The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (52 page)

“But our boys are not going to be sent abroad says the President.
 
Nonsense, Mr. Chairman; even now their berths are being built in our transport ships.
 
Even now the tags for identification of the dead and wounded are being printed by the firm of William C. Ballantyne & Co, in Washington.”
 
Representative Philip Bennett, Missouri, 1939

Also in 1939, Senator Nye of North Dakota, quoted words in the Senate from a volume named ‘The Next War’, printed in London some years previously.
 
In it was detailed the plan to drag America into WWII by whatever means it could muster and it said…

“To persuade the US to take our part will be much more difficult, so difficult as to be unlikely to succeed.
 
It will need a definite threat to America, a threat moreover, which will have to be brought home by propaganda, to every citizen, before the Republic will again take arms in an external quarrel...

...The position will naturally be considerably eased if Japan was involved and this might and probably would bring America in without further ado.
 
At any rate, it would be a natural and obvious effect of our propagandists to achieve this, just as in the Great War they succeeded in embroiling the United States against Germany.”

Since the war it has been established without doubt that intercepted messages from Japan and warnings from other countries of the Japanese intent to attack Pearl Harbour, went deliberately unheeded in order to provide a justification to enter the war.

“We face the delicate question of diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put in the wrong and makes the first overt move.”
 
Henry Stimson, US Secretary of War, 1941

In 1940 FDR ordered the fleet to be transferred from the West Coast of the US mainland, to its exposed position in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii and ordered that the fleet remain stationed there despite complaints by its commander Admiral Richardson that there was inadequate protection from air attack and no protection at all from torpedo attack.
 
Richardson felt so strongly about this that he twice disobeyed orders to berth his fleet there.
 
He raised the issue personally with FDR in October and he was unsurprisingly replaced soon after this.
 
His successor, Admiral Kimmel, also brought up the same issues with FDR in June 1941 and was also ignored or forestalled.

Then on the 23rd June 1941, FDR’s advisor Harold Ickes sent a memo to FDR the day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, “There might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a situation as would make it not only possible but easy to get into this war in an effective way.
 
And if we should thus indirectly be brought in, we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communist Russia.”

FDR was pleased too with Admiral Richmond Turner's report on 22nd July 1941 which read; “It is generally believed that shutting off the American supply of petroleum will lead promptly to the invasion of Netherland East Indies [by Japan].....it seems certain she would also include military action against the Philippine Islands, which would immediately involve us in a Pacific war.”
 

On the 24th July, FDR told the Volunteer Participation Committee, “If we had cut off the oil, they probably would have gone down to the Dutch East Indies a year ago, and you would have had war.”
 
The very next day FDR froze all Japanese assets in the US cutting off their main supply of oil and forcing them into some kind of desperate action against the US.
 
Intelligence information regarding the Japanese threat was deliberately withheld from the military command in Hawaii from this point forward.

After the Atlantic Conference on 14th August, Churchill noted the “…astonishing depth of Roosevelt's intense desire for war.” Churchill cabled his cabinet “FDR obviously was very determined that they should come in.”

“December 7th [the attack on Pearl Harbour] was... far from the shock it proved to the country in general.
 
We had expected something of the sort for a long time.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt, NY Times Magazine, October 8th, 1944.

“Yes, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, but we [the US] pulled off an international sting operation to trick them into doing it.
 
Roosevelt actually moved the shipping lanes so that the Japanese fleet would not be discovered and reported by some uninvolved ship's captain.
 
Our own early attempts at radar picked up the incoming Zeros but that was explained as just a flock of birds, which given the unknown capabilities of radar at the time was believable.
 
The fact remains that Roosevelt knew that Pearl Harbour was to be attacked because we had broken the Japanese code.
 
Pearl Harbour was not warned because we wanted to get rid of the WWI ships and be forced to buy new ones and because that war, like all the others was never about nation-states, it was always about the money that every nation needed just to fight in these contrived wars.
 
It has ALWAYS been about the money.
 
And those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbour were just the price of doing business”.
 
Jim Kirwan, Researcher November 2010

And so, by this elaborate deception and subterfuge, America joined the war, as had been planned all along.
 
Among other horrors, this resulted in the deaths of more than one quarter of a million American servicemen and appalling injuries to many hundreds of thousands more.

On the night of 12/13th February 1945, over 1000 allied bombers attacked a non-military, civilian target in Germany, the town of Dresden.
 
Dresden was (and is still) famous for its china pottery industry and at that time towards the end of the war, was the adopted home of several hundred thousand refugees from the far east of Germany, who were attempting to flee the marauding Russian hordes, rapidly advancing westwards towards Berlin.

There were no military installations in Dresden, no military headquarters or camps, no munitions factories and no heavy engineering of any kind that could have been linked to Germany’s by this time seriously crippled, war efforts.
 
In short, Dresden was a medium-large sized, rural, historical town with no strategic importance whatsoever.

What happened in the space of 12 terrifying hours in Dresden should live forever in the annals of the shame of the human race.
 
It is thought by many credible commentators that as many as 4-500,000 innocent people died that night.
 
Far more than double the two atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
 
In many cases, theirs was not a quick death but a slow agonising death through being ‘eaten alive’ by the phosphorus and subsequent firestorms generated by the half-million+ incendiary bombs dropped by the Allies.

More than 12,000 houses in the centre of the city were reduced to dust, not rubble, dust during the hellish firestorm.
 
In view of the fact that, in addition to the 600,000 inhabitants of Dresden, another 5-600,000 people, all refugees, had found shelter in the overcrowded city, one can safely assume that each of these 12,000 houses contained no fewer than 20 people.
 
But of these houses virtually nothing remained and the people who had been sheltering in them were transformed into ashes due to a heat of greater than 1600 degrees Celsius being generated by the fire-bombs.

The ‘official’ figure of 35,000 dead only represents the small part of the victims who could be fully identified.
 
Erhard Mundra, a member of the ‘Bautzen committee’ wrote in the daily German newspaper ‘Die Welt’ on 12th February 1995...

“According to the former general staff officer of the military district of Dresden and retired lieutenant colonel of the Bundeswehr, D. Matthes, 35,000 victims were fully and another 50,000 partly identified, whereas a further 168,000 could not be identified at all.”

It also goes without saying that the hapless children, women, invalids and old people whom the firestorm had transformed into nothing more or less than ashes, could not be identified either.

At the time of the attack, Dresden had no anti-aircraft guns and no military defence.
 
It possessed no military industry at all and served as a shelter for refugees from the East, many of them ill, starving, emaciated and disabled.
 
Indeed, many roofs of buildings where they were housed were marked with huge red crosses.

On that terrible night from 12th to 13th February 1945, one of the greatest war criminals of all time, Winston Churchill, was complicit, indeed instrumental in the senseless, pointless mass-murder of around half a million unarmed, helpless citizens, mostly women, children, the disabled and the aged.

“It cannot be disputed that the principles of international law forbade total carpeting bombing …..The historians considered the indiscriminate bombing as an abomination, but refused to lay the whole guilt on Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris or the Bomber Command. According to them, the entire staff of the RAF, but even more the political leaders, especially Churchill and Roosevelt, plus the majority of their peoples shared the burden of guilt.”
 
The joint conclusions of military historians from five countries at a conference in Freiburg, 1988

On the 13th February 1990, exactly forty-five years after the destruction of Dresden, the British historian David Irving spoke in Dresden.
 
In his speech, Irving quoted the war criminal, Churchill, thus… “I don't want any suggestions how to destroy militarily important targets around Dresden. I want suggestions as to how we can roast the 600,000 refugees from Breslau in Dresden.”

But for Churchill, simply ‘roasting’ Germans was nothing like enough.
 
On the morning after the firebombing of Dresden, he ordered low-flying planes to machine-gun the survivors on the banks of the river Elbe where they had dragged themselves to try and find shelter from the suffocating heat by water immersion.

However, to backtrack slightly, as the morning of the 12th February 1945 dawned in Dresden, the streets and squares were filled with refugees and the meadows and parks had been transformed into huge camps.
 
When the fatal hour approached, about 1,130,000 people were living in Dresden.
 
Here is an eyewitness account from a ten year old girl describing (many years later as an adult) what followed later that day...

“About 9.30pm the alarm was given.
 
We children knew that sound and got up and dressed quickly, to hurry downstairs into our cellar which we used as an air raid shelter.
 
My older sister and I carried my baby twin sisters; my mother carried a little suitcase and the bottles with milk for our babies.
 
On the radio we heard with great horror the news:
 
‘Attention, a great air raid will come over our town!’
 
This news I will never forget.