Review of WW2 revisionism of Stalin's plans for conquest and mass murder Joachim Hoffmann: Stalin's War of Extermination, 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation
Valuable counter to the jejune pro-war silliness of official historians, June 26, 2010
Not a very lavishly produced volume: there are some documents reproduced in the back, but no photographs. The index incidentally is names only, possibly all men: Berlin, Moscow, Stalingrad aren't indexed.
Deals solely with the war between Germany and the USSR, of course including Poland and Ukraine among other territories. It's essentially descriptive, largely drawn from Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv documentation in Freiburg. Russian books are credited, though they are not listed in Cyrillic text; possibly they were translated into German. Most of the book deals with atrocities of this 'most cruel war in history': Stalin's teatment of his own officers, Stalin's henchmen's treatment of their own soldiers, Russian soldiers' behaviour, German reprisals, Ukrainian loss of life, various irregulars and partisans... In the book they're arranged chronologically and by location—victims in for example Kiev. Some of the book deals with propaganda and mythology; for example, Babi Yar was more or less made up in 1970. Ilya Ehrenberg figures a great deal.
There are enormous informational gaps, notably on the military strength of the Soviet Union, which of course was kept very secret indeed, as was all the financing and building of factories by various large combines from the west. Another gap is a full consideration of deaths: Hoffmann states that all serious researchers put the USSR deaths at about 40 million; if so, Stalingrad's deaths were small beer.
The main argument of the book is simply that war was inevitable, and Stalin's plans included conquering Europe, though I'm uncertain whether Hoffmann strictly speaking means this—for one thing, it's unlikely that Stalin's intentions were known by anyone. Hitler's attack is treated as unavoidable, and indeed justified, and only just in time. One aspect of the war is the huge number of Russians—about 5 million—who surrendered to the Germans, despite the certainty of being killed if released back to Russia. Very likely if Hitler had e.g. allied with Ukrainians, as well as some Russians, the thing could have been less disastrous.
This book is a valuable counter to the infantile pro-war juvenilia of official historians in the west. There's a special note to the effect that the book passed official German censorship requirements.
Nine years later:
Years later, I finally understood what was missing from this book! And what's missing is the international behavior of jews during this time. In particular, the jewish idea of killing whites is omitted, as is the possibility of Stalin's huge jew army in finance and communications and the same thing in Germany co-operating for jewish interests. Obviously Germany has a vast burden of jewish spies and liars; evidence for jews in the 1940s German military machine, and the Führer Prinzip as a technique for suppressing comment on Germany, may mesh with the USSR, and 'American' supplies taken from Americans.
So the whole aspect of deaths, and the joy of jews over them, is muted. Russians are targeted with Russian deaths, up to a point—a dead Russian girl's diary, who lived in 'Stalingrad'—I forget her name, of course—is not pushed. And here we have a German book, or possibly in fact jewish, on deaths of Germans. But the mutual hostility of Jews is unmentioned.
Twelve Years later:
Here is 'Pierre Simon' in the Occidental Observer of April 5, 2022:
Putin and Israel are strongly linked by two lies: the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War. Denying one would lead to denying the other. It’s as simple as that. Putin has unified the country with this national fiction, he can’t back out, same for Israel and the Jews in general, inn the case of the Holocaust. So two liars work hand in hand to keep the myths going. It’s a matter of life and death for both of them. The best book on the myth of the Great Patriotic War is Stalin’s War 1941-1945 by German orthodox historian Joachim Hoffmann, Castle Hill Publishers, 1999. You have to trust this book because in Germany you cannot publish rubbish on WW2. The book has to be overseen by a judge before it is published. In short, the Russians did not want to fight the Germans, they hated the Bolsheviks who had been terrorizing them for years. They had to be incited to fight by terror and propaganda. A huge bulk of the army surrendered and many fought with the Germans. They were not protecting the motherland, Stalin was about to invade Eastern Europe, Hitler’s attack was preemptive. By the way, in December 1944, two months before Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets, Ilya Ehrenburg, mentioned above, wrote in one of his many articles that 6 million Jews had died in gas chambers. It’s all in Hoffmann’s book.
So another issue is the pretence that Hitler and Stalin acted more or less alone—when both were part of a huge network of Jews acting in unison worldwide. In Germany this is only sayable if you wish to risk jail. My site has two pieces on all this:
(1) my long page on How the Master Race of Jews won the Second World War and
(2) hexzane527 (who is French; I doubt any Germans could publish this) on oddities in the Second World War stories, which point to international Jewish collaboration.
Miles Mathis has many interesting articles on secret funding by Jews of the Jewish actors and posers promoted by the Jewish media to this day, and their collaborators.