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 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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 […]