The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (54 page)

The Americans and British blatantly and repeatedly ignored desperate Japanese attempts to unconditionally surrender because firstly they wanted to drag-out the war for as long as possible and also they needed to actually demonstrate to the world, the devastating effect of the atomic bomb, otherwise the planned, coming ‘Cold War’ could not have generated the same terror in people’s minds.
 

“Our entire post-war programme depends on terrifying the world with the atomic bomb.
 
We are hoping for a tally of a million dead in Japan.
 
But if they surrender, we won't have anything.”
  
US Secretary of State, Edward Stettinius Jr., the son of a JP Morgan partner, early 1945
 

According to the historian Eustace Mullins, President Truman, whose only real job before Senator had been a Masonic ‘organiser’ in Missouri, did not make the fatal decision alone.
 
A committee led by James F. Byrnes, Bernard Baruch's puppet, instructed him. Baruch was the Rothschild's principal agent in the USA and a Presidential ‘advisor’ spanning the era from Woodrow Wilson to John F Kennedy.

Baruch, who was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, spearheaded the ‘Manhattan Project’ named after Baruch's home town. He chose life-long Communist Robert Oppenheimer to be Research Director.
 
It was very much the ‘bankers' bomb’.

On August 6, 1945, a Uranium bomb (isotope U-235) of 20 kilotons was exploded 1850 feet in the air above Hiroshima, for maximum explosive effect.
 
It devastated four square miles of the ancient, historical city and killed outright 140,000 of the 255,000 inhabitants.
 
This figure does not account, however, for the many thousands seriously injured and the many thousands more that would die in agony from radiation in the succeeding months and years.

In the United States the news of the bombing of Hiroshima was greeted with a mixture of relief, pride and shock but mainly joy.
 
Apparently it is reported that Oppenheimer himself walked around like a prize-fighter, clasping his hands together above his head in triumph when he heard the ‘good’ news.

We have been conditioned over the years to believe that during the Second World War the Germans and Japanese were the only ones capable of atrocities whilst ‘our boys’ were good, moral upstanding people who would never dream in a million years of committing immoral and repugnant acts or serious crimes against humanity and our illustrious leaders especially, even more so.
 
The problem with this view is that it does not stand up to even cursory scrutiny.
 
The number of Germans, civilian and military, murdered, starved and tortured to death in the two year period following VE day, far exceeded the worst excesses of Nazi brutality including the so-called ‘holocaust’.
 
War is horrific and the atrocities committed on both sides in every conflict are inexcusable but at the same time are inevitable consequences of the hatred engendered by propaganda from a country’s Elite and its puppet leaders, fear of the enemy and also of misguided desire for retribution.

No, Germany’s defeat in May 1945 and the end of World War II in Europe did not bring an end to death and suffering for the already vanquished German people.
 
Instead the victorious Allies ushered in a terrible new era of destruction, looting, starvation, rape, ‘ethnic cleansing’ and mass killing.

A contemporary edition of Time magazine referred to this period as “history’s most terrifying peace.”

Even though this unknown holocaust is ignored in our motion pictures and classrooms and by our political leaders, the facts are well established.
 
Historians are in basic agreement about the scale of the human catastrophe, which has been detailed in a number of other books.
 
For example, American historian Alfred de Zayas, along with other scholars, has established that in the years 1945 to 1950, more than 14 million Germans were expelled or forced to flee from large regions of eastern and central Europe, of whom more than four million were deliberately or negligently killed or otherwise lost their lives.

British historian Giles MacDonough details in his book, ‘After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation’, how the ruined and prostrate German Reich (including Austria) was systematically raped and robbed and how many Germans who survived the war were either killed in cold blood or deliberately left to die of disease, cold, malnutrition or starvation.
 
He explains how some three million Germans died unnecessarily after the official end of hostilities - about two million civilians, mostly women, children and elderly and about one million prisoners of war.

Some people take the view that, given the wartime record of the Nazis, some degree of vengeful violence against the defeated Germans was inevitable and perhaps justified.
 
A common response to reports of Allied atrocities is to say that the Germans ‘deserved it’ but however valid or otherwise that argument may be, the appalling cruelties inflicted upon the totally helpless German people went far beyond any ‘understandable’ retribution.

It is also worth noting that they were not the only victims of post-war Allied brutality.
 
Across central and eastern Europe, the brutality of Soviet suppression continued to take lives of Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Ukrainians and many other nationalities in great numbers.
 
As Soviet troops advanced into central and eastern Europe during the war’s final months, they imposed a reign of terror, pillage, rape and killing without comparison in modern history.
 
The horrors were summarised thus;

“The disaster that befell this area with the entry of the Soviet forces has no parallel in modern European experience.
 
There were considerable sections of it where, to judge by all existing evidence, scarcely a man, woman or child of the indigenous population was left alive after the initial passage of Soviet forces; and one cannot believe that they all succeeded in fleeing to the West … The Russians … swept the native population clean in a manner that had no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.”
 
George F. Kennan, historian and former US ambassador to the Soviet Union

During the last months of the war, the ancient German city of Königsberg in eastern Germany held out as a strongly defended urban fortress.
 
After repeated attack and siege by the Red Army, it finally surrendered in early April 1945.
 
Soviet troops then ravished the civilian population.
 
The people were beaten, robbed, killed and if female, raped first.
 
The rape victims included nuns and even hospital patients were robbed of their possessions.
 
Bunkers and shelters, packed with terrified people huddled inside, were torched with flame-throwers.
 
In all, about 40,000 of the city’s population were killed or took their own lives to escape the horrors and the remaining 73,000 German civilians were brutally deported.

In a report that appeared in August 1945 in the Washington DC Times-Herald, an American journalist wrote of what he described as “…the state of terror in which women in Russian-occupied eastern Germany were living.
 
All these women, Germans, Polish, Jewish and even Russian girls `freed’ from Nazi slave camps, were dominated by one desperate desire - to escape from the Red zone.
 
In the district around our internment camp … Red soldiers during the first weeks of their occupation raped every women and girl between the ages of 12 and 70.
 
That sounds exaggerated, but it is the simple truth.
 
The only exceptions were girls who managed to remain in hiding in the woods or who had the presence of mind to feign illness - typhoid, diphtheria or some other infectious disease … Husbands and fathers who attempted to protect their women folk were shot down and girls offering extreme resistance were murdered.”

In accordance with policies set by the Allied leaders of the US, Britain and the Soviet Union, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, millions of Germans were expunged from their ancient homelands in central and eastern Europe.

In October 1945, a New York Daily News report from occupied Berlin told readers;

“In the windswept courtyard of the Stettiner Bahnhof, a cohort of German refugees, part of 12 million to 19 million dispossessed in East Prussia and Silesia, sat in groups under a driving rain and told the story of their miserable pilgrimage, during which more than 25 percent died by the roadside and the remainder were so starved they scarcely had strength to walk.

A nurse from Stettin, a young, good-looking blonde, told how her father had been stabbed to death by Russian soldiers who, after raping her mother and sister, tried to break into her own room.
 
She escaped and hid in a haystack with four other women for four days … On the train to Berlin she was raped once by Russian troops and twice by Poles.
 
Women who resisted were shot dead, she said and on one occasion she saw a guard take an infant by the legs and crush its skull against a post because the child cried while the guard was raping its mother.
 
An old peasant from Silesia said ... victims were robbed of everything they had, even their shoes.
 
Infants were robbed of their swaddling clothes so that they froze to death. All the healthy girls and women, even those 65 years of age, were raped in the train and then robbed, the peasant said.”

In November 1945 an item in the Chicago Tribune told readers;

“Nine hundred and nine men, women and children dragged themselves and their luggage from a Russian railway train at Lehrter station in Berlin today, after eleven days travelling in boxcars from Poland.
 
Red Army soldiers lifted 91 corpses from the train, while relatives shrieked and sobbed as their bodies were piled in American lend-lease trucks and driven off for internment in a pit near a concentration camp.
 
The refugee train was a like a macabre Noah’s ark.
 
Every car was packed with Germans … the families carry all their earthly belongings in sacks, bags and tin trunks ... Nursing infants suffer the most, as their mothers are unable to feed them and frequently go insane as they watch offspring slowly die before their eyes.
 
Today four screaming, violently insane mothers were bound with rope to prevent them from clawing other passengers.”

Although most of the millions of German girls and women who were ravished by Allied soldiers were raped by Red Army troops, Soviet soldiers were not the only perpetrators. During the French occupation of Stuttgart, a large city in southwest Germany, police records show that 1,198 women and eight men were raped, mostly by French troops from Morocco, although the prelate of the Lutheran Evangelical church estimated the number at 5,000.

During World War II, the United States, Britain and Germany broadly complied with the international regulations on the treatment of prisoners of war, as required by the Geneva Convention of 1929 even though Germany did not formally recognise it.
 
But at the end of the fighting in Europe, the US and British authorities scrapped the Geneva Convention.
 
In violation of solemn international obligations and Red Cross rules, the American and British authorities stripped millions of captured German soldiers of their status and their rights as prisoners of war by strategically reclassifying them in true Orwellian fashion as so-called ‘disarmed enemy forces’ or ‘surrendered enemy personnel.’

Accordingly, British and American authorities denied International Red Cross representatives access to camps holding German prisoners of war.
 
Moreover, any attempt by German civilians to feed the prisoners was punishable by death.
 
Many thousands of German POWs died in American custody, most infamously in the so-called ‘Rhine meadow camps,’ where prisoners were held under appalling conditions, with no shelter or sanitation and inadequate food.

In April 1946, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) protested that the United States, Britain and France, nearly a year after the end of fighting, were violating International Red Cross agreements they had solemnly pledged to uphold.
 
The Red Cross pointed out for example, that the American transfer of German prisoners of war to French and British authorities for forced labour was contrary to International Red Cross statutes.