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Budget 2016: a sugar-coated assault on disabled people and local democracy

Edit The Guardian 17 Mar 2016
In a budget statement perhaps more notable for what it left out (Osborne’s credibility gap, 17 March), George Osborne has confirmed reductions to personal independence payment (PIP); however, no additional welfare cuts have been announced ... Simon Hopkins. Turn2us ... This is not something I choose to do ... Catherine Manning ... John Evans ... “Gauleiter” seems to serve well and supports the notion that central government will not tolerate opposition ... ....

Echoes

Edit Topix 23 Feb 2016
Sun Moon Lake Simon, who was also the Gauleiter of the neighbouring Gau Trier-Koblenz, later Moselland , led a propaganda and later terror campaign, known as Heim ins Reich, to convince the population that they were ethnic Germans and a natural part of the Third Reich. His objective was "to win Luxembourg back over to the German nation as soon as possible." ... ....

Why Stig Abell is right for the Times Literary Supplement

Edit The Guardian 20 Feb 2016
The Sun managing editor’s appointment as editor of the TLS may have been met with amusement in more lofty circles, but his credentials for the role are impeccable ... Related. Sun managing editor Stig Abell to become editor of the TLS ... JR Ackerley, long-term gauleiter of the Listener’s books pages (1935-1959), was another old oriental hand, having spent time in India as secretary to the Maharajah of Chhatarpur ... ....

The Kristallnacht of American Public Education

Edit Huffington Post 09 Feb 2016
As the second possibility, suppose that before or during their gubernatorial campaigns, our governors came out with a full-throated endorsement of charter schools ... And, of course, a healthy campaign contribution would not go unnoticed ... *** ... *** ... *** ... A nation that was once the inspiration of the world with its noble dream of the individual as the center of its political vision is being subverted by corporations and their state Gauleiters....

Would Rabbie Burns thrive in Nationalist Scotland?

Edit The Observer 07 Feb 2016
My first attempt at making a speech at a Burns supper occurred many years ago when, as a young trainee for the Catholic priesthood, I was asked to say something about the Bard to a group of Catholic charity workers ... For so it seems, ... The traditional supper, once reviled by Hugh MacDiarmid, and where florid civic gauleiters could gather to slake their misogyny and freemasonry are more pleasant and rounded affairs now....

‘Death by hanging’: the Nuremberg Trials (The National Archives)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Nov 2015
Hermann Goering (Hitler's number two) Rudolf Hess (Hitler's official successor until he flew to Scotland in 1941 to negotiate a separate peace) Joachim von Ribbentrop (Minister for Foreign Affairs) Wilhelm Keitel (Chief of the High Command of Armed Forces) Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Chief of the Security Police) Alfred Rosenberg (the party's ideologist) ......

Regional slant on the northern powerhouse

Edit The Guardian 30 Oct 2015
What is lacking is any democratic involvement in these devolution agreements ... David Melvin ... Manchester ... In the meantime, the citizens represented by other parties in Southport, Bolton, Huddersfield and countless communities across the north are hardly looking forward to seeing their localities subjugated to the careers of what will be in effect self-appointed gauleiters in the big cities with no direct accountability to voters at all ... ....

Nothing Can Take Down Angela Merkel — Except 800,000 Refugees

Edit Yahoo Daily News 16 Oct 2015
BERLIN — Never in her 10-year tenure as chancellor has Angela Merkel found herself so isolated, and under such unremitting attack, as she is today ... Now Merkel can’t seem to scare up more than a handful of allies to back her plans to distribute refugees across the EU ... At the rally, one speaker, the German-Turkish novelist Akif Pirincci, called the refugees “invaders” and referred to German politicians as Gauleiter, or Nazis....

Poetry reviews: Irish collections that stake their claim to art’s longer life

Edit The Irish Times 03 Oct 2015
Keats lives, declares the title of Moya Cannon’s new book. Our present moment, her poems seem to argue, is fleeting by comparison with, say, lines by Keats, or a fragment of pottery, or a cave drawing. Cannon’s calm authority offers proof after proof of the responsibilities attendant on an art that knows Ars longa, vita brevis ... / Living in Central Europe (where it’s no-go / for Emperor, Commissar and Gauleiter / these last few decades)....

Goebbels by Peter Longerich – review

Edit The Guardian 22 Jul 2015
From frustrated writer to narcissistic Nazi womaniser, a life of Goebbels shows us a man in need of recognition – especially from his Führer. At the end of October 1943, Joseph Goebbels visited Hitler at his military headquarters in East Prussia – the Wolf’s Lair ... He became Gauleiter of Berlin in 1926, was elected to the Reichstag two years later and appointed director of propaganda for the whole of Germany in April 1930 ... Twitter ... ....

Goebbels: Driven by narcissism and a need for Hitler’s admiration

Edit The Irish Times 04 Jul 2015
Of the numerous high-powered functionaries of the Third Reich, all of whom owed their careers to Adolf Hitler, only a few remained faithful to the Führer until the bitter end ... Loyal to Hitler and his twisted ideology until death, they could not envisage their children growing up in a world without Nazism ... At swim, two buddies ... Becoming Gauleiter, or regional party leader, in the working-class stronghold of Berlin was a challenging task....

The British Prime Minister who sold arms to Netanyahu, the Gauleiter of Gaza

Edit GlobalResearch 02 May 2015
Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel and Commander-in-Chief of Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Overseer of Gaza, with their combined populations of 4.5 million indigenous Palestinians – has further hegemonic ambitions. In order to… ....

Hitler’s Strange Last Orders

Edit The Daily Beast 30 Apr 2015
In the hours before completing his suicide pact with Eva Braun, Hitler found time to leave orders for his art, his people, and dismiss those he felt betrayed him. Swansong 1945 ... -William O’Connor. Adolf Hitler, 1889–1945 Führerbunker, Berlin Political testament ... In his stead I appoint Gauleiter Karl Hanke as Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police, and Gauleiter Paul Giesler as Reich Minister of the Interior ... [...] ... Adolf Hitler ... ....
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