Before I bring you Part III of "The Martyrdom of William Joyce", a bit of good news about "The Holocaust Industry" by Dr. Norman Finkelstein.
It is #3 on the Switzerland bestseller list, # 5 in Austria, # 15 in Canada and # 19 in Egypt. I briefly visited the Amazon website, www.amazon.com - and found the information there extremely noteworthy, including the similar titles such as Kevin McDonald's books, the Tim Cole book etc. that are also being bought. If someone can dig up the American stats, I would be much obliged.
I predict that when the German translation comes out next year, convulsive changes will happen on the German political scene. There are already plenty of rumblings - but the generation most acutely aware of the financial rape that has occurred for decades in their country do not speak English fluently enough to truly see the political potential of the Finkelstein exposé.
It's good to see this happen in the infant years of our new millennium!
Now to Part III of the poignant William Joyce story:
ENGLAND, FIGHTING TO THE LAST FRENCHMAN . . .
In this broadcast, Joyce commented on the hypocrisy of England's government "fighting to the last Frenchman (Pole, Belgian, Norwegian . . . making promises it couldn't keep." Ironically, the (explanations) as Joyce presented them are more in accordance with the facts than those presented by the subsequent British explanation of events.
England's pact with Poland, its reason for declaring war on Germany, was later found to be illegal. Furthermore the British government's promise of direct aid to Poland, 9,500 planes for instance, came to nothing - as did other promises. (Likewise promises made to Norway - whose neutrality was to be desecrated by British invasion.)
By now the German government had documents setting out the most fulsome English promises of assistance to Holland and Belgium if their territories could be used to launch attacks on Germany. These promises were subsequently found to be similarly false.
Joyce spoke passionately of the French British Expeditionary Force's "Dunkirk debacle": "What was England's contribution? An expeditionary force which carried out a glorious retreat, leaving all its equipment and arms behind, a force whose survivors arrived back in England, as the Times admitted, 'practically naked'.
"Whatever excuses may be found for their plight, the men who made the war were reduced to boasting of a precipitous and disastrous retreat as the most glorious achievement in history. Such a claim could only besmirch the proud regimental standards inscribed with the real victories of two centuries. What the politicians regarded, or professed to regard, as a triumph, the soldiers regarded as a bloody defeat from which they were extremely fortunate enough to survive."
"DROPPING BOMBS ON FIELDS AND GRAVEYARDS"
(Joyce continued):
"The next test of Britain's might was the Battle of France. All the professions of brotherly love and platonic adoration which Churchill had poured forth to the French politicians resolved themselves into ten divisions, as compared with eighty five divisions which had been in France at the height of her struggle in the last war.
"As the world knows, the effect was nil, and when Reynaud telegraphed madly night and day for aircraft he was granted nothing but evasive replies. The glorious RAF was too busy dropping bombs on fields and graveyards in Germany to have any time available for France. But after the final drama of Compiegne and the defeat and the utter collapse of the French, the heroic might of the British lion suddenly showed itself at Oran.
"That inspired military genius, Winston Churchill, discovered that it was easier to bomb French ships, especially when they were not under steam, than to save the Weygand line. If it was so hard to kill Germans, why not, he reasoned, demonstrate Britain's might by killing Frenchmen instead? They were beaten and would be less likely to resent it."
Joyce in this first broadcast went on to scorn Churchill's "cowardly" response to Germany's success in fighting back.
"Churchill, the genius, has his answer ready. What is it? First, Germany's ambulance planes are to be attacked wherever seen. They can easily be identified by the Red Cross that they bear, and they are unarmed, so the great brain conceives another possibility of victory. The fact that these planes have saved many British lives weighs as nothing in comparison with the triumph that can be achieved by shooting them down."
ENGLAND,S BOMBING CAMPAIGN "ILLEGAL AND COWARDLY"
(Joyce continued)
"The second part of the answer is to be found in the instructions issued to British bombers flying over Germany. In reply to the charge that these machines were dropping bombs on entirely non-military places, Mr. Churchill, with another flash of genius, replies, "Of course. The planes have to fly so high that the targets cannot be distinguished!" . . . Otherwise, the Germans would shoot them down. In consequence of this instruction, harmless civilians have been murdered at Hanover and in other towns.
"The British Prime Minister has abandoned all pretence that these bombing operations have military objectives. The principle is, 'Drop the bombs wherever you can, without being seen, and what they hit, they hit.'
"It is unnecessary to say that a terrible retribution will come to the people who tolerate as their Prime Minister the cowardly murderer who issues these instructions. Sufficient warnings have already been given."
J.M Spaight., CB. CBE. Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry afterwards admitted Churchill's role in flouting international law by bombing civilians. "Hitler only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly three months after the RAF had commenced bombing German civilian targets. Hitler would have been willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones." (7)
In a later broadcast on the 4th January 1944 the thirty-seven year old William Joyce asked: "How can the ordinary British soldier or sailor understand why he should be expected to die in 1939 or 1940 or 1941 to restore an independent Poland on the old scale, whilst today he must die in order that the Soviets rule Europe? Surely it must occur to him that he is the victim of false pretences?"
BRITONS DYING FOR STALIN AND ROOSEVELT
Speaking on the 17th April 1944, Joyce said: "There are today hundreds of thousands of British soldiers who will cease to live during the attempt to invade Western Europe. They are prepared to sacrifice their lives, but for what? For their country? Demonstrably not! Britain has only the stark prospect of poverty before her.
For the rights of small nations?
Certainly not. What British politician wants to hear of Poland today? For what, then, are these men to die? They are to die for the Jewish policy of Stalin and Roosevelt. If there is any other purpose to their sacrifice, I challenge Mr. Churchill to tell them what it is."
Perhaps it was the accuracy of Joyce's analysis of events that would later place his head in the vengeful British noose.
EXTRACTS : VIEWS ON THE NEWS - JOYCE'S LAST BROADCAST. HAMBURG, 30th APRIL 1945
(Note - first few words missed) " . . . that the German resistance continues despite the successes which the Allies have gained during the past few days. Germany is sorely wounded but her spirit is not broken. Her people are conscious of their duty and of their nation. In this hour of supreme trial, they seem to understand the European position with a clarity which is, unfortunately, denied to the people of Britain, and they realize that the great alternative lies between civilization and Bolshevisation.
"That is the dominant truth, in comparison with which other considerations have to take second rank or such lesser place as they merit.
"How modest, how harmless does Germany's request for the return of Danzig seem in contrast to the immense acquisitions of the Soviet Union and the further ambitions of the Kremlin.
"Stalin is not content with Poland, Finland, and the Baltic States, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Eastern Slovakia. He wants the whole of Central Europe, with Norway, Turkey and Persia thrown in. And if these territories fall to him, the lust for aggrandizement will only be stimulated further. He sees now the Bolshevik dream of a world proletarian revolution changing into a substantial prospect of bachelor (?) politics.
"Such is the attitude of the Red Dictator who menaces the security of the whole world, and whose power today constitutes the greatest threat to peace that has existed in modern times.
"Britain's victories are barren; they leave her poor; and they leave her people hungry; they leave her bereft of the markets and the wealth that she possessed six years ago. But above all, they leave her with an immensely greater problem than she had then. We are nearing the end of one phase of Europe's history, but the next will be no happier. It will be grimmer, harder, and perhaps bloodier. And now I ask you earnestly, can Britain survive? I am profoundly convinced that without German help she cannot."
(Editor's note. Ironically the major talking point in England today is how it is being dragged into Europe and is increasingly subordinate to Germany - on Germany's terms).
Part of the blackening of Joyce's character is the claim that his speeches were universally ridiculed. In fact, his broadcasts were widely listened to in Britain and far from everyone found them as laughable as was claimed by the newspapers of the time.
His biographer, J.A Cole describes an event at which two visitors were having afternoon tea with David Lloyd George.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE IMPRESSED BY JOYCE
The statesman interrupted the conversation to switch on the radio so that the Hamburg service could be listened to. The former prime minister listened attentively, and once he remarked: "The Government ought to take notice of every word this man says."
Life magazine accorded Germany the lead in the radio war. The influential American magazine calculated, probably correctly, that 50% of the English listened to Joyce's broadcasts from Hamburg. The BBC disagreed, but it would.
The manager of the East Riding Radio Relay Service complained, "We are inundated with requests for Lord Haw-Haw broadcasts which we are not allowed to give."
As the war drew to a close, several attempts were made to save Joyce and his wife from English vengeance, but they came to naught. Dr. Joseph Goebbels, before his death, enquired whether a submarine could be used to take the fugitives to Galway in neutral Ireland. Though not dismissed out of hand it was impractical and the idea was not pursued. A further plan to allow escape to Sweden was blocked by the Swedes, but at that late stage an escape was unlikely to succeed anyway. Denmark was in a state of near chaos and Communist bands roamed, a law unto themselves.
In fact Joyce was not inclined to either run or to take his own life, preferring to allow fate to deal with him as it might. The couple ended their days in defeated Germany much as they had begun; as wandering victims of events. (...)
Tomorrow: Conclusion - "There is a green hill far away..."
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Thought for the Day:
"Why is more foolish - a child afraid of the dark, or a man afraid of the light?"
(Maurice Freehill)