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the fact that its tanks had crushed patriotic tendencies in a score or more of nations. Similarly Western
leaders bearing responsibility for the 2 nd World War sought desperately to cover up their tracks.
As in the USSR the true nature of Hitler's Germany; the causes of war, the conduct of it and its
aftermath, needed to be kept from the British people.
Guaranteeing Poland's illegal occupation of German territory, would hardly justify the scale of the
tragedy and could hardly explain the dismemberment of Germany, the handing over of eleven
independent nations to Stalin's dictatorship, the excesses of the victors, and the deaths of an estimated
16 million Germans.... not to mention our own losses. There were compelling reasons for hiding the
truth, even fifty-years on. But Churchill's 'bodyguard of lies to protect the truth' needed to be
insulated also.
Hitler's Germany had to be so thoroughly vilified that few would have the courage to defend it.
Those who did - as in the Soviet Union - would find themselves denied a platform or publicly
defamed in a modern version of the stocks, leading to probable loss of livelihood. No publisher
would dare to allow anyone to point out that the emperor has no clothes. All lies as a consequence
have gone unchallenged and have become part of established 'fact'.
GITTA SERENY. HOLOCAUST WRITER
"A very disturbing thing has happened to journalism, to the writing of history, and even to justice. In
anything to do with the Nazis... any attempt at detachment is considered suspect, any degree of
objectivity reprehensible... I have to battle in print against, men like Martin Gray (For Those I Have
Loved) who use these appalling events for self-aggrandisement... but attacking Gray causes wrathful
indignation among holocaust dogmatists." - Gitta Sereny, London Review of Books, April 21st 1988
SIX MILLION EMPERORS HAVE NO CLOTHES
All wars by necessity are accompanied by propaganda and most people are familiar with the lies and
exaggerations. But the megalithic scale of the Second World War was such that stories of German
troops throwing Belgian babies in the air to catch them on bayonets, fell far short of requirements if
the victors' populations were to accept their governments' version of events, and their own suffering.
THE MINISTRY'S SELECTIVE PRESS RELEASE:
"We know how the Red Army behaved in Poland in 1920, and in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Galicia,
and Bessarabia only recently.
We must, therefore, take into account how the Red Army will behave when it overruns Central
Europe. Unless precautions are taken, the obviously inevitable horrors, which will result, will throw
an undue strain on public opinion in this country.
We cannot reform the Bolsheviks, but we can do our best to save them - and ourselves - from the
consequences of their acts. The disclosure of the past quarter of a century will render mere denials
unconvincing. The only alternative to denial is to distract public attention from the whole subject.
Experience has shown that the best distraction is atrocity propaganda directed against the enemy.
Unfortunately the public is no longer so susceptible as in the days of 'the corpse factory', the
'mutilated Belgian babies' and the 'crucified Canadians'.
Your co-operation is therefore earnestly sought to distract public attention from the doings of the Red
Army by your wholehearted support of various charges against the Germans and the Japanese
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