The Battle of Britain Five Months That Changed History, May—October 1940 by James Holland (z-lib.org).epub

German people which was imposed upon it by the English plutocracy,’ he
wrote. ‘The English warmongering aims to destroy the German Reich.’ In
his concluding comments he added, ‘Speakers must strictly avoid any
polemics against France.’
Nazi leaders, whether it be Hitler, Göring or Goebbels himself, duly
made repeated attacks on Britain and the Jewish-led ‘plutocracy’ during
their many broadcasts and speeches. In November, for example, in Munich,
on the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler used an hour-long speech
to rant against Britain. When, shortly after he had left the Bürgerbräu
beerhall, a bomb exploded, it was immediately blamed on the British.
‘All we want is peace,’ announced Göring in another broadcast. ‘Peace
with honour, Mr Chamberlain. We do not want to fight the English people.
Nor do we want one inch of France. It is the English who are inciting war.
Remember, you Frenchmen, what England has said in the past: We will
fight to the last Frenchman! Not the last Englishman, mark you!’
And once again, the message seemed to be getting through. On a press
visit to see the German fleet in Hamburg, William Shirer was continually
asked why the British fought Germany. Earlier, he had made a study of
what German people were reading. One of the most popular was Look Up
the Subject of England, a propaganda book against the country. At a family
lunch, Else Wendel’s undemonstrative mother declared, ‘England hates us.
She’s jealous, that’s all. It was just the same in the last war.’
By May 1940, one message that appeared to have got through was that
Britain, not France, or even the Soviet Union, was Germany’s most bitter
enemy.