"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Actually Rothermere withdrew support for the Blackshirts in 1936, finding their violence distasteful. But he remained a huge fan of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini right up until the start of the war.
Meanwhile and indeed well into 1940 his papers led the campaign against Jews & others fleeing Europe.
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I have long thought of the Mail as ‘Der Stürmer‘ to the Telegraph‘s ‘Völkischer Beobachter‘.
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Meanwhile we had rallies at Madison Square Garden. Towns in long Island with majority German owned real estate and summer camp programs to Berlin. The American Bund. Right up until Pearl Harbor. Now we have military capitulating to Fascist-Socialist Maga.
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When they say “a politician who gets it” is the getting he’s erm getting money from organisations most likely to benefit from him becoming PM? You know like Russia, Christian nationalists and big oil.
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It was The Mail that essentially led the "Fifth Column scare" which whipped up fear against people ... often young men... who had fled Naziism and it led to thousands being deported or interned..
If you're interested in learning more of this terrible story it features in my latest book NOTORIOUS
