Stalin's War of Extermination, 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation

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A must read for anyone interested in real history, Stalin's War of Extermination is based on newly released Soviet documents. You think Socialism is not so bad? Read this book. This book documents the total power the Soviet Government had over their own people and how Russians were murdered by the tens of millions by their own government. Stalin's two big tools were "brutal terror" and "shameless propaganda." Soviet soldiers were forbidden to surrender in battle because the Soviets feared that those who did surrender would join the Germans in their supposed campaign to destroy Communism in Russia. Thus all Soviet soldiers who had been captured for any reason were murdered by the NKVD upon their return. Even millions of Russian civilians in areas which were overrun by German forces and then later recaptured by Soviet Armies were killed or sent to the Gulag. All this was nothing to Stalin who had starved 7 to 9 million Ukranian farmers to death during the government induced famine of 1932-33 (p. 197) and who had purged millions of other Soviet citizens and soldiers. Hand in hand with this terror went endless propaganda. For example, Soviet murders of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn forest were blamed on the Germans; a lie that was continued up until 1992 when Boris Yeltsin finally released the documents showing the guilt of the Soviet government. (p. 209) To back up these lies "witnesses" were produced. Author Joachim Hoffman sums the situation up well by stating, "Anyone who did not believe the propaganda experienced the terror." (p. 331) Think you can rest easy now that Soviet Communism has "collapsed?" Think again. Author Hoffman touches on the complicity of the West with Soviet genocide and crimes against humanity. For example, France and England declared war on Germany supposedly because of Germany's invasion of Poland. Yet when the Soviet Union also attacked Poland two weeks later and overran the eastern half of the country no one even seemed to notice. The US fought on the same side as "Uncle Joe" Stalin in World War II, a war which had as its main result the enslavement of half a billion people in eastern Europe under Soviet Communism. That is what our soldiers fought and died for. Now look at the US policy toward China today, also a totalitarian Communist country. We are busy sending our manufacturing capacity to China to be worked by slave labor and administered by the same people who butchered the pro-democracy students in Tienaman Square. As the saying goes, "Those who do not study history are forced to repeat it." Read this book to see the real face of Communism. There are those who call names and scream about this and other books "making excuses for the Nazis". Be warned that reading this book, particularly the sections about master Soviet propagandist Ilya Ehrenberg, may cause you to see such name-callers in a different, and very unflattering, light. Jim McPherson Cover Back cover Dr. Joachim Hoffmann The Truth About Katyn - Report of Special Commission Table of Contents Foreword by Dr. Manfred Kehrig Foreword by Professor Dr. Ernst Topitsch Preface to the English Edition Preface 1. May 5, 1941: Stalin Proclaims the War of Aggression 2. June 22, 1941: Hitler Preempts Stalin's Attack 3. Soviet Soldiers Were Driven into Combat by Terror 4. "A Fighter in the Red Army Does Not Surrender" - Soviet Soldiers Must Not Allow Themselves to be Taken Captive. Prevention of Flight Forward 5. Stalin's Terror Apparatus - The Creation of "Mass Heroism" and "Soviet Patriotism" 6. The "Great Patriotic War" - Soviet Propaganda and its Tools 7. Responsibility and Those Responsible - The Atrocities on Both Sides 8. "Hitlerite Villains" - Soviet Crimes Are Attributed to the Germans 9. Criminalization of the Wehrmacht - Racial and National Anti-German Incitement 10. All Along the Front, the First Prisoners of War Are Murdered as Early as June 22, 1941 11. "To the Last Man" - The Endless Murders of Prisoners of War 12. "No Mercy, No Leniency" - Atrocities of the Red Army upon Entering German Territory 13. "Woe to Thee, Germany!" - The Crimes Continue Conclusions Appendix Abbreviations Sources and Literature I. Archives II. Individual documents and manuscripts in the archives of the author III. Published sources and literature Documents The Soviet war of aggression against Poland The Soviet war of aggression against Finland The planned Soviet war of aggression against Rumania Stalin's Speech on January 13, 1941 Confirmation of the content of Stalin's speech of May 5, 1941 Evidence for aggressive intentions of the Soviet Union against Germany Evidence for the mobilization of the Soviet Army Russian aggressive intentions against Germany Deterrent order of Marshall of the Soviet Union Timoshenko and of Army Commissar 1st Rank Mekhlis to the troops of the West Front of 7.7.1941 Colonel Rogatin announces the Deterrent Order Deterrent order of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the USSR of 15.12.1941 German front propaganda: attempts to win Soviet soldiers as allies Soviet Soldiers want to co-operate with the Germans to liberate Russia Soviet Order to kill all Germans Soviet Newspaper demands the extermination of all Germans Operational report of the Soviet 26th Tank Division (Lieutenant Colonel Kimbar, Major Khrapko), of 13.7.1941 "Vsego bylo rasstreljano 115 cel." All in all, 115 men were shot Call for the "honourable" execution of Stalin's order Soviet prisoners of war, on 18.1.1942, confirm that Stalin's order of 6.11.1941 for the destruction of all German soldiers was read aloud to them on a daily basis The murder of German prisoners of war continued without interruption until 1945. Murders of German prisoners investigated by German intelligence-reconnaissance in January/February 1945 Order of the Military State Prosecutor of the 48th Army to all subordinate Military State Prosecutors of 23.1.1945 on the combating of atrocities and vandalism Remember, Remember, Remember by Ilya Ehrenburg - Soviet War News, December 22, 1944 Once Again — Remember! - Soviet War News Weekly, January 4, 1945 Wolves they were — Wolves they remain - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet News Weekly, March 15, 1945 Index