More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] and proof that Hess was most likely an eccentric acting without wider authorization. In fact, by seeking a direct meeting with the King, Hess was following established Nazi practice, as can be seen by looking at other instances where this approach was used: DENMARK – April 1940. Germany invaded Denmark at 4am on 9 […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Stalin, despite the fact that the second industrialisation was forced by the intentional (planned and executed) destruction of the first industrialisation by the Western financed and supported NAZI invasion and occupation that ended in 1945.15 My argument here is that the condemnation of Stalin, or for that matter Marx(ists), or the Jacobins, is based […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] along which information reaches national media in Britain.’20 As I was putting this latest batch of Holding Pattern together, The Guardian ran a serendipitous feature on how Nazi Germany hijacked AP’s Berlin offices and stuffed their news desk with Nazi party members in order to exert indirect influence on Allied media sources. This also […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] classical and jazz music critic, as well as an intelligence officer. That profile fits Henry Pleasants, another Philadelphian who served in the OSS during WWII. Pleasants debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and became the CIA officer in Bonn, Germany, after the war, all the while writing classical and jazz music reviews. In their book […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] feel like just another synthesis of the extant material. Cox’s narrative structure and his frequently unusual choices from the mountains of available data – the America neo- nazi and segregationist right get more attention than usual, for example – make it feel fresh. And because he is discussing events leading up to the shootings, […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] in January 1941. Although the USA was not then a belligerent, Roosevelt was keen to help the struggle of British Commonwealth and Empire and Allied forces against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, notwithstanding the existence of pro-neutrality legislation which limited what his administration could do to help. Already, in 1940 the US had provided […]

GArrick Timmi text

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Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish with the connivance of the UK and […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the West was ‘a lesser evil’ that he was prepared to help fight the Russians. This was the same stance that he had taken with regard to Nazi Germany. Whereas in Animal Farm, the Soviet Union is shown as being as bad as the West, by Nineteen Eighty Four, the totalitarian danger has become […]

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