and the

fascists kill each other all that does not

concern us a stupidity without name for

him since Nov

ostriching will not prevent Hitler

from attacking us collective security

and our only option

as for Stalin he is incapable of

deciding between Molotov and Litvinov

we do not know what crime Corn who

finally confessed but he was sent back to

The shadow of Stalin believes he still

needs his services at the very moment when

Hitler is about to attempt his biggest

gamble since coming to power. He has

decided to annex a part of

Czechoslovakia where a German-speaking population lives,

the Sudetenland region

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but Czechoslovakia is not alone,

it is protected by a double

military alliance with France and the Soviet Union.

Since Moscow, Litvinov announces that

the Soviet Union will keep its

commitments and defend

Czechoslovakia and calls the French

to a general staff conference, a

call to which Minister Georges Bonnet does

not even respond. The French, as

always, are waiting to know what the English will do

about it, but the solution is obvious:

Great Britain must

also commit to defending

Czechoslovakia alongside the French and the

Soviets.

It is even a golden opportunity to

finally stop Hitler, and that is what he

intends to say as soon as possible in

Halifax. He replies that he does

n't have time to see him

[Music]

Ivan Corn, who then leaves London

in a hurry for the

Chartwell estate in Kent

[Music]

He has decided to address the only

person who could listen to him and

transmit his request to the British government.

Chartwell is Churchill's private residence.

Corn finds Churchill

busy with masonry work and

immediately presents his request to him. If

we will all be in the ranks, he tells him that

Hitler will not dare and you ask me

to discreetly transmit your

suggestion to Halifax. He replies: Turks,

they don't have it discreetly.

I beg you to

officially transmit the

Soviet government's request to the

British government.

You want me to act as the

spokesperson for the Soviet government.

Yes, no one listens to me,

and Churchill returns to London to

act as the Soviets' advocate to

Halifax, who himself is beginning to have

serious doubts about Chamberlain's policy.

But Jean Berlin has decided to act alone and is

preparing to take the plane for the

first time. of his life

[Music]

he is convinced that his fate has resonated with

Hitler and save the shovel

[Music]

he is welcomed at the airport of Munich

Paris good door

the minister says the air still has not

digested the humiliation of his stay in

London and now nourishes a

real hatred against the English he

persuaded Hitler that Chamberlain was

only a wimp incapable of standing up to him

[Music]

when the British arrives at the Berghof

he is impressed by

Hitler's residence but much less by the

dictator himself whom he judges to include

completely ordinary

[Music]

the guests first take tea

exchanging banalities the

serious discussion will take place in the

private room called Claire with the interpreter of the

Führer as sole witnesses while

Ribbentrop removed will spend the rest of the

evening kicked

[Music]

for more than two hours Hitler will

monopolize the speech and vomit his hatred

of the Czechoslovakians and their President

leaves the air has sworn to capture

alive to hang him with his own

hands the dictator has decided to seize

all sizes Czechoslovak and they will

crush anyone who tries to block his

way at the end of patience

chamberlain stands up all this is

pointless in these conditions it is better that

I leave at once which

disconcerts Hitler chamberlain sits

down and the dictator suddenly

exhausted then announces that he agrees to

limit his demands to the territories of the

south-east

when chamberlain leaves Germany

he has agreed to cede the Sudetenland to

Hitler in exchange the dictator has

promised him not to demand any new

territories in the future

[Music]

and chamberlain confides to one of his

advisors that it seems to him that Hitler

is a man who will keep his word

[Music]

[Applause]

nothing concrete remains to be

resolved only a slight difficulty

Czechoslovakia must agree to let itself be

cut into pieces to do this

chamberlain summons Daladier Bonnet at

10 Downing Street

upon his exit, Daladier, ashamed but

relieved, submitted to Chamberlain's plan

instead of supporting his Czechoslovak ally.

He will put pressure on him to

agree to peacefully cede the

Sudetenland.

Corn, who finds at the League of Nations, a Litvinov

dismayed by this new

capitulation to Hitler,

particularly irascible and at the end of his

tether.

Litvinov has not yet admitted defeat

for years, he declares.

The Soviet Union proposes to the other

European powers to unite to

establish collective security.

If this had been the case, it would have

spared us the current crisis. Today,

we are ready to defend our

Czechoslovak ally, but

France must also keep its commitments. For

any response,

Georges Bonnet spreads the

insidious rumor that Litvinov is a man and has

no intention of supporting the

Czechoslovak.

Bonnet even assures that this is

completely insane. To get this

information from the IT 8.9 in person

she is sneaky rice of bonnets are

little thing compared to the real headache

which occupies the quotes nov

the red army cannot come to the aid

of czechoslovakia until the

soviet have obtained

authorization to cross poland

and that is the whole problem

[Music]

after their seizure of power the

bolshevik leaders urgently negotiated

peace with germany and

austria hungary

the young soviet power was then

forced to abandon vast

territories along its western border

a few months later after the

military defeat of germany and the

dislocation of austria hungary

these territories gained their

independence finland the three

baltic states and poland

poland which is thus reborn after having

been divided for one hundred and forty six

years between three empires and fiercely

attached to its independence

stuck between nazi germany and

the soviet union poland is

now an authoritarian state whose

diplomacy is led by colonel

pec a An astonishing character with

nationalism and delusions of grandeur

fueled by alcoholism

encouraged by Hitler, Colonel Bec

also demands a piece of

Czechoslovakia where a Polish minority lives.

Needless to say, there is no question of

the Poles allowing the

Red Army to pass through their territory.

Meanwhile,

Czechoslovak President Edward Benes is under

infernal pressure from the French and the

British who threaten to

abandon him to his fate, and Beness ends up

agreeing to abandon the Sudetenland.

Thus, for his second meeting with

Hitler, Chamberlain now believes he is

able to offer him what they

demand on a plate and without bloodshed,

but Hitler will brutally reject the

peaceful solution and, in a state

close to hysteria, will give the

entire Czechoslovak population six days

to evacuate the region, otherwise he

will attack. Bye-bye, in a state of shock

at this incomprehensible ultimatum,

Jean Berlin has no choice but to pack his bags

and go home.

[Music]

The next day, Czechoslovakia

decided to mobilize its small army

in these conditions. Daladier had to

resolve to support his

Czechoslovak ally and to mobilize

the French army. A country still

traumatized by the carnage of 1914-1918

[Music]

where

this fatal spiral did not impress

Hitler, who declared in front of his close friends:

If France and Great Britain

want to attack me, let them do it,

I don't care, but the only ones who

continued to encourage him were Ribbentrop.

All the others, including Goering, were

paralyzed by the irrational attitude

of their leader.

For several weeks, Goering had been working behind

Hitler's back by launching

desperate appeals to the only person

who would be likely to make him

see reason.

Mussolini. On September 27, 1938,

Chamberlain addressed the

British population. Eddie expressed his despair at having to

prepare for war when Hitler

had just peacefully obtained what they would

demand. But he then noted in his

diary: Here

we are. Czechoslovakians will

resist France will have to intervene and

we will support France

now war is inevitable

[Music]

but 24 hours Later Hitler accepts

in extremis a proposal from his friend

Mussolini, a conference organized in

Munich the next day between Italy,

Germany,

France and Great Britain. Czechoslovakia is not invited, the Soviet Union is not [Music] where if Hitler let himself be convinced by Mussolini, he is not angry in private with Goering, whom he knows to have orchestrated everything [Applause] [Music] on the other hand, Ribbentrop, who welcomed

Chamberlain as he got off the plane,

continues to rise in the esteem of

his Führer

[Music]

Daladier arrives in turn convinced that

the shameful sacrifice of

Czechoslovakia will only offer a very

short respite before an inevitable war.

While the discussions begin in

Munich, Czechoslovakia, abandoned by

all, announces that its army has given up

resisting,

which, due to the constraints of the atmosphere

[Music]

to London Czechoslovak Ambassador

Jan Masaryk visits Masker

when he arrived images I searched for

words to comfort him

and Masaryk answered me while holding back his

sobs

they sold us like slaves

[Music]

and thus the Munich Agreements were signed under the auspices

of Mussolini which

authorized, it pleases, to dismember a part

of Czechoslovakia the only

democratic state in Central Europe

in passing Poland also obtained the

right to seize the piece it

coveted

[Music]

Chamberlain he suddenly became a

hero in Great Britain and he

silenced all the opponents of his policy

of appeasement but not a marble he is

convinced of having saved the peace for ten

years note Mike Leigh even if I think they are

mistaken for tomorrow

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

seeing him the crowd waiting for him

Daladier, at first convinced that he's going to be

lynched for betraying

Czechoslovakia,

when he understands that people

welcome him as a savior of peace, he

grumbles, idiots

[Music]

[Applause]

in the general euphoria, no one is

worried about the Soviets' dismay.

The Westerners contemptuously ignored

Litvin of's outstretched hand and

preferred to make a pact with Hitler,

morally collapsed. Maxime Legend of has

lost all his illusions,

completely empty-handed after five

years of effort. He will now have to

explain himself to a humiliated and

increasingly anxious Stalin.

I told you so, slips me a Molotov.

The Westerners are turning

Hitler against us. Now the proof

is there. Georges Bonnet finds a way

to add to it by inviting Ribbentrop to

Paris.

The latter, whom the

German ambassador thinks is completely

crazy, demanded to be better received than the

King of England.

[Music]

and Bonnet signs a non-aggression pact with Ribbentrop

[Music]

Ribbentrop is then invited to lay

a swastika wreath on the tomb of the

unknown soldier and to flatter the vanity

of the Nejm Bonnet will organize a large

official banquet where the three

Jewish ministers of the French government will

not be invited

[Music]

oh no

[Music]

2

[Music]

since Munich Hitler has been driven by a

feeling of omnipotence and to

start the year off well

he invited a Pole when

Colonel Bec arrives at Bercoff

he is still bragging about having seized

a piece of Czechoslovakia

he will quickly become disillusioned

Hitler will demand the annexation of the

Danzig corridor this strip of

Polish land which separates East Prussia

from the rest of the Reich in exchange for a

clear promise to bait him

I will offer Poland all of Ukraine

when I have annihilated the USSR the

Colonel Bec categorically refuses

and Hitler decides that he will crush

Poland,

yes,

after having executed three-

quarters of the Central Committee, Stalin believes

that he now has a

sufficiently renewed party and puts an end to the

Great Terror

[Music]

From now on, the purges will return to their

usual rate of 10% per year.

In his foreign policy speech,

Stalin reveals all his

frustration after Munich and his fear

of finding himself alone facing Hitler. By

adopting a convoluted formula,

he expresses his refusal to pull the chestnuts out of the

fire for the benefit of the West,

pulling the chestnuts out of the fire.

Ribbentrop turns this

expression of Stalin's and ends up having

an illumination. He goes to the Berghof

to reveal it to Hitler.

Stalin's last speech is a wink. He

tells him that Stalin would prefer to ally himself

with us rather than remain isolated.

I am certain that

by signing a pact with him, you would have your

hands completely free in Europe.

A pact with the Judeo-Bolsheviks or

clear answers.

It's completely absurd, he couldn't

help it.

On March 15, 1939, Hitler invaded the rest

of Czechoslovakia and took over

its entire arms industry.

Six months after their signature,

he had just torn up the Munich Agreement.

[Music]

And after crossing the Baltic Sea,

Hitler seized the Lithuanian port,

where a

German-speaking population lived. While committing this

new act of international piracy,

Hitler sent a message to Poland.

Even though it was only 130

nautical miles from the Danzig corridor,

Hitler demanded that they be

immediately ceded to him, otherwise they would

seize them.

[Music]

After all, who would dare to stop him? From

London, Corn informs Litvinov that

the British are not only

stunned, they are furious because Hitler

fooled them in Munich.

This time, the cup is full.

[Music]

The reaction of the French is identical,

and another one. Feelings are emerging:

shame, shame at having abandoned

Czechoslovakia for nothing, since

this gangster will have to be stopped.

War with Germany, for the first

time, is accepted as a fatal certainty

on both sides of the Channel.

[Music]

Chamberlain will finally sound the hour of

revolt. On March 31, 1939, he gives

Poland his guarantee that if it were

attacked,

Great Britain would come and

distort it from Paris. Relieved to

finally be able to form a

military alliance with the English, Daladier

immediately offers the same guarantee to

Poland.

Hitler first flies into a

hysterical rage and swears to pulverize

France and England,

but he is forced to admit that

their unexpected reactions upset

his plans.

Military logic dictates that the Franco-

English are now seeking to put him

in a vice and sully him as quickly as possible

with the Soviet Union.

Suddenly, the idea of ​​a pact with Stalin

to pull the rug out from under their feet no

longer seems so absurd to him. and that before

just unrealizable

corn which brings in the east since nov that

the military alliance between Great

Britain and the Soviet Union is

demanded by nine out of ten English according to the

increasingly anxious press

chamberlain should even beg Stalin

to immediately sell with him

since nothing is coming stalin orders

maxime l'étouche nov to make the first

move litvinov thus proposes to france

and Great Britain an

immediate military alliance in addition to

Poland

this alliance will also have to commit

to defending Finland the Baltic states

and Romania the

entire Soviet border from the

Baltic to the Black Sea

when corn which is summoned by

Halifax he is convinced that the grand

alliance is only a matter of

days

but Halifax pinage that is to say that

all this is going a little too far

originally we only wanted to protect

Poland corn which is surprised but

we all know that Hitler will not stop

at Poland is it not and Halifax

asks for time to study all this

time as if we had the time wanted to

shout at him corn which especially

since there is always a problem to solve

geography is stubborn the

Soviet Union cannot confront

Germany without the Red Army

crossing Poland

received in Great Britain Colonel Beck

is absolutely delighted that the English the

French agree to protect him

from Hitler but when Halifax

asks him if Poland would consent

for the good of all to let

the Red Army pass through his territory

Beck refuses the world will collapse and

Poland with it but the Russians are not

allowed on Polish soil

and yet no one thinks for a moment

to insist with PEC who will leave

Great Britain without the question

of the passage of the Red Army and having been

resolved

[Music]

corn who invited his

British supporters to lunch whose circle is

widening since the guarantee given to the

Pole

when he is discreetly warned of an

urgent telegram

corn who isolates himself the telegram is

unusually signed by Stalin

himself,

he announces to him that because of his

disloyal attitude,

Maxim Litvin has been dismissed from his

duties. His sworn enemy, Molotov,

replaces him. Molotov, Minister of

Foreign Affairs, without any diplomatic culture,

they don't even know the meaning of the word

dialogue. It's almost comical, says

Mask

Corn, who is now convinced that

Stalin is preparing an opening towards

Germany, an opening that

Litvinov would have refused with all his heart,

but which poses no problem for

Molotov.

[Music]

for the time being, in accordance with Molotov's orders.

Corn announces to the

British that the

Soviet

proposal for a military alliance remains valid and is still waiting for a response from Berlin. Ribbentrop interprets the dismissal of the Jew in 2009 as a new appeal from Stalin, but he still fails to convince Hitler. However, all anti-communist propaganda abruptly ceases in

Germany, like a smoke signal

discreetly sent to Moscow.

For seven years, Hitler uses

Nazi activists to raise The

pressure has a tick

and in six is ​​only a pretext Hitler

has already secretly set the date of

the invasion of all of Poland

to September 1, 1939

the French and British general staffs

have accelerated their cooperation for his

generals the guarantee given to Poland

means that it will be necessary to win a

war

the alliance with the Soviet Union

and as a British general says

the only thing to do

provided that the politicians do not drag their feet

[Music]

the spring and the beginning of the summer of 1939 is

spent in diplomatic maneuvers and

negotiations conducted in the

greatest confusion British French

Soviet exchanges proposals and

convoluted counter-proposals which

fail all on the case of Poland

which continues to refuse the passage

of the Red Army on its territory

only the French the British

could jointly make

Poland bend but they do not

really make an effort in this direction in

reality while Europe is running to its

ruin no

one trusts anyone to

this is added that Molotov is a

character sometimes on the edge of the

rudeness which does not make

things any easier for Stalin who distrusts

Hitler as much as the West

he has felt since Munich a very

personal hatred towards Jean Berlin and mid

July there is still no

military alliance between France

Great Britain and the Soviet Union

to take Nazi Germany in a vice

it is in the middle of this

diplomatic marmalade that a stunning piece of news falls

the newspapers reveal that

during all this time Chamberlain was

trying to buy Ickler by

a vast economic plan and

advantageous loans to buy Hitler as

incredible as it may seem

Chamberlain remained convinced that it

was possible to come to an agreement with the

Nazi dictator

it was a personal initiative

of the Prime Minister of which he had not

informed his cabinet Chamberlain even had to

beg Halifax absolutely mad with

rage on learning the news to remain

in the government

the popular pressure is now

irresistible Chamberlain must

resolve to send a delegation to

negotiate a military alliance in Moscow

from Paris Daladier

immediately joins the British and the

news of the upcoming

military alliance with the Soviets is

announced with relief by the entire

press.

This time, Hitler finally authorizes

Ribbentrop to attempt a rapprochement with

the Soviets in the most absolute secrecy.

Georg and Stack Off, a simple

economic advisor to the Soviet embassy in

Berlin, are surprised to be invited to

lunch by the German diplomat Karl

Moore in a small, discreet restaurant

not far from the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs. Stack Off is in reality an

agent of the NKVD, which the Germans

know perfectly well.

As for Chenôve, he is acting on the orders of

Ribbentrop, who wrote him a text that

the diplomat must repeat to the letter

as soon as the meal is finished.

Carlos is relaunching us.

Germany had

excellent relations with the Soviet Union in the past.

That was before the Nazis. Replica

Sackhoff. Yes, but if the Soviet Union

wishes,

we could improve our relations.

Continue. We re-Astakhov, the impossible move.

Don't act as if Hitler

never wrote Mein Kampf. Kneeling. He's

laughing when he didn't take it.

seriously a book that was written

fifteen years ago I assure you that our

priorities have changed a lot let me

tell you that it is very difficult to

believe replies gheorghe to stack off

why are you not like us

treated with the greatest contempt by

the English

the argument seems to hit the mark on a

stack off and schlur continues I am

convinced that there is

common ground that could satisfy our

common interests

continue simply says a stack off

there is no territorial problem

between our two countries from the Baltic to the

Black Sea that cannot be resolved very

quickly

even your troubles with our Japanese friends

can find a solution so that

you feel perfectly

safe

everything is negotiable in the street when it is

time to take leave astakhov asks let's

imagine that a very high

German official talks with a very

high Soviet official and what they

would say exactly the same things

as you but of course nour replies

two days later by

top secret telegram to stack off molotov says he is

interested in the German overtures

astakhov transmits achour who transmits to

ribbentrop who transmits to Hitler on

August 2, 1939, Ribbentrop transmits in the

most absolute secrecy to Molotov

an offer of territorial arrangement from

the Baltic to the Black Sea, specifying

that it is very urgent and will

not remain valid for very long. The

German-Soviet Pact is now on the

table for Stalin.

Hitler's proposal is simply

irresistible.

He immediately sees in it the opportunity to

recover in one fell swoop all the

territories lost after the Russian Revolution.

Micky, who knows nothing of

Hitler's offer to Stalin, notes that the

English have a very original concept

of urgency.

It took them twelve days to

designate the members of the

military mission that must go to Moscow

[Music]

but what frankly worries him is

that this mission is led by

Admiral Dax on the

English side and General Doumenc on the

French side, two brave Sophie Fier, whom

Stalin has already nicknamed Admiral Nobody and

General I Don't Know Who,

who had nevertheless insisted on the

designation of leading figures

[Music]

2

he had also strongly suggested that the

delegation go to moscow by plane

but the military mission by boat on

the city of exeter the slowest cargo ship

in the british fleet

[Music]

on the soviet side

the talks will be led by

marshal voroshilov minister of

defense

member of the first circle

[Music]

during the first meeting

voroshilov will put on the table the

documents attesting to his full

diplomatic powers and will ask to

see those of drax and mal doumenc

will present a letter of delegations

signed by daladier as for drax

obviously very disconcerted he will

respond after a long silence he does not

have any document from the soft

the british negotiator is not

authorized to negotiate by his government

it is regrettable responds strong shilov who

nevertheless opens the session before

asking the only question that matters will

the red army

have yes or no authorization to

pass through poland to wage

war on hitler

doumenc dax and five years of

western diplomacy We now have our backs to the wall.

We will meet again when Poland

has given its authorization, concludes

Voroshilov.

Panic in London or Halifax. Begs

Poland to agree to et cetera et

cetera in Warsaw. Disordered pressure

from French diplomacy on

Colonel Beck, who fully understands

the urgency of the situation but asks for

time to think. There are

only 15 days left before

the invasion of Poland, secretly

set for September 1st.

The German ambassador, Friedrich

Werner von der Schulenburg, urgently goes to

Molotov to ask him to

meet Ribbentrop in

Moscow. Another territorial proposal

is interesting. Molotov replies, but

it is not enough. We want to be

sure that you will never

attack each other. Is Germany ready to

sign a non-aggression pact with

the Soviet Union?

Yes, of course, replies Schulenburg, who

adds, please, time is running out,

but Stalin has decided to take his

time, just to

raise the

stakes even more

after letting the Germans stew.

four days Molotov summons

Schulenburg and gives him a proposal

for a non-aggression pact Mr.

Ribbentrop to come to Moscow

let's say from August 27th on August 27th

but it's much too late it's

missing the ambassador at the end of his patience

Hitler decides to write personally to

Stalin by a direct and friendly letter

he asks him to kindly accept

Ribbentrop's arrival no later than August 23rd the

next day plays the Neubourg chrome

is Hitler's letter to Molotov who

appears impressed the letter says the air

also makes an impression on Stalin

it is the very first time that a head

of state writes to him personal death salines

responds to Hitler that he accepts

Ribbentrop's arrival on August 23rd

in the process the Kremlin press agency

reveals to the whole world that a

non-aggression pact will be signed

between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

in Paris Edouard Daladier reacts in a

cold and pragmatic manner

he will do ban all

communist newspapers and soon the

communist party itself thus designating

Stalin as the only culprit of this

diplomatic fiasco

[Music]

in London the ground literally gives way

under the feet of Chamberlain who

denounces Stalin's betrayal while in

reality they intended to

drag out

negotiations with the Soviets as long as possible

still hoping to find a

last-minute agreement with Hitler as for him who

learned the news from the

press like everyone else

the ambassador is completely devastated

but not surprised for five years even the

Nazi threat has not overcome

the mutual distrust between the West and

the Soviet Union

[Music]

Ribbentrop leaves to accomplish his

diplomatic masterpiece

[Music]

drunk with happiness Hitler lent him his

personal plane to go to Moscow

[Music]

Ambassador Schulenburg waits for his

minister in full uniform

Ribbentrop demanded to be filmed this his

descent

the thirty members of the

German delegation will wait in the city

[Music]

We,

Jolan Bourque and Ribbentrop, will be

taken to the Kremlin. They expect to

deal with Mol. otov

[Music]

but it is Stalin himself who

receives them the final discussions of the

non-aggression pact do not raise any

major difficulties

Stalin just had the

grandiloquent preamble written by Ippon

Prop deleted mentioning the natural friendship between

our two countries is grotesque while

we have been pouring buckets of

[ __ ] on each other's heads for so many years

only the non-aggression pact will be

made public

to the eyes of the world

Stalin's territorial claims from the Baltic

to the Black Sea are the subject of a

secret protocol annexed to the pact

the AFER is folded around one o'clock in the morning

never has an agreement of this importance

been concluded in such a short time

[Music]

Hitler, overjoyed, got down from the

Bercoff to wait for Ribbentrop who is to

land in Berlin in the early

evening

[Music]

Ribbentrop assured Hitler that now

deprived of Soviet support

the English will abandon Poland

as they abandoned Czechoslovakia

[Music]

Hitler welcomes his minister as a hero,

he couldn't have dreamed of anything better

[Music]

Now assured of having his hands

completely free, Hitler unleashes his

troops on Poland

[Music]

The dictator remains convinced that the

British will not react, except that

Chamberlain and Daladier still declare

war on him three days later

[Music]

Hitler then turns to Ribbentrop,

who suddenly goes from being a hero

to being a dark idiot, and

asks him, "Now we are at

war with France and England,"

Ribbentrop mutters.

Luckily for Hitler, the French and

British make the

gross error of not going on the offensive

while German troops are

occupied in Poland. Poland is thus

quickly taken into account, but on September 17, to

the astonishment of his generals, Ickler

orders the evacuation of the

eastern half, which is invaded by the Red Army.

Officially to protect the

Ukrainian minorities, in reality, Hitler

and Stalin begin to implement

secret protocols. German

and Soviet soldiers meet along the way. of

the new border which

now cut Poland in two -

German officers discovered on

this occasion that their

Soviet counterparts were often very young,

inexperienced, leaving no spirit

of initiative. Obvious results of the

purges:

Stalin secretly made doors and

400,000 Poles judged non-

Soviet Zablit and 25,000 of them,

mainly officers, were

executed by the NKVD. He was buried in Katyn

in Belarus. Stalin then seized

Estonia, Latvia and

Lithuania and deported 60,000

people. In November 1939, he attacked

Finland, forcing it to cede a strip of

territory to secure the city of

Leningrad.

In June 1940, Romania was

Bessarabia to the Soviet Union. Stalin made

doors and 15,000

additional people. This was the last act

of the secret protocols and the

Soviet Union regained the borders of

pre-revolutionary Russia.

At the same time, the German army, but

Western Europe on its knees in a few

weeks and Great Britain

finds itself alone facing Hitler

[Music]

the German-Soviet pact allows

Hitler to eliminate his adversaries one by

one and it also has many other advantages

while Molotov is received with great

pomp in Berlin the Soviet Union

actively participates in the

Nazi war effort by delivering

hundreds of thousands of tons of

grain, metals and oil to Germany

a small commercial gesture from Stalin the

German communists who took refuge in the

Soviet Union were delivered to Hitler

years later Molotov will claim

that this non-aggression pact was a

ruse by Stalin to gain time and

better prepare for a war that he knew was

inevitable

nothing could be further from the truth

Stalin and Molotov have completely

entered into the game said clearly they are

convinced that the Nazi dictator will keep

his word she will leave the

Soviet Union in peace

without directives from Moscow ostracized by

the British because of the Corn Pact

which does not survive due to its

privileged relationship that he maintains with the

new Prime Minister

Churchill and Churchill warns him

very convincing evidence in support of

the imminent invasion of the

Soviet Union information that Corn who

immediately transmits to Moscow

at least fifty

reliable sources warn Stalin Kittler

is preparing to tear up the non-

aggression pact but Stalin refuses to

believe them and even executes

some of them for disinformation

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even as the Soviet front lines

are disintegrated Stalin

remains convinced for a few

hours that

Kittler has been the victim of a coup d'état

and that the attack led by

rebel generals

all rather than admit that Hitler has just taken

him for a ride like the

others or

and the Soviet Union

finally finds itself and by force of events

in the same camp as Great Britain

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the allies had no desire

for embarrassment if Stalin about his

ill-fated pact with Iter the

priority was first to win the

war and then divide the world into

zones of influence

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the Soviet Union is now an

unavoidable power and

Stalin's international prestige continues to grow

but if it were ever proven

that the German-Soviet Pact was

not only a non-aggression pact

and that Stalin had secretly

divided the territories with the Nazis

this would be a serious blow to his

prestige and that of the Soviet Union

luckily the only proof in

circulation the German copy of the

protocols this loan was recovered by

the Red Army in the ruins of Berlin

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well protected in Moscow the

secret protocols were filed among the

absolute state secrets Ribbentrop will be sentenced

to death in 1946 for conspiracy crimes

against peace war crimes and

crimes against humanity

Maxim Litvinov will die peacefully in

1951

if he has not been purged definitively

it is by pure chance will say Molotov Molotov

will die in 1986 after having denied

until his last breath

the existence of the secret protocols

which will be officially recognized by

the Soviet Union in 1989

in February 1953 Stalin orders the

definitive purge of the valves my list

even at risks saves his skin once again

Stalin dies in fact a few

days later

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