[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] in the Mossad cast his eyes down and appeared to be talking to his boots, ‘Blame the zealots. I thought the spirit of the Jews had survived Hitler and the Shoah. But I’m certain now that I was wrong.’ Although his real name was unknown to me, he talked confidentially about the ‘bloodlust’ of […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] difference. While other publications might try to kid you that the Windsors are a race of superintelligent space lizards (if only they were that interesting), or that Hitler ended up running ice-cream parlours in Buenos Aires, the Lobster credo is facts, figures and verification. Every unpalatable truth featured in the mag is backed up […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] to be have been killed during WW2) and that Jack the Ripper was the Duke Clarence, who went to German where he became . . . Adolf Hitler. Whether or not Goleniewski actually meant any of this is unclear. Coogan writes that Goleniewski ‘single-handedly destroyed Polish intelligence, exposed Soviet control over West Germany’s spy […]
[PDF file]: […] know with the benefit of hindsight; but until about 1943, and the lead up to the Allied D-Day landings, the situation was not so clear. What if Hitler – already known to be an impetuous leader – had suddenly decided to cross the 1 This is not to belittle the men who did serve […]
