More Notes on the Right

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 […]

The Rhodes-Milner Group

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 […]

UDA: Inside the heart of Loyalist terror

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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 […]

Beyond The Da Vinci Code

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 215–221. There […]

Also Noticed

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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 […]

The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight

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 […]

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] firstly by not recognising that it had a PR strategy; secondly by using dated Second World War/Cold War PR to combat it, the demonisation/personalisation of a figurehead: Hitler, Stalin and now, bin Laden. Which is to say, while al-Qaida has been running a multi-track, cutting-edge PR programme – sophisticated PR is not an exclusively […]

The Red Hand

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] It was the sectarian outfit the republicans said it was. That’s why it got disbanded. But hell, why stop with Guatemala and Argentina? Why not add Stalin, or Hitler? Compared to the SS, it is true, the UDR was exemplary in its conduct. He really does this, I kid you not. A Professor, too. RR

Clinton and Quigley: a strange tale from the U.S. elite

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] (Lord Home) and the Duke of Hamilton. But second on this list was the Round Table (named as such). (21) 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 […]

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