Now It Can Be Learned

This week a dark age ended—an age which had falsified, concealed or suppressed the answers to some historic questions. Some of the answers to some of these questions should now, sooner or later, be available:

¶ What is the real story of the Russo-German non-aggression pact of 1939? Of Hitler's fatal decision to attack Russia? Did the German General Staff oppose the Russian war?

¶ Why did not Germany build more submarines in 1941-42, when she almost won the crucial battle of the Atlantic?

¶ Why did the Luftwaffe persistently blitz London, rather than the west coast ports, where far more damage might have been done to Britain, desperate for supplies?

¶ Is it true that German chemists reduced the cost of synthetic oil below the cost of oil from the ground—a scientific triumph that would mean big things in the postwar world?

¶ What next-war weapons were in German laboratories at war's end?

¶ By what near-miracles did the Germans keep alive their shattered cities (such as Berlin and Cologne) far beyond the point at which the British, from experience, expected all organized, productive life to stop?

¶ Who was right about strategic bombing: the Americans, who pinpointed factory targets; the British, who bombed whole congested areas; or the Russians, who thought both useless?

¶ How did the Germans manage to replace (or dispense with) essential raw materials?

¶ What were total German battle casualties? Did the Germans run out of young men before they ran out of materials?

¶ Were all the outstanding ardent anti-Nazis of Germany liquidated? Is anything left of the German Socialist Party (once biggest in the world) or the German Communist Party (biggest outside Russia)?

¶ How badly was Hitler hurt in the July 20 bomb plot? How widespread was the plot?

¶ What happened to the soul of the German people during twelve years of Naziism ?