Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Clearly, he was worried that some of what he was recording might be found out. What we do learn, and what is confirmed, are the attitudes toward Nazi Germany that prevailed within much of the UK political class during the high-water mark of appeasement, 1938-1939. The events of Kristallnacht, a mediaeval-style pogrom with 91 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] member of the cavalry based Reiter-SA and Reiter-SS units. The Prince’s obituary in the Daily Telegraph on his death in 2004 includes the following comment about those Nazi affiliations: ‘He had joined, he said, because had he not been a member of such an organisation it would have been made harder for him to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Britain remained a great maritime, imperial power with its global strategic and economic influence untouched. Once Chamberlain was replaced by Winston Churchill, known for his determined anti- Nazi views, his belief that no lasting agreement with Germany was feasible, and for his willingness to seek American support for a British armed struggle against Germany, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] US embassy employee who was obtaining confidential US and UK communications. After Ramsay’s arrest, Lord Marley obliquely referred to him in the House of Lords as the Nazi sympathiser who had been chosen by the Germans as ‘Gauleiter of Scotland’ (see column 580 of Hansard for 13 June 1940 at . 6 Kerr accepted […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] this development would give Greater Europe some momentum, even if it lead to Germany joining NATO. Given Soviet memories of the carnage inflicted on the USSR by Nazi Germany fifty years before, this could have been a huge stumbling-bloc to further progress in improving East-West relations. However, after expressing some scepticism, in the first […]