1 MARCH

ENGLAND’S NAZI SALUTE It was the most infamous occasion of English sporting deference to the Nazi regime. On 14 May 1938, the England football team gave the Nazi salute in front of a crowd of one hundred thousand in the German Olympic Stadium.  The most shocking aspect however was not the event, but the press…

THE FIRST RAF FIRE BOMBING RAID ON HAMBURG KILLS THOUSANDS [ 25 July 1943 ] At about 00.57 on 25 July 1943,  RAF bombers unleashed hundreds of bright red and yellow marker bombs, followed by thousands of incendiary bombs, on the densely populated German city of Hamburg. It was the first of four RAF fire…

FORTY INDIAN MUTINEERS BLOWN FROM GUNS [ 10 June 1857 ] On this day in 1857, Herbert Edwardes, the British political officer at Peshawar, ordered forty captured Indian mutineers to be blown from guns, a method of execution in which the victim was tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired. As…

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BRITISH OFFICER – MY INSTRUCTIONS – SHOOT PRISONERS – LOOT THE FARMS. [ 26 February 1900 ] On 26 February 1900, the Irish nationalist MP, John Dillon, read out a letter in parliament that he had received from a British officer who was engaged in a campaign of virtual genocide against the Boer population of…

CHURCHILL BLAMES THE BOLSHEVIK TERROR IN RUSSIA AND EUROPE ON JEWS [ 8 February 1920 ] On 8 February 1920, writing in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, Secretary of State for War and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill alleged the Jews could neatly be divided into ‘good and bad Jews.’ Please feel welcome to post comments…