Harry Truman, who had assumed the presidency after President

Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945, is quoted as saying, after the first bomb
was dropped on Hiroshima, that: " ... this is the greatest thing in history."!
There are those in high places in the American government who felt
that it was not necessary to drop either bomb on Japan. One, Admiral
William Leahy, was on record as saying: "I was of the firm opinion that our
war against Japan had progressed to the point where her defeat was only I
matter of time and attrition. "
There is still speculation as to why the two cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki were selected as the targets for the two atomic bombs, since neither
were military targets, in the main. One author offers an explanation:
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... were the chief centers in Japan of a native
Christian population."?
There is some evidence that before the bombs were dropped on Japan.
President Roosevelt had some second thoughts about the use of these
enormously powerful and destructive weapons on innocent people: "The
President ... prepared a speech for delivery on Jefferson Day. Roosevelt had
intended to expose openly to the world 'the danger that politicians will
accept as inevitable the destruction of innocent people to achieve their goals
and that scientists will concentrate on the means and ignore the ends of their
research.'
In any event, before he could deliver the address, Roosevelt passed away,
so the world will never know for certain just what he intended by this speech.
It is interesting to note that Japan never attacked Russia during the war.
Russia was America's World War II ally and therefore a presumed enemy of
Japan. Neither had Russia attacked Japan prior to the dropping of the first
atomic bomb. This is strange as Russia was at war with Japan's ally
Germany, and according to the terms of the Tripartite Treaty already referred
to, both nations should have been at war with each other. Japan's attacking
of Russia would have had dramatic results in assisting the nation of
Germany, for two reasons.
1.
It would have opened up a second front for Russia, which would
have been forced to move troops needed in its war against Germany
to the war against Japan, thereby relieving some of the pressure on
Japan's ally, Germany; and
2.
It possibly could have dosed the Russian port of Vladivostok,
where much of America's Lend-Lease war material was being
unloaded. This action would have aided Germany as it would have
eliminated much of the war supplies Russia needed to conduct the
war against Germany.
August 8, 1945, was the day that Russia finally decided to enter the war
against Japan, and this was but six days prior to that nation's surrender. It
has been theorized that the reason this occurred in this sequence was to
rationalize the giving of Japanese property or interests to the Russians after
the war, since they were then an official enemy of Japan.
One of the Americans who observed the strange behavior of the Amer
ican government was General George S. Patton. He had seen enough to

cause him to want to resign from tbe military so that he could "say what I want
to" about America's "soft on Communism" stance during the war.
Patton knew enough about the military that he couldn't merely retire and
speak out, because military men of high rank, even though retired, are still und
er the control of the government. This subjection to government
authority includes their ability to speak out on the main issues of the day.Shou
ld Patton resign, he would be free to speak as he saw fit.
Patton had a strong dislike for what happened as the Russians acquired
much of Eastern Europe, and it is said by many that he was going to speak
about this betrayal to the American people after the war was over.
But, before he had a chance to resign, he was killed after an automobile
accident caused him to be hospitalized.
In 1979, a former undercover agent for the Office of Strategic Services,
the OSS, gave an interview in which he claimed that he had been asked to kill
Patton. This agent was . Douglas Bazata, a veteran intelligence agent,
who said he received a contract on Patton's life in 1944. According to Bazata,
the order for the 'hit' came down to him from none other than the legendary
Office of Strategic Services direct from [its administrator] 'Wild Bill'
Donovan."
When Bazata was asked why he was finally going pubhc with this
admission after so many years, he said he" .. was in poor health and wanted
the American people to know the truth."
The newspaper that carried the interview claimed that it had "a
professional analyst subject Bazata's interview to the rigors of a content
analysis using a Psychological Stress Evaluator (P.S.E.) His report: Bazata
gives no evidence of lying."
It was Bazata's contention that, although he collected more than $10,000
for the death of Patton, he was not responsible for Patten's actual death. He
claimed that he knows, however, who did kill him, and that Patton was
killed by a dose of cyanide in the hospital where he was taken after the
automobile accident, and that it was the cyanide rather than the accident that
took his life.
About the same time as Patton's death, the Second World War wound
down to a halt. But the tragic events of the war were not to come to a close
yet.
The victorious Allies had to move over sixteen million Germans from
their homes in Central and Eastern Europe. The reasons for this expulsion
are not presently clear, although the removal was agreed to by the Allied
governments.
In October, 1944, the Soviet Army was advancing westward through the
eastern nations of Europe. This westward movement" ... triggered a
massive flight of German civilians to the West. Four to five million persona
fled .... Millions of Germans also remained .... Large German enclaves
... remained in other areas of pre-war Poland, in Hungary, Romania, and
Yugoslavia. In the last two years of the war, however, a far-reaching Allied
policy had been taking form ... aimed at ... the radical removal of Germans
from Eastern and Central Europe. At the conclusion of the Potsdam
Conference (17 July-2 August, 1945) a protocol was announced, Article
XIII of which authorized the transfer of the Eastern Germans to what was left
of the Reich (Germany)."
As the Germans were being forcibly removed from their homes, "acts of
incredible cruelty and sadism were committed. Helpless civilians were
evicted from their homes with clubs, women were raped, men were con
scripted into slave labor, thousands were interned in camps awaiting
expulsion .... "
After the war ended, the victorious Allies conducted War Crime trials at

Nuremburg. One of those convicted of the forced deportation of Germans

and others into forced labor was Albert Speer, Germany's Minister of Arms
and Munitions. In his book Inside the Third Reich, Speer wrote: "Deporta
tion of labor is unquestionably an international crime. I do not regret my
sentence, even though other nations are now doing the same thing we did. "
Others also saw the depravity of the deportations and attempted to bring
it to the attention of the U.S. government. One of these was Robert Murphy,
U.S. Political Adviser for Germany, who wrote to the U.S. State Department:
"In viewing the distress, ... the mind reverts instantly to Dachau and
Buchenwald. Here is retribution on a large scale ... practiced ... on women
and children, the poor, the infirm."
No one listened, especially the United States, and the deportations
continued. The tragedy is that "over 2 million Germans did not survive their
involuntary migration."
The war was now over, the Germans had been removed from their new
homes, and Europe could begin to rebuild from the enormous destruction.
The costs of the war could now be totalled:
More than 50 million persons, 23 million of them in uniform,
the rest civilians, were killed, most of them by horrible deaths.P
There were no victors in World War II except the nations who now
controlled the lands under dispute during the war. One American general,
Albert C. Wedemeyer, correctly concluded that Russia was the only victor:
"Stalin was intent on creating favorable conditions for the realization of
Communist aims throughout the Balkans and Western Europe. He emerged
as the only victor of the war. We [the Allies] insured the emergence of a more
hostile, menacing predatory power than Nazi Germany, one which has
enslaved more people than we liberated."16
A European who agreed with General Wedemeyer was Prince Michel
Sturdza, former Foreign Minister of Rumania, who wrote the following
about World War II in his book The Suicide oj Europe: "World War
II ... was to leave only one victor ... : International Communism as embo
died in Soviet Russia."17
So the Second World War was over.
But, as was pointed out by General Wedemeyer, America had created a
far more menacing power: Soviet Russia.
6. Senator Joseph McCarthy, America's Retreat From Victory, p. 48
7. Rose Martin, Selling of America. (Santa Monica, Cahforma: Fidelis
Publishers Inc., 1973), p. 46.
8. William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid, p.491.
9. Spotlight, (October 15, 1979), p. 16.
10. Alfred de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam, p. xx.
11. Alfred de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam, p. xxii.
12. Aldred de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam, p. 203.
13. Alfred de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam, p. 115.
14. Alfred de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam, p. xix.
15. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p. 1310.
16. Albert C. Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports, p. 92.
17. Prince Michel Sturdza, The Suicide of Europe, (Boston, Los Angeles:
Western Islands. 1968), p. 68.