Memo copy above is from RID/ATI file folder on Adolf Hitler filed under Wah X-2 Personalities #13; the folder contains 1 copy of a 28 page report on Heinrich Himmler in addition to the 68 page paper on Hitler of which the attached copy is an extra one extracted for inclusion, with memo above, in the Hitler 201 file (if not already duplicated therein): 201-93533-EUCMH-Gunter
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Dec
06
2009
The foregoing pages tell of the results achieved by air power in each of its several roles in the war in the Pacific, including the effects of the atomic bombs. The Survey has already reported on the results achieved by air power in the European war. It remains to seek out the degree to which the Pacific study modifies, adds to or supports the signposts to the future which were suggested by the European study; to state the extent to which hindsight suggests that air power might have been differently or better employed in the Pacific; to discuss the impact of the existence of atomic bombs on the role of air power; and to state the Survey’s recommendations.
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Sep
01
2009
Although D-day gave the western Allies a beachhead in northern France, it took them almost two months of bitter fighting to break out of the Normandy hedgerows. After the breakout, Allied armies raced across France, liberated Paris, and headed toward the German frontier. The rapid pace of the advance placed a severe strain on Allied logistics, which, along with bad weather and stiffening German resistance, slowed the offensive. By mid-December, American armies had reached the Roer River inside Germany and the West Wall along the Saar River in eastern France. Between these two fronts lay the Ardenne, a hilly, densely forested area of Belgium. The Germans had attacked France through this supposedly impassable region in 1940. In early December 1944, five American divisions and a cavalry group held the 85-mile-long Ardenne front. The difficult terrain of the region and the belief that the German army was near exhaustion had convinced the Allied commanders that the Ardenne sector was relatively safe. Thus, three of the divisions were new, full of green soldiers who had only recently arrived on the continent; the other two were recuperating from heavy losses suffered in the bitter fighting in the Huertgen forest farther north. In addition, the heavy demand for American troops in some sectors had forced Allied commanders to lightly man other portions of the front .
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Jul
18
2009
Category : War Politic Papers
For months we have been suffering under the torture of a problem which the Versailles Diktat created – a problem which has deteriorated until it becomes intolerable for us. Danzig was and is a German city. The Corridor was and is German. Both these territories owe their cultural development exclusively to the German people. Danzig was separated from us, the Corridor was annexed by Poland. As in other German territories of the East, all German minorities living there have been ill-treated in the most distressing manner. More than 1.000.000 people of German blood had in the years 1919-1920 to leave their homeland.
As always, I attempted to bring about, by the peaceful method of making proposals for revision, an alteration of this intolerable position. It is a lie when the outside world says that we only tried to carry through our revisions by pressure. Fifteen years before the National Socialist Party came to power there was the opportunity of carrying out these revisions by peaceful settlements and understanding. On my own initiative I have, not once but several times, made proposals for the revision of intolerable conditions. All these proposals, as you know, have been rejected – proposals for limitation of armaments and even, if necessary, disarmament, proposals for limitation of war making, proposals for the elimination of certain methods of modern warfare.
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Jul
13
2009
CHAPTER II
Planning the Counteroffensive
Details of the Plan
About 25 September Generalorberst Alfred Jodl was ordered to begin a detailed analysis of the Hitlerian concept, the only function now left to the great General Staff. Some latitude remained to the individual staff officers and those favored few in the high echelon of command who retained access to the Führer in kneading and shaping the very general outline handed down by Hitler into an operations plan. The outline as it now had taken shape contained these major points :
- (a) the attack should be launched sometime between 20 and 30 November;
- (b) it should be made through the Ardenne in the Monschau – Echternach sector;
- (c) the initial object would be the seizure of bridgeheads over the Meuse River between Liège and Namur;
- (d) thereafter, Antwerp would be the objective;
- (e) a battle to annihilate the British and Canadians would ultimately be fought north of the line Antwerp, Liège, Bastogne (1);
- (f) a minimum of thirty divisions would be available, ten of which would be armored;
- (g) support would be given by an unprecedented concentration of artillery and rocket projector units;
- (h) operational control would be vested in four armies and two panzer armies abreast in the lead, two armies composed largely of infantry divisions to cover the flanks;
- (i) the Luftwaffe would be prepared to support the operation;
- (j) all planning would aim at securing tactical surprise and speed;(k) secrecy would be maintained at all costs and only a very limited number of individuals would be made privy to the plan.
May
10
2009
From the 1930’s engine designers in several countries were trying to develop radically new alternative to the reciprocating (piston) engine. The Germans focused on turbojet research, and stole a march on the others. By 1938, BMW and Junkers had promising engine programs, while Ernst Heinkel and Willi Messerschmitt designed airplanes to carry the jet engines. Heinkel’s He 2800 flew first and in many respects seemed to have more potential, but Messerschmitt (the regime’s favored designer) succeeded in getting his Me 262 approved for production. The He 280 was shelved.
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May
03
2009
Adolf Hitler : Mein Kampf
Bitte beachten : DIE UNIVERSALITÄT DER MENSCHENRECHTE, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Internationaler Pakt über bürgerliche und politische Rechte. Band 256, 19. Dezember 1966 (Seite
308) Artikel 19 der Menschenrechte : Jedermann hat das Recht auf Freiheit der Meinung und der Meinungsäußerung; dieses Recht umfaßt die unbehinderte Meinungsfreiheit und die Freiheit, ohne Rücksicht auf Staatsgrenzen Informationen und Gedankengut durch Mittel jeder Art sich zu beschaffen, zu empfangen und weiterzugeben.
Zuwiderhandlung ist ein “Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit”.
Entschuldigungen man habe ja nur Verordnungen und Befehle ausgeführt,
gelten seit den Nürnberger IMT-Verfahren 1945/46 nicht mehr.
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May
02
2009
Comme je viens à l’instant de l’écrire dans la première partie des dossiers Hitler, j’ai pris la décision d’enlever les textes que j’avais déjà mis en page pour les remplacer par la totalité du dossier – Mein Kampf – par un fichier Adobe.
Pour dire la vérité, je dirais que si Hitler avait été un sombre idiot ou un type complètement taré, je pense que j’aurais poursuivis ce travail jusqu’à la fin. Hélas, lors de l’écriture de ce livre, Hitler est en prison, il est un individu particulièrement intelligent, il est observateur et fait preuve d’une grande méfiance à l’égard de ce qu’il ne connait pas. Il n’est donc pas question ici du Hitler Nazi du 3em Reich, mais de Hitler, artiste peintre qui n’éprouve aucune difficulté à appliquer sur la toile – et de très belle manière – ce qu’il a devant les yeux. Il s’agit aussi d’un individu qui se trouve dans une des mégapoles du continent à l’époque.
La lecture du chapitre 2 et du début du 3em vous permettra de vous rendre compte que si vous enlevez la date et remplacez Adolf Hitler par Albert Martin, vous aurez presque immédiatement l’impression que l’auteur de ce livre habite à l’étage au dessus du vôtre et qu’il décrit ce que vous pouvez voir vous même par la fenêtre.
En fait, lire Mein Kampf en le mettant en page m’a fait peur et je me suis dit que nous sommes mûres pour remettre le couvert, ce qui ne m’enchante pas du tout.
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May
01
2009
I have removed this text. I have removed this text because I became a strange and bad feeling. A bas feeling because if you replace two single words in the entire text you will face an evident discovery. Remove these words : Adolf Hitler and 1930 and replace them with … John Doe 2009, reorient the story to New York, Washington, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp and you will start to ask yourself if you are into a nightmare or if someone is trying to get you inside a very bad joke.
This is why I’ve decided to remove the text and replace it with the full version I have placed on DocStoc. If you ant to read it you will be able to to this as well as downloading the file to your computer.
Mar
14
2009
Category : Army Air Forces
At the peak of its strength in World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) had more than 2.400.000 men and women in uniform. There were pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners, and radio operators, clerks and typists, artists and flautists, teachers, mechanics, statisticians, and engineers-for it took many talents and skills to conduct and support the war in the air. All these persons, from privates to generals, had to be welded into an organization capable of giving direction and coordination to their diverse activities. For combat the men were formed into squadrons, and squadrons into groups. Above the groups were wings, and wings were organized into commands, and commands into the 16 air forces of the AAF. The upper part of the structure had to be built while the war was on, but the foundation WAS old. Some of the squadrons, two of the groups, and one wing had combat records from the First World War. One squadron, the oldest in the Air Force, could trace its history back to 1913.
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Mar
02
2009
Category : OSS & SOE
Special Operations Executive Summary of Operations in Western Europe
This summary refers only to those operations with the fullest material in the files. For reasons of space it does not refer to every operation mentioned in the records. Similarly, the newly released records do not contain evidence on every operation which was mounted by the sections.
Source : Adam Matthew Publications
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