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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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. (2) No evidence has ever been produced to substantiate […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
