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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last| Contents| Next Issue 52 Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism- 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 Anglo-America and the Third Reich David MacGregor I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata's Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets key parts of twentieth century history in a manner I have not come across before. This is a contribution that many readers ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 288 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-23.htm
... very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, provides much information on the complicated diplomacy of the 1930s and 40s as well as some additional information on the activities of the internal resistance within Germany to Adolf Hitler and the supporters of the movement for a united Europe. The best parts of the book cover the major disaster of British foreign policy decision making in the twentieth century – the Munich agreement in 1938 – and the very under reported but considerable peace manoeuvres between August 1942 and September 1943. Despite a background which was quite similar to many ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 265 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-42.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last| Contents| Next Issue 40 The Jew of Linz: Wittgenstein, Hitler and their Secret Battle for the Mind Kimberley Cornish London: Arrow, 1999, £7.99 Philip Conford On p. 86 of this enthralling book Kimberley Cornish invites readers to complete the following sentence: 'Wittgenstein was offered the Chair in Philosophy at Lenin's university [Kazan] in 1935 because...' What possible reason can there be except that he was serving the Soviet regime? Cornish contends that Wittgenstein recruited the Trinity College spies and, while recognising that the evidence he adduces does not amount to conclusive proof, he makes an ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 225 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-16.htm
... command in the Foreign Office, were keen to come to an accommodation with Germany. With the collapse of France both considered that the war was unwinnable. To continue hostilities in the absence of any allies outside the Commomwealth and Empire risked a shattering defeat. Rather than follow so suicidal a course, national and imperial interest dictated a deal with Hitler which left Britain and its Empire intact while simultaneously allowing Hitler to proceed on his crusade against the real enemy, the USSR. This defeatism was encouraged by powerful sections of the Conservative Party, the City, industry and the Royal Family, all of whom were disposed on ideological and/or racist grounds to take a favourable view of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 164 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-10.htm
... He is less successful with the murders but that hardly matters. The important thing is that as 'P Hess wasn't Hess at all, what was going on in 1941 when 'Hess' flew to Britain? Thomas offers a scenario- it is little more than that- in which Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was trying to displace Hitler. Himmler, suggests Thomas, heard about the (real) Hess's plan to go to Britain to seek peace, shot down Hess's plane and sent the doppelganger 'Hess' instead. This is pretty tentative, as Thomas admits. Nonetheless Thomas acquired a heavyweight ally during the summer, the Cambridge historian John Zametica. In one of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 128 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-12.htm
... of each nation, symbolised in the co-operation of Norman with his opposite number Schacht. In Norman's words an 'Anglo-German connection' (20) had been created. The Nazis, after all, had only been in power for a few years. Behind them were sensible figures like Schacht who, it was hoped, would be able to steer Hitler in the direction of a more open and orthodox economic policy so that, as Tiarks said in March 1939, 'free and active relations between German banks and industry...and their London counterparts are reestablished....This development is not so far away as it seemed a short time ago'. (21) It was important ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 121 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-04.htm
... , listening for echoes of the American phrase 'régime change' and noting the facts of Ribbentrop's irresponsible and dishonest diplomacy that were uncovered in 1945 by the Nuremberg prosecutors. 'Ribbentrop was not present at the Hossbach Conference held on November 5, 1937, but on January 2, 1938, while still Ambassador to England, he sent a memorandum to Hitler indicating his opinion that a change in the status quo in the East in the German sense could only be carried out by force and suggesting methods to prevent England and France from intervening in a European war fought to bring about such a change. When Ribbentrop became Foreign Minister Hitler told him that Germany still had four problems to solve, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-35.htm
... told me repeatedly...and I have more faith in him that I do in the Soviet ambassador...that Stalin is desperate at this point. The Nazis are at the gates of Moscow, his armies are melting away...the government has evacuated and although Harry and Marshall feel that Stalin can hang on and eventually defeat Hitler, there is no saying what could transpire [happen] if the Japs suddenly fell on Stalin's rear. In spite of all the agreements between them and the Japs dropping Matsuoka, there is still strong anti-Russian sentiment in High Japanese military circles. I think we have to decide what is more important...keeping Russia in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-05.htm
... had been behind the Hess Flight. Stalin asked Khruschev to give his own view first and when Khrushchev suggested the flight had been part of an attempted deal between German Nazis and a secret British peace party, Stalin agreed. But Winston Churchill refused to deal with the man called Hess and sent the pilot straight to the Tower of London. Hitler ranted when he was told about the Hess flight, although some historians, noting that Hitler was up at the exceptionally early time for him of 07h 30 that morning and dressed in full uniform, have suggested he knew of Hess's astonishing flight plan and was faking his paroxysms of rage. The doppelganger Other historians, led by the British ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 53 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-04.htm
... BUF) put him beyond the pale. This, according to Skidelsky, was little short of a tragedy because it deprived the country of the services of a man of immense talent and ability. Skidelsky is considerably more critical of Mosley for wasting his talent than he is of him for actually donning the blackshirt and allying himself with Mussolini and Hitler. Indeed, at times he seems to regard him as more of an English eccentric than a real fascist. Even when it comes to Mosley's embrace of anti-Semitism, Skidelsky quite incredibly argues that British Jews were at least partly responsible for this themselves because of their hostile reaction to his fascism! Most hilariously, Skidelsky actually argues that, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-35.htm
