The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]
[…] and consequently remained unpublished.) In the run up to the Gulf conflict, extensive use was made of the media to demonise Saddam Hussein as either a new Hitler, or a madman; or, ideally, a combination of both. (It is interesting to note that before transforming Saddam into a ‘bad guy’, the same media had […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of Dark Fantasy” in the Daily Telegraph 16 March 1985. In a bizarre attack on ‘conspiracy theorists’ Johnson equates Marx, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hitler, Kennedy assassination buffs and Tam Dalyell MP. “Conspiracy theory is a modern superstition, a poor substitute for angels and devils.” Like others of his ilk, Johnson […]
[…] but during WW2 he had been against what he called the ‘war crimes business’ (Times 16 March 1985) – in this case referring to the assassination of Hitler and Heydrich. Perhaps MI6 were on their own with this one. The SAS plan seems never to have got off the ground, even though they had […]
[…] 1930s and Roosevelt’s attempts to address it through state intervention in the economy created enormous anxiety in sections of the business community. Famously the establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt […]
[…] band, Offensive Weapons, before ever he joined the UDA in 1989; and McDonald and Cusack add that Rathcoole UDA commander John Gregg was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. See Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald, UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror (Penguin, 2004). UVF members have also been involved in race attacks on Sandy […]
[…] allowed to take up this position.(1) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to Captain Ramsay MP – the foremost admirer of Hitler in the House of Commons – and to Anna Wolkoff, a member of Ramsay’s cranky Right Club. Ramsay said he wanted to show the material to […]
