Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] of the Elders of Zion. With Butler at that meeting was David Irving. Irving last came to widespread public attention when he produced a book arguing that Hitler didn’t know anything about the “Final Solution” – it had all been done behind his back by the SS. That this is a spectacularly difficult thesis […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] be prophet, came for Germany it took the shape of the Third Reich. It is telling, revealing a certain consistency in crisis of Western civilisation, that Adolph Hitler, like Rhodes before him, was fascinated with the example of the Society of Jesus which served as a model for the S.S..(41) The need for an […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] for Jewish interests and Jewish interests alone. I make that statement because I know it to be true, and I go further and say that if Adolf Hitler had not been anti-Jewish there would have been no war between Germany and this country… I don’t accept that Jewish people in this country are entitled […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack London: Penguin, 2004, £12.99, p/b Henry McDonald’s highly readable recent book with Jim Cusack on the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is everything that other recent offerings on the subject were not. On the one hand, it avoids the kind of borderline homo-erotic sensationalism, in which the atrocities of self-serving […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] found as Appendix IV of Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt’s mildly self-serving memoir of his time as German liaison officer with the Vlasov Movement during the war, Against Stalin & Hitler, 1941-1945 (translated from the German and appearing in English in the same year, 1970). The context of the Prague Manifesto is recounted on pages 215221. There […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] sharp history of the Catholic church’s greatest scandals. Wearing his philosophy PhD and MA in divinity lightly, Williams conducts the reader through the church’s enrichment by the Hitler and Mussolini regimes in exchange for its support; the church’s wartime role supporting the genocidal Croat regime; its post-war role in helping Nazis flee Europe; the […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] was then) and the Duke of Hamilton. But second on the list was the Round Table (named as such). (14) Haushoffer, the German intellectual and mentor of Hitler, who prepared the list, evidently had a better understanding of the actual nature of Britain’s ruling elites than did Claud Cockburn, who, despite having worked at […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] — 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 […]
