In February 1945, Hitler discussed his regrets. The things he would have done differently, had he had a second shot.
Hitler regrets supporting the right-wing in Spain:
>I shall never forgive Franco for not having reconciled the Spaniards once the civil war was over, for having ostracized the Phalangists, whom Spain has to thank for such aid as we gave her, and for having treated like bandits former foes, who were very far from all being Reds. To put half a country beyond the pale of the law while a minority of pillagers enrich themselves, with the blessing of the priesthood, at the expense of the rest is no solution at all. I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain w^ere really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges.
Hitler regrets allying with the French bourgeoisie:
>Our obvious course should have been to liberate the working classes and to help the workers of France to implement their own revolution. We should have brushed aside, rudely and without pity, the fossilized bourgeoisie, as devoid of soul as it is denuded of patriotism. Just look at the sort of friends our geniuses of the Wilhelmstrasse have found for us in France- petty, calculating little profiteers, who hastened to make love to us as soon as they thought that we were occupying their country in order to safeguard their bank balances — but who were quite resolved to betray us at the first possible opportunity, provided always that no danger to themselves was involved!
If Hitler in 1945 "loaded" his 1933 "save".. How would history change? We would definitely see a more left-wing Hitler, although equally anti-semitic. He would have never killed Strasser. I think the night of the long knives would have never happened.
>hangs children for not fighting a lost war >Why was Franco so mean to former enemies? Just when I thought I couldn't hate this faggot any more (2 words!)
Evan Barnes
Where did you get this "intel", user?
Connor Brown
>>Our obvious course should have been to liberate the working classes and to help the workers of France to implement their own revolution. We should have brushed aside, rudely and without pity, the fossilized bourgeoisie, as devoid of soul as it is denuded of patriotism. Just look at the sort of friends our geniuses of the Wilhelmstrasse have found for us in France- petty, calculating little profiteers, who hastened to make love to us as soon as they thought that we were occupying their country in order to safeguard their bank balances — but who were quite resolved to betray us at the first possible opportunity, provided always that no danger to themselves was involved!
Wtf! I love Hitler now!
Caleb Young
This.
Chase Thomas
These quotes appear to come from Genoud's "Political Testament of Adolph Hitler", a text of dubious authenticity. Personally, while I would enjoy chuckling at the old imbecile Hitler with the help of pages that reveal him to be such an unselfaware dunce, I feel that the text does not have quite the same feel as Hitler's known words.
Justin Torres
I have never heard anything about that being fake and Traudl Junge, who wrote it, was alive to speak about writing it? Wasnt it this testament that fired Goering and appointed Dönitz, as well? Where have you read that it is fake?
I see your point, but the "faked" testament doesnt really seem that strange? Hes just talking about how great national socialism was and complaining that jews and stuff ruined his plans. Not really hard to swallow?
Found a wiki page about it, doesnt exactly seem fake though...
Gabriel Robinson
>Before my death, I expel the former Reichsfuhrer of the S.S. and the Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler from the party and from all his state offices. >Apart altogether from their disloyalty to me, Goring and Himmler have brought irreparable shame on the whole nation by secretly negotiating with my enemy without my knowledge and against my will, and also by attempting illegally to seize control of the State. Can someone tell me why neo-nazis love Himmler so much considering HITLER HIMSELF labeled him a faggot spineless traitor?
John Johnson
It would be hard for me to justify my hunch with the time and energy that I have available at the moment. I'd have to analyze the matter and try to figure out what it is exactly that gives me the impression. The work just feels subtly 'off', as if it's written by someone with a post-war perspective, not a Spring 1945 perspective. It also feels subtly different from Hitler's known public pronouncements, from the Mannerheim recording, and even from the Table Talk. I suppose you could chalk to up to Bormann acting as a filter, though. But in that case, it would not authentic anyway - because of Bormann's interference.
Charles Jones
Cont. To be fair, "Hitler"'s account of his reasons for invading the USSR, in the Genoud text, seem to match up to what Hitler says in the Mannerheim recording, and I'm not sure this is something that would have been a matter of public knowledge before the Mannerheim recording was published. However, I don't know at the moment which came first - the publication of the Mannerheim recording, or of Genoud's work. Perhaps this train of thought could shed some light on the Genoud text's authenticity.
Bentley Baker
Cont. To clarify the previous comment, I'm referring to part around the following quote from Genoud's work: >I came to my decision immediately after Molotov's visit to Berlin in November This seems to match up to the Mannerheim recording: >I had a talk back then with Molotov, and it was absolutely obvious…Molotov left with the decision to begin the war, and I dismissed him with the decision to beat him to it, if possible…
Nolan Anderson
>The things he would have done differently, had he had a second shot Yes shoot himself and make himself qaudraplegic
Jayden Ortiz
Documents comrade! Documents that prove that Napoleon was a spy for Mr Jones!
Lucas Wright
>"B-but National Socialism isn't real socialism!"
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA eternally BTFO
Austin Miller
I don't think they do love Himmler, they just love the SS and it's aesthetics
David White
>Hitler hates Franco because he purged the gigarightwing and did jack shit during the war >He must be a socialist! Begone back to /pol/, vagrant. You pollute this board with your filth.
Isaiah Moore
Hitler had a very distinct way of structuring sentences. I believe the document is authentic because it sounds just like Hitler's other writings. I don't think anyone could "fake" Hitler's style even if they tried.
Jaxson Sanchez
do little nazis really believe the socialism part in for jokes?
Landon Turner
Did he ever get back to Hitler on those statements
Gavin Parker
>I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain w^ere really Communists but that's wrong you fucking retard
Landon Gutierrez
I don't see much that would suggest a more left wing Hitler here.
Ryder Fisher
This document from 1945, if it's genuine, is very different from his other writings.
The course of the war, Hitler's defeat by the Soviet Union, had affected Hitler's worldview profoundly. I never heard Hitler talk about the "fossilized bourgeoisie" in the '30s or even the early '40s. His views on Spain are also dramatically different than they were before. He basically says every single decision he did regarding Spain was a fucking terrible mistake! And literally tacitly admits the Republicans (dominated by socialist and communist factions) were on the side of justice.
The Falange was very right-wing, but as national syndicalists, they were in favor of a more egalitarian redistribution of wealth than the feudal nobility that backed Franco. I think Hitler is attacking Franco from the left here.
Aaron Hall
>I don't see much that would suggest a more left wing Hitler here. If Hitler had another shot, based on the extremely unflattering way he described Franco's Spain
>a minority of pillagers enrich themselves, with the blessing of the priesthood, at the expense of the rest
he would not support Franco at all! If he would do anything, he would send the Condor Legion to support the socialist and communist Republicans! That alone would change history in ways we can't even imagine.
Ayden Torres
yes, by remaining dictator of spain for 20 years instead of blowing his brains out in a bunker while commie shells rain down above
Asher Thompson
>he would not support Franco at all! If he would do anything, he would send the Condor Legion to support the socialist and communist Republicans! That alone would change history in ways we can't even imagine.
What complete horseshit, he is bemoaning that Franco did not reconcile Spain once he was victorious and complaining about pillaging, not suggesting that Hitler would support Communism.
Brayden Kelly
He would have been a French Juche man. : /
Robert Morales
His biggest mistake was destroying the only country capable of repelling communist hordes from pushing west.
Josiah Johnson
It was actually 30 years.
Matthew Gutierrez
The main catalyst for the Spanish civil war was the agrarian reform program, pushed by the Republicans, which proposed to severely curtail the privileges of the feudal landowning nobility.
When Hitler is complaining about pillaging, he's complaining about Franco's entire raison d'etre. He's complaining about the entire class that brought Franco to power.
Caleb Mitchell
>not suggesting that Hitler would support Communism. Umm... >had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. Without German backing, the Republicans would definitely win the war. He's literally saying if he had another chance, he would let the left-wing Republicans rule Spain. How else would you interpret this quote?
Joseph Barnes
Hitler's political testament is about how he blames everyone else for the state of the war. Here is the part on Italy. He regrets the whole North African theater, and would have prefered supporting his Muslims friends against colonialism to propping up an Italian colony.
When I pass judgment, objectively and without emotion, on events, I must admit that my unshakable friendship for Italy and the Duce may well be held to be an error on my part.
Had we been on our own, we could have emancipated the Moslem countries dominated by France; and that would have had enormous repercussions in the Near East, dominated by Britain, and in Egypt. But with our fortunes linked to those of the Italians, the pursuit of such a policy was not possible. All Islam vibrated at the news of our victories. The Egyptians, the Irakis and the whole of the Near East were all ready to rise in revolt. Just think what we could have done to help them, even to incite them, as would have been both our duty and in our own interest!
But the presence of the Italians at our side paralyzed us; it created a feeling of malaise among our Islamic friends, who inevitably saw in us accomplices, willing or unwilling, of their oppressors. For the Italians in these parts of the world are more bitterly hated, of course, than either the British or the French. The memories of the barbarous reprisals taken against the Senussi are still vivid. Then again the ridiculous pretensions of the Duce to be regarded as The Sword of Islam evokes the same sneering chuckle now as it did before the war. This title, which is fitting for Mahomed and a great conqueror like Omar, Mussolini caused to be conferred on himself by a few wretched brutes whom he had either bribed or terrorized into doing so. We had a great chance of pursuing a splendid policy with regard to Islam. But we missed the bus, as we missed it on several other occasions, thanks to our loyalty to the Italian alliance!
Henry Jones
He's 100% right. The Italian alliance was one of Germany's worst mistakes.
It also kind of proves OP's point. Anti-colonialism is much more left-wing than colonialism. Supporting the independence of Middle Eastern nations would put him to the far left of any mainstream European politician at the time.
Lucas Gonzalez
If they didn't have the Italian alliance Italy would have aligned against them with Austria and probably postponed the Anchluss
William Sanders
Hitler becomes more and more based everyday I hope he is resurrected someday. We need him.
