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Report mecca • October 10, 2015 8:54 PM BST
There was no logical reason for Western Europe to get involved in a war against Germany
Report HansUlrichApfelStrudel • October 10, 2015 9:53 PM BST
Herman Goering letter written to Churchill, the night before Goering committed suicide


You will have the satisfaction to survive me and my comrades in misfortune. I do not hesitate to congratulate you on this personal triumph and the finesse with which you have accomplished it. You have gone to great expense in order to secure this success, for yourself and Great Britain. Should I believe you sufficiently naive as to consider this success anything more than a show, detrimental to the Great German Empire, a performance for the peoples and their Jewish and Bolshevist confederates which were maneuvered by you into the war, then my statement to you during the last hour of my life would also in the eyes of posterity be squandered upon an undeserving one.

    My pride as a German and as one of the foremost responsible German leaders forbids me to lose even a single word in a dispute of world-historical importance on the disgraceful lowliness of the methods employed by the victors as far as these proceedings concern my own person.

    However, as it is the obvious and announced intention of their administration of the law to throw the very German people into the abyss of illegality and to rob them once and for all of a future possibility to defend themselves by the removal of the responsible men of the National Socialist state, I have to add a few words to the historic subject of the verdict, premeditated by you and your allies.

    I direct these remarks to you, since you are one of the best informed ones regarding the true underlying reasons for this war and the possibility of avoiding the same; in at least a manner bearable to the European future; and yet refused your testimony and your oath to your own high court of justice.

    Therefore, I shall not fail, while there is still time, to call you before the tribunal of history and direct my statements to you, because I know that this tribunal will expose you some day as that man, who with ambition, intelligence and energy has thrown the fate of the European nations under the heels of foreign world powers.

    In you I identify before history the man who had the ability to bring Adolf Hitler down and his political accomplishments; the man who will, however, be unable to raise the shield protectively against the invasion of Europe by the Asiatics.

It was your ambition to justify the Versailles Treaty regarding Germany. It will prove fatal to you that you succeeded. You personified the hardened obstinacy of your old gentry; and you also personified the stubbornness of its old age, opposing the last gigantic effort of the rejuvenated German power to decide the fate of Europe in the steppes of Asia in order to safeguard the same in the future. Long after my responsibility in the future development of events has found its objective judge, it will be put to your account that the past bloody war has not been the final one which had to be fought on the Continent for the very possibility of the existence of its nations.

    You will have to answer for the fact that the bloody war of yesterday will be followed by a still greater one and that the European nations will not rule at the Volga, but at the Pyrenees mountains.



Herman knew
Report Foinavon • October 10, 2015 10:57 PM BST
After the fall of France, the Nazis wanted to form an alliance with Great Britain as it would have helped them in their next goal of defeating the Bolsheviks and dominating Europe.
Churchill refused and Germany was eventually defeated leading to the cold war situation. Goering seems to have thought that the Russians could not be contained and a hot war with them would happen within Churchill's lifetime.
Report Wrong Hole Poker • October 11, 2015 10:59 AM BST
Interesting stuff.

It makes you wonder what Europe would of been like if World War Two had never happened. I suspect that the political scene would of been pretty much dominated by those of Jewish faith. Think I am right in saying that most of the "ill" feeling towards people of Jewish orgin in the 1930's was based around what was perceived as the Jews taking over most of the prominent positions in society.

Does anyone have any facts on how the Jewish populations are recovered in the countries most affected by the holocaust?
Report DIE LINKE • October 11, 2015 11:26 AM BST
mecca
10 Oct 15 20:54

There was no logical reason for Western Europe to get involved in a war against Germany


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Report tonkability • October 11, 2015 11:27 AM BST
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Report HansUlrichApfelStrudel • November 14, 2015 10:52 AM GMT
Herman knew
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