[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 […]
[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’ […]
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 […]
Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 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 […]
[…] CARR) captured my attention because, with more than a passing interest in post-war British fascism (my PhD subject the National Front 1986-90 and I have analysed Neo- Nazi group Combat 18), I was perturbed at the variable quality of his expert academic testimony in the now concluded trials involving both members/alleged members of the […]
[PDF file]: […] acknowledgement. He ‘read’ Hitler correctly from very early on; his defiance between May and September 1940 saved the UK and western democracy; and his opposition to the Nazi regime was not just due to a fear that it would supercede the British Empire: it was based on moral considerations as well. To this I […]
[…] CARR) captured my attention because, with more than a passing interest in post-war British fascism (my PhD subject the National Front 1986-90 and I have analysed Neo- Nazi group Combat 18), I was perturbed at the variable quality of his expert academic testimony in the now concluded trials involving both members/alleged members of the […]
[PDF file]: […] Mosley (and beyond) see Richard Griffiths, Patriotism Perverted (1998). Wellesley was Chairman of the Right Club, a significant and well connected far right faction, and a strong Nazi sympathiser. 3 For Joyce see Francis Selwyn Hitler’s Englishman (1987) and for the use made by the Third Reich of Radio Luxembourg see David O’Donoghue Hitler’s […]
