Is it Time for the Rehabilitation of National Socialism?
There are many forms of nationalism that have evolved to meet a variety of needs throughout history and depending upon one’s perspective and the circumstances prevailing at the time, they have been variously viewed as: heroic liberating movements, at one end of the scale; as movements of oppression and genocide at the other extreme; and every shade in between. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. In Germany during the 1930s,…
The Liberation of Auschwitz
By Max Musson: This article is perhaps a day late, but it will be some time before talk of the Holocaust subsides in the mainstream press, especially now that we are to have a vast new Holocaust Memorial Centre built with £50 million of taxpayers money in central London, to replace the rather unimpressive one that already exists in Hyde Park. In the various concentration camps liberated by the Allies towards the end of World…
Treblinka – The Forensic Examination Fails
By Max Musson: This weekend my attention was caught by adverts for a repeat showing of Channel 5’s documentary, ‘Treblinka: Inside Hitler’s Secret Death Camp’, part of their ‘Genius and Genocide’, series featuring no less than six, 90 minute documentaries trawling once more over the alleged ‘facts’ and ‘diabolical nature’ of the Nazi Third Reich. Publicity material for the documentary claimed that it would be, “… following a team of British archaeologists who have been…