Winston
         Churchill:                   An Unsettled Legacy 
 
 
  
The  well-entrenched
                           idealization  of Churchill is part and parcel of a  drastically misleading view of the  
Second World War that Americans have  been fed for decades. One
                  common  deceit is to          give the 
impression          that Hitler sought          war against Britain  and France, and that Germany  aggressively 
attacked those two countries  ... Churchill's enduringly  stellar
         image is all the more          remarkable           
considering that          his views on a  range          of issues were, by today's  standards, 
hopelessly          backward and  politically incorrect ... Along
         with  most Britons 
(and Americans) of
         his  era, he was also an unabashed  racist.          
 
 
 
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Adolf Hitler:
         My Political Testament (Berlin, 29 April 1945)			
 									           					 		 	 	 		 									
          		    
   
Since
                  1914, when as a volunteer, I made my modest  contribution in  the World War which was forced upon the Reich, over
          thirty years          have passed.
 
             
In  these three decades, only love for my people and loyalty to my  people
          have guided me in          all my thoughts, actions, and life. They gave  me the strength  to make the most difficult decisions,
         such as no mortal  has          yet had to face. I have exhausted my time, my working energy,  and my  health in these three
         decades.
 
   
It  is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany          wanted war in 1939. It  was desired and instigated exclusively
          by those international statesmen  who were either of Jewish          origin or working for Jewish interests. I  have made
         so many  offers for the reduction and elimination of armaments,  which          posterity cannot explain away for all eternity,
         that the   responsibility for the outbreak of this war cannot rest on me.           Furthermore, I never desired that after
         the first terrible  World War a  second war should arise against England or even against          America.  Centuries may
         pass, but out of the ruins of our  cities and monuments of  art there will arise anew the hatred for          the people who
         alone are  ultimately responsible: International  Jewry and its helpers!
 
   
As  late as three days before the outbreak
                  of the German-Polish War, I  proposed to the British Ambassador  in Berlin a solution for the  German-Polish problem
         -- similar          to the problem of the Saar area, under  international control.  This offer cannot be explained away, either.
         It  was only rejected          because the responsible circles in English politics  wanted the  war, partly in the expectation
         of business advantages, partly           driven by propaganda promoted by international Jewry.
 
   
But  I left no doubt about the fact that
         if the peoples of Europe          were  again only regarded as so many packages of stock shares  by these  international money
         and finance conspirators, then          that race, too, which  is the truly guilty party in this  murderous struggle would
         also have to  be held to account: the Jews!          I further left no doubt that this time we  would not permit  millions
         of European children of Aryan descent to die  of hunger,          nor millions of grown-up men to suffer death, nor hundreds
         of   thousands of women and children to be burned and bombed to          death in  their cities, without the truly guilty
         party having  to atone for its  guilt, even if through more humane means.
 
    
After  six years
         of struggle, which in spite of all reverses will go  down in  history as the most glorious and most          courageous manifestation
          of a people's will to live. I cannot  separate myself from the city which  is the capital of this          Reich. Because
         our forces are too few to permit  any further  resistance against the enemy's assaults, and because  individual          resistance
         is rendered valueless by blinded and characterless   scoundrels, I desire to share the fate that millions of others      
            have  taken upon themselves, in that I shall remain in this  city. Furthermore,  I do not want to fall into the hands of
         enemies          who for the delectation  of the hate-riddled masses require a  new spectacle promoted by the  Jews.
 
   
I  have therefore
         resolved to remain in Berlin          and there to choose  death of my own will at the very moment  when, as I believe, the
         seat of  the Fuehrer and Chancellor can          no longer be defended. I die with a  joyful heart in the  awareness the immeasurable
         deeds and achievements of  our soldiers          at the front, of our women at home, the achievements of  our  peasants and
         workers, and the contribution, unique in history,          of  our youth, which bears my name.
 
   
It  goes without saying
         that I thank them all from the bottom of          my  heart and that it is also my desire that in spite of  everything they
          should not give up the struggle, but continue fighting          wherever they may  be, faithful to the great Clausewitz,
          against the enemies of the  Fatherland. From the sacrifices of our          soldiers and from my own  comradeship with them,
         there will  come in one way or another into German  history the seed of a          brilliant renaissance of the National Socialist
          movement and  thus the realization of a true national community.
 
   
Many  very          brave men and women have resolved to link
         their lives to  mine  to the very end. I have requested them, and finally ordered          them,  not to do so, but instead
         to take part in the continuing  struggle of the  nation. I ask the commanders of the army,          navy, and air force to
          strengthen by all possible means the  spirit of resistance of our  soldiers in the spirit of National          Socialism,
         emphasizing especially  that I too, as founder and  creator of this movement, have preferred  death to cowardly          flight
         or even capitulation.
   
May
                  it be one day a part of the code of honor; as it is already in   the navy, that the surrender of an area or of a
         town is impossible,          and  above all in this respect the leaders should give a  shining example of  faithful devotion
         to duty unto death.
 
   
Several  brave          men have joined me by their own free will and do not  wish to  leave the capital of the Reich
         under any circumstances, but          on  the contrary are willing to perish with me here. Yet I must  ask them to  obey my
         request, and in this instance place the          interests of the nation  above their own feelings.
 
            
Through their  work and loyalty
         they will remain just as close to me  as          companions after my death, just as I hope that my spirit will  remain  amongst
         them and will always accompany them. Let them          be hard, but never  unjust; above all, let them never allow  fear to
         counsel their actions,  but may they place the honor of          the nation above everything on this  earth. Finally, may
         they  be conscious of the fact that our task of  building a National          Socialist state represents the labor of the
         coming  centuries,  and this places every single person under an obligation  always          to serve the common interest
         and to subordinate his own   interests. I demand of all Germans, all National Socialists, men          and  women and all
         soldiers of the Armed Forces, that they  remain faithful  and obedient to the new government and to their          President
         unto death.
 
   
Above all, I charge the leadership of the nation and their followers  with the strict observance          of the
         racial laws and with merciless  resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples, international  Jewry.
 
   
Given at
                  Berlin, 29 April 1945, 4 AM.
 
   
ADOLF HITLER
 
                    
As witnesses:
 
          
Dr. JOSEPH GOEBBELS
   
WILHELM BURGDORF
   
MARTIN          BORMANN
   
HANS KREBS