The Yeltsin Library declassified Hitler's plans for cooperation with the United States

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library has published declassified archives according to which Adolf Hitler planned to cooperate with representatives of the United States and Great Britain in the war against the USSR. The relevant document is available on the institution's website.

The declassified archive is posted under the heading "Memo from the People's Commissar of State Security of the USSR V. N. Merkulov to I. V. Stalin on the attempts of German representatives to establish contact with representatives of Great Britain and the United States in Ireland."

"[Nazi German Foreign Minister Joachim von] Ribbentrop instructs the envoy in Dublin to contact the most prominent British and American representatives and point out to them that Germany is on the verge of defeat as a result of the Red Army offensive, and to emphasize once again that the only hope for Britain and the United States to prevent the Bolshevization of Europe is cooperation with the National Socialist Party of Germany," the telegram, intercepted by the Americans, said..

The document says that the United States and Great Britain decided not to inform the USSR about the message from Germany, since these instructions were subsequently canceled.

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