On 7 April 2025, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library published declassified information which reveals that Nazi Germany planned to cooperate with representatives of the USA and Great Britain in a war against the USSR. The relevant document can be found on the institution’s website; the English translation is provided below.
The declassified document is posted under the title “Report from the People’s Commissar of State Security of the USSR V.N. Merkulov to I.V. Stalin on attempts by German representatives to establish contact with representatives of Great Britain and the USA 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, as a result of the Red Army’s advance, is on the verge of defeat, and to emphasize once again that the only hope for Great Britain and the United States to prevent the Bolshevization of Europe is cooperation with the National Socialist Party of Germany,” said the telegram intercepted by the Americans.
The document states that the US and Great Britain decided not to inform the USSR about the message from Germany, since these instructions were later cancelled.
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