Craig4
Penultimate Amazing
Obviously the internet is not the boon to the cause of the Nazi that he thinks it is.
Obviously the internet is not the boon to the cause of the Nazi that he thinks it is.
I have been active on the Internet for about 15 years, and since Year One, back in the good old days of Usenet, the Holocaust Deniers were saying that in another couple of years the "Holohoax" would be exposed as a fake and the Evil of Der Joos revealed. Ain't happened yet.
It was from Scheil’s book, “1940/41 – Die Eskalation des Zweiten Weltkriegs”, page 174-175. In the footnote is a reference to the Foreign Office document. It summarizes it’s content exactly like the link you gave.Yes, and I found and linked a sourced and thorough online transcript, as you seem to have ignored. Which is weird since it was in the same post than my sarcastic remark which you replied to.
I kindly put it once more:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=137567&start=30#p1203389
If you do not have a link, please specify the source where you found mention of this document and in what form it was presented.
The corridor was one of the reasons why the conflict between Germany and Poland started in the first place. The persecution of the Germans was the other one (the Poles, highly encouraged by Anglo and French blank cheque war garantees, wanted to kick Germans out of once German lands, now handed over to Poland by the Anglos in Versailles with the aim to criple Germany). It is unlikely that Hitler would be willing to let this condition go and accept a permanent separation between Eastern Prussia and the Reich. Poland would resurrect in some form, sure, but without the corridor. If you want to make the case that Hitler was after all willing to let go of the corridor, be my guest.This is what you claim this document contains:
So to summarize, according to you the peace terms are:
- Germany would keep the Dantzig corridor
- Germany would cease occupation of all countries and restore their sovereignty
- Germany would pay compensation to the neutral states
The transcript I link to gives a slighty different story:
To sum it up:
- No explicit mention of the Dantzig corridor (altough the promise of "a polish state" and not "of Poland" certainly implies that it would be restored in a different form)
- Germany will keep Czechoslovakia, which you do not mention.
- Germany would cease occupation of all countries and restore their sovereignty under an unified economic and political sphere directed by Nazi Germany, which not must be contested.
- No mention of compensation for the neutral states
- Colonies to be discussed.
Do you not see the difference there?
“under an unified economic and political sphere directed by Nazi Germany, which not must be contested.”
summarizes it’s content exactly like the link you gave.
The corridor was one of the reasons why the conflict between Germany and Poland started in the first place. The persecution of the Germans was the other one (the Poles, highly encouraged by Anglo and French blank cheque war garantees, wanted to kick Germans out of once German lands, now handed over to Poland by the Anglos in Versailles with the aim to criple Germany). It is unlikely that Hitler would be willing to let this condition go and accept a permanent separation between Eastern Prussia and the Reich. Poland would resurrect in some form, sure, but without the corridor. If you want to make the case that Hitler was after all willing to let go of the corridor, be my guest.
About Czechoslovakia, it was a rotten artificial Anglo construct, that fell apart at the first opportunity anyway. It had always been part of Germany (or Habsburg/Austria). They had never been independent (unlike Scotland, that became a part of Britain against it’s will)
It had been incorporated into the Reich without a shot being fired and the rest of the world more or less had accepted it.
This is not what the document says
it says: “The continental supremacy of Germany will not be called in question.” That’s like saying that “the continental supremacy of the US in North-America is not to be called in question”.
What is your problem with that?
A state of, what was it, 80-100 Germans in the heart of Europe will by nature be the dominant force.
In fact, that is the situation today, and everybody is happy with that, except for Britain and to a lesser extent France.
The mentioning of reparations (...) Both these peace initiatives took place in a short time after each other, so we can assume continuity in the contents of these proposals.
Although I am working on my blog, this post, just to let you know I have not forgotten you.
05-09-1940 - Birger Ekeberg, president of the Swedish High Court, was asked by Ludwig Weissauer to enquire with Mallet whether he was interested in talks. Weissauer was an agent of the Reich Security Head Office (RSHA) and traveled to both Finland and Sweden in an atempt to advance discussions concerning an armistice. More specifically he utilized intermediaries to contact british officials in Stockholm in September 1940 and continued communications through 1942. [Petropoulos, p205. In the archive of the British Foreign Office inthe spring of 2004, a document was discovered with register-nr. ]FO 371/24408[/B, that documents the secret Hitler-Weissauer peace mission. Hitlers personal lawyer Dr. Ludwig Weissauer had handed over to the British ambassador Victor Mallet in Stockholm a personal message from Hitler. Accordng to that offer, Hitler was prepared to clear all occupied territory and to recognize the souvereignty of all European states. Merely the Corridor to the town of Danzig should remain part of the German Reich. Hitler even declared to be ready to pay compensation to the occupied neutral states (Norway, Holland, Belgium). In Germany only 4 people were aware of this offer by Hitler, among them Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy.
The Germans did not want war, the British (or Churchill rather) however wanted a war of destruction at all cost. Even at the cost of their glorious empire.
In the footnote is a reference to the Foreign Office document. It summarizes it’s content exactly like the link you gave.
So you lied. Well that settles that.
OK, so we are in agreement that the link I gave is the exact same document that you based your message on?
You said that the only German demand for peace as per the offer made to Mallet was the Dantzig corridor.
But it is not stated in an explicit way what exactly a polish state would entail, and what parts of it Germany would see fit to keep for herself.
As such, how can you claim that the offer made to Mallet was about the Dantzig corridor solely, regarding Poland?
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Whether or not you consider it as a "rotten Anglo construct" is not the issue.
Could it be that you forgot facts or added things because it fitted better in the narrative?
"An offer too good to be true!" Indeed.
No, I based my post on the book of Scheil.
But wait a minute, the Anglos always pretended that Hitler aimed at conquering the world. These peace efforts contradict this self-serving Anglo lie.
Germany wanted an alliance with Britain. Churchill wrote himself that Germany was sympathetic towards Britain. If Britain had excepted we would not have had a US/SU bipolar world for 45 years but a European dominated world instead.
You can't even keep lies internally consistent in the same post! Did Germany want to conquer the world or not?
You can't read. Britain and France and other Western European powers had already conquered the world. I am saying that an alliance between Germany and Britain, as proposed repeatedly by Germany, would have been the dominant force on the planet and would have kept the US and USSR out of Europe. The latter happened and was the worst possible outcome for all European nations, including Britain. In fact Britain was the biggest loser of all in terms of standing and influence and territory. Britain could have had it all, instead they let this half-American (Jewish?) drunken sadist sexual pervert Churchill at the helm of their empire... in order to ruin it. This was the British empire as the Germans were willing to support, even with German troops. This is what it is today, courtesy Churchill, a miserable 3rd rate 'power'.
You do realise that it wasn't Churchill who was Prime Minister when war broke out?
And I'm failing utterly to see a problem with the picture you picked as an example of 'Britain today' (appart from the fact its from the Daily Mail, a paper so shockingly bad, thats entire MO is to get readers through badly written, badly researched and in some cases all out lies in articles, that even the most hardcore of crazies I know have stopped reading it?).
But if you can pick a photo that shows a crowded street, that happens to have people of various ethnicities in it and claim its an example of Britains problems that says an awful lot about you. Just ignore all the real issues we have currently and pick on the people that kept our economy going after the war and stopped the country falling into a much much bigger mess than it is.
[p174] Mallet had tried to get approval in London for his initiative. Robert Vansittart’s reaction came swift: "I hope you will tell mr Mallet that under no circumstance he can see Dr. Weissauer. This is about the future of civilization. It is about out survival or theirs and either the German Reich goes under or we, and not just go under, but completely destroyed."
Weissauer, via intermediary Ekeberg, could make clear that he was talking in the name of Hitler and Ribbentrop and had the following on offer, which Mallet reported to London on September 7, 1940: "Hitler felt himself responsible of the ’White Race’ and already for this reason alone wanted friendship with Britain. He wanted 2 economical units. A European one, with Germany in the center and the rest of the world with British and American centers. Britain and America could keep their naval supremacy."
No, I based my post on the book of Scheil.
It summarizes it’s content exactly like the link you gave.
The strategy of Laeke is to divert attention towards nitpicking about precise formulations and away from the fact that Germany made serious peace offers that basically implied return to the status quo of 1938, meaning retreat from Western Europe and Poland except for Danzig/corridor.
Laeke does not challenge the existence of FO371/24408/XC1973.
The faith placed by nutters in the internet is frequently misplaced.
[p176] On September 11, 1940 a negative response came from the British cabinet. The offer of withdrawal from conquered territories was countered with the argument that "Britain did not fight for ’disinterested goals’, but rather for 'big and general affairs, that concern the freedom and independence of many states in Europe. It was up to the German government to create the conditions for further negotiations; for this 'effective garantees' were necessary, followed up by acts, not by words".
Churchill had written the text himself. Unfortunately the text was silent about what actions they particularly had in mind.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON. I really think that this trial, if it should get into an argument over the political and economic causes of this war, could do infinite harm [FOR THE ALLIED CAUSE, 911I], both in Europe, which I don't know well, and in America, which I know fairly well. If we should have a prolonged controversy over whether Germany invaded Norway a few jumps ahead of a British invasion of Norway, or whether France in declaring war was the real aggressor, this trial can do infinite harm for those countries with the people of the United States. And the same is true of our Russian relationships. The Germans will certainly accuse all three of our European Allies of adopting policies which forced them to war. The reason I Say that is that captured documents which we have always made that claim-that Germany would be forced into war. They admit they were planning war, but the captured documents of the Foreign Office that I have examined all come down to the claim, "We have no way out; we must fight; we are encircled; we are being strangled to death."
So Scheil does not give a full transcript?
My strategy is actually to understand how your summary can cope with the content of the documents.
The "peace offer" you mention is not the 1938 statu quo, if only for the fact that there was not "a single continental economic unit", that "German continental supremacy was uncontested", and that "colonies of the occupied countries are up to discussion".
In middle of the rhetoric about the evil Anglo, I fail to see where you give me the details regarding the October/November 1940 peace talks, which were the one where the "compensations for neutral countries" you originally mention would have been proposed.
Considering the names you give me, I suppose those are the contacts in the United States around the figure of Stephanie von Hohenlohe?
If an offer was wade, what exactly were the terms proposed, by who and to whom?
So Scheil does not give a full transcript?