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We used to have a sophisticated biological weapons program from World War 2 to the sixties, which ended in 1969. Many records of the program were destroyed, but some are resurfacing. Our offensive weapons program was massive and advanced, but not well-known by most people.

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During World War 2, Germany experienced intense bombing campaigns by the British and Americans. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris planned to unleash the full power of the Royal Air Force on German civilians. The city of Hamburg was heavily targeted, resulting in massive destruction and loss of life. The bombings were repeated in other German cities, including Berlin and Dresden. The bombing of Dresden, in particular, was devastating, with thousands of bombs obliterating the city and causing a firestorm. The death toll in Dresden alone surpassed that of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The Allied forces also targeted anything moving in the German countryside, including civilians and animals. The goal was not only to physically destroy Germany but also to demoralize its people.

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Stalin violated multiple non-aggression pacts and invaded several countries, causing widespread terror and death. The Allies, including Churchill, remained silent about Soviet aggression and focused on using Poland to start a war against Germany. Hitler knew Stalin was planning to invade Europe and launched a preemptive strike. The Eastern Front became the site of brutal battles, with many Russians surrendering to the Germans. The German army fought to save Europe from communism and received support from Russian volunteers. The Allies, particularly Churchill, deliberately targeted German cities in devastating bombing campaigns, causing immense civilian casualties. The Battle of the Bulge was a turning point, but the Allies delayed Patton's advance to give the Soviets time to conquer Eastern Europe. The war ended with the destruction of German cities and millions of German casualties.

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Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler had met when she was just 17 and she worked as an assistant to the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, who went on to become Hitler's personal cameraman. Hitler and Braun became lovers in 1932. Now, thirteen years later, as the remaining German forces were overwhelmed, Eva wrote in a letter to her friend, Hertha Schneider, we are fighting here until the last, but I'm afraid the end is threatening closer and closer. On April 29, Hitler decided to marry his longtime mistress Eva Braun. The ceremony was concluded with Goebbels and Bormann as witnesses. Hitler signed the wedding certificate but when it was Eva's turn, she began to write her surname as Braun before crossing out the letter B and instead writing Eva Hitler. Arm in arm, Hitler led his bride to the study for the wedding reception. Hitler now admitted for the first time that all was lost. Hitler said, everything is lost. Pack your things and go. You to have leave and within an hour, the last plane would bring you out. After that moment of silence, Eva Braun stepped forward, went to him and took his hand and said, but you know I will stay with you. Less than two days after the wedding on April 30, Hitler and his bride ended their lives together. They had been married just a few hours. Eva took a cyanide capsule, popped it into her mouth, she died instantly. Hitler picked up his gun, put it to his right temple and fired. Hitler's dog Blondie was also poisoned. Members of the staff carried the bodies in blankets and soaked them with what petrol they could find and set them alight. Hitler did not want to be handed over to the barbaric Bolsheviks because he knew what they had done to Mussolini. Thus, taking his life and setting his body on fire was his own wish. One day before committing suicide, Hitler dictated his political testament, a suicide note, in which he denied any responsibility for starting the war. Right up until the very end, when Hitler had nothing to gain, he wanted the world to know that he had never wanted war.

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President Richard Nixon announced in 1969 that the United States would renounce the use of deadly biological weapons, but few Americans knew that the country had been operating a secret bioweapons program for over 25 years. Born out of fear during World War II, the program conducted extensive research and experiments, even using human subjects. The British and Japanese also had their own bioweapons programs, with the Japanese conducting horrific experiments on thousands of people. The US program, fueled by the Cold War, conducted tests on American cities and human subjects, proving the feasibility of biological warfare. However, concerns over the uncontrollable nature of these weapons and the mounting political pressure led to the program's eventual end in 1969.

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The transcript presents a sequence of testimonies and extracts arguing that Adolf Hitler possessed exceptional intellect, memory, and strategic genius, contrary to prevailing liberal and popular stereotypes. - IQ and intellect at Nuremberg: It is stated that the Allies found the IQs of National Socialist leaders on trial to be much higher than expected, with some sources suggesting Hitler’s IQ around 140+ or higher. Jaalmar Schacht is cited as saying Hitler’s IQ was 150 or more; Schacht’s own IQ was tested at 143, and ministers reportedly averaged 129, with many acknowledging Hitler’s superiority. The text asserts Hitler read voraciously, with a private library of over 3,000 books, and could lead discussions on any topic, possessing strong verbal ability, memory, and autodidactic learning. - Personal recollections on Hitler’s learning and memory: Excerpts from He Was My Chief (Christa Schroeder), Was Hitler Really a Dictator? (Friedrich Christian), Hitler Democrat (Leon deGrell), and The Hitler I Knew (Otto Dietrich) emphasize Hitler’s extraordinary memory and lifelong study. Schroeder describes Hitler reading 500 Vienna reference library volumes in youth, recalling minute details of places, architecture, and conversations, as well as recalling names, books, statistics, faces, and the atmosphere of rallies. Dietrich notes Hitler’s ability to memorize a book in a single sitting and to notice engine discrepancies on a plane, while deGrell highlights Hitler’s wide range of knowledge—from Buddha to Shakespeare to Tacitus, from theology to physics and biology—and his habit of reading at least one book daily and quoting long passages from memory. Dietrich also stresses Hitler’s equal facility in architecture, philosophy, and science, and his almost universal command of knowledge across disciplines. - Hitler’s cognitive and technical leadership in strategy: The narrative contends Hitler could devise audacious military strategies that surprised even his top commanders. It recounts that Hitler rejected a conventional Schlieffen-inspired plan and instead developed a bold, integrated approach to the 1940 West campaign. In Winiza and at his headquarters, Hitler supposedly explained and reviewed his strategic process, using a binded map collection of the France campaign to illustrate decisions, including the choice to strike at Sedan and to coordinate a rapid armored thrust with air superiority. He allegedly insisted on secrecy, careful data gathering, and a seamless integration of tactical details under a single strategic idea. - The Western campaign and Dunkirk: The text describes the May 1940 offensive (the Zickelschnitt or sickle cut) as a decisiive success, with the Wehrmacht breaking through using a combination of armored thrusts and flanking maneuvers, advancing from Sedan toward the coast, and ensuring the encirclement and isolation of Allied forces. Hitler is portrayed as acknowledging—yet regretting in hindsight—the Dunkirk decision, explaining he did not destroy the entire British force because of the danger to further operations and time, arguing the need to avoid excessive losses and preserve strength for subsequent operations. The account attributes a rational, strategic calculus to Hitler, including concerns about Eastern possibilities and peace prospects. - Post-Dunkirk reflections and leadership style: The transcript portrays Hitler as calm under pressure, capable of long, rational discussions with staff after shocking events like Arnhem, and capable of endurance through fatigue. It also emphasizes his interpersonal trust with his inner circle, including his architect Heinrich Himmler and Speer, and notes various personal anecdotes illustrating his restraint, discipline, and occasional moments of levity. Keitel, Jodl, and Manstein are referenced as colleagues whose assessments evolved to align with Hitler’s strategic vision, while some allied commanders are depicted as underestimating his genius. - Conclusion on Hitler’s genius: The compilation argues that Hitler was “one of the most cultivated men of the twentieth century,” with “military genius” and “an invention of modern strategy,” whose leadership integrated a mass of tanks and air power in ways other militaries failed to conceive. While it acknowledges criticism of certain decisions (e.g., Dunkirk), it credits Hitler with transcending conventional military thought, guiding not only German policy but also shaping European strategic doctrine through a fusion of meticulous planning, memory, and intellectual breadth.

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Our policy is to wage war by sea and air with all our might, aiming for victory at all costs. Germany suffered nearly 5 million military deaths and half a million civilian deaths in allied bombing raids during World War II.

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Stalin violated multiple non-aggression pacts and invaded several countries, terrorizing and killing people. The Allies, including Churchill and Roosevelt, did not take action against Stalin's aggression. Hitler believed that Stalin was planning to invade Europe, and documents support this claim. Hitler launched a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union, saving Europe temporarily. The war on the Eastern Front was brutal, with millions of lives lost. Many Russians surrendered to the Germans, viewing them as liberators from Soviet tyranny. The Allies, particularly Churchill, intentionally targeted German cities with devastating bombings, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. The war crimes committed by the Allies were largely ignored and remain largely unknown.

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Hitler had two poison gases, Tabun and Sarin, nerve gases against which none of the Allies had defenses, yet he ordered that these gases not be used because Germany had signed the deal with invention. The speaker urges historians to investigate contradictions, offering "a thousand pints, anyone who can find one line of evidence." Hitler's euthanasia order is in the files with his signature, issued in 1940 but backdated to the first day of the war. The order to kill Russian commissars after the campaign began is documented in the military files; "Hitler ordered their war to be liquidated." The order to kill British commandos, "that Hitler order of October 1942 is in the files," is described as criminal. He could have wiped out the Normandy Beachhead with the gases and won the war; "on no account was poison gas be used because it was convicted of the G Convention."

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Paul Norris uncovered evidence in British archives showing that the Psychological Warfare Executive orchestrated the gas chamber narrative during World War II. They coldly decided to broadcast claims that Germans had constructed gas chambers for exterminating Jews. In 1944, Victor Cavendish Bentinck, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, expressed concern that the gas chamber story could eventually be exposed, jeopardizing their psychological warfare efforts. He suggested it might be wise to distance themselves from the narrative they had initially promoted. Despite this caution, the story has persisted for decades, remaining influential even in 1988.

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After World War II, there were massive stockpiles of chemical weapons, particularly mustard gas. These weapons were extremely dangerous and corrosive, causing death by liquefying the lungs. During the war, both the Germans and the French used mustard gas, often resulting in self-inflicted harm when the wind changed direction. After the war, the issue of what to do with these stockpiles arose. Some were dumped in the ocean, while others were destroyed. The dumping of chemical weapons has caused pollution in places like the Adriatic Sea and the English Channel. In the 1960s and 1970s, the denial of this issue was prevalent, but now it is widely known.

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Speaker 0: In the best documented cases, the Auschwitz Camp, vast documentation shows how these order of save everyone's life is being implemented with huge efforts of improving sanitary hygienic conditions, building massive hospital complex complexes that treat inmates, and then you see the records of how they were treated, how all these people, these inmates unable to work. Mhmm. That's the cliche. If you're unfit for work and more than two weeks you get killed. You see the records of all these inmates, tens of thousands of them, being unable to work, being kept in hospitals, being fed, being cured, and until they are fit again and they get released. It's lot of work. Massive amount of investment in most modern medicine of the time with x-ray investigations and surgeries and lab tests all over the place. Tens of hundreds of thousands of document proving that. And you look even in the financial side in today's dollars, almost a quarter billion dollars of money invested in order to get a medical facility going that is On Auschwitz? In Auschwitz. In order for for the entire region, for every inmate that in the the greater part of of Poland and what is East Germany, all inmates who get sick and can't be treated in in the other camps get sent to Auschwitz into this massive hospital camp facility to get proper treatment. Mhmm. You look at the the technology they use. We don't know about Zyklon b saying it's being used to save Yeah. Their They're using Zyklon b to do To kill lives. So Zyklon B is sent there to save lives, but what I'm getting at is to what 1944, Zyklon B kind of phases out because we have new technologies. DDT from today's perspective, unfortunately, but it worked better, and microwave delousing facilities.

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Speaker 0 argues that parasites have become a problem because they have been weaponized. They reference a Nobel Prize-winning finding showing that a certain parasite could produce stomach cancer in rats, and that a different parasite produced this effect in Japan. They note these results only worked in animals that ate a high-sugar diet or were vaccinated, not in healthy animals. They then connect this to twentieth-century American policy: vaccination began with troops during World War I and continued in the military, then expanded to schoolchildren after World War II. The speaker predicts that vaccines at school would eventually affect broader segments of the population, not just children, and claims that vaccines have the effect of making people more susceptible to parasites, including those that cause cancer, not just toxoplasmosis. Regarding diet, the speaker mentions the food pyramid of the twentieth century, pointing out that the bottom consisted of carbohydrates, implying a link to susceptibility. The speaker then discusses bioweapons policy: in 1971, Nixon declared an end to the United States bioweapons offensive program and signed a treaty (they mention a 1978 figure, implying a multinational agreement). They claim that, despite this treaty, the Soviet Union and others violated it, and that perhaps everyone violated it. They assert that, at the same time the treaty was signed, Fort Detrick was converted from a bioweapons lab to be part of the National Cancer Institute. They compare this to Nazi Germany, stating that they hid bioweapons under cancer research, and claim that the United States did something similar. The transcription ends with emphatic agreement.

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Speaker 0 urges historical perspective, noting the wartime Soviet alliance and that their anti-Nazi propaganda was accepted by the Allies; as victors, the Soviets "got to commit their propaganda to the history books as fact." He says current knowledge of Stalin's despotism and the KGB's deception, and the camps Majdanek, Belzec, Kelno, Treblinka, and Sobibor, have required relying on Soviet sources. "I believe in the inarguable fact that 6,000,000 Jews were killed in the war by Adolf Hitler and Nazis." He asks Speaker 2 if he believes that figure. Speaker 2 replies, "But I don't think 6,000,000 Jews were gassed. Now be careful. I I beg of you. This is against the law in Germany. If there was a German somebody that's in German state, you could have me thrown into prison before I leave Germany."

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The facilities at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Loveland could not have supported executions using hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, or any other lethal gas. Even with generous maximum usage rates for all alleged gas chambers, totaling 1693 persons per week, it would have taken 68 years to execute 6,000,000 people. Therefore, claiming these facilities were capable of mass executions is ludicrous and insulting.

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Said to Kennedy, you watch when Adolf Hitler begins bombing London and towns in Britain like Boston and Lincoln, towns with their counterparts in The United States. You Americans will have to come in, won't you? You can't just stand aside and watch us suffering. But he knew from code breaking. He knew from reading the German Air Force signals, which we had broken on March or 05/26/1940, that Hitler had given orders that no British town was to be bombed. London was completely embargoed. German air force was allowed to bomb ports and harbors and dockyards, but not towns as such. And Churchill was greatly aggrieved by this, and he wondered how much longer Hitler could avoid carrying on war like this. But Hitler, as we know, carried on until September 1940 without bombing any English towns. The embargo stayed in force. You can see it in the German archives now, and we know from the code breaking of the German signals that Churchill was reading Hitler's orders to the German Air Force, not on any account to bomb these towns. So there was no way that we could drag in the Americans that way unless we could provoke Hitler to do it, which is why on 08/25/1940, Churchill gave the order to the British Air Force to go and bomb Berlin. Although the chief of the bomber command and chief of staff of the British Air Force warned him that if we bomb Berlin, Hitler may very well lift the embargo on British towns. And Churchill just twinkled because it was what he wanted, of course. At 09:15 that morning, he telephoned personal bomber command himself to order the bombing of Berlin, a 100 bombers to go and bomb Berlin. They went out to bomb Berlin that night, and Hitler still didn't move. Hitler ordered another aid on Berlin, and so it went on for the next seven or ten days until finally on September 4, Hitler lost his patience and made that famous speech in the Sport Palace in Berlin in which he said, this madman has bombed Berlin now seven times. He bombs Berlin once more than I shall not only just attack their towns, I shall wipe them out. A very famous speech. Of course, German school children are now told about the Hitler speech. They're not told about what went first. They're not told how Churchill sent out deliberately to provoke the bombing of his own capital. And on the following day, Churchill ordered Berlin bombed again. And the result was the German air force started bombing the docks in London, the East End Of London, finally, city Of London and the West End on the September 1940. In September 1940, 7,000 Londoners were killed in the bombing as a result of Churchill's deliberate provocation. The files are there. The archives are there. No wonder Harold Macmillan didn't want my book published.

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Speaker 0 argues that it’s logistically absurd to claim the Holocaust involved gassing millions and hauling bodies from so-called gas chambers, noting the inefficiency of that method. He points out the irony that the person most famous for gassing people refused to use gas that could have won the war, because he would not be the first to use gas, despite having 20,000 kilograms of tabun and sarin. He asserts there were no counters to that chemical weapon, yet the decision not to use gas led to the downfall of his country. Speaker 1 adds that Hitler was gassed himself at the end of World War I, which blinded him. During the fall of the Kaiser’s empire, the Reich’s collapse and the emergence of Bolshevik and Weimar structures occurred as some German states did not join the Weimar Republic and became sub-states or Soviet-like entities. Speaker 0 emphasizes that anyone uncertain about Hitler’s legacy should read Mein Kampf and hear from Hitler’s own words to understand why he held his beliefs. He claims Hitler did not begin as an anti-Semite intent on killing Jews, and describes Hitler as someone who admired and observed the universe, was a truth-seeker from day one, engaged in political discussions, and was fascinated by philosophy, German history, the British Empire, and America. He notes Hitler was well-read and well-spoken, but deprived economically, working as a day laborer with little work available to feed himself. He claims Hitler went days without food to afford a book, showing a love of knowledge, and that he wasn’t a failed artist; he was a talented artist whose path could have been architecture rather than drawing. Speaker 0 contends that smear campaigns against Hitler fail and are “nonsense.” He dismisses more extreme claims as false, such as insults about Hitler’s sexuality or anatomy, and mentions that such accusations are common against many figures. Speaker 1 comments that a lot of the negative rumors about Hitler (e.g., perverse claims) are typical allegations made against many people, implying they are not unique to Hitler.

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During World War II, Allied forces subjected German cities to intense bombing campaigns, referred to by some Germans as "terror bombing." British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris aimed to destroy homes and kill civilians. The bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 involved high explosives and phosphorus bombs, creating firestorms with extreme temperatures and hurricane-force winds, resulting in an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 deaths and the destruction of the city. Similar attacks were repeated across other German cities. The bombing of Dresden in February 1945, targeted a city with little heavy industry and a large refugee population. Multiple waves of bombers dropped explosives and incendiaries, creating firestorms and killing an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 people. Allied forces also implemented a "targets of opportunity" policy, attacking various targets in the German countryside, including civilians. There were even plans to use poison gas on German cities, but they were ultimately abandoned.

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The Fuhrer has absolutely forbidden the use of poison gas. The enemy is to use it first, and then we will retaliate with ours. the Germans would have won the war because the Germans had not just poison gases like mustard, the Germans had nerve gases. At this time, in 1944, they already had stockpiles of 30,000 tons of nerve gases, sarin and tabun. But he had put his name on a piece of paper, the Geneva Gas Protocol, saying that he would never use gas first because it would be a war crime. the nine or 10 panzer divisions out of Normandy and sent them to the Russian front.

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Churchill knew Hitler had ordered no British towns to be bombed, so he ordered the bombing of Berlin to provoke Hitler. After several bombings of Berlin, Hitler retaliated by bombing London, resulting in 7000 deaths in September 1940. The archives confirm Churchill's deliberate provocation.

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- None of the facilities examined at Auschwitz, Birkenau, or Lublin could have supported or in fact did ever support multiple executions utilizing hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, or any other allegedly or factually lethal gas. - Based upon very generous maximum usage rates for all the alleged gas chambers totaling some 1,693 persons per week and assuming these facilities could support gas executions, it would have required sixty eight years to execute the alleged number of 6,000,000 presses. - Promoting these facilities as being capable of affecting mass, multiple, or even singular executions is both ludicrous and insulting to every individual on this planet. - Hydrocyonic Acid was not used in the buildings alleged to have been homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. - I have come to the conclusion that no one was willfully or purposefully killed with cyclone B in this manner. I consider it impossible.

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Speaker 0 and Speaker 1 discuss Nazi chemical capabilities and the use of Zyklon B. Speaker 0 states that Nazis had developed sarin gas and tabun, "nasty deadly nerve gases," and argues that the idea they would actually use Zyklon B, which was essential for maintaining health in the camps, is ridiculous. Speaker 1 agrees, saying it seems ridiculous and that “the whole story” appears ridiculous once examined. Speaker 1 adds that years ago they investigated because it was illegal, noting changes over time, and that they felt compelled to keep quiet. Speaker 0 then shifts to logistics, noting that there are documents on trains that came in, the amounts of coke used in the crematoria, and that everything is well documented, including the number of people who actually made it to Auschwitz. He mentions Red Cross–related deaths as part of the documentation but the sentence trails off: “The deaths by the Red Cross I think were put.”

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The speaker discusses a turning point in how the international community views morality in warfare. They describe this as a really important moment in history, highlighting that debates about what is permissible in war were taking place on a global scale. The narrative anchors this moment in the experiences of World War I, pointing to the horrors that occurred during that conflict as a catalyst for reflection on ethical boundaries in warfare. A central example used to illustrate the shift is the devastation caused by poisonous gas in World War I. The speaker emphasizes how the use of chemical agents revealed the severe human cost of such weapons and underscored the need to reexamine what should be allowed during armed conflict. This exposure to the brutal consequences of certain weapons helped drive an international rethinking of permissible conduct in war. As a concrete outcome of this rethinking, the Geneva Protocol is highlighted as a landmark agreement signed in 1925. The protocol prohibited chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons, marking a formal restriction on what could be employed in warfare. The speaker frames this as a key moment in history because it represented a collective commitment to limiting the means of war in order to protect human rights, even while hostilities were ongoing. The underlying message conveyed is that there are defined lines in war—certain weapons or methods that should not be crossed regardless of military objectives. The Geneva Protocol is presented as an institutional embodiment of that principle, signaling that even in the midst of conflict, there is recognition of fundamental human rights and a willingness to place restrictions on how warfare is conducted. In summary, the speaker highlights a historical arc from the wartime horrors of World War I to a postwar commitment to moral constraints in warfare. The devastating impact of chemical weapons prompted international action, culminating in the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibited chemical and bacteriological weapons and asserted that human rights should be protected even during armed conflict. The emphasis remains on the idea that certain practices in war are unacceptable and that there are explicit lines that nations agree not to cross.

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With the May 1945 capitulation, Eisenhower controlled over 5,000,000 soldiers. 'the American desk general decided to kill disarmed Germans in peace.' By creating his own prisoner category—'DEFs, disarmed enemy forces'—he circumvented the Geneva Convention, allowing secret deals. Before the war's end, thousands of German POWs died in American captivity from starvation, neglect, and outright murder. After surrender, deaths accelerated: 'tens of thousands died of starvation and thirst,' and 'hundreds of thousands more perished from overcrowding and disease.' The Red Cross tried to intercede, but trains with supplies were turned back; camp commanders cited 'Forget the convention, You haven't any rights.' No fewer than 800,000 German prisoners died in the American and French death camps; estimates place the toll at upwards of 1,500,000. Thus in peace did Eisenhower murder at least 10 times the number of German soldiers than were killed on the whole Western Front during the whole of the war.

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The speaker discusses Adolf Hitler and poison gases, noting that Hitler possessed two nerve gases, Tabun and Sarin, against which none of the Allies had any defense. Despite this, Hitler ordered that these poison gases not be used because Germany had signed the Geneva Convention. The speaker asserts there are contradictions here that historians should have investigated, claiming to have spent thirty years in archives and even offering rewards for any evidence, yet suggesting that if such evidence exists, others would have found it. The argument pivots to the expectation of traceable chain-of-command documentation. The speaker points out the many people involved in the process—from the individual writing the teletype message on one end to the recipient at the other end, with twenty copies at each end—and argues that even if official files were destroyed, someone would have written home or kept a diary. The speaker asserts that such evidence should be in the records because Hitler’s other crimes are documented in various forms. Specific documented crimes and orders attributed to Hitler are listed: - Euthanasia: an actual order with Hitler’s signature, issued sometime in 1940 but backdated to the first day of the war, with Hitler’s euthanasia order in the files with the Signicharlotter. - The order to kill the Russian commissars after the campaign in Russia began, with those commissars described as political officers attached to the Russian armed forces; the order is documented in the military files of the day. - The order to kill British commandos, noted as a particularly sore point for Canadians, with Hitler’s order from October 1942 in the files, described as a criminal order and adequately documented. - The order to kill the male population of Stalingrad after capturing the city, recorded in the private diary of General Helder (Haldbr). - The order to Linzalla Airmen in May 1944, also attributed to Hitler, and documented. The speaker then raises an interesting question about Hitler’s character: how could he unhesitatingly issue orders that are crimes under international law, such as the order to kill prisoners, while at the same time ordering that poison gas not be used to avoid violating the Geneva Convention? The speaker notes that poison gas could have potentially changed the course of the war—specifically, around the Normandy Beachhead in July 1944, when it was established and near breakout—arguing that use of nerve gases against which Allied troops had no gas masks could have wiped out the entire Normandy Beachhead. The speaker contends that Hitler could have won the war by pulling out the Panzer divisions and redeploying them to the Eastern Front, potentially mopping up the Eastern Front in two to three months, but He did not.
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