In a recent BLOG – BRITISH IMPERIALISM – FICTION AND FACTS (19 April) I said that fourteen years before the ( 26 April 1937) bombing of Guernica by Hitler’s Condor Legion, the British used similar methods in Iraq. My source was the British magazine History Today.
On March 28 this year THE TIMES (of London) reported that photographs recording the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union taken by one of Hitler’s most senior commanders were expected to fetch up to £20,000 at auction.
The photographs were taken by Air Marshal Wolfram Von Richthofen, cousin of “The Red Baron” of the First World War. Wolfram survived the Second World War but died in July 1945 before he could be put on trial for war crimes “INCLUDING THE BOMBING OF GUERNICA.”. The HIGH CASE is mine own.
Guernica might have been spared the attentions of the Condor Legion and Spain the tyranny of Franco, had not that mutinous soldier been flown from the Canaries, where he had been posted to keep him out of mischief by the British Agent Hugh Pollard, who served as MI6’s man in Madrid when Franco eventually got to the Capital.
Pollard had form. He did not fabricate the false story of the “German Corpse Factory” during the First World War, but boasted of having circulated it and having been instrumental in persuading the Chinese to join in on the Allied side. Following that war he was posted to Ireland, where he was the source of many lying propaganda stories, and the production of a bogus (and immediately exposed) edition of THE IRISH BULLETIN. I would not be surprised if he was not the ultimate source of false stories recycled by LYING CIRCUSES in media and academic circles to the present day. No need to send in the clowns………..?
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