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History Lessons From Nazis Lev Navrozov Hitler came to power in 1933. In the Daily Express of Sept. 16, 1936, Lloyd George (whom my Britannica calls "one of the most brilliant statesmen in British history" and who was certainly not an ultra-conservative sympathizer of Hitler, but an honest-to-goodness liberal) wrote that Hitler had "a single-minded purpose." What was it? Peace. "With Hitler at the helm, Germany would never invade any other land." In a letter a year later, Lloyd George went further: "I only wish we had a man of his [Hitler's] supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country." In 1938, Hitler wanted that part of Czechoslovakia which was inhabited by Germans. That move was interpreted the same way as the seizure of Tibet by the Chinese dictator: Hitler loves his people so much that he cannot stand to have them living outside their native country. In return, Hitler promised peace as per Lloyd George, and the car of Chamberlain, the British prime minister who had talked with Hitler and brought back "peace in our time," moved through a human sea of jubilant British people in London, and the majority of the population of all Western countries (except that of Czechoslovakia) could well join them to celebrate Hitler as a great peacemaker "in our time." Here a reader could well say: "I know the rest of the history of mankind: Hitler continued to pose as a great peacemaker, but his atom bomb project was already doing well in 1938. Then he threw a couple of atom bombs on the United States, which surrendered unconditionally (as Japan did in 1945), along with all the other countries of the world. The German dictator turned into slaves those who could be useful as such and annihilated the rest of the conquered population."
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The real history as we know it? If the Pentagon had been able not only to play with "the good old arms," but also to understand that even the most advanced weaponry may become at a single creative stroke in science as obsolete as swords or bows and arrows did upon the advent of firearms – then the Pentagon would have applied in 1939 to the government with a memo concerning a new likely superweapon, being developed in Hitler's Germany. Actually, the Pentagon did not respond even when on March 16, 1939, a letter was sent (oh, those Jewish émigrés, disturbing important officials!) to the Navy, requesting an appointment with Enrico Fermi (a Nobel Prize inner for 1938, and not a Jew, but an honest-to-goodness Gentile!) to explain the possibility of the atom bomb. Result? Zero. Unlike his colleagues involved in the nuclear project in Germany and unlike his American-born colleagues in the United States, the Jewish émigré Leo Szilard was convinced that the atomic bomb was nigh, and the only question was which side would obtain it first.
With the Jewish émigré Eugene Wigner, he persuaded Albert Einstein, whom they had known in Berlin and who was now a world celebrity, to appeal directly to President Roosevelt. On Aug. 2, 1939, Einstein's letter went to Roosevelt. No response. The émigrés then found a White House insider, an "unofficial presidential adviser," Alexander Sachs, who persuaded Roosevelt to take notice of Einstein's letter two months after its receipt. In an impeccable bureaucratic style, Roosevelt set up a three-man committee to look into the matter, and over the next eight months a grand total of $6,000 ($778 a month) was made available for the development of the weapon that was to decide the destiny of the world. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, and Britain and France, bound by agreements with Poland, had to declare war on Germany. When Roosevelt campaigned in 1940 for his third term in office, he pledged that he would keep the United States "out of foreign war." You see? The defense against Hitler's war for world domination was "foreign war." But on Dec. 11, 1941, Germany (and Italy) declared war on the United States. So in 1942, Hitler was at war with the United States, and Roosevelt was obliged to launch the Manhattan Project in all earnest. In his memoir published in 1962, Brigadier General Leslie Groves, who was put in charge of the Manhattan Project in September 1942, writes: "My initial reaction [even in September 1942!] was one of extreme disappointment." Edward Teller, a Hungarian Jew who became a German scientist, then emigrated to the United States, was involved in the development of the "atom bomb." He says in his preface to the American general's memoir: "For Groves, the Manhattan Project seemed a minor assignment ..." That is, for the U.S. top military, and Groves was a fair example of it, to be in charge of the most important geostrategic development of weapons since the advent of firearms was a minor assignment, and even in September 1942 Groves was extremely disappointed with it. Émigré scientists like Edward Teller had not yet convinced him that should Germany obtain nuclear weapons ahead of the United States, all of the U.S. armed forces, along with the Pentagon and Brigadier General Groves, would become either radioactive dust or corpses, preserved in alcohol, in Hitler's personal museum of American military history. In conclusion, it can be said that the Chinese dictatorship will not repeat Hitler's mistakes. Yes, the Chinese dictatorship has been laying claims to Taiwan since 1949, as Hitler did to the German population of Czechoslovakia and Poland. But the Chinese dictatorship will not budge unless it is sure that it can grab Taiwan without any serious military resistance of the United States. China's geostrategy goes back into the Chinese history of assassin's mace, while Hitler's geostrategy went nowhere except his own idiocy, which saved the democratic West from annihilation or unconditional surrender.
You can email me at navlev@cloud9.net
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