Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil

by Tell the Truth

  In the Petersberg Agreement of November 22, 1949, it was noted that the West German government wanted an end to the state of war, but the request could not be granted. The U.S. state of war with Germany was being maintained for legal reasons, and though it was softened somewhat it was not suspended since “the U.S. wants to retain a legal basis for keeping a U.S. force in Western Germany.” At a meeting for the Foreign Ministers of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States in New York from September 12 to December 19, 1950, it was stated that among other measures to strengthen West Germany’s position in the Cold War that the western allies would “end by legislation the state of war with Germany.” During 1951, many former Western Allies did end their state of war with Germany: Australia (9 July), Canada, Italy, New Zealand, The Netherlands (26 July), South Africa, and the United Kingdom (9 July). The state of war between Germany and the Soviet Union was ended in early 1955. Sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany was granted on May 5, 1955, by the formal end of the military occupation of its territory. Special rights were however maintained, e.g., vis-à-vis West Berlin.

  Under the terms of the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, the Four Powers renounced all rights they formerly held in Germany, including Berlin. As a result, Germany became fully sovereign on March 15, 1991. After Germany joined the United Nations, there had been disagreement as to whether articles 53 and 107 of the UN Charter, which named Germany as an “enemy state,” still applied, but these articles became irrelevant when the Four Powers renounced their special rights in the 1990 treaty, and they were formally recognized as irrelevant by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1995. (Wikipedia).

  “Irrelevant” is not the same as “revoked.” Germany is today de facto, if not de jure, just as much an occupied country as it was in 1945. There are about 40,000 U.S. and about 20,000 UK troops stationed in Germany. German soldiers are sent to fight in NATO’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Mali, Sudan, etc. (16 countries in 2014, Wikipedia), just as the mercenaries from Hesse-Kassel and other German states were sent to fight for the British in the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. “6000 Hessians were rented to Sweden for its war with Russia whilst 12,000 Hessians were hired by George I of Great Britain in 1715 to combat the Jacobite Rebellion.” (John Brewer, Eckhart Hellmuth, German Historical Institute in London (1999). Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany, Oxford University Press. p.64.)

  German farmers’ land is confiscated when the U.S. wants to enlarge its airfields (e.g. case of farmer Günther Schneider, Spangdahlem).

  General Eisenhower arrived in Germany like Julius Caesar in Germania, in 55BC:

  Military government – Germany

  Supreme Commander’s Area of Control

  Proclamation No. 1

  To the people of Germany:

  I, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, do hereby proclaim as follows:

  The Allied Forces serving under my command have now entered Germany. We come as conquerors, but not as oppressors. In the area of Germany occupied by the forces under my command, we shall obliterate Nazi-ism and German Militarism. We shall overthrow the Nazi rule, dissolve the Nazi Party and abolish the cruel, oppressive and discriminatory laws and institutions which the Party has created. We shall eradicate that German Militarism which has so often disrupted the peace of the world.

  The day on which the proclamations of all laws and decrees of the military government which are contained in this number of the official record of the military government is 18th September 1944, on which day the occupation began.

  Law No. 52: Blocking and Control of Property

  Article 1 – Categories of Property

  All property within the occupied territory owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by any of the following is herby declared to be subject to seizure of possession or title, direction, management, supervision or otherwise being taken into control by Military Government:

  The German Reich, or any of the Länder, Gaue, or Provinces, or other similar political subdivisions or any agency or instrumentality thereof, including all utilities, undertakings, public corporations or monopolies under the control of any of the above.

  “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” (attrib. George Orwell)

  Following capitulation in 1945, German society underwent greater change as the result of the first four years of military occupation than it had experienced during twelve years of National Socialist rule. After 1945, the greatest destruction of books in history took place in Germany, with the object of extinguishing German culture and the collective German memory (“Kontrollratsbefehl Nr. 4. Einziehung von Literatur und Werken nationalsozialistischen und militaristischen Charakters,” 13 May 1946). In order to be able to carry out the planned re-education efficiently, a total of 35,743 titles and publications in libraries and bookshops were destroyed, including heroic legends and children’s books. (“Allied Censorship in post-war Germany”/”Junge Freiheit,” May 11, 2007). An ironic statistic, given that “book-burning” has always been cited as an example of National Socialist extremism.

  The Allies agreed on the material to be removed. The goal was in the first place to annihilate in its innermost being the drawing power of a belief in an ethnic community and thus to prevent even the rudiments of a repetition of this apparently promising attempt to overcome liberal capitalism. This frantic campaign demonstrates how successful the threat to financial interests National Socialism and its use of barter instead of credit had been.

  It has been said that five and a half million schoolbooks, with altered accounts of German history, were rushed into print in the U.S. and introduced into re-opened German schools in October 1945. (“A coordinated system of control over German education and an affirmative program of reorientation will be established...” JCS 1067, Directive to Commander-in-Chief of United States Forces of Occupation Regarding the Military Government of Germany, April 1945)

  In view of these savage measures to obliterate German commonality, it is perhaps not surprising that young Germans today, the second and third post-war generations, have not only repudiated their fatherland, but actually praise the barbarous acts of the Allies, like the bombing of Dresden. In the context of airstrikes between Britain and Germany only, strategic or “terror bombing” of civilians was begun by Britain when it bombed the Ruhr on 11 May (the day after Churchill became Prime Minister), Bremen and Hamburg on 19 May, 1940. Germany bombed Rotterdam on 14 May, but London first on 7 September, 1940. The bombing of Dresden belongs in a category of its own: it was a real “holocaust” in the meaning of the word, and a crime against humanity.

  ... the long suppressed story of the worst massacre in the history of the world. The devastation of Dresden in February, 1945, was one of those crimes against humanity whose authors would have been arraigned at Nuremberg if that court had not been perverted. (Rt. Hon. Richard. H.S. Crossman, MP, Labour Government Minister.)

  Even the senseless and highly culture-destroying terror acts, against for example, Lubeck and Dresden, carried out by the Allied pilots, should have been investigated and brought before a proper court of justice. Major General H. Bratt, Royal Swedish Army.

  Already, by 1944, it should have been clear to most people in the government that we would have to deal with . . . Germans once victory had been won . . .(W)e went on bombing German cities months and months after it had been clear that we would win, and that Stalin would be as potentially deadly an enemy. Some of the bombing was just pointless. In the last days of the war, we struck at the old gingerbread towns south of Wuerzburg, where there was no military target at all . . . just refugees, women and children. Of these acts of gratuitous sadism, the worst was the bombing of Dresden. (Norman Stone, Professor of Modern History at Oxford, Daily Mail)

  After the waves of 772 bombers had passed in the night
, dropping phosphorus bombs at a rate of one for every two people, on the following morning came low-flying aircraft, which chased and mowed down visible survivors. The strafing of columns of refugees by both American and British fighter planes was par for the course:

  It is said that these [zoo] animals and terrified groups of refugees were machine-gunned as they tried to escape across the Grosser Garten by low-flying planes and that many bodies riddled by bullets were found later in this park” (Der Tod von Dresden, Axel Rodenberger, February 25, 1951)

  In Dresden, “even the huddled remnants of a children’s choir were machine-gunned in a street bordering a park” (David Irving, The Destruction of Dresden)

  In 1955 former West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer stated:

  On February 13, 1945, the attack on the city of Dresden, which was overcrowded with refugees, claimed about 250,000 victims. (Deutschland Heute, edited by the press and information service of the federal government, Wiesbaden 1955, page 154.)

  In fact, 600,000 refugees from the east had joined the 600,000 inhabitants of the city, so that it may with confidence be asserted that as many as 500,000 were murdered. (This number has been gradually reduced in the synchronised mainstream press to around 25,000.) The temperature from the fires reached approximately 1,600° C. The crowd of refugees at the main station had nowhere to flee; they were all consumed in the fire, their remains later burned on a huge pyre to prevent an epidemic.

  Novelist Kurt Vonnegut was in Dresden during the bombing:

  Yes, by our people (the British), I may say. You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. (The Independent, London, 20 December 2001, p.19)

  Dresden: firebombed family

  “Femen” freak. This pathetic phenomenon is linked via its funder to Jewish interests, in the shape of the founder of Kiev Media and the Kiev Post. And something called “Open World Leadership”--Mission Statement : “To enhance understanding and capabilities for cooperation between the United States and the countries of Eurasia by developing a network of leaders in the region who have gained significant, firsthand exposure to America’s democratic, accountable government and its free-market system.” Enough said.

  “All good things come from above.” A striking juxtaposition of the domestic terrorist “antifa” with Israel and communism. This ignorant mob could justifiably be called “the living dead.”

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  I am in full agreement [with terror bombing]. I am all for the bombing of working class areas in German cities. I am a Cromwellian. I believe in “slaying in the name of the Lord!” (Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air.) (More about Cromwell below)

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  Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking “thing” on the ground, and then no further movement. (Martin Caidin, The Night Hamburg Died.)

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  “I struggled to run against the wind in the middle of the street . . . We . . . couldn’t go on across . . . because the asphalt had melted. There were people on the roadway, some already dead, some still lying alive but stuck in the asphalt. . . . They were on their hands and knees screaming.” ~19-year-old Kate Hoffmeister (Kent D. Shifferd, From War to Peace: a Guide to the Next Hundred Years, p. 32)

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  Phosphorous burns were not infrequent. (U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.)

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  Phosphorous was used “because of its demonstrated ability to depress the morale of the Germans.” (Official British source.)

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  A nation which spreads over another a sheet of inevitably deadly gases or eradicates entire cities from the earth by the explosion of atomic bombs, does not have the right to judge anyone for war crimes; it has already committed the greatest atrocity equal to no other atrocity; it has killed – amidst unspeakable torments – hundreds of thousands of innocent people. (Hon. Lydio Machado Bandeira de Mello, Professor of Criminal Law; author of more than 40 works on law/philosophy.)

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  As for crimes against humanity, those governments which ordered the destruction of German cities, thereby destroying irreplaceable cultural values and making burning torches out of women and children, should also have stood before the bar of justice. (Hon. Jaan Lattik. Estonian statesman, diplomat and historian.)

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  It is one of the greatest triumphs of modern emotional engineering that, in spite of the plain facts of the case which could never be disguised or even materially distorted, the British public, throughout the Blitz Period (1940-1941), remained convinced that the entire responsibility for their sufferings rested on the German leaders. (Advance to Barbarism, F.J.P. Veale)

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  It may be Inconvenient History but England rather than Germany initiated the murderous slaughter of bombing civilians thus bringing about retaliation. Chamberlain conceded that it was “absolutely contrary to International law.” It began in 1940 and Churchill believed it held the secret of victory. He was convinced that raids of sufficient intensity could destroy Germany’s morale, and so his War Cabinet planned a campaign that abandoned the accepted practice of attacking the enemy’s armed forces and, instead made civilians the primary target. Night after night, RAF bombers in ever increasing numbers struck throughout Germany, usually at working class housing, because it was more densely packed. (The Peoples’ War, Angus Calder. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969)

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  Hitler only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly three months after the RAF had commenced bombing German civilian targets. Hitler would have been willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones... Retaliation was certain if we carried the war into Germany... there was a reasonable possibility that our capital and industrial centres would not have been attacked if we had continued to refrain from attacking those of Germany... We began to bomb objectives on the German mainland before the Germans began to bomb objectives on the British mainland... Because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of propagandist distortion of the truth that it was we who started the strategic bombing offensive, we have shrunk from giving our great decision of May 11th, 1940, the publicity it deserves. (J.M. Spaight, CB, CBE, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry, Bombing Vindicated. )

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  The attack on the Ruhr was therefore an informal invitation to the Luftwaffe to bomb London. The primary purpose of these raids was to goad the Germans into undertaking reprisal raids of a similar character on Britain. Such raids would arouse intense indignation in Britain against Germany and so create a war psychosis without which it would be impossible to carry on a modern war. (The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, The Fight at Odds, p. 122. Dennis Richards, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. )

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  We won this war with atrocity propaganda…and now we will start more than ever! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will increase it until nobody will accept one good word from the Germans anymore, until everything is destroyed which might have upheld them sympathies in other countries, and until they will be so confused that they don’t know what to do anymore. When this is reached, when they begin to pollute their own nest, and this not reluctantly but with hasty willingness to obey the winners, only then the victory is complete. It will never be definite. The re-education demands thorough, steadfast nurture like English lawn. Only one moment of inattention and the weed will break through, this ineradicable weed of historic truth. (Sefton Delmer, former British chief propagandist, commenting after the capitulation in 1945 to Prof. Grimm, G
erman expert on international law. Author’s italics.)

  The idea of collective German guilt was often viewed as the first step toward re-education.

  A war is only lost when one’s own territory is occupied by the enemy, the leading class of the defeated people is convicted in war crime trials and the defeated are subject to a reeducation-process. An obvious means of that is to implant the victor’s view into the minds of the defeated. It’s of decisive importance to transfer the “moral categories” of the victor’s wartime propaganda into the consciousness of the defeated. Only when wartime propaganda has found its way into the history books of the defeated and is believed by succeeding generations, only then the reeducation can be seen as successful. (Walter Lippmann, American journalist, chief editor of “New York World”, correspondent of the “New York Herald Tribune”, advisor to President Wilson)

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  There are two histories: the lying official one and the secret one, in which are the true causes of events. (Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850)

  Yet, even if you acknowledge that you’ve been duped, why is all this still relevant now, why does it matter? Isn’t it just old history? It matters because it affects your world, your life, and your future. Personally and directly.