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Category Archives: History
Why did so many Germans support Hitler?
A well-respected German historian has a radical new theory to explain a nagging question: Why did average Germans so heartily support the Nazis and Third Reich? Hitler, says Goetz Aly, was a “feel good dictator,” a leader who not only … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, History, Politics
Tagged Hitler's popularity, Hitler's welfare policies, Keeping the army loyal
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Germany and the Cause of the First World War
“The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, War
Tagged Amateurism, Austria-Hungary, Bismarck, First World War, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Long European Peace, Serbia
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Senior Army Officers hit the jackpot after the First World War
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 100,000 Field-Marshal Viscount French 50,000 Field-Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby 50,000 Field-Marshal Sir H. Plumer 30,000 Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson 10 000 General Sir Henry Rawlinson 30,000 General The Hon. Sir Julian Byng 30,000 General … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, History, War
Tagged First World War, Glittering prizes, Reward for failure, Senior generals rewwarded, social class
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A macabre anecdote about torture
….St Laurence, who was burned to death on a gridiron, is the ‘patron saint of cooks – and, less obviously, comedians’. I imagine the association with both professions arises from a story which has Laurence…..coolly advising his executioners: ‘I’m done … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, History
Tagged Black humour, patron saint of comedians, patron saint of cooks, St Laurence
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The Changing Meaning of Statues: Actual and Potential
“The extent of his [Edward Colston] charity was immense, exceptional and nationally recognised. When his portrait was published in London a year after his death in 1721, the engraved description described him as “the brightest Example of Christian Liberality that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Bristol, changing mores, Memorial statue, slaver ships, slavery
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Winston Churchill’s Political Apprenticeship
As a Cabinet Minister he had three outstanding qualities: he worked hard, he carried his proposals through Cabinet and Parliament, and he carried his department with him.1 Winston Churchill was Britain’s greatest prime minister. He was a mature politician when … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, War
Tagged cabinet minister, Conservative Party, First World War, Liberal Government, Winston Churchill
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Nazi SS Doctors and the CIA: post 1945
“They [CIA doctors] did, however, benefit from the guidance of Camp King’s staff doctor, Walter Schreiber, the former surgeon general of the Nazi army, who had overseen research at concentration camps in which prisoners were frozen, injected with hallucinogens, and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, History, Literature
Tagged CIA doctors, Concentration camp experiments, Operation Paperclip, SS Nazi doctors
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President Kennedy’s Favourite Nazi
The Allies had an amoral attitude towards Nazi scientists. They were an intellectual elite and were helped to leave Germany thereby by-passing the Nuremburg Trials. Many would have been convicted and, some, would have been sentenced to death. They had … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Technology
Tagged Avoiding Nuremberg Trials, John F Kennedy, SS scientist, War criminal, Wernher von Braun
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Yitzhak Rabin: Nobel Lecture 1994
At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle so that … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, History, Politics, War
Tagged 1948, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize
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The Gaza Strip and Israel, 2014
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned the blockade of the Gaza Strip, describing the territory as a “prison camp”.1 Israel controls Gaza’s territorial waters and maintains exclusive control in the air space…[It] controls the entire ….border including the Erez … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, History, Politics, Religion, War
Tagged Effective civil war, Gaza Strip, Irreconcilable differences, Israeli control, Open prison
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