Jim and Diane, THE HOAXBUSTERS, Apr 5, 2025, TMOGV, Chap 20: The Phony War

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Published on Apr 5, 2025
The Myth of German Villainy, Chapter 20, The Phony War (The "Phony War," also known as the "Sitzkrieg" (German for "sitting war"), was the period of relative inactivity on the Western Front in the early months of World War II, from September 1939 to April 1940, after Britain and France declared war on Germany but before major land battles began.

Hitler was convinced the future of Western civilization depended on the close cooperation of Germany with other European states, but particularly with her Aryan cousins, Britain and America. To Hitler, the big existential threat to Western civilization was communist Russia, which he regarded as the base of Jewish world ambitions. He came to this conclusion as a young man when he first became interested in politics, as he watched Bolshevik Jews take control of Russia and launch their Red Terror. He watched as Jewish-led communist revolutions sprang up all over Europe, organized and funded by Soviet-based Comintern, and backed by international Jewish banks. He came to power in Germany as an anti-communist, and saw it as his life’s mission to fight communism and to raise Germany up as a bulwark against the tidal wave of Jewish communism which threatened to sweep over Christian Europe. He made every a@empt to forge alliances with Britain and to have good relations with the U.S., and was dismayed his overtures were spurned at every turn. He was distressed and saddened the threat to Western civilization posed by the USSR was not as obvious to the leaders of Britain and the U.S. as it was to him. Hitler saw it as inevitable Germany would eventually end up in a war with the USSR. It was only a ma@er of when, not whether. Soviet leaders were of the same mind. Hitler was convinced the USSR would invade Europe, Germany first, at some time in the not-too-distant future, whenever the Soviets felt strong enough to British soldiers in France during the Phony War (April 1940) do so. When that day came, what he wanted more than anything was to avoid another two-front war. Hitler had every interest from that standpoint alone in establishing and maintaining friendly relations with the other Western powers, particularly Britain and the U.S., in order to avoid any such likelihood. But he also wanted
good relations with other European nations, because he believed they each, like Germany, were an integral part of Western Christian civilization, under siege by atheistic Jewish Bolshevism. The last thing Hitler wanted was a war with Britain and France. Investigative journalist, author, and two-time PuliAer Prize-Winner Louis C. Kilzer confirms this in his 1994 book, Churchill’s Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany: “Hitler did not want a world war, and had no stomach for fighting England.” But powerful forces in Britain and France wanted a war with Germany. Though Britain and France were in no position to intervene in Poland, they wasted no time in initiating military actions against Germany. On September 4, 1939, the day after Britain and France declared war on Germany, Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers a@acked German warships in the Helgoland Bight, where the Elbe River flows into the North Sea. On September 7, the French crossed into the Rhine River Valley with 40 divisions to begin the Saar Offensive, but that effort was only hal?earted and the offensive stopped just short of Germany’s defensive positions, known as the Siegfried Line (Westwall in German), with only a few insignificant skirmishes taking place. Westwall was built during the ‘30s opposite the French Maginot Line, stretching nearly 400 miles, equipped with more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels, and tank traps. The German Army was preoccupied with the Polish war and did not mount a counterttack. No effort was made to oppose Germany’s occupation of Poland. So began an interlude known in America as the Phony War—which began in September 1939 and lasted until April 1940—coined by U.S. Senator William Borah (R-ID), who said on September 18, 1939: “There is something phony about this war.” Battle of the Atlantic At times the situation seemed almost like a truce. Nothing was happening on land, though a ferocious sea war was underway which became known as the Ba@le of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in WWII. Britain’s great strength was her navy, and she, along with France, immediately set up a total naval blockade to prevent shipments of any kind from either entering or leaving Germany. This was similar to the total blockade of WWI, which starved Germany into submission. Germany retaliated against the blockade with her submarine force.

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