[Let me point something out here: Germany did not invade USSR until June 22nd 1941, but this book was printed in 1940 when USSR and Germany were still allies. Could this have been part of a wider preparation for an invasion of the UK by the USSR? Why would they need [...]
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Communist plans to invade UK
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London photographic exhibition explores Israel’s past
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[Will we see a photo of the King David Hotel bombing? (see below). It was a bombing attack against the British government of Palestine (now called Israel) by members of Irgun —a militant Zionist group. 91 people were killed, most of them civilians: 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 other. Around [...]
More Japan POWs to get payments
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[This payment should have come from Japan - and not the UK government. I notice how they pay out when a lot of veterans have died of old age-ed]
More British civilians held by the Japanese during World War II will get compensation, the government has said.
About 300 former internees were denied payments as [...]
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Oldest WWI veteran ’stable’ in hospital
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Britain’s oldest World War I veteran Henry Allingham is “stable and doing fine” after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection.
Mr Allingham, who is 109, was admitted to Eastbourne District General in East Sussex on Sunday but is expected to be discharged within the next four days.
He had to pull out of [...]
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Council to sell ‘haunted’ castle for £5000
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A “haunted” Elizabethan castle could be snapped up for the princely sum of £5,000 after being put up for sale by a council. The ivy-covered ruins of Llantwit Major Castle or “Old Place” in Llantwit Major, South Wales, will go under the hammer on April 3 at the Vale of Glamorgan Hotel. Bidders are being [...]
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Statue of Churchill in Straitjacket
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A mental health charity has defended a statue it commissioned of Sir Winston Churchill in a straitjacket. The statue has been criticised as “absurd and pathetic” by his grandson, Tory MP Nicholas Soames.
Charity Rethink commissioned the 9ft high sculpture, unveiled in Norwich, to highlight the stigma of mental health.
Rethink said the image of Churchill – [...]
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Name’s ’slavery link offensive’
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People in the St Pauls area of Bristol say they are offended by the choice of name for a revamped area of the city.
The Bristol Alliance wants to rename Broadmead the Merchants’ Quarter, but for many the name has connotations with the city’s slave trading past.
St Paul’s resident Maryanne Kempf said: “I think [...]
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David Irving Holocaust trial under way
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British historian David Irving has pleaded guilty in a court in Vienna to charges of denying the Holocaust.
The charges relate to a speech and an interview he gave in Austria in 1989 in which he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Mr Irving, 68, faces up to 10 years in jail [...]
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David Irving to Plead Guilty
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[Why have they made it illegal to deny holocaust in Austria? Why not prove he (Irving) is a liar and a cheat by having a TV debate on his versions of History and let them (prosecution) prove his is wrong. As it stands is David voices his opinion he will be jailed.-ed]
David Irving, [...]
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UK Entry to the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition
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The first entry to the Iranian “holocaust cartoon” competition to come from Europe has been submitted.
Drawn by well-known professional cartoonist Robert Edwards, who was once famously jailed in 1981 in his native Britain for producing comic cartoon strips which also called into question the holocaust and multi-racialism in general, the cartoon shows the Iranian [...]
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Church apologises for slave trade
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[May i suggest that you sell your land to finance some reparations if you feel like dragging up ancient history in such a manner (nothing to do with trying to get more Africans in church service)-ed]
The Church of England has voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade.
An amendment “recognising [...]
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Graf Spee Eagle Rises
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[What PR nonsense to cover up the Swastika from a ship after 60+ years. The Swastika is all over India-ed]
Divers have salvaged a 2m (6ft) bronze imperial eagle from the German World War II battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate.
Three divers had to loosen 145 bolts [...]
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Pigeon to be honoured as war hero
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A pigeon from the British Royal Air Force which delivered the first news of success for the allies on D-day is to be celebrated as the greatest pigeon to have served its country.
Gustav, as the pigeon is called, will be honoured in London’s Imperial War Museum during the celebration of the museum’s 60th anniversary.
Gustav’s ‘mission’ [...]
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The British amateur historian uncovers secret German WW2 bunker (24 acres)
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[I would like to point out that there is a multi media report from the actual site and it is well worth a view (click link below and select "watch report")-ed]
The British amateur historian says he literally stumbled across it – a huge German gun battery hidden on the Normandy coast.
Built in 1942 the [...]
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Jewish Leaders Urge Eating Pigs
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JERUSALEM—Ending a strict, six-millennia prohibition of the consumption of cloven-hoofed beasts, the World Rabbinical Council announced Tuesday that Jews worldwide may “dig in to the delicious taste of ham.”
“The Jewish people have always had the utmost reverence for the laws of God, as handed down from Abraham to his son Isaac, to his son Jacob. [...]
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Britain ran post-WW2 torture camp
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LONDON — Britain ran a post-Second World War interrogation camp in which prisoners were systematically beaten, tortured and starved to death, a newspaper reported today.
The report in the British newspaper the Guardian cited documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act that described the suffering of some of 372 men and 44 women detained [...]
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Slavery Reparations
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Islam’s place in British history
The Islamic terror began in ‘the terrible summer of 1625’ when North African corsair slave raiders invaded and devastated the southern coasts of England, and for a short while even raised the green battle standard of Islam over English territory that had engraved upon it the terrible promise “The gates [...]
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Tool find puts man in N. Europe earlier
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Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than was previously known, at a time when England’s climate was warm enough to be the home of lions, elephants and saber-tooth tigers, scientists announced Wednesday.
The 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, date [...]
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Britain’s dirty little secret
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The British government operated a secret torture centre during the second world war to extract information and confessions from German prisoners, according to official papers which have been unearthed by the Guardian.
More than 3,000 prisoners passed through the centre, where many were systematically beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand still for more than 24 [...]
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Possible Birthplace of St. Patrick Found
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Saint a cultural icon to millions of Whites
For an archaeologist, it’s the find of a lifetime, and Steve Dickinson, a tutor at Lancaster University in Northern England, hopes his hunches will prove correct and that he has found nothing less than the birthplace of Saint Patrick.
According to a local report, ‘Mr Dickinson…said: “We decided to [...]
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