Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] and representative of the National Interest, or of the consensus — or of sponsors of Political Action Committees. In reference to the Third World, a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] as paper exercises to keep staff officers employed on the outside chance that something like it might occur. There are indications that in the twenties and before Hitler came to power the Army was planning for a war against Russia on the North West Frontier and in Afghanistan, the Navy was planning for a […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] statute of the I C C and incorporated in the UK in the International Criminal Court Act of 2001.’ (p. 59) Whether Saddam Hussein was ‘worse than Hitler’, to quote George Bush Sr’s memorable 1990 tub-thumper, he was certainly a flawed, authoritarian leader who made incalculable errors. But he also stood as a central […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer wrote to Hitler in the aftermath of the Hess flight to Britain. See pp. 27 and 28 of Eugene Bird, Rudolf Hess: the Loneliest Man in the World (London: […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] farmer and botanist J. E. Hosking; the poet and author Edmund Blunden; the historian Arthur Bryant, whose 1939 book Unfinished Victory was a paean of praise to Hitler (and can never, in my experience, be found alongside Bryant’s patriotic histories in second-hand bookshops); and Philip Mairet, editor of the New English Weekly, a periodical […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Poland: ‘I can even visualise our troops fighting side by side with the Germans to defeat the Bolshevist menace’5 and Moore had written widely in support of Hitler and Nazism, pre-1939.6 Alongside these, in the House of Lords, Griffiths notes the continued presence of Lord Brocket, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Darnley, […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] 1938-1939. The events of Kristallnacht, a mediaeval-style pogrom with 91 murders, 638 suicides and 30,000 arrests, don’t evoke very much solidarity. Channon commented (15 November 1938): ‘ Hitler never helps us and always makes Chamberlain’s task more difficult. One cannot say so, but the sympathies of many people are not altogether with the unfortunate […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] kind that has wrecked the careers of men as respectable as Hugh Trevor Roper and as devious as David Irving. The exposure of the bogus Sunday Times Hitler Diaries, and Irving’s recent humiliation in a London libel court (as recently retold in the film Denial), remind us what happens to a historian when the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and confusing. There is a sceptical and closely detailed summary here: . Not in the Albert Hall 30 April marked the anniversary of the suicide of Adolf Hitler and also – allegedly – that of Eva Braun, his lover. ‘Allegedly’ because Hugh Thomas, in his book Doppelgangers: The Truth About the Bodies in the […]
