Jerôme a écrit :
Cette rencontre est racontée par Liddell Hart dans son "histoire de la seconde guerre mondiale".
Il n'indique pas ses sources. !
Malheureusement, Liddell Hart mentionne cette fausse information dans son bouquin. C'est un excellent ouvrage malgré quelques bêtises.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/GE ... 6_0136.pdfJ'ai trouvé la "source" sur laquelle s'est appuyée Liddell Hart :
It is apparent that Liddell Hart's account is based on the statements of German officers. The British historian did interview many German officers of all ranks after World War II.https://workersliberty.org/archive/secr ... cy-wartimeCiter :
In his well-known work History of the Second World War, the distinguished military authority Captain Liddell Hart wrote, on page 510: "In June 1943, Molotov met Ribbentrop at Kirovgrad, which was then within the German lines, for a discussion about the possibilities of ending the war. According to German officers who attended as technical advisers, Ribbentrop proposed as a condition of peace that Russia's future frontier should run along the Dneiper, while Molotov would not consider anything less than the restoration of her original frontier." On this disagreement - basically, a Kremlin insistence of a return to the old imperialist frontiers of Tsarism - the negotiations foundered. For months the Eastern Front had been quiescent. Once the talks failed, the battle of Kursk, the biggest tank battle of all time, ensued.
Les spécialistes du IIIe Reich (Kershaw ; Longerich ; Bullock ; etc) savent bien que Ribbentrop n'a pas rencontré Molotov en 1943.
Michaël Bloch, auteur d'une biographie de Ribbentrop, reproche à Liddell Hart d'avoir relaté cette rencontre.