Patriotism Perverted (History and Politics) [Hardcover]

Patrick Griffiths (Author)

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Publication Date: November 30, 1998 | Series: History and Politics

Beginning with an overview of the 1930s at the time of Hitler''s accession to power, and utilising primary sources, Patriotism Perverted is a study of British anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi groups and individuals prevalent at the time.'

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• Hardcover: 383 pages
• Publisher: Constable (November 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0094679207
• ISBN-13: 978-0094679207
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Western European societies are still traumatised by the appalling disaster of World War Two. One aspect of this psychological disempowering is the hostility of the Establishment and its nomenklatura to persons and authors who depart from what may be called the received version of Nazism, Hitler, the Holocaust and Churchill. David Irving is the most well-known British writer to have suffered from this cultural bias. Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, author of 'The Nameless War', is another. Rightly or wrongly, this Scots MP developed during the Nineteen-Thirties a conviction that Jewish financial power was the most powerful feature of European politics and that it was operating to the detriment of the native European peoples, including the British. In 1940 he was imprisoned without trial under the newly appointed Churchill regime, allegedly because his pro-German sympathies endangered the war effort. How correct was his assessment of his fate and the world in which it had been played out? We still do not know. This book could have provided an answer. Unfortunately, the author is too relentlessly hostile to Ramsay to properly investigate his claims. Nevertheless, his work is still very useful, because it contains a great deal of detailed information and thoughtful discussion, and because it serves as an exemplar of the curious distortions that contemporary prejudices introduce into this subject area. One day, one hopes, an entirely impartial and dispassionate account of Ramsay's life will be published. Perhaps it will show him as more admirable than Griffiths claims, but nevertheless prone to over-simplistic diagnoses, partly as a result of religious belief that had a touch of fanaticism.