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today on good grounds that he was right on this (blocked out by General Halder)."
- Former Chief of General Staff, Generaloberst Halder, 1949
"It was undoubtedly a genuine preventive war. That which we subsequently ascertained was, in any
case, the proof of a colossal Russian military preparation against our borders. I will forego
particulars; however I can say that the tactical surprise, with regard to the day and the hour, was
successful, the strategical surprise was not. Russia was completely prepared for war."
- From the deposition of Colonel General Jodl
"There can be no doubt that he (Hitler) broadened the war in 1941 only on preventive grounds."
- A.J.P Taylor, British War Historian
"On the 1st April, (1941) and no earlier, his decision was made to carry out the attack, and on April
1st he ordered it to be prepared for about the 22nd June. The order of attack itself, therefore the real
release of the campaign, was dictated for the first time on the 17th June, which rests firmly on
documentation." - From the deposition of Colonel General Jodl
"The captive Soviet General Vlassow declared, during his interrogation, that the Russian attack (on
Germany) was prepared for August/September, 1941.
- (From: H.G Seraphim, 'Die Deutsch-Russischen Beziehungen 1939/1941', Hamburg, 1949, p.83)
- and now the official Soviet history confirms that the Non-Aggression Pact was only concluded to
gain time; that the decision for an attack had already been made in the Spring of 1940.
- Kommunist, Moscow, Nr.5, April 1958. p73/86
"If war does not occur of its own accord, so it has to be plotted.... no power in the world can stop the
course from the Communist world revolution to the Soviet world republic."
- V.I Lenin, Ausgewahlte Werke, Vol.2
THE RUSSIAN - GERMAN DECLARATION OF WAR
"The common view is stated with the usual abandon in W.L Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich, of which, incidentally, the A.J.P Taylor book, Origins of the Second World War, is a
devastating refutation. Shirer declares that the German note to Russia on June 22nd 1941, 'topped all
the previous ones for sheer effrontery and deceit' because it charged that Russia had practiced
sabotage, terrorism and espionage against Germany, had resisted German attempts to establish a
stable order in Europe, had conspired with Great Britain in the Balkans, and had menaced the Third
Reich with troop concentrations.
As a matter of fact every word in these charges was true."
- Harry Elmer Barnes, U.S. War Historian
Note: The Jewish author, William L. Shirer's, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is probably the most
hyped book on the Third Reich in existence; there can be few who do not have a copy and who use it
to base their opinions on the period. In fact, it is no more authoritative and reliable than are for
instance notorious tabloids published in Europe and America.
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