{"id":2596,"date":"2019-01-18T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2019-08-02T14:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:09:16","slug":"hitlers-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/2019\/01\/18\/hitlers-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitler&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Told from original source materials including the diaries and meeting notes from first person accounts. A fascinating glimpse of &#8220;real&#8221; history, that doesn&#8217;t always fit the story we&#8217;ve been told. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Hitler&#8217;s idea of a &#8216;final solution&#8217; to the Jewish problem appears to be relocating them all to Madagascar after the war, and time and time again he shows ignorance or aversion to any sort of genocidal actions, which seem to be more on account of Goebbels and Himmler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Hitler very much wanted to be friends with Britain, not simply for strategic reasons, but because he liked and respected the British Empire, and thought that Britain would lost it all by fighting a war with Germany. And&#8230; that&#8217;s pretty much what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a number of excerpts from the book that I found of interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in the late 1920s he had purchased a cottage with the royalties earned by <em>Mein Kampf <\/em>and articles published under a pseudonym by the Hearst Press and the <em>New York Times <\/em>in America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After speaking from the balcony of Vienna\u2019s city hall on April 9, he took the overnight train to Berlin. As they passed through Leipzig he remarked to Goebbels that he was working on a plan to ship all of Europe\u2019s Jews off to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 14, 1938 the Danzig gauleiter, Albert Forster, met Mr. Winston Churchill, and told him that \u2018if Britain and Germany could only come to terms they could share the world between them.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four days later, on July 18, Wiedemann flew back from London to Berchtesgaden. Lord Halifax, he said, had revealed to him that his one ambition in life before he died was to see the F\u00fchrer \u2018at the side of the king of England, driving to Buckingham Palace to the cheers of the crowds.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The daily FA wiretaps showed the Czech envoy mouthing obscene insults about the western statesmen, appealing to Prague for still more cash \u2013 urgently \u2013 and plotting with Churchill and his Paris colleague the early overthrow of the Chamberlain and Daladier regimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 3:30 p.m. Chamberlain told his Inner Cabinet he thought he had \u2018established some degree of personal influence over Herr Hitler\u2019; he felt Hitler would not go back on his word. At five p.m. he told the full Cabinet that Hitler was \u2018extremely anxious to secure the friendship of Great Britain&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hitler had returned that morning, October 14, 1938, \u2026 had announced that he did not intend to drop his guard since, in democracies, statesmen who worked sincerely for peace could always be replaced overnight by warmongers: \u2018It only needs Mr. Duff Cooper or Mr. Eden or Mr. Churchill to come to power in place of Chamberlain, and you can be quite sure that their aim would be to start a new world war. They make no bones about it, they admit it quite openly.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>according to Otto Meissner\u2019s wife, Magda had once told her that her son Hellmut was in fact sired by Hitler during a 1934 Baltic vacation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody, however, wanted to house these homeless Jews. When Ribbentrop journeyed to Paris with much pomp in December to sign the joint declaration that Hitler had first suggested to Fran\u00e7ois-Poncet, foreign minister Georges Bonnet begged him not to flood France with German Jews, as they already had enough Jews of their own. (\u2018In fact,\u2019 Ribbentrop informed Hitler, \u2018they are considering Madagascar for this purpose.\u2019)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland\u2019s attitude was no more sympathetic. Ambassador Joseph Lipski had assured Hitler as recently as October 21 that if he ever succeeded in solving Europe\u2019s Jewish problem, Warsaw would happily erect a statue in honour of his achievement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Himmler\u2019s chief of staff Karl Wolff arrived with an indignant message from Heydrich at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten: the local Gestapo HQ had just phoned, reporting that Goebbels\u2019s district propaganda offices everywhere were whipping up anti-Jewish demonstrations and ordering the police \u2013 Himmler\u2019s police \u2013 not to intervene. Himmler turned to Hitler for guidance. Hitler replied that the Gestapo were to protect Jewish property and lives. It was clear to Himmler that the whole affair had come out of the blue to the F\u00fchrer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telephone calls began coming from private citizens reporting fresh out- breaks of arson and Jewish businesses being looted all over Munich. Perplexed, Hitler sent for SS Gruppenf\u00fchrer Friedrich Karl von Eberstein, the city\u2019s police chief, and ordered him to restore order at once. He telephoned Goebbels and demanded: \u2018What\u2019s going on?\u2019 He sent out Schaub and other members of his staff to stop the looting and arson. He ordered special protection for the famous antique dealers, Bernheimer\u2019s. At 2:56 a.m. a telex was issued by Rudolf Hess\u2019s staff as Deputy of the F\u00fchrer \u2013 and was re- peated to all gauleiters as Party Ordinance No. 174 \u2013 forbidding the arson: \u2018On express orders issued at the highest level of all there is to be no arson or the like, whatever, under any circumstances, against Jewish businesses.\u2019*&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Some writers now argue that the Nazis had fallen into a Zionist trap. The Haganah officials with whom Adolf Eichmann negotiated on his trip to Palestine in November 1937 had hinted that it would serve their interests if things were made hot for Germany\u2019s Jews, to accelerate Jewish emigration to Palestine. It deserves comment that Grynszpan, although a destitute youth, was able to reside in a hotel in 1938 and purchase a handgun for 250 francs, and that his defence counsel Moro Giafferi was the best that the money of the International League against Anti-Semitism (\u2018lica\u2019) could buy; lica\u2019s Paris office was around the corner from Grynszpan\u2019s hotel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan 30,1939, hitler \u201cToday I\u2019m going to turn prophet yet again: if international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed once more in plunging our peoples into a world war, then the outcome will not be a Bolshevisation of the world and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For twenty years, he had tried to keep the Party aloof from all matters of interdenominational conflict. \u2018We must learn to strive for that which unites us, and discard every argument that divides,\u2019 he had said as a thirty-one-year-old speaker in 1920.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we had all been Mohammedans, today the world would have been ours.\u201d 184<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Liberty, equality, and fraternity are the grandest nonsense,\u2019 he had said that evening. \u2018Liberty automatically precludes Equality \u2013 because liberty leads automatically to the advancement of the healthier, the better, and the more proficient, and thus there is less equality.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir Horace Wilson in London. Wilson was searching desperately for a formula that would give Danzig back to the Reich. 201<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henderson argued that it was proof of Chamberlain\u2019s good intentions that he was still refusing to take Churchill into his Cabinet; the anti-German faction in Britain mainly consisted of Jews and anti-Nazis, he said. 202<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the president of the Jewish Agency, had written to Neville Chamberlain promising explicitly that all Jews everywhere would fight on the side of the democracies against Nazi Germany. <em>The Times <\/em>published Weizmann\u2019s letter on September 6, and Hitler no doubt considered it a Jewish declaration of war. He often referred to it in later years \u2013 by which time his grim prophecy was being cruelly fulfilled. \u2018For the first time we are now implementing genuine ancient Jewish law,\u2019 he boasted on January 30, 1942. \u2018An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Himmler reassured them in a secret speech at Koblenz in March 1940, of which his handwritten notes survive. He explained that now for the first time, under Adolf Hitler, the solution of the thousand-year-old problem of Poland was possible: only the infusion into Poland of Germanic blood had made some Poles great and dangerous; now that Germany was strong she must see to the \u2018final annexation of the area, its purification and Germanisation.\u2019 But a \u2018Bolshevik method\u2019 \u2013 which Himmler defined in a memorandum two months later as downright extermination of the minority races \u2013 was \u2018impossible.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The Chief [Heydrich] enlarged on the Jewish problem in Poland and set out his views on this. The Reichsf\u00fchrer [Himmler] will put certain suggestions to the F\u00fchrer, on which only the F\u00fchrer can decide, as they will also have considerable repercus- sions abroad.\u2019 Hitler, however, favoured only a deportation of the Jews, as became clear to both Brauchitsch and Himmler when they conferred sepa- rately with Hitler at Zoppot on September 20. To Brauchitsch he talked only of a ghetto plan for the Jews.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roosevelt\u2019s proposal, according to the unpublished summary, was that Hitler be allowed to keep Danzig and all the formerly German Polish provinces, and that all Germany\u2019s former African colonies be restored to her forthwith. This was not all. If Daladier and Chamberlain refused to comply, then President Roosevelt would support Germany \u2013 Davis reported \u2013 in her search for a lasting peace: he would supply Germany with goods and war supplies \u2018convoyed to Ger- many under the protection of the American armed forces\u2019 if need be. John L. Lewis had privately promised Davis that if some such agreement could be reached between Germany and the United States his unions would prevent the manufacture of war supplies for Britain and France.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>242<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that evening, November 7, 1939, his special train left for Munich. He had to speak to the \u2018Old Guard\u2019 at the B\u00fcrgerbr\u00e4ukeller. This B\u00fcrgerbr\u00e4u assembly and the long march through Munich\u2019s narrow streets were annual opportunities to an assassin. On November 9, 1938, a Swiss waiter named Maurice Bavaud \u2013 a nephew of Hjalmar Schacht, as it turned out \u2013 had trained a gun on him during this very march through Munich 253<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014During his last year at Doorn, Wilhelm believed that Germany was the land of monarchy and therefore of Christ, and that England was the land of liberalism and therefore of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satan\">Satan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Christ\">Anti-Christ<\/a>.<sup>[89]<\/sup> He argued that the English ruling classes were &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemasons\">Freemasons<\/a> thoroughly infected by Juda&#8221;.<sup>[89]<\/sup> Wilhelm asserted that the &#8220;British people must be <em>liberated<\/em> from <em>Antichrist Juda<\/em>. We must drive Juda out of England just as he has been chased out of the Continent.&#8221;<sup>[90]<\/sup><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Please_clarify\"><em><sup>clarification needed<\/sup><\/em><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believed the Freemasons and Jews had caused the two world wars, aiming at a world Jewish empire with British and American gold, but that &#8220;Juda&#8217;s plan has been smashed to pieces and they themselves swept out of the European Continent!&#8221;<sup>[89]<\/sup> Continental Europe was now, Wilhelm wrote, &#8220;consolidating and closing itself off from British influences after the elimination of the British and the Jews!&#8221; The end result would be a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Europe\">U.S. of Europe<\/a>!&#8221;<sup>[90]<\/sup><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Please_clarify\"><em><sup>clarification needed<\/sup><\/em><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> In a 1940 letter to his sister <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Princess_Margaret_of_Prussia\">Princess Margaret<\/a>, Wilhelm wrote: &#8220;The hand of God is creating a new world &amp; working miracles&#8230; We are becoming the U.S. of Europe under German leadership, a united European Continent.&#8221; He added: &#8220;The Jews [are] being thrust out of their nefarious positions in all countries, whom they have driven to hostility for centuries.\u201d<sup>[85]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the Jews, Himmler\u2019s plan disclosed, \u2018I hope to effect the complete dis- appearance of the Jew [from Europe] by means of a mass emigration of all Jews to Africa or some other such colony.\u2019 Afterward, Himmler scribbled in his notebook: \u2018Memorandum on Poland. F\u00fchrer warmly approves.\u2019 303<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hitler felt that the British public was being deliberately misled as to his war aims. \u2018Naturally, it matters a lot what the Britons expect the F\u00fchrer\u2019s purpose to be in fighting their country,\u2019 wrote Walther Hewel to a contact in Switzerland on June 30. \u2018They were cajoled into this catastrophe by \u00e9migr\u00e9s and liberal-thinking people . . . now it is up to them to find some way out of this mess. The point is, can the British grasp the genius and greatness of the F\u00fchrer, not only as a benefit to Germany but to the whole of Europe too? Can they swallow their envy and pride enough to see in him not the conqueror but the creator of the new Europe? If they can they will automatically come to the conclusion that the F\u00fchrer does not want to destroy the Empire, as claimed by the \u00e9migr\u00e9s who are duping them.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days later Baron Ernst von Weizs\u00e4cker summed up the situation thus in his diary: \u2018Perhaps we automatically shy from taking over the immense task of inheriting both Europe and the British Empire. \u201cConquer Britain \u2013 but what then, and what for?\u201d&nbsp; 311<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the peace settlement Hitler also intended to oblige his former enemies, as well as the pro-Axis countries, to agree on a uniform solution of the Jewish problem. France would be required to make available Madagascar to accommodate Europe\u2019s Jews. Hitler revealed this decision to Admiral Raeder on June 20 and evidently to Ribbentrop and Himmler soon after, for experts in the foreign ministry worked eagerly on the Madagascar plan throughout the summer. 311<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He assumed that Churchill had deliberately misinformed his colleagues about Germany\u2019s armistice demands on France, for Ambassador Stafford Cripps was heard to explain in Moscow that Britain could not make peace \u2018because Germany would without doubt demand the entire British fleet to be handed over to her.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Churchill\u2019s instructions Weissauer was not even received in the Stock- holm legation; and the private letter from Haushofer which Hess caused to be sent to the Duke of Hamilton, via a female acquaintance in Lisbon, was intercepted by Churchill\u2019s secret service in London. The prime minister\u2019s response was to order the heart of the German capital to be bombed again. 330<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first Hitler had overridden his objections, but then the Madagascar Solution had come under consideration. On June 2, 1941, Hitler told Mussolini:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The island could find room for fifteen million people.\u2019 The problem with this plan, he told Bormann, was how to transport the Jews that far in war- time. \u2018I should dearly like to devote my entire fleet of <em>Kraft durch Freude <\/em>(strength through joy) ocean liners* to it,\u2019 he said, \u2018but I don\u2019t want my German crews being sunk by enemy torpedoes.\u2019 406<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will go down in history as the destroyer of Bolshevism&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hitler\u2019s surviving adjutants, secretaries, and staff stenographers have <em>all <\/em>testified, both under penetrating post-war interrogation and in interviews with this author, that never once was any extermination of either the Russian or European Jews mentioned \u2013 even confidentially \u2013 at his headquarters. 450<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interrogation reports submitted to Hitler showed them to be the cream of Churchill\u2019s forces; most of them no longer believed Britain could win, but felt that the war would \u2018just fizzle out.\u2019 Goebbels\u2019s English-language propaganda was said by these prisoners to have a big listening public.\u2018We all like the Germans,\u2019 said one British major. \u2018It\u2019s just that we are certain that Hitler is planning to conquer the world.\u2019 Told that Hitler had no designs on Britain at all, the major is said to have exclaimed, \u2018Then why not tell our government and&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>people that! I would be willing to go to the British government and tell them what your peace terms are, and I give my word of honour to return to captivity here. But for God\u2019s sake do it now, before the hundreds of thou- sands who will die on both sides in this summer\u2019s fighting are sacrificed!\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Goebbels again pleaded with Hitler over lunch on May 29 to allow him to expel every last Jew from the city forthwith. Hitler still had a geo- graphical solution in mind however: while agreeing with Goebbels that it would be counter-productive to settle this troublesome people, the Jews, in a harsh and character-building region like Siberia, he indicated a prefer- ence for settling them somewhere in Central Africa: \u2018 There they\u2019ll be living in a climate which definitely won\u2019t make them tough and resilient.\u2019 \u2018At any rate,\u2019 recorded Goebbels, with something of a shrug, \u2018it\u2019s the F\u00fchrer\u2019s aim to rid western Europe of the Jews entirely.\u2019 It is hard to reconcile such passages, dictated as the summer of 1942 approached, with the now fash- ionable belief that his chief had ordered an extermination programme. 494<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reinhard Heydrich, briefed government officials thus: the F\u00fchrer had sanctioned the evacuation of all Jews to the eastern territories, substi- tuting this for the overseas deportation originally planned (Madagascar). In the east the Jews would build roads until they dropped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, and no more, is all that the much-mentioned Wannsee conference protocols reveal; there was no talk of murder, and later interrogations of the participants confirmed this (we can disregard Eichmann\u2019s version).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on January 25 when, according to Heinrich Heim\u2019s record, Hitler reflected out loud:&nbsp;If I extract the Jew today our citizens get uneasy: \u2018What\u2019s happening to him, then?\u2019 But did these same people care one hoot what happened to the <em>Germans <\/em>who had to emigrate? We\u2019ve got to get it over fast; it\u2019s no better to pull a tooth a bit at a time over three months \u2013 once it\u2019s out, the agony is over. The Jew\u2019s got to get out of Europe. Otherwise we\u2019ll never reach a European consensus. He\u2019s the worst troublemaker, every- where. And really: am I not in fact terrifically <em>humane? <\/em>During the Papal tyranny in Rome the Jews were maltreated. Up to 1830 they hounded eight Jews through the city on asses every year. All <em>I <\/em>say is, \u2018He\u2019s got to get out.\u2019 If he goes for a Burton [<em>kaputt geht<\/em>] in the process, I can\u2019t help it. I do see one thing, however: their absolute elimination [<em>absolute Ausrottung<\/em>] if they won\u2019t leave willingly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under British post-war interrogation Bracht\u2019s thirty-four-year-old deputy, Albert Hoffmann, would recall this day and describe how he accompanied Himmler around Auschwitz: conditions were, he volunteered, considerably worse than those he had seen at Dachau camp in 1938. \u2018Maltreatment did occur,\u2019 noted his British post- war interrogator, \u2018and [he] has actually seen the [crematorium] ovens where bodies were being burned.\u2019 But the interrogation report added, \u2018He totally disbelieves the accounts of atrocities as published in the press.\u2019 499<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did Hitler ever see the other statistical report that the Reichsf\u00fchrer had commissioned at the same time, on the \u2018Final Solution of the Jewish Prob- lem in Europe\u2019? In dry tables, Himmler\u2019s chief statistician, Dr. Richard Korherr, had analysed the fate of the world\u2019s estimated 17,000,000 Jews: Europe\u2019s 10,000,000 had dwindled by 45 percent since 1937, owing to emigration, the high natural mortality rate, and the enforced \u2018evacuation\u2019 that had begun with the prohibition of emigration late in 1941. To Himmler\u2019s annoyance, on reading the sixteen-page document on March 27 he found that it stated <em>expressis verbis <\/em>on page 9 that of the 1,449,692 Jews deported from the eastern provinces 1,274,166 had been subjected to \u2018special treatment\u2019 at camps in the Generalgouvernement and a further 145,301 simi- larly dealt with in the Warthegau. (Dr. Korherr, it should be said, still de- nies that the words meant \u2018liquidated.\u2019) On April 1 Himmler had the report abridged \u2018for submission to the F\u00fchrer\u2019; and a few days later he instructed that he \u2018did not want there to be any mention of \u201cspecial treatment of Jews\u201d whatever.\u2019 According to the new text, the Jews would have been \u2018chan- nelled through\u2019 the camps to Russia \u2013 not \u2018subjected to special treatment\u2019 <em>at <\/em>the camps. As Himmler explained to his staff on April 9, the report would serve magnificently for \u2018camouflage purposes\u2019 in later years. 577<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018I fully recognise that at present a ruthless desire to destroy us is rampant in Britain and America,\u2019 reflected Hitler. \u2018But the British have got it all quite wrong! They declared war to preserve the \u201cbalance of power\u201d in Europe. But now Russia has awakened and turned into a state of the highest technical and material calibre. . . This means that the onslaught from the east can in the future only be met by a united Europe under German leadership. That is in Britain\u2019s interest too.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the carnage left by the Russian Eleventh Guards Army was witnessed for the first time. Air force General Kreipe wrote in his diary: \u2018Visited \u201cHermann G\u00f6ring\u201d Panzer Corps, in combat at Gumbinnen. . . In and around Nemmendorf women and children crucified on barn doors and shot. I or- der photographs taken as evidence.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 7:35 Guderian telephoned, appealing now for \u2018every- thing to be thrown into the eastern front.\u2019 As the train gathered speed toward Berlin, one of his personal staff \u2013 the SS colonel Otto G\u00fcnsche \u2013 remarked \u2018Berlin will be most practical as our headquarters: we\u2019ll soon be able to take the streetcar from the eastern to the western front!\u2019 Hitler laughed wanly at this witticism, whereupon the rest of his staff joined in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auschwitz and its essential rubber factory were overrun. The conference record shows that Hitler, told of the loss of Auschwitz, merely registered the fact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As American troops advanced across Thuringia, Hitler was confronted with the problem of the big concentration camps like Buchenwald. G\u00f6ring advised him to turn them over intact and under guard to the Western Allies, thus preventing hordes of embittered ex-convicts from roaming the coun- tryside and inflicting additional horrors on the law-abiding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Marshal Keitel dropped a broad hint that it was time for the F\u00fchrer to leave this city, but Hitler interrupted: \u2018Keitel, I know what I want \u2013 I am going to fight in front of Berlin, fight in Berlin, and fight behind Berlin!\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time Hitler now admitted to Ribbentrop that the war was lost. He dictated to Ribbentrop four secret negotiation points to put to the British if he got the chance. If the Continent was to survive in a world dominated by Bolshevism, then somehow London and Berlin must bury the hatchet. He instructed Ribbentrop to write secretly to Churchill in this sense. \u2018You will see,\u2019 Hitler predicted. \u2018My spirit will arise from the grave. One day people will see that I was right.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018 The British and Americans along the Elbe are holding back,\u2019 Hitler observed. \u2018If I can win through here and hang on to the capital, perhaps hope will spring in British and American hearts that with our Nazi Germany they may after all have some chance against this entire danger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Told from original source materials including the diaries and meeting notes from first person accounts. A fascinating glimpse of &#8220;real&#8221; history, that doesn&#8217;t always fit the story we&#8217;ve been told. 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