Archive for July 19th, 2010
Why Hitler invaded Russia: Cycle closing in again?
In the previous two articles I mentioned that:
First, the German General Ludendorff in WWI had a vast vision of Teutonic vital space (Lebensraum) in eastern Europe. Ludendorff and marshal Hindenburg had pressured Lenin (leader of the new Bolshevik revolution) to sign a peace treaty in 1918. Germany of the Kaiser Reich II doubled in size and in population.
Lenin could temporarily afford to release Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Roumania, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan to Germany in order to consolidate his communism reign on Russia.
This extension in size, natural resources, and population didn’t last 6 months before Germany capitulated, but it generated grave consequences.
Germany had dispatched over one million soldiers to this eastern front in order to transfer natural resources and foodstuff back to famished Germany. Among the soldiers were the voluntary military corps (people of German origin in the newly acquired lands) known as Freikorps or “franc corps”.
Second, during the six months before the collapse of the German army in the Western fronts, the Freikorps advanced to regain the lands that Medieval Germany had conquered in the 13th century. The Freikorps soldiers felt at home. After the war, they also linked up with the “White Russian army” (supporting Russia monarchy) to jointly fighting the “Red Russian army” of the Bolsheviks.
Third, in the next two years 1919-1921, there were more revolutionary insurrections and upheavals in Germany than all of Europe during the last two centuries. The fact is that the terrible “Spanish” flu that decimated over 20 million after the war, and the disintegration of three empires (Ottoman, Russian, and Austria), the flux of refugees from Russia and many other countries to Western Europe, and the lengthy Paris “Peace Treaty” negotiations have obscured the chaos that Germany’s political and social structures were experiencing.
Thus, the Freikorps, returning to Germany after the retreat and disbanding of the “White Russian army”, formed the backbone of Germany governments counter attacks on insurgent groups, reformist, communists, socialists movements and parties. The Freikorps squashed with utmost savagery the marxists, communists, and leftist revolts in many cities such as Berlin, Munich, and in the Ruhr region (the main region for heavy industries and mining.). These reprisals were precursors of what Nazi Germany would apply with the Waffen SS.
Fourth, during the world economic conference held in Italy, Walter Rathenau (Germany foreign affairs minister) tried his best to keeping the Western European States (France, England, Italy) engaged with Germany politically and economically, but he failed. Thus, Walter Rathenau turned to the Soviet Union and met secretly with the Russian negotiator Leonid Krasin in Rapallo (Italy).
They signed a secret treaty allowing Germany to re-arm and train within Russia; Germany was to buy oil concession in Baku and trade engineering know-how. Thus, for 20 years, Germany dispatched to Russia thousands of “German work commandos”: they conducted joint military maneuvers and both army officers trained together on tank warfare and aviation (blitzkrieg). Germany manufactured military planes around Moscow and tested chemical gas warfare.
The English author D.H Lawrence visited Germany around 1924 and wrote a letter to the editor stating: “We could say that life in Germany shifted eastward (toward Russia). Germany is no longer trying any reconciliation with Western Europe (France, England, Italy). It is over. The barrier has closed down. It is as if German life has lost contact with Western Europe. Germany gives the impression of vacuum and menace. Germany is very different from my previous visit two and a half years ago…”
D.H Lawrence resume:
“The German spirit is turned again toward Russia and the Tatars. Germany is rediscovering its oriental Hun destructive fascination for Attila. There are these bizarre and strange bands of youth professing anti-materialist faith and extending quasi mystical assertions. There is something primitive with these youth, as if tribes have exploded into marauding clans. The ancient charm of the old world is broken. The shaggy antique savage spirit is instilled. A dangerous phenomenon is taking place and will influence greatly future events.” (How prophetic; Hitler was barely known at that time)
Why Hitler invaded Russia in 1942 when he had a serious alliance with Stalin and England was on its knees?
Stalin greatly admired Hitler, and WWII started as Stalin and Hitler invaded Poland in the same time, according to the secret treaty. But France and England declared war on Germany and not on Russia.
Stalin had executed 80% of his military officers (about 30,000) and Russia army was no match to Germany. Did Stalin increase the prices of raw materials and oil because he was losing power and facing grave conditions? What is certain, Stalin demands in lands and dominion were increasing, and Germany wanted to be the dominant power in Continental Europe.
Could Hitler not suffer any longer the existence of two great dictators in his “German vital space“? (Mussolini didn’t count)
Could Hitler no longer suffer the existence of a totally materialistic ideology that would not agree with a particular German Teutonic God as neighbor?
Did Hitler, who didn’t really want to invade England, felt secured that England had learned the lesson after the sustained air attacks and would quickly demand cease-fire? Actually, England was on its knees when Hitler stopped the air raids on England. Did Churchill promised Hitler not to intervene if he invaded Russia? (why Churchill would intervene at this junction, and how?)
Most probably, the allied forces used deep psychology to encouraging Hitler to execute his plans for invading Russia prematurely. It was well-known that Hitler had dreams of the Teutonic vital space eastward that Germany had acquired in 1918 by a treaty with Lenin. The military plans were already drawn and waiting for the order. What plans, drawn by the military, are for if not for being executed?
Most probably, England whispered to Hitler’s general staff that in return for Egypt (that England will not relinquish), Germany could retain the French northern Africa colonies (to humiliate France even further). Is that why the Afrikakorps of Rommel was not supplied and was forgotten by Hitler as it was ready to capture Egypt?
The German and Russian armies fought in lands they jointly maneuvered in for 20 years.
Currently, this Teutonic vital space is at work from an economical perspective after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Germany export is mostly oriented toward the new States that recaptured their independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. Germany would have rather have its own European Union formed of Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Ukraine.
The western European States and Greece are just added burden that Germany feels it was pressured to supporting. Probably, the European Union might adopt a second currency (alongside the Euro) just for internal trade purposes among the economically weaker European States.
How Nazi Germany managed to arm and train between the two wars?
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 19, 2010
Walter Rathenau was a Jewish German baron of industry; he was the head of AEG empire for energy production around the world. Rathenau had frequent meeting with the Kaiser and was consulted by the German governments. He opposed the WWI and warned the military High Command that Germany will lack raw materials before the end of the second year of war; the High Command officers laughed out these worries claiming that the war will at best last four months. Then, when Germany declared war, Walter Rathenau unilaterally, and without any government finance or support, stock piled cotton, rubber, and chemical products that aided the German army to withstand another two years of war.
Walter Rathenau was respected by German officials but terribly hated. He declined any involvement as a high-placed official in the Paris “Peace treaty” negotiations because he knew the danger for a Jew of acceding to public political positions. Finally, Rathenau grudgingly agreed to be Germany Foreign Affairs minister in 1922. To the ire of his mother Rathenau replied: “They could find no one else for that job.”
During the world economic conference held in Italy, Rathenau tried his best to keeping the Western European States (France, England, Italy) engaged with Germany politically and economically but failed. Thus, he turned to the Soviet Union and met secretly with the Russian negotiator Leonid Krasin in Rapallo (Italy). They signed a secret treaty allowing Germany to re-arm and train within Russia; Germany was to buy oil concession in Baku and trade engineering knowhow.
Thus, for 20 years, Germany dispatched to Russia thousands of “German work commandos”; they conducted joint military maneuvers and both army officers trained together on tank warfare and aviation (blitzkrieg). Germany manufactured military planes around Moscow and tested chemical gas warfare.
In June 1922, three youths assassinated Rathenau. Two assassins were killed and the driver, Ernst von Salomon, spent 5 years in prison. It is claimed that the assassination was ordered by an ultra-nationalist group; most probably, a Western nation got wind of the secret clauses in the deal with Russia and decided that Rathenau had to pay the high price. The damage was done.
Note 1: Leonid Krasin was an oil baron in Baku (Capital of Azerbaijan) in the early 20th century; he was already a communist in 1905 and manufactured bombs and financed terrorist marxist groups in Baku. Stalin was 28 years of age and was one of the terrorist leaders and he demanded ransoms for the safety of the rich families in Baku.
Note 2: Ernst von Salomon became a professional lawyer and published “The Questionnaire” and “The reproved”. He also screen wrote “Liana, Goddess of the Jungle” in 1956.
Note 3: Rathenau published “The new society” that was adopted integrally as a plan by the Munich soviet municipality of Bavaria in 1919.
Freikorps (Voluntary Military Corps): Precursors of Nazi “Waffen SS”
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 19, 2010
Precursors of Nazi “Waffen SS“: Freikorps (Voluntary Military Corps
General Ludendorff, the brilliant military tactician who executed the encirclement strategy on the French army during WWI (and emulating Hannibal’s tactic in Canna), had a vast vision of Teutonic vital space (Lebensraum).
Ludendorff and marshal Hindenburg had pressured Lenin of the new Bolshevik revolution to sign a peace treaty in 1918.
Germany of the Kaiser Reich II doubled in size and in population. Lenin could temporarily afford to release Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Roumania, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan to Germany in order to consolidate his reign on Russia.
This extension in size, natural resources, and population didn’t last 6 months but it generated grave consequences.
Germany had dispatched over one million soldiers to this eastern front in order to transfer natural resources and foodstuff back to famished Germany. Among the soldiers were the voluntary military corps known as Freikorps or “franc corps”.
In the mean time, the Bulgarian front collapsed, which forced the Ottoman Empire to sign a cease-fire with the allied forces of France, Italy, England, Japan, and the USA.
The flu epidemic had ravaged all the States that participated in the war and over 20 millions died from this virulent flu. The German soldiers on the western front were dying of famine and the flu and started to disperse.
Thus, during the six months before the collapse of the German army in the Western fronts the Freikorps (mostly people of German origin in the newly acquired land) advanced to regain the lands that Medieval Germany had conquered in the 13th century. And the Freikorps soldiers felt at home; they also linked up with the “White Russian army” (supporting Russia monarchy) to jointly fighting the “Red Russian army” of the Bolsheviks.
In the two years 1919-1921, there were more revolutionary insurrections and upheavals in Germany than all of Europe during the last two centuries.
The fact is that the terrible flu and the disintegration of three empires (Ottoman, Russian, and Austria), the flux of refugees from Russia and many other countries to Western Europe, and the lengthy Paris “Peace Treaty” negotiations have obscured the chaos that Germany’s political and social structures were experiencing.
The Freikorps, returning to Germany after the retreat of the “White Russian army”, formed the backbone of Germany governments’ counter attacks on insurgent groups and parties.
The Freikorps squashed with utmost savagery the marxists, communists, and leftist revolts in many cities such as Berlin, Munich, and in the Ruhr region (the main region for heavy industries and mining.). These reprisals were precursors of what Nazi Germany would apply with the Waffen SS.
For example, the Ehrhardt brigade, the most extremist among the Freikorps, paraded at the Brandenburg Arch (Berlin) wearing the future Nazi swastika symbol on their helmets (years before Hitler adopted that symbol)
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