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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sw_VX91M9o
The SHOCKING Truth Behind Appeasement of Hitler: They Lied About Munich!
Alex Krainer
100,289 views  Jan 5, 2026  #WW2History #AlexKrainer #HiddenHistory

The standard history of the 1938 Munich Appeasement is a lie—Britain deliberately sacrificed Czechoslovakia to empower Hitler, setting the stage for WW2. Discover the shocking hidden truth in this exclusive 3-part exposé by Alex Krainer, countering modern Putin-Hitler myths pushed by leaders like Friedrich Merz.
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What REALLY Happened at Munich?
Uncover how Neville Chamberlain's cabal pressured Czechoslovakia to capitulate without a fight, despite its superior military. Germany seized tanks, planes, and factories intact—exactly as Britain intended to build the Nazi war machine. Backed by masterpieces like Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope and Guido Giacomo Preparata's Conjuring Hitler.
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Why This Matters TODAY
Politicians compare Putin to Hitler to drag us into war. Learn the falsified lessons of 1938 to avoid sleepwalking into WW3. Featuring parallels to today's three-block world agenda and NATO expansion.


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#kp# 15Jul2026 Bill Howell quick comments
#kp# 	I mostly read the transcript rather than spend the time on the video itself, thereby :
#kp# 		getting a better look at the details
#kp# 		much better for my memory retention
#kp# 		having a reference to look back at without having to stream through 40 minuts of video (horribly inefficient!)
#kp# 	nicely done narrative, with many great details of which I was not aware
#kp# 	the video overall is mostly a repetition of what has been long said at a superficial level.  I don't have time, but it would be great to [look through, compare] my copy of :
#kp# 		William L. Shirer 1959, 1980 “The rise and fall of the Third Reich: A history of Nazi Germany”  Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 1249pp, ISBN-13: 978-0-671-72868-7
#kp# 		I doubt that he would have tread on politically powerful toes, but I don't know ...
#kp# 	no surprises at all about Chamberlain's [think, plan, behavior].  
#kp# 		To be fair, things are complex and hard to understand.  
#kp# 		Secondly, pro-Nazi sympathies were widespread, but not dominant, in the world, including British Royalty, many [Brit, US]* [leaders, businessmen]
#kp# 		Soviet Union was the big fear
#kp# 			Stalin sought an "Icebreaker" to take control of Germany, wage war against the western Imperialist powers, and weaken them all to the point that the Red Army could [sweep through, conquer] Europe, then the world.
#kp# 			that was also a partial reason that the [UK, US] took the same stance with [Soviet Union, Germany] - eg Land Lease Agreement and how F.D. Roosevelt essentially [finance, built] post-Barbarossa [Soviet Union, China].
#kp# 	Sean McKeekin "Stalin's War" and other books provide a far more [broad, deep] * [analysis,  context]

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0:00 
	On Saturday 13th December 2025, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Mertzaddressed a gathering of members of his party, the CDUCSU. On the occasion, Mertz announced thatPakameana was over and suggested that Germany had to prepare for war against Russiain Dutland. Vest G for skip.
0:51 
	Perhaps, as NATO Secretary General Mark Rut put it, it should be the kind of war like our grandparents and great-grandparents endured. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the skill of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.
1:10 
	As it happens, Friedrich Merd's parents and grandparents knew something about that war. His father Alloys Mertz was a member of the Nazi National Socialist Party since the early 1930s. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Bol Sovini, was a high-ranking Nazi officer in Adolf Hitler's service during World War II. 
1:29 
	In his speech, Merittz implied that Russia's President Vladimir Putin was the Hitler of our time. He warned his applauding colleagues that quote, "If Ukraine falls, he won't stop there." He warned against the danger of appeasing this new Hitler, insinuating that if we do, things might turn out the way they did with Nazi Germany in 1938. Mer reminded his audience that quote, "Just as the Sudetan land was not enough in 1938, Putin will not stop. This is a Russian aggressive war against Ukraine and against Europe. the Ukrainist.
2:27 
	In all this, Merch was not particularly original. The same insinuation has been regurgitated by many western officials over the le recent years including Lealesa Mateos Moravetski Kaakalas Gabriel Lansberg who's quite a frequent user of the analogy by Vadimir Zalinski Boris Johnson Liz Truss Ben Wallace Analena Bearbok Marianes Stuck Zimmerman Mitch McConnell Lindsey Graham Anthony Blinken Joe Biden and many others. 
2:57 
	It is clear that we are being sold a narrative to promote the next big European war. However, that narrative is a gross falsification of history. As a result, the truth of the 1938 appeasement episode has remained widely misunderstood. As one meme doing the rounds in social media says, if the news is fake, imagine how bad history is. To avoid sleepwalking into another great war, it is essential that we understand what really happened in the late 1930s. and it's nothing like they taught us in school. 
3:28 
	In this three-part report, we will shed light on those deliberately obscured lessons of history. To put the story together, I drew on three main sources. Carol Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, Guido Jako Preparatus, Conjuring Hitler and Dr. Jim McGregor's Hitler and two world wars. All three books are utter masterpieces of historioggraphy and I could not recommend them highly enough. Many of the aspects of this story will ring eerily familiar to all who paid attention to today's events.
3:59 
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5:18 
	The treacherous sacrifice of Czechoslovakia to Germany is one of the least well understood episodes leading to the tragedy of World War II. Conventional history associates the Czech crisis with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement at Munich. The story we were taught in school was that the British government agreed to partition Czechoslovakia only as a desperate measure to avoid greater European war. This view is based on the idea that Germany was already an overwhelming military power that could easily crush Czechoslovakia. 
5:55 
	However, this idea is patently false. In late 1938, Czechoslovakia did in fact capitulate without resistance. But this was not because her defenses were weak. Rather, Czechoslovakia's government was paralyzed and sedated as a result of the treacherous scheming of the British secret diplomacy. Created in 1919, Czechoslovakia was the most prosperous, most democratic, most powerful, and best administered of the states that emerged from the Habsburg Empire. Situated along its northwest frontier was Germany was the Sudetan region which was the most industrialized part of the country and had a majority German population. 
6:32 
	Although Czechoslovakia instituted equitable treatment for all of its minorities in the 1930s, Sudetan Germans began to press for greater political power and autonomy within Czechoslovakia.  They established their own Nazi party and with funding from Berlin, their relentless agitation and propaganda became a destabilizing factor for the nation. 
6:57 
	In 1934, the Czech government finally banned the party, but under Conrad Henline's leadership, they merely changed the party's name to Sudetan German Party and continued to consolidate influence and power. Henline coordinated the party's agenda with Hitler and their strategy was to keep pressing the Czech government for ever greater concessions which escalated the crisis to a boiling point in 1938.
7:22 
	Conventional history holds that Britain only became involved in the crisis in order to prevent a greater war from erupting. The Wikipedia entry says that quote Germany had started a low inensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17th September 1938. In reaction on 20th September the United Kingdom and France formally asked Czechoslovakia to seed territory to Germany.  That pretty much sums up history as it is still being taught in schools everywhere. 
7:55 
	The truth is very different. As early as March 1938, British representatives already had a very active role in negotiations between the Germans and the Czech government, and they remained involved until the very end of the Czech crisis. Behind the false cloak of impartiality, the British consistently encouraged the Germans to bolster their demands and pressured the checks to yield. The Czech government responded by offering substantial concessions and formulating a plan for minorities that included economic benefits, cultural and administrative autonomy, and even political federalism. But all that was brushed aside by the German and British representatives as inadequate. 
8:45 
	Then on 24 April 1938, Henline formulated the extreme Carlsbat demands. After months of torturous negotiations and under severe pressure from Britain, in September of 1938, the Czech government yielded on most of these demands. But at that point, rather than declaring victory and accepting this settlement, Henline abruptly broke off the negotiations and fled to Germany. The standard historical narrative invariably presented the Czech situation as a lost cause since the overwhelming power of the German vermach could easily crush Czechoslovakia's weak defenses.
9:19 
	Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler is regarded as an ill-advised and cowardly policy, but ultimately a well-intentioned bid to prevent a greater European war. But all that was a lie. The idea that Germany had a military advantage and the Czech security was weak, were both fabrications of a sustained propaganda campaign, which was orchestrated by the British media and foreign policy establishment in order to mislead the British and European public. To be sure, Germany had been building up its military power since the early 1930s, but in 1938, it was still no match for Czech defenses. The Germans had 35 infantry divisions and only four motorized divisions, none of them fully manned or fully equipped. Of these, only 22 partially trained divisions were stationed near the Czech frontier. 

#kp# 15Jan2026 Bill Howell: 9:19  interesting [detail, comparison]s rgarding Czech versus German military

10:13 
	At the same time, Czechoslovakia had 34 fully equipped divisions and was able to mobilize and fully armed 1 million troops. They also had hundreds of tanks that were among the most advanced tanks in Europe at the time. Moreover, the Czech army was better trained, had very high morale, and had built powerful fortifications along its borders. In terms of quality armaments and fortifications, the Czech army was known to be the best in Europe and was superior to the German army in every way except for air support. 
10:44 
	On September 3rd, 1938, the British military ate in Prague wrote a cabin, a cable to London, stating, quote, "There are no shortcomings in the Czech army. as far as I have been able to observe. In addition, Czech security was supported by strategic alliances with France and the Soviet Union, both of whom were at the time very keen on holding Germany in check and both of whom were significantly superior to Germany in terms of military strength. 
11:09 
	Germany's military leaders were very well aware of all this and believed that even without her alliances, Czechoslovakia could easily defeat the German army in any military confrontation. It was for this reason that when on 21st April 1938 Hitler ordered General Wilhham Kaitel to draft plans to invade Czechoslovakia, the German military brass were deeply alarmed about this. So much so that a group of top commanders led by Hitler's chief of the general staff, General Ludvik Beck, hatched a three-stage strategy to disrupt the reckless plan. 
11:46 
	First, they would try to dissuade Hitler from attacking Czechoslovakia. Second, they implored the British to stand firmly by Czechoslovakia and warned Hitler that Britain would oppose him. Third, if Hitler persisted in this resolve to wage war, they would proceed to assassinate him. The date for Hitler's assassination was set for 28th September 1938. Please keep that date in mind as our story  continues. 
12:14
	During the frenzied first two weeks of September 1938, message after message was communicated to London by highlevel German government officials like Baron Erns from Viceer Eric Cord and as well as a number of military official and various German missions in Europe. But not only did the British ignore all these pleas for help, they even took measures to shield Hitler from General Beck's conspiracy. Chamberlain himself flew to Germany twice during the peak of the crisis in order to broker an agreement that would enable Hitler to seize Czechoslovakia without having to wage war.
12:55 
	Foreign policy of Britain was run by a small group of men led by the prime minister Neville Chamberlain. It included Lord Halifax, Sir Horus Wilson, Sir John Simon, Lord Runsman and Sir Samuel. Their objective was to advance the threeb block vision of the global order which entailed securing Germany's hegemony over central and eastern Europe. The secret agenda was set well ahead of events and represented a blueprint for the war's initial stages. 
13:26 
	On 19th November 1937, Lord Halifax visited Hitler at his Alpine residence where he told him that Britain considered Germany as a bastion against communism and that his government had no objection to German acquisition of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Danig. Four months later on 13 March 1938, Germany annexed. Austria in fact
13:48 
	Czechoslovakia was next. Lord Halifax presented the plan for Czechoslovakia to her ambassador in London on 25 May 1938. It included three key provisions. 
		First, the separation of Sudetland from Czechoslovakia. 
		Second, neutralization of the rest of Czechoslovakia by revising her treaties with Russia and France.
		And third, an international guarantee of disrupt Czechoslovakia, although not by Britain. 
	That in fact was the same arrangement that would be forced on checks in Munich 4 months later. 
14:23 
	For the British, it was essential to achieve these objectives without a war. And in June 1938, Germany's ambassador to London, Herbert Von Derken, wrote to York Reop that quote, "Anything which can be got without a shot being fired can count upon agreement from the British." From their side, the British maneuvered the Czech government to yield to all German demands without resistance. 
14:51 
	Avoiding war was important for a number of reasons. 
		First, the British wanted Germany to capture Czechoslovakia's military assets and industrial facilities intact. 
		Furthermore, they needed to preempt Czechoslovakia's allies, Russia and France, from coming to her aid. 
		And finally, they wanted to prevent a strong public outcry in Britain. 
15:12 
	Moscow's effort to intervene were consistently ignored and played down in public. Already in March of 1938, the Russians tried to form a united front against Hitler and proposed holding a security conference in Bucharest along with France, Britain, Poland, and Romania. But their initiative was simply ignored. 
	The French position was neutered through Anglo French Conference of September 18, 1938 where the British maneuvered the French to back London's solution to the Czech crisis and to help pressure the checks to capitulate to German demands without a fight. 
15:50 
	The cabal in London also needed to sell all this to the British public, which was viscerally opposed to Nazism. Accordingly, British officials and the media launched a propaganda campaign that gathered pace throughout the crisis. The opening salvo was launched with with an article in Lord Rothmir's Daily Mail published on 6th May 1938. It denounced Czechoslovakia as an artificial monstrosity and an aberration of 1919. It also falsely accused the hateful checks of mistreating the German speaking population, an outrage that Britain could not tolerate. 
	In addition to demonizing Czechoslovakia, the media also fermented a general war scare. Anxiety about the relentless German mobilization was built up day by day, convincing the public to believe the lie that Germany could easily overwhelm the checks in a few days and wipe out Prague. 
16:44 
	By late September 1938, the war psychosis was intensified to fever pitch with reports that German air force might immediately launch an air raid against Paris or London and bomb the civilia population with poison gas ordinance. As panic set in, the British government escalated it by setting up stands where the people of London could be fit with gas masks. King George and Prime Minister Chamberlain called on the Britain to dig trenches in the parks and squares of London. School children began to be evacuated to secure detention facilities away from London. Every report or rumor that exacerbated the panic was played up, and any voice that encouraged taking a decisive stand against Germany was sidelined. 
17:27 
	At the same time, France and Britain ordered the Czech government not to mobilize its troops for fear of provoking Germany. Instead, they pressured Prague to accept the Anglo French solution to the crisis. But their proposal would only further weaken Czechoslovakia's security in exchange for vague promises of international guarantees. The government of President Edward Benes protested vigorously and rejected the solution. In their turn, London and Paris rejected the Czech refusal and mounted further pressure on the government in Prague. 
18:05 
	Chamberlain explained the imperative to force Czechoslovakia's government to yield. quote, "The idea of territorial session would be likely to have a more favorable reception from the British public if it could be represented as the choice of the Czechoslovak government themselves and it could be made clear that they had been offered the choice of a plebicite or of territorial session and had preferred the latter. This would dispose of any idea that we were ourselves carving up Czechoslovak territory." To turn up the pressure, France threatened to revoke her alliance and abandoned the checks to Germany.
18:38 
	Finally, on 21 September 1938, the Czech government relented and accepted the Anglo French dictate. The very next day, Chamberlain paid Hitler a visit at Godsburg on the Rine in order to personally deliver the good news. 
	At that meeting, Hitler and Chamberlain formulated the extreme Godsburg ultimatum, a set of even more exacting demands against the Czechoslovak government and had the British military ataché rush them to Prague. 
	Hitler now inexplicably demanded self-determination not only for the Sudetan Germans, but also for the Poles, Hungarians, and Slovaks. 
	In addition, German troops were to enter Czechoslovakia before the 1st of October 1938 and occupy portions of Czechoslovakia that would be determined at Hitler's own discretion. 
19:31 
	The ultimatum was presented as Hitler's own brainchild, but it is almost certain that it was godfatherred by Chamberlain himself. Back in London on 23rd September, the British cabinet ostensibly rejected Hitler's Godsburg ultimatum and agreed to support France if she chose to go to war against Germany. 
	The French government also rejected Hitler's ultimatum as did the checks. 
	The Soviets responded by explicitly reiterating their security commitment to Czeoslovakia.

#kp# 15Jan2026 Bill Howell: 19:31 fascinating: '... ultimatum [to Czechs] was presented as Hitler's own brainchild, but it is almost certain that it was godfatherred by Chamberlain himself ..."

19:57 
	However, this last moment appearance of a united front against an aggressive Germany was yet another deception. On 27th September 1938, Chamberlain delivered a radio address to the nation, feigning his dismay at the incomprehensible events on the continent. Quote, "How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a farway country between people of whom we know nothing."
20:25 
	The very same day, Chamberlain sent a telegram to Czechoslovakia's President Benes warning him that if he failed to accept Hitler's ultimatum by 2 p.m. on the following day, which was 28th September 1938, Czechoslovakia would be overrun by the German army and nothing could save her. 
	Recall there was a reason why 28th September was important. That was the date on which the military brass led by General Ludvig Beck planned to assassinate Hitler if he insisted on attacking Czechoslovakia. 
21:02 
	After sending the ultimatum to President Benes, Chamberlain reached out to Hitler to propose holding a fourpower conference, reassuring him that Britain and France would force Czechoslovakia to accept any agreement on condition that Germany abstained from going to war. 
21:19 
	The following day, that same 28th September 1938, at 3M, Chamberlain appeared at the House of Commons, where he gave a long speech about the events in Europe. His speech caused great consternation among the MPs who said a ghast, wondering if Guring's bombs were about to start raining on London. In a theatrical stunt near the end of his speech, a message was brought to him, and he announced at once that it was an invitation to a four-power conference in Munich. Chamberlain forgot to mention that he himself had organized the conference, but the MPs were not inclined to question the good news. They erupted in a roar of relief, and Chamberlain immediately hurried from the building without a formal ending to the session.
22:02 
	In Munich on 30th September 1938, Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini, and Francis Daladier carved up Czechoslovakia without consulting anybody else, least of all the checks. The four powers agreement was handed to the Czech minister in Berlin, who had been waiting outside the doors for over 10 hours. It reached Prague only 18 hours before the German occupation was to begin.
22:27 
	The agreement itself was an abomination. 
	It provided that some designated areas of Czechoslovakia would be occupied by Germany in several stages during the first and second weeks of October 1938. The progress of the occupation would be supervised by an international commission. A joint German Czech commission would order and supervise public referenda and guarantee the rights of various ethnicities who would have a six-month grace period to move into and out of the areas designated under the agreement. Property was to be protected and none of it was to be seized by the occupying troops. The remainder of Czechoslovakia would be guaranteed by France and Britain with Germany and Italy joining the guarantee as soon as the Polish and Hungarian minority issues had been settled. 
23:20 
	However, the whole Munich agreement was utterly worthless. It merely put a thin veil of diplomatic decorum over the real agenda, which was a brazen act of destruction of a prosperous European nation with the premeditated objective of empowering Nazi Germany and pushing the people of Europe closer to the single greatest tragedy in their history.
	Almost before the ink could dry on this shameful document, it was violated on every point in favor of Germany, which simply occupied whatever areas of Czechoslovakia it chose to. The nation's infrastructure was severely impaired and every important railroad or highway was cut or crippled almost instantly collapsing the Czech economy. 
	The international commission that was set up to oversee the occupation process in reality simply rubber stamped every decision of the German general staff. 
24:12 
	For their neutrality, Poland and Hungary were subsequently rewarded with chunks of Czechoslovakia.
	Hungary obtained the southern portions of Czechoslovakia while Poland took the areas with a Polish minority. 
	Czechoslovakia's Soviet alliance was abolished and the communist party outlawed. 
	Anti-Nazi refugee from Sudenland were rounded up by the new government in Prague and handed over to the Germans to be destroyed. 
	The stipulated guarantee of the ramp of Czechoslovakia was simply ignored. 
	As for the promised referenda, they were ignored as well. 
	Anti-Nazi refugees from Sudanand were rounded up by the new government in Prague and handed over to the Germans to be destroyed. The stipulated guarantee of the rump of Czechoslovakia was ignored. 
	As for the promised referenda, they were simply forgotten. 
24:58 
	All that the Munich agreement accomplished was to give Hitler everything he demanded and more, but without the costs and casualties of war. As a result, Nazi Germany was made the supreme power in central Europe and any possibility of checking its hegemony on the continent was lost. This was exactly as Chamberlain intended it. 
25:18 
	When German troops overran Czechoslovakia, they captured 469 tanks which were much superior to German tanks along with 1500 planes, 43,000 machine guns, and more than 1 million rifles. The unused arsenal was a testament to the power that failed to defend itself against Hitler's aggression. It was sedated and paralyzed through the devious scheming of the British foreign policy cabal led by Naval Chamberlain.
25:42 
	Hitler was not happy with the results of the four powers conference. He seemingly felt cheated out of a war and said that Munich would be his first and certainly his last international conference. The next time he said he hoped that no dirty pig would suggest the conference. By dirty pig he was referring to naval chamberland. Hitler also had no intention to abide by the agreement reached in Munich. 
26:07
	By early March 1939, German troops were poised to occupy the ramp of Czechoslovakia and there was nothing to stop them. On 14th March 1939, Hitler summoned Czechoslovak puppet President Hatcha to Berlin where he forced him to sign documents handing the nation over to Germany and ordering all resistant to the evading German forces to stand down. Within a week, Bohemia Moravia was declared a German  protectorate.
26:34 
	Standard historical narrative holds that the events of March 1939 finally revealed Hitler's true intentions and marked the end of the inaive policy of appeasement. But for Chamberlain and his co-conspirators, up until that point, the events were unfolding exactly as intended.
26:52 
	However, for their plans to proceed unopposed, it was necessary to continue deceiving the British people. When Hitler broke the Munich agreement and annexed Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain issued a feeble protest. But on 15th March, he explicitly accepted Germany's seizure of Czechoslovakia in the House of Commons and refused to accuse Hitler of bad faith. Two days later on 17th March he faced his con constituents in Birmingham and made a show of denouncing Hitler's actions before them. But even if he publicly declared the seizure of Czechoslovakia as illegal, his government immediately accepted it as a fact and recognized it at law by accrediting the British consulate general in Prague to Germany. 
27:37 
	As the public outrage mounted on 28 March 1939, Chamberlain made a further gesture in announcing the cancellation of trade talks with Germany as well as as the planned visit to Berlin of the British Board of Trade led by its president Oliver Stanley. True to form, however, only 5 days later, the German commercial ataché in London was secretly informed that the British were ready to reopen the discussions.
28:01 
	In May 1939, Bank of England's Montigu Norman turned over to Germany the 6 million pounds in Czech gold reserves that were held in London. When the news of this transfer leaked out, the cabinet hid behind the preposterous excuse that the British government could not control the actions of the Bank of England. Their unblenmished hands were tied. 

#kp# 15Jan2026 Bill Howell: 28:01 UK finances German military May1939, hilarious

28:28 
	You see, following the destruction of Czechoslovakia, Hitler turned his attention to Poland. At first, it was just diplomacy.
	The talks with Poland kicked off on 21 October 1938. As expected, German representatives asked the Polish government for the city of Danig and a kilometer wide strip across the Polish corridor to accommodate a highway and a fourtrack railroad under the German sovereignty.
	These were deemed moderate requests and they were made to the Polish ally in a relatively cordial atmosphere. The territories in question were parts of Germany that she'd lost by Versailles Treaty after World War I. So German demands didn't seem outrageous. At that time, Hitler did not intend to overrun Poland, but rather to engage her in the forthcoming invasion of Russia. If his demands were granted, Germany was prepared to reciprocate with certain concessions to Poland.
29:11 
	However, the Polish government did not yield to German demands. A few months later, on 21 March 1939, Hitler reiterated his demand. this time more forcefully. When the news of this reached London, UK's Prime Minister Chamberlain suddenly and unilaterally issued a strangely worded security guarantee for Poland. 
	It read as follows, quote, certain consultations are now proceeding with other governments. In order to make perfectly clear the position of his majesty's government in the meantime before those consultations are concluded, I now have to inform the house that during that period in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, his majesty's government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish government all support in their power." unquote. 
30:05
	This was the first time Britain made such a commitment to another nation since 1918. Not only did British government commit to guarantee a foreign nations, it also gave that nation the privilege to decide when the guarantee would take effect while asking for nothing in return. Importantly, the British only guaranteed Poland's independence, not its territorial integrity. 
	In that, they left the door wide open for Germany to continue pressuring Poland for territorial concessions.
30:36 
	In July 1939, about two months after Chamberlain's guarantee of Poland's independence, the Reich Commissioner for Germany's four-year plan, Helmouth Volultad, came to London to attend an international whailing conference. On that occasion, he was approached by Chamberlain's personal representative, Sir Horus Wilson, who communicated to him the proposals which the British government wished to discuss with Germany. They included 
		one, a non-aggression pack between Britain and Germany, 
		two a delimitation of spheres of interest, 
		three colonial concessions in Africa, 
		four an economic agreement, and 
		five, a disarmament agreement.
31:18 
	German ambassador to London Herbert von Derken reported about these contacts to Berlin stating that quote sir Horus Wilson definitely told her voltat that the conclusion of a non-aggression pact would enable Britain to rid herself of her commitments visa v Poland Britain's guarantee emboldened the Polish leadership to harden their stance visav Germany in the mistaken belief that Britain and France would have unleashed a full-scale offensive against Germany if Hitler decided to strike at Poland.
31:46 
	unaware of the British guarantee at first, Hitler was surprised by Poland's sudden defiance. But if the intention of the British guarantee was to deter Germany, its effect was exactly the opposite. When Hitler did learn about it, he immediately decided to attack Poland. 
	During a secret conference with his generals on 23rd May 1939, Hitler said that, quote, "The Polish problem is inseparable from the conflict with the West. Poland sees danger in a German victory in the west and will attempt to rob us of a victory there. There is therefore no question of sparing Poland and we are left with the decision to attack Poland at the first suitable opportunity. The plan was hatched to launch the attack before September 1939.
32:35 
	Beyond Chamberlain's bizarre verbal guarantee, Britain did next to nothing to ensure Poland's security. It made no real effort to build up a defense front with Poland and no military arrangements were made as to how Britain and Poland would cooperate in a war. Britain's efforts to rearm Poland were delivered late in insufficient amounts in an unworkable form. At the same time, London continued to provide very substantial support to Germany. In May 1939, when Chamberlain issued his guarantee, there was talk about a 100 million pound loan to Poland. But the British stalled and delayed, delivering far too little and far too late. Poland finally obtained a small credit of just over 8 million only one month before the German invasion. 
33:20
	At the same time as Quigley wrote, all London was buzzing about a secret loan of 1 billion pounds from Britain to Germany more than a hundred times the meager credit extended to Poland. 
	The rumors were in fact corroborated by Hitler himself. Speaking of these events at a later date in August 1942, he said, quote, "Shocked had told me that we had at our disposal a credit of 1,500 million marks abroad. And it was on this basis that I planned for my 4-year plan, which never caused me the slightest anxiety." And this is how things stand today. And we never find ourselves blocked for money. 
34:03 
	The shocked that Hitler was referring to was his then economy minister Halmar shocked, former Wall Street banker, head of the Reichkes banks and a very close associate of the Bank of England's governor Montego Norman. Far from discouraging German aggression, British actions only bolstered Hitler in his determination. 
34:20 
	During a secret conference with his generals held on 22 August 1939, Hitler said, quote, "The following is characteristic of England. 
		Poland wanted a loan from England for rearmament. England, however, gave only a credit to make sure that Poland buys in England, although England cannot deliver. This means that England does not really want to support Poland. 
	Of course, Hitler was right. Britain only signed a formal alliance with Poland on 25 August 1939, the very day when Hitler ordered the invasion of Poland, and far too late to change the course of events.

#kp# 15Jan2026 Bill Howell: 34:20 Hitler (to his generals in secret) mocks UK's fake support of Poland

34:57 
	At the time when British public opinion was deeply opposed to Nazi Germany, that move was intended more to appease the British public than to provide any meaningful support to Poland. But the fact that Britain did in fact have considerable influence to change the course of events became apparent. 
35:16 
	Upon learning of the British Polish alliance, the stubborn, unstoppable Hitler immediately reversed his orders to invade Poland only a few hours after he had issued them. However, the pause wasn't used to sue for peace, and after a week's delay, the invasion went ahead on September 1, 1939. 

#kp# 15Jan2026 Bill Howell: there is a HUGE chasm in the video narrative here, even if not apparent to the UK (but perhaps it was?) 
#kp# 	The secret "Molotov-Ribbentrop" agreement to invade Poland 01Sep1939
#kp# 	Soviet Union held back to 09Sep1939 even when they were ready (said they weren't).  Even today duping essentially all Western intellectuals who solely hold Germany accountable for WWI

35:33 
	Keeping up the appearance of trying to restrain Hitler while covertly aiding and abetting him was the hallmark of British secret diplomacy through much of the late 1930s. 
	Referring to this period, American historian Carol Quigley wrote that, quote, "In general, the key to everything was the position of Britain. 
		At that time, Britain was the dominant power in the world diplomacy, exerting disproportionate influence in Europe and much of the world. 
		It controlled the maritime trade routes and the flow of capital through London, which reigned supreme as the world's financial capital. 
		Nearly all governments in Europe conducted foreign policy in consultations with London. All this begs the question, why did Britain so consistently miss every chance to preserve peace on the continent and restrain Hitler? Why did the British and American corporations and bankers provide such ample support to Nazi Germany even when it was abundantly clear that most of this support was being used for rearmament?
36:31 
	We can glean the answer to these questions in the wider agenda behind their geopolitics. Britain's secret policy agenda for Germany was set well before the war. It was in fact the blueprint for the war's initial stages. As we've already seen, on 19th November 1937, one of the key exponents of British foreign policy, Lord Halifax, met with Hitler and encouraged him to take over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danig. Over the following two years, Hitler did exactly that. 
	We might ask, why would the British encourage Hitler to do this? Their support for Hitler was in fact a part of their larger threeb block world agenda. 
37:16 
	After the Munich conference in September 1938, Lord Halifax revealed how the ruling establishment envisioned those three blocks. 
		The first block consisted of Germany as the dominant power on the continent with predominant rights in southeastern Europe. 
		Second block was Britain dominating Euroatlantic west with in alliance with the United States and the
		third was securing far eastern dominions in alliance with Japan. 
	Accordingly, Germany would be built up and supported not only as as a dominating power in central and eastern Europe but also as a bludgeon to use against Russia. 
37:47 
	With that objective in mind, the British establishment had formulated a more detailed 7-point policy towards Germany, which was communicated to German officials by various spokesmen from 1937 onward. 
		One, Hitler's Germany was the frontline bull work against the spread of communism in Europe. 
		Two, a four power pact of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany was to prevent all Russian influence in Europe as the ultimate objective. Accordingly, Britain had no desire to weaken the Rome Berlin axis.
		Three, Britain had no objection to German acquisition of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig. 
		Four, Germany must not use force to achieve its aims in Europe and as this could precipitate a war in which Britain would have to intervene because of the pressure of public opinion in Britain and the French system of alliances. With patience, Germany could get all of its aims without using force.
		Five, Britain wanted an agreement with Germany, restricting the numbers and the use of bombing planes. 
		Six, Britain was prepared conditionally to give Germany colonial areas in South Central Africa, including the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola. 
		Seven, Britain would use pressure on Czechoslovakia and Poland to negotiate with Germany and to be consiliatory to Germany's desires. 
		After the Munich crisis and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, an eighth point was added to the program which entailed economic support for Germany.
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	Thus, Germany's expansion through 1939 was the result of a covert policy that deliberately created a monster at the heart of Europe. Not only did Britain's secret diplomacy support Hitler, they actually directed the events from behind the curtains. 
39:32 
	The parallels between the 1930s and today's events shouldn't come as surprise. Hitler's ultimate goal was the destruction of Russia. Today, the obsessive drive to destroy Russia has pushed the eastward expansion of NATO and the militarization of Ukraine. 
	While Nazism was defeated in World War II at a massive cost in lives and treasure, the same structures of powers that financed and empowered Hitler have continued to shape global geopolitics to this day. They have not given up on their vision of a threeb block world, which is perhaps most visibly represented by the trilateral commission, one of the most influential think tanks in the world. 
40:16 
	Founded in July 1973, the Trilateral Commission's aim is to foster close cooperation between Japan, Western Europe, and North America. But unlike in the 30s, today the control of continental Europe is being pursued through the ostensibly democratic political institutions of the European Union rather than by conquest and brute military force. 
	Even here, however, Germany has emerged as the dominant power among the supposed equals. And today the leaders in Germany
40:42 along with those with in France and Britain seem obsessed with going to war with Russia. 
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	It is hard to overestimate the recklessness of this obsession. World War I resulted in some 40 million casualties. World War II cost about 85 million. World War II could be far worse and should never even be contemplated. For all of us who want future generations to know peace and prosperity, this is the time for our voices to be heard loud and clear and to pray for peace. When our leaders ask us to sacrifice our children for their wars, our response should be a loud, resounding, and unyielding no. 
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