[…] account yet of the so-called ‘peace plots’, the attempts by Lord Halifax, R. A. B. Butler and others to reach an accommodation with Germany (if not with Hitler) during – and after – the ‘phoney war’. Some sense of the new synthesis Newton has achieved is conveyed by this paragraph on p. 74: ‘Outside […]
[…] — and the secret state — was very much more ramshackle in the 1920s than it is now; and fascism then did not carry the overtones of Hitler and Holocaust. Hope notes that some of the ‘radical right’ were anti-semitic but also notes that ‘tariff reform, a united Empire and patriotic nationalism served as […]
[PDF file]: […] Poland: ‘I can even visualise our troops fighting side by side with the Germans to defeat the Bolshevist menace’5 and Moore had written widely in support of Hitler and Nazism, pre-1939.6 Alongside these, in the House of Lords, Griffiths notes the continued presence of Lord Brocket, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Darnley, […]
[PDF file]: […] 1938-1939. The events of Kristallnacht, a mediaeval-style pogrom with 91 murders, 638 suicides and 30,000 arrests, don’t evoke very much solidarity. Channon commented (15 November 1938): ‘ Hitler never helps us and always makes Chamberlain’s task more difficult. One cannot say so, but the sympathies of many people are not altogether with the unfortunate […]
[PDF file]: […] kind that has wrecked the careers of men as respectable as Hugh Trevor Roper and as devious as David Irving. The exposure of the bogus Sunday Times Hitler Diaries, and Irving’s recent humiliation in a London libel court (as recently retold in the film Denial), remind us what happens to a historian when the […]
[PDF file]: […] Calamity and Cover-up reviewed by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn Andrew Rosthorn Lewes: Uniform, 2023, £35.00, h/b In a Lobster review of Richard J. Evans’s book The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination,1 John Newsinger welcomed a ‘well-informed and well-written’ account of the dozens of conspiracy theories generated by the Nazi […]
[PDF file]: […] and confusing. There is a sceptical and closely detailed summary here: . Not in the Albert Hall 30 April marked the anniversary of the suicide of Adolf Hitler and also – allegedly – that of Eva Braun, his lover. ‘Allegedly’ because Hugh Thomas, in his book Doppelgangers: The Truth About the Bodies in the […]
[PDF file]: […] (Canada): McGill-Queens University Press, 2021, £25 This is the first English language biography of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. The title is a bit unfortunate (do we really need Hitler invoked on the cover of quite so many books?) and is presumably a pitch to garner extra sales. If Coudenhove-Kalergi were alive today he might be […]
[PDF file]: […] 248) that Halifax met a Swiss gentleman on 13 December 1939 and that this ‘Mr Bondi . . . had “a scheme for Göring to bump off Hitler and form a Government!”’. This is mentioned as one of a series of ongoing diplomatic contacts, conducted via intermediaries, between the UK and Germany during the […]
[…] 248) that Halifax met a Swiss gentleman on 13 December 1939 and that this ‘Mr Bondi . . . had “a scheme for Göring to bump off Hitler and form a Government!”’. This is mentioned as one of a series of ongoing diplomatic contacts, conducted via intermediaries, between the UK and Germany during the […]
