Hello Horus (or Morgan Jones?) -- I would be interested in publishing your work in book form. We at Clemens & Blair (www.clemensandblair.com) do top-notch books, new and reprints/new translations. I think your stuff would be a good fit. Contact me if interested: thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com or tdalton@tutanota.com, thanks.
Great article. Reading through the section of the night of the long knives, and how tame that event seems compared to something the recent Birmingham riots really revealed to me how the actual impact of these events doesn’t matter, it’s how the ruling class leverage the event for their political purpose.
I think you must mean the night of broken glass. I think it was an unusually violent event in Germany, under Hitler or previous leaders, but that's my point really - unusual. The Soviet regime was executing something like that many people every three hours through most of the 1930s.
I was brought up in the belief that Chamberlain was an appeaser who failed to tackle Hitler in 1938, however, in my early teens I was fortunate to hear, quite by chance, a friend of my father's offer in defence of him that he bought us time when we were in no position to go to war.
I think that's true. Chamberlain never ruled out war. I think he deserves immense credit for treating it as a very unfavourable option and trying to minimise Britain's state debt, but he did engage in a large rearmament programme. He's portrayed as having not prepared, somehow. He prepared for a limited war of blockade and cutting off the enemy's options. Churchill seems to have simply not cared about debt and positively sought out mass destruction.
Excellent well researched article as always wish this sort of stuff could reach the people.
That's the more difficult part...
Hello Horus (or Morgan Jones?) -- I would be interested in publishing your work in book form. We at Clemens & Blair (www.clemensandblair.com) do top-notch books, new and reprints/new translations. I think your stuff would be a good fit. Contact me if interested: thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com or tdalton@tutanota.com, thanks.
Great article. Reading through the section of the night of the long knives, and how tame that event seems compared to something the recent Birmingham riots really revealed to me how the actual impact of these events doesn’t matter, it’s how the ruling class leverage the event for their political purpose.
I think you must mean the night of broken glass. I think it was an unusually violent event in Germany, under Hitler or previous leaders, but that's my point really - unusual. The Soviet regime was executing something like that many people every three hours through most of the 1930s.
Sorry! Getting my GoT and Second World War references mixed up.
There was a night of the long knives in Germany, though. June/July 1934.
I was brought up in the belief that Chamberlain was an appeaser who failed to tackle Hitler in 1938, however, in my early teens I was fortunate to hear, quite by chance, a friend of my father's offer in defence of him that he bought us time when we were in no position to go to war.
I think that's true. Chamberlain never ruled out war. I think he deserves immense credit for treating it as a very unfavourable option and trying to minimise Britain's state debt, but he did engage in a large rearmament programme. He's portrayed as having not prepared, somehow. He prepared for a limited war of blockade and cutting off the enemy's options. Churchill seems to have simply not cared about debt and positively sought out mass destruction.