Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] after all, had only been in power for a few years. Behind them were sensible figures like Schacht who, it was hoped, would be able to steer Hitler in the direction of a more open and orthodox economic policy so that, as Tiarks said in March 1939, ‘free and active relations between German banks […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] information on the complicated diplomacy of the 1930s and 40s as well as some additional information on the activities of the internal resistance within Germany to Adolf Hitler and the supporters of the movement for a united Europe. The best parts of the book cover the major disaster of British foreign policy decision making […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] even more significant impression earlier in his life, if Cornish is to be believed – one which affected the course of twentieth century history. That Wittgenstein and Hitler, born within a few days of each other, attended the same school in Linz, is dismissed by Wittgenstein’s biographer Ray Monk as a mere curiosity: ‘There […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] was not present at the Hossbach Conference held on November 5, 1937, but on January 2, 1938, while still Ambassador to England, he sent a memorandum to Hitler indicating his opinion that a change in the status quo in the East in the German sense could only be carried out by force and suggesting […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] flew to Britain? Thomas offers a scenario – it is little more than that – in which Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was trying to displace Hitler. Himmler, suggests Thomas, heard about the (real) Hess’s plan to go to Britain to seek peace, shot down Hess’s plane and sent the doppelganger ‘Hess’ instead. […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] of any allies outside the Commonwealth and Empire risked a shattering defeat. Rather than follow so suicidal a course, national and imperial interest dictated a deal with Hitler which left Britain and its Empire intact while simultaneously allowing Hitler to proceed on his crusade against the real enemy, the USSR. This defeatism was encouraged […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] thing and goes to ingenious lengths via selective quotations to show that the big bogey figure of 1939/45 was Winston Churchill….duping Roosevelt….duping Stalin…….pointlessly intransigent toward Hitler etc. Kilzer’s theory that Bormann was a Communist agent has actually been around since the early 1950s. (9) No evidence has ever been produced to substantiate […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] secret British peace party, Stalin agreed. But Winston Churchill refused to deal with the man called Hess and sent the pilot straight to the Tower of London. Hitler ranted when he was told about the Hess flight, although some historians, noting that Hitler was up at the exceptionally early time for him of 07h […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] 1932 or even 1934, but much earlier, in 1926, when the Strasserites accepted the ‘Fuhrer‘ principle, the inviolability of the 1926 programme, and the consequent leadership of Hitler. Once he had outfaced them then, Hitler’s only further need for them was as (useful) demagogues, to be discarded when expedient.(41) Another reason why the NF […]