[Above: Adolf Hitler and Oshima, both bowing in respect of one another, meeting in 1939]

Adolf Hitler held Oshima in such high regard that on December 13th, 1941 he awarded him the coveted Grand cross of the German Eagle Order in Gold, of which he was one of only fifteen ever awarded!

[Above: Adolf Hitler awarding Oshima the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle in Gold]

[Above: The astonishingly beautiful Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle in Gold]

Oshima paid Adolf Hitler back with utter loyalty and friendship. On the dark day of April 13, 1945 Oshima met with Ribbentrop and solemnly vowed to stand with Adolf Hitler and the people of Berlin, come what may! He said to Ribbentrop: 'I do not wish to be treated in the same manner as other diplomats merely by reason of great danger from the ravages of war'.

This brave old Samurai wasn't able to die with his comrades in the hellfire of Berlin, however. Adolf Hitler ordered him and the other diplomats out of Berlin and to safety. It wasn't to be, great Oshima.

On December 16, 1945 he was charged with 'war crimes' and brought before the kangaroo court called 'The International Military Tribunal for the Far East'. No surprise, he was found guilty of 'conspiring to wage aggressive war' on November 12, 1948 and sentenced to life imprisonment! This foolishness was later acknowledged and he was paroled in late 1955 and even granted clemency three years later.

[Above: International women's meeting in Berlin of thirteen nations. From left to right - Norway's Frau Olga Bjoner (Landesleiterin d. Norwegischen NS-Frauenorganisation), Germany's Frau Scholtz-Klink (Reichsfrauenführerin), Japan's Frau Oshima (wife of the Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima), Spain's Pilar Primo de Rivera (Frauenführerin, founder of the women's Falange section and sister of martyr José Antonio Primo de Rivera) and Italy's Marchesa Olga Medici. October 7, 1941. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: Inscribed and autographed picture of Oshima]

[Above: Here is a German postcard with a message in Japanese characters from 1942, sent from Berlin to Hamburg. Unfortunately, I have no clue what it says, but it is an interesting artifact of German-Japanese cooperation and friendship. Both countries had civilian, scientific and military exchange programs. The two allies had a deep respect for one another, despite having very different cultures and languages. There were approximately 10,000 Japanese nationals who lived in Germany during the Third Reich. Strange that the liars who rule this world try to convince us otherwise. If you still believe in the lies and propaganda after reading and seeing this page than you are a valuable slave to their disintegrating empire.]

[Above: Toshio Shiratori]

'The war has now moved from China to South Eastern Asia, and is about to enter the stage of the war for all Asia.'
-Toshio Shiratori

[Above: The front page of Arnold von Skerst's internment file, 1939.]

[Above: A tragic end.]

[Above: Surya Majapahit, the Sun Emblem of ancient Majapahit empire]

[Above: Local branch of the NSDAP in Padang, West Sumatra.]

The Indonesian branch of the National Socialist Party was founded in June 1933 under the supervision of NSDAP/Auslands-Organization (Nazi Party Foreign Organization) by German diplomat and personal friend of Adolf Hitler, Walther Hewel.

This foreign branch of the NSDAP was very popular among the large German Dutch East Indies community. In fact, by 1937 it had established branches in Batavia (Jakarta), Bandung, Makassar, Surabaya, Semarang, Medan, and Padang.

[Above: Walther Hewel (January 2, 1904 – May 2, 1945).]

Walther Hewel later returned to Germany and in the following years served Adolf Hitler and Germany in a diplomatic capacity. As the war years advanced Hewel became Adolf Hitler's personal assistant.

Hewel remained with his friend and Führer until the dire end. He was one of the last people to engage in a long, personal conversation with Adolf Hitler. Even in the dark days preceding the end, Hewel tried to cheer his friend up and brought whatever light to the desperate situation that he could.

Following Adolf Hitler's martyrdom, Hewel escaped the Führerbunker in a group led by SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke. But this was only a delay of Hewel's plans. He knew that without Adolf Hitler there was no place for him. Courageously, with a lifetime of service to his country flashing through his mind, he bit down on a cyanide capsule while shooting himself in the head.

The NSDAP party was not only in the Dutch East Indies however. There was also the Dutch National Socialist Party, the NSB (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging). In 1936 the leader of the NSB, Anton Mussert, twice visited Indonesia. Many local Indonesians supported the NSB, and by 1937 there were over 6000 members.

[Above: German civilians from Dutch Batavia (Jakarta) celebrating the Japanese invasion of Java island (Dutch East Indies) in 1942.
Note the homemade flag!]

[Above: Pin of the B.U.F. = British Union of Fascists.]

'Once with us, always with us.'
-Saying of the British Fascists

'The Jews have been treated in Britain with a fairness and generosity unparalleled elsewhere, and have banded together against us, despite the conventional opinion that it was very wrong to combine against them. And now this organized alien minority, who have enriched themselves at our expense, repay our generosity by political terrorism carried out at the point of the economic gun.
It is a strange thing that a great country should allow both the economic and the political freedom of so many of its citizens to be at the mercy of an organized minority who owe allegiance, and who admit they owe it, not primarily to Britain, but to their kinsmen beyond our borders, and whose capacity for mischief is exceeded only by their desire to do it.'
-Sir Oswald Mosley

[Above: Sir Oswald Mosley (November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980)]

'Not on grounds of race or religion, but on the fundamental principal of Fascism, we declare that we will not tolerate an organized community within the state which owes allegiance not to Britain, but to another race in foreign countries... We shall not fight Germany again in a Jewish quarrel.'
-Oswald Mosley, October 1934, at Albert Hall

[Above: Sir Oswald Mosley addresses a meeting held in Albert Hall April 22, 1934. Approximately 10,000 attended, which at the time was one of the largest indoor political meetings ever held.]

[Above: An early photo of Oswald Mosley.]

[Above: Sir Oswald Mosley in Italy in 1932 meeting Benito Mussolini. He met Mussolini a half dozen times, and Adolf Hitler twice.]

[Above: Sir Oswald Mosley on the cover of Time Magazine, March 16, 1931.]

Click here to hear the excerpt (1:42)

'Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.'
-Oswald Mosley

[Above: The British Union of Fascists march in London, circa 1939.]

[Above: The old and the young unite for freedom.]

[Above: William Brooke Joyce (April 24, 1906 - January 3, 1945)]

[Above: American born William Joyce, propagandist for the B.U.F. and later famed radio broadcaster for Germany, was put to death for treason after the war even though he was born in America, lived in Germany and had German citizenship, and had given up his British citizenship.
For what you ask?
For a radio program! After he was murdered by his enemies by hanging he was buried within the Wandsworth Prison walls, in an unmarked grave, and was allowed no mourners. His lifeless body was dumped in a hole in the middle of the night, without words or ceremony, like a piece of garbage, and thrown on top of the remains of another man, a murderer named Robert Blaine who had been hanged five days earlier!]

But Joyce had a destiny all his own and on May 1939 the NSL had its final meeting. Shortly after, Joyce went to Germany to fullfil his glorious fate.

'My movement has been largely built up by the fanaticism of women; they hold ideals with tremendous passion.
Without women I could not have got a quarter of the way.'

[Above: Diana (Mitford) Mosley (June 17, 1910 - August 11, 2003). Diana was Oswald Mosley's wife.]

[Above: This is a proposed sleeve shield design for Swedish Waffen-SS volunteers. This was taken from a map produced by the SS (Germanische Leitstelle, Amtsgruppe D of the SS-Hauptamt), being one of the last documents produced by the SS foreign volunteers recruitment office.]

[Above: A Swedish National Socialist postcard from the 1930s. This was produced by Aage H. Andersen's group, the N.S.A.P. - 'nordisk helg' translates as 'Nordic weekend'.]

These brave men, leaving behind the safety of their neutral country, served in the 5th SS-Panzer Division Wiking, the 11th SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division Nordland and the 23rd SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division Nederland and several others. In Nordland Division, they were concentrated in 3 Kompanie, SS Aufklärungs Abteilung 11. There were so many Swedes in this company that it became known as the 'Swedenzug' (Swedish platoon).

Thus far research has found that at least 20 Swedish officers graduated from the SS-Junkerschule at Bad Tölz in Bavaria. Additionally, at least five Swedish officers served in the SS Kriegsberichter Kurt Eggers unit as war correspondents.

It is also known that numerous Swedes won the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class, at least one was awarded the Honor Roll Clasp of the German Army, and even the German Cross in Gold.

These valiant, selfless and courageous Swedes were even amongst the last defenders of Berlin.

[Above: Heinrich Himmler during a visit to the Sennheim camp inspecting Swedish volunteers. Circa Autumn 1943.]

[Above: A Swedish volunteer fighting with the Finns on the Hanko Front reads a newspaper in finely decorated barracks, 1941. Many Swedes volunteered to fight the communist Soviets with their Finnish brothers before WWII.]

[Above: Swedish SS-Untersturmführer Heino Meyer, born in Stockholm in 1923. In 1941 he joined the Waffen-SS and served in the Wiking Division. In 1942 Meyer was wounded on the Eastern Front. After recovering from his wounds he trained to be an officer at the SS-Junkerschule in Bad Tolz and graduated in 1943.

Meyer was still being treated for his wounds when the war ended. He moved to South America and later Spain. His whole life he carried shrapnel in his neck that couldn't be extracted because the surgery would be too dangerous. He died in 1995 in Argentina.]

[Above: Swedish SS-Untersturmführer Hans-Gösta Pehrsson, Narva (the eastern most city in Estonia, along the border of Russia), 1944.]

Before the war he worked in Denmark as a chemist in the 1930s. On May 8, 1936 he was married to an Austrian woman named Edith Gelfius. Shortly after their marriage they had a daughter.

Pehrsson recognized the danger of communism early and by the time 1941 came around he eagerly joined the Waffen-SS. After numerous battles, injuries and promotions he collected a large repertoire of medals, like the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class, the bronze Infantry Assault Badge, the black Wound Badge, the NSDAP Honor Cross for Combatants, and the silver Close Combat Clasp.

On May 15, 1944 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer. The love and respect he earned from his men was near mythic in proportions.

SS-Obersturmführer Josef Sepp Schirmer, of the 4th/SS Panzer Reconnaissance Unit 11, recollected Pehrsson warmly:
'Gösta Pehrsson was a good comrade. Loyal, honest, brave. He had great military knowledge and skills. He helped everyone out of trouble, even if he had to risk his life to do it. Every comrade's life was more valuable to him than his own life. He took care of his men and company. He was caring, friendly and warm-hearted.'

Pehrsson's superhuman courage and warrior-spirit shined brightest in October 1944 in Trekni while commanding Nordland Division. One of his comrades remembered:
'In the Preekuln area the 3rd/SS Panzer Reconnaissance Unit 11 was not successful. This place was called Trekni. Pehrsson received an order for the 3rd company directly from Brigadeführer Ziegler: 'Attack! Conquer one strategically important point and keep it until the last men are alive!' After the attack, once we had driven the enemies away from the upland and occupied their bunkers, only a few men from Pehrsson's company had remained. It was terrible bloodshed, one-on-one. The Russians knew what was at stake and tried to use all possible means to retake the upland. For four days we tried to stay strong and beat off the enemy's attacks. On the fifth day we had to retreat. Pehrsson's command point was about 100 meters behind the bunker line. I'll never forget the moment he saw us. He yelled: 'Cowards, go back!', although he knew we had no other choice. And then he led his MG to attack and we followed him. We surprised the Russians, who were certain of their win, with 12 men. Russians had not seen it coming and we managed to capture more than 100 enemy's men.'

During the following days of hell, from October 16 - 19, 1944 Pehrsson and his men destroyed seven T-34 tanks and killed many enemies. He was later awarded the coveted Honor Roll Clasp.

[Above: The Honor Roll Clasp of the German Army had the following requirements:

It is estimated that a mere 4,556 Honor Roll Clasps were awarded before the end of the war.]

In Autumn of 1944 Pehrsson and his Nordic comrades volunteered to fight in four terribly violent Courland (Kurland) battles.

[Above: Postage stamps overprinted on April 20, 1945 in the area along the North Sea coast of the Baltic Peninsula.]

By January 1945 the battered division was finally moved to Germany. The heroic Pehrsson continued his fight in Pomerania, where every day was close combat. For these bloody days Pehrsson received the Silver Close Combat Clasp.

[Above: Silver Close Combat Clasp.]

On March 8, 1945 Pehrsson was severely wounded when his bunker was destroyed by a bomb near Altdamm in Hornskrug (Western Pomeranian). His good comrade SS-Unterscharführer Franz Berezyak saved him by evacuating him though a forest and a swamp to Stettin. Pehrsson lived and received the Silver Wound Badge.

[Above: Silver Wound Badge.]

On April 15, 1945 Pehrsson was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer and he was transferred to the division's headquarters where he replaced the Swiss SS-Hauptsturmführer Günter Greef.

In the terrible days that followed the Nordland Division fought with such courage and ferocity that it became a modern legend. By April 25, 1945 Pehrsson took command of the SS Panzer Reconnaissance Unit's 3rd (armor) company. The bloodied unit fought in the streets of Berlin until Pehrsson's command-SPW vehicle was hit by a bomb on May 1, 1945 and it exploded into flames.

For three days he evaded the enemy which swarmed the ruined city. On May 3rd he was captured but soon escaped and made his way through Berlin. By June 2, 1945 he and his comrade Swedish SS-Unterscharführer Erik Wallin escaped back to Sweden.

[Above: Hans-Gösta Pehrsson.]

Pehrsson's long battle was finally over. Lady Luck had never abandoned him. He lived the rest of his remarkable life in Sweden and died on March 16, 1974 in Stockholm.

[Above: A Swedish volunteer from the Nordland Division using a Panzerschreck ('Tank Terror') on the Narva front in 1944.]

[Above: Swedish volunteer Erik Wallin joined Waffen-SS in 1943. He was born in Stockholm in 1921.]

[Above: Swedish volunteers from the Nordland Division photographed in 1944 on the Narva front. From left to right: Gösta Borg, Hans-Caspar Kreuger, Hans-Gösta Pehrsson, Gunnar Eklöf, Carl Svensson and Thorkel Tillmann. All of them but Hans-Caspar Kreuger attended and graduated from the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz officer training in Bavaria.]

[Above: Here is a grim picture of the aftermath of the Battle of Berlin. The armored vehicle has been identified by a Swedish historian as belonging to a Swedish volunteer unit attached to SS Nordland. Another example, like that of Spain, who also was neutral, of private individuals leaving their countries of origin to fight for the Axis. Just think, Swedes dying defending Berlin?! But as I've said before, many of Berlin's defenders were not German. A fact they hide from us. Click to see more!]

[Above: This is a proposed sleeve shield design for Swiss Waffen-SS volunteers. This was taken from a map produced by the SS (Germanische Leitstelle, Amtsgruppe D of the SS-Hauptamt), being one of the last documents produced by the SS foreign volunteers recruitment office.]

There is an exhaustive study (750+ pages) on the subject entitled: 'Vincenz Oertle Sollte ich aus Russland nicht zurückkehren, Schweizer Freiwillige an deutscher Seite 1939-1945, eine Quellensuche', Zürich 1997

[Above: Feldpost envelope sent home to Zurich, Switzerland, from a Swiss Waffen-SS volunteer. This soldier was a member of the Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 240. In 1945 it was stationed on the English Channel by Wimereux, France. It was destroyed defending Europe during the American Normandy invasion.]

[Above: Swiss National Socialist postcard from 1931 from the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen (League of National Socialist Confederates or B.N.S.E.):
' Die Schweiz als Nationalitätenstaat kann nur bestehen, wenn die völkische Eigenart der vier arisch = christlichen Volksstämme als Grundlage des Staatspolitisch neutralen Gesamtschweizerstaates erkannt wird, denn ein Staat hat nur Dauer und Berechtigung zum Leben, sofern er auf dem völkischen Bewusztsein ruht. Das ziel jeder Erneuerungsbewegung kann nur sein, dem Staate einen blut = und seelenvollen Inhalt zu geben; dann können auch seine kulturen und seine Wirtschaft leben.'
Which basically translates as:
'Switzerland can only exist as an national state if the peoples' individuality of the four Aryan Christian tribes is recognized as the basis of the state-politically neutral and completely Swiss state, because a state can only have duration and justification for life, if it rests on the national consciousness. The goal of any renewal movement can only be to give the state blood and soulful content; then its culture and economy can live.'
Click to see more.]

The League of National Socialist Confederates was led by Theodor Fischer, who on June 13, 1933, became famous after distributing leaflets at a National Front meeting. The leaflets contained an article written by Alberto Meyer, which was deemed to be 'anti-Semitic'. This was fought out in the Swiss courts in what became known as the 'Berne Trial' (held in Berne, Switzerland between 1933-1935). Not surprisingly, Fischer was found guilty and ordered to pay a symbolic fine and court costs. This was later successfully appealed. Fischer's group is known to have said that Switzerland had become a 'vassal state of France under Jewish control'

[Above: A newspaper done by Fischer - 'Der Eidgenosse, Kampfblatt der Nationalsozialistischen Eidgenossen, Herausgeber Theodor Fischer, Nr. 12 vom 15. Juni 1933.'
basically says:
'The Confederate - Battle Paper of the National Socialist Confederates, publisher Theodor Fischer, No. 12 of 15, June 1933'.
To quote an article from The Confederate:
'For the eroticism of the Jew is monstrous, and he uses it, on the basis of his national Talmudic teachings, as a means of combating the non-Jewish peoples, spoiling them by mixing their blood... The attitude of the Jew toward the Aryan girl is completely different from that of his fellow race. But this upholding of the Jewish woman as well as his Talmudic laws by no means prevent him from entering countless love adventures outside of marriage... The Talmud says the following to the Jew: "The Jews alone are called men, but the Gentiles are not called men, but cattle." (Baba bathra 114b)... But you Swiss girl, it is said, there is no greater sin than to be disgraced by a Jew, because that is a sin against the blood.']

[Above: Postcard showing Lake Constance (German: Bodensee), a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps which borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland.]

[Above: Colonel Arthur Fonjallaz]

While he was still a young student attending military college, Fonjallaz visited Italy and developed a deep respect for Mussolini's fascist party. Fonjallaz excelled at all he set out to do, and years later, in 1932, he formed the 'Federation Fasciste Suisse' after meeting with Mussolini, who helped him with funding the party for the next few years.

[Above: Symbol of the FFS. Note the use of the fasces.]

After dabbling in politics for a spell, in 1933 it came to light that he was a member of the governing board of the fascist Heimatwehr as well as the National Front, and, very 'democratically', he was relieved of his duties in the military as punishment.

[Above: Colonel Arthur Fonjallaz]

In 1937 Fonjallaz published a biography of Mussolini called 'Enérgie et Volonté' (Drive and Will). During the next few years not much is known about his activities.

[Above: Silver pin of the FFS.]

Sometime in 1937 he ended the Federation Fasciste Suisse. Three years later he was arrested on charges of 'spying' for Germany and imprisoned until 1943. One year later he would be dead.

[Above: Here is a postcard from the NSSAP. The Swiss government banned the use of swastikas and other political group's symbols. Here stamps have been applied by the authorities to block the swastika imagery. They basically say that the 'hakenkreuz' is forbidden.]

[Above: Purchasing these 'Spende' stamps benefited the NSSAP.]

[Above: As above, but a different denomination. Purchasing these 'Spende' stamps benefited the NSSAP.]

[Above: This is the first edition of the newspaper of the Schweizerische Nationalsozialistische Volkspartei (SNSVP).]

[Above: Wehrmacht soldiers salute a Swiss guard in front of a Swiss embassy.]

[Above: German and Swiss border guards, 1940.]

[Above: German and Swiss border guards.]

[Above: Cancel from a Swiss Red Cross envelope sent to Spain. It says 'Pro Juventute 1941' (For Youth), December 17, 1941.]

[Above: Here is a very neat Swiss cancel. Don't you just love it? The shadow of a Swiss soldier, with his distinctive Swiss helmet, telling civilians to be quiet, the enemy could be listening. ]

[Above: Waffen-SS Handschar collar tab]

[Above: Officers of the Yugoslavian Muslim division 'Handschar' in 1944.]

[Above: Postcard depicting Yugoslavian Prince Regent Paul and Princess Olga. This was released for their state visit to Berlin in 1939.]

[Above: Adolf Hitler organized a grand welcoming ceremony with honor guards for Regent Paul and Princess Olga. He personally waited for them to arrive at the train station.]

[Above: Joseph Goebbels gave a tea reception honoring Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia at Schwanenwerder on June 3, 1939.]

[Above: Adolf Hitler with Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia. It is said that he was very fond of the princess.]

[Above: Adolf Hitler and Prince Regent Paul. Circa 1939.]

[Above: Adolf Hitler with Prime Minister Zwetkowitsch of Yugoslavia at the Obersalzberg.]

Historian Ryszard Kaczmarek's conservative estimate of Poles who served in the Wehrmacht, based on documentary evidence, is 295,000. But Kaczmarek himself considers this very low and is more inclined to accept numbers of up to 500,000.
[Source: Kulczycki, John J. (March 7, 2016). Belonging to the Nation. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674969537.]

The hidden hands controlling Poland threatened to invade Germany in 1939. And much, much worse, in Danzig, which Poland occupied since WWI, there were terrible massacres of German civilians. In one bloody event 58,000 German nationals were slaughtered by the Polish army. There was also what is called 'Bloody Sunday' in Bromberg, Germany where Polish Jews, under the protection of the Polish army murdered 5,500 German civilians. These events and others forced Germany's hand and prompted the German invasion of Poland. But like Russia, this was not a war against the Polish people, but against the hidden hands controlling Poland.

[Above: Bromberg dead, murdered not by the Polish people, but by the bloodthirsty forces who engineered WWII.]

- The Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland [1940] -

Once this threat was removed these artificial tensions began to subside. Germans and Poles alike wanted to build a new Europe. One that both peoples knew would take all of Europe united to achieve.

Of course, all of this is the German version of events. Polish people would tell a different story. Which is true? Probably both contain biased versions of the dark events. What is important now is that we leave behind our old hatreds and grudges and unite for Europe.

[Above: General Government postage stamp from 1940.]

[Above: Artur Silgailis. Click to see more images!]

Artur Silgailis, the chief of staff of the Inspection General of the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS, describes a conversation he had with Heinrich Himmler:

'He [Himmler] then singled out those nations which he regarded as belonging to the German family of nations and they were: the Germans, the Dutch, the Flemish, the Anglo-Saxons, the Scandinavians and the Baltic people.

[Himmler said]

"To combine all of these nations into one big family is the most important task at the present time."

[Himmler continued]

"This unification has to take place on the principle of equality and at that same time has to secure the identity of each nation and its economical independence, of course, adjusting the latter to the interests of the whole German living space... After the unification of all the German nations into one family, this family... has to take over the mission to include, in the family, all the Roman nations whose living space is favored by nature with a milder climate... I am convinced that after the unification, the Roman nations will be able to persevere as the Germans... This enlarged family of the White race will then have the mission to include the Slavic nations into the family also because they too are of the White race... it is only with such a unification of the White race that the Western culture could be saved from the Yellow race...

At the present time, the Waffen-SS is leading in this respect because its organization is based on the principle of equality. The Waffen-SS comprises not only German, Roman and Slavic, but even Islamic units and at the same time has proven that every unit has maintained its national identity while fighting in close togetherness...

...It is important that every Waffen-SS officer obeys the order of another officer of another nationality, as the officer of the other nationality obeys the order of the German officer."

-Artur Silgailis, from his book Latvian Legion, James Bender Publishing, pgs. 348-349, (c)1986

[Above: A Polish soldier of the Wehrmacht, Albert Zdrojewski, March 10, 1924 - November 26, 1942. You were only eighteen years old when you died for Europe. Your young body fell in the terrible graveyard that was Stalingrad, where brave Russians, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Italians, Croatians, etc. gave their lives in the fight against communism. You are a hero of all free men and women around the world.]

[Above: Here is an interesting Polish newspaper article from March 4, 1947 from a publication called The Greater Voice (it's supposedly taken from a communication between Hitler and Himmler). It's impossible to source this, so it must remain a curiosity, but an interesting one.
It says that American authorities after the war found a secret memorial to Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler in one of Frankfurt's bunkers.

It states that Adolf Hitler said:

'The Poles are the most intelligent of all the people the Germans met during the war in Europe... Poles in my opinion, and based on observations and reports from the General Government, are the only nation in Europe that combines high intelligence with an unheard of cunning. They are the most talented people in Europe [even though they are] still living in extremely difficult political circumstances...

Based on recent research [Reichsrassenamt powadzonych] German scholars came to believe that the Poles should be assimilated into German society as racially valuable. Our scholars have concluded that the combination of German regularity with Polish flair would give excellent results.']

[Above: Adolf Hitler Platz (square) in Warsaw.]

[Above: Polish volunteers from the General Government.]

'...the Wehrmacht enlisted around 20,000 Poles, who were needed as panje wagon (horse-drawn vehicle) drivers to make the unmotorized infantry divisions mobile.
As Wehrmacht auxiliaries and laborers in the German arms industry, many Poles played their part...'
-(c)2007 Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin - The Unknown Eastern Front - The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers, Rolf-Dieter Müller, page 186/187

'The SS units comprised almost all nationalities -- in addition to ethnic Germans, [...] French Alsatians, Hungarians, Serbs, Slovaks, and Romanians, and Finnish, Flemish, Swedish and Spanish volunteers. The baggage trains of the SS divisions included Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, and other auxiliaries. One artillery detachment consisted mainly of Poles, and several of its members were buried in Polish uniforms with German insignia.'
-The Siege of Budapest, (c)2005, Krisztián Ungváry, pg. 75

[Above: Polish volunteers somewhere on the Eastern Front mourn the loss of a comrade, who gave his life for Europe's freedom.]

[Above: Here is an arm shield patch of the alleged, and probably fantasy, Polish 'Legion of the White Eagle'. The symbol on the patch represents the Winged Hussars.]

[Above: Polish 'Volkdeutsch' march.]

[Above: Pre-war Poland. Nationalist groups using the 'stiff-arm' or Roman salute.]

[Above: Pre-war Poland.]

[Above: Pre-war Poland.]

An interesting mention of Polish people supporting the Romanian Iron Guard/National Socialist Germany during the February 1937 funerals of martyrs Ion Mota and Vasile Marin:
'The diplomats were followed by a great crowd of Romanian and Polish students in national dress, carrying icons and banners. Then, with a small break, came the columns of the Iron Guard. At the head marched Codreanu, dressed like the others in green shirt and military uniform but wearing a long military great coat. Around him, in their first public demonstration, was gathered the Legion of Death, the special armed militias raised to protect the whole movement. Behind marched row upon row of green-shirted Iron Guards from every region in the country. The people lining the streets stood in silence, most with their arms raised in the fascist salute. The only sound was the squeak and thud as the legionaries' boots hit the pavement in perfect unison. A friendly bystander commented later that it was as though 'all of Romania was taking Holy Communion with the Iron Guard.'
-Fighting for France - International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, by Judith Keene, Bloomsbury Academic, (c)2007

[Above: Polish women wearing national costumes saluting officers in a parade.]

[Above: Circa 1937.]

[Above: Polish girls marching in traditional clothing. Check out the interesting homemade swastika flag.]

[Above: Here's a rare strip of government censorship tape. 'Staatlich Geprüft' means State Examined. On the bottom it says the same thing in Polish.]

[Above: A German soldier shares his soup with a destitute old Polish woman.]

[Above: Polish civilians offer water to a German soldier. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: An ethnic German woman, or ' Volkdeutsche', in Poland at a fruit stand showing her love for Adolf Hitler.]

Even when Germany was in full retreat at the end of the war Polish civilians risked their lives to help them. Here is one example:

'...in Kalisch, where the Polish population watched us depart with dread in their eyes, knowing what could befall them when the Russians moved in. Sadly, the fears of the Poles in situations like these were only too often well-founded. It had also been recorded that there were countless incidents when Polish civilians gladly helped German soldiers by giving them information about the Russians. They also gave them food and sometimes hid them without being coerced to do so. By doing this they put themselves in great danger when they could just as well have refused to give any assistance.'
--John Stieber, Against the Odds - Survival on the Russian Front - 1944 - 1945, ©1995/2016, pg. 180

[Above: Against the Odds - Survival on the Russian Front - 1944 - 1945.]

[Above: This poster was released in 1942 for Poland - it roughly states: 'In the fight against Bolshevism the German soldier fights to save Europe.']

[Above: This poster basically says: 'The German soldier is a guarantee of victory' ]

[Above: This poster basically says: 'Always remember - The German soldier protects you and your fields from the [communists]' ]

[Above: This poster, from 1941-1942, was used in Kraków during the German administration. It basically says: 'Death! Judeo-Bolshevik murdering plague!' ]

[Above: This poster basically says: 'Do you want this to happen to your women and girls? Defend with all your might against Bolshevism!' ]

[Above: This poster depicts a Polish soldier accusing Neville Chamberlain for the war. It says: 'England! This is your fault!' Circa 1939.]

[Above: Postage stamp from 1940.]

Of course, no history of Poland is complete without the great Józef Klemens Pilsudski (December 5, 1867 - May 12, 1935). Pilsudski was a Polish statesman who was Chief of State (1918–22), 'First Marshal of Poland' (from 1920), and the beloved leader of the Second Polish Republic (1926–35). He is viewed as a founding father of the Second Polish Republic.

[Above: Józef Pilsudski.]

One of his proudest moments was in 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War. His troops appeared almost beaten during the bloody battle for Warsaw in August 1920. It's referred to as the "miracle on the Vistula," where the Polish patriots were able to, against all odds, rout five Soviet Russian armies and save Continental Europe from communist expansion. It was the greatest defeat of the Red Army thus far in history.

It's a little known history in the West, especially the United States, that communist Russia launched an invasion of Europe in 1918. They announced their plans boldly and confidently: to invade Western Europe. Soviet communist theoretician Nikolai Bukharin wrote in Pravda, the official communist Russian newspaper, that they hoped for the resources to carry the invasion beyond Warsaw and 'straight to London and Paris'. Soviet commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky's order of the day for July 2, 1920 read: 'To the West! Over the corpse of White Poland lies the road to worldwide conflagration. March upon Vilnius, Minsk, Warsaw!' and 'onward to Berlin over the corpse of Poland!'

Germany was nearly overthrown during this time when the communist, Soviet backed, 'Spartacist' uprising occurred, utilizing a general strike and armed street battles, from January 4-15, also known as the January uprising.

Pilsudski and his brave knights saved Europe. But the communist beast was far from dead, and they hated him and wanted him dead. On September 25, 1921 he survived an assassination attempt. He had forever earned the deepest hatred of the communists.

After years of unrest in Poland, in 1926 he rose to political power after a coup d'état, where he became the most powerful and influential politician in Poland.

[Above: Józef Pilsudski and family.]

Pilsudski's regime led Poland into a period of national stabilization. He strived to improve relations with Germany. Later Adolf Hitler and Pilsudski forged the German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact. Pilsudski dispatched an envoy to Germany saying:
'Tell Herr Hitler that he has to hurry up. I am old.'
Adolf Hitler replied:
'I've decided to accept Pilsudski's offer, and sign a ten year pact with Poland as soon as I'm in power. What an impact will this sort of pact have on Germany and the rest of the world! Germany can form alliances again -- Germany reaches out to its former enemy!'

Adolf Hitler repeatedly sought a German-Polish alliance against the Soviet Union, but unfortunately Pilsudski declined.

[Above: Józef Pilsudski and Joseph Goebbels.]

[Above: Art featuring Józef Pilsudski.]

On May 12, 1935, Józef Pilsudski died of liver cancer in Warsaw, the city he had saved in 1920. The love and celebration of his life began immediately. The military, government, clergy and people mourned all over Poland. The Polish Communist Party and the Jewish Labor Bund, however, attacked him, calling him a fascist and capitalist.

Messages of condolence were sent to Poland from leaders all over the world, including Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Japan's Emperor Hirohito. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Konstantin von Neurath and other high German officials even personally attended a mass honoring Pilsudski in St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin. Hermann Göring even went to the Marshal's funeral in Krakow, Poland.

[Above: Adolf Hitler and others attending a memorial in Berlin's St. Hedwig's Cathedral on May 18, 1935 to the great Polish leader Józef Pilsudski. In the background is the honorary cenotaph for Pilsudski. This showing of deep respect was organized with the Polish Embassy.]

President Moscicki, at Pilsudski's funeral, eulogized the Marshal:
'He was the king of our hearts and the sovereign of our will. During a half-century of his life's travails, he captured heart after heart, soul after soul, until he had drawn the whole of Poland within the purple of his royal spirit... He gave Poland freedom, boundaries, power and respect.'

Adolf Hitler was very saddened by Pilsudski's death, who to him, was a great hero. He said:
'I am deeply moved by the news of Marhsal Pilsudski's death, I wish to express my and the Reich Government's condolences to your Excellency and the Polish Government. With the Marshal called to eternity, Poland loses the creator of her new state and her most faithful son. Along with the Polish nation, the German nation is also mourning the death of this great patriot, who, with his understanding and cooperation with Germany, not only did he do our nations a great service, but, in a most noble way, contributed to the stabilization of Europe.''

Adolf Hitler also wrote a letter to Pilsudski's wife:
'The sad news of the death of your spouse, his Excellency Marshal Pilsudski, touched me very deeply. Highly esteemed, honorable lady and your family, accept my deepest sympathy. I will keep the greatness of the departed in my grateful memory.'

[Above: Adolf Hitler and others attending the memorial to Pilsudski.]

It was not uncommon to see Pilsudski's portrait with that of Adolf Hitler in Wehrmacht and SS beer halls during the war. After Krakow was captured by German troops in 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered an honor guard to stand by Pilsudski's tomb.

[Above: German honor guard in front of the tomb of Marschal Pilsudski, Krakow, Poland, 1939.]

In 1935 Hitler addressed the Reichstag, saying:
'We recognize, with the understanding and the heartfelt friendship of true Nationalists, the Polish State as the home of a great, nationally-conscious people.'

During the years 1933 and until the war in 1939 Adolf Hitler banned any propaganda portraying Poland in a negative light.

Unfortunately, despite Pilsudski's and Hitler's deepest intentions to avoid war, the powers-that-be had their way. Brother killed brother...

Pilsudski was hated and hidden by the communists during Poland's occupation by the Soviets, between 1945 and 1989 Pilsudski was one of many topics forbidden by the Polish communist regime.