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Notebook
These were the days when announcers wore dinner jackets in the evenings, and he explains this practice: “In the evening most of the people of our sort did change into dinner jackets, if they weren’t wearing white ties and going … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Media, Notebook, World War 2
Tagged BBC, dinner jackets, Nazis, nightingale, Third Programme
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California, 1936
Erecting a swastika at a German Day party in Hindenburg Park, near Los Angeles. From a Weekly Standard review of two books about Hollywood & the Nazis. (There’s more background on the murky history of the park in this LA Times … Continue reading
Posted in History, World War 2
Tagged Hindenburg Park, Los Angeles, Nazi Party, Swastika, Weekly Standard
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Notebook
We have a Committee meeting at which several representative Jews tell us of the extermination of their fellows by the Nazis. They have ringed off the Warsaw ghetto and transported two-thirds of the inhabitants in cattle-trucks to die in Russia. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Notebook, Uncategorized, World War 2
Tagged Harold Nicolson, Holocaust, Warsaw Ghetto, World War Two
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Notebook
At the beginning of December I took a trip to New York, and saw Berthold Viertel. I got home just as war was declared with Japan. Of course, our group was wildly excited – which surprised me, in a way, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Notebook, World War 2
Tagged Christopher Isherwood, Pearl harbour, World War Two
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Stripes
[I posted this at The Times’ First Edition Facebook page] Andrew Bacevich, an academic with a rare insider’s understanding of the American army (he was a senior officer and lost a son in the Iraq war) has written a good … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, World War 2
Tagged Andrew Bacevich, Evelyn Waugh, fiction, Nicholas Montserrat
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Notebook
All of the documents through 1938 that survive among Gould’s papers give his surname as “Gold”, but beginning at least as early as June 1939 the family name was almost always printed “Gould” in newspapers, programmes, and other sources… Xenophobia … Continue reading
Posted in History, Music, Notebook, World War 2
Tagged anti-Semitism, Canada, Glenn Gould, Toronto
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Marooned
Well, I went in with my expectations set reasonably low – the swooning and gasping from many of the critics automatically put me on my guard. (Remember how they tried to convince us that “Skyfall” was the best Bond film … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, Reviews, Uncategorized, World War 2
Tagged Battle of Britain, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
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Truth and lies
I have a feature in the Express on “Denial”, the compelling new film about the David Irving vs Deborah Lipstadt libel trial. When Richard Rampton rose to deliver his opening statement he was blunt: “My Lord, Mr Irving calls himself … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, World War 2
Tagged David Irving, Deborah Lipstadt, Denial, Fred Leuchter, Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall
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Notebook
Often, even in court, one had to pinch oneself to realize the enormity of the events we were discussing. Much of the time, however, merely to keep oneself from becoming uncontrollably angry, it was necessary to erect some kind of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Notebook, Uncategorized, World War 2
Tagged David Irving, History, Hitler, Hollocaust, Richard J. Evans
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Notebook
It is said children still have a sense of wonder, later one becomes blunted. Nonsense. A child takes things for granted, and most people get no further; only an old person, who thinks, is aware of the wondrous. Victor Klemperer, diary, … Continue reading