Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] a photographer noted for his contributions to The Sunday Times David Bowie stated on 26 April 1976, ’I believe Britain could benefit from a dictator’ and ‘ Hitler was the first rock star’. See or . Eric Clapton’s utterances, about Enoch Powell and immigration, were made at a gig in Birmingham on 5 August […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] of the casualties incurred in the Dower notes that some of the European scientists, who had assumed that they were working on a scheme that would thwart Hitler building the first atomic weapons, were dismayed by the steady drift of the Manhattan Project toward an anti-Soviet outcome. It is interesting to consider at what […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Stirling.’ (p. 330) 6 5 an aura. One wondered how many throats he had slit.”’ (p. 331) To be fair, Aspinall was also an admirer of Adolf Hitler! And as for Stirling, when he was not gambling and drinking, he was ‘an old shooting buddy of the royal family’.7 Stirling was involved in various […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] and was widely admired across the world as a reforming moderniser. This is something today’s readers would do well to remember. When Zangara shot at Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler had only been Chancellor of Germany for a fortnight, and fascism was not yet seen as a toxic ideology. A large exodus of anti-fascist Italians had […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Czechoslovakia in 1938. Klop hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] be ready. 47 Sean Durbin, Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity and Myth in John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (Boston: Brill, 2019) p. 54 48 15 claimed that Hitler was a ‘half-breed Jew’ and a homosexual and that the Antichrist would be the same; and that the persecution the Jews had suffered throughout history, including […]