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Morally, politically and militarily the Yalta Conference of February 4-11, 1945, was held under unfavorable conditions. The  Soviet armies had recently launched a successful offensive. The memory of what proved to be the last German offensive, in the Ardennes region, was still fresh. The speed with which Germany would crumble before Eisenhower's offensive in the spring was not  anticipated. Singularly faulty intelligence work had conveyed the impression that Japan still possessed large and effective forces in Manchuria.

The two leading figures in the American delegation, Roosevelt and Hopkins, were in very poor health and were committed by past attitudes to the policy of trusting Stalin and hoping for the best. The newly appointed Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius,  possessed no visible qualifications for this office except an impressive shock of white hair, an adulatory attitude toward Roosevelt and a naive faith that all international problems could be solved by a determined application of goodwill and optimism.

HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PURSUANT TO
S. Con. Res. 27

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, AND EVENTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING THERETO

PART 33

PROCEEDINGS OF NAVY COURT OF INQUIRY

(Pages 926-985, Exhibit 4, "Rainbow 5")

Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1946

• The Great Preliminary Bout - The Spanish Civil War
• Modern Communist Propaganda, Example 1
• Modern Communist Propaganda, Example 2
• Modern Communist Propaganda, Example 3 - The New York Times is a Communist Rag
• Modern Communist Propaganda, Example 4 - Book Review, Spain Betrayed
• Pawns in the Game - William Guy Carr
• Political parties of the Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia
• Wales and the Spanish Civil War
• Spanish Civil War - Other Resources

This is an index of articles and other resources detailing the true history of World War II "death camps", those of the Allies under Dwight D. Eisenhower in which countless German soldiers and others had lost their lives.

• The "Slow-Death Camps” Are A Fact
• A Story He Didn't Want To Know
• The Last Dirty Secret Of World War Two
• Eisenhower's Holocaust - His Slaughter Of 1.7 Million Germans

The economic background to the war is necessary for a fuller understanding, before casting judgement on the originators of these viewpoints.

At the end of the First World War, Germany was essentially tricked [see Paul Johnson A History of the Modern World (1983) p24 and H Nicholson Peacemaking 1919 (1933) pp13-16] into paying massive reparations to France and other economic competitors and former belligerent countries in terms of the so-called Treaty of Versailles, thanks to the liberal American President Woodrow Wilson. Germany was declared to be solely responsible for the war, in spite of the fact that ‘Germany did not plot a European war, did not want one, and made genuine efforts, though too belated, to avert one.’ (Professor Sydney B Fay The Origins of the World War (vol. 2 p 552)).

As a result of these massive enforced financial reparations, by 1923 the situation in Germany became desperate and inflation on an astronomical scale became the only way out for the government. Printing presses were engaged to print money around the clock. In 1921 the exchange rate was 75 marks to the dollar. By 1924 this had become about 5 trillion marks to the dollar. This virtually destroyed the German middle class (Koestler The God that Failed p 28), reducing any bank savings to a virtual zero.