Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[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)

[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 […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Stepan Bandera until his assassination by the KGB in 1959, which embraced the politics of the Far Right, racism and xenophobia. Anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalists fought with the Nazi Germans on the Russian front in 1941-45 and to this day some continue to profess National Socialist ideas. The pluralist tradition, on the other hand, is […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in Ukraine prior to recent events. Such information is available elsewhere.18 How not to write about the Ukraine is illustrated by F. William Engdahl’s ‘Ukraine: Secretive Neo- Nazi Military Organization Involved in Euromaidan Sniper Shootings’.1 9 Engdahl discusses the snipers who opened fire on the crowd in Independence Square on 22 February, scuppering the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the custodian of their officially published history. One segment of that Timewatch had a voice analyst compare the recorded voice of Hess from a speech at a Nazi rally with the recorded voice of ‘Hess’ from the Nuremberg trials. The Timewatch claim was that the two voices matched perfectly because the two voices shared […]

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