[…] to go back to the title, could these have changed the course of WWII? Why do we have to have a ‘what if’ version of history? If Hitler had been rational the rockets and jets would have appeared earlier….but if he had been rational he wouldn’t have declared war on the USA, or attacked […]
[…] with the surrounding circumstances.’ Brownshirt Windsors? Our own royal family occasionally flits through the pages of Jonathan Petropoulos’s exhaustive survey of the German aristocracy’s involvement with the Hitler Gang, Royals and the Reich: the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). In particular, Anthony Blunt’s post-war mission to Schloss Friedrichshof […]
[…] COLOGNE ROTTERDAM 1940 ZURICH SECONDED TO MINISTRY OF HQ HOME SECURITY 1941 FO NORTHERN DEPT 1942 CONSUL GEN ZURICH – IN CONTACT WITH MEMBERS OF THE ANTI- HITLER RESISTANCE IN GERMANY 1945 CONSUL GEN LIECHTENSTEIN 1947 RETIRED CAIRNCROSS, JOHN 1942 GCHQ EDITOR DEALING WITH AIR INTELLIGENCE 1944 MI6 GERMAN COUNTER INTELLIGENCE. YUGOSLAV AFFAIRS 1945 […]
[…] 1930s and Roosevelt’s attempts to address it through state intervention in the economy created enormous anxiety in sections of the business community. Famously the establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt […]
[…] of Dark Fantasy” in the Daily Telegraph 16 March 1985. In a bizarre attack on ‘conspiracy theorists’ Johnson equates Marx, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hitler, Kennedy assassination buffs and Tam Dalyell MP. “Conspiracy theory is a modern superstition, a poor substitute for angels and devils.” Like others of his ilk, Johnson […]
[…] band, Offensive Weapons, before ever he joined the UDA in 1989; and McDonald and Cusack add that Rathcoole UDA commander John Gregg was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. See Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald, UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror (Penguin, 2004). UVF members have also been involved in race attacks on Sandy […]
[…] but during WW2 he had been against what he called the ‘war crimes business’ (Times 16 March 1985) – in this case referring to the assassination of Hitler and Heydrich. Perhaps MI6 were on their own with this one. The SAS plan seems never to have got off the ground, even though they had […]
[…] allowed to take up this position.(1) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to Captain Ramsay MP – the foremost admirer of Hitler in the House of Commons – and to Anna Wolkoff, a member of Ramsay’s cranky Right Club. Ramsay said he wanted to show the material to […]
[…] at its peak – and during its subsequent decline – and a participant in a number of that paper’s more famous (and infamous) episodes, including Thalidomide, the Hitler diaries (in which he was blameless, I hasten to add), and, most famous of all, the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on […]
[…] was then) and the Duke of Hamilton. But second on the list was the Round Table (named as such). (14) Haushoffer, the German intellectual and mentor of Hitler, who prepared the list, evidently had a better understanding of the actual nature of Britain’s ruling elites than did Claud Cockburn, who, despite having worked at […]
