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BRIT WWII PROPAGANDA THAT FOOLED THE WORLD

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Robert St. John, Associated Press correspondent, was billeted in Belgrade when the Reich’s armies, to protect their eastern flank against Soviet and British encirclement, finally pushed through Yugoslavia, Greece and finally Crete.

With the approval of the British Embassy, the veteran war correspondent rushed out a story relating how 300,000 British troops stationed in Greece were ready to repel the Führer’s legions.

In fact, there were only about 40,000 British troops stationed in Greece. With the speed and ferocity of earlier blitzkriegs, the German Armed Forces swept southwards virtually unchallenged.

Having successfully escaped to Cairo, war correspondent St. John was bemused to learn that all he had written on the invasion of Greece had been turned into a fantasy by London-based editors and censors.

He said afterwards, ‘It seemed to be a tradition around the better places in Cairo that you mustn’t let the sleazy side of war creep in.’

The tenacious correspondent was determined to work objectively and dispassionately but constantly found his reports sabotaged page by page.

Often, a simple line would be deleted to give the opposite effect from that intended.

A priceless example of this was when he correctly wrote that, ‘The evacuation from Greece had not been another Dunkirk; the Greece evacuation had been much worse.’ 

The censor simply put a line through the second section of the sentence, leaving it to read, ‘The evacuation from Greece had not been another Dunkirk.’

Robert St. John and colleagues conservatively reckoned allied casualties to be 20,000 killed, wounded or captured. This had been changed to read 3,000.  You can share this story on social media:

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  1. I have read a lot about WWII and Germany, including Irving’s books, but you wrapped it all in a really tidy and factual package.  Am recommending to all my history truth seeking friends.  Thank you for such a great book.

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  2. THANK YOU, MIKE, FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION THAT VERY FEW IN OUR MEDIA LANDSCAPE ARE REPORTING ON.

    ONE WRITER YOU ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR, NICK GRIFFIN – WHO LED THE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY YEARS AGO – HAS WRITTEN ON THESE SUBJECTS.

    HE IS A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO AMERICAN FREE PRESS, WHICH I SUBSCRIBE TO.

    I JUST DISCOVERED YOUR SITE RECENTLY, WHEN I SAW SOME OF YOUR POSTS AT RENSE.COM

    THANK YOU FOR SHINING A LIGHT ON THESE VITAL TOPICS.

    DID YOU SEE THIS ARTICLE ON THE APPALLING WINSTON CHURCHILL?

    https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/10/winston-churchill-traitor-and-murderer/

    WINTERWATCH.NET IS A FANTASTIC SITE

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    • Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war.  And we’re only really beginning with it now!  We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing.  Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete.  It will never be final.
    • Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn.  Even one moment of negligence and the weeds crop up again – those indestructible weeds of historical truth.”

    Sefton Delmer – former Jewish chief of British/Australian ‘Black propaganda’ in a conversation with Dr Friedrich Grimm (German Professor of International Law)

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