[…] ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. Robert Kennedy had been charged by his brother with overseeing the attempt to assassinate Castro. Alfred McCoy, A Question […]
[…] if it is not going to be inflationary, then it is going to have to come at the expense of other government projects, including welfare. Even Adolf Hitler and General Tojo expected a decent long-term return on their otherwise economy-shattering short term adventurism and, in this, were little different, except in their brutal impatience, […]
[…] a flesh-presser?) wants a return to the Gold standard; and Jesse Jackson’s ‘Rainbow Coalition’ is described as a “motley assortment of gays, lesbians, nuclear freezeniks, Qaddafi and Hitler admirers, ecology freaks, prototerrorists and other perverts …. a mass movement, modelled on the SA, the left wing of the Nazi movement, and their modern-day heirs, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
