The Great War | Episode 2 The Spark The Thief of History

➡ This text discusses the origins of World War I and the manipulation of historical documents by the secret elite. It highlights how crucial information was omitted or altered in official documents to hide the truth and blame Germany for the war. The text also reveals the systematic destruction of evidence, including letters and telegrams, to cover up the conspiracy. Lastly, it questions why so much information is missing from Britain’s official record of the First World War and calls for transparency.
➡ The text discusses how important historical documents about the First World War were secretly taken to America and hidden at Stanford University. This was done by Herbert Hoover, a future US President, who was tasked by the Secret Elite to remove these documents from Europe. The documents, which could have exposed the real culprits of the war, were kept away from public view. This act of theft was disguised as a philanthropic act of preservation for future historians.
➡ In the early 1900s, Italy’s General Alberto Polio promised to support Germany in a potential war, despite secret plans by the Italian government to remain neutral. However, Polio’s sudden death in 1914, along with the deaths of other key figures, raised suspicions of foul play. These deaths conveniently silenced those who could have revealed the truth about the secret alliances and manipulations leading up to World War I. This history was further obscured by a group known as the secret elite, who controlled the narrative through their influence over Oxford University and various publications.
➡ The article discusses how the history of World War I has been manipulated and suppressed, particularly by Oxford University and powerful influences. It argues that Germany was unfairly blamed for the war, and that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was not the true cause, but rather a spark manipulated by a secret group in London. The article also mentions the suppression of books that challenge the mainstream narrative, including the author’s own work. It concludes by suggesting that the truth about the war is still being hidden and manipulated today.
➡ This text discusses the political intrigue leading up to the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914, which sparked World War I. It highlights the role of Serbian and Russian activists, particularly Colonel Dragutin Dmitrovich, who were part of a secret society called the Black Hand. The group aimed to establish a Greater Serbia and had significant influence within the Serbian government. Despite warnings, the Austrian government ignored the threat, leading to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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And so that was kind of a cool way to do an intro today. Just because it’s. Today we’re going to kind of get into the, into the spark of what ignited World War I. Last time we talked about just kind of the, the people that were involved in trying to make it happen. And now we’re actually going to get into where this, you know, it actually started. It actually started to happen, which isn’t. It’s not a fun topic. You know, I, I get that this is kind of some bland history and a lot of people don’t understand it, but I mean, you know, the World War I.

I know, I, you know, I know that Mike King and I talked about World War II and we, we laid the, we laid the stage or, you know, we set the stage to discuss kind of World War II. But, you know, really the, the roots of World War II really came out of World War I and the, the things that they wanted to get in place as a result of World War I. You know, they began planning that, you know, probably a good 15 to 20 years in advance. So this isn’t something that was brand new.

It was the culmination of, Of a ton of planning. And if I remember correctly, I want to say there was something like 40 million casualties that happened as a result of World War I, both civilian and military. And casualty could mean. Doesn’t mean anybody. That doesn’t just mean death. That means people who were maimed, scarred, injured, what have you. You know, it covers a broad spectrum. So anyway, that is. But I, I just find it really interesting that on the, the, the lines at. On Christmas Day, they all came together. They just, they stopped. They wouldn’t, they didn’t shoot at each other at first.

They were a little trepidatious to come out, but they did. And I’m sure Doherty and McGregor are going to talk about that, but I wanted to just kind of spice it up a little bit and, And Play that song. So anyway, let’s. Let’s jump in to the. Let’s jump into the topic here. Can you guys not hear me at all? No. Audio. Testing. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing. Audio. Now. No. Yes. No. Maybe so. Yes. No. Anybody? Can you guys hear me? Okay? You can hear me now? Okay, good. All right, how about now? Can you hear me now? If I put.

If I put my camera on the screen, does that make a difference? Can you hear me now? Testing, 1, 2. Nothing changed. I have done 0k me. Can you hear me as all my listeners? Okay, so maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’m not on screen. I don’t know. I’ll stay on screen and continue to read. So. Okay. Years later, evidence released from Moscow in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution clearly showed that three of the telegrams Gray had presented to Parliament as crucial proof of his attempts to prevent war had never been sent.

The claim by the British ambassador in St. Petersburg that, with one exception, that all of the diplomatic exchanges between him and the Foreign Office were included in the Blue Book was a scandalous lie. Professor Sidney Fay of Harvard found that more than a score had not been included and that important passages from telegrams and letters had been judiciously cut. And I believe score is 20 years. I saw the score. A score is 20 years. The Russian Orange Book contained 79 documents that emphasized her efforts for peace, but it concealed truths about Russia’s general mobilization that led directly to war and falsely blamed Austria and Germany.

The Orange Book omitted the conciliatory principle proposals that had been made by Kaiser Wilhelm II during the July crisis and all of the evidence of the aggressive Franco Russian policies that had been agreed between President Poincar of France and the tsar. The long delayed French Yellow Book likewise suppressed incriminating telegrams altogether and altered others to imply the French desire for peace and German responsibility for the war. The secret elite were ruthless in their manipulation of of official documents like the British Blue Book. The French Yellow and Russian Orange Books were likewise riddled with omissions and misinformation to conceal the truth and were faithfully portrayed by their propaganda machines as evidence of German war guilt.

With the advantage of their evidence not available at the time, their conclusion is now obvious. In 1914, the secret elites, trusted agents knew that the diplomatic and Foreign Office covenants between Britain, France and Russia throughout the month of July 1914, the secret elite went to great lengths to cover all traces of their conspiracy. Letters to and from Alfred Milner, their undisputed leader, were culled removed, burned or otherwise destroyed. Milner’s remaining papers, held in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, bear witness to the zeal with which much evidence of wrongdoing has been obliterated. Secret dispatches that he sent to his friend Lord Selborn have been disappeared.

Milder burned private and personal telegrams and what remains of these of the call undertaken by his wife after death presents only the bare rump of his voluminous or voluminous rather correspondence. Incriminating letters sent by King Edward vii, himself a member of the inner intercourse of the secret elite, were subject to an order that on his death they must be destroyed immediately. Admiral Jackie Fletcher Fisher, excuse me. East erstwhile First Sea Lord, noted in his memoirs that he had been advised by Lord Nollies, the King’s private secretary, to burn all letters sent to him by the King.

Fisher consequently burned much of his royal correspondence, but couldn’t bear to part with it all. Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, leading international banker and founding member of the secret society, likewise ordered that his papers and correspondence be burned posthumously lest his political influence and interventions became known. As his biographer commented, one can wonder how much of the Rothschild political role remains irrevocably hidden from posterity. If anything, the systematic conspiracy of the the secret elites place men in the British government to cover all traces of their devious machinations was far worse. Even if we assume that the surviving records of the Committee of Imperial Defense was accurate, what remains tells us more about what is missing.

Cathie. Records for the July Crisis covering the 4th to the 21st relate almost exclusively to Ireland discussion about the Balkans. None fears about the dangers implicit in the Austro Serbian dispute. Nowhere Belgium. No mention, no papers remain that raised concerns about a German invasion of Belgium. It had to appear that this conundrum had suddenly been sprung on Britain. While the official notice and the public record official list of Cabinet papers warns that the papers listed are certainly not the whole of the collectively considered by Cabinet members. The gap is breathtaking and no effort has been made to explain why crucial records are missing or what happened to them.

No cabinet papers whatsoever from July 14th of 19 excuse me. From July 14th July of 192014 July until the 20th of August survived the call, by which time the First World War had entered its third week. It’s beggars beliefs that so much has disappeared and the logistics. And the logical question is why much is missing in Britain’s official record in the First World War. But in fairness to the librarians and custodians of the public record Office they could only catalog what they were given. The British public has a right to know the full extent of what has been secretly retained, hidden or gone missing.

In the early 1970s, the Canadian historian Nicholas Dambrain d Ombre I hope I’m saying that right began researching War Office records. He noted the registry files were in a deplorable condition, having suffered the periodic ravages of the policy of weeding or of weeding. One such clearance was in progress during my foray into these files and I found that my material was being systematically reduced by as much as five sixths. That’s a lot. That is an enormous amount of information that’s just being just eliminated, just depictable. Astonishingly, a large amount of sensitive material was actually removed as the academic went about his business.

Where did it go? Who authorized its removal? In addition, d’Ombraine noted that minutes of the Committee of the Imperial Defense and Circulation and invitation lists together with much routine correspondence had been destroyed. What’s still required to be hidden from historians and researchers in 1970 that Dumbrain found 56 of the total files melting away in front of him demonstrated clearly that others still retain a vested interest in keeping the evidence of history hidden. Thumbrain is but one of a number of historians thwarted by the disappearance of documentation. Official memoirs covering the origins of the First World War were carefully vetted.

Sir Edward Gray’s 25 Years is an appalling excuse for a record of fact and the convenience of his failing memory rings hollow. Lloyd George’s war memoirs contain numerous pieces that suggest a censor’s pen. Instead of detailing the help he received from Lord Rothschild at the very start of the war, Lloyd George restain retrain restrained. Hey there D. How you doing? Let’s see here. Lloyd George restrained. His comment to it was done leaving the reader to wonder precisely what it was. He does. He does however draw attention to the controversial and self glorifying diaries written by Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British army and radically altered his and radically altered by Lady Haig to the extent that there were two versions of the supposedly same record.

Haig rewritten and frequently altered Diaries were deliberate were, excuse me, were liberally used by his biographer and family friend Duff Cooper to glorify him. A version that Haig sent directly to King George V criticized many of his fellow commanders but these were removed by Lady Haig’s. Lest Sir Douglas reputation be affected, a great deal more will be said at an appropriate time about Sir Douglas Haig When When Sir George Buchanan, the British ambassador at Petrograd, an important player in the secret Elites trust diplomatic corps and his memoirs, My Mission to Russia and other diplomatic memoirs. It contained information that the establishment considered too revealing for publication.

His daughter Marielle stated that he was obliged to omit passages from his book on pain of losing his pension. Take care. Memories have been tampered with. Bad as it is, it is of relatively minor importance compared to the Secret Elite’s outrageous theft of historical record from across Europe in the immediate post war years. Hundreds of thousands of important documents pertaining to the origins of the Herbert Hoover First World War. I don’t even know why it says that pertaining to the origins of the First World War were taken from their countries of origin to the west coast of America and hidden away in locked vaults at Stanford University.

And that is an extraordinarily crucial point. The documents which would without a doubt have exposed the real perpetrators had to be removed to a secure location and hidden from prying eyes. Herbert Hoover, a future US President, was the secret Elite’s agent charged with the mammoth task of removing incriminating documents from Europe. During the war, Hoover played a major role for the Secret elite in operating an emergency food supply organization that was allegedly created to save starving Belgian civilians. No government gave official sanction to the removal of historical documents. It was theft dressed as a philanthropic act of preservation for the benefit of future historians.

Indeed, like the thief in the night, stealth was the rule of thumb. Ephraim Adams, professor of history at Stanford University and a close friend of Hoover from their student days, was called to Paris to coordinate the great heist and dress it as a cloak of academic respectability. Hoover recruited a management team of young scholars from the American army and secured their release from military service. They used letters of introduction and logistical support from Hoover to collect the documentary evidence and establish a network of representatives throughout Europe. They made the right contacts, snooped around for archives and found so many that Hoover was soon shipping them back to the United States as ballast in the empty food boats.

And for those of you who don’t know what ballast is, ballast is what they use. Okay, so you know how on an aircraft carrier how you’ve got. There’s one big island superstructure on one side of the ship and then there’s, it’s off. It’s, it’s like it’s not balanced. Well, ballast is the, what they use on the other side as the same weight to make sure that it counterbalances. So it’s, I mean they. The point of the matter is, is that there were so many fricking documents that they could be used as ballast on the ship. Insane.

And you see this picture here of them standing in front of just a whole bunch of documents. And look at how tall they are. I mean I don’t know how tall these guys are. Maybe 5, 5, 5, somewhere between 5, 5, 5, 8, something like that. Guys are a little bit shorter back then. Hoover recruited an additional 1,000 agents whose first haul amounted to 375,000 volumes of the secret war documents of European governments. Hoover’s secret elite controllers were primarily interested in material reading to the war’s origins and the workings of the Commissioner or the Commission of Foreign Relief of Belgium.

Other documents relating to the military aspects of the war itself were ignored. The secret removal and disposal of incriminatory British and French material posed little or no problem for the secret elite. And surprisingly, once the Bolsheviks had taken control, access to Russian documents proved straightforward. Professor Mulyukov, I hope I say right. Foreign Minister in the old Kerensky regime informed Hoover that some of the czarist archives pertaining to the origins of the war had been concealed in a barn in Finland. Hoover later boasted that getting them was no trouble at all. We were feeding Finland at the time.

The secret elite thus took possession of a mass of evidence relating to the oldest czar’s regime that undoubtedly contained hugely damaging information on top of secret negotiations which let which went on to which went on between the Russian Foreign Office and Paris and London before the war started. They had to remove the evidence of Russian mobilization because it proved that Germany acted in self defense. It might at first appear that the strange that the Bolsheviks cooperated so willingly by allowing America to remove another 25 carloads of material from Petrograd. According to the New York Times, they bought the Bolsheviks documents from a doorkeeper for 200 cash.

But clearly there were deeper darker forces at play. The removal of the documents from Germany presented a few problems. 15 carloads of material were taken including the complete secret minutes of German Supreme War Council. A gift according to Hoover from Friedrich Ebert, first president of post war German Republic. Hoover explained this away by claiming that Ebert was a radical with no interest in the work of his predecessors. But the starving man will exchange even his birthright for food. Hoover’s people also acquired 6,000 volumes of documents covering the complete official and secret proceedings of the Kaiser’s wartime conduct of the German empire.

Where then is the vital evidence to prove Germans guilt? Has there been proof it would have been released by it? Had there been proof it would have been released immediately. There was none. Taking possession of the German archives, especially crucial since they would have proved conclusively to the world that Germany had not started the war. The Hoover war library became so packed with documentary material that it was legitimately described as the largest in the world dealing with the first world war. In reality, this was no library. While the documents were physically housed within Stanford, the collection was kept separate and only individuals with the highest authorization and keys to the padlocks were allowed access.

In 1941, 22 years after Hoover began the task of secreting away the. The real history of the first world war, the first carefully selected documents were made available to the public. What was withheld from view or destroyed will never be known. Suffice it to say that few if any first world war historians have ever reproduced or quoted any controversial material from that source. Indeed, it is startling fact that no war historian has ever written about the illicit theft of European documents to America. Documents that relate to arguably the most crucially important event in European and world history.

And so the theft of history means a crime for which no one has ever faced trial because no government has ever laid formal charges. Perhaps they should. All right, so moving on to the next the dead hand of history. And let me just say guys, this is, I mean that’s, that’s just nuts to think about that you had, you’ve, you’ve got essentially one of one of the most crucial periods of events in history that was literally perpetrated and blamed on the Germans. In many ways it’s like 9 11. You know, we blame 911 on 9 on 919 terrorists hijacking planes, right? Yeah, but the planes can fly into buildings and you know, the buildings are, it’s, it’s so hot that it melts steel and everything, but yet a paper passport can make it through and land on a sidewalk.

Right? I mean, I mean they’ve been manipulating history for, you know, for hundreds of years. But this is a very, this is an extraordinarily egregious one. And the guy who is responsible later became president. I don’t like George Bush. Just, just, just saying, just saying. All right. The dead hand of history. Dead men tell no tales. Any investigation into crimes against truth should also include a consideration of suspicious and ultimately and untimely deaths which silent, dangerous voices against the will of the secret elite. Strange deaths in the pre war period include that of Italian general Alberto polio.

Italy had renewed its membership in the triple alliance with Germany and Austria on 5th of them on the 5th of December of 1912. But the British Foreign Office initially bolstered by Edward VII’s frequent meetings with Italian royalty in the first decade of the century, had secretly maneuvered the Italians away from that commitment. There was one fly in the proverbial ointment. While the secret elite could influence general policies and overreaching treaties, they could not guarantee the actions of individuals. The Italian military chief of staff, General Alberto Polio, was one such individual. He did not belong to the diplomatic or ruling class.

He was loyal to the stated commitment to Germany. They were not German. Italian military discussions took place in December 1912, shortly after the renewal of the Triple Alliance. France and polio promised that German chief of Staff von Moltke that Italy would mobilize her forces if as and as soon as war was declared. Polio intended to honor what he understood to be Italy’s international commitments. By March of 1914, he had gone so far as to agree that the Italian third Army would serve under the direct German command. German optimism for a second front along Italy’s border with France was based on polio’s assurance.

And his strength of character had proven loyalty placed his intentions above suspicion. So I think it’s when they talk about the Triple alliance, he’s talking about Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy. And obviously that didn’t happen. Ultimately, I think Italy sided with the British and the French. So yeah, this, so this, this never actually took place. As if I. If I remember correctly, through secret Anglo English Italian agreements made behind polio’s back, the government in Rome planned to observe a strictly neutral stance when war broke out in February 1914. The unwitting polio even assured the Germans that he would send two cavalry divisions and three to five infantry divisions into Germany through the southern trial to help them implement the Schlieffen plan.

I’ll talk about their sleeping plan if they don’t. The question was, would the Italian army follow polio for the or the government? Strange then that polio just happened to suffer a heart attack on the same day. Imagine the odds as the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Wow. So they kill Archduke Ferdinand and then, and then polio has a heart attack, same day. Imagine the odds. Just a coincidence. His condition was misdiagnosed as a gastric ailment and the unfortunate polio was given a strong purgative. He died on 1 July 1914 in Italy’s part and the Schlieffen plan died with him.

Polio had been one of the main. One had been the one man in Italy who would have stood up to the politicians and made a case for the honor and Dignity of the nation. He died from a gastric ailment that reeked of a gripping his poisoning of Claudius centuries before. On hearing that the bad. On hearing the bad news, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph exclaimed in utter frustration that everyone is dying around me. When General. With General Polio out of the way, the Italian cabinet had no powerful voice raised against its decision to adopt a neutral stance when war was declared.

Was General Polio’s untimely death mere coincidence? Consider this. Nine days later Nikolai Hartwig, the Russian ambassador in Serbia, dropped dead, allegedly from a massive heart attack during a visit to the Austrian ambassador in Belgrade. Hartwig was directly implicated in the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, and his pivotal role will be fully explained in a subsequent post. The Serbian press immediately published several inflammatory articles accusing the Austrians of poisoning Hartwig while he was guest at their legation. But the secret elite dampened down such speculation. The through the Times. Through the Times, their mouthpiece in London, which described such as such talk as ratings.

I’m assuming that means like conspiracy theory. That’s obviously we’re talking old, older terms. I hate when you have to have a sneeze. When you have to sneeze and then it goes away. Absolving Russia from any connection with the assassination was absolutely vital to their long term interest. That fact alone accounts for the death by execution of another figure closely associated with the Sarajevo assassination. Some three years after the event. Colonel oh, Dragutin Dmitrovich, also known as APIs, and officers loyal to him were indicted on various false charges unrelated to Sarajevo. He effectively signed his own death warrant when he confessed to the court’s martial law or to the to the court martial that in agreement with the Russian military attache in Serbia, he had hired an agent to organize Ferdinand’s murder.

The explosive part of his statement was the revelation of Russian involvement in the assassination. And a piece had to be silenced. Oh, much to his own surprise. For Colonel Appease truly believe. He for Colonel Abbey truly believed right up to the moment of death that his contracts in England, France and Russia would intervene on his behalf. He was executed on 26 June 1917. In reality, appease was silenced, put to death by order of a Serbian government that desperately needed to permanently bury its complicity with the Russia or with Russia in the Sarajevo assassination. It was judicial murder.

What price then the assassination of the French Socialist Party leader and anti militarist Jean Jarry? He publicly called on workers in France and Germany to take part in general strikes and thus stop both countries from going to war. On 31 July, he was gunned down in Le Croissant, a cafe in the. In the Montmartry district of Paris. I’m sorry, I’m getting my, my. My practicing my, My French. I’m guessing that’s how you pronounce. Maybe. I don’t think the S is pronounced. Was the voice of reason appealing to Europe to keep cool? His voice was. His voice too was silenced.

Another coincidence? Perhaps, but they were oh so convenient for the warmongers. Many of those with tales to tell did not live long enough to tell them. Alexander Islavsky, the Russian ambassador to France and a man intimately associated with the secret elite, started to write his biography, but was found dead, slumped over his desk with a pen in hand. Before he could finish the first volume. Strangely, all of his offski’s copious papers and telegrams from July of 1914 disappeared. His biographer, Friedrich Steve, considered the likelihood of a prudent holocaust of his incriminating documents. Most frustratingly, we will never read the memoirs of General Pollio on the disingenuous Italian government or Hartwig’s Confessions of a manipulative Russian Ambassador.

A piece was executed before he could implicate the Serbian government and its supporters. And Alexander Izovsky’s autobiography was doomed to dust as he began to progress his own. His personal account of how he helped cause the war, the voice of reason with which Jean Jarret was influencing working class Europeans against war, was brutally silenced. Each of these men could have affected both the war and our understanding of the of the causes. Each in his own way, was a danger to the secret elite. The utterly unacceptable and all deaths were in the light of those lies have been pervade as history.

It is surely of even greater concern that Carol quickly pointed an accusing finger at those who monopolized so completely the writings and teachings of the history of their own period. There is no ambivalence in his accusation. The secret elite controlled the historical record through numerous avenues, including the Northcliffe newspapers, but none more effectively than the Oxford University. Almost every important member of the Milner group, which dominated the the dominated and led the secret elite, was allowed one of three colleges, Balliol, New College or All Souls. They controlled these colleges and in turn largely dominated the intellectual life of Oxford.

In the field of history. Historians beholden to the secret elite for senior academic posts were at the forefront of the justification of the war. Their influence at Oxford was so powerful that they also controlled the Dictionary of the National Biography, which meant that the secret elite wore the or wrote rather the biographies of its own members. They created their own official history of the key players for public consumption, striking out any incriminating evidence and portraying the best public spirited image for each. Wow, I didn’t know that. In addition, many of the official historian histories of the war were commissioned through these Oxford historians and widely disseminated popular magazine style types like the Illustrated History of the First World War were written by journalists closely associated with Lord Norcliffe, who was in turn deeply involved with the secret elite and their war to destroy Germany.

Nelson’s History of the Great War was accredited to John Buchanan Buchan, an Oxford man better known as the author of Adventure stories, but a member of the secret elite groomed by Alfred Milner in South Africa. Good old Milner. The Oxford link goes over and undoubtedly will continue. We will be dealing with this connection in great detail in the future. Some famous names may already be known to you. A.J.P. taylor, lecture in modern history at Oxford from 1930 to 1963, was a prolific and unpopular historian from the 1960s until his death in 1990. He was the classroom guru with virtually every school course in modern history in the land using his texts.

When he decided that it was not true to claim that mobilization means war, then that was what was taught as fact, no matter what the contrary evidence from Russia, France or from the waves of diplomatic telegrams warning the Russians to mobilize in secret because Germany would know what that meant or that that meant war. In like vein, Sir Michael Howard, formerly Professor of History at War of War at Oxford, Fellow of All Souls and Emeritus professor of Modern History at Oxford, denied the automatic implication of mobilization, claiming that the Russian mobilization gave Germany the excuse. So the mobilization of of between 1 and 2 million Russian soldiers on Germany’s border was simply used as an excuse by Germany to go to war, a war on two fronts that she had desperately striven to avoid.

No evidence was offered by either of these lectured or learned authorities. They spoke ex cathedra, pronouncing the verdict of Oxford on the curse on the causes of the First World War. Like medieval popes and God help the student that questioned their divine bull. Norman Stone, professor of Modern History at Oxford between 1914 and 1997 excuse me, 1984 and 1997 also blamed Germany for the war. Princip stated, if I had. If I had not done it, the Germans would have another excuse. And this he was right. Berlin was one was waiting for the inevitable accident. Sir Hugh Strachan Chichelli, professor of History of the War of War at Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls and the historian placed in charge of the war centenary commemorations also observed, Excuse me, absolved Britain and France of blame.

His conclusion was that for those liberal countries struggling to defend their freedoms against Germany, the war was far from futile. The Oxford message remains clear. Blame Germany. History of the First World War should be treated with a critical caution, especially those emanating from Oxford University, the spiritual home of the secret elite. A completely different tactic to suppress the truth emerged in the interwar years. In 1929, Harry Elmer Barnes, a professor of history at the prestigious Columbia University, published the Geneva Genesis of the First World War. His conclusion, based on documents and statements that had been ignored by official histories, was that Germany and Austria were not to blame for the war.

He pointed at an accusatory finger at France and Russia and as a result fell out of what he termed court historians. To his dismay, the book was suppressed. Barnes explained, a major difficulty has been the unwillingness of booksellers to cooperate, even when it was to their pecuniary advantage to do so. Booksellers even discouraged prospective customers who desired to have the genesis of the World War ordered for them. Booksellers unwilling to sell books. That was surely an unusual situation, unless of course, other influences, powerful money influences, wanted to restrict the circulation and squeeze the life from such work.

Barnes expanded his historic debate by inviting major triple alliance politicians who played key roles in July of 1914 to provide eyewitness evidence for a special edition of the New York Times Current History magazine in July of 1928. The result was a fierce rejection of German war guilt and the secret elite grew concerned. It is this revisionist historical research was allowed to continue unabated. They faced the possibility of being unmasked. Their response was a sudden growth of anti revisionist histories by court historians in the 1930s. A number of historians and authors who offered critical analysis which came to very different conclusions about the First World War appear to have been given very limited shelf life.

Even though sales were good. Second and subsequent editions never went to print. Professor Quigley histories have themselves been subject to suppression. Unknown persons removed tragedy and hope from the bookstores shelves in America and it was withdrawn from sale without any justification soon after its release. The book’s original plan or plates were unaccountably destroyed by Quigley’s publishers, the Macmillan Company, who for the next six years lied, lied, lied to him, deliberately misled him into believing that it would be reprinted. Why? Because what? What? But pressures alleged, or excuse me, obliged to a major publishing house to make such an extreme action.

Quigley claimed that powerful people had suppressed the book because it was. Because it exposed matters that they did not want known. It would appear that a similar fate has been visited on our book, Hidden the Secret Origins of the First World War, published in July of 2013. Although we are authors, we, we are fortunate to be invited to address sellout audiences at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. The book had been completely blanked with no reviews whatsoever published in mainstream newspapers or journals. Our literary agent stated that he had never known anything like it in his 40 years in the publishing business.

The dead hand of history weighs heavy on those who would speak truth to power. And I actually have a copy of that book right here. I don’t know if you all can see it. And I have a copy of their other book. It was, I think was called Extending the Agony or Prolonging the Agony. I believe crazy stuff and crazy, crazy stuff just, I mean, it just goes to show you, it’s like, you know, as they say, there’s nothing new under the sun. These people have been manipulating history for a long time. It’s not anything brand new.

This is, this, this has been going on for decades, centuries, if you will. I mean, go back and look at the, at the, at the, at the Library of Alexandria. Burned to the ground. You know, I mean, was that, was that done deliberately? Because they didn’t want certain things on there to be read by, by the people who knows? So, but anyway, I digress. Okay, so let one historic myth be put immediately to the sword. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, did not start the First World War of itself.

The fateful slaying of the heir to the Austro Hungarian crown was a great crime that did indeed cry out for vengeance. But the hand that pulled the trigger had no knowledge of what lay behind, the assistance his band of brothers had been given, or how the act would be misunderstood, represented and manipulated into a universal disaster. Assassinations and politically motivated slayings were not uncommon in that troubled time, with kings and queens, aristocracy, political opponents and religious leaders falling victim to usurpers, murderers and zealots with astonishing regularity. It was an age of assassins. What made the death of Archduke Ferdinand different from any other was that the event was assisted by the secret cabal in London.

Well removed from the heat of the Balkans. The men who compromised, excuse me, the men who comprised the secret elite, had previously failed to find their spark for the international conflagration through the Balkan wars of 1912-13. Because Germany, in The person of the Kaiser restrained Austria Hungary from overreacting to Serbia’s repeated and deliberate provocation. Indeed, the Dual Monarchy was concerned that the German ambassador in Belgrade in 1914 was decidedly pro Serb and had influenced the Kaiser to take a comparatively benign attitude towards the Serbian cause. Yet it was clear that Austria was the weak link in Germany’s protective armor.

She could only absorb so much pressure from the antagonistic Serbia before the integrity of the Austria Hungarian state was destroyed. The warmakers required an incident so violent, threatening or dangerous that Austria would be pushed over the brink. But the assassination itself failed to do so. The world was shocked, stunned and in many parts saddened by the Archduke’s death. But no one talked of war in June of 1914. Immediate blame was pointed at the Pan Serb movement. Though the implication of revolutionary elements from Bosnia and Herzegovina I never can say that right was not ruled out. The Serbian minister in Vienna denounced the assassination as a mad act of fanatical and political agitators, as if to suggest that it had been a dastardly and ill timed mischance.

It was not. In fact, the process of bringing about the assassination had been exceptionally well constructed. Austria Hungary was aware of the external dangers that lay across the Serbian border. Its military intelligence had intercepted and deciphered a large number of diplomatic telegrams that had detailed Russian involvement with several activist groups. They knew that Russian ambassador in Belgrade, Nikolai Hartwig was manipulating the Serbian government to to destabilize the region. They knew that Hartwig was in the was in control of the internal politics of Serbia. They knew of his links back to Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov in St.

Petersburg and to the Paris based warmongers Eslowsky and Point Guerrero. But like everybody else, they were not aware of the real power centered in London. Nobody was. The secret elite in London funded and supported both the Russian ambassador in Paris and the French Prime Minister himself. They influenced the Russian Foreign Minister in St. Petersburg, but kept a very low profile in such matters. Their work had to be undertaken in great secrecy. The links in the chain of command from London were further deeper and more sinister when extended from Hartwig into the Serbian military, into their intelligence service and the quasi independent nationalist society the Black Hand.

And deeper yet into the young Bosnian political activists who were willing to pull the trigger in Sarajevo. Students whose ideas on socialism and reform were influenced by revolutionaries like Trotsky. Let me see, you’re getting into, I mean Trotsky, revolutionaries, socialism. Do you see a theme going on here? As each level of the web culpability extended Away from the main secret elite chain of command, precise control became less immediate. Stazonov in St. Petersburg considered that Hartwig in Belgrade was carried away with occasionally by his Slavophile sympathies, but did nothing to curtail him. Hartwig in turn supported and encouraged men whose primary cause he willingly shared and whose actions he could personally approve.

But not at every stage control. Nikolai Hartwig, the Russian ambassador, worked in close contact with his military attache, Artema Artemanova. Artemanov, I hope I’m saying that right. Who had been posted to Bugreid to advise and liaise with the Serbian army. These men were instrumentally, or excuse me, intrinsically linked to the assassinations in Sarajevo by their chosen agent. The founder and dominating figure in the Serbian Black Hand and the most influential military officers in Serbia, Colonel Dragutin Dmitrovich, or APIs. The English traveler and Balkan commentator Edith Durham described the Black Hand as a mafia type society, Masonic and secret promotion, infiltrating the Serbian military, civil service, police and government.

It produced its own newspaper, Piedmont, which preached intolerance to Austria, Hungary and violent chauvinism. It became the most dangerous of political organisms, of a government within the government, responsible to none. Crimes were committed for which no one took responsibility. The government denied. Denied any knowledge of it. Yet King Patar was literally placed on the throne by these men. Efforts by responsible politicians to tackle the subversion of good government by the Black Hand came to nothing. Hartwig’s friendship and respect for APIs may be measured by his description of his group and idealistic Ideal. Idealistic and patriotic. And there is no doubt that it suited Hartwig’s purpose to approve APIs’s promotion to chief of intelligence in the summer of 1913.

It is clearly important that. Excuse me. It is important that we clearly identify every link in the chain of intrigue that surrounded that fateful assassination in Sarajevo in June of 1914. Hapis was deliberately given responsibility for an intelligence organizational finance from Russia. His life’s purpose was the establishment of a Greater Serbia. He was first, foremost and always a Serb. He worked in collusion with the Russian military attache Artemanov and secured a promise from him that Russia would protect Serbia should Austria attack them in the wake of the actions. In other words, Russia was prepared to give Serbia a blank check guarantee that whatever happened she would stand by her for a peace.

What was required was a demonstration of Serbian self determination that would force the issue once and for all and bring about permanent change. The Austrian government presented the opportunity in March of 1914 when they announced that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg Dual Monarchy, would visit Sarajevo in June. Although they had reliable information that Serbian agitators, in conjunction with influential Russian circles, wished to strike a decisive blow against the Austrian monarchy, they chose to ignore it. The secret elite had four crucial months in which to spin their web of intrigue and catch their ultimate prize.

All right, guys, that takes me right to about to an hour, and I’m gonna go ahead and kill it for there for now, because I don’t want. I really want to keep this at about an hour. So. So I will pick up. I will pick up where I left off next time and we’ll go from there. This is. You know, I don’t. You guys probably may find this boring. I find it fascinating. The. The history of the First World War is something that a lot of people really don’t know, and it impacts their daily lives on them in a way that people really.

They don’t have any idea of understanding. So. So anyway, that’s why I just. I find this. I find this stuff just amazingly interesting. So I. I hope that that comes through in my voice as I’m. As I talk about it. So, anyhow, anyway, on that note, guys, I hope you have a wonderful evening. It is about 6:00 on the East coast and 9:00 on the. I’m sorry, it’s about 9:00 on the East coast and 6:00 on the west coast. So hope you guys have a great night and I look forward to seeing you manana. Have a great night, everybody.
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