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

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[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 […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] and growing pile of evidence and historiography indicating that Hess’s mission to Britain was one link in a long chain of covert wartime peace negotiations between the Nazi regime – or elements of it – and influential circles in British politics and society connected to the Court and the landed aristocracy, the City of […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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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 […]

Holding Pattern

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[PDF file]: […] fuhrerbunker and for all intents and purposes disappeared, leaving behind a corpse doctored to look superficially like hers but with completely different teeth. Mr Thomas’s work on Nazi body-doubles of the Second World War has proved contentious over the years but the Eva Braun case is the one in which there is absolutely no […]

South of the border

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[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 […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

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[PDF file]: Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux Garrick Alder New photographic evidence shows what was missing from the hoax video questioned and dismissed in Lobster 83. Images of the Mariupol theatre published by the Associated Press (AP) reveal the total destruction of the area said to have sheltered uninjured survivors in the immediate aftermath of […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

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[PDF file]: […] States.’ And he is the author of several books including Medical Films, Ethics and Euthanasia in Germany, 1933-1945 (2002), Justice at Nuremberg (2004), and Karl Brand: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich (2007). Seemingly the right man for the job. Chemical warfare began late on the afternoon of 22 April […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain (continued)

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[PDF file]: Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain (continued) The Bandera legacy Under Stepan Bandera’s leadership, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)1 had pledged allegiance to Nazi Germany, since both the Third Reich and the OUN sought to defeat the Soviet Union.2 The OUN’s paramilitary branch, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, enthusiastically helped to round up and […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

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[PDF file]: […] up with anti-Semitic, pro-Trump vitriol Some charming Twitter troll posted a picture of me being executed in a gas chamber by a smiling Trump dressed in a Nazi uniform’ (pp. 83-84). Boot looks back on his political trajectory, on his success at building a career as a right-wing ‘journalist, historian, and foreign policy pundit’ […]

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Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain (continued) The Bandera legacy Under Stepan Bandera’s leadership, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)1 had pledged allegiance to Nazi Germany, since both the Third Reich and the OUN sought to defeat the Soviet Union.2 The OUN’s paramilitary branch, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, enthusiastically helped to round up and […]

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