Adolf Hitler: An Overlooked Candidate for the Nobel Prize

By Alex S. Perry Jr.

If anyone deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, it was Adolf Hitler. Hitler did not want war. World War II
was forced on er!any. Poland was enco"ra#ed to attac$ er!any by the %ro!ises of British
A!bassador Sir Howard Willia! &ennard and 'rench A!bassador (eon Noel. )hey %ro!ised
"nconditionally that *n#land and 'rance wo"ld co!e to Poland+s i!!ediate aid sho"ld she need it in
case of war with er!any, therefore, no !atter what Poland did to %rovo$e er!any+s attac$, Poland
had an ass"rance fro! *n#land and 'rance. With this #"arantee, Poland be#an actin# r"thlessly. In
addition, &ennard and Noel flattered Poland into thin$in# she was a #reat %ower. As the -hinese
%roverb says, ./o" can flatter a !an to 0"!% off the roof.1 )hey sabota#ed the efforts of those Polish
leaders who wanted a %olicy of friendshi% with er!any.2
Poland delivered the first blow, and Hitler anno"nced, .Since dawn today, we are shootin# bac$,1 when
he s%o$e to the 3eichsta# on Se%te!ber 2, 2454. .Shootin# bac$1 is not the state!ent of an a##ressor.6
When Hitler attac$ed, 7onald 7ay said, Poland #ot exactly what she deserved. None of Poland+s
i!!ediate nei#hbors felt sorry for her. Poland had cond"cted a %olicy of terror. *thnic er!ans livin#
on er!an soil that had been #iven to Poland at the end of World War I by the 8ersailles Peace )reaty
had been so !istreated that 6 !illion left the area for er!any and elsewhere.5 )hey were driven fro!
what had been their ho!eland lon# beforeWorld War I. (eon 7e#relle, a yo"n# Bel#ian %olitical leader
in the 2459s, and who later 0oined Hitler+s hardest fi#htin# "nit, the Waffen SS, with over :99,999
other non;er!an *"ro%ean vol"nteers, says, .<f all the cri!es of World War II, one never hears abo"t
the wholesale !assacres that occ"rred in Poland 0"st before the war. )ho"sands of er!an !en,
wo!en and children were !assacred in the !ost horrendo"s fashion by %ress;enra#ed !obs. Hitler
decided to halt the sla"#hter and he r"shed to the resc"e.1: /o"n# er!an boys, when ca%t"red by the
Poles, were castrated.=
Willia! Joyce, nic$na!ed (ord Haw Haw by British %ro%a#anda, beca!e a er!an citizen and too$
"% for the er!an ca"se. He described the conditions of the er!ans who were livin# in Poland
beca"se of the 8ersailles )reaty>
er!an !en and wo!en were h"nted li$e wild beasts thro"#h the streets of Bro!ber#. When they
were ca"#ht, they were !"tilated and torn to %ieces by the Polish !ob. . . . *very day the b"tchery
increased. . . . ?)@ho"sands of er!ans fled fro! their ho!es in Poland with nothin# !ore than the
clothes that they wore. Aoreover, there was no do"bt that the Polish ar!y was !a$in# %lans for the
!assacre of 7anzi#. . . . <n the ni#hts of A"#"st 6= to A"#"st 52 incl"sive, there occ"rred, besides
inn"!erable attac$s on civilians of er!an blood, :: %erfectly a"thenticated acts of ar!ed violence
a#ainst er!an official %ersons and %ro%erty. )hese incidents too$ %lace either on the border or inside
er!an territory. <n the ni#ht of ?A"#"st 52@, a band of Polish des%eradoes act"ally occ"%ied the
er!an Broad castin# Station at leiwitz. Now it was clear that "nless er!an troo%s !arched at
once, not a !an, wo!an or child of er!an blood within the Polish territory co"ld reasonably ex%ect
to avoid %ersec"tion and sla"#hter.B
7"e to Poland+s atrocio"s acts a#ainst the er!an %eo%le, Hitler declared to British A!bassador Sir
Nevile Henderson on A"#"st 6=, 2454> .Poland+s %rovocations have beco!e intolerable.1C So Poland
delivered the first blow, not er!any. )he first blow was i!%ortant to the Dnited States in its war with
Ja%an. It #ave the Dnited States the ri#ht and 0"stification to do whatever was necessary to defeat the
Ja%anese. B"t er!any did not have this ri#ht with Poland even after Poland had delivered the first
blow.
What fair;!inded !an, if he $new the tr"e facts involved in the Polish sit"ation, co"ld bla!e Hitler for
his retaliatory attac$ on PolandE Poland, if any nation ever did, deserved exactly what er!any #ave
her in ret"rn. B"t Hitler did not even want to do what he had to do. No sooner than Hitler be#an
%rotectin# the er!an %eo%le inside Poland, he was ready to sto% all hostilities and be#in %eace
ne#otiations. Prince St"rdza narrates>
<nly ho"rs after the o"tbrea$ of hostilities between er!any and Poland, A"ssolini, renewin# his
efforts for %eace, %ro%osed to all the interested %owers an i!!ediate s"s%ension of hostilities and the
i!!ediate convocation of a conference between the #reat %owers, in which Poland wo"ld also
%artici%ate. A"ssolini+s %ro%osals were, witho"t any delay, acce%ted by all #overn!ents concerned
exce%t reat Britain.F
Before war bro$e o"t Britain+s a!bassador to Berlin, Sir Nevil Henderson, on A"#"st 59, 2454, said, in
his final re%ort of er!any+s %ro%osed basis for ne#otiations, .)hose %ro%osals are in #eneral not too
"nreasonable.1
*ven Pierre and 3enee osset, in their rabid anti;er!an boo$ Hitler, declare> .It was a %ro%osal of
extre!e !oderation. It was in fact an offer that no Allied states!an co"ld have re0ected in #ood
faith.14
As early as Jan"ary 24:2, Hitler was !a$in# extraordinary efforts to co!e to %eace ter!s with
*n#land. He offered *n#land #enero"s ter!s. He offered, if Britain wo"ld ass"!e an attit"de of
ne"trality, to withdraw fro! all of 'rance, to leave Holland and Bel#i"! . . . to evac"ate Norway and
7en !ar$, and to s"%%ort British and 'rench ind"stries by b"yin# their %rod"cts. His %ro%osal had
!any other favorable %oints for *n#land and Western *"ro%e. B"t *n#land+s officials did not want
%eace. )hey wanted war. Had they not celebrated their declaration of war by la"#hin#, 0o$in# and
drin$in# beerE29
Hitler allowed the British to esca%e at 7"n$ir$. He did not want to fi#ht *n#land. er!an en.
Bl"!entritt states why Hitler allowed the British to esca%e>
He ?Hitler@ then astonished "s by s%ea$in# with ad!iration of the British *!%ire, of the necessity for
its existence, and the civilization that Britain had bro"#ht into the world. He re!ar$ed with a shr"# of
the sho"lders, that the creation of the *!%ire had been achieved by !eans that were often harsh, b"t
.where there is %lannin# there are shavin#s flyin#.1 He co!%ared the British *!%ire with the -atholic
-h"rchGsayin# they were both essential ele!ents of stability in the world. He said that all he wanted
fro! Britain was that she sho"ld ac$nowled#e er!any+s %osition on the continent. )he ret"rn of
er!any+s lost colonies wo"ld be desirable b"t not essential, and he wo"ld even offer to s"%%ort
Britain with troo%s if she sho"ld be involved in any diffic"lties anywhere.22
Bl"!entritt+s state!ent is not the only notice abo"t Hitler+s ho%e of %eace and friendshi% with *n#land.
)he renowned Swedish *x%lorer Sven Hedin observed Hitler+s conf"sion abo"t Britain+s ref"sal to
acce%t his %eace offers> Hitler .felt he had re%eatedly extended the hand of %eace and friendshi% to the
British, and each ti!e they had blac$ed his eye in re%ly.1 Hitler said, .)he s"rvival of the British
*!%ire is in er!any+s interests too beca"se if Britain loses India, we #ain nothin# thereby.126 Harry
*l!er Barnes says that Hitler lost the war beca"se he was too #ood.
While the theory of Hitler+s diabolis! is #enerally acce%ted, there are very well infor!ed %ersons who
contend that he bro"#ht hi!self and er!any to r"in by bein# too soft, #enero"s and honorable rather
than too to"#h and r"thless. )hey %oint to the followin# considerations> he !ade a #en"ine and liberal
%eace offer to Britain on A"#"st 6=, 2454, he %er!itted the British to esca%e at 7"n$ir$ to enco"ra#e
Britain to !a$e %eace, which later on cost hi! the war in North Africa, he failed to occ"%y all of
'rance, ta$e North Africa at once, and s%lit the British *!%ire, he lost the Battle of Britain by failin# to
a%%rove the sava#ery of !ilitary barbaris! which %layed so lar#e a role in the Allied victory, he
delayed his attac$ on 3"ssia and offered Aolotov lavish concessions in Nove!ber 24:9 to $ee% %eace
between er!any and 3"ssia, he lost the war with 3"ssia by delayin# the invasion in order to bail
A"ssolini o"t of his idiotic attac$ on reece, and he declared war on the Dnited States to $ee% his
%led#ed word with Ja%an which had lon# before !ade it clear that it deserved no s"ch consideration
and loyalty fro! Hitler.25
7avid Irvin#+s descri%tive acco"nt of Hitler+s love for reat Britain confir!s what others had to say of
Hitler+s desire to do no har! to *n#land>
'or 69 years Hitler had drea!ed of an alliance with Britain. Dntil far into the war he cl"n# to the drea!
with all the vain, sli#htly ridic"lo"s tenacity of a lover "nwillin# to ad!it that his feelin#s are
"nreH"ited. As Hitler told Aa0. I"islin# on A"#"st 2F, 24:9>
.After !a$in# one %ro%osal after another to the British on the reor#anization of *"ro%e, I now find
!yself forced a#ainst !y will to fi#ht this war a#ainst Britain. . . .1
)his was the dile!!a confrontin# Hitler that s"!!er. He hesitated to cr"sh the British. Accordin#ly,
he co"ld not %"t his heart into the invasion %lannin#. Aore fatef"lly, Hitler stayed the hand of the
("ftwaffe and forbade any attac$ on (ondon "nder %ain of co"rt;!artial, the all;o"t sat"ration
bo!bin# of (ondon, which his strate#ic advisers 3aeder, Jodl, and Jeschonne$ all "r#ed "%on hi!, was
vetoed for one i!%la"sible reason after another. )ho"#h his staffs were instr"cted to exa!ine every
%eri%heral British %ositionGibraltar, *#y%t, the S"ez -analGfor its v"lnerability to attac$, the heart
of the British *!%ire was allowed to beat on, "n!olested "ntil it was too late. In these !onths an
ad0"tant overheard Hitler heatedly sho"tin# into a -hancellery tele%hone, .We have no b"siness to be
destroyin# Britain. We are H"ite inca%able of ta$in# "% her le#acy,1 !eanin# the e!%ire, and he s%o$e
of the .devastatin# conseH"ences1 of the colla%se of that e!%ire.2:

Hitler told Dndersecretary of State S"!ner Welles, Aarch 6, 24:9, J2K that he had lon# been in favor of
disar!a!ent, b"t had received no enco"ra#e!ent fro! *n#land and 'rance, J6K he was in favor of
international free trade, J5K er!any had no ai! other than the ret"rn of the .er!an %eo%le to the
territorial %osition that historically was ri#htly theirs1, J:K he had no desire to control non;er!an
%eo%le and he had no intention to interfere with their inde%endence, and J=K he wanted the ret"rn of the
colonies that were stolen fro! er!any at 8ersailles.2=
-h"rchill wanted war. -h"rchill was a war cri!inal. -h"rchill did not want %eace. He wanted the war
to contin"e as lon# as %ossible. In a Jan"ary 2, 24::, letter to Stalin, -h"rchill said> .We never tho"#ht
of %eace, not even in that year when we were co!%letely isolated and co"ld have !ade %eace witho"t
serio"s detri!ent to the British *!%ire, and extensively at yo"r cost. Why sho"ld we thin$ of it now,
when victory a%%roaches for the three of "sE12B )his is a confession even by -h"rchill that Hitler
never did want war with *n#land.
-h"rchill in his J"ly 24:5 "ildhall s%eech stated H"ite %lainly, .We entered the war of o"r free will,
witho"t o"rselves bein# directly assa"lted.12C
When -h"rchill was leavin# (ondon to !eet 3oosevelt for a conference in I"ebec late in the s"!!er
of 24:5, a re%orter as$ed if they were %lannin# to offer %eace ter!s to er!any. -h"rchill re%lied>
.Heavens, no. )hey wo"ld acce%t i!!ediately.12F So the war went on fro! A"#"st 24:5 "ntil Aay
24:=Gfor 66 !ore !onths 0"st beca"se %eace ter!s were not offered. -h"rchill wanted *n#land to be
in war with er!any as early as 245B.24
3oosevelt was a war cri!inal. He wanted war and he wanted World War II to last as lon# as %ossible.
Hitler and the er!an %eo%le did not want war, b"t 3oosevelt wanted war. He wor$ed for #ettin#
World War II started. He wanted war for %olitical reasons. Jesse Jones, a !e!ber of 3oosevelt+s
cabinet for five years, states, .3e#ardless of his oft;re%eated state!ent, LI hate war,+ he was ea#er to #et
into the fi#htin# since that wo"ld ens"re a third ter!.169
While the %resident re%eated he did not want war and had no intent to send an ex%editionary force to
*"ro%e, the !ilitant secretaries of the Navy and of the War 7e%art!ent, &nox and Sti!son, deno"nced
the ne"trality le#islation in s%eeches and %"blic declarations and advocated an A!erican intervention in
the Atlantic Battle. As !e!bers of the cabinet they co"ld not do it witho"t the %resident+s consent.62
When the %ress H"oted 'ran$ &nox as sayin#> .)he only ho%e for %eace for the Dnited States wo"ld be
the batterin# of er!any,1 '73 did not reb"$e hi!.66
7r. Ailton *isenhower, en. *isenhower+s brother, said, .President 3oosevelt fo"nd it necessary to #et
the co"ntry into World War II to save his social %olicies.165
-lare Booth;("ce shoc$ed !any %eo%le by sayin# at the 3e%"blican Party -onvention in 24:: that
3oosevelt .has lied "s ?the D.S.A.@ into the war.1 However, after this state!ent %roved to be correct,
the 3oosevelt followers ceased to deny it, b"t %raised it by clai!in# he was .forced to lie1 to save his
co"ntry and then *n#land and .the world.16:

3e%. Ha!ilton 'ish !ade the first s%eech in -on#ress on 7ece!ber F, 24:2, as$in# for a declaration of
war a#ainst Ja%an. In his boo$, '73> )he <ther Side of the -oin, 'ish says he is asha!ed of that
s%eech today and if he had $nown what 3oosevelt had been doin# to %rovo$e Ja%an to attac$, he wo"ld
never have as$ed for a declaration of war.6= 'ish said 3oosevelt was the !ain firebrand to li#ht the
f"se of war both in *"ro%e and the Pacific.6B
3oosevelt+s real %olicy was revealed when the er!ans were able to search thro"#h Polish doc"!ents
and fo"nd in the archives in Warsaw .the dis%atches of the Polish a!bassadors in Washin#ton and Paris
which laid bare 3oosevelt+s efforts to #oad 'rance and Britain into war. In Nove!ber 245F, Willia! -.
B"llitt, his %ersonal friend and a!bassador in Paris, had indicated to the Poles that the %resident+s
desire was for .er!any and 3"ssia ?to@ co!e to blows, where"%on the de!ocratic nations wo"ld
attac$ er!any and force her into s"b!ission1, in the s%rin# of 2454, B"llitt H"oted 3oosevelt as
bein# deter!ined .not to %artici%ate in the war fro! the start, b"t to be in at the finish.16C
<liver (yttelton, warti!e British %rod"ction !ana#er, was "ndeniably correct when he declared,
.A!erica was never tr"ly ne"tral. )here is no do"bt where her sy!%athies were, and it is a travesty on
history ever to say that the Dnited States was forced into the war. A!erica %rovo$ed the Ja%anese to
s"ch an extent that they were forced to attac$.16F

)he Ja%anese were be##in# for %eace before the ato! bo!bs were dro%%ed, and AacArth"r
reco!!ended ne#otiation on the basis of the Ja%anese overt"res. B"t 3oosevelt br"shed off this
s"##estion with the re!ar$> .AacArth"r is o"r #reatest #eneral and o"r %oorest %olitician.164 )hese
state!ents tell the whole history of World War II fro! the be#innin# to the end, )he war was started to
$ee% 3oosevelt in office and it was allowed to #o on !"ch lon#er than necessaryGit co"ld have been
over any day fro! 24:5 on. At the sa!e ti!e A!erican boys were battlin# to end World War II, leadin#
A!erican %oliticians were doin# all they co"ld for %olitical reasons to contin"e the conflict.
Hitler had only one #oal with re#ard to his relations with other nations. )hat #oal was %eace. <n Aay
2C, 2455, Hitler addressed the 3eichsta# abo"t his intentions>

er!any will be %erfectly ready to disband her entire !ilitary establish!ent and destroy the s!all
a!o"nt of ar!s re!ainin# to her, if the nei#hborin# co"ntries will do the sa!e thin# with eH"al
thoro"#hness. er!any is entirely ready to reno"nce a##ressive wea%ons of every sort if the ar!ed
nations, on their %art, will destroy their a##ressive wea%ons within a s%ecified %eriod, and if their "se is
forbidden by an international convention. er!any is at all ti!es %re%ared to reno"nce offensive
wea%ons if the rest of the world does the sa!e. er!any is %re%ared to a#ree to any sole!n %act of
non;a##ression beca"se she does not thin$ of attac$in# anybody b"t only of acH"irin# sec"rity.59

None of the .%eace lovin# de!ocracies1 %aid any attention to Hitler+s offer. )he only reason why &in#
*dward was not allowed to re!ain on the British throne was beca"se he let it be $nown that as lon# as
he was the $in#, *n#land wo"ld not #o to war with er!any. Hitler ex%ressed hi!self abo"t the res"lts
er!any wo"ld #ain fro! war> .A *"ro%ean war co"ld be the end of all o"r efforts even if we sho"ld
win, beca"se the disa%%earance of the British *!%ire wo"ld be a !isfort"ne which co"ld not be !ade
"% a#ain1 JAichael Ac(a"#hlin, 'or )hose Who -annot S%ea$, %a#e 29K.
Based on the above, Hitler sho"ld be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize %osth"!o"sly to set thin#s
strai#ht. He was not the ca"se of World War II and he did not want any war. He was a !an of %eace and
he wor$ed for %eace in every way he co"ld.

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2 7ay, 7onald, <nward -hristian Soldiers, BF;4. 7onald 7ay was )he -hica#o )rib"ne+s only
corres%ondent in northeastern *"ro%e before and d"rin# World War II.
6 Ac(a"#hlin, Aichael, 'or )hose Who -annot S%ea$, 4.
5 <nward -hristian Soldiers, ==.
: )he Jo"rnal of Historical 3eview, winter 24F6, :=:;=.
= 'ish, Ha!ilton, '73> )he <ther Side of the -oin, FB.
B )wili#ht <ver *n#land, 26=;B.
C )he S"icide of *"ro%e J!e!oirs of Prince Aichel St"rdza, for!er forei#n !inister of 3o!aniaK, 2.
F Ibid., 2:=.
4 Ibid., 22.
29 Ac(a"#hlin, o% cit., 29.
22 Barnes, Harry *l!er, Per%et"al War for Per%et"al Peace, 2B6. )he last sentence in the %ara#ra%h 0"st
H"oted sho"ld %"t an end to any clai! that Hitler wanted to ca%t"re the world.
26 Irvin#, 7avid, Hitler+s War, %a%erbac$ edition, Avon History, 65B.
25 )he Barnes )rilo#y, section .3evisionis! and Brainwashin#,1 55.
2: Irvin#, o%. cit., 65B.
2= )ansill, -harles -allan, Bac$ 7oor to War, =CC.
2B Walendy, Ddo, )he Aethods of 3eed"cation, 5.
2C Aartin, Ja!es J., )he Sa#a of Ho# Island, :6.
2F Aartin, Ja!es J., 3evisionist 8iew%oints, C=.
24 Neilson, 'rancis, )he -h"rchill (e#end, 5=9.
69 Jones, Jesse H., with *dward An#ly, 'ifty Billion 7ollars> Ay
)hirteen /ears with the 3'-> 2456;24:=, New /or$> the Aac!illan -o!%any, 24=2, 6B9.
62 'ehrenbach, ).'., '.7.3.+s Dndeclared War 2454 to 24:2, %a#es25=, 2F4.
66 Walendy, Ddo, )he Aethods of 3eed"cation, 5.
65 rieb, -onrad, A!erican Aanifest 7estiny and the Holoca"st, 26:;=.
6: Walendy, o%. cit., 5
6= Ibid., 2::.
6B Ibid., 2:4.
6C Irvin#, o%. cit., 65=.
6F )he Sa#a of Ho# Island, o%. cit., B5.
64 -ha!berlin, Willia! Henry, A!erica+s Second -r"sade, 624.
59 Neilson, 'rancis, )he -h"rchill (e#end, 6CF.
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