Who set Hitler against Stalin?. Nikolay Starikov

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so typical of him later: good clothes, money, a car and a driver. Tax police of Weimar Republic was quite interested in the sources of the unknown income of Führer that gave him an opportunity to live luxuriously right after his imprisonment. Responding to the tax authority request Hitler replied: “Neither in 1924 nor in the first quarter of 1925 I received any income at all. I paid for living expenses with the loans that I took in the bank. Money that I spent for the car is from the same source”.

      The correspondence between Hitler and tax authorities is the subject for a separate story. “My personal demands are limited to the very simple things, I do not drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, I eat in the cheapest restaurants and other than the apartment rent I have no expenses that the income of writer-publicist could not cover”[124], – responded Adolf Hitler to the tax authorities. As in the section “profession” Führer indicated in particular: Writer-publicist. The only income indicated in his tax declarations was the income from selling books as was due for the writer. However Hitler’s debit and credit did not agree: the expenses were much over the income which gave rise to questions from the tax inspectors. Führer used loans as the explanation; he insisted that he took loans to make purchases. However the sources which he used to discharge the loans are obscure as of today

      Let us return to the USSR again. I do not want to describe all the details of the battle between the two communistic leaders. Though such wording is not quite correct. Practically within the frames of one and the same political organization there were two completely different parties. The party aimed at restoration and construction of the new Russia, and the party striving to sacrifice the country to the interests of the world revolution, or if speaking directly to the interests of the West.

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      Примечания

      1

      Taylor, A. J. P. The origins of the Second World War. Dva vzgl’ada. M., 1995. P. 420.

      2

      Jacobsen, G.-A. 1939–1945. The Second World War. M., 1995. P. 17.

      3

      Rauschning, H. The Voice of Destruction (Hitler speaks). M., 1993. P. 100. Hereinafter The Voice of Destruction (Hitler Speaks) is quoted from the G. P. Putnam’s Sons English-language edition (New York, 1949) available from the Internet Archive Universal Library here: https://archive.org/details/VoiceOfDestruction (Translator’s note).

      4

      That is, since the Franco-Prussian War.

      5

      Taylor, A. J. P. The origins of the Second World War. M., 1995. P. 105.

      6

      For example, 100% of crude rubber was imported by the Reich via the USSR. Other materials were imported using the same scheme (those which the war-torn Germany was not able to purchase directly).

      7

      Jacobsen, G.-A. 1939–1945. The Second World War. M., 1995. P. 153.

      8

      Joachim von Ribbentrop. Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker).

      The English translation is quoted from the public-domain materials available at ibiblio: The Public’s Library and Digital Archive: http://www.ibiblio.org/ (Translator’s note).

      9

      For example, we can read these lines in the war diary left by the German General Franz Halder: “Adequate air forces for a siege of Britain will not be available until the Eastern campaign is substantially concluded and the Air Force is refitted and enlarged”. (Entry of September 13, 1941). Quoted by: War journal of Franz Halder, V. VII // Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library, http://goo.gl/J1VLQw

      10

      Churchill, W. The Second World War. V.1. P. 23.

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      Ibid. P. 174.

      12

      Quoted from: Nuremberg Trial Proceedings V. 12, 118th day (Wednesda

Примечания

1

Taylor, A. J. P. The origins of the Second World War. Dva vzgl’ada. M., 1995. P. 420.

2

Jacobsen, G.-A. 1939–1945. The Second World War. M., 1995. P. 17.

3

Rauschning, H. The Voice of Destruction (Hitler speaks). M., 1993. P. 100. Hereinafter The Voice of Destruction (Hitler Speaks) is quoted from the G. P. Putnam’s Sons English-language edition (New York, 1949) available from the Internet Archive Universal Library here: https://archive.org/details/VoiceOfDestruction (Translator’s note).

4

That is, since the Franco-Prussian War.

5

Taylor, A. J. P. The origins of the Second World War. M., 1995. P. 105.

6

For example, 100% of crude rubber was imported by the Reich via the USSR. Other materials were imported using the same scheme (those which the war-torn Germany was not able to purchase directly).

7

Jacobsen, G.-A. 1939–1945. The Second World War. M., 1995. P. 153.

8

Joachim von Ribbentrop. Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker).

The English translation is quoted from the public-domain materials available at ibiblio: The Public’s Library and Digital Archive: http://www.ibiblio.org/ (Translator’s note).

9

For example, we can read these lines in the war diary left by the German General Franz Halder: “Adequate air forces for a siege of Britain will not be available until the Eastern campaign is substantially concluded and the Air Force is refitted and enlarged”. (Entry of September 13, 1941). Quoted by: War journal of

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