“You must understand this war is not against Hitler, or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.”

Winston S. Churchill

“They have brought us to the brink of disaster without our knowing, and without our being warned. I say that at the last moment, they should give the people of this country a chance to decide. This is a continuation of that old and disastrous system where a few men in charge of the State, wielding the whole force of the State, make secret engagements and secret agreements, carefully veiled from the knowledge of the people, who are as dumb driven cattle without a voice on the question. And nobody can tell the country what are the important considerations that ought to weigh with us in taking part in this tremendous struggle.”

Liberal MP Percy Molteno on the eve of WWI in the British Parliament

Because Germany lost the two World Wars, history has been written by the victors. Germany has been falsely held responsible for both wars, according to history written by the victorious powers. A deeper study of the record indicates that the truth is otherwise. Both wars were planned against Germany by a tiny but hidden and powerful section of the British oligarchy which felt threatened by Germany’s rapid economic and technological rise after 1870.

The tiny secret group that planned WWI, was set up in February 1891. It initially comprised only three formal members and called itself the Society of the Elect. The three men were Cecil Rhodes, William T. Stead, and Reginald Balliol Brett (later Lord Esher), the confidante of Queen Victoria, her son King Edward VII, and succeeding kings. From day one Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, who had also helped his protégé Cecil Rhodes build his enormous wealth in diamonds in South Africa, was on board regarding the purposes and existence of this secret society. A civil servant named Alfred Milner was added to the Society of the Elect. William Stead, a humane journalist, could not stomach the brutality of the Boer War that was planned and instigated by the Society of the Elect, condemned it, and dropped out in 1899.

In the words of Professor Carroll Quigley: “The creation of this secret society was not a matter of a moment. . .  Nor was the society thus founded an ephemeral thing, for in modified form, it exists today.”  In a concentric circle around the Society of the Elect, another secret group, which did not know of the existence of the Society of the Elect, was formed and was called the Association of Helpers. Till his death in 1902, Cecil Rhodes headed this group. He never married and left 150 million pounds for the Society he had created, to be used for the purposes for which it was set up. Upon his death he was succeeded by the tireless and ruthless Alfred Milner till he passed away in 1924. The secret society became known by various names, simply as the Group, or Milner’s group, Chatham House Group, etc.

When WWI started, the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, Secretary for War Richard Haldane, and Winston Churchill were already members of the Group. The Group members were present in all political parties and carried out the secret agenda of the Group. Without knowing about the Group, MP Percy Molteno could sense on the eve orf war that “a few men in charge of the State, wielding the whole force of the State, make secret engagements and secret agreements, carefully veiled from the knowledge of the people…” He was right.

From time to time members were added. But the secrecy was maintained and the purpose remained the setting up of a global British Empire, with the US brought back in the British fold, and the spread of English way of life everywhere, as laid down by Cecil Rhodes. Germany stood in the way and had to be destroyed. The existence of this secret society and its activities were first revealed by the American Professor Carroll Quigley, who was given access to the secret documents of this Group in order to make him write a sanitized history of the world. A pdf version of his book The Anglo-American Establishment can be accessed easily on the internet. Anyone seeking a proper understanding of the past 130 or so years of global affairs, must read this book.

At the end of WWI, the highly unjust Treaty of Versailles was imposed upon Germany. As part of the Treaty many territories which belonged to Germany, and were inhabited by Germans, were cut off and handed over to other countries, notably Poland, Czechoslovakia and France.   A quarter of the German population was torn away from the motherland. Apart from imposition of impossible and highly unjust war reparations, Germany was also forbidden from maintaining a proper army. Germany could maintain an “army” of 100,000 men solely for policing purposes. Germany could not own tanks, planes, or heavy weapons. Germany now had four hostile neighbors, all armed to their teeth, France, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In addition, Russia, Britain and America were also her enemies.

It is extremely important to note that soon after WWI, Germany, with the cooperation of the Soviet Union, began quietly violating the Versailles Treaty. These violations were in the knowledge of the British establishment, which, for deeper reasons, looked the other way. In his book Conjuring Hitler Guido Preparata writes: “Facilitated since 1921 by the Soviet factotum in Berlin, Vigdor Kopp, with the full approval of Trotsky and full intelligence of the French, British and Polish services, the promotion on Russian soil of German drilling stations and factories of poison gas, planes and tanks, and intense traffic of officers proceeded in both directions smoothly… Further plants for military production were built in Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland.” Former Soviet intelligence officer Viktor Suvorov writes: “Moscow gave the German commanders all that they were forbidden to possess: tanks, heavy artillery, war planes, training classes, and weapons testing and shooting ranges.”

Propaganda against Hitler holds him to be a mad man who wished to destroy or conquer the world through war. This is untrue. Though Hitler never got a high school diploma, he had deep reading habits and was a very well read man. As a young man, and even when in power, he was always reading books. He had a powerful world view and was very serious about rebuilding his country and living in peace with respect and honor. He desired a global arrangement in which Britain, the U.S. and Germany ruled the world jointly. But there was no room for the Jews in this arrangement, and it were the dominantly Jewish international bankers (Rothschilds, Warburgs, etc.), who completely controlled Britain and the U.S.

Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933. On May 17, 1933, he delivered a speech before the German Parliament (Reichstag) in which he made the three alternative peace proposals. Firstly, he offered: “Germany will be willing to disband her entire military establishment and destroy the small amount of arms remaining to her, if her neighboring countries will do the same thing with equal thoroughness.”  His second proposal was: “Germany is entirely ready to renounce aggressive weapons of every sort, if armed nations, on their part, will destroy their aggressive weapons within a specified period, and if their use is prohibited by an international convention.” Hitler’s third offer was as follows: “Germany is at all times prepared to renounce aggressive weapons if the rest of the world does the same. Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression because she does not think of attacking anybody but only of acquiring security.”

None of Germany’s adversaries responded to any of his proposals made in this speech. Instead, the League of Nations, a tool of the victorious powers, suggested that Germany must first pass through a period of “probation” before disarmament could be discussed. This was a highly non-serious and insulting suggestion, and therefore, on October 14, 1933, Hitler quit the League of Nations.

On December 18, 1933, Hitler made a six-point proposal for the promotion of peace. Instead of commenting on these, one may let the proposals speak for themselves. The points were as follows: “1. Germany receives full equality of rights. 2. The fully armed states undertake amongst themselves not to increase their armaments beyond their present level. 3. Germany adheres to this agreement, freely undertaking to make only so much actual moderate use of the equality of rights granted to her as will not represent a threat to the security of any other European power. 4. All states recognize certain obligations in regard to conducting war on humane principles, or to the elimination of certain weapons for use against civilian populations. 5. All States accept a uniform general control which will watch over and ensure observance of these obligations. 6. The European nations guarantee one another the unconditional maintenance of peace by the conclusion of nonaggression pacts, to be renewed after ten years.”

On January 26, 1934, Hitler’s government signed a non-aggression pact with Poland. This is despite the fact that huge chunks of German territory had been handed over illegally to Poland by the victorious powers after WWI. The two countries agreed “to settle directly all questions of whatever sort which concern their mutual relations.” How this non-aggression pact was wrecked by Britain, with the help of sections of Polish Jewry, a few years later to launch WWII, is a painful story and will be dealt with in a separate article.

Subsequently Hitler sought permission to raise the German army to 300,000 keeping in view the length of its borders and the sizes of the armies of its neighbors. After back and forth correspondence on the issue, France eventually said “No”. As the French minister Andre Tardieu remarked: “You are wasting your time. The convention you favor will never be concluded for we shall never be party to it.”

Concurrently the French, the British, and the Russian armies enhanced their sizes and military capabilities. This was a strange response to proposals for reduction of arms and nonaggression pacts! Poland introduced military service on 24 September 1934, whereas Czechoslovakia announced a two-year military service on January 1, 1935.  On January 30, 1935, the Soviet Union announced that its army had reached the one million mark. On March 6, 1935, France extended military service to two years!

In view of this, on March 16, 1935, Hitler reintroduced conscription. He had been in power for two years and one-and-a-half months at the time. He decided to raise the strength of the German army to 36 divisions, approximately 550,000 men. This move was, surprisingly, supported by the British! In the words of Carroll Quigley: “When France tried to counterbalance Germany’s rearmament by bringing the Soviet Union into eastern alliance system, the British counteracted this by making the Anglo-German agreement on 18 June 1935. This agreement concluded by Simon, allowed Germany to build up to 35% of the size of the British Navy (and up to 100 percent in submarines.” This was a stab in France’s back for, by this agreement the Germany Navy became much more powerful as France was bound to maintain a Navy in various categories of vessels to 33% of Britain’s!

In a speech of May 21, 1935, Hitler once again urged arms limitations. “The German Government is ready to take active part in all efforts which may lead to a practical limitation of armaments.” In his detailed speech he urged the “gradual abolition and outlawing of weapons and methods of warfare which are essentially contrary to the Geneva Red Cross Convention.” Does he sound like a warmonger?  He also urged the abolition of “all those arms which bring death and destruction not so much to the fighting soldiers as to non-combatant women and children.”

In his wide ranging speech, with an emphasis on humane conduct of war, he urged the “prohibition of dropping of gas, incendiary and explosive bombs outside the real battle zone.” The Geneva Convention forbids the killing of a defenseless wounded man or a prisoner. He analogously called for the establishment of a convention to forbid, “and finally to stop the bombing of equally defenseless civilian populations.” He stated that the German Government was willing to agree to abolition of the heaviest arms such as the “heaviest artillery” and the “heaviest tanks.” He stated that “Germany declares herself ready to agree to any limitation whatsoever of caliber-strength of artillery, battleships, cruisers and torpedo boats.”  He also offered to agree to international limitation of size of warships and of submarines or to abolition of submarines.

Hitler concluded by stating “And it [German Government] gives further assurance that it will agree to any international limitations or abolition of arms whatsoever for a uniform space of time.” These were comprehensive, wide-ranging and humane proposals. But, as usual, they fell on deaf ears. The Milner Group had its eyes on another inhuman war against Germany with the intent of destroying German power potential permanently and rendering it forever incapable of any ambitions to become a dominant power in Europe. On August 30, 1934, Stanley Baldwin had declared in the House of Commons: “Britain’s frontier is on the Rhine.” He was justifying the British air-armament program. Britain was developing long range heavy bombers among other things.

The occupation of Rhineland on March 7, 1936, by Hitler’s forces is considered as a most important milestone on the road to WWII. As a result of Versailles, Rhineland was left as a demilitarized zone, i.e., it was a part of Germany where Germany, or another power, could not have troops. The French had desired military occupation of this region but the British opposed it by arguing that if the German army was a mere 100,000, the French need not occupy it – there could be no threat. However, “standard” history conceals the real thing in this matter. Hitler occupied Rhineland with British approval!

Guido Preparata states that when Hitler moved his forces into Rhineland France was on “full alert…. All she needed was a signal from London. Von Neurath, Germany’s Foreign Secretary was terrified; Hitler trembling with emotion no less than his minister, spoke words of strength for them both; fear not, he whispered, Britain shall not budge.” Benton Bradberry writes that Hitler was to admit later on: “The 48 hours after the march into Rhineland were the most nerve wracking in my life. If the French had marched into Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tail between our legs…”

A week later, on March 14, 1936, at a session of the League of Nations in London, Britain astonished the French through their double speak. The Foreign office “averred that occupation of Rhineland was a violation of the Treaty of Versailles, but did not represent a threat to peace. It compromised the power of France, but not her security.”  Quigley writes that in rearming and in militarizing the Rhineland “Hitler was running no risk, for the government and the Milner Group had assured him before-hand that it would accept his action.” Britain supported Hitler’s move for a deeper reason which has been pointed out by Carroll Quigley.

He wrote: “So long as the territory west of Rhine and a strip fifty kilometers wide on the east bank of the river were demilitarized, as provided in the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pacts, Hitler would never have dared to move against Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. He would not have dared because, with western Germany denuded of German soldiers, France could have easily driven into the Ruhr industrial area and crippled Germany, so that it would be impossible to go eastward. And by this date, certain members of the Milner Group and of the British Conservative government had reached the fantastic idea that it could kill two birds with one stone by setting Germany and Russia against one another in Eastern Europe.”

On March 31, 1936, Hitler set out a very detailed peace plan. In this plan he focused on eliminating the possibility of hostilities between Germany, France and Belgium with Britain and Italy acting as guarantors of whatever agreements could be arrived at. For this purpose, he proposed setting up a Commission for the purpose and suggested that the Commission complete its task in four months. Among other things, he proposed a 25-year non-aggression pact between France and Belgium on the one hand and Germany on the other. He offered not to enhance the strength of the German troops in Rhineland in the intervening period and to not move any German troops close to the Belgian and French borders. Additionally, Hitler had repeatedly stated that Germany would not claim Alsace-Lorraine, which had been a bone of contention with France.

In his detailed proposal he also proposed conferences to consider arms limitations. He, in particular suggested that the conferences consider: “1. Prohibition of dropping gas, poison, or incendiary bombs. 2. Prohibition of dropping bombs of any kind whatsoever on open towns and villages outside the range of medium-heavy artillery of the fighting fronts. 3. Prohibition of the bombarding with long-range guns of towns more than 20 km. distant from the battle zone. 4. Abolition and prohibition of the construction of tanks of the heaviest type. 5. Abolition and prohibition of artillery of the heaviest caliber.”

The above proposals were meant to make war less brutal and to avoid as much harm to civilians as possible. Hitler does not seem like the mad man he is made out to be. He seems quite rational and appears to be concerned with making wars less brutal, if not stopping them altogether. He himself had been a victim of poison gas during WWI. Unfortunately, his proposals were simply ignored. The British responded with a “rather scornful questionnaire which avoided any serious discussion of the essential points involved.”

On 29 June, 1937, Lord Lothian, who probably headed the Group at that time, stated in a speech at Chatham House: “Now if the principle of self-determination were applied on behalf of Germany in the way it was applied against her, it would mean the re-entry of Austria into Germany, the union of Sudeten-Deutsch, Danzig, and possibly Memel with Germany, and certain adjustments with Poland in Silesia and the Corridor.” Then, on November 19, 1937, Lord Halifax, as Acting Foreign Secretary, met Hitler to convey the above “policy” to him.

Guido Preparata writes: “The mission of Lord Halifax on November 19 to the alpine residence of Hitler was the turning point in the dynamics leading to World War II… In synthesis Halifax told Hitler that: (1) Britain considered Germany a bastion against Communism; (2) Britain had no objection to the German acquisition of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Danzig; and (3) Germany should not use force to achieve her aims in Europe.”

The above is also confirmed by Carroll Quigley. He states: “The countries marked for liquidation included Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland but did not include Greece and Turkey, since the [Milner] group had no intention of allowing Germany to get down to the Mediterranean ‘lifeline’.” He also emphasizes that “The chief task of the Milner group was to see that this devouring process was done no faster than public opinion in Britain could accept.” Captain Araka Ota, the Japanese naval attaché in Britain had once told Ribbentrop: “Never forget that the British were the most cunning people on earth, and that they had graduated to absolute masters in the art of negotiation as well as that of manipulating the press and public opinion.” Hitler had no idea how he was being set up. He was led to believe, falsely, that he had a strong base of support in Britain. Germany paid a very heavy and permanent price for this failure to comprehend British duplicity.

The merger of Austria with Germany (known as Anchluss) was followed by the disintegration of Czechoslovakia. The disintegration of Czechoslovakia was not Hitler’s doing, but Britain’s. Czechoslovakia had 23% German population known as Sudeten Germans. They were brutally treated by the Czechs, who also sidelined the Slovaks. Carroll Quigley points out: “Hitler made no demand to annex the Sudeten area… Who then, first demanded frontier rectification in favor of Germany? Chamberlain did so privately on 10 May 1938 and the Milner Group did so publicly on 7 September 1938.”

Guido Preparata points out: “The British Plan, clearly, was to dismantle Czechoslovakia which, with 34 sterling divisions, 1 million men, well trained, and with a high morale, could very well stall Hitler in the middle of Europe…. Then to shield Hitler from General Beck’s conspiracy, in September Chamberlain flew to Germany twice, on the 15th and 22nd, to reach an agreement that would prevent the Nazis from going to war over Czechoslovakia – for their own good.” The one on one meeting on September 22, lasted three hours. Only an interpreter was present and no notes were taken.  Since the interpreter never broke his silence no one knows what transpired in the meeting.

General Beck had a plan to assassinate Hitler, which he had shared with the British. Both Hitler and Beck had failed to understand the British. Araka Ota was so right. Hitler’s assassination was planned for September 28, 1938. But suddenly, it so happened, that Chamberlain arrived in Germany on September 28. On midday September 28 the assassination was called off. And then late on the 29th the Munich Accord was signed. It involved Britain, France, Germany and Italy. No Czechoslovak representative was present and the Soviets had also been left out. In the words of Quigley: “The Czechoslovaks were forced to yield to Chamberlain’s settlement under pressure of ultimatum from both Britain and France, a fact that was concealed from the British people by omitting a crucial document from the White Paper of 28 September, 1938...”

The next day, on September 30, 1938, Hitler and Chamberlain signed another brief agreement indicating Hitler’s desire for peace with England. Maybe Chamberlain wanted the same but he was just a pawn to be eventually discarded by the Group which wished for war. The agreement stated: “We have had a further meeting today and have agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe. We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that method of consultation should be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.”

As soon as Chamberlain returned home the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Chamberlain that unless Britain ended cooperation with Germany, it should not expect any help from the U.S. In their syndicated column of March 19, 1939, journalists Drew Peterson and Robert S. Allen revealed that Roosevelt “sent a virtual ultimatum to Chamberlain” demanding that Britain oppose Germany. “The President warned that Britain could expect no more support, moral or material through the sale of aeroplanes, if the Munich policy continued.” As a result, the following day, Chamberlain, even though he had signed an agreement with Hitler on September 30, condemned Germany in a speech a Birmingham, effectively ending the policy of cooperation with Germany.

On December 6, 1938, The German and French foreign ministers signed an agreement. It opened with the following words: “The German Government and the French Government fully share the conviction that peaceful good-neighborly relations between Germany and France constitute one of the most essential elements for the consolidation of the situation in Europe and the maintenance of peace.” It ended with the following words: “The two Governments are resolved, while leaving unaffected their particular relations with other Powers, to remain in contact with regard to all questions concerning their two countries, and mutually to consult should the later evolution of those qualities lead to international difficulties.”

As to how Britain manipulated and forced war between Germany and Poland would require a separate article. But Hitler’s offers to Poland were so reasonable that the diplomatic community was quite astonished that Poland was unwilling to accept those offers. He did not ask for return of German territory that had been handed over to Poland illegally at Versailles. He simply asked for Danzig, a purely German port city and a thin strip connecting two parts of Germany, East and West Prussia, separated by what was now Polish territory. Germany also offered Poland protection against Soviet Union, and extension of the existing no war pact. The British ambassador to Poland, Sir Neville Henderson wrote to his government: “According to my Belgian colleague all the diplomatic representatives here regard the German offer in itself as a surprisingly fair one. The Dutch Minister, the United States Charge d’ Affairs, and my South African colleagues have spoken to me in this sense.”

Once Germany was compelled to attack Poland, France and Britain declared war against Germany, but never came to Poland’s aid. And it is extremely important to note something which is omitted in history books. On September 7, 1939, France did invade Germany up to a depth of eight kilometers. It was France that first aggressed against Germany. Once war had been declared by Britain and France, Germany made several offers of peace. After having defeated France in five-and-a-half weeks in May-June 1940, Hitler addressed the Reichstag on July 19, 1940, in which, among other things he made a peace offer.

Hitler’s speech “An Appeal for Sanity and Reason” was translated in English and the four-page pamphlets were dropped all over Britain by Luftwaffe. His peace offer became widely known to the British populace so much so that it was discussed at the Cabinet level. Records released much later indicated that Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, and Lord Beaverbook argued that the peace offer was “Most reasonable.” But Churchill, the agent of international bankers, would not agree. Instead Churchill ordered an increased bombing of Germany. In fact, in his speech, Hitler had stated: “The Jewish-capitalist warmongers, their hands covered with blood, saw in the possible success of such a peaceful revision [Munich accord] the vanishing of plausible grounds for the realization of their insane plans.”

Churchill also rejected Hitler’s peace offers made through the King of Sweden in November 1940. He had offered to restore freedom of France, Belgium, Holland, Norway and Denmark. He ad also offered to restore the Polish state and to allow Czechoslovakia to develop her own character. And that Germany would not prevent bits of Czechoslovakia from being together, if they wished to. He wanted some German colonies restored and to pursue European economic solidarity. The British War Cabinet rejected everything.