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Sunday, June 5, 2005 Focal Point News (UK)
On May 23, 1945 Britain's
secret agents had secretly and criminally liquidated one of the most wanted
men in history, for whose proper public trial and punishment the blood of millions
of his victims cried out.
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British archives reveal.
It's official: British secret service did murder SS chief Heinrich
Himmler (to stop him talking to the Americans).
DOCUMENTS discovered in Britain's
Public Records Office, Kew, London,
confirm revisionist claims that Himmler was liquidated by the British secret
service on Churchill's orders, and did not commit suicide shortly after his
capture as conformist historians have long maintained.
David Irving writes: -
WINSTON Churchill had long agitated in his War Cabinet for a secret plan to
be approved between the Allied leaders ordering the execution without trial
of a number of the enemy leaders, including Himmler. See my book "Nuremberg, the Last
Battle" and the forthcoming volume iii of the Churchill biography.
Meeting at Hyde Park in September 1944, Churchill had readily persuaded
Franklin D Roosevelt to sign on to this plan for lynch justice, but after
Churchill carried the document to Moscow in October 1944 Joseph Stalin
surprisingly refused to agree, insisting instead on proper trials for all
enemy war criminals.
David Irving recalls:
IN 1999 my publishing imprint Focal Point Publications invited Californian
writer Joe Bellinger to speak at Cincinnati
on The Strange Death of Heinrich Himmler. He came to the same conclusions.
Impressed by his narrative there we paid him over $11,000 to enable him to
travel to Washington and London to complete his research.
He never made those trips, never finished his manuscript, and unfortunately
did not learn of the files which have now been released.
THE "silencing" of Himmler raises again the question of
whether Churchill really had been negotiating with Himmler for nearly a year.
In August 1944 the head of the secret service showed him at least one
document "from Himmler," and Churchill assured the secret service
chief that after reading it he had safely destroyed it: 'Himmler telegram
kept and destroyed by me. WSC.31.viii'.
Hitler was evidently aware of what Himmler was up to, because on
September 12 the Reichsführer discussed with Hitler "peace feelers to Russia or Britain."
A few days later, however, on September 18, 1944, the British intercepted a
German intelligence signal that Himmler 'forbids by W/T (wireless traffic)
all contact with English since their offers are bluff' -- as no doubt they
were. See PRO file HW.1/3196.
Rumours emerged last year that Churchill had personally ordered the silencing
of Benito Mussolini, and that the order had been handed by an SOE officer to
Italian partisans soon after. Mussolini and his entire cabinet were
liquidated by machine gun squads without trial in the closing days of the war.
In April 1945, Himmler moved to northern Germany
and began negotiations through his own Intelligence chief Walter
Schellenberg and Count Bernadotte, the Swedish emissary, to end the bloodshed
in Europe. The negotiations Went through Sir
Victor Mallet, the British minister in Stockholm.
Stalin was By this time pathologically suspicious of any separate
negotiations between The Allied governments and the Nazi leadership. Himmler
was thus the Repository of some awkward secrets when he fell into British
hands in May 1945.
For a while Churchill was inclined to deal with him. Admiral
Cunningham, Britain's
First Sea Lord, visited Churchill on April 13, 1945 and wrote This startling
passage in his diary afterwards:
"During our interview the PM mentioned that Himmler appeared to be
trying to show that he wasn't so bad as painted & PM said if it
would save further expenditure of life he would be prepared to spare even
Himmler. I suggested there were plenty of islands he could be sent to."
Real historians have long doubted the conformist version of how Himmler
died, namely that he obligingly swallowed poison when he realised the
game was up.
Patient research revealed that the official files on his death had
oddities,discrepancies, and inconsistencies: the autopsy performed on
the corpse did not give the cause of death; a vital page had been retyped;
there was no message in the files of 21 Army Group, Field-Marshal Sir
Bernard Montgomery's headquarters, reporting the event to London. Whatever had Been there, it had
gone.
Now come documents from the Public Record Office (record group FO 800, File
868), which provide more than just a smoking gun. What is truly extraordinary
is not so much that the conformists have willingly overlooked the
inconsistencies for over sixty years but that those involved in, or aware of,
the murder -- who included Prime Minister Churchill himself -- had kept quiet
about it.
The documents:
The first, dated May 10, 1945 is a Personal and Secret letter on Foreign
Office stationery from Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, later a noted Establishment
and Royal historian, to the famous British agent Sir Robert Bruce-Lockhart,
of the Political Intelligence Department off the Foreign office -- which
conducted Black propaganda against the enemy:
Further to our meeting yesterday morning, I have been giving some
serious thought to the little H situation. We cannot allow Himmler to
take to the stand in any prospective
prosecution, or indeed allow him to be interrogated by the Americans.
Steps will therefore have to been taken to eliminate him as soon as he falls
Into our hands. Please give this matter some thought, as if we are to take
action we
Will have to expedite such an act with some haste.
Lockhart minuted two days later in handwriting: "I agree, I have arranged
for Mr Ingrams to go for a fortnight. R B-L, 12/May/1945."
It is significant to note from the diary of General Dempsey, commanding
The British Second Army in Northern Germany (PRO file WO/285/12), that
on Monday, May 21 he visited both the detention camp at Westertimke and the
German concentration area between Bremervörde and Stade. We know that Himmler
and his two adjutants Macher and Grothmann had been arrested at Bremervörde
on May 19, 1945, but -- so the story goes -- Himmler was not
identified until they arrived at Westertimke on May 23, 1945.
The former Reichsführer SS was carrying a letter to Field Marshal Sir
Bernard Montgomery, the British field commander (which has vanished).
His only cyanide capsule was found in his clothing after he had been ordered
to strip naked, and it was handed to Michael Murphy, head of British
Intelligence at the Second Army. According to The Illustrated London News
story a few days later, a "second" capsule was surrendered to the
Medical officer at Himmler's final destination, the ominous house at No. 31a
Ülzener Strasse in Lüneburg -- which raises a number of obvious questions.
After his identification, according to the official accounts, Himmler had
answered questions, eaten a thick British Army sandwich, and been driven to
the house in Lüneburg -- from which he emerged dead.
Although the British military files appear meticulous, even listing
with suspicious detail every person present in the room at the
moment of death, many facts did not fit into place.
The prisoner's nose had been broken, according to The Illustrated London
News artist who sketched the body. How had he obtained the cyanide
capsule he had allegedly been hiding in his mouth (let alone answer questions
and bite into that sandwich)?
The capsule descriptions varied, and bore no resemblance to what the
standard issue capsule actually looked like. And more (but wait for my
upcoming Himmler biography).
At 2:50 a.m. that night (it was now May 24, 1945) "Mr
Thomas" wired from Bremen
to the Foreign Office for Bruce Lockhart in a top secret code (jj Jj
jj jj is the clue: it was a one-time pad).
"Further to my orders we successfully intercepted H.H. last night at
Lüneburg before he could be interrogated. As instructed action was taken to
silence him permanently. I issued orders that my presence at Lüneburg is not
to be recorded in any fashion, and we may conclude that the H.H. problem Is
ended."
Bruce Lockhart significantly noted on this telegram, "copy to PM" --
i.e., to Churchill -- "May 25".
Brendan Bracken, Churchill's obnoxious red-headed confidant (left, with
friend: Clementine loathed him), was also in on the action -- a war crime,
despite Heinrich Himmler's dark record, as he was a prisoner of war who had
surrendered to British custody.
"Mr Dear Top," he wrote on May 27 to Lord Selborne at the
Ministry of Economic warfare, head of the SOE (PRO file HS
series HS8/944), "Further to the good news of the death of Little H, I
feel it is imperative that we maintain a complete news blackout on the exact
circumstances of this most evil man's demise. I am sure that if it were
to become public knowledge that we had had a hand in this man's
demise, it would have devastating repercussions for this country's standing."
Quite so: Britain's secret agents had secretly and criminally liquidated
one of the most wanted men in history, for whose proper public trial
and punishment the blood of millions of his victims cried out: and for no
other visible reason than to conceal that for a few days toward the end of
the war, Churchill had negotiated with him on peace terms.
"I am also sure [continued Bracken] that this incident would
complicate our relationship with our American brethren; under no
circumstances must they discover that we eradicated 'Little H', particularly
so since we know they were keen to interrogate him themselves.
I am of the opinion that the special SOE/PWE Committee and team can now
be dissolved, even though Mallet is still negotiating with W.S.
[Walter Schellenberg] in Sweden.
Perhaps you could let me know your opinion on this matter."
REAL historians will now need to do further work to identify the
murderer,"Mr Thomas," and the part played by Robert
Bruce-Lockhart, who was a principal figure in Britain's Black propaganda war
together with Sefton Delmer.
Bracken ordered that all his papers be destroyed before his death.
Bruce-Lockhart's diaries and papers are in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California; a sanitized edition of his
diaries was published many years ago, and his papers have probably been
weeded too.
It is known that when Himmler first established contact with the
British, Churchill's initial response was to deal with him regardless
of his reputation. But then the secret services stepped in. A fake communiqué
was issued claiming that Himmler had offered to betray Hitler, and this
caused much confusion and fury in Hitler's bunker in the last few days -- not
to mention anguish to Himmler himself.
Until the last moment, he believed that he was to meet Montgomery, and
When he took off his eye patch and identified himself as Himmler to
the British camp commandant, he believed that he would be in the presence of
the British commander soon after.
Instead, as Colonel Michael Murphy wrote in a handwritten report in an odd
turn of phrase to which we drew comment two months ago, "I therefore
told him to dress, and wishing to have a medical search conducted, telephoned
my G-II at my H.Q. and told him to get a Doctor to stand by at a house I had
had prepared for such men as Himmler." This was the house from which
Himmler emerged lifeless, wrapped in a blanket.
Many months ago we had already detected that page 2 of the three-page
report in the British Second Army intelligence unit's war diary,
recording Himmler's death, had been retyped at roughly the same time -- on
the same report pad and using the same typewriter, but by a different hand:
Clearly indicating that it had been sanitized for some purpose which could
only be surmised.
Now we know why.
Our thanks to Steve Kippax in London for additional research and providing
the document scans. Kippax's special interest is in the British and German
Special Forces in WWII and after, and he has studied SOE, OSS, Abwehr and SD in depth.
Frants J.
Langhoff – referat fra UK avis.
2005-06-14
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