"'You know I am a juggler,
and I never let my right hand know what my left hand does,' Roosevelt
confessed
in May 1942. 'I may be entirely inconsistent, and furthermore I
am perfectly willing to mislead and tell untruths
if it will help win the war.'"
Inside the Oval Office
- The White House Tapes from FDR to ClintonWILLIAM DOYLE, Kodansha International, 1999 - ISBN: 1-56836-285-4
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Because of my passion for
war Tactic & Strategy, weapons and action; I am going to reveal,
what I have known for years (since the beginning of Internet
1992-1996) and especially after perusing the DECLASSIFIED WWII
DOCUMENTS & PAPERS. None but the most courageous and dedicated
historians would even want to change what has been passed as
authentic historical facts. However, the ugly truth must be told and
THE TRUTH AS ALWAYS COMES LIMPING ON THE ARM OF TIME.
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The revelations concern
the Coventry Bombing by the Luftwaffe in November, 1940 and the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941; I am now taking
this unenviable task – telling some hitherto disturbing factual
truths which most people would find hard to believe and would rather
not know - in an effort to expose and convince, once and for all,
that:
- 1. POLITICS IS THE DIRTIEST GAME IN THE WORLD … & THE MOST RUTHLESS.
- 2. DUPLICITY AND LIES BY WORLD LEADERS THEN AND NOW IS A WAY OF LIFE. ( Macchiavelli was right when he wrote that amorality is perfectly acceptable in the conduct of political objectives ... many leaders cannot afford to act with honor and so are nations … In the affairs of state the end justifies the means.)
- 3. HESITATION AND MISCALCULATION IN WARS LEAD TO “LOST VICTORIES”.
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COVENTRY
On
13-14 November 1940, the Luftwaffe launched its most devastating
bombing raid of the Second World War so far. The target was Coventry,
a manufacturing city in the heart of England with a beautiful
medieval center. The result was a shocking collapse of social order
that caused thousands to flee and challenged notions of Britain's
"Blitz spirit".
FACTS
There
were a few Americans & Argentinians of German descent who fought
for Germany in WWII. One of them (name withheld for family reasons)
sent to the French underground – France had surrender in June 22,
1940 - TWO DAYS before the bombing that COVENTRY will be the target
of a BLITZ and the French Resistance immediately advised the British
government.
DUPLICITY
England
was experiencing The Blitz - from the German
word for 'lightning' - was the name applied by the British
press to the heavy and frequent bombing
raids carried out over Britain.
The
German air assault started in earnest in September 1940 and
only ended in May 1941 (when the German Luftwaffe planes were
redeployed to take part in the invasion of Russia.)
In
November 1940, bombs were falling on British towns and W. Churchill
did nothing to save Coventry, PURPOSELY let the town be destroyed in
the hope of dragging a recalcitrant US into the war. After the
bombing Churchill pretended that he knew nothing
of any warning. Even though the English
had cracked both the radar systems and German codes, they did not
show their hands and allowed the City of Coventry to be ruthlessly
annihilated by German bombers to create a defenseless image and lure
them in. All to buy critical time of days to train terrified 18 to 23
year old kids as Fighter Pilots. Fuel was critical and flight
training limited for the war effort. Germany had its vast
pre-invasion forces mounting which British Intelligence Agencies were
tracking.
Churchill wanted to
portray a seemingly defenseless image against the unstoppable might
of the German onslaught, while Fighters were mass manufactured,
conserved and hidden.
England suffered ever
greater German attacks, each day buying vital time to produce more
planes and weapons, and train Pilots. Factories worked 24 hour shifts
with women producing ammunition and bombs. Pots, pans, metal
railings, everything was melted to produce planes and bombs. Quietly
and secretly England prepared in haste. Only a tiny handful of
defending fighters were shown, then even those “Fighter Command”
stopped sending up before Coventry.
MISCALCULATION & LOST VICTORY
The
UK in July- August 1940 was reduced to ONLY 2 operational airbases
and less than 40 Spitfires. Winston Churchill had made preparations
to conduct the war from far away NEW ZEALAND; the German Luftwaffe
was winning the Battle of Britain, when Hitler SUDDENLY SWITCH
the bombing air war from British airfields to target the Civilian
Towns in the hope of breaking British moral. The Germans had been
ordered to avoid as much as they could from bombing towns, before
Hitler changed his mind. Two German Luftwaffe generals committed
suicide in protest. One of which was WWI ace Colonel-General Ernst
UDET (the second highest scoring ace in WWI with 62 victories).
German ace Ernst Udet
painted this phrase on the tail of his Fokker
D-VII aircraft, considered one of the best fighter aircraft of
WWI. As an idiom, it defies exact translation into English, but comes
out as something like "No you don't!" or "Definitely
not you!" One wonders why he would expect that enemy pilots on
his tail would speak German well enough to understand it, but then,
anyone could guess it's not exactly intended as a compliment.
GeneralOberst Ernst Udet wearing the "Pour le Merite" medal ... When World
War II began, his internal conflicts grew more intense as
aircraft production requirements were much more than the German
industry could supply, given limited access to raw materials such as
aluminium.
Hermann Göring responded to this problem by simply lying about it to
Adolf Hitler,
and after the Luftwaffe's defeat in the Battle
of Britain, Göring tried to deflect Hitler's ire by blaming
Udet.
On 22 June 1941, the
launch of Operation
Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, drove Udet
further into despair. In April and May 1941, Udet had led a German
delegation inspecting Soviet aviation industry in accordance with he
Molotov–Ribbentrop
Pact. Udet informed Göring that the Soviet air force and
aviation industry were very strong and technically advanced. Göring
decided not to report this to Hitler, hoping that a surprise attack
would quickly destroy Russia. Udet realized that the upcoming war on
Russia might destroy Germany. He tried to explain this to Hitler but,
torn between truth and loyalty, suffered a psychological breakdown.
According to Udet's
biography, The Fall of an Eagle,
he wrote a suicide
note in red pencil which included: "Iron One, you are
responsible for my death." "Iron One" referred to
Hermann Göring
SWITCHING BOMBING to civilian towns, instead of continuously hitting military targets, was a monumental blunder by Hitler which caused him a lost victory in the Battle of Britain.
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PEARL
HARBOR
FACTS
The
USA naval intelligence had
BROKEN the Japanese code
(which they never
changed
throughout the war) and knew
that a Japanese task force was
sailing towards Hawai and did
nothing because F.D. Roosevelt
NEEDED
an attack on
American personnel to convince the prevailing
ISOLATIONIST sentiment to declare war and become a full allied of the
British (not just an associate).
DUPLICITY
President
Franklin Roosevelt
LIED WHEN he called
December 7, 1941, "a date
which will live in infamy." On
that day, Japanese planes
attacked the United States
Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Territory.
The attack killed 2,403 U.S. personnel, including 68
civilians, and destroyed or damaged 19 USA naval ships, including 8
Battleships.
"A
massive cover-up followed Pearl Harbor a few days later, according to
an officer close to Marshall, when the Chief of Staff ordered a lid
put on the affair. ‘Gentlemen,'
he told half a dozen officers, ‘this goes to the grave with
us.'"
INFAMY, by John Toland
Berkley (March 15, 1986) - ISBN-10: 042509040X
Mr.
Stinnett talked about his book Day
of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor,
published by Free Press. The author argues in the book that President
Franklin D. Roosevelt was eager to get the United States into World
War II and took steps to ensure the Japanese would attack Pearl
Harbor. Mr. Stinnett claimed that this was necessary to change the
isolationism then prevalent in public opinion. Following his prepared
remarks, he responded to comments and questions from the audience."
Click Here To Order Video Of Speech As Broadcast On C-SPAN
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"Immediately
after Day of Deceit appeared in bookstores in 1999, NSA began
withdrawing pre-Pearl Harbor documents from the Crane Files housed in
Archives II. This means the government decided to continue 60 years
of Pearl Harbor censorship. As of January 2002, over two dozen NSA
withdrawal notices have triggered the removal of Pearl Harbor
documents from public inspection. The
number of pages in the withdrawn documents appears to be in the
hundreds. Among the records withdrawn are those of Admiral Harold R.
Stark, the 1941 Chief of Naval Operations, as well as crypto records
authored by Commander Joseph J. Rochefort, the chief cryptographer
for the Pacific Fleet at the time of Pearl Harbor. Under the Crane
File transfer agreement with National Archives, NSA has the legal
right to withdraw any document based on national defense
concerns."
The Pearl Harbor Deception - Robert Stinnett
Independent Institute, December 7, 2003
The Pearl Harbor Deception - Robert Stinnett
Independent Institute, December 7, 2003
HESITATION
The
Japanese air attack lasted only 1 hour & 15 minutes and consisted
of one single wave. The strike force under the tactical command of
Admiral
Chuichi Nagumo
consisted of Japan's six largest carriers, carrying the 1st Air
Fleet. The second wave never occurred and the task force turned back.
Unbelievable hesitation which caused Japan the war.
From a purely
military strategic viewpoint, I would have ordered a SECOND WAVE and
SEARCHED FOR the only 2 US aircraft carriers and sink them, even it
cost loosing 2-3 of my aircraft carriers. If
Japanese task forces had launched the second & third wave of
attacks on the logistical installations, vital fuel-tank farm as
Commander Fuchida insisted, U.S. Pacific Fleet would have been out of
action for months (“The
Carrier War” - Time Life books),
and there wouldn't have been the pivotal Midway Victory.
Admiral
Nagumo's hesitation was a lost
victory
Nagumo
committed suicide after the battle of Saipan.)
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UNRELATED NOTES
OF INTEREST TO MILITARY FANS.
1. ACES
OF ACES
Aerial victories in
WWI was subjected to a very strict protocol by Germany, France &
England. Before a victory became homologated, it required witnesses:
ground & air + proof of wreckage.
The Red Baron Triplane painted in red.
German baron,
Manfred von Richthofen was the acknowledged WWI supreme ace with 80
homologated victories in aerial battle.
The second highest scorer was
French captain René
Fonck\ with 76 homologated victories.
The third was British major
Mike Manning with 73 Homologated victories.
Here is a picture of
Manfred von Richtofen (The Red Baron) in the cockpit of on his Albatross.
Hi brother Lothar von Richtofen (40 victories) is the one sitting on the ground.
Here is a picture of
René
Fonck and his French made SPAD XII which was the best fighter plane
of WWI
LATER
VICTORIES ADDITIONS
Captain René
Fonck who was a crack shot who downed enemy plane with only one short
burst of his machine gun. As a man, he was taciturn, cold, morose and
a loner. He was also never wounded. Unlike the Red Baron, captain
René
Fonck survived the war and went to his grave claiming that he shot
down more than 90 planes …
The thing is that 7 years after the war,
the German archives, after thorough investigations attributed to him
an additional 7 victories, thus bringing his total to 76 + 7 = 83 …
which means 3 more than Baron von Richtofen, in effect making Captain
Fonck, the supreme ace of aces.
On the 9 of May 1917, captain
René
Fonck shot down 6 enemy planes.
The
problem is that by then the legend of the Red Baron & his death
in combat in 1918 was so established that nothing could change it.
Le Capitaine Fonck who was the true ACE OF ACES with 83 victories
but only 76 were homologated.
Perhaps
Ernst Udet knew that Captain Fonck was the real ACE OF ACES, when he
asked for his autograph in 1928.
Photo
given to Ernst Udet by captain René
Fonck with a “dedicace”
Plus
on a su se battre
Plus
on sait comprendre
les
véritables
camaraderies
aériennes
Sans
rancune et cordialement
René
Fonck
28-12-28
(the more we knew how to fight, the more we know to understand the true airborne fellowship --- without resentment and cordially) signed René
Fonck
28-12-28
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2. THE
ARABS INTRODUCED CHIVALRY IN EUROPE AFTER THE CONQUEST OF ANDALOUSIA
(ARABIC NAME FOR SPAIN).
(those
who doubt can consult an encyclopedia.)
Chivalry
was probably started embryonically in PERSIA – the Arabic word for
Knight is FARIS, a corruption of FARSI, however it was later CODIFIED
by the Arabs: the 7 years apprenticeship of squires, the oath to
protect widows & orphans, the tent under a starlit sky, the
hatred of lying, the loyalty to your lord, the prayer before combat.
Chivalry was the most prominent characteristic of the Muslim “Moors”
who conquered the Iberian Peninsula (covering Spain, Portugal,
Andorra and part of Southern France) beginning in 711 AD. In
classical Arab culture, to become a genuine Knight (Fáris)
(فارس),
one had to master the virtues of dignity, eloquence, gentleness,
horsemanship and artistic talents, as well as strength and skill with
weaponry. These ancient chivalric virtues were transferred by the
Moors, who comprised the majority population of the Iberian Peninsula
by 1100 AD, and their brand of Chivalry quickly spread throughout
Europe.
The Spanish chronicler Abanese wrote that “Europe had not known the arts and practices of knighthood before the arrival to Andalusia of Arabs with their Knights and heroes; a logical hypothesis in that Chivalry had not been known to the Greeks and Romans.”
Habeeb Salloum, Saladin Chivalry and the Crusades, Al-Hewar Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue, Washington DC (2005
“Knight-errantry,
the riding forth on horseback in search of adventures, the rescue of
captive maidens, the succor rendered everywhere to women in adversity
– all these were essentially Arabian ideas, as was the very name of
Chivalry, the connection of honourable conduct with the horse-rider,
the man of noble blood, the cavalier.”
CHARACTERISTICS
Arab historians point out that “Renowned Arab Knights… were not officially knighted as in Europe. They became Knights by reputation of their courage, dignity, noble deeds and the pursuit of honor, through poetry, tales and legends. Incorporating generosity, forgiveness, and a just and honorable reputation as well as advocating justice and freedom, they became the treasure of their people… Pride of culture revolved around their adventures and feats.”
According
to European historians, during the Battle of Jaffa in 1192 AD, one of
the most important battles of the Crusades, when King Richard lost
his horse, Saladin graciously sent him two replacement horses as a
personal gift, to enable his worthy opponent to continue leading the
knights. Touched by Saladin’s pious honour, King Richard proposed
that his own sister, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, should marry
Saladin’s brother, and offered that Jerusalem (which both the
Templars and Saracens had fought for) could be their wedding gift.
Ref: Morris
Bishop, The
Middle Ages,
The American Heritage Library, American Heritage Inc., New York
(1968), 2nd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1985), American
Heritage Library Series, Mariner Books (2001), p.102. 0]
‘Jerusalem’
(2014), allegorical oil painting of Templars & Saracens on Temple
Mount, by Jason Askey (South African artist)
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ADDENDUM
In the summer of 1944
the U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry R. Morgenthau, Jr. and Assistant
Secretary Harry Dexter White devised the Morgenthau Plan, more
formally known as the Treasury Plan for the Treatment of Germany.
Morgenthau was outraged by the Nazi Holocaust,
details of which were just becoming known in Washington DC, and
seemed to be looking for revenge. He visited the battlefields in
France that August. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied
Commander and urged him to punish all Germany. Morgenthau then flew
to London for talks with Mr Winston Churchill, the British prime
minister, and his advisers, and they met again in Quebec.
in 1934, Roosevelt
appointed Morgenthau Jr Secretary
of the Treasury. He was the son of Henry Morgenthau Sr, a cigar
manufacturer born in Germany who emigrated to the US and became a
lawyer and millionaire real estate developer. Later appointed
ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1913-1916). His son Henry
Morgenthau Jr became an early friend of FDR, because their properties
were less than 500 meters apart.
Morgenthau Jr. was the only Jew in FDR War cabinet. In the beginning, he kept his pro-Zionism under wrap, but as the war in Europe was leading a German defeat, he convinced FDR that "GERMANY IS OUR PROBLEM"
MORGENTHAU'S PROPOSED LYNCH LAW - ORDERS TO LIQUIDATE ENTIRE CLASSES OF SUSPECTED NAZI WAR CRIMINALS UPON SIMPLE IDENTIFICATION - and the instruction to leave the German nation to stew in its own juice.
Roosevelt's motivations
for agreeing to Morgenthau's proposal may be attributed to his desire
to be on good terms with Joseph
Stalin and to a personal conviction that Germany must be treated
harshly. In an August 26, 1944 letter to Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands, Roosevelt wrote that "There are two
schools of thought, those who would be altruistic in regard to the
Germans, hoping by loving kindness to make them Christians again —
and those who would adopt a much 'tougher' attitude. Most decidedly I
belong to the latter school, for though I am not bloodthirsty, I want
the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost
the war.
Secretary of State Hull
was outraged by Morgenthau's "inconceivable intrusion" into
foreign policy. Hull told Roosevelt that the plan would inspire
last-ditch resistance and cost thousands of American lives. Hull was
so upset over the plan that he suffered from insomnia and eating
problems and was hospitalized. He later resigned for health reasons,
though there were anecdotal reports that his resignation was brought
about by "the Morgenthau business"
ROOSEVELT'S SUPPORT FOR THE PLAN
Secretary of the
Treasury Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. persuaded Roosevelt to write to
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson saying that a US occupation
policy which anticipated that "Germany is to be restored just as
much as the Netherlands
or Belgium"
was excessively lenient. A better policy would have the Germans "fed
three times a day with soup from Army soup kitchens" so "they
will remember that experience the rest of their lives."
Morgenthau was the only Cabinet
member invited to participate in the Quebec
Conference, during which the Plan was agreed.
Churchill was bought
off, and note a September 15 memo from Roosevelt to Hull stating that
"Morgenthau has presented at Quebec, in conjunction with his
plan for Germany, a proposal of credits to Britain totalling six and
half billion dollars." Hull's comment on this was that "this
might suggest to some the quid
pro quo with which the Secretary of the Treasury was able to get
Mr. Churchill's adherence to his cataclysmic plan for Germany.
REJECTION OF THE PLAN
Sir Anthony
Eden hereditary Baronet expressed his strong opposition to the plan and, with the
support of some others, was able to get the Morgenthau Plan set aside
in Britain. In the United States, Hull argued that nothing would be
left to Germany but land, and only 60% of the Germans could live off
the land, meaning 40% of the population would die. Stimson expressed
his opposition even more forcefully to Roosevelt. According to
Stimson, the President said that he just wanted to help Britain get a
share of the Ruhr and denied that he intended to fully
deindustrialize
Germany. Stimson replied, "Mr. President, I don't like you to
dissemble to me" and read back to Roosevelt what he had signed.
Struck by this, Roosevelt said he had "no idea how he could have
initialed this"ROOSEVELT the juggler lied and it was confirmed later by his widow Elinor.
THE PARTITION OF GERMANY as per Morgenthau Jr. plan
More pictures of the partition
ENTER THE HONORABLE HENRY STIMSON SECRETARY OF WAR
Stimson strongly
opposed the Morgenthau
Plan to de-industrialize and partition Germany into several
smaller states. The plan also envisioned the deportation and summary
imprisonment of anybody suspected of responsibility for war
crimes. Initially, Roosevelt had been sympathetic to this plan,
but Stimson's opposition and the public outcry when the plan was
leaked made the President backtrack. Stimson thus retained overall
control of the U.S. occupation zone in Germany, and although the
Morgenthau plan did influence the early occupation, it never became
official policy. Explaining his opposition to the plan, Stimson
insisted to Roosevelt that ten European countries, including Russia,
depended upon Germany's export-import trade and production of raw
materials and that it was inconceivable that this "gift of
nature", populated by peoples of "energy, vigor, and
progressiveness", should be turned into a "ghost territory"
or "dust heap".
What Stimson most
feared, however, was that a subsistence-level economy would turn the
anger of the German people against the Allies and thereby "obscure
the guilt of the Nazis and the viciousness of their doctrines and
their acts". Stimson pressed similar arguments on President
Harry S. Truman in the spring of 1945.
Stimson, a lawyer,
insisted, against the initial wishes of both Roosevelt and Churchill,
on proper judicial proceedings against leading war criminals. He and
the United
States Department of War drafted the first proposals for an
International Tribunal, which soon received backing from the incoming
Truman. Stimson's plan eventually led to the Nuremberg
Trials of 1945–1946 that have had a significant impact on the
development of international
law.
General Lucius D. Clay Military Governor of Germany
In his 1950 book
Decision in Germany,
Clay wrote, "It seemed obvious to us even then that Germany
would starve unless it could produce for export
and that immediate steps would have to be taken to revive industrial
production." Lewis
Douglas, chief adviser to General
Lucius Clay, US High Commissioner, denounced JCS Directive 1067
saying, "THIS THING WAS ASSEMBLED BY ECONOMIC IDIOTS. IT MAKES
NO SENSE TO FORBID THE MOST SKILLED WORKERS IN EUROPE
FROM PRODUCING AS MUCH AS THEY CAN IN A CONTINENT THAT IS DESPERATELY
SHORT OF EVERYTHING."
In 1947, JCS 1067 was
replaced by JCS
1779, which instead stated that "An orderly, prosperous
Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive
Germany." It had taken over two months for General Clay to
overcome continued resistance to the new directive JCS 1779, but on
July 10, 1947, it was approved at a meeting of the SWNCC
(State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee). THE FINAL VERSION OF THE
DOCUMENT "WAS PURGED OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF THE
MORGENTHAU PLAN".
The Morgenthau plan was rejected
mostly for pragmatic reasons. The western allies found themselves
feeding the West German population and bread rationing was introduced
in the UK after the war in Europe ended. Western Europe was
economically on its knees and needed the German economy as a motor
for recovery and could not afford to support a poor semi-rural German
economy that could not support its population. The moving of the
German border east created millions of homeless German refugees.
Getting Germany back to work feeding its citizens and producing goods
needed in Western Europe was essential.
GENERAL LUCIUS D. CLAY
Germans thanking the General for the Berlin Airlift (June 1948 to
September 1949) This program was ORDERED by Lucius D. Clay when the Soviet Union
blocked all rail, water, and road routes through the Soviet zone to the
Western sectors of Berlin.
IN CONCLUSION
While the Morgenthau
Plan had some influence until July 10, 1947 (adoption of JCS 1779) on
Allied planning for the occupation of Germany, IT WAS NOT ADOPTED.
From 1947, US policies aimed at restoring a "stable and
productive Germany" and were soon followed by the Marshall
Plan
Ticker parade honoring General Lucius D. Clay upon his retirement as MILITARY GOVERNOR OF GERMANY in 1949.
General Clay was a man of unmistakably military figure. His manner was decisive, he made quick decisions, he spoke with authority and assurance and he expressed himself in terse, clear statements. He died, aged 80 in 1978.
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