Third reich officials’ acceptance post-war of false allegations

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I have just watched a one hour interview of Albert Speer that was conducted in English in 1971 in a Munich TV studio and filmed in colour.
Speer was interviewed by three men:
- American diplomat and banker George Ball;
- British historian and war-time intelligence officer Hugh Trevor-Roper;
- British writer and BBC broadcaster Michael Charlton.

I didn’t know who George Ball was and he came across as not very intelligent and rather arrogantly ignorant. He perhaps only asked two actual questions and everything else he said was more an expression of his own opinion on the replies of Speer.
That struck me as a bizarre waste of an opportunity to ask and learn from the only surviving high-ranking official of the Third Reich.
So I was surprised to discover afterwards that George Ball was considered a ‘wise man’.
I also learnt that he had played a key role in assessing the impact of the WW2 mass-murder of non-combatant civilians in the Allied ‘carpet bombing’ of towns and cities of Germany. Therefore had Germany won the war I presume he would have expected to have been tried and judged as a prominent war criminal.
Ball was also a founding member in 1954 of the Bilderberg group, an infamous, international clique of powerful, unelected Europeans and Americans.

Early in the hour long interview, the first question that George Ball asked Speer, stated and started from the premise that: a.) Hitler started WW2 and b.) that he did so because he wanted and sought “world dominance”?

I’ve always understood that ‘world domination’ was a rather ridiculous accusation that only ignorant Americans believe and repeat, as I have never heard anyone of any other nationality state it, but I have heard numerous Americans state it and I’ve seen it repeated as factual in American films and TV programmes.

So first of all I was greatly surprised that a presumably well-informed, middle-aged American believed in it so much that he stated it in a question to Albert Speer in 1971.

I was even more surprised when Albert Speer didn’t contest it, and answered the question AS IF that premise was established fact.

I was so surprised I questioned whether I myself might be in the wrong on that point. So I asked an Ai engine “what is the evidence supporting the belief that Hitler wanted and sought ‘world dominance’?”
It couldn’t provide any evidence and acknowledged that numerous distinguished historians don’t believe it.

CONCLUSIONS:
1. That I think demonstrates how the vanquished felt it necessary for a comfortable, hassle-free life, to go along with nonsense but commonly-held beliefs of their vanquishers, and felt it necessary to continue to do so even 26 years after the war was over.
2. Whether it was ‘world dominance’ or ‘genocide of jews by mass-gassing’, Albert Speer appeared to have decided to STILL not contest firmly-held Allied self-justifications, nor to point out the moral hypocrisy of the one’s asking such false-premised questions.

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Another basic but unspoken assumption that informs that whole interview (‘interrogation’) of Albert Speer in 1971 is this: ‘the German Third Reich was very obviously intrinsically evil so how could an apparently intelligent, reasonable, moral person like you Speer have “gone along with it”? And how could you have “gone along with it” for sooooooo looooooonnnnnnng! ?

That was the basic assumption that informed all the questioning from the two Brits Trevor-Roper and Charlton.
They apparently genuinely could not see the utter hypocrisy of Brits asking that after three centuries of invasion, conquest, occupation, mass-murder and pillage of 2/3rds of the globe.

Since the European industrial revolution Brits and Yanks have never stopped exporting war around the world and massacring non-white natives. Here’s a news report of a fairly recent example:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/pol ... afghanista

And Yanks are still targeting and mass-murdering civilians as we speak in Iran.

Yet Speer decided to not contest either a.) the inaccuracy of this unspoken assumption nor b.) the hypocrisy if it.
I think that speaks volumes about the state of WW2 history both then and still now.

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The other question I remember from the yank George Ball to Speer was based on the assumption that Himmler’s role in the Third Reich was control in Germany by exerting a rule of “terror” over EVERYONE.

Which again I believe is an inaccurate war-time propaganda narrative.

But maybe I’m wrong there?

Did everyone in Germany fear Himmler and the SS?

I’m genuinely asking for any evidence supporting that view.