OPERATION KEELHAUL
When should have the
Americans and British stood up to their commie 'allies' and said
No More
When?
When should we have finally
had the courage to stand up to Stalin?
When?
Why did two countries who
supposedly loved democracy allow communism to spread all over Europe?
Why?
And someone please explain
the reasoning behind Operation Keelhaul to us because we just don't get it
Please
To keelhaul is the
cruelest and most dangerous of punishments and tortures ever devised for men
aboard a ship. It involves trussing a man up with ropes, throwing him
overboard, unable to swim, and hauling him under the boat's keel from one
side to the other, or even from stem to stern. Most of those keelhauled under
water are already dead when their punishment is over.
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Using the term
"keelhaul" means that our military knew exactly
what they were doing when they adopted
this code name at the end of World War II
Operation Keelhaul was the
deportation by brute force to concentration camps, firing squad or hangman's
noose of millions of people, mainly White, Christian ethnic Russian and other
eastern Europeans who were already in the lands of freedom and under the
direct control of allied forces back into the hands
of the brutal dictator Stalin where he either outright murdered them or
worked them to death
Few survived -- millions
perished
The Allies are to blame
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ALEKSANDR
SOLZHENITSYN,
the acclaimed Russian writer and political prisoner, called this operation
"the last secret of World War II. He contributed to a legal
defense fund set up to help Nikolai Tolstoy who was charged with libel in a
1989 case brought up by Lord Aldington over war crimes allegations made by
Tolstoy related to Operation Keelhaul. Tolstoy lost the
case in the British courts but the verdict was overturned by the
European Court of Human Rights.
Tolstoy
described the scene of Americans returning to the internment camp after
having delivered a shipment of people to the Russians:
The
Americans returned to Plattling (a town in Bavaria, Germany where an
internment camp was located after World War II) visibly shamefaced. Before
their departure from the rendezvous in the forest, many had seen rows of bodies already hanging from the branches of
nearby trees. On their return, even the SS men in a neighboring
compound lined the wire fence and railed at
them for their behavior. The
Americans were too ashamed to reply. (from A
Footnote to Yalta by Jeremy Murray-Brown, Documentary at Boston
University)
Some
critics addressing the subject have claimed that if Operation Keelhaul
happened today it would be classified as a
war crime punishable under international law, because
of the summary executions which took place as the consequences of turning
over military prisoners, and also because of the alleged murder and rape of
refugee women and children from anti-communist eastern European, Russian and
Cossack families.
How many soldiers returned from the
war and refused to talk about their service
Now you know why
We made a pact with the
devil
Stalin
Shame on us
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Repatriation
The Dark Side of World War II
by Jacob G. Hornberger, April 1995
Adolf Hitler did
not trust Andrey Vlasov. The Russian general had served in the Russian army
since the Russian Revolution. He had fought hard and valiantly in the
successful defense of Moscow. It was only because of Stalin's refusal to
permit Vlasov and his men to retreat during the subsequent battle at
Leningrad that the German forces had defeated and captured Vlasov. It was
difficult for Hitler to believe that Vlasov was now willing to lead captured
Russian soldiers against Stalin and his communist regime.
So,
it was not until the very end of the war — January 1945 — that Hitler finally
relented and permitted Vlasov to lead Russian POWs into battle against the
Russian army. But by this time, Germany was close to defeat. The forces under
Vlasov's command — some 50,000 Russian soldiers — played a minor military
role in the war.
Ironically,
Vlasov's forces did have one very interesting military victory. The Czech
underground sought their assistance in helping to liberate Czechoslovakia
from Nazi control! Vlasov, who despised the Nazis as much as
he hated the communists, agreed to help. The Saturday Evening Post later
reported:
Prague really was
liberated by foreign troops, after all. Not by the Allies who did not arrive
until the shooting was all over, but by 22,000 Russian outlaws wearing German
uniforms. The leader of these renegades was General Vlasov, a former hero of
the Red Army.
The
battlefield was obviously chaotic. The Russians were approaching from the
east. The Americans and British were approaching from the west. Vlasov and
his forces were in the middle, and German forces were at his back.
On
May 7, 1945, Germany capitulated.
Vlasov
knew that Stalin was not a forgiving man. After his capture, Vlasov
had openly defied the communists and communism. He had tried to
arouse the Russian people to revolt against their communist tyrants. Vlasov
knew that capture by the communists now meant certain death for him and his
men.
Andrey
Vlasov chose to surrender to American forces. He
did not know that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill,
and Joseph Stalin had already sealed his fate. He did not
know that these four rulers of the Allied powers had already committed
themselves to one of the worst holocausts in history. He did not know that
evil pervaded not only the Nazi and communist regimes, but the American and
British regimes, as well.
Part
of the Yalta Agreement between the Big Three — Stalin,
Roosevelt, and Churchill — involved the repatriation of Russians and
Americans to their respective homelands. Keep in mind that the German POW
camps contained American prisoners, British prisoners, and Russian prisoners.
The Big Three agreed that as the Russians liberated Germany POW camps, American
and British POWs would be turned over to the American and British forces. As
the Americans and British liberated German POW camps, Russian POWs would be
returned to Russia.
There
was one big problem with this agreement — a problem that each of the Big
Three was well aware of. American and British POWs wanted to
return to their own forces. Russian POWs did
not want to return to Russian forces because they knew the fate that awaited
them.
Stalin
wanted revenge. The Russian prisoners were traitors to communism. They
deserved to die.
And
Roosevelt and Churchill felt the exact same way. Russia was "our
friend." Stalin was "Uncle Joe" to the American
people. Any Russian who had defied Uncle Joe — any Russian who had opposed
our communist friends and allies — deserved to be executed.
The
revenge and ensuing holocaust had to be kept secret from the world. The American and
British people had to continue maintaining their illusion that this was a war
of good versus evil — that only the Nazis engaged in cold-blooded murder —
that the Allies epitomized all the goodness of mankind.
Therefore,
the Big Three spelled out their plans not just in the official Yalta
agreement but, also, in a March 31, 1945, secret codicil to the agreement. As
James Sanders, Mark Sauter, and R. Cort Kirkwood point out in their shocking
book, Soldiers of Misfortune (1992), the codicil
was kept secret from the American and British people for fifty years .
The codicil outlined the secret plan by which the Russians POWs would be
forcibly returned to Stalin's clutches.
American
government officials called their part in the holocaust Operation
Keelhaul. In his book Operation Keelhaul (1973),
Julius Epstein described the meaning of the term:
To
keelhaul is the cruelest and most dangerous of punishments and tortures ever
devised for men aboard a ship. It involves trussing a man up with ropes,
throwing him overboard, unable to swim, and hauling him under the boat's keel
from one side to the other, or even from stem to stern. Most of those
keelhauled under water are already dead when their punishment is over.
And
Epstein describes his reaction to the choice of this term by American
government officials to describe their part in the Allied holocaust:
That our Armed
Forces should have adopted this term as its code name for deporting by brutal
force to concentration camp, firing squad, or hangman's noose millions who
were already in the lands of freedom, shows how little the high brass thought
of their longing to be free.
The
roles played by each of the conspirators was clear: Roosevelt and Churchill would force the Russian
anticommunists into Stalin's hands. The communists would take over from there
and do the actual killing.
How
many were turned over to the Russians by American and British forces? Two million individuals. Yes,
two million Russian people sent back to the communists where they were either
immediately executed or sent to die in the Gulag.
It
was not easy to "persuade" the Russian prisoners to return to the
communists. Sometimes, subterfuge was used. Epstein details several examples.
One took place on May 28, 1945, in Lienz, Austria. British forces ordered all
Cossack officials to attend an important British conference with high British
officials. The Cossacks were told to leave their coats since they would be
back by six in the evening. Their families were advised so that family
members would not worry over their short absence. When the Cossacks appeared
nervous, an English officer told them, "I
assure you on my word of honor as a British officer that you are just going
to a conference."
The 2,749
Cossacks — 2,201 of whom were officers — were driven straight into a prison camp and were
advised by British officials that Soviet authorities would soon arrive to
pick them up. Epstein writes:
One Cossack officer
remarked: "The NKVD or the Gestapo would
have slain us with truncheons, the British did it with their word of
honor." The first to commit suicide by hanging was the
Cossack editor Evgenij Tarruski. The second was General Silkin who shot
himself. . . . The Cossacks refused to board [the trucks]. British soldiers
with pistols and clubs began using their clubs, aiming at the heads of the
prisoners. They first dragged the men out of the crowd and threw them into
the trucks. The men jumped out. They beat them again and threw them onto the
floor of the trucks. Again, they jumped out. The British then hit them with
rifle butts until they lay unconscious and threw them like sacks of potatoes
in the trucks.
The
same scenes were repeated all along the lines — two million Russian people
tricked and beaten by British and American forces so that Stalin could finish
the job later on.
Some
of this dirty work even took place on American soil. Epstein
describes what happened to Russian POWs who were imprisoned at Fort Dix, New
Jersey:
First, they refused
to leave their barracks when ordered to do so. The military police then used
tear gas, and, half-dazed, the prisoners were driven under heavy guard to the
harbor where they were forced to board a Soviet vessel. Here the two
hundred immediately started to fight.
They fought with their bare hands. They started — with considerable success —
to destroy the ship's engines. . . . A sergeant . . . mixed barbiturates into their coffee. Soon, all of
the prisoners fell into a deep, coma-like sleep. It was in this condition
that the prisoners were brought to another Soviet boat for a speedy return to
Stalin's hangmen.
Andrey
Vlasov — the man who hated communism — the man who hated Nazism — carefully
explained his position and reasoning to the American generals. In his
book Vlasov , Sven Steenberg describes Vlasov's conversation
with one of his American captors:
He began to speak,
at first slowly and dispassionately, but then with growing intensity. For one
last time, he spoke of all the prospects, hopes, and disappointments of his
countrymen. He summed up everything for which countless Russians had fought
and suffered. It was no longer really to the American that he was addressing
himself — this was rather a confession, a review of his life, a last protest
against the destiny that had brought him to a wretched end. . . . [Vlasov] stated that the leaders of the ROA were ready to
appear before an international court, but that it would be a monumental
injustice to turn them over to the Soviets and thereby to certain death.
It was not a question of volunteers who had served the Germans, but of a
political organization, of a broad opposition movement which, in any event,
should not be dealt with under military law.
Vlasov
could not know that he was a dead man before he even surrendered to American
forces. Roosevelt,
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman had already decided that he needed to be
executed for the "crime" of betraying his own government. There was
no need to go through the time, expense, trouble, and possible embarrassment
of a trial. All that needed to be done was for the Americans to turn him over
to their friendly executioner, "Uncle Joe" Stalin.
American military officials delivered Andrey Vlasov to Soviet
military authorities. On August 2, 1946, the Soviet press reported that
Andrey Vlasov had been hanged by Soviet officials for "treason as well
as active espionage and terrorist activity against the Soviet Union."
Unfortunately,
all of the facts of the forcible repatriation of the Russian anticommunists
have not been revealed. American and British government officials take the
position that "national security" will be jeopardized if the
citizenry is ever permitted to know all of the details of the Allied holocaust. Thus, fifty years after World
War II, American "adults" are still not permitted by their public
officials to see the government's files and records on America's involvement
in the "good war" and, specifically, in the Allied holocaust.
As
with most claims of "national security," the concern is not so much
with the security of the nation but rather with the security of the U.S.
government and, specifically, the U.S. military-industrial complex. For it is
entirely possible that the American people will finally pierce through all
the lies and deceptions that have clouded their minds since the first grade
in the public schools to which their parents were forced to send them. It is
quite possible that they will recognize the wisdom of their Founding Fathers
— and see that the biggest threat to their
well-being lies not with some foreign government, but rather with their own
government.
Mr.
Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.
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How do we justify this
atrocity?
How do we explain this
butchery to our children and help them feel good about their country?
We strung German necks at
Nuremburg based on false Soviet allegations
Then we commit these
horrific deeds!
Please someone, explain it
to us so we can understand
How can we let the Jews
drag us down this far!
Wake up America
Your Heritage is crumbling
fast!
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