During the Dublin Festival of History…
… Frank McDonough, Professor of International History in the History Department of the School of Humanities and Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University in conversation with UCD historian Dr. Jennifer Wellington about The Hitler Years: Triumph 1933-1939.
In the Printworks, Dublin Castle, Friday October 18 at 7pm. Free.
Bring your own milkshake
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Our own Haughey was a Hitler supporter back in his UCD days. He was very disappointed on V-E day.
not that I’m agin a bit of haughey bashing but you happen to have some sauce on that there snippit of info?
I think it is a bit misconstrued from this, in that he wasn’t a Hitler supporter but an unwavering anti-Brit:
https://www.independent.ie/life/day-the-nazis-surrendered-and-a-young-cj-haughey-burned-the-union-jack-31202756.html
Thank you
speaking of fascists, curious incident at morrissey gig in portland when he stopped the show, called for the lights to be turned on and insisted on a fairly benign anti-far-right protester being forcibly kicked out of the venue
https://youtu.be/_lqcApd0xbI
Aaaaaand Goodwin’s Law ends things here right now. We’ll be right back after this break.
Why anyone feels that they are entitled to have their personal political beliefs aired at any concert other than their own is beyond me…
i think she was calling morrissey out on his (fairly obnoxious) political beliefs
(For Britain and Britain First – both fascist organisations that morrissey openly supports)
is this meant to be some sort of ‘dig’ at the left, that they would view anybody discussing hitler in a historical context as a fascist?
I think it was an attempt at irony; but on this site it is hard to tell sometimes, indeed.
The Dublin Festival of History has some great events on this month. It’d be great to see a few more of them mentioned here – I’d imagine lots of readers here would be of the demographic interested in them.
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I’ve attended in previous years and it was excellent. I find the 2019 programme not quite as good as previous but there’s something in there for everyone; https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie
Will Ken’s Livingstone and Roach be putting in an appearance ?
Some fascinating items on YouTube you would never know about unless someone told you it existed..
People on Sunday, a film premiered in Berlin, February 1930.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_on_Sunday
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This looks so damn modern in terms of filming and content, good grief, Berlin was dynamic and so, seemingly, ahead of anywhere else. Sadly, the film makers had to leave Germany within a few years because the film caught umm.. unwelcome attention from authorities.. the city is in flux and there are paramilitary parades as people are filmed going about their business.
Fascinating footage. We’re led to believe it all started with French cinema 30 years later, but there’s strands of that casual filming style here, pre WW2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hg_vL6lQ6I
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In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to see both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as the greatest of evils. Hitler was worse, because his regime propagated the unprecedented horror of the Holocaust, the attempt to eradicate an entire people on racial grounds. Yet Stalin was also worse, because his regime killed far, far more people—tens of millions, it was often claimed—in the endless wastes of the Gulag. For decades, and even today, this confidence about the difference between the two regimes—quality versus quantity—has set the ground rules for the politics of memory. Even historians of the Holocaust generally take for granted that Stalin killed more people than Hitler, thus placing themselves under greater pressure to stress the special character of the Holocaust, since this is what made the Nazi regime worse than the Stalinist one.