How the allies wanted to steal victory in 1945

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The British planned to capture Berlin and claim victory in World War II. The Americans invaded the regions of Germany and the Czech Republic that were retreating to the Russians in order to take possession of German nuclear technologies in order to defeat Russia this way.

The Great Victory, which the people of Russia celebrate on May 9, could have been stolen from him, moreover, several times, in the same 1945, the then "allies" - Britain and the United States. In this regard, they usually recall the operation "Unthinkable" developed by their headquarters, which envisaged an attack on the Russian army a couple of months after the end of the war in Europe by 47 Anglo-American divisions, including 14 armored divisions, and 10-12 … German divisions.

However, as indicated in the final report of the Joint Command Headquarters, in response, the Russians could deploy forces equivalent to 170 Allied divisions, including 30 armored divisions: troops and four to one - in the ground. " And even the significant advantage of the "allies" in strategic aviation and at sea was not able to correct this strategic imbalance. The Anglo-Americans concluded that it would hardly be possible to defeat the Russians in Europe. A war not properly prepared politically will drag on for a long time. It can cover various regions of the world, it will become total, and victory in it will be completely illusory.

This insidious plan, which Russia became aware of in time, which promptly carried out a series of military measures that cooled the ardor of the "allies", was shelved. The "unthinkable", and in fact still as conceivable, did not happen, although there has been no shortage of new Western plans to crush Russia since then.

They tried to steal victory in World War II from Russia twice - both before and after it. Here the Allies were divided, as the British set their sights on victory in World War II, and the Americans in the next. Little is known about this, so let's fill this gap.

How Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to surpass Marshal Zhukov

British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, by the beginning of the war, Major General, who barely escaped from the trap in Dunkirk, was a media character who was promoted beyond all measure. He was not a great commander, winning his victories either with a multiple superiority of forces and means over the enemy, or over such an enemy who no longer wanted to fight.

In the last months of the war, this middle-class commander, who had made a career for himself in North Africa, in a secondary theater of operations, set out to take Berlin. Victory in a war, especially of the old type, consists in capturing and forcing the capitulation of the enemy's capital. Whoever captured it is the winner. Russia became the winner. In the First World War, the Russians did not succeed in taking Berlin, and they were among the losers, by the way, thanks to the same "allies". The second chance in the Second World War could not be missed: everything was available for this. It was here that Montgomery, who did not achieve serious success either in Italy, nor in Normandy, or in Holland, and tried to steal from Russia the Victory Day for his country, and for himself personally - the glory of the great commander, the conqueror of Germany.

Here is what the British field marshal writes on this subject in his memoirs: “As soon as we crossed the Rhine, I began to discuss plans for further operations with Eisenhower. We held several meetings. on the way to it, we would greatly facilitate our post-war tasks. "Montgomery noted the "extreme importance" of "establishing a political balance in Europe that would help us, the Western peoples, win in a peaceful order," and "this required the occupation of some political centers in Europe - in particular Vienna, Prague and Berlin - before the Russians. " The field marshal complains that "if the political leaders of the West correctly exercised the top leadership of the course of the war, and the Supreme Commanders-in-Chief received the appropriate instructions, we could be in all these cities earlier than the Russians."

War is a political instrument; as soon as it becomes clear that you can win, the further course of hostilities should be determined by political considerations, - further writes Montgomery. - In the fall of 1944, I clearly understood that the way we did business would lead to consequences that would be felt long after the end of the war; then it seemed to me that we would "spoil" everything. I have to admit that this is exactly what we did."

However, Montgomery did not obey, and not at all due to the fact that the Americans, who dictated his policy to London at the end of the war, were very naive. They were not at all naive, as they were already thinking about the future. The field marshal himself turned out to be naive.

Why could Montgomery easily take Berlin?

It would seem that Montgomery had self-evident things in mind and, having set Berlin as his goal, set a very real task for his forces and the Western allies as a whole. The war in Europe - after the landing of the Allies in Italy in the fall of 1943, the fierce battles in Normandy, the capture of Paris in August 1944 and the fierce battles for the first major German city - Aachen in the fall of the same year - acquired the character of an imitation. The Germans imitated the doomed offensive in the Ardennes, after which, from the beginning of 1945, as if they had secretly agreed on something with someone, they together ceased to provide real resistance to the allies in Western Europe, who had absolute superiority in everything. Individual units, boys from the Hitler Youth, veterans from the East who ended up on the Western Front after being wounded, resisted, and even that was unstable and more on personal initiative than on orders. That's all.

American military leader George Patton ferried his troops across the Rhine without losing a single man. The British, Americans, Canadians and French rolled along the Autobahns, occupying, with a few exceptions, cities without a fight, in which white flags of surrender hung from dilapidated houses. The famous "Ruhr Cauldron", to which Montgomery was involved, where about 317 thousand German soldiers and officers surrendered, was pure fiction. Those who wanted to surrender, and those who did not, left home to the British and Americans surrendered. In his memoirs, one of the Waffen-SS tank aces Otto Carius, who had fought on the Eastern Front before, and was deeply shocked by what he saw on the Western Front, recalls how he once appeared for negotiations with an American commander. He advised the SS man "to take care of his people, because we will soon need every soldier to carry out joint tasks." The German tanker concluded that the American meant "a joint campaign against the Russians."

As you can see, the Americans were not at all "naive" and, nevertheless, the allied command did not give Montgomery the opportunity to take Berlin. In other words, simply drive tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks into the German capital through the Nazi army parted in different directions in order to accept its surrender and hoist the British flag over the Reichstag.

Who gave the field marshal a hand?

Montgomery and Britain failed to steal victory in World War II from Russia. Partly because Washington and London were afraid to cheat so openly in front of Stalin. But mainly for a different reason. Because the Americans were already thinking about the Third World War against Russia and wanted to find a weapon of victory for her. This task was so serious that it had to sacrifice the ambitions of the British military and politicians. And American too. In vain, it turned out, they wrote overseas in 1943 an incendiary song: "It will be very hot in the city of Berlin", which was performed by singer Bing Crosby and the Andrews sisters:

Why didn't the guys from Brooklyn take Berlin?

However, instead of Berlin, Montgomery's troops rolled, without encountering resistance, to the north of Germany, to the Danish border, so as not to let the Russians go to where they were supposed to sail to the United States from the remaining naval bases of the Germans' naval bases, submarines with nuclear fuel and all kinds of equipment for entering dead end of the American atomic program. And the US army, completely forgetting about Berlin, rushed to Thuringia and West Bohemia, which were supposed to occupy, overcoming the desperate resistance of the Germans, Russian troops.

In general, the Americans behaved somehow strangely in Germany. But only at first glance. Ahead of their armies in present-day Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Thuringia, strange people were moving in jeeps, whose senior officer had an order from the President of the United States to reassign American troops to himself. Even the Supreme Commander of the Western armies in Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was obliged to obey him.

It was the American atomic special forces "Alsos", commanded by Boris Pash - Boris Pashkovsky, a Russian Orthodox priest who became a colonel in the US Army, in which he settled after the Bolshevik coup in Russia. It was he who made adjustments to the plans of Eisenhower and Patton, a general of irrepressible temperament who quickly died after the war, perhaps precisely because he knew too much and did not know how to keep his mouth shut. It was he who deployed American corps and divisions to capture areas of Germany that were withdrawn to the Russians and the French, in which German nuclear facilities were located and scientists and other valuable specialists were located, the lists and addresses of which he had.

Pasha's team included world-renowned scientists; he himself well understood the scientific side of his work and how important it is. The Americans rowed everything that was related to the German nuclear program - equipment, "stuffing" for bombs (probably the bombs themselves, which is not officially recognized yet), scientists and technicians. So, the Americans "outstripped" the French in the zone of occupation assigned to them in southern Germany, where many German nuclear facilities and scientific personnel were evacuated, after which they left, taking everything that was possible with them. The Americans deliberately violated the demarcation line and broke into the Czech Republic and Thuringia in the Soviet zone, from where they did not leave until they took out everything they needed: equipment, raw materials, specialists, samples of military products that interest them. And what they could not take away, they blew it up so that the Russians - future opponents - did not get anything.

This is not a conspiracy theory

The fact is that by the middle of the war in Germany, according to a number of historians and many direct and indirect signs, a "weapon of retaliation" nevertheless appeared. First, a uranium bomb, and then a plutonium bomb, which have been tested and are ready for use. There were strategic bombers that could, starting from France or Norway, drop an atomic bomb on New York and return. Cruise and ballistic missiles - V-1 and V-2. The Germans came close to creating an intercontinental ballistic missile. They had colossal scientific achievements in other areas, which went to the USA and the USSR after the war. Why the Nazis did not use this impressive arsenal is another question, about which Constantinople wrote a lot.

This is precisely the desire of the "allies" to acquire the weapon of victory to establish world domination, which was not immediately realized in Moscow, and at the end of the Second World War was their most important task, the main goal. The war ended, in fact, after the United States incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. And these were not American bombs. At that time, the Americans did not have enough "filling" even for one atomic bomb. We didn't have our own infrared proximity fuses to detonate properly. The plutonium "Fat Man", first tested by them literally on the eve of official use, was just a crude "product" that needed further refinement over a couple of years, which could not fit at that moment due to its gigantic size in any American bomber, even in larger British. So it turns out that captured German atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were delivered to the United States from Germany by the Alsos special forces.

Their plan failed

Russia was to be the next victim. Returning on the heavy cruiser Augusta from the Potsdam conference in the United States, President Harry Truman ordered Eisenhower to prepare a plan for an atomic war against yesterday's ally, the country that crushed Nazi Germany.

Russia was then saved by the fact that the United States did not yet have its own atomic bombs, and the German ones were not enough to win the Third World War. Russia also got some of the German secrets and weapons systems, including those that the Germans shared with Moscow voluntarily. Therefore, the main task for Russia after the Second World War was to get hold of nuclear weapons as soon as possible, regardless of the price, and it was solved in record time. The Korean War, which began in 1950, convinced the Americans that although they had more atomic bombs at that time, their "flying fortresses", which became easy prey for Russian fighters in the skies of Korea, would not be able to deliver these deadly weapons to where they needed to. As for rocketry, Russia had no lag behind the United States.

So Russia could not be defeated either in the Second World War, or in the Third, which was thus generally avoided. And the upcoming Victory Day is a good reason to once again remember this. As well as the morality that follows from dearly paid historical experience: to live in peace, you need to be strong.