The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] life? Or was the daring 900-mile flight on Saturday, 10 May 1941,1 part of a failed coup d’état by certain well-known high Tories, attempting a ceasefire with Nazi Germany by removing Churchill as war leader? The facts about May 10, just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, remain so uncertain that professional […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to there being ‘some very fine people on both sides’. As she asks: ‘Since when is a White supremacist or a member of the KKK or a Nazi a fine person? Well, if your dad was hooked up with these groups, as the president’s father was, I guess that’s what you would think’. (p. […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and US Imperialism. Himmler had handed his ‘fourth international’ over to ‘Hoover of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’, but it was ‘the same “scum”, the same “Nazi germs”’. And just in case some of his readers had not yet caught on, he emphasised that ‘the Titoites of today are the Trotskyites of yesterday’.4 […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at the time A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962. The only connection between CHATTER and Fort Bliss is that some of the USA’s ‘captured’ Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists were held there, and it was Nazi human experiments, as described by other Paperclip ‘captives’, that led to US mind control projects. But the Nazis […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] that there were ‘fascist tendencies in Trump’s White House’. (p. 19) Moreover, there are today Republicans sitting in both Houses of Congress ‘who are openly supportive of Nazi ideology’. (p. 144) And since he wrote the book, the then Republican candidate for the Governorship of Georgia, Mark Robinson, has been exposed boasting of being […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] visited a section that had been used as the Azov Battalion’s headquarters. She writes: As from the material which was left behind, you could clearly see the Nazi ideology, Hitler paintings, SS stickers, books and booklets with swastikas and brochures and manuals from NATO, filled with instructions—along with the business cards of the NATO […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the rest of the Christian Right, Robertson was determined to portray evangelical Christians as an oppressed minority in the United States, comparing them to the Jews in Nazi Germany! In September 1993, he proclaimed: ‘Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The question is, and remains, just how much of the episode was founded on a real conspiracy by potential appeasers – either in Britain or in the Nazi regime. It is quite plausible that the flight offered a long odds attempt to reach conciliation with anti-Churchill elements and allow a month for German forces […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005). 91 21 Group, the Earl of Mansfield. In 1950 the Scottish League organised a conference in Edinburgh for Eastern European exiles, many of them Nazi war criminals and collaborators, who had been recruited by SIS. They had been moved to the UK during the scramble at the end of World War […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the Western Alliance – ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’. It was relatively unshocking, then, to learn that SS-chief Heinrich Himmler’s daughter, Gudrun Burwitz (an unrepentant Nazi), had worked for the West German BND (in a relatively minor administrative role) for two years between 1961 and 1963.45 41 or 42 See or 43 […]

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