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A British ARP worker reads a copy of Adolf Hitler’s “A Last Appeal to Reason, 
which was dropped from a German bomber on August 2, 1940, over London. The 
broadside contained an English translation of a speech that Adolf Hitler made in 
the Reichstag urging England to abandon her animosity for Germany and avoid 
war on the continent and join against Stalin’s Bolshevik expansion efforts. From 
the expression on the man’s face, one can assume this Brit has already made his 
mind up: War with Germany was an inevitability and peace “a joke.” Prime 
Minister Winston Churchill’s snubbing of numerous German peace overtures con 
demned an estimated 60 million human beings to death across Europe. 



ado If fiitlcr 

An Overlooked Candidate for the Nobel Prize 


If anyone deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, it was Adolf Hitler. Hitler did not want war. 
World War II was forced on Germany. Poland was encouraged to attack Germany by the promises of 
British Ambassador Sir Howard William Kennard and French Ambassador Leon Noel. They promised 
unconditionally that England and France would come to Poland’s immediate aid should she need it in case 
of war with Germany; therefore, no matter what Poland did to provoke Germany’s attack, Poland had an 
assurance from England and France. With this guarantee, Poland began acting ruthlessly. In addition, 
Kennard and Noel flattered Poland into thinking she was a great power. As the Chinese proverb says, “You 
can flatter a man to jump off the roof.” They sabotaged the efforts of those Polish leaders who wanted a 
policy of friendship with Germany . 1 


BY ALEXS. PERRY JR. 


P oland delivered the first blow, and Hitler 
announced, “Since dawn today, we are shooting 
back,” when he spoke to the Reichstag on Sept¬ 
ember 1, 1939. “Shooting back” is not the state¬ 
ment of an aggressor. 2 When Hitler attacked, 
Donald Day said, Poland got exactly what she 
deserved. None of Poland’s immediate neighbors 
felt sorry for her. Poland had conducted a policy of terror. 
Ethnic Germans living on German soil that had been given to 
Poland at the end of World War I by the Versailles Peace Treaty 
had been so mistreated that 2 million left the area for 
Germany and elsewhere. 3 They were driven from what had 
been their homeland long before World War I. Leon Degrelle, a 
young Belgian political leader in the 1930s, and who later 
joined Hitler’s hardest fighting unit, the Waffen SS, with over 
400,000 other non-German European volunteers, says, “Of all 
the crimes of World War II, one never hears about the whole¬ 
sale massacres that occurred in Poland just before the war. 
Thousands of German men, women and children were massa¬ 
cred in the most horrendous fashion by press-enraged mobs. 
Hitler decided to halt the slaughter and he rushed to the res¬ 
cue.” 4 Young German boys, when captured by the Poles, were 
castrated. 5 

William Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw Haw by British propa¬ 
ganda, became a German citizen and took up for the German 
cause. He described the conditions of the Germans who were liv¬ 
ing in Poland because of the Versailles Treaty: 


German men and women were hunted like wild beasts 
through the streets of Bromberg. When they were caught, 
they were mutilated and torn to pieces by the Polish mob.... 

Every day the butchery increased. . . . [Thousands of 
Germans fled from their homes in Poland with nothing more 
than the clothes that they wore. Moreover, there was no 
doubt that the Polish army was making plans for the mas¬ 
sacre of Danzig. . . . On the nights of August 25 to August 31 
inclusive, there occurred, besides innumerable attacks on 
civilians of German blood, 44 perfectly authenticated acts of 
armed violence against German official persons and proper¬ 
ty. These incidents took place either on the border or inside 
German territory. On the night of [August 31], a band of 
Polish desperadoes actually occupied the German Broad¬ 
casting Station at Gleiwitz. Now it was clear that unless 
German troops marched at once, not a man, woman or child 
of German blood within the Polish territory could reasonably 
expect to avoid persecution and slaughter.® 

Due to Poland’s atrocious acts against the German people, 
Hitler declared to British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson 
on August 25,1939: “Poland’s provocations have become intol¬ 
erable.” 7 

So Poland delivered the first blow, not Germany. The first 
blow was important to the United States in its war with Japan. 
It gave the United States the right and justification to do what¬ 
ever was necessary to defeat the Japanese. But Germany did not 
have this right with Poland even after Poland had delivered the 
first blow. What fair-minded man, if he knew the true facts 


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involved in the Polish situation, could blame Hitler for his retal¬ 
iatory attack on Poland? Poland, if any nation ever did, deserved 
exactly what Germany gave her in return. But Hitler did not 
even want to do what he had to do. No sooner than Hitler began 
protecting the German people inside Poland, he was ready to 
stop all hostilities and begin peace negotiations. Prince Sturdza 
narrates: 

Only hours after the outbreak of hostilities between 
Germany and Poland, Mussolini, renewing his efforts for 
peace, proposed to all the interested powers an immediate sus¬ 
pension of hostilities and the immediate convocation of a con¬ 
ference between the great powers, in which Poland would also 
participate. Mussolini’s proposals were, without any delay, 
accepted by all governments concerned except Great Britain. 8 

Before war broke out Britain’s ambassador to Berlin, Sir 
Nevil Henderson, on August 30,1939, said, in his final report of 
Germany’s proposed basis for negotiations, “Those proposals are 
in general not too unreasonable.” 

Even Pierre and Renee Gosset, in 
their rabid anti-German book Hitler, de¬ 
clare: “It was a proposal of extreme mod¬ 
eration. It was in fact an offer that no 
Allied statesman could have rejected in 
good faith.” 9 

As early as January 1941, Hitler was 
making extraordinary efforts to come to peace 
terms with England. He offered England gen¬ 
erous terms. He offered, if Britain would 
assume an attitude of neutrality, to withdraw 
from all of France, to leave Holland and 
Belgium ... to evacuate Norway and Den¬ 
mark, and to support British and French industries by buying 
their products. His proposal had many other favorable points for 
England and Western Europe. But England’s officials did not want 
peace. They wanted war. Had they not celebrated their declaration 
of war by laughing, joking and drinking beer? 10 

Hitler allowed the British to escape at Dunkirk. 

He did not want to fight England. German Gen. Blumentritt 
states why Hitler allowed the British to escape: 

He [Hitler] then astonished us by speaking with admiration 
of the British Empire, of the necessity for its existence, and the 
civilization that Britain had brought into the world. He remarked 
with a shrug of the shoulders, that the creation of the Empire had 
been achieved by means that were often harsh, but “where there 
is planning there are shavings flying.” He compared the British 
Empire with the Catholic Church—saying they were both essen¬ 
tial elements of stability in the world. He said that all he wanted 
from Britain was that she should acknowledge Germany’s posi¬ 
tion on the continent. The return of Germany’s lost colonies 
would be desirable but not essential, and he would even offer to 
support Britain with troops if she should be involved in any diffi¬ 
culties anywhere. 11 

Blumentritt’s statement is not the only notice about Hitler’s 
hope of peace and friendship with England. The renowned 
Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin observed Hitler’s confusion about 
Britain’s refusal to accept his peace offers: Hitler “felt he had 
repeatedly extended the hand of peace and friendship to the 


British, and each time they had blacked his eye in reply.” Hitler 
said, “The survival of the British Empire is in Germany’s inter¬ 
ests too because if Britain loses India, we gain nothing there¬ 
by.” 12 Harry Elmer Barnes says that Hitler lost the war because 
he was too good. 

While the theory of Hitler’s diabolism is generally accepted, 
there are very well informed persons who contend that he brought 
himself and Germany to ruin by being too soft, generous and hon¬ 
orable rather than too tough and ruthless. They point to the fol¬ 
lowing considerations: he made a genuine and liberal peace offer to 
Britain on August 25, 1939; he permitted the British to escape at 
Dunkirk to encourage Britain to make peace, which later on cost 
him the war in North Africa; he failed to occupy all of France, take 
North Africa at once, and split the British Empire, he lost the 
Battle of Britain by failing to approve the savagery of military bar¬ 
barism which played so large a role in the Allied victory; he delayed 
his attack on Russia and offered Molotov lavish concessions in 
November 1940 to keep peace between Germany and Russia; he 
lost the war with Russia by delaying the invasion in order to bail 
Mussolini out of his idiotic attack on Greece; 
and he declared war on the United States to 
keep his pledged word with Japan which had 
long before made it clear that it deserved no 
such consideration and loyalty from Hitler. 18 

David Irving’s descriptive account of 
Hitler’s love for Great Britain confirms 
what others had to say of Hitler’s desire to 
do no harm to England: 

For 20 years Hitler had dreamed of an 
alliance with Britain. Until far into the war he 
clung to the dream with all the vain, slightly 
ridiculous tenacity of a lover unwilling to 
admit that his feelings are unrequited. As Hitler told Maj. Quisling 
on August 18, 1940: “After making one proposal after another to 
the British on the reorganization of Europe, I now find myself 
forced against my will to fight this war against Britain....” 

This was the dilemma confronting Hitler that summer. He hes¬ 
itated to crush the British. Accordingly, he could not put his heart 
into the invasion planning. More fatefully, Hitler stayed the hand 
of the Luftwaffe and forbade any attack on London under pain of 
court-martial; the all-out saturation bombing of London, which his 
strategic advisers Raeder, Jodi, and Jeschonnek all urged upon 
him, was vetoed for one implausible reason after another. Though 
his staffs were instructed to examine every peripheral British posi¬ 
tion—Gibraltar, Egypt, the Suez Canal—for its vulnerability to 
attack, the heart of the British Empire was allowed to beat on, 
unmolested until it was too late. In these months an adjutant over¬ 
heard Hitler heatedly shouting into a Chancellery telephone, “We 
have no business to be destroying Britain. We are quite incapable 
of taking up her legacy,” meaning the empire; and he spoke of the 
“devastating consequences” of the collapse of that empire. ^ 

Hitler told Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, March 2, 
1940, (1) that he had long been in favor of disarmament, but had 
received no encouragement from England and France; (2) he 
was in favor of international free trade; (3) Germany had no aim 
other than the return of the “German people to the territorial 
position that historically was rightly theirs”; (4) he had no desire 
to control non-German people and he had no intention to inter¬ 
fere with their independence; and (5) he wanted the return of 
the colonies that were stolen from Germany at Versailles. 15 

Churchill wanted war. Churchill was a war criminal. Chur- 


Hitler then astonished us by 
speaking with admiration of 
the British Empire. He 
compared the British Empire 
with the Catholic Church — 
saying they were both essential 
elements of a stable world. 


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TWO British policemen and a crowd of spectators watch the clock of Big Ben, in London, as it strikes 11 o’clock. That sound marked the end 
of Germany’s deadline to withdraw from Poland and thus the beginning of World War 11. According to Adolf Hitler, Germany only moved into 
Poland to stop the slaughter and mass expulsions of ethnic Germans isolated in Poland—cultural brothers cut off from Germany since the 
signing of the Versailles Treaty. In retrospect, Hitler moved to end an “ethnic cleansing”—the same reason NATO and the United States used 
recently to invade Bosnia—now considered by many the obligation of a responsible world leader. 


chill did not want peace. He wanted the war to continue as long 
as possible. 

In a January 1, 1944, letter to Stalin, Churchill said: “We 
never thought of peace, not even in that year when we were 
completely isolated and could have made peace without serious 
detriment to the British Empire, and extensively at your cost. 
Why should we think of it now, when victory approaches for the 
three of us?” 16 This is a confession even by Churchill that Hitler 
never did want war with England. 

Churchill in his July 1943 Guildhall speech stated quite 
plainly, “We entered the war of our free will, without ourselves 
being directly assaulted.” 17 

When Churchill was leaving London to meet Roosevelt for a 
conference in Quebec late in the summer of 1943, a reporter 
asked if they were planning to offer peace terms to Germany. 
Churchill replied: “Heavens, no. They would accept immediate¬ 


ly.” 18 So the war went on from August 1943 until May 1945—for 
22 more months just because peace terms were not offered. 

Churchill wanted England to be in war with Germany as 
early as 1936. 19 

Roosevelt was a war criminal. He wanted war and he want¬ 
ed World War II to last as long as possible. 

* * 

Hitler and the German people did not want war, but Roose¬ 
velt wanted war. He worked for getting World War II started. He 
wanted war for political reasons. Jesse Jones, a member of 
Roosevelt’s cabinet for five years, states, “Regardless of his oft- 
repeated statement, ‘I hate war,’ he was eager to get into the 
fighting since that would ensure a third term.” 20 

While the president repeated he did not want war and had 
no intent to send an expeditionary force to Europe, the militant 
secretaries of the Navy and of the War Department, Knox and 


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Stimson, denounced the neutrality legislation in speeches and 
public declarations and advocated an American intervention in 
the Atlantic Battle. As members of the cabinet they could not do 
it without the president’s consent. 21 

When the press quoted Frank Knox as saying: “The only 
hope for peace for the United States would be the battering of 
Germany,” FDR did not rebuke him. 22 

Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Gen. Eisenhower’s brother, said, 
“President Roosevelt found it necessary to get the country into 
World War II to save his social policies.” 23 

Clare Booth-Luce shocked many people by saying at the 
Republican Party Convention in 1944 that Roosevelt “has lied 
us [the U.S.A.] into the war.” However, after this statement 
proved to be correct, the Roosevelt followers ceased to deny it, 
but praised it by claiming he was “forced to lie” to save his coun¬ 
try and then England and “the world.” 24 

R ep. Hamilton Fish made the first speech in Congress 
on December 8, 1941, asking for a declaration of war 
against Japan. In his book, FDR: The Other Side of the 
Coin, Fish says he is ashamed of that speech today 
and if he had known what Roosevelt had been doing to provoke 
Japan to attack, he would never have asked for a declaration of 
war. 25 Fish said Roosevelt was the main firebrand to light the 
fuse of war both in Europe and the Pacific. 26 

Roosevelt’s real policy was revealed when the Germans were 
able to search through Polish documents and found in the 
archives in Warsaw “the dispatches of the Polish ambassadors 
in Washington and Paris which laid bare Roosevelt’s efforts to 
goad France and Britain into war. In November 1938, William 
C. Bullitt, his personal friend and ambassador in Paris, had indi¬ 
cated to the Poles that the president’s desire was for “Germany 


and Russia [to] come to blows, whereupon the democratic 
nations would attack Germany and force her into submission”; 
in the spring of 1939, Bullitt quoted Roosevelt as being deter¬ 
mined “not to participate in the war from the start, but to be in 
at the finish.” 27 

Oliver Lyttelton, wartime British production manager, was 
undeniably correct when he declared, “America was never truly 
neutral. There is no doubt where her sympathies were, and it is 
a travesty on history ever to say that the United States was 
forced into the war. America provoked the Japanese to such an 
extent that they were forced to attack.” 28 

* * * 

The Japanese were begging for peace before the atom bombs 
were dropped, and MacArthur recommended negotiation on the 
basis of the Japanese overtures. But Roosevelt brushed off this 
suggestion with the remark: “MacArthur is our greatest gener¬ 
al and our poorest politician.” 29 These statements tell the whole 
history of World War II from the beginning to the end, The war 
was started to keep Roosevelt in office and it was allowed to go 
on much longer than necessary—it could have been over any 
day from 1943 on. At the same time American boys were bat¬ 
tling to end World War II, leading American politicians were 
doing all they could for political reasons to continue the conflict. 

Hitler had only one goal with regard to his relations with 
other nations. That goal was peace. On May 17, 1933, Hitler 
addressed the Reichstag about his intentions: 

Germany will be perfectly ready to disband her entire military 
establishment and destroy the small amount of arms remaining to 
her, if the neighboring countries will do the same thing with equal 
thoroughness. Germany is entirely ready to renounce aggressive 
weapons of every sort if the armed nations, on their part, will 


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destroy their aggressive weapons within a specified period, and if 
their use is forbidden by an international convention. Germany is 
at all times prepared to renounce offensive weapons if the rest of 
the world does the same. Germany is prepared to agree to any 
solemn pact of non-aggression because she does not think of 
attacking anybody but only of acquiring security. 39 

None of the “peace loving democracies” paid any attention 
to Hitler’s offer. The only reason why King Edward was not 
allowed to remain on the British throne was because he let it be 
known that as long as he was the king, England would not go to 
war with Germany. 

Hitler expressed himself about the results Germany would 
gain from war: “A European war could be the end of all our 
efforts even if we should win, because the disappearance of the 
British Empire would be a misfortune which could not be made 
up again” (Michael McLaughlin, For Those Who Cannot Speak, 
page 10). Based on the above, Hitler should be awarded the 
Nobel Peace Prize posthumously to set things straight. He 
was not the cause of World War II and he did not want any 
war. He was a man of peace and he worked for peace in every 
way he could. ❖ 

ENDNOTES: 

7 Day, Donald, Onward Christian Soldiers, 68-9. Donald Day was The 
Chicago Tribune’s only correspondent in northeastern Europe before and during 
World War II. 

2 McLaughlin, Michael, For Those Who Cannot Speak, 9. 

3 Onward Christian Soldiers, 55. 

4 The Journal of Historical Review, winter 1982,454-5. 

® Fish, Hamilton, FDR: The Other Side of the Coin, 86. 

8 Twilight Over England, 125-6. 

7 The Suicide of Europe (memoirs of Prince Michel Sturdza, former foreign 
minister of Romania), 1. 

8 Ibid., 145. 

8 Ibid., 11. 

10 McLaughlin, op cit., 10. 

11 Barnes, Harry Elmer, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, 162. The last sen¬ 
tence in the paragraph just quoted should put an end to any claim that Hitler 
wanted to capture the world. 

72 Irving, David, Hitler’s War, paperback edition, Avon History, 236. 

13 The Barnes Trilogy, section “Revisionism and Brainwashing,” 33. 

Irving, op. cit., 236. 

15 Tansill, Charles Callan, Back Door to War, 577. 

18 Walendy, Udo, The Methods of Reeducation, 3. 

17 Martin, James J., The Saga of Hog Island, 42. 

18 Martin, James J., Revisionist Viewpoints, 75. 

19 Neilson, Francis, The Churchill Legend, 350. 

29 Jones, Jesse H., with Edward Angly, Fifty Billion Dollars: My Thirteen 
Years with the RFC: 1932-1945, New York: the Macmillan Company, 1951, 260. 

27 Fehrenbach, T.F., F.D.R.’s Undeclared War 1939 to 1941, pages 135,189. 

22 Walendy, Udo, The Methods of Reeducation, 3. 

23 Grieb, Conrad, American Manifest Destiny and the Holocaust, 124-5. 

2 ^ Walendy, op. cit., 3 

25 Ibid., 144. 

26 Ibid., 149. 

27 Irving, op. cit. ,235. 

28 The Saga of Hog Island, op. cit., 63. 

29 Chamberlin, William Henry, America’s Second Crusade, 219. 

30 Neilson, Francis, The Churchill Legend, 278. 


Mr. Alex perry Jr. is a member of the “greatest genera¬ 
tion” and a World War II combat veteran. He is a veteran writer 
on the subject of World War II and is quickly becoming a regu¬ 
lar to TBR readers. He presently resides in Mississippi. 



Many of Adolf Hitler’s social reforms were meant to benefit the work¬ 
ing man. From paid vacations to quality healthcare, Hitler sought to 
soften the previously hard life of labor. In this picture, Hitler intro¬ 
duces the Volkswagen—“the car of the people” at an industrial rally. 
Putting transportation in the hands of the average German citizen 
made his life easier, more efficient, more free and independent. Many 
of Hitler’s cutting-edge social reforms are glossed over by mainstream 
historians, who are told that to retain their reputations, they had bet¬ 
ter not say anything good about Hitler. This point cannot be made any 
more clearly than in a recent news item brought to TBR’s attention: A 
middle school teacher recently challenged her class to write a pro-and- 
con piece about three of history’s “dictators.” The class could choose 
from Hitler, Josef Stalin or Mao Tse-tung. When school administrators 
found out about the project, they condemned the teacher, claiming 
“nothing good could be said about Adolf Hitler.” They obviously did not 
object to the inclusion of two of history’s worst mass murderers. (Stalin 
and Mao killed an estimated 40 to 80 million non-combatants com¬ 
bined, during and after World War II. Hitler, on the other hand, is still 
pinned with the fictitious 6 million figure, which even unbiased 
Jewish authorities doubt.) The teacher was forced to cancel the project 
and apologize to the students and their parents for assigning the topic. 
In fact, there are many good things one can say about Hitler, the least 
of which is that he, more than any other leader of the era, thought of 
the masses first and foremost. 


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