PAG 25, page 4
So now we have WWII declared on Sunday Sep 3, 1939. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) being sent to France to defend the west from the blitzkrieg of Gen. H Guderian’s panzer divisions on their way to take Paris and yes, Citroen, to crush it completely,
forever! Well, at least that was the plan.
It is well known how the German army broke through the Marginet line and fell upon the waiting allies. Their advance was devastatingly swift, at first, sweeping all before them. The Panzers had broken through the French line on May 13 and were sweeping across France with their paralyzing speed.
The French troops were completely overcome by surprise at the sudden appearance of those German forces, largely due to the fact that all German guns remained silent at all times. They laid down their arms and marched off to the east, as the Panzer corps seems vast and overwhelming. Did they pass through Hazebrouch? Once a major base for the Duke of Wellington when he was fighting Napoleon.
An under reported fact about that engagement is that the Duke’s win was largely due to his first time use of new British technology, the exploding cannon ball. Invented by Major Schrapnell, at his own expense. Naturally when the King realized the invaluable advantage, he agreed to pay Schrapnell handsomely for his contribution. The Major is still waiting. But I digress. Back to the advance on Citroen, er, Paris.
Guderian wanted to continue his panzer sweep and capture the British army in Dunkirk, now less than fifteen kilometers from his forward position. On May 23, Lt. Gen. Alan Brooke, commander of the BEF’s II Corps, noted in his diary …”nothing but a miracle can save the BEF”… But here Guderian had been halted, Hitler himself forbidding him to pass the line running through Lens, Bethune, Saint-Omer and Gravelines.
Hesitation is an anathema to blitzkrieg, and so, in that moment, all was lost. Or all was saved, depending on one’s point of view. As Guderian’s fuming panzer commanders paced the banks of a canal, the BEF escaped to fight another day, with an outcome that is well known.
But why did Hitler forbid his troops to capture the 365K BEF troops with their backs to the sea at Dunkirk and no obvious way to escape? Same reason it always happens on both sides, whenever a swift early decisive victory is in sight. It happened in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and will surely happen again when the North American dictator..oops! President, attacks Iran to steel its oil also.
To establish the reason, we must look for the cause. The cause is the need for ‘donations’ from the military industrial complex. Therefore, the more protracted the war, the greater profits to the MIC= larger ‘donations’ over a longer period. Very simple really. But do keep in mind ‘…all you have to do is….’
So watch out for the suitcase nukes that the US gov’t will detonate in major cities, probably in Washington DC, so they can have an excuse to nuke Iran. Remember you heard it here first! (written 18/07/05)
When interviewed by a war correspondent later, Brooke was asked “was it difficult to juggle all the variables during Guderian’s attack?” “Difficult?” “We had more balls in the air than a division of paratroopers!” he quipped.
So how can we be absolutely certain that Hitler’s strike was to destroy the planned 2CV introduction? This is where ‘the code’ enters the algorithm. On 24/6/05 the film “Herbie Fully Loaded” opened, the latest in the Love Bug series that Disney launched in 1969. It has been known for some time that Disney was a clandestine Nazi supporter. Only one of his staff knew this, but how was he to covertly inform the world of Hitler’s plan to crush the 2CV?
If you look closely in every Herbie movie from 1969 “The Love Bug”, 1974 “Herbie Rides Again”, 1977 “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo” , 1980 “Herbie Goes Bananas” and 2005 “Herbie Fully Loaded”, you will see ‘the code’ overtly displayed for all to see. But do all recognize it for what it is? That it tells of the plan for dominance of the VW over the vastly superior 2CV? No! Then what is it? So simple. Watch anyone of the movies and you will see the red, white and blue stripes down the middle of the car, front to rear, plus along the sides under doors, signifying the French Flag, the ‘tricolor’ worn as a trophy, indicating the intent of crushing France’s finest. Even to this day many call the VW “Hitler’s Revenge”
David Goodsir