TRUTH FOR GERMANY Walendy he hypothesis of Germany’s Guilt for the Second World War is refuted. Future Thistorical research could, if need be, amplify the facts compiled in this book, TRUTH FOR GERMANY but it can no longer prove them non-existent. There is available to the public today a considerable number of documents, both from home and abroad, on the foreign policies of the Great Powers before September 1939, as well as a wealth of literature in the memoirs-field of the persons directly involved in the decisions that would lead to the outbreak of the War. Together, they make possible a mosaic-like reconstruction of the events before the outbreak of the War in 1939. One can assume with an almost virtual certainty that the Victor Powers, starting in 1945, have sifted through the German archives for all the documents incriminating Germany, and during the following twenty years have utilized and published them. It is, therefore, to be expected that the hitherto unpublished documents from the Reich government contain material possibly exonerating Germany. The same would apply to the still unavailable secret archive material of the Allies in East and West. This book, demonstrating in concentrated format the happenings arising from The the manifold connections before the outbreak of the War in Europe in 1939, cannot be glibly brushed aside with the reproach of being “tendentious”. “Tendency” always presupposes unscientific and unscholarly workings, at random “intuitive Guilt Question guesswork”, “interpretation”, insufficient knowledge of sources and the attempt of imposing a “biased” objective. This book has been published only after an intensive study of sources, taking the of the Second greatest care to avoid all guesswork interpretations. It serves not any one particular party, nor is it meant solely for the German people; the aim, rather, is to contribute towards new understandings and cognizance for mankind. World War ISBN 978-0-906879-82-5 Udo Walendy TRUTH 978-0-906879-82-5 H FOR R P H R Historical Review Press P PO Box 62, Uckfield, Sussex, TN22 IZY, UK GERMANY Website: www.ety.com/HRP Udo Walendy Truth For Germany The Guilt Question of the Second World War 1 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com Translated from the German by E. M. Parker This is a new translation, in faithful adherence to the German original (1965) text. ISBN 978-0-906879-82-5 Copyright 1981 by Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung P.O. Box 1643, 32590 Vlotho-Weser, Germany Reprinted and retranslated 2008 English edition sold in USA by The Barnes Review Books P.O.Box 15877 . Washington D.C. 20003 or The Barnes Review Books 27620 Commerce Center Dr. #108 Temecula CA 92590 USA Historical Review Press PO Box 62, Uckfield, Sussex, TN22 IZY, UK Website: www.ety.com/HRP 2008 2 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com Contents Leitmotiv: Truth for Germany ............................................................................ 5 Clarification of the War Guilt Question A Prerequisite for Future Peace .................................................................. 10 Versailles 1919 and the Question of War Guilt ................................................ 15 Viewpoints on Germany since 1919 Fear in the Service of Disastrous Agitation ................................................ 24 Winston Churchill and the Party with the “Philosophy of Blood Lust”..... 45 Vienna, Munich, Prague ..................................................................... 68, 82, 115 Poland Wants War German Territories in Polish Hands ......................................................... 134 Poland Demands Territories outside Poland ............................................ 142 Poland’s Policies on her Minorities Fundamental Position ............................................................................... 155 Intensified Action 1938-1939 ................................................................... 165 Poland’s Foreign Policy on Germany Strategy ..................................................................................................... 175 From “Munich” to the Outbreak of War ................................................... 184 The Polish Course of Action against Danzig............................................ 198 Hitler’s Position on Poland Fundamental Principle from 1933 onwards ............................................. 212 The Proposal to Poland Made 24 October 1938 Why Choose this Moment in Time ........................................................... 215 The Unfolding of the Negotiations ........................................................... 219 From Spring to August 1939 .................................................................... 225 The Armament Level in the Year 1939 Germany .................................................................................................... 239 Air Force .......................................................................................... 252 Navy ................................................................................................. 253 Great Britain ............................................................................................. 255 France. ...................................................................................................... 258 Czecho-Slovakia (1938) ........................................................................... 259 Poland ....................................................................................................... 259 The Soviet Union ...................................................................................... 260 Psychological Preparations for War ............................................................... 262 3 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com The Foreign Policy of the Great Powers on the Eve of War Great Britain The Policy of “European Balance of Power” during the Pre-War Years .... 270 Britain’s Policy on Germany from “Munich” to 15 March 1939........... 286 The British Reaction to 15 March 1939 ................................................. 293 Carte Blanche to Poland on 31 March 1939 .......................................... 300 The Policy of Rumours and of Encirclement from March to August 1939 .313 The Extension of the Blank Cheque on 25 August 1939 ....................... 333 The Annihilation of Germany as a War Aim .......................................... 340 The United States of America ..................................................................... 346 The Soviet Union ........................................................................................ 370 The Last Days of Peace The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact ............................................. 385 Marching Orders of 23 August ............................................................... 388 The Activities of the British Government from 25-28 August ............... 393 The Meeting between Hitler and Henderson on 29 August ................... 403 Collaboration between London and Warsaw from 29-31 August 1939 . 407 Initiatives of the German Government ................................................... 415 The Lethargic Polish Ambassador .......................................................... 420 The “Line” of Lord Halifax .................................................................... 422 “War-Guilt” before the Nuremberg Tribunal ................................................. 439 Documents against Hitler ............................................................................... 447 Demands for Living Space (Lebensraum) in Mein Kampf .................... 447 “Key Documents” of the IMT on Hitler’s Non-Public Speeches ......... 450 The “Hossbach Memorandum” Hitler’s Address to the Commanders-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht on 5 November 1937 .............................................................................. 451 Hitler’s Address to the German Press on 10 November 1938 ............................................................................ 454 Hitler’s Address to the Senior Officers of the Wehrmacht on 23 May 1939 ...................................................................................... 455 Hitler’s Address to the Commanders-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht on 22 August 1939 .................................................................................. 460 Hitler’s Address to the Commanders-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht on 23 November 1939. ........................................................................... 469 The Czecho-Slovak Memoranda at the Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920 ..... 471 Appendix and Sources .................................................................................... 476 4 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com Leitmotiv: Truth For Germany! The building of political structures to ensure lasting peace will necessarily call for open and unbiased dialogue, itself dependent on historical objectivity. Those who falsify other nations’ history, refusing to consider their past objectively and honestly, deserve no trust: they have nothing to contribute to the quest for peace and justice in the world. It is the historian’s duty for the sake of the past and the future to search for, to find, to defend and to gain acceptance for those historical truths which will stand the test of time, irrespective of considerations of political expedience which today, with the support of the mass media and of the help