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following statement: "It is quite certain that the peace which will follow the German victories will not
be of the Versailles type but will be a peace for the benefit of all nations. The people of those
countries occupied today will regain their freedom but in the common interests of all nations they will
have to compromise with certain legalities and conditions." - Adolf Hitler
This was Hitler's last great peace initiative, which was declined. Britain went on to suffer 350,000
dead, £25,000,000,000,000 (in 1945 values), the loss of her Empire, Britain impoverished and
beholden to American finance, middle Europe destroyed, and eastern Europe subjugated and enslaved
by the Soviet Union; their erstwhile allies.
"I realised that the fight was not against enemy nations, but against international capital." Adolf Hitler
"There you are! Unrestricted warfare in the whole Pacific Ocean, where America really doesn't
belong! And when we make a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia which belonged to Germany for
a thousand years, it is considered aggression."
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, Germany's Foreign Minister from his Nuremberg cell
"Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from
getting a piece of territory that belonged to her, because Britain was afraid Germany was getting too
strong." - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Germany's Foreign Minister
"Do you think gentlemen, that I am an idiot and will let myself be forced into war because of the
question of the Danzig Corridor?" - Adolf Hitler
FRANCE ATTACKS GERMANY - GERMANY RESPONDS
On September 3rd 1939, Britain and France declared war against Germany; the French piercing the
German border and occupying German territory between the Rhine and the Moselle. Rather than
retaliating, Hitler again offered peace on October 6th which was again rebuffed.
Fearing that a prolonged defensive war in the West along similar lines to those fought at such
appalling loss of life in the First World War would leave Germany weakened and vulnerable to the
Red Army waiting at Germany's eastern borders, Hitler was forced to counter attack in the hope that
the defeat of France would bring Britain to the negotiating table.
On May 10th with forces far inferior to those of France and Britain, Hitler finally decided to close
Germany's front door. The French and British (BEF) armed forces were routed and a fortnight later
retreated across the English Channel on anything that would float.
"A colossal military disaster." Winston Churchill
"This is the end of the British Empire." Anthony Eden
Whilst as in all battles there were genuine tales of derring do which were reported with
understandably a little embroidery, it was not until twenty-years after the event that Richard Collier
recounted stories never rebutted, of anarchic servicemen abandoned by officers, drunken revelry
between French, British and Senegalese troops, mutiny; of a Kentish Police Officer who recalled 'only
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