NORWAY, ANOTHER FAILED PREDICTION OF CHURCHILLIAN PROPORTIONS

On hearing that Britain was preparing to attack neutral Norway Adolf Hitler prepared for  hat country's defensive occupation. England's swashbuckling First Lord Winston Churchill contemptuously dismissed any suggestion that Germany would retaliate. He boasted, "All German ships in the Skagerrak and Kattegat will be sunk."

Winston Churchill's de facto war on Norway, Sweden and Finland was drawn up on  February 5 1940. It was agreed to send up to four divisions, camouflaged as volunteers to Finland via Norway and Sweden to seize the countries' iron ore assets. Part of the strategy was aborted because of Sweden's stated determination to resist Britain's intended invasion.

Eleven days later on February 16, 1940 Churchill ordered British naval forces to proceed  into Norway's territorial waters and to board the German freighter 'Altmark'. On April 8 the Royal Navy began to mine the neutral Scandinavian country's coastal waters; an act of war that once again blew a gaping hole in solemnly signed declarations.

As the mining of Norway's ports continued British and French troops were mobilising to  invade Norway. Their first objective was to occupy Narvik and to clear the port before advancing to the Swedish frontier. Simultaneously British conscript troops were readied to occupy Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim'.

Hitler was painfully aware that the invasion of a completely encircled Germany would  follow and he surmised that. 'The occupation of Norway by the British would be a strategic turning movement which would lead them into the Baltic, where we have neither troops nor coastal fortifications . . . the enemy would find himself in a position to advance on Berlin and break the backbone of our two fronts."

The German leader acted decisively and pounced. This produced hysterical denunciation  by the British who didn't take kindly to being beaten to the punch, especially when they had started the fight.

Churchill believed the mere 2,000 German troops stationed in the coastal town of  Trondheim would be little match for 13,000 British troops. The British Army was however routed during their encirclement and badly mauled. The remnants were evacuated by May 1st.

The British then mobilised 20,000 troops and put them ashore at Narvik. Embarrassingly  they too were routed by just 2,000 Austrian Alpine troops, supported by sailors from the German destroyers based nearby. Along the Norwegian coastline the remnants of Churchill's defeated British Army in Norway were simultaneously evacuated.

Churchill had blustered that Hitler's pre-emptive strike against Norway was 'as great a  strategic error as Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808.' Hardly the master strategist.



If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. 
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

QUISLING NOT GUILTY


Vidkund Quisling 1942

The irony is that the Norwegian nationalist leader Vidkun Quisling was no traitor from  which his noble name has become synonymous. An official Norwegian inquiry into whether any prominent member of the Nasjonal Samling Party (Vidkun Quisling's political party) had played an active part in the German invasion reached a negative conclusion. Unfortunately his innocence was discovered too late. In Soviet Union style the victorious allies has already had him executed by firing squad. The usual modus operandi: shot at dawn in a bleak prison yard.



PASSING THE BELGIAN BUCK


When on May 6th the German Army retaliated against French aggression which quickly  resulted in the British and French Armies being routed, Winston Churchill who had just been pushed into the hot- seat, despite a history of military blunders, tried to blame the debacle on the Belgian Army.

 

By the spring of 1940 fifty per cent of Britain's national income was being spent on their war against Germany. Little wonder that the country emerged from it all impoverished and with her Empire in President Roosevelt's pawn shop.


 

THE ORIGIN OF THE 'HITLER IS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD' MYTH


"The spread of war was as much an allied responsibility as it was German, even though  repeated frustrations and defeats were capable of being partially retrieved by portraying the entire unfolding of events as part of a peculiarly German diabolism.

The resolution in the face of total French collapse and the expulsion of Britain from the  Continent set the stage for especially intense world propaganda about alleged Hitlerian plans to convert the planet into a slave state on the model of antiquity." - James J. Martin, The Saga of Hog Island and other Essays.



THE INNOCENT RUSSIAN VICTIM SCAM


One of the myths peddled by the bar-room 'experts' who graduated courtesy via the  History Channel, suggests that Hitler's biggest mistake was to have invaded the Soviet Union. The claim is that over- zealous Nazi Germany raped the innocence of the weaker Soviet Union with its invasion in June 1940. In fact the USSR's militarily machine, poised on Germany's borders, was far superior to that of their intended victim. Furthermore, this military juggernaut, its apparatus and support system was unquestionably designed for offensive and occupation rather than defensive purpose. A defensive military machine is quite different from an offensive one

By necessity Hitler's strategy was based on his making a pre-emptive strike. Britain was  always a master of the pre-emptive strike; taking on Germany, France and Spain by attacking via the European mainland. It is what happens when a country (or person) anticipates being struck and gets their blow in first. As Napoleon surmised, "He who hits first hits twice."

Standing astride Germany's doorstep, a massive mobilisation of Soviet attack units and  materials. Subsequent undeniable evidence of Soviet intent comes from a myriad of sources, including their own officers, and the very nature of the forces involved.

Here then is Stalin's agreed tenet:

 

  1. The RKKA (Red Army) is 'the most offensive of all armies.'
  2. The war will always be conducted on enemy territory.
  3. The proletariat in the hostile country is a potential ally of the Soviet Union.
  4. War preparations are for attack; defensive measures serve solely to protect preparations for attack and the execution of an offensive in the facing direction. There is no possibility of the penetration of hostile forces into the territory of the USSR.

This may be new to amateur WW2 sleuths but it wasn't news to Stalin or those who took  his orders, which were:: "The new conditions in our country, the present international situation, full of unexpected possibilities, demand a revolutionary power of decision and constant readiness to launch a devastating attack on the enemy (Germany).

All forms of agitation and propaganda are to be directed to one single goal, to the political,  moral, and fighting preparation of all personnel to wage a just offensive and an all-out destroying war. All personnel are to be educated in the spirit of active hatred of the enemy, to the eagerness to take up the struggle with him, to a readiness to defend our nation on the territory of our enemy, and to deal him a lethal blow." - Major Koskov, Commander of the 24th Infantry Regiment of the 44th Infantry Division.

As M. Raphael Johnson, Ph.D. in reviewing 'Stalin's War of Extermination'* summed up.  "The incredible amount of documentation for this extremely important point – that Stalin was planning an invasion of Germany and western Europe by extension – leaves no doubt in the (honest) reader's mind, and turns not only World War Two but any honest appraisal of Germany on its head." - The Barnes Review, Vol.8 No.1 -

* 'Stalin's War of Extermination 1941 – 1945 Planning, Realisation and Documentation'  analyses and proves the Soviet dictator's aim of waging an aggressive war against first a weakened Germany and then Europe.

The sad fact is that whilst the German armed forces were protecting Europe's eastern  borders the fools to the west of Germany were stabbing them in the back. This book is available from TBR Book Club, PO Box 15877, Washington, D.C., 20003. $49.95 inc. post and packing. This best selling volume essential to any good library is hardback, dust cover, 415 pages, illustrations, maps, plans, documents etc.

THE UNDENIABLE FACTS

Reacting angrily to two book reviews published by the notoriously anti-European Daily  Mail, Gena Pokrass writes: "These reviews repeat the ideological lies of Russian historians.

Hitler and his generals agreed that war on two fronts would be suicidal, but they had to  invade Russia to pre-empt Stalin's massive thrust to cut off Germany from Romanian oil. Details from Russian archives suggest that this was due to start in July 1941.

All the defensive systems in the area had been neutralised, airfields had been moved to the  western border, and paratroops had been either concentrated on the border or were moving towards it.

……… he (Hitler) had to invade sooner rather than later because otherwise all of Europe  was in danger of being occupied by Russia in the name of 'world revolution through war.'

A mild winter in 1941 would not have saved Hitler's armies, even if they had occupied  Moscow. The Russian government already had alternative headquarters in place."



"GIVE THEM A FAIR TRIAL AND THEN HANG THEM."


Order No. 3 Red Army (released July 1941). 'All commanders and soldiers who retreated  from the front were either to be court martialled and sentenced to death or merely annihilated on the spot.'

 

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