And yet we have a wealth of information right now, none of which back the claims made by the Nazi-apologists you quoted.
We have plenty of facts, we know what Hitler did, we know what he wanted to do and we have ample sources explaining his reasoning and that of the German high command. You don't get to dismiss the evidence on the basis that some day something might turn up that contradicts it.
And another spurious diversion. Unlike the Byzantine empire we have reams of documents, physical evidence and eyewitness accounts as to the actions and intentions of the Germans and far from looking at new information you've chosen to trot old myths such as Hitler let the British escape at Dunkirk.
Hitler had his easy treaty, it was called the M-R Pact. Your option is simply not credible, it is contradicted by the available evidence and the only thing 'upsetting' is your inability to understand that Germany has to remove the threat of France before it could turn on the USSR. Even Adolf Hitler understood this and so did Josef Stalin, hence his willingness to supply a country he knew was his enemy with raw materials.
(my point was the closer to a historical even the less acturate is the History --- look at the docs and books coming out about Kursk now )
Anyway :
The author of the book that the article is based upon is by :
Peter Padfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Padfield
List of Published books
https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Padfield/e/B001HCZFX2
Profile :
Born in
British India, Padfield attended a well-known
boarding school for boys,
Christ's Hospital, then trained for a naval career as a
Royal Naval Reserve cadet on
HMS Worcester. He then became a navigating officer with the
P&O shipping company. In 1957 he was paid off from P&O's London to
Australia ocean liner Strathmore,
[1] after being accepted as one of the crew of
Mayflower II, a replica of the original
Mayflower, and sailed in her on her maiden voyage from
Plymouth,
Devon, to
New York City.
[2][3] On his escape from a junior officer's life with P&O, Padfield later commented that "Cargo boats, public schools, and prisons have a great deal in common".
[4] After New York, he returned to sea in the Pacific, including a visit to
Guadalcanal in the
Solomon Islands, where he panned for gold, then wrote
The Sea is a Magic Carpet, published as a book in 1959, an account of his adventures.
[5]
Padfield settled in England and established a career in journalism. In his second book,
The Titanic and the Californian, he defended the reputation of
Captain Lord, the master of the
Californian who since 1912 had been widely blamed for the death of hundreds of passengers on the
Titanic.
[6] He concluded that in the Board of Trade Inquiry chaired by
Lord Mersey there had been "crazy deductions, distortions, prejudice, and occasional bone-headed obstinacy of witnesses and the court",
[7] and the huge success of this enabled him to begin writing books full-time.
[5] Next came several works on naval history, including
The Great Naval Race (1976), a study of the rivalry between Britain and Germany in the early 20th century, which led to biographies of three leading Nazis,
Karl Dönitz,
[8] Heinrich Himmler,
[9] and
Rudolf Hess.
[10] In 2003 he won the
Mountbatten Maritime Prize for his
Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom.
[11][12]
Padfield's most recent historical work is
Hess, Hitler and Churchill (2013), in which he explores the mystery of
Rudolf Hess's flight to Britain in 1941. He develops the theory that it may have been part of a significant German peace offer and suggests that Hess was carrying documents with detailed proposals from Hitler. These would have meant an armistice between Germany and Britain, which would stand neutral in a planned German war against the
Soviet Union, in return for which Germany was willing to withdraw its armed forces from Western Europe
If it makes you feel better just think of it is a : WHAT IF HITLER OFFERED PEACE AND WENT EAST ---
I do not know it what he =writes is real -- nor are many historians close to an event ---
