The Nameless War
CHAPTER 8
DUNKIRK AND AFTER
Captain
Liddell Hart, the eminent military critic,
wrote a book on the military events of
1939-45, which was published in 1948, and
entitled The Other Side of the Hill.
Chapter 10 -- which deals with the German
invasion of France down to and including
Dunkirk -- bears the somewhat startling
title, "How Hitler beat France and saved
Britain."
The
reading of the chapter itself will astound
all propaganda-blinded people, even more
than the title: for the author therein
proves that not only did Hitler save this
country; but that this was not the result of
some unforeseen factor, or indecision, or
folly, but was of set purpose, based on his
long enunciated and faithfully maintained
principle.
Having
given details of how Hitler peremptorily
halted the Panzer Corps on the 22nd May, and
kept them inactive for the vital few days,
till, in fact, the British troops had got
away from Dunkirk, Captain Liddell Hart
quotes Hitler's telegram to Von Kleist:
"The armoured
divisions are to remain at medium
artillery range from Dunkirk. Permission
is only granted for reconnaissance and
protective movements."
Von
Kleist decided to ignore the order, the
author tells us. To quote him again:
"Then came a
more emphatic order, that I was to
withdraw behind the canal. My tanks were
kept halted there for three days."
In the
following words the author reports a
conversation which took place on May 24th
(i.e. two days later) between Herr Hitler
and Marshal Von Runstedt, and two key men of
his staff:
"He then
astonished us by speaking with
admiration of the British Empire, of the
necessity for its existence, and of the
civilisation that Britain had brought
into the world ...
He compared
the British Empire with the Catholic
Church -- saying they were both
essential elements of stability in the
world. He said that all he wanted from
Britain was that she should acknowledge
Germany's position on the continent.
The return
of Germany's lost colonies would be
desirable, but not essential, and he
would even offer to support Britain with
troops, if she should be involved in any
difficulties anywhere.
He
concluded by saying that his aim was to
make peace with Britain, on a basis that
she would regard compatible with her
honour to accept."
Captain
Liddell Hart comments on the above as
follows:
"If the
British Army had been captured at
Dunkirk, the British people might have
felt that their honour had suffered a
stain, which they must wipe out. By
letting it escape, Hitler hoped to
conciliate them. This conviction of
Hitler's deeper motive was confirmed by
his strangely dilatory attitude over the
subsequent plans for the invasion of
England."
"He showed
little interest in the plans,"
Blumentritt said, "and made no effort to
speed up the preparation. That was
utterly different to his usual
behaviour. Before the invasion of
Poland, of France, and later of Russia,
he repeatedly spurred them on; but on
this occasion he sat back."
The author
continues:
"Since the
account of his conversation at
Charleville, and subsequent holding
back, comes from a section of the
Generals, who had long distrusted
Hitler's policy, that makes their
testimony all the more notable."
And later
he goes on to say:
"Significantly their account of Hitler's
thoughts about England at the decisive
hour before Dunkirk, fits in with much
that he himself wrote earlier in Mein
Kampf; and it is remarkable how closely
he followed his own Bible in other
respects."
Anyone
who has read Mein Kampf will immediately
appreciate the accuracy of the above
statement. It is indeed if anything an
understatement. Throughout that remarkable
book runs two main themes, as I have shown
in an earlier chapter -- the one, a detailed
delineation and denunciation of the Jewish
Capitalist-Revolutionary machine; the other,
admiration for and eagerness for friendship
with Britain and the Empire.
It is a
pity, indeed, that so few persons in this
island have read this book for themselves;
and it is a tragedy that they have instead
swallowed wholesale, the unscrupulous
distortions and untrue propaganda on the
subject, served up to them by Jewish
publicity machinery, operating through our
press and radio.
Let
these people but try and obtain a copy of
that book; and when they find they cannot,
let them reflect, that if indeed its
contents confirmed the lies that they have
been told concerning it and its author, the
powers behind our publicity would ensure
that everyone should be able to secure a
copy at the cheapest possible rate.
In
any event, I would urge my countrymen to
ponder most earnestly the following facts.
The
Jew Karl Marx laid it down, that Bolshevism
could never really succeed till the British
Empire had been utterly destroyed.
Hitler
laid it down, that the British Empire was an
essential element of stability in the world;
and even declared himself ready to defend it
with troops, if it should be involved in
difficulties anywhere.
By
unscrupulous propaganda on an unprecedented
scale this country was led into destroying
those who wished to be her friends, and
offered their lives to defend her; and
exalting those, who proclaimed that her
destruction was a necessary preliminary to
the success of their ideology, forfeiting
her Empire and her economic independence in
the process.
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