"Vor tid er den store historiske mytologis tid" - Eric Hobsbawn.
60 millioner døde. Ganser, p. 189
Den "officielle historie" med den tilpasning til nutiden, den har fået, adskiller sig ikke så meget fra de ikke-demokratiske staters censur.
Og nu omskriver de tidligere østbloklande historien. (LE MONDE diplomatique, AOÛT 2007, Comment les nationalistes ukrainiens réécrivent l'historie.)
From World War to Cold War, 1941-1945, Aldrich, kap. 1 - 3, p. 1 - 89.
Biarnès behandler bl.a. Ribbentrop-Molotov-pagten i afsnittet om Baltikum, 80-88. Her behandler han også mellemkrigstidens baltiske stater og deres krigsførelse for Tyskland.
Ved japanernes fremtrængen i Sydvestasien, blev de i høj grad modtaget som befriere (Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper, Monde Diplomatique, Mai 2005, p. 20 - 21); men ikke hos kineserne. Aung San (faderen) forberedte en befrielseskamp mod japanerne i Birma. Japanerne udførte etnisk udrensning af kinesere i hele Sydvestasien.
Ford filialer fabrikerede 3 tons lastbiler til østfronten.
De civile som det særligt gik ud over af racemæssige eller ideologiske grunde var i Europa jøder (mellem 6 og 12 millioner) og zigeunere, i Asien kinesere og koreanere.
Se Ole Wivels digt Lazarus.
Man regner med ialt 50 millioner døde (Heraf 20 millioner sovjetborgere). Sovjetarmeen alene havde et tab på 14 millioner (11 millioner i kamp, 3 millioner i tyske fangelejre). Amerikanerne havde 300000, englænderne 250000, Frankrig 200000 døde soldater. Japan 1.5 millioner.
De civile tab var endnu større. Delvis på grund af massakrer med den hensigt at skræmme modstanderen, som f.eks. japanernes massakre på Nanking, hvor over 200000 kinesere blev henrettet (1937).
I Leningrad døde ½ million af sult og kulde mellem nov. 1941 og jan. 1944.
Ganser, Daniele: NATO'S SECRET ARMIES, p. 38 "Largely unknown in the West, the secret war against Communism hence started right after the Russian revolution when Great Britain and the United States sent secret armies against the newly founded Soviet Union toddler nation. Between 1918 and 1920, London and Washington sided with the Russian right and financed ten military interventions against the USSR on Soviet soil, all of which failed to overthrow the new rulers but created considerable suspicion among the Communist elite and dictator Stalin concerning the motives of the capitalist West.".."Russian historians have later argued that despite Moscow's urgent request the United States, which lost 300,000 soldiers during the Second World War, when liberating Europe and Asia, had together with Great Britain deliberately refrained from establishing a second front against Hitler in the West, which naturally would have diverted Nazi troops and thus eased the onslaught on the USSR. Only after Stalingrad the tides turned and the Red Army defeated the Germans and marched west, so Russian historians argued the Allies, who feared losing ground, quickly established a second front and after the 1944 Normandy invasion met the Soviet army in Berlin....In March 1938, shortly after Hitler's annexation of Austria, a new department was created in MI6, labelled Section D, with the task to develop subversive operations in Europe. Section D began to establish 'stay-behind' Sabotage Parties in countries threatened by German invasion. When in 1940 the German invasion of southem England seemed imminent 'Section D set about getting up a store of arms and recruiting agents all over Britain, without informing anyone else. The British domestic secret service M15 became quite alarmed when it started receiving reports of Section D's activities and several of their agents were arrested as spies before the truth was discovered. " (p.39)
"Belgisk" Congo leverede 30.000 soldater (Anicet Mobé Fansiama, JUIN 2007, Le Monde diplomatique, p. 34)
Götz Aly: "Ainsi Hitler acheta les Allemands" (Monde Diplomatique, Mai 2005, p.22 - 23). Hitler sørgede for en madfordeling, der opfattedes retfærdig og for en nogenlunde stabil Reichsmark. Og de dræbte soldaters familier fik næsten 85 % af soldatens løn. Krigens omkostninger belastede ikke væsentligt bønder og arbejdere, ansatte og funktionærer. Han indførte endda ekstrabetaling for natarbejde og søn- og helligdagsbetaling. Men de rige måtte betale. Og så jøderne. Og de besatte lande, hvorfra man hentede forsyningerne til hæren og også sendte noget tilbage til Tyskland. - Hvor der, som i Danmark, betaltes for goderne, var det med en konto i Nationalbanken - Herudover bidrog uklarhederne i programmet til, at Hitler kunne holde magten. (Med de nødvendige opgør undervejs, f.eks. med SA - der var oprørske mod den borgerlige moral og plebejiske).
Det moralske problem, som det står, set udefra, fra ikke-tyskere belyses f.eks. af Jacob G. Hornberger The Future of Freedom Foundation. "Why Germans Supported Hitler", 230707. Det blive lettere at forstå tyskerne, når man sammenligner med krigsprotesterne i USA - og i Danmark - idag. Vi har intet at lade tyskerne høre. Se også Horst Bienek: Zeit ohne Glocken.
< 1939
220206, CounterPunch: "Turning a Blind Eye to Genocide" En ungarsk jødisk udsending mødes i Ægypten med Lord Moyne i 1944 og beretter, at nazisterne vil sælge 1 million ungarske jøder for militære leverancer. Englænderne var ikke interesserede i handelen. Det er samme historie, som Hans Habe giver i Die Mission, hvor den bare er henlagt til Evian, 1938. Var der historisk faktisk sådanne salgstilbud ? En gang ? eller flere ?
Howard Zinn: Just and Unjust War "Hilberg, in his classic work on the Holocaust, says, "From 1938 to 1940. Hitler made extraordinary and unusual attempts to bring about a vast emigration scheme.... The Jews were not killed before the emigration policy was literally exhausted." The Nazis found that the Western powers were not anxious to cooperate in emigration and that no one wanted the Jews."
1939
Ved angrebet på Polen i 1939 havde Wehrmacht 3 millioner soldater.
1940
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Italienske tropper angriber Grækenland, men slås tilbage Ganser, p.212.
1941
Ved den præventive krig mod Sovjetunionen 1941, havde Wehrmacht 6 millioner soldater. Sovjetunionen nåede op på 11.5 millioner.
Amerikanerne mobiliserede efter Pearl Harbour, 071241, 12 millioner soldater. (Franklin D Roosevelt fik overbevist amerikanerne om, at angrebet var et uprovokeret overraskelsesangreb. Det var det ikke. Office of Naval Intelligence havde lavet en 8 punkters plan for provokation, www.whatreallyhappened.com ).
Atlantisk Charter af 1941, Plesch
Tyskland angriber og besætter Grækenland. "ELAS, the People's Liberation Army, had beenfounded on the initiative of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) some months after the German invasion. Its partisans cut across the entire left of the political spectrum and many women, priests and even some archbishops fought in its ranks. EAM, the political wing of the People's Liberation Army, was also dominated by the Greek Communists. Out of a population of seven million up to two million Greeks were members of the EAM party, while 50,000 were actively fighting in the ranks of ELAS army. Ganser, p.212
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290306 ?, Asia Times, Henry CK Liu, THE WAGES OF NEO-LIBERALISM; PART 1: Core contradictions. 140841, Det atlantiske Charter. England forpligter sig til at støtte amerikanske planer om FN, baseret på selvbestemmelse for de tidligere kolonier ! Og binder sig op på et multilateralt betalingssystem efter krigen. Forskellen mellem dette og Keynes forslag om en Clearing Union var, var denne sidstes internationale valuta, bancor. Det amerikanske system bygger på en kurv af valutaer. England var i realiteten besat af USA fra 1942 [!]. USA var opsat på at give de europæiske socialdemokratier en lærestreg [!]. Fulbright udvekslingen medførte at mange amerikanske studenter udnyttede gratis britisk læge- og tandlægehjælp. Det bidrog til nedbrydningen af systemet.
020607, The Independent, Robert Fisk: In the shadow of the Second World War, "At home, I have an album of Lebanese Second World War photographs which depict the choice made by the French army in Lebanon when told that they could either sail home to Vichy France or stay in the Middle East and fight for de Gaulle. Almost all chose to return to Marseilles and a two-page spread in my photographic book shows thousands of French troops sailing out of Beirut port with a huge French flag upon vhich are embroidered the words "Vive Pétain."
December 1941, det japanske angreb på Pearl Harbor.
280707, John V. Denson skriver på LewRockwell, "FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N." Artiklen er en anmeldelse af George Victor: "The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable". Bogens konklusion er at Roosevelt ikke lod efterretninger om dette angreb gå til militæret for et vellykket angreb var mere egnet til at få den amerikanske befolkning med på, at USA gik ind i krigen. Roosevelt krav om ubetinget kapitulation havde først og fremmest en hæmmende virkning på den tyske militære modstandsbevægelse (general Ludwig Beck og Carl Goerdeler) - hvorfor von Stauffenberg ikke nævnes, undrer mig. Victor opfatter det derhen, at betingelsen netop blev sat for at forhindre tidlig overgivelse. Roosevelt ville først have FN på plads ! I marts 1942 foreslog John Foster Dulles en verdensregering, med parlament og domstol. Tidligere amerikanske præsidenters kneb for at få USA i krig gennemgås også i bogen.
1942
Howard Zinn: Just and Unjust War "Roosevelt, persuaded by racists in the military that the Japanese on the West Coast constituted a threat to the security of the country, signed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942. This empowered the army, without warrants or indictments or hearings, to arrest every Japanese-American on the West Coast -- 110,000 men, women and children-to take them from their homes, to transport them to camps far in the interior, and to keep them there under prison conditions.... When Congress in 1983 was considering financial compensation to the Japanese who had been removed from their homes and lost their possessions during the war, John J. McCloy wrote an article in The New York Times opposing such compensation, defending the action as necessary. As Peter Irons discovered in his research, it was McCloy, then assistant secretary of war, who had ordered the deletion of a critical footnote in the Justice Depart Department brief to the Supreme Court, a footnote that cast great doubt on the army's assertions that the Japanese living on the West Coast were a threat to American security."
april 1942. Reinhard Gehlen bliver chef for 'Fremde Heere Ost. Ganser, p. 191.
220705, The Guardian. Dan Plesch. FN går tilbage til 1942. Faktisk kan man sige grundlaget er et Atlantisk Charter af 1941, som lovede frihed for nød, social sikkerhed, arbejderrettigeheder, afrustning, selvbestemmelse, fri handel og religionsfrihed. Bush & Blair forsøger, at bilde deres borgere ind, at resten af verden er for genstridig at have med at gøre i deres kampagne for at gøre verden sikker og fri. De vil altså have os til at tro, at Putin og Chirac er hårdere nødder end Stalin og de Gaulle.
I 1942 kendte de allierede til de tyske planer for udryddelsen af jøderne. Bekræftede rapporter forelå i State Department. Men man tav. I april 1944 undslap Rudolf Vrba og Alfred Wexler fra Auschwitz, skrev en udførlig rapport og opfordrede de allierede til at bombe gaskamrene. (Globalsecurity)
020407, The Guardian. The Secret War. Mellem 1942 og 1945 begik amerikanske soldater skønsmæssigt 14000 voldtægter i England, Frankrig og Tyskland ! "Indeed, secret wartime files that were made public in this country only in April 2006 disclosed that GIs committed 26 murders, 31 manslaughters, 22 attempted murders and more than 400 sexual offences, including 126 rapes in England, during 1942-45."
I slutningen af 1942 dannedes jagerflygruppen «Normandie-Niemén» af franske piloter og flyteknikere i Libanon, den blev sendt til hjælp til Sovjetunionen af general de Gaulle, som fandt det vigtigt, at frie franske var med på alle krigens fronter. Gruppen har sin egen side på Wikipedia. Dens første kontingent var beskedent, 14 piloter og 50 flyteknikere. Stalin tildelte gruppen navnet Niemen for dens indsats ved denne flod. Gruppen fik mange sovjettiske og franske ordener. 96 piloter endte med at deltage. 42 faldt. Med 5240 missioner nedskød gruppen 273 tyske fly. Dens museum: Mémorial Normandie-Niémen Rue Raymond Phelip B.P.124, 27700 LES ANDELYS France Tél. et Fax: 02 32 54 49 76.
1943
130143, Bayerns Gauleiter taler på universitetet i München. Han bebrejder pigerne, at de spilder tiden med at studere, i stedet for at føde sønner til fædrelandet. Pigerne udvandrer. Gauleiteren forlanger dem anholdt. Drengene rejser sig og sagen dysses ned. Begivenheden angives af David Rosinger at have stimuleret Scholl-søskende og Hvide Rose.
270243 demonstrerede modige tyske kvinder, der var gift med jøder, der lige var taget. De fik deres mænd tilbage !!! 25 var endda nået il Auschwitz. (Dominique Vidal, Monde Diplomatique, Mai 2005, p.25).
Howard Zinn: Just and Unjust War "When the Allied leaders met at Casablanca in January 1943, they agreed on massive air attacks to achieve "the destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial and economic system and the undermining of the morale of the German people to the point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened....The saturation bombing of the German cities began. There were raids of a thousand planes on Cologne, Essen, Frankfurt, and Hamburg. The British flew at night and did "area bombing" with no pretense of aiming at specific military targets."
"Yet the brothers in arms were abruptly separated when Prime Minister Winston Churchill in March 1943 decided to halt all support for ELAS as he feared that Greece after the defeat of the Axis Powers could come under Communist control. Ganser, p. 212. England planlagde at geninstallere kongen, men "The King was less than popular among many Greeks after having cooperated witi the fascist dictator Metaxas. Inspired by Mussolini and Hitler, Metaxas had introduced the fascist salute, the rigid outstretched right arm, as well as a brutal secret police during his rule in the late 1930s. Yet London pursued the conservative policy and in October 1943 the British Foreign Office even contemplated 'a downright policy of attacking and weakening EAM by every means in our power', an approach which was postponed however for it was 'likely to sacrifice all chance of military advantage and to defeat its own ends by strengtheninh EAM politically' The turn around of the British came as a shock to ELAS and its difficulties increased when former Nazi collaborators and right-wing special units, such as the fascist X Bands of Cypriot soldier George Grivas [blev han ikke senere et britiskproblem på Cypern ?], with British support started to hunt and kill ELAS resistance fighters." Ganser, p. 213
1944
I 1942 kendte de allierede til de tyske planer for udryddelsen af jøderne. Bekræftede rapporter forelå i State Department. Men man tav. I april 1944 undslap Rudolf Vrba og Alfred Wexler fra Auschwitz, skrev en udførlig rapport og opfordrede de allierede til at bombe gaskamrene. (Globalsecurity)
250844, underskrev GENERAL DIETRICH VON CHOLTITZ, den tyske guvernør i Paris, tyskernes kapitulation til GENERAL LECLERC og COLONEL Rol-Tanguy. (Monde Diplomatique, Août 2004, Denis Fernández Recatalá, Ces espagnols qui ont libéré Paris, p. 10). Talrige spaniere fra regeringssiden tilsluttede sig de frie franske. Nogen fulgte med Leclercs pansertropper i Nordafrika og var siden med ved befrielsen af Paris.
Oberst Alparsan Türks arresteres sammen med 30 andre tyrkiske officerer for en antikommunistisk, racistisk tale, med citater fra Mein Kampf, ved en demonstration. Ganser, p.225-6. Han var tyrkisk kontaktperson til de tyske nazister.
220206, CounterPunch: "Turning a Blind Eye to Genocide" En ungarsk jødisk udsending mødes i Ægypten med Lord Moyne i 1944 og beretter, at nazisterne vil sælge 1 million ungarske jøder for militære leverancer. Englænderne var ikke interesserede i handelen. Det er samme historie, som Hans Habe giver i Die Mission, hvor den bare er henlagt til Evian, 1938. Var der historisk faktisk sådanne salgstilbud ? En gang ? eller flere ?
"Churchill therefore gave orders that a new Greek right-wing secret army had to he set up whereupon, as journalist Peter Murtagh relates a 'new Greek army unit was established, which came to be known variously as the Greek Mountain Brigade, the Hellenic Raiding Force, or LOK, its Greek acronym (Lochos Oreinon Katadromon)'." Efter at den græske modstandsbevægelse havde tvunget tyskerne ud forlangte Churchill ELAS afvæbnet. ELAS var parat til det, hvis LOK også blev afvæbnet. Det gav anledning til en stor demokratisk demonstration mod britisk indblanding, 031244. Ganser, p. 213. En fortrop på nogle hundrede blev beskudt af politi og "freelance gunmen" på Syntagmapladsen med 25 døde og 148 sårede. Trods dette forløb resten af demonstrationen med 60.000 deltagere fredeligt. ELAS lod sig afvæbne mod et løfte om frie valg i marts 1946. Englænderne genindsatte kongen. Ganser, p.214.
1945
130245 bombede de allierede Dresden med over 10000 civile ofre. 230905, The Guardian. Simon Jenkins: "This is an act of censorship worthy of Joseph Goebbels". Churchill har selv beskrevet disse bombninger som: "simply for the sake of increasing terror"
Marts/april 1945, Operation Sunrise. Chefen for Office of Strategic Services, finansmanden Allen Dulles, forhandlede med SS general Karl Wolff, Kesselrings kapitulation i Italien.
Tyrkiet holdt sg officielt neutralt og for at være sikker på at være på den vindende side, var det først i 1945, at Tyrkiet erklærede Tyskland krig. De pan-tyrkiske nationalister havde fælles tankegods med nazisterne, Ganser, p.225.
200545 Reinhard Gehlen overgiver sig til CIC med microfilm af forhørsdokumenter over sovjetiske krigsfanger. Han debriefes i Washington i august. Den første tyske efterkrigsefterretningstjenste, Organisation Gehlen, (ORG) får sæde i Oberursel v. Frankfurt. Flytter til Pullach v. München, der stadig er sæde for BundesNachrichtenDienst. Ganser, p. 191
Da Hitlers Reich faldt var der kun 9 stater i verden, der var neutrale (Afghanistan, Danmark, Spanien, Irland, Mongoliet, Nepal, Portugal, Sverige og Schweiz) - Ramonet.
Aout 2005, Monde Diplomatique. Franck Mazoyer: La Tragédie du paquebot-prison "Cap-Arcona". SS fyldte båden med koncentrationslejrfanger og RAF bombede den !!!, 030545.
080845 og 110845 atombomber mod Hiroshima og Nagasaki.
FN oprettedes i 1945 med det formål at forhindre krig.
I 1945 døde over 2 millioner tyskere på flugt til fods fra sovjetarmeen.
Der var selvfølgelig en del hævnaktioner i de første måneder efter krigen. Tyskere interneredes i lejre. Polske myndigheder hævder nu, at 1500 fanger sultedes ihjel i Swietochlowice lejren i 1945. Haaretz, 070605.
121105, The Guardian. Ja så hører vi det med. England drev et hemmeligt torturcenter for tyske krigsfanger ! Over 3000 fanger gik gennem den lejr. Centeret lå i en af Londons fine bydele. Det blev holdt skjult for Røde Kors. Det fortsatte sin virksomhed 3 år efter krigen og i den tid blev også civile tortureret der. Der ligger en rapport fra de hemmelig tjenester, der lægger skylden på "the commanding officer". Forsvarsministeriet hemmeligholder stadig noge af dokumenterne.
171205, The Guardian. Ian Cobain beskriver engelske forhørslejre ved Rothenburg (nær Bremen) og i Bad Nendorf v. Hanover, hvor der anvendtes rene Gestapometoder i 1947 drevet af : Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC). CSDIC, a division of the War Office, operated interrogation centres around the world including one known as the London Cage, located in one of London's most exclusive neighbourhoods. London Cage was a secret torture centre where German prisoners who had been concealed from the Red Cross were beaten, deprived of sleep, and threatened with execution or with unnecessary surgery.
Howard Zinn: Just and Unjust War "One incident remembered by survivors is that on the afternoon of February' 14,1945, American fighter planes machine-gunned clusters of refugees on the banks of the Elbe....In one raid on Tokyo, after midnight on March 10,1945, 300 B29s left the city in flames, fanned by a strong northwest wind. The fires could be seen by pilots 150 miles out in the Pacific Ocean. A million people were left homeless....The deception and self-deception that accompanied these atrocities was remarkable. Truman told the public, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians."
090807, Lew Rockwell, Gary G. Kohls, The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9,1945: The Untold Story. "The US bomber command had spared Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Kokura from the conventional bombing that had burned to the ground 60+ other major Japanese cities during the first half of 1945. One of the reasons for targeting relatively undamaged cities with these new weapons of mass destruction was scientific: to see what would happen to intact buildings and their living inhabitants - when atomic weapons were exploded overhead."
>1945
Rømningen af besættelsen af Iran, se Klare.
Trumandoktrinen, 120347, Klare.
Eisenhowerdoktrinen, 050157, Klare.
Ganser, Daniele: NATO'S SECRET ARMIES, p. 42 "Gubbins saw to it that even after 1945, SOE personnel remained in countries including Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece and Turkey; for SOE and its successors had 'political concerns beyond that of simply defeating Germany'. The explicit directive of 1945 'made it clear that SOE's main enemy was Communism and the Soviet Union'".
"The US Army General's Staff Top Secret March 28, 1949 Overall Strategic Concepts highlighted that Germany 'has an excellent potential of trained men for both underground and Secret Army Reserves fstay-behind units]. Effective resistance can and should be organized.' On the orders of the Pentagon in Washington the newly created US Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) tracked down German Nazis and brought them to the Numberg trials, while the CIC also secretly recruited selected right-wing extremists for the anti-Communist army....Specifically a 600-page long study, compiled by Allan Ryan for the US Justice Department, confirmed that SS and Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie had been recruited by the CIC in 1947 had then been spirited out of Europe to Argentina through a clandestine 'ratline' in 1951. " Straks efter krigen var Barbie blevet dødsdømt i Frankrig. Men han kunne altså alligevel bruges til at rekrutere folk til den hemmelige hær fra f.eks. Bund deutscher Jugend. Ganser, p. 190.
I 1946 gik en del af den græske modstandsbevægelse i bjergene og begyndte en ny modstandskamp mod den nye besættelsesmagt. Ganser, p.214.
020805, Siddharth Varadarajan. Focke - Wulf, ja det tyske firma, der fremstillede Fokker jagerbombere til Luftwaffe, fik 27 millioner USD i erstatning en gang i 1960erne for de skader deres fabrikker led ved allieret bombning under krigen.
080805, Information Clearing House. Mickey Z: "Vermin and souvenirs. How to justify a nuclear attack". Der er en sammenhæng mellem racisme og krigsforbrydelser. Af 235.473 USUKsoldater i tysk og italiensk fangenskab døde 4 %, 9.348; mod 27 % hos japanerne, 35.756 af 132.134. [Racismen giver her bagslag, det kunne være nyttigt at tænke på idag, OJ].
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers, LewRockwell, 211005: Atombomberne over Japan var også et led i imperiekampen med Japan, (udover en demonstration overfor Sovjetunionen).
030706, World Socialist Web Site, Postwar German government and CIA shielded Adolf Eichmann. "The historian Timothy Naftali from the University of Virginia, who has seen the documents, discovered that the West German government under Konrad Adenauer had known the secret whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann since at least 1958 and had covered this up. The CIA had also shielded the Nazi mass murderer from prosecution...A memo to the CIA by a German secret service operative on March 19,1958, noted that, according to reports, Eichmann had been living in Argentina since 1952 under the pseudonym Ricardo Clement. Eichmann escaped from an American internment camp in 1945. He then lived in Germany for several years, using forged papers. In 1950, he, like many other Nazis, went to Argentina along the so-called "rat line," receiving help from the Vatican. Somewhat later, he was joined by his family, and they lived undisturbed in Buenos Aires. The references to Eichmann were not followed up by the German or American secret services because it was feared he might divulge information about Hans Globke, a lawyer in Hitler's Interior Ministry and the author of a commentary on the Nazis' notorious Nuremberg race laws. Following the war, Globke became an undersecretary of state in Germany and was regarded as the "grey" (in reality, "brown") eminence of the Adenauer chancellorship...[Globke] was the co-author with William Stuckart of the first commentary on the Nuremberg race laws. After the Nazis had seized Slovakia in 1939 as a so-called "protectorate," Globke was involved in the elaboration there of the "Codex of Jewish Law," a euphemism for the expropriation and repression of the Jewish population...After the Second World War, Globke maintained that he had merely commented on the laws, and claimed that he bore no responsibility for their development or implementation. This was a lie. His superior, Nazi Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, who was condemned to death in the 1946 Nuremberg trials, had issued the following testimonial on Globke in 1938: "Senior government advisor Globke is unquestionably among the most capable and most efficient officials in my ministry." Frick went on: "He played an outstanding role in elaborating the laws specified below: a) The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour of 15 September, 1935; b) Law for the Protection of the Genetic Health of the German People of 18/10/1935; c) the Civil Status of Individuals law of 3/11/1937; d) the law concerning the change of surnames and first names. " Herudover har artiklen en kort præsentation af andre brune Adenauer-folk: Hermann Josef Abs, Reinhard Höhn, Theodor Maunz, Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, Karl Carstens, Ernst vonWeizsacker, Hans Filbinger, Hans Speidel og Reinhard Gehlen.
Britain has succeeded to keep quite a few of theirs secret. Torture camps for Nazis and later for communists i Germany, The Guardian, 030406 (Bad Nenndorf).
290306 ?, Asia Times, Henry CK Liu, THE WAGES OF NEO-LIBERALISM; PART 1: Core contradictions. USA var opsat på at give de europæiske socialdemokratier en lærestreg [!]. Fulbright udvekslingen medførte at mange amerikanske studenter udnyttede gratis britisk læge- og tandlægehjælp. Det bidrog til nedbrydningen af systemet.
Udgangspunktet for artiklen er Ignacio Ramonet: "Lecons d'histoire" (Monde Diplomatique, Mai 2005, p. 19)
290307, Haaretz. In the service of the Jewish state. "In the late 1940s, Walther (Walter) Rauff, an SS officer who was responsible for the murder of at least 100,000 people and was wanted by the Allies as a war criminal, was employed by the Israeli secret service. Instead of bringing him to justice it paid him for his services and helped him escape to South America. Documents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that have been released over the past several years show that the Americans were aware that Rauff s case was not exceptional."
Howard Zinn: Just and Unjust War "Whatever alternative scenarios we can imagine to replace World War II and its mountain of corpses, it really doesn't matter any more. That war is over. The practical effect of declaring World War II just is not for that war, but for the wars that follow. And that effect has been a dangerous one, because the glow of rightness that accompanied that war has been transferred, by false analogy and emotional carryover, to other wars. To put it another way, perhaps the worst consequence of World War II is that it kept alive the idea that war could be just."
020607, The Independent, Robert Fisk: In the shadow of the Second World War, "Josif Broz Tito, the only man to liberate his country from Nazi tyranny from within an occupied nation, was the only Allied leader to be wounded in action during the war."
Orla Jordal, 2005
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