and precise statistics. It issued the results of its research twice a month in fifteen languages. After our visit to the institute, its administration asked us to assign an Arab representative to supervise issuing an Arabic version of the institute’s studies. I therefore assigned Dr. Adel Meski, one of the foremost Syrians, to reside at the institute, and an Arabic version was subsequently issued.
Among the institute’s answers to some of Hitler’s three questions were the following:
1. The Jews’ belief that they are the chosen people of God, that the world was created only for them, and that all other nations, the righteous among them, are merely animals with no right to rule or govern, had instilled in them an intense spirit of selfishness, superiority, arrogance, hatred of people, and resentment toward them.
2. The experiments undertaken to reform them, such as justice, good treatment, intermarriage, social reform measures, strengthening family ties, and similar measures, had not succeeded to date.
The Germans say that they treated the Jews with kindness, justice, and equality, enabled them to live in prosperity and dignity, made them equal to themselves, and opened for them fields of work in the economic, cultural, and social spheres. But the Jews did not repay kindness in kind. They denied all of this and severed every bond. What most grieves the Germans is that the Jews betrayed them, sided with their enemies, deprived them of victory in the two world wars, and inflicted great harm on them at their most vital and decisive moments, merely because Britain had promised them a national home in Palestine. This betrayal cost the Jews a very high price.
Germany and its allies held the advantage at the beginning of the Second World War. They overran most of Europe, including Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, France, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, and most of the Balkans. They also occupied many areas of Russia and elsewhere. The Germans’ brilliant victories captivated people and won their admiration for their brave armies, deadly weapons, and superiority in military and technological arts. This led many people to believe that they would achieve a clear victory. Germany exerted its utmost effort for this purpose, mobilizing by the end of the war about twenty percent of its population of eighty million in Germany and Austria, that is, sixteen million soldiers.
But the large number of its enemies, their numerical, financial, and industrial superiority, the Jews’ success in bringing the United States into the war against Germany as they had done in the First World War, the Germans’ need to fight on multiple fronts, and other causes and errors led Germany to lose the war.
I believe that the greatest reason for Germany’s loss of the war was the intelligence services of its enemies, Jewish, English, American, and others. Those intelligence services managed to discover the hidden locations of the war factories producing secret weapons, foremost among them the atomic-bomb reactors on which Germany relied to achieve final victory. I heard from Himmler in the summer of 1943 something showing his confidence in victory, when he invited me to drink tea on the shore of a lake in East Prussia. He was watching a test of armored vehicles they had invented at that time, able to cross rivers, move through water as they moved on land, and climb mountains. I mentioned this meeting when I spoke earlier about my meetings with him. When I expressed my admiration for them, he said to me: “We have inventions far more dangerous and important than these armored vehicles.”
“I will disclose to you a secret known to no more than ten people in the entire German Reich. We have advanced a great deal in atomic science, and the atomic weapon will be the greatest weapon guaranteeing us victory. We have learned that the English and Americans have also begun trying to obtain atomic weapons, but we are three years ahead of them, and we will reach the atomic weapon at least three years before them.”
But Allied intelligence was able to discover the location of the atomic reactors in East Prussia through its spies, many of whom entered Germany under the guise of the numerous foreign workers Germany urgently needed, because it had been forced to conscript German workers and send them to the front. The number of foreign workers in Germany reached seventeen million, so the spies infiltrated among them and managed to discover the secret locations of these atomic plants. They were at Peenemünde on the Baltic coast in eastern Germany. When the Allies became certain of this, they attacked it in a massive air raid that destroyed the factories and atomic reactors and killed a number of German atomic scientists. In this way, the Allies managed to hinder the Germans from producing the atomic bomb.
As a result, the Germans were forced to move these plants to an island off the coast of Denmark and dig a tunnel under the sea, beginning at the Danish shore and ending on the island, where they built their atomic plants beneath it. They thought they were safe and resumed their efforts