Historian-journalist Kevin Myers writing for the Irish Independent declared back in 2012 that ‘Everything people believed about Hitler’s intentions toward Britain was a myth created by Churchill.’
For example, Churchill perpetuated that the provable falsehood that Hitler desired to invade Britain in 1940. He says, ‘it was a total fabrication.’
On the contrary, Myers declared, Hitler ‘admired the British Empire,’ and that he ‘offered terms that did not involve German control of Britain. Churchill refused to allow these terms to be read to the cabinet, and they remain prudently concealed under the 100-year rule.’
Myers wrote:
‘Instead, Churchill’s determination to keep Britain at war turned what had been merely a continental defeat of its army into the enduring myth that in 1940, Britain faced a war for national survival.
But the German naval leader, Admiral Erich Raeder, had repeatedly forbidden his staff from planning an invasion of Britain. And far from wanting to continue the war, in June 1940, Hitler ordered 20 per cent of his army to be demobilised, in order to get the German economy going again.’
‘The ‘invasion fleet’ that the Nazis began to assemble that summer was no more capable of invading Britain than it was Hawaii. It was war by illusion: its purpose was to get the British to the negotiating table.’
‘Just about everything that people believed about Hitler’s intentions towards Britain in 1940, and still believe today, was a myth created by Churchill, which he probably came to believe himself. Consider all the facts above, and then consider how that myth has endured, despite them.
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Michael Walsh Stories and Books 
Reading Churchill’s 6 volume history of the Second World War in the seventies brought me to two conclusions. The man’s grasp of the English language was fascinating if not breathtaking. And, the second conclusion I made was no one is this perfect. There must be parts of his history that are propaganda even if they are just small omissions there must be some warts to this man’s near-perfect recollection of his war-time presence. It wouldn’t be until more than two decades later that I caught a glimpse of this man’s true character, his mendacity, and his selfishness. David Irving’s first volume in his Churchill trilogy, ‘The Struggle for Power,’ was the first of many books to paint a more accurate picture of whom I call the Empires Destroyer. Several other authors have brought more light to bear on Sir Winston’s foibles. John Charmley’s trilogy, ‘Chamberlain and the Lost Peace, Churchill, The End of Glory, and Churchill’s Grand Alliance,’ are more a re-hashing of Irving’s work, but, all point to reaccessing Chamberlain’s place in history and giving him the credit he deserves and revealing Churchills myriad mistakes and blunders that killed the Empire. It is also interesting to note that Martin Gilbert fawns all over the memory of Chuchill in his book ‘Churchill and the Jews,’ and see’s Churchill’s relationship with them as almost Saintly. But, I see a man who did much more for the Jews than his own fellow Britons. It is very possible and really probable that Churchill was socially engineered at an early age to serve the Jews. One needs only to read Gilbert’s book to realize this. But, I wonder if his mother had any influence here.
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I have learnt that Churchill had little time or inclination to involve himself as an author and researcher and certainly lacked the time top to work on his own memoirs. Any author will tell you that that volume of work completed, long before the internet, was impossible as a single person’s input. From early on, Churchill was accompanied by an army of scriptwriters, researchers and ghost-writers.
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Of course, that makes perfect sense.
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