Who were the "international statesmen" Hitler referenced in his last will as having started the war?
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As to which "international statesmen" he had in mind, from an American Heritage article on The Transatlantic Duel: Hitler Vs. Roosevelt we find this:
From 1939 to the end of the war, Hitler saw the situation of the Western powers thus: behind Churchill was Roosevelt; and behind Roosevelt, the Jews. Because of this, Hitler’s speech on January 30, 1939, is of considerable significance, although it was overlooked at the time by a world that had grown accustomed to his fanatical rhetoric. “If the international Jewish financiers inside and outside Europe should again succeed in plunging the nations into a world war, the result…will be the annihilation of the Jewish race throughout Europe.” In other words, his enemies might bring about a world war. They are being incited by Jews. About Jews in America he could do nothing. But if there was a war, it would be “no laughing matter” (these were his words) for the Jews in Europe. [emphasis added]
Roosevelt and Churchill were likely paramount among the international statesmen he was blaming in his last will and testament.
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In my opinion, he was writing to an audience of future sympathizers, whom he would want to continue his actions, i.e. the extermination of Jews and subjugation of other people by the Aryans. By that time, they were losing the war and he knew it, despite his grasping at straws about a last minute breakup of the Allies a la Frederick the Great.
Taking the Holocaust, proceeding as fast as possible with it near the end, rather than trying to cover it up, disassociating themselves from their evil and blaming someone else, only really makes sense if the Nazis thought they were laying the groundwork for another Reich. Ditto the Werwolf project, it was about rebirth.
By that logic, playing the victim card, continuing to spread lies and justifying WW2 as forced upon him, rather than caused by him (albeit maybe inadvertently when he thought Britain and France would back down one more time), makes complete sense. He wants others to pick up on the supposed grievances and continue the fight.
He's still doing propaganda, not trying to be honest with himself and others. Having an unnamed cabal of enemies of Germany just lays the groundwork for someone to manipulate German opinion, just as he blamed the collapse of Germany in 1918 on Bolsheviks and Jews in order to gain power. "They" really don't need to be named and it's even more powerful if they're not, because a list would lose power once its members were dead or out of power. That's what still makes the Protocols work, 120 years later.
Besides, in contemporary conspiracy theorists, how often are people named? True, George Soros often gets mentioned, but how useful is that, really? Letting your audience fill in the blanks for themselves works just fine and avoids having to defend your claims when facts would get in the way with named individuals.
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