Censorship of foreign reporters in Britain and France, compared to Germany (1940)

This report of 28 February 1940 begins by discussing the fact that Britain and France censored news for domestic consumption, then compares the treatment of foreign correspondents by Britain, France, and other countries, including Germany:

Newspapers and the people in France and Britain complain of the lack of fully truthful news and now the censors' own governments criticize the blue-pencil men both for what is published and what is withheld.

In Britain, there has been a series of public complaints which the government is trying to obviate by changing censors. Newspapers so far have failed to record improvement.

Foreign correspondents, especially those sending news to the United States, still suffer from delays, mistakes, and arbitrary decisions of censors.

Here is what the various countries are doing to control news:

Germany -- no censorship on established correspondents such as those of the Associated Press. Correspondents are responsible for the truth and impartiality of the news they send.

Britain and France -- all news is censored whether sent by telephone, cable, wireless, or mail. [AP, 28 February 1940 (excerpt)]

In practice, what the German policy meant was that, unlike Britain and France, Germany would not attempt to micro-manage reporting, but reserved the option of expelling a correspondent. 

Other governments also expelled foreign correspondents at times. For example, in 1937 the British government expelled three German correspondents. Thereupon Germany retaliated by asking that the Times of London replace its correspondent Norman Ebbutt. (The Age, 11 August 1937)

Evidence that English Wikipedia is Crooked

Freddie Brocksieper: Half-Jew Jazz-Musician from the Third Reich

Freddie Brocksieper drummed with Charlie and his Orchestra,
 a swing-band commissioned by Joseph Goebbels
 to broadcast musical propaganda to the Allies.

 

What follows is a translation from German Wikipedia of an article about jazz drummer Freddie Brocksieper:

Fritz "Freddie" Brocksieper (24 August 1912 in Istanbul, Turkey - 17 January 1990) was a German jazz-musician, drummer, and band-leader.

From 1930 he played professionally in Nuremberg. In 1939 he went to Berlin. There he made recordings with the Golden Seven (1939), with Benny de Weille (1940), and Willy Berking (1940-1941), and also in the National-Socialist propaganda big-band Charlie and his Orchestra. His style on the drums was influenced above all by Gene Krupa.

The son of a Greek-speaking Jewish woman and a German engineer was able to survive National-Socialism as an indispensable swing musician. Freddie Brocksieper is considered a key figure of early European big-band jazz. After the Second World War he led various bands in Stuttgart, Munich, and Berlin, and played also in American officers' clubs. With his bands he made the front-page of Stars and Stripes. From 1957  he regularly broadcast live concerts from his studio in Munich.

From 1964 he played chiefly in trios and often with American soloists in Europe. In 1980 he received the German Record Prize (der Deutsche Schallplattenpreis).[German Wikipedia]

The article contains some important facts. It reveals, contrary to some claims, that jazz was tolerated in National-Socialist Germany, and it shows that a Jew (according to Jewish standards, but a Mischling under the Nuremberg Laws) could have a nice career under Hitler's rule -- without ever being gassed or otherwise mistreated! The details of Freddie Brocksieper's career are very inconvenient for the perpetuation of the traditional Anglo-American and Jewish propaganda about National-Socialist Germany.

That is why I translated the article from German Wikipedia and posted it on English Wikipedia some time ago. 

Well, what happened? Apparently, a little less than a year ago, this article caught the attention of somebody who felt that it was not good to let  Anglophones read such information. The article was not merely edited -- since that would have left evidence of suppressed information -- but was removed, and replaced by a new article that entirely omits reference to Brocksieper's Jewish ancestry and his career under Hitler's rule.

 

The article on German Wikipedia does have the deficiency that its information is not sourced. But there is plenty of information on English Wikipedia as well that is not sourced. The normal procedure on Wikipedia, if somebody thinks that a claim in an article might not be true, is to insert a note, "citation needed," then to wait for someone to find the necessary documentation, then to modify the article accordingly, not simply to delete the article. My translation should not have been deleted. The crucial points, that Brocksieper had a Jewish mother¹, and earned his living playing jazz and swing in National-Socialist Germany², are easily documented with credible online sources.

If you don't know German and you have doubts as to whether I have accurately represented what the original German article says, I invite you to view the original German article through an automatic online translator; then compare it to the current, much smaller English version that now appears in place of my translation.

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1. Phil Daoust, "Swingtime for Hitler," The Guardian 27 October 2004: "Who could be a jazz musician Nazi?" said drummer Fritz Brocksieper, whose grandmother was Jewish.
2. F. Steinbiss and D. Eisermann, "Wir haben damals die beste Musik gemacht," Der Spiegel 18 April 1988: Hinter der Phantom-Band "Charlie And His Orchestra" standen der Bandleader Lutz Templin, der Jazz-Sänger Karl "Charlie" Schwedler und eine Besetzung, der in den letzten Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Elite der europäischen Swingmusik angehörte - aus Italien der Trompeter Nino Impallomeni und der bedeutende Jazzpianist Primo Angeli, aus Belgien der Klarinettist Benny de Weille und der Posaunist Josse Breyre, außerdem der Meistergitarrist Meg Tevelian und aus Deutschland der Posaunist Willy Berking, der Tenorsaxophonist Eugen Henkel und der Schlagzeuger Fritz Brocksieper.

Leo Frank, Jewish Murderer

In April 1913 Leo Max Frank, the superintendant of a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia, murdered a 13-year-old White female employee who spurned his sexual advances. In August 1913, after what was then the longest trial in Georgia history, Frank was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

When the outgoing Governor of Georgia, John Slaton, then commuted Frank's sentence amid accusations that he had been bought, a group of respected citizens that included a former governor, the son of a senator, a Methodist minister, a state legislator, and a former state Superior Court judge, went to the prison where Frank was held, took him away, pronounced sentence, and hanged him. By this lynching, it was felt, the rich man who had murdered a poor girl was prevented from using his wealth and influence to escape  justice.

Organized Jewry has always tried to obfuscate Frank's guilt. There are two arguments that are used to this end.

First, there is the claim that Leo Frank was prosecuted and convicted because of anti-Semitism. This claim was rejected by credible prominent Georgians at the time.

Governor John Slaton was asked by the New York Times, in the period after the commutation but before the lynching,  about whether hostility toward Jews had been a factor in the prosecution of Frank. Contrary to what is commonly asserted today, his response was in the negative:

No Race Prejudice.

“Do you think the question of race prejudice had anything to do with the case against Frank?

“No. You will find prejudice against foreigners on the part of some people in Georgia just as you will find the same thing in New England, here in New York, or anywhere else. Georgia is as human as any state in the Union.”

“Is there any prejudice against Jews in Georgia as a result of the Frank case?”

“I answer that question by pointing to the fact that one of the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia under Oglethorpe was Minas, a Jew, whose descendants to this day are among the best and most highly respected of Georgians. The head of the Education Board in Atlanta is a Jew, and so is the Vice President of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. My own law-partner, Mr. Phillips, is a Jew. Some of the best of Georgians are Jews.” [New York Times, 30 June 1915]

Although Slaton dodges the question about whether anti-Jewish feeling had developed in Georgia as a result of the Frank case, he indicates that there had not been much hostility toward Jews in Georgia prior to the Frank case, and that the prosecution was therefore unlikely to have been motivated by hostility toward Jews.

In fact some antipathy toward Jews had developed in Georgia as a result of events relating to the Frank case, but the hostility toward Slaton himself, for his actions on behalf of organized Jewry, seems to have been greater. At a public demonstration in Marietta, Slaton was called "King of the Jews" for commuting Frank's sentence. 

On 20 August 1915, three days after Frank was lynched, the New York Times carried comments from Slaton's successor as Governor of Georgia, Nathaniel Harris, who said that the feeling toward Jews in Georgia had been thoroughly positive -- until  it became apparent, in the case of Leo Frank, that organized Jewry was attempting to save a Jewish criminal from righteous punishment simply because he was a Jew. The correspondent said to Governor Harris that Georgia had “shocked the Union” and he responded:

“I know it,” said the Governor. “This awful horror hurts the State. But I don't think the North has had the right idea about the feeling against this dead man. It was not for the reasons that have been given for it. It was not because he was a Jew; there never was any anti-Jewish feeling in Georgia until now. It was because, in the first place, there is something that unbalances men. Here in the South where women are concerned. I won't call it chivalry, or call it anything' it is, if you like, something that destroys a man's ability and even willingness to do cold and exact justice. I have been a lawyer for over forty years, and have had many cases in the courts, and I have found that where a woman is the plaintiff she will get twice the damages a man would who had the same case.

“That is the way it is in the South; it cannot be argued against, and must be accepted as a fact. If a woman is the victim of a crime, a fury seizes upon our men.

[…]

“Now, that was the first thing. But there was another thing that roused bitterness against Frank, and it was outside interference. From all over the Union there came an attempt to govern Georgia's action. Detectives were sent here, petitions circulated, resolutions passed, attacks made upon the State. Whether it should have aroused resentment may be a question, but that it did there is no question whatever.

“These are two things that in the first place created anger against Frank.”

“Not among the ignorant classes, surely,” said the correspondent. “They don't read papers from other States.”

“But they learned what those papers were saying,” answered the Governor. “What was said outside of the State was commented on by the papers here, and Tom Watson in his weekly published parts of the original criticisms; whether correctly quoted or not, I do not know. All classes in Georgia knew what was being said and done, and knew of the organized efforts to set Frank free, and every one of these efforts deepened the feeling against him.”

“You said a while ago that there had never been any anti-Jewish feeling in the State until now,” said the correspondent. “Is there now?”

“I am afraid there is,” said the Governor reluctantly. “But I hope it is only a flurry and will pass away. It is among the more thoughtless of our people. There has never been an atom, never a trace or a thought of it. The Jews have always been our friends; we have here the best class of Jews. For a man to be known as a Jew was actually an asset to him in a business way. But among the thoughtless elements there has grown up – temporarily, I hope – a feeling that the Jews banded themselves together as a race or a religion to save a criminal, and out of that has grown a feeling of hostility. [New York Times, 20 August 1915]

The second argument is based on the affidavit given 69 years after the crime by Alonzo Mann. Tom Watson Brown, a prominent Georgia attorney who graduated from Harvard Law School, has shredded the claim that Mann's affidavit proves anything of significance:

The affidavit produced in March of 1982 by 83-year old Alonzo M. Mann truly beggars belief.

Mann was an office boy working in Leo Frank's second-floor office at the time of the murder and was called as a defense witness during Frank's murder trial. Mann testified at that trial that he worked with Frank in the latter's office during the morning of the April 26, 1913 murder and left the office at 11:30 a.m. He also testified as to his belief in Frank's good character. [...]

Of course, Mann's affidavit does not rise to the dignity of the trial testimony of Jim Conley which it is apparently intended to challenge. Conley testified under oath, pursuant to examination by the prosecution attorneys and was vigorously cross-examined for some three days by the very capable lead attorneys for Frank's defense team. Trial observers and counsel for both prosecution and defense agreed that Conley' s testimony had not been broken by the cross-examination. It was a critical element, among many, in corroborating the circumstantial evidence and other evidence leading to Frank's conviction.

Among the questions which are raised by Mann's affidavit [of 1982] are:

Why has he come forward only at this late date? He was interviewed in 1913 by the Atlanta police investigating the crime and by defense counsel for Frank. If he had any information to shed on the crime such as he now purports to set forth in his affidavit, would it not have been extracted by skilled interrogators from a fourteen-year old boy? Would he not have volunteered it at that time?

Mann's assertion that he was afraid of Conley and Conley's purported threat to kill him if he revealed what he saw that day hardly merits belief. Conley was arrested on the Tuesday after the crime (despite Frank' s efforts to shield him) and remained in jail from that day throughout the trial and for a year after his own conviction for being an accomplice-after-the-fact in Mary Phagan's murder, leaving Mann in complete safety. In addition, Conley died in 1962, a fact which must have been known to Mann; hence, why his silence for the following twenty years?

Likewise, Mann's assertion that his mother's admonition to say nothing about what he had seen seems most unlikely to be followed by any fourteen-year old youth with the slightest semblance of conscience. Concealing evidence in a murder trial is, of course, a crime in itself. Mann purported to have a regard for Frank and after Frank's conviction, if not before, surely he would have come forward with whatever favorable evidence he had.

In addition, Atlanta was covered by agents and operatives on behalf of Frank's defense before, during and for many months after the trial seeking out any scrap of information pertaining to the crime and Frank's conviction. Large sums of money were expended in this process, rewards were offered, and promises made.

Again, it cannot be believed that Mann would not have come forward during these well publicized searches.

Mann asserts that he saw Conley on the first floor of the building between the elevator shaft and the trap door to the basement, carrying a female body. Mann places himself between Conley and the front door which afforded him a ready way of escape. Mann knew that Frank was (or should have been) upstairs in the second floor office at the time; he also knew workmen were in the building on the upper floors — all affording ready means of assistance to him and to the victim. In addition, the streets outside the factory were teeming with the thousands of people who had assembled to watch the Confederate Memorial Day Parade which Mary Phagan had herself intended to observe. Mann had only to retrace his few steps to the front door and sound the alarm to produce numbers of rescuers who would have been more than eager to mete out punishment to Conley for what was at that time the most heinous offense in Georgia moral structure, the rape and murder of a White girl by a Black male. Could any fourteen-year old boy in the Atlanta of 1913 be so craven or frightened as to not, even if he did not seek to help the victim personally, cry out for assistance from any of these sources? To pose the question is to answer it.

In short, Mann's affidavit lacks credibility.

Perhaps of greater significance is that Mann's recitation of the scene that he saw, i.e., Jim Conley carrying the body of a girl towards the trap door leading to the basement, is not inconsistent with the prosecution's case on which Frank's conviction was based, i.e., that Frank waited for Mary Phagan to appear in his office for her pay, lured her into the metal room, assaulted her there, struck and killed her when she resisted his advances and, subsequently, called for Conley to come to the second floor, collect the body and remove it to the basement for incineration or later removal. If the scene that Mann now asserts took place, it varies from the prosecution's case so insignificantly as to be not worthy of any motion to this Board for a new review of Frank's case, much less a "posthumous pardon.” In particular, it does not explain away all those other factors which pointed to Frank's guilt. [Tom Watson Brown, Notes on the Case of Leo Max Frank and its Aftermath(1982)]

If there was no particular hostility toward Jews in Georgia prior to the prosecution of Leo Frank for murder, and if Alonzo Mann's affidavit changes nothing, then there is no sound basis for continuing to claim, as organized Jewry has been wont to do, that Leo Frank was an innocent victim of anti-Semitism.

Listen to Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott discuss the case.

Hitler's Peace-Offer before Conquering France

From John T. Whitaker, The Pittsburgh Press, 26 February 1940:

Hitler has suggested ... that a small Polish state might be reconstructed and that "home rule" might be extended to Bohemian Czechs if, as the British and French say, they are fighting only because of these aggressions in Central Europe. 

No change in Austria is proposed and Hitler insists, it is added, that some gesture must be made toward the return of Germany's former colonies. 

[...]

If this is Hitler's basis for peace, Mr. [Sumner] Welles will waste his time, observers believe, if he tried to commend it to the British and French governments, which feel that they are winning the war.... [Source]

Although in the second and (unfinished) third books of Mein Kampf  he treats the possession of overseas colonies as a less-than-ideal way for Germany to provide her own sustenance, by the late 1930s Adolf Hitler was demanding the return of the German colonies that had been taken away under the Treaty of Versailles. The return of those colonies was an alternative to territorial expansion in Europe as a solution to Germany's need for farmland.

There was no good reason for Hitler to offer to reverse the unification of Germany with Austria, nor to give back the Sudetenland or all of the Polish state as it had existed prior to September 1939, since traditional German lands, populated primarily by Germans, were involved. The Germans in those territories were happy to be united with Germany. The pretense of Allied propaganda that Austria had become Germany's victim was particularly ridiculous. Furthermore, there were considerations of military defensibility that made it inadvisable to give complete independence to the Czechs and Poles, given the likelihood of someday being attacked from that direction by the Soviet Union. Home rule for the Czechs and a reduced Polish state (commensurate with the Polish population) under German hegemony were reasonable offers.

 The Allies on the other hand, with pressure behind the scenes from President Franklin Roosevelt and Jewish International Finance*, seemed to be bent on war (which would be very lucrative for money-lenders and American industries).

The war at this stage consisted primarily of an attempt to starve Germany through a blockade. Instead of negotiating for peace, about five weeks later the Allies attempted to augment their blockade by occupying Norway, only to be beaten to the punch by Germany.
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* See The Forrestal Diaries, p. 122, entry dated 27 December 1945: Played golf today with Joe Kennedy.  I asked him about his conversations with Roosevelt and Neville Chamberlain from 1938 on.  He said Chamberlain’s position in 1938 was that England had nothing with which to fight and that she could not risk going to war with Hitler.  Kennedy’s view :  That Hitler would have fought Russia without any later conflict with England if it had not been for Bullitt’s urging on Roosevelt in the summer of 1939 that the Germans must be faced down about Poland ;  neither the French nor the British would have made Poland a cause of war if it had not been for the constant needling from Washington.  Bullitt, he said, kept telling Roosevelt that the Germans wouldn’t fight, Kennedy that they would, and that they would overrun Europe.  Chamberlain, he says, stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war.  In his telephone conversation with Roosevelt in the summer of 1939 the President kept telling him to put some iron up Chamberlain’s backside.

Unbiased Appraisal of Hitler's Art

From the Jewish Daily Forward:

After reading Frederic Spotts’s Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics as a Yeshiva University undergraduate, I conducted an experiment. I approached passersby on Amsterdam Avenue and showed them Hitler’s paintings, covering up the information below each work. My classmates praised the “Impressionistic” palette and the “realism” of the landscapes. When I exposed the artist credits, they were horrified. Nothing had changed about the quality of the art, but the idea of praising anything about such an evil man was understandably anathema.

- Menachem Wecker, "Can Charles Krafft be Defended?",

The Jewish Daily Forward, 5 March 2013

Fake Hitler Quote about Slavery

This fake quote appears in the third installment of the U.S. Army's Why We Fight series, titled "Divide and Conquer." It appears, bizarrely enough, in the context of a description of how the French were treated following the armistice in 1940. The French were certainly not enslaved; the peace-conditions that Hitler gave the French were in fact rather generous: they were allowed to retain colonies and some of their army and their navy, and to remain neutral in the war. 

Mein Kampf is sometimes alleged as the source, but in fact it is slightly modified from the usual source of fake Hitler quotes, the utterly discredited Hermann Rauschning:

"There will be a Herren-class, he said, "an historical class tempered by battle, and welded from the most varied elements. There will be a great hierarchy of party members. They will be the new middle class. And there will be the great mass of the anonymous, the serving collective, the eternally disfranchised, no matter whether they were once members of the old bourgeoisie, the big land-owning class, the working class, or the artisans. Nor will their financial or previous social position be of the slightest importance. These preposterous differences will have been liquidated in a single revolutionary process. But beneath them there will still be the class of subject alien races; we need not hesitate to call them the modern slave class. And over all of these will stand the new high aristocracy, the most deserving and the most responsible Führer-personalities. [Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks, pp.50-51]

The fact that the statement comes from Rauschning already means that it is spurious. But let us look at how even Rauschning's false testimony underwent further distortion by a Hollywood screenwriter.

The omission of still in the propaganda film is significant. While the statement in the film is presented in reference to the treatment of the French after their defeat in 1940, there is no indication of this in Rauschning. On the contrary, in Rauschning the statement seems to be about a class of subject alien races that already existed, such as Indians and Black Africans. Elsewhere in The Voice of Destruction, Rauschning portrays Hitler as saying that Germany would take over the colonies of other European powers. Since it would have made no sense to refer to the French as belonging to some pre-existing class of "subject alien races,"  the word "still" had to be cut out. 

Furthermore, as the fictional speech continues, Rauschning represents Hitler as saying:

"Certainly we shall admit to our new ruling class members of other nations who have been worthy in our cause. On this point I entirely agree with Darré and Himmler. The racial and biological aspect is only one side of the total process. In fact, we shall very soon have overstepped the bounds of the narrow nationalism of today. My party comrades, it is true that world empires arise on a national basis, but very quickly they leave it far behind."

Evidently that new aristocracy would include some French people, since a leading National-Socialist with a French name is mentioned.

The meaning that Rauschning attributed to Hitler, that Blacks for example were a "subject alien race" and de facto slaves, would not have seemed nearly so shocking  to an American audience of the 1940s as the same idea applied to the White people of France. At that time there were still considerable numbers of people that could remember when de jure slavery existed.

Thus the statement from Rauschning, already a falsification, was deprived of its original context and altered to make it consistent with the purport of Why We Fight that Hitler treated the French as slaves.

Why Reparations are paid to the Jewish State

The USA strong-armed Konrad Adenauer into having Germany pay reparations to the State of Israel. Adenauer lied about it in his memoirs and Helmut Kohl's government perpetuated secrecy around the fact, but now it is revealed.

Eisenhower and Adenauer, 1952

In the Luxembourg Agreement of 10 September 1952, the First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, promised reparations to the State of Israel in spite of widespread opposition among Germans, even within Adenauer's own cabinet. Finance-minister Fritz Schaffer considered the Jewish demands excessive, while justice-minister Thomas Dehler opposed reparations to the Jewish State entirely. An opinion-poll showed that 44% of the Federal Republic's citizens regarded reparations to the Jewish State as entirely "superfluous."*

Translated from the current issue of Der Spiegel:

The chancellor however pursued the reparations-project with determination. In his memoirs accordingly he also named the reason for the decisive action: the agreement with Israel was based "on a compelling moral obligation," he wrote, and was therefore "something other than an ordinary contract between two states." "There is something higher than good business."

But when the federal government under chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) considered publishing the transcripts of Adenauer's cabinet-meetings after expiration of the period of secrecy in 1982, it decided not to do so, as revealed in records now published by the Foreign Office. It turned out that the documents stood "in clear contradiction" to the ex-chancellor's memoirs, which was noted by a high official of the Foreign Office on 17 December 1982: Adenauer was apparently only "ready to negotiate reparations because of pressure from the USA."***
[Felix Bohr, "Wiedergutmachung für Israel: Was Adenauer verschwieg", Der Spiegel18 March 2013 - translated by Hadding Scott]

On 17 June 1952 Adenauer told his cabinet that a failure to accommodate the Jewish State would "provoke the most serious political and economic dangers for the Federal Republic" in its relations with the United States.

Adenauer agreed that the Federal Republic would pay $3 billion in reparations over the course of the next 14 years, constituting a very large part of the Israeli government's revenue during that period. This however was only the beginning. Especially since the 1990s, after the intensification of Holocaust propaganda from Jewish-controlled mass-media in the USA, numerous other Jewish demands for reparations have followed. It is likely that all payments to Jews based on alleged wrongs committed during the Second World War are fundamentally due to pressure from the heavily Jew-influenced government of the United States.

Listen to Dr. William Pierce on the endless "reparations" to Jews here.

It is a good sign that Germany is now ready to reveal and discuss the circumstances whereby the United States forced her to pay reparations to the State of Israel. It casts an unflattering light on both the United States and the Jewish State, and ultimately suggests questions about the alleged grievances of the Jews on which those reparations are based, questions which should have been asked long ago. 

The sharp decline of the prestige and influence of the United States since 2001, and the already darkened reputation of the State of Israel, have facilitated this new candor, which is allowing Germany to become Germany again.
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* "überflüssig"
** The quote in Der Spiegel is: "aufgrund des Drucks der USA zu den Wiedergutmachungshandlungen bereit". 
***  Der "ergebnislose Abbruch von Verhandlungen mit Israel würde die schwersten politischen und wirtschaftspolitischen Gefahren für die Bundesrepublik heraufbeschwören"