Essential Quotes to understand WW2

Essential reading: Quotes to help us understand WW2!

• "Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and retaliation towards every German, woman and child."
  Jewish professor A. Kulischer (October, 1937).
  
  
• "Our fight against Germany must be carried to the limit of what is possible. Israel has been attacked. Let us, therefore, defend Israel! Against the awakened Germany, we put an awakened Israel. And the world will defend us."
  Jewish author Pierre Creange in his book Epitres aux Juifs (1938)
  
  
• "Germany must be turned into a waste land, as happened there during the 30-year War."
  Das Morgenthau-Tagebuch, The Morgenthau Dairy (p. 11)
  
  
• "The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labour unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany..."
  Valadimir Jabotinsky, in Mascha Rjetsch (January, 1934)
  
  
• "I hope every German west of the Rhine River and wherever we attack, will be destroyed."
  R.F. Keeling
  
  
• "We will force this war upon Hitler, if he wants it or not."
  Winston Churchill (1936 broadcast)
  
  
• "Germany becomes to powerful. We have to crush it."
  Winston Churchill (November 1936 to US-General Robert E. Wood)
  
  
• "Germanys unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system and to build up an own exchange system from which the world-finance couldn’t profit anymore. We butchered the wrong pig."
  Winston Churchill, The second World War (Bern, 1960)
  
  
• "The war wasn’t only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to."
  Winston Churchill to Truman (Fultun, USA March 1946)
  
  
• "Should Germany merchandise again in the next 50 years we have led this war (WW1) in vain."
  Winston Churchill in Times (1919)
  
  
• "This war is an English war and its goal is the destruction of Germany."
  Winston Churchill (Autumn 1939 broadcast)
  
  
• "Not the political doctrine of Hitler has hurled us into this war. The reason was the success of his increase in building a new economy. The roots of war were envy, greed and fear."
  Major General J.F.C. Fuller, historian, England
  
  
• "We didn't go to war in 1939 to save Germany from Hitler...or the continent from fascism. Like in 1914 we went to war for the not lesser noble cause that we couldn’t accept a German hegemony over Europe."
  Sunday Correspondent, London (17.9.1989)
  
  
• "Now we have forced Hitler to war so he no longer can peacefully annihilate one piece of the Treaty of Versailles after the other."
  Lord Halifax, English ambassador in Washington (1939)
  
  
• "The enemy is the German Reich and not Nazism, and those who still haven’t understood this, haven’t understood anything."
  Churchill’s chief counsellor Robert Lord Vansittart (September 1940 to foreign minister Lord Halifax)
  
  
• "It will be the Polish army that will invade Germany on the first day of war."
  The Polish ambassador in Paris (15.8.1939)
  
  
• "I will crunch Germany."
  Roosevelt 1932
  
  
• "What we didn't want to comprehend in the German (anti-Hitler) resistance during the war, we learned completely afterwards: this war wasn’t led against Hitler but against Germany."
  Eugen Gerstenmaier, President of the German Bundestag since 1954, member of the resistance group "Bekennende Kirche" during WW2
  
  
• "Hitler and the German people didn't want this war. We didn't answer Hitler’s various petitions for peace. Now we have to admit that he was right. Instead of a cooperation with Germany, which he had offered us, now stands the gigantic, imperialistic might of the Soviets. I feel ashamed to see how the same intentions which we accused Hitler of now are pursued under a different name."
  Sir Hartley Shawcross, British chief-accuser in Nuremberg
  
  
• "We made a monster, a devil out of Hitler. Therefore we couldn’t disavow it after the war. After all, we mobilized the masses against the devil himself. So we were forced to play our part in this diabolic scenario after the war. In no way we could have pointed out to our people that the war only was an economic preventive measure."
  US foreign minister Baker (1992)
  
  
• "Will there be room for [the German refugees, fleeing before the Red army] in what is left of Germany? We have killed six or seven million Germans and probably there will be an other million or so killed before the end of the war."
  Churchill, according to James F Byrnes' shorthand note of Plenary Session at Yalta, Feb. 7, 1945 (H S Truman Libr., Independence, Missouri)
  
  
• "I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes."
  Churchill, writing as president of the Air Council (1919)
  
  
• "Kill, kill, you brave Red Army soldiers, kill. There is nothing in the Germans that is innocent. Obey the instructions of comrade Stalin and stamp the fascistic beast in its cave. Break with force the racial arrogance of the Germanic women. Take them as your legal loot. Kill, you brave soldiers of the Red Army, kill!"
  Ilya Ehrenburg Stalin's Jewish propagandist for genocide (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, February 28, 1995 - page 7)
  
  
• "It is not the Germany of the first decade that followed the war - broken, dejected and bowed down with a sense of apprehension and impotence. It is now full of hope and confidence, and of a renewed sense of determination to lead its own life without interference from any influence outside its own frontiers. One man has accomplished this miracle. He is a born leader of men. A magnetic and dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, a resolute will and a dauntless heart."
  David Lloyd George (Ex-Prime Minister, UK), in the Daily Express (Sep. 17, 1936)
  
  
• "Without the holocaust we would not have a Jewish state."
  Robert B. Goldmann in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Dec. 19, 1997, p. 9)
  
  
• "The minorities in Poland are supposed to disappear. The Polish policy makes sure that they don’t only disappear on the paper. This policy is ruthlessly established and without any attention to the public opinion of the world, of international contracts or the League of Nations. The Ukraine turned to hell under Polish rule. One can say this about Belorussia with even more right. The purpose of the Polish policy is the disappearance of the national minorities on the paper and in reality."
  Manchester Guardian (14th December 1931)
  
  
• "East Prussia is unquestionable German territory. Since my childhood this is my opinion which didn't need the affirmation by a plebiscite. And that this is my opinion you may tell your East Prussians in a public gathering in Königsberg for reassurance."
  The president of the Polish state and Marshall Josef Pilsudski who mysteriously lost his life in the 1930s, to the German foreign minister Gustav Stresemann (10th December 1927)
  
  
• "The Polish terror in the Ukraine today is worse than anything else in Europe. Ukraine became a country of desperation and destruction. The murderous deeds multiplied. The Germans have been tortured, mutilated, excruciated to death, their corpses were desecrated. Villages and palaces have been robbed, ignited, blown up. The depicted incidents in the official publication of the German government in 1921 exceed the worst actions one can imagine."
  Prof. Dr. Ren Martel in his book, Les frontires orientales de l`Allemagne (Paris 1930) about the Polish raids in Upper Silesia in 1921
  
  
• "We know that the war between Poland and Germany cant be prevented. We have to systematically and energetically prepare ourselves for this war. The present generation will see that a new victory at Grunwald will be written into history’s pages. But we will battle out this Grunwald in the suburbs of Berlin. Our ideal is to chamfer Poland with borders along the Oder in the west and the Neie at Lausitz and to absorb Prussia from Pregel to the Spree. In this war no prisoners will be made, there will be no place for humanitarian feelings."
  The censored, and closely to the Polish military dictatorship related newspaper Mosarstwowiecz (1930), three years before Hitler came to power.
  
  
• "We are ready to make a contract with the devil if he helps us fighting against Hitler. Listen: against Germany not only against Hitler. The German blood will be spilled in a future war in such streams like it wasn’t seen since the beginning of the world."
  Warsaw newspaper Depesza (20 August 1939)
  
  
• "We are ready for any war, even with the strongest opponent..."
  Polska Zbrojna (25. Mrz 1939), quoted in Walendy, Historische Tatsachen, a.a.O. (Heft 39, S. 16)
  
  
• "Poland wants war with Germany and Germany will not be able to avoid it, even if it wants to."
  Rydz-Smigly, Chief inspector of the Polish army in a public speech in front of Polish officers (Summer 1939)
  
  
• "The Air Ministry agreed that it was most useful to be able to use gas on less sophisticated enemies who would have no idea from where the danger they faced came. The use of gas was banned by the 1925 Geneva protocol."
  The Daily Telegraph (January 3, 1997)
  
  
• "Perhaps the next time round the way to do it will be to kill women, children and the civilian population."
  Churchill, quoted during the First World War
  
  
• "I am, of course, a Zionist, and have been ever since the Balfour Declaration."
  Churchill quoted in The Official Churchill in One Volume, N.Y. Times (Nov. 6, 1991) by Herbert Mitgang
  
  
• Eisenhower on German war prisoners: "God, I hate the Germans..."
  Ike The Kike Dwight David Eisenhower in a letter to his wife (September, 1944)
  
  
• "Prison enclosures are to provide no shelter or other comforts."
  Ike The Kike Dwight David Eisenhower
  
  
• "Under no circumstances may food supplies be assembled among the local inhabitants in order to deliver them to prisoners of war. Those who violate this command and nevertheless try to circumvent this blockade to allow something to come to the prisoners place themselves in danger of being shot."
  Dwight David Eisenhower
  
  
• "For years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW's on the Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply ... Witnesses and survivors have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the American camps to Buchenwald."
  Peter Worthington, Ottawa Sun (September 12, 1989)
  
  
• "Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated one million [German] men, most of them in American camps . . . Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war crime."
  Col. Ernest F. Fisher, PhD Lt., 101st Airborne Division, Senior Historian, United States Army
  
  
• "My protests (regarding treatment of the German DEF'S) were met with hostility or indifference, and when I threw our ample rations to them over the barbed wire. I was threatened, making it clear that it was our deliberate policy not to adequately feed them."
  Martin Brech, ex-Private First Class, in Company C of the 14th Infantry, assigned as a guard and interpreter at the Eisenhower Death Camp at Andernach, along the Rhine River
  
  
• "When they caught me throwing C- Rations over the fence, they threatened me with imprisonment. One a Captain told me that he would shoot me if he saw me again tossing food to the Germans ... Some of the men were really only boys 13 years of age...Some of the prisoners were old men drafted by Hitler in his last ditch stand ... I understand that average weight of the prisoners at Andernach was 90 pounds, 44kg, ...I have received threats ... Nevertheless, this...has liberated me, for I may now be heard when I relate the horrible atrocity I witnessed as a prison guard for one of 'Ike's death camps' along the Rhine."
  
  
• "At first, the women from the nearby town brought food into the camp. The American soldiers took everything away from the women, threw it in a heap and poured gasoline over it and burned it."
  Former camp prisoner.
  
  
• "Many a sane American family would recoil in horror if they knew how 'Our Boys' conduct themselves, with such complete callousness in human relationships over here."
  A serviceman, the TIME Magazine (November 12, 1945)
  
  
• "Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated one million [German] men, most of them in American camps . . . Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war crime."
  Col. Ernest F. Fisher, PhD Lt. 101st Airborne Division, Senior Historian, United States Army.The Morgenthau Plan
  
  
• "Germany must be turned into a waste land, as happened there during the 30-year War."
  Das Morgenthau-Tagebuch, The Morgenthau Dairy (p. 11)
  
  
• "The Morgenthau Plan for Germany ... became part of the Potsdam Agreement, a solemn declaration of policy and undertaking for action ... signed by the United States of America, Great Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."
  New York Post (Nov. 24, 1947)
  
  

War Crimes

• "At the edge of town, on the left side of the road, stands the large inn 'Weisser Krug' ... In the farmyard further down the road stood a cart, to which four naked women were nailed through their hands in a cruciform position. Behind the Weisser Krug towards Gumbinnen is a square with a monument to the Unknown Soldier. Beyond is another large inn, 'Roter Krug'. Near it, parallel to the road, stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture. In the dwellings, we found a total of seventy-two women, including children, and one old man, 74, all dead ... all murdered in a bestial manner, except only for a few who had bullet holes in their necks. Some babies had their heads bashed in. In one room we found a woman, 84 years old, sitting on a sofa ... half of whose head had been sheared off with an axe or a spade ... We carried the corpses to the village cemetery where they lay to await a foreign medical commission ... In the meantime, a nurse from Insterburg came, a native of Nemmersdorf, who looked for her parents. Among the corpses were her mother, 72, and her father, 74, the only man among the dead. She also established that all the dead were Nemmersdorfers. On the fourth day the bodies were buried in two graves. Only on the following day did the medical commission arrive, and the tombs had to be reopened. Barn doors were set on blocks on which to lay the bodies so that the commission could examine them. This foreign commission unanimously established that all the women, as well as the girls from eight to twelve years and even the woman of 84 years had been raped. After the examination by the commission, the bodies were again buried."
  Karl Potrek's report, a civilian from the capital city of Königsberg, recruited into the Volksturm.
  
  
• "They were all exhausted and starved and miserable ... A child only half alive ... A woman in the most terrible picture of despair I've seen ... Even when you see it, it's impossible to believe ... God it was terrible."
  Robert Allen, Letter from Berlin, Reading magazine (February, 1946)
  
  
• "When we reached Metgethen, we were confronted with a gruesome sight: We found several hundred dead German soldiers, many of whom had been disfigured beyond recognition. There were murdered civilians in just about every home, likewise disfigured in a most bestial manner. For example, some women had their breasts cut off, and in backyard gardens we found scarcely clad women who had been hanged upside down. In one house we came across a 63-year-old woman still alive. Crying, she told us that she had been raped by 12 to 15 Russians. She lay on the floor covered in blood. This old woman's daughter had escaped into the forest nearby, but her one-year-old child was abducted by the Russians. In the streets of Metgethen, and also at the railroad station, we found approximately15 baby carriages, some overturned, all empty. We concluded that this meant the Russians had also abducted these babies."
  Horst A., at the time a driver for the Intelligence Reserve Detachment I, Königsberg.
  
  

Jews outing their plans for WW2!

• "Its our task to mercilessly declare war to Germany, the public enemy number one."
  Bernhard Lecache, President of the Jewish World League (9. November 1938)
  
  
• "Our Jewish interests demand the final destruction of Germany."
  W. Jabotinski, founder of "Irgun Zwai Leumi" (January 1934)
  
  
• "Hitler doesnt want war but he will be forced to it, and in fact soon. England has the final say like in 1914."
  Zionist Emil Ludwig Cohn "Annalen"
  
  
• "Although Hitler may want to prevent this war, which can devour him, in the last moment, he will be forced to war anyway."
  Emil Ludwig Cohn (1938)
  
  
• "I asked Joe Kennedy (US embassador in London) about his talks with Roosevelt and N. Chamberlain in 1938. He said it had been Chamberlains belief in 1939 that Great Britain has nothing in its hands to fight and therefore wouldn’t dare to go to war against Hitler...Neither the French nor the English would have made Poland a motive for war if they hadn’t been continuously spurred on by Washington...America and the World-Jewry have driven England to war."
  US defence minister J. Forrestal 27.12.1945 in his diary (The Forrestal Diaries, New York, 1951, S. 121 ff)
  
  
• "We managed to drag the United States into the First World War and if they (the US) do what we demand in regards to Palestine and the Jewish armed forces, then we can get the Jews in the USA to drag the United States into this one (the Second World War) too."
  Weizmann to Chuchill (September 1941)
  
  
• "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 in-eradicable weed of historic truth."
  Sefton Delmer, former British chief propagandist after the capitulation in 1945 to the German expert on international law Prof. Grimm.
  
  
• "When the National Socialists and their friends cry or whisper that this [the war] is brought about by Jews, they are perfectly right."
  The Jewish magazine Sentinel of Chicago (8 October 1940)
  
  
• "For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish community at each conference in all our syndicates and by each Jew all over the world. There is reason to believe that our part in this struggle has general value. We will start a spiritual and material war of all the world against Germany's ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand Germany's total destruction, collectively and individually. The German nation is a threat to us Jews."
  Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organisation, Mascha Rjetach(January 1934)
  
  
• "Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war."
  Emil Ludwig Cohen in his book The New Holy Alliance( Strasburg, 1938)
  
  
• "It is our task to organise the moral and cultural blockade of Germany and disperse this nation. It is up to us to start a merciless war."
  Bernard Lechache in The Right to Live (December 1938)
  
  
• "The millions of Jews living in America, England, France, North Africa and South, not forgetting Palestine, have decided to carry on the war in Germany to the very end. It is to be a war of extermination."
  'The Jewish newspaper Central Blad Voor Israeliten in Nederlands (13 September 1939)
  
  
• "It was the World Jewish Congress that saw to it that the Nuremberg Trials were held, for which it supplied experienced advice and most valuable evidence - and it was the World Jewish Congress that had such far-reaching connections during the war that these extended even into the German Foreign Office, and that it received information even long before the British Secret Service received it."
  Maurice Perlzweig, Chief of the British Section of the World Jewish Congress, said in an address in Langside Hall in London on November 27, 1949, Jewish Chronicle, London (December 16, 1949. Quoted in: UN, 8/83 p. 4.) 'I emphasised that the defeat of Germany and Japan and their elimination from world trade would give Britain a tremendous opportunity to swell her foreign commerce in both volume and profit.'"
  Baruch, The Public Years, by Bernard M. Baruch (p.347) Bernard Baruch was a presidential adviser to Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman.
  
  
• "This declaration called the war against Germany, which was now determined on, a 'holy war'. This war was to be carried out against Germany to its conclusion, to her destruction".
  Dr. Franz J. Scheidl, Geschichte der Verfemung Deutschlands
  
  
• "Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon."
  Emil Ludwig Cohn in Les Annales, June, 1934 (also quoted in his book The New Holy Alliance)
  
  
• "We Jews are going to bring a war on Germany."
  David A. Brown, National Chairman, United Jewish Campaign, 1934 (quoted in I Testify Against The Jews by Robert Edward Edmondson, page 188 and The Jewish War of Survival by Arnold Leese, page 52)
  
  
• "We want to bring about a deep hatred for the Germans, for German soldiers, sailors, and airmen. We must hate until we win."
  Lord Beaverbrook, quoted in Niemals! by Heinrich Goitsch.
  
  
• "There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it."
  Vladimir Jabotinsky in Jewish Daily Bulletin (July 27, 1935)
  
  
• "Before the end of the year, an economic bloc of England, Russia, France and the U.S.A will be formed to bring the German and Italian economic systems to their knees."
  Paul Dreyfus, La Vie de Tanger (May 15, 1938)
  
  
• "On the 3rd of June, 1938, the American Hebrew boasted that they had Jews in the foremost positions of influence in Britain, Russia and France, and that these "three sons of Israel will be sending the Nazi dictator to hell."
  Joseph Trimble, The American Hebrew.
  
  
• "Germany is our public enemy number one. It is our object to declare war without mercy against her. One may be sure of this: We will lead that war!"
  Bernard Lecache, the president of the "International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism," in its newspaper Droit de Vivre (Right to Life) (9 November, 1938)
  
  
• "The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishing Jewish hegemony throughout the world."
  Brigadier General George Van Horn Mosely, The New York Tribune (March 29, 1939)
  
  
• "The millions of Jews who live in America, England and France, North and South Africa, and, not to forget those in Palestine, are determined to bring the war of annihilation against Germany to its final end."
  Central Blad Voor Israeliten in Nederland (September 13, 1939)
  
  
• "Stop talking about peace conditions! Break Germany in pieces!"
  The Daily Herald, No.7426 (9 December, 1939)
  
  
• "In losing Germany, Jewry lost a territory from which it exerted power. Therefore it was determined to reconquer it."
  Louis Marschalko, The World Conquerors : The Real War Criminals
  
  
• "The Second World War is being fought for the defense of the fundamentals of Judaism."
  Rabbi Felix Mendlesohn, Chicago Sentinel (October 8, 1942)
  
  
• "We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry... Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going. The guarantee of victory is predominantly based on weakening the enemy forces, on destroying them in their own country, within the resistance. And we are the Trojan horses in the enemy's fortress. Thousands of Jews living in Europe constitute the principal factor in the destruction of our enemy. There, our front is a fact and the most valuable aid for victory."
  Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Jewish Congress, Head of the Jewish Agency and later President of Israel, in a Speech on December3, 1942, in New York.
  
  
• "It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was wanted and provoked solely by international statesmen either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. Nor had I ever wished that after the appalling first World War, there would ever be a second against either England or America."
  Adolf Hitler (April 1945)
  
  
• "Played golf with Joe Kennedy (U.S. Ambassador to Britain). He says that Chamberlain stated that America and world Jewry forced England into World War II."
  James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy (later Secretary of Defence), Diary, December 27, 1945 entry.

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