[PDF file]: […] (Canada): McGill-Queens University Press, 2021, £25 This is the first English language biography of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. The title is a bit unfortunate (do we really need Hitler invoked on the cover of quite so many books?) and is presumably a pitch to garner extra sales. If Coudenhove-Kalergi were alive today he might be […]
[PDF file]: […] self-funded investigations into the failed Rudolf Hess peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks […]
[PDF file]: […] (either financially or electorally). So it doesn’t, initially, really seem appropriate to use the word ‘marketing’ in the context of ‘selling’ Nazism. It is difficult to imagine Hitler organising focus groups to see how he might adapt Mein Kampf to the mood of the day. In an age before the supposed innovative and pervasive […]
[PDF file]: […] war – after all it was the Jews who had started the War. By 1953, though, he was denying the Holocaust, albeit in a peculiarly idiosyncratic manner. Hitler was once again, as far as he was concerned, ‘one of the greatest statesmen Europe ever had’ and the Nazi regime was to be admired; but […]
[PDF file]: […] central concern in the book, but it is nevertheless of considerable interest and he can hardly be accused of being either anti-Semitic or antiZionist. First of all Hitler and the Nazis. For Cesarani the Nazi Party ‘did not come to power because of anti-Semitism. Of course, it was an anti-Semitic party, but it had […]
[PDF file]: […] potential to influence world affairs, that the country contained relatively few German agents. Even more to the point, did anyone in Germany take any notice of them? Hitler declared war on the US on 11 December 1941, regardless of anything the Duquesne ring might have done, and before its members had been convicted. There […]
[PDF file]: […] invaded Denmark at 4am on 9 April 1940. As part of this operation, a token force of about a thousand infantry landed in 1 See Padfield Hess, Hitler and Churchill (London: Icon Books, 2013) p. 159 See statement of Gustav Bechtold, 30 April 1946, US National Archives. An SS-Oberführer, Klopfer’s specific role was to […]
[PDF file]: Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery? Andrew Rosthorn It is forty years since the publication of The Murder of Rudolf Hess by the former British Army surgeon Hugh Thomas. The introduction to that book was written by Dame Rebecca West, a daring feminist and ally of Orwell in the 1930s anti-communist […]
[PDF file]: […] the British people, as a whole, were sympathetic to the Jews and their suffering under the Nazis. The publication in January 1940 of Arthur Bryant’s paean to Hitler and the Nazis, Unfinished Victory, to largely rave reviews from the press, shows that this was not the case. A writer of popular histories, Bryant was […]
[PDF file]: […] a small SIS sub-section run by Trevor-Roper himself which pointed to these conflicts and argued that peace feelers and expressions of willingness from these quarters to overthrow Hitler should be taken seriously. Philby, however, now (1943-44) a senior figure in the service, blocked the distribution of documents from anti-Nazi figures in Germany such as […]
