Wannsee Conference in 100 Facts

[RolandVT]

All Jews under German control before the outbreak of Second Great War, to be more precise: 522,000 German Jews, 200,000 Austrian Jews and 150,000 Jews of Sudetenland, Bohemia and Moravia.

All the British government had to do was (1) establish British protectorate in Palestine for the Jews – ten years later Jews got much more, their own state; and (2) allow Jewish immigration to Palestine restricted only by the terms of Haavara Agreement signed on August 25, 1933.

True, it would have been VERY different – but 340,000 lives would have been saved. Unfortunately, just about no one in British government (and very few in general public) cared a rat’s ass – pardon my French – about the Jews. Consequently, 170,000 German Jews, 70,000 Austrian Jews and 100,000 Jews in Bohemia, Moravia and Sudetenland died in the Holocaust.

It is a well-known and a well-established fact that politics makes strange (sometimes very strange) bedfellows; however, the (unofficial) alliance between the Nazis and the Zionists was actually quite natural.

Natural because both had the same strategic objective: make Germany Judenrein. Total ethnic cleansing of Jews in Greater Germany (Germany, Austria and Sudetenland). Zionists wanted all these Jews to emigrate to Palestine – while the Nazis were consent to let them emigrate… anywhere.

Hence, it is no surprise at all that their (unofficial) cooperation resulted in a very creative arrangement: the Haavara (Transfer) Agreement. This agreement was signed on August 25, 1933 after three months of talks by the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the directive of the Jewish Agency) and the Reich Economics Ministry of Germany.

It was a major factor in making possible the migration of approximately 60,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1939 (in other words, in saving 60,000 Jewish lives).

It was, indeed, a transfer of assets owned by Jews in Germany to British Mandatory Palestine… together with the Jews themselves. Under this agreement, blocked German bank accounts of prospective Jewish immigrants would be unblocked and funds from them used to buy German goods; these goods, along with the immigrants, would then go to Palestine.

Goods will be sold – and about 42% of proceeds would go directly to immigrants upon their arrival in the Holy Land. 39% will be invested in Jewish development projects in Palestine and 19% will constitute a commission paid to intermediaries.

Emigrants with capital of £1,000 could move to Palestine outside of severe British restrictions on Jewish immigration under an immigrant investor program similar to the modern United States EB-5 visa.

The agreement provided a substantial export market for German factories to British-ruled Palestine. Between November 1933, and 31 December 1937, 77,800,000 Reichsmarks worth of goods were exported to Jewish businesses in Palestine under the program. By the time the program ended with the start of World War II, the total had risen to 105,000,000 marks.

The Haavara Agreement was thought by many in Nazi Germany as a fast, easy, economically beneficial (for Germany) and humane method of “final solution to the Jewish question”.

Hitler supported the agreement (otherwise it would not have been signed) … however, he was far more interested in using it to make Germany Judenrein than in economic aspects of the plan.

So, the only obstacle to using it to save all Jews in all German-controlled territories prior to the outbreak of World War II was the position of British “democratic” government – not the Nazi government of Germany.

The Haavara Agreement also proves beyond the reasonable doubt that prior to September of 1939, the only method of “final solution to the Jewish question” seriously considered by the Nazis was involuntary emigration… to anywhere. Extermination of Jews was not even mentioned… ever.

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Every country has political police – security service that protects the nation in question from internal and external threats to its political system (spies, terrorists, violent radicals, rebels, etc.).

The USA has FBI; Great Britain has MI-5; present-day Germany has BfV (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) … and the Third Reich had Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei – Secret State Police).

However, Gestapo (officially created on April 26, 1933) was no ordinary political police – it was fundamentally different from all of the above (and from its counterparts in “democratic” countries at the time). Different in two key aspects.

The first key aspect was that all of the above worked reactively – just as any other police force. In other words, it sprang into action only after a political crime has been committed – or a conspiracy to commit one was denounced or discovered (usually by a domestic intelligence service such as Inland-SD in Nazi Germany).

Gestapo worked (or at least tried to work) proactively – preventing the crime from happening or a conspiracy to commit one from ever taking shape. Using its own informers or resources of sister agency (Inland-SD) they discovered dangerous political opponents and (thanks to Reichstag Fire Decree) neutralized them.

Neutralized either by placing them – indefinitely – in preventive custody in one of Nazi concentration camps… or by murdering them (usually in a KL as well). From the modern “democratic” and “liberal” perspective it was (obviously) a highly criminal way to do state security business… however, it actually made sense. Made sense because it prevented harm (sometimes substantial) to the nation in question.

The second fundamental difference is forever associated with RSHA Referat IV B4 and its genuinely diabolical head Adolf Eichmann. Contrary to a popular misconception, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller (one of the attendees of Wannsee Conference) was tasked by his superiors only with supporting Eichmann in the “final solution to the Jewish question” (he played no active role in the Holocaust).

Contrary to another popular misconception, Eichmann played only a limited (although a large-scale) role in the Holocaust. Apart from putting together the Wannsee Conference, he and his Referat IV B4 was responsible for “Jewish affairs and evacuation” in German-occupied Europe

And specifically for the deportation of Jews from outside Poland to concentration or extermination camps (mostly Auschwitz). Within Poland, the liquidation of the ghettos and transport of Jews was handled by the SS and local police departments.

The sub-department was a natural successor to the Central Office for Jewish Emigration which had initially been established by Eichmann in Vienna in August 1938. On 24 January 1939, the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration was established in Berlin by Hermann Göring with Reinhard Heydrich as chief.

It was charged with the task of using all available means to prompt Jews to emigrate, and for establishing a Jewish organization that would incorporate all of German Jewry and co-ordinate emigration from the Jewish side. An office was subsequently opened in Prague.

RSHA IV B4 managed the categorization of Jews, the imposition of anti-Jewish legislation in the country concerned, the eventual removal of Jews from that country, and their deportation to a killing center to the the gas chamber. Unit IV B4 was also in charge of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, which oversaw all Jewish organizations.

Jews were carried to the camps in freight trains that had to be booked and paid for. The Deutsche Reichsbahn charged a one-way fare for the deportees and a return fare for the guards. The RSHA was billed for trains carrying Jews.

Contrary to another widespread misconception, Referat IV B4 was based not in RSHA headquarters, but in the mansion on Kurfürstenstraße 115/116, Berlin. The building was the former club and residential building of the Jewish Brotherhood (no surprise here) and was managed by Eichmann’s adjutant Rudolf Jaenisch.

Consequently, it is obvious that creation of Gestapo became another key step on the Road to Holocaust – and a very heavy in the “stack of slabs” that eight years later triggered the “Holocaust Avalanche” that murdered four million Jews.

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… and became a major step on the Road to Holocaust. And, of course, another very heavy slab in the “stack of slabs” that eight years later triggered the “Holocaust Avalanche” that took four million Jewish lives.

The Night of the Long Knives (Unternehmen Kolibri – Operation Hummingbird), also somewhat incorrectly called the Röhm purge was a mass murder (let’s call a spade a spade) of Hitler’s political opponents that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934 – so it was more than just one night.

Nazi propaganda presented the murders (ordered by Adolf Hitler and urged by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler) as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called Röhm Putsch.

It was – as usual – a blatant lie: no one in he Third Reich at that time (let alone the SA top brass) was planning – or even considering – a coup to depose Adolf Hitler and his regime.

However, the SA in general and its leaders in particular (first and foremost, its Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm) did become an existential threat to Germany – and thus had to be physically eliminated (there was no other choice – given the size and the power of the SA that had over 3,000,000 members in 1934, 30 times more than the German Army).

The SA became an existential threat because they were an insurmountable obstacle to the vital objectives of Adolf Hitler (and to vital needs of Germany at the time). Solving immediate economic problems (such as murderous unemployment); restoring economic, military and political power of Germany (making it a great world power once again); returning territories taken away by Versailles criminals; and eliminating the existential threat of Bolshevism.

More specifically, Röhm and SA in general became such an existential threat because they pressed Hitler for a “second revolution”. They rejected capitalism and they intended to take steps to curb monopolies and promoted the nationalization of land and industry – among other socialist reforms aimed at radical transformation of German society.

Furthermore, Röhm and his SA saw their paramilitary force as the core of the future German Army (he wanted Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defense), and saw themselves as replacing the Reichswehr.

All that would have led to almost instant collapse of German political and economic system (and the military) which would have made it an easy prey for the Communists both inside and outside the country.

Years later, in November 1945, while being interviewed by psychologist Gustave Gilbert in his cell during the Nuremberg trials, Göring angrily justified the killings to Gilbert, “It’s a damn good thing I wiped them out, or they would have wiped us out!”

Not via the coup – but via resistance to absolutely vital reforms and actions.

Obviously, such suicide was out of the question for Hitler and other Nazi leaders and, as there was no legal way to do away with these “revolutionaries” (which had to be done to save Germany) … they took the illegal route.

Röhm and other SA leaders were arrested and unceremoniously shot (mostly in Stadelheim Prison in Munich) … as were other political enemies of Hitler (for good measure). Overall, at least 85 people died during the purge (possibly close to 100).

Leading members of the Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party (revolutionaries ideologically similar to SA), including its leader Gregor Strasser, were also killed, as were establishment conservatives and anti-Nazis, such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Bavarian politician Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had helped suppress Hitler’s Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 (that was pure revenge).

Wanting to present the massacre as legally sanctioned, Hitler had the cabinet approve a measure on July 3 that declared: “The measures taken on June 30, July 1 and 2 to suppress treasonous assaults are legal as acts of self-defense by the State.”

The Night of the Long Knives represented a triumph for Hitler, and a turning point for the German government. It established Hitler as the supreme leader of the German people – and put his word above any written law. Which came very handy during the Holocaust.

The consequences of this mass murder were enormous. It was the first mass murder of a group deemed to be an existential threat to Germany. Which made the next ones (including the Holocaust) so much easier.

The second effect of this event was much more profound. No matter what Hitler believed, internationally this was a mass murder. Period. Which made Hitler’s regime fundamentally criminal – and thus made impossible any military cooperation with Western democracies.

True, Stalin was a criminal – but he made his crimes look legal. Hence, the Western democracies (Britain, France, the USA, etc.) had no other choice but to align themselves with Stalin. Which ultimately killed the Third Reich – and Adolf Hitler.

[RolandVT]

More precisely, not the laws proper, but a supplementary decree issued two months later. This decree was murderous because it defined who was the Jew. If one fit that definition, it meant one way trip to death factory (killing center).

Consequently, this decree (de-facto part of Nuremberg Laws) became a major step on the Road to Holocaust – and a heavy slab in the slab stack that six years later triggered the “Holocaust Avalanche” that killed four million Jews.

The laws got their name because they were enacted (on September 15, 1935), at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

There were two Nuremberg Laws: Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and Reich Citizenship Law. The first one forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households.

The second one declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens. The remainder were defined as state subjects without any citizenship rights. A supplementary decree outlining the definition of who was Jewish was passed on November 14.

The laws were expanded on 26 November 1935 to include Romani and Black people. This supplementary decree defined Romani people as “enemies of the race-based state”, the same category as Jews (which led to the genocide of the former).

Out of foreign policy concerns, enforcement of both Nuremberg laws did not commence until after the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin.

The Nuremberg Laws had a crippling economic and social impact on the Jewish community. Individuals convicted of violating the marriage laws were imprisoned, and upon completing their sentences were re-arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Nazi concentration camps.

Non-Jews gradually stopped socializing with Jews or shopping in Jewish-owned stores, many of which closed due to a lack of customers. As Jews were no longer permitted to work in the civil service or government-regulated professions such as medicine and education, many middle-class business owners and professionals were forced to take menial employment.

Interestingly, antisemitic violence all but ceased after the Nuremberg laws were passed and enacted.

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The Great Terror (Great Purge) conducted by Stalin in 1937-38 had two fundamental objectives: (1) eliminate the remaining political enemies and opponents of Stalin – real or imaginary; and (2) transform just about every Soviet citizen of the USSR of an obedient slave of “Red Emperor” – Joseph Stalin.

The first objective was identical to Hitler’s objective for the Night of the Long Times… only Stalin killed 10,000 times more (1 million versus 100). The second one had everything to do with Stalin’s mentality and the essence of his regime.

Contrary to what the Nazis deeply, passionately (and erroneously) believed, there was nothing Jewish in Stalin’s mentality – or in his regime. In reality, Stalin (who, unlike Hitler, had absolute power in the USSR) was a quintessential Asian despot – the Bolshevist reincarnation of Tamerlane (Timur) – a 14th century ruler of Timurid Empire that he founded. Tamerlane and his totalitarian state (where everyone was an obedient slave of Amir) became role models for Joseph Stalin.

Great Purge de-facto commenced in December of 1934 – right after the murder in Leningrad of Sergei Kirov – the only friend of Stalin. Ironically, it had nothing to do with politics – Kirov was murdered by jealous husband of one of his mistresses.

Great Terror escalated to warp speed in late July of 1937 and continued until November of next year (when things spiraled out of control and Stalin had to stop his Great Purge). The latter decimated (literally) the Bolshevist Party, the Soviet government, the Red Army, security services, etc. killing up to 1.2 million.

Actually, the Great Terror hit Soviet Jews pretty hard – they were ruthlessly purged out of just about all positions of power in the Soviet Union. Proving beyond the reasonable doubt that Stalin’s Soviet Union was anything but Jewish.

However, it also proved beyond the reasonable doubt that the Bolshevist Soviet Union (and its “Red Emperor” personally) were, indeed, existential threats to Germany, Europe and the whole human civilization (Stalin was rightfully expected to treat other nations no better than he treated his own during the Great Purge).

So, Adolf Hitler had no other choice but to radically increase his efforts to build gigantic military-industrial complex of his own. Making sure that it can fight and win the existential war with the Soviet Union… that the Nazis still erroneously considered “Judeo-Bolshevist”.

Consequently, Stalin’s Great Purge became a major step on the Road to Holocaust – and a heavy slab in the slab stack that six years later triggered the “Holocaust Avalanche” that killed four million Jews.

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Contrary to the almost universal misconception, the Nazis were not the first to use gas van (Gaswagen) – a truck-based mobile gas chamber. It was first used by the Nazis in Aktion T4[/color] program (involuntary euthanasia) on January 15, 1940 to murder patients of mental hospitals in Warthegau (administrative district of the Third Reich formed from parts of Polish territory annexed in 1939).

These vans – used as a murder tool in Chelmno death factory – were a major step on the Road to Holocaust – and a heavy slab in the slab stack that six years later triggered the “Holocaust Avalanche” that killed four million Jews.

However, it was invented (by a Jew – of all people) and first used in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge more than two years earlier – in the summer of 1937 (how extensive its usage was needs further investigation).

During the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, NKVD lieutenant Isaj D. Berg (commandant of Butovo shooting range where mass murders took place) used a specially adapted airtight van for gassing prisoners to death.

The prisoners were gassed on the way to Butovo, the former firing range, where the NKVD executed its prisoners and buried them. According to testimony given by NKVD officer Nikolai Kharitonov in 1956 (when NKVD crimes were being investigated), Berg constructed several of gas vans.

Berg was appointed building manager of NKVD department in Moscow region in the summer of 1937. In October 1937 he was charged with the supervision of the Butovo firing range.

Berg had to prepare Butovo for the mass execution of people from greater Moscow and to ensure that these executions would take place smoothly. According to testimony given by Fjodor Tschesnokov, a member of Berg’s execution team, in 1956, trucks were used, which were equipped with valves through which the gas could be directed inside the vehicles. Prisoners were stripped naked, tied up, gagged and packed into the trucks. Their personal property was stolen by NKVD.

Berg (no surprise here) was arrested on August 1938 and sentenced to death for participating in a “counter-revolutionary conspiracy within the NKVD” and executed on March 3, 1939 (using gas van was one of the charges).

The scale at which these trucks were used is unknown. Author Tomas Kizny assumes that they were in use while Berg oversaw the executions (October 1937 to August 1938).

He points to archaeological excavations conducted in 1997. 59 corpses were exhumed who most likely had been murdered during Berg’s tenure. Only four of these victims had been shot in the head, which leads Kizny to conclude that at least some of them had been gassed.

FSB officers Alexander Mikhailov and Mikhail Kirillin, and historian Lydia Golovkova, recounted the testimony of one witness at a mass execution site outside Moscow.

As many as 50 prisoners were loaded into trucks whose exhaust pipes were turned into the trucks, which Muscovites called “soul killers” and which were said to have been invented by Berg. Prisoners were “half dead” when they arrived at the site, where most were subsequently executed.

In the book "KGB: The State Within a State" Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick wrote:

“Due to the shortage of executioners, NKVD used trucks that were camouflaged as bread vans as mobile death chambers. Yes, the very same machinery made notorious by the Nazis – yes, these trucks were originally a Soviet invention, in use years before the ovens of the Auschwitz were built”.

Gas vans were also reportedly used in the cities of Omsk and Ivanovo in the Soviet Union – and in the Crimea. It is possible (albeit highly unlikely) that the Nazis somehow learned about Soviet gas vans (there were lots of Germans in Crimea at that time) and used this knowledge to construct their own gaswagens. However, it is far more likely that they invented this diabolical machinery on their own.

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From the criminology perspective (and that’s the only correct perspective), the Holocaust was a homicide. Serial homicide, to be more precise. Serial mass murder, to be exact. True, it was one of the worst mass murders in human history… but it still was a serial homicide. Hence, not surprisingly, Nazi Holocaust perpetrators had the mentality of serial killers.

And serial killers snap – when a certain critical mass has been accumulated. Critical mass of events (the “slab stack” of “murderous snow”) … or the number of Jews under German control (in Greater Germany, to be more precise).

While Nazis had just over half a million German Jews under their control, they believed that they could make Germany Judenrein (cleansed of Jews) strictly by forced emigration (“deportation lite”).

Actually, Nazis were quite successful in that endeavor – by the end of summer of 1939, 304,000 German Jews left the country semi-voluntarily (via Haavara agreement and other routes). Leaving the Nazis with just over 200,000 of the “undesirable subjects”.

Anschluss of Austria in March of 1938 radically changed the “Jewish question” in Germany: it doubled the number of Jews under Nazi control (to just over 400,000). Worse (for the Jews), it became a radical “game changer”, because it launched the “acquisition process” that after the occupation of Poland increased this number to totally unmanageable during the war 3 million… no wonder the Nazis “snapped”.

In reality, Anschluss of Austria was a far more complex event than it is portrayed in Nazi propaganda. For starters, over 70% favored unification with Germany – so the Anschluss did reflect the will of Austrian people.

Second, to fight and win the (inevitable) genuinely existential war with the Bolshevist Soviet Union, Germany needed Austrian army, industry, economy and manpower. True, it was an emotional “pet project” for Adolf Hitler (born right on the Austro-German border) … but in 1938 it was no longer about emotions. It was about survival – for both Austria and Germany. Cut and dry, plain and simple.

That said, in the long term, voluntary takeover of Austria by Germany made as much sense as unification of USA and Canada – no sense at all. Although Germans and Austrians do speak the same language; their mentality, culture and history are simply way too different for them to be parts of the same state.

So, after the end of Second Great War both nations regained their independence from each other… this time for good (EU membership is a different matter entirely).

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Green light to do whatever he pleases to the Jews in greater Germany (Germany proper + Austria) … or to all Jews under German control, for that matter. Green light because the (in)famous, shameful (disgraceful even) and disgusting Evian Conference proved beyond the reasonable doubt to the whole world that no one cared a rat’s ass (pardon my French) about the Jews… anywhere.

Nazis did care about the opinion outside of its borders so the tacit approval of any Jewish policy they wished to enact (no matter how criminal) became a major step on the Road to Holocaust – and a heavy slab in the “slab stack” that triggered the Holocaust Avalanche and killed four million Jews.

The Évian Conference was quite long: it lasted for ten consecutive days in the middle of July of 1938. It was convened at resort and spa town Évian-les-Bains (hence its name) on the shores of Lake Geneva on the French-Swiss border.

Its objective was (ostensibly) to “address the problem of German and Austrian Jewish refugees wishing to flee persecution in now Greater Germany". The real objective, however, was quite different.

Évian Conference was convened on the initiative of Roosevelt who ostensibly hoped to obtain commitments from some of the invited nations to accept more refugees, although he took pains to avoid stating that objective expressly. In reality, he had no such desire – he only wanted to deflect attention and criticism of his policy that severely limited the number of Jewish refugees admitted to the USA.

The conference was attended by representatives from 32 countries, and 24 charitable organizations attended as observers. Adolf Hitler stated that if other nations agreed to take the Jews, he would help them leave… but no one agreed.

Aside from the Dominican Republic and later Costa Rica, no other country agreed to accept the Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich. The conference thus inadvertently proved to be a useful tool for the Nazi propaganda that stated again and again that no country wants to accept those “filthy Jews”.

Zionists (predictably) were not very helpful either – they publicly stated that “if the conference were to lead to a mass emigration to places other than Palestine, the Zionist leaders were not particularly interested in its work“. Not helpful to the Jews – but very, very helpful to the Nazis.

The sad (and shameful) reality was that if each nation at Evian had agreed on that day to take in 17,000 Jews, every Jew in the Reich could have been saved. But they did not – and over 230,000 German and Austrian Jews were killed.

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Einsatzgruppen (SS Death Squads) played the key role in the “Holocaust by Bullets” – the first (though not the most murderous) phase of Shoah – although Order Police Battalions made a significant contribution as well.

Contrary to a common misconception, Einsatzgruppen (then just Einsatzkommando) were created not in August of 1939 – right before invasion of Poland – but 17 months earlier, right before Anschluss of Austria.

Ad hoc Einsatzkommando was the brainchild of Reinhard Heydrich (then head of SD, Gestapo and SiPo). It was formed by Heydrich as part of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo) to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss and to crush any resistance… of which there was none.

Seven months later, two units of Einsatzgruppen (Einsatzgruppe Dresden and Einsatzgruppe Wien) were stationed in the just-occupied Sudetenland. Their purpose was multifaceted: to occupy newly acquired territories, gather crucial intelligence (they were specifically tasked with confiscating government papers and police documents), and eliminate perceived threats to the Nazi regime.

It was the latter addition to their functions that ultimately made Einsatzgruppen into feared death squads tasked with “pacifying” occupied territories (including but not limited to murdering Jews perceived to be existential enemies of the Reich).

Consequently, it is an irrefutable fact that this major step on the Road to Holocaust and the heavy slab in the “stack of slabs” (that ultimately killed four million Jews) was made in the beginning of October of 1938.

However, at that time, few (if anyone) would imagine such a murderous transformation. After occupation of Sudetenland, Einsatzgruppen mostly only secured government buildings and questioned senior Czech civil servants.

True, they arrested about 10,000 Czech communists and other potential activists of Czech Resistance… but they killed no one (detained individuals either ended up in SS concentration camps or were released altogether).

They were strictly forbidden to mistreat and kill those arrested and to harass uninvolved persons Einsatzgruppen were set up and dispatched by the Gestapo, which claimed responsibility because the Sudeten Germans were defined as citizens of the Reich.

Einsatzgruppen were to arrest people “hostile to the Reich” by means of a “special wanted list” and reports from Sudeten Germans, confiscate their documents, dissolve their facilities, occupy Czechoslovak police stations and monitor postal and telephone traffic… in short, did normal policework in occupied territories.

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Munich Agreement signed on September 30, 1939 by leaders of Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France became a major step on the Road to Holocaust and the heavy slab in the “stack of slabs” that ultimately killed four million Jews.

It became such a step because it paved the way to the Second Great War – and thus to the Holocaust. It paved the way because it convinced Adolf Hitler that by righting one territorial wrong, Great Britain and France would allow him to right ALL territorial wrongs committed against Germany and Austria.

In other words, to get back (by force, if necessary) ALL territories taken away from Germany and Austria by the Versailles Criminals (who committed the grand robbery of a millennium). It was not to be – and World War II was the result.

Still, the participants in the Munich Conference did the right thing… morally right, to be more precise. Which was not necessarily politically right at that time… although it most likely was.

It was politically right as well because the alternative would have been the Second European War… which would have inevitably led to the invasion, occupation and total destruction of continental Europe by Bolshevist hordes.

By forcing the government of Czechoslovakia to return the Sudetenland to its rightful owner, Great Britain and France allowed Germany to properly prepare for the inevitable war with the Bolshevist monster… and thus essentially saved Europe from genuine Hell. Saving Hitler’s life in the process (otherwise he would have been killed by Wehrmacht commandos during the Oster coup).

Sudetenland (inhabited mostly by Germans) was taken away from Austria in 1919 by the Treaty of Saint-Germain (the equivalent of the Treaty of Versailles – only with Austria). It was done against the will of the overwhelming majority of its population and thus was wrong indeed.

Immediately after the Anschluss of Austria into the German Reich in March 1938, Hitler made himself the advocate of ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia – which was right both morally and politically. For once, Great Britain and France did the right thing bowing to the will of the population of Sudetenland who wanted live in Germany. An agreement was quickly reached on Hitler’s terms, and signed by the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, and Italy.

On 30 September, Czechoslovakia submitted to the combined military and diplomatic pressure and agreed to surrender territory to Germany following the Munich terms.