Saturday 30 September 2023

Nation Revisited # 204 October 2023

The Mystery of Gudrun Burwitz




Gudrun Burwitz the daughter of Heinrich Himmler was born in 1929 and died in 2018. She always denied the Holocaust and claimed that her father had been murdered whilst in British custody in 1945. She devoted herself to helping former German soldiers charged with war crimes through her charitable organisation Stille Hilfe (Silent Help). She also worked for the West German security service in the 1960s.

She reputedly attended a Friends of Union dinner at the Falstaff restaurant in Fleet Street, London in October 1955. These photos from private collections show a menu card signed by Gudrun Himmler, Oswald Mosley and several prominent members of his movement. If genuine they prove that the dinner took place and that Gudrun was there.








Gudrun's visit to London in 1955 was reported by Trevor Grundy in his book Memoir of a Fascist Childhood, by Stephen Doril in his book Blackshirt, and in her Times obituary, but they didn't mention the UM dinner and it was not covered at the time in the national press or (as far as I know) in the UM newspaper Union

Gudrun was only a child when the war ended so she couldn't possibly have been involved in war crimes, but her innocence wouldn't have protected her from the wrath of the mass media if they had known about her attendance at a Union Movement function.

Even stranger was her alleged appearance at a League of St George social in the 1970s. At least three people remember being introduced to Gudrun Himmler, but was it really her? It has been suggested that the mystery woman was Lucy Roberts a wealthy supporter of the LSG who was born Ludmilla Hausner in East Prussia in 1926, but this has been dismissed by people who knew her.


Lucy Roberts was the subject of a two page hatchet job by Gerry Gable in Searchlight magazine in February 2006, but he made no mention of the LSG social. We can only speculate because most of the people involved in these events have passed away or are suffering from age-related memory loss.


The Small Boats: Another Brexit Bonus



Immigration was one of the main reasons why people voted for Brexit. The mainstream media, led by the Daily Mail, ran a spiteful campaign against the Poles, and Dominic Cummings told the blatant lie that Turkey was about to join the EU and flood us with immigrants. In fact, the only European leader supporting Turkish membership of the EU was Boris Johnson.

When we were in the EU we were signed up to Free Movement of Labour, but this only applied to Europeans, there was never anything stopping the British government from controlling immigration from outside the EU. Nevertheless the Leave Campaign persuaded the British public that the only way to control our borders was by leaving the EU.

As a result of Brexit we have lost the Poles and other East Europeans, but we have massively increased immigration from Africa, India and Hong Kong. And the final irony is that Brexit made possible the cross Channel influx of boat people. Under the Dublin Agreement they could have been deported back to France, but since we left the EU we are stuck with them.

Seven years after the Referendum there's still no sign of a trade agreement with the USA, the Northern Ireland problem is unresolved, and according to the Economic and Social Research Institute, trade from the UK to the EU is down by 16%. Peter Norris of the Trade and Business Commission said: "Recovering lost trade with Europe should be a top priority" as the country enters a recession.

So far, Brexit has given us blue passports, higher prices, red tape, and more immigrants. Jacob Rees-Mogg (pictured), one of Boris Johnson's most devoted followers, was briefly Minister for Brexit Opportunities; but he couldn't find any.

What is a Racist?

Those who want to control immigration are unfairly called racists. This is unfair because a racist is someone who hates and disrespects coloured people. Any criticism of multiracialism is pounced upon by the Black Lives Matter fanatics. Even the harmless designation 'coloured' causes offence in a world of political correctness. You can say 'people of colour', but you can't say 'coloured people' - don't ask me what the difference is.

I don't hate or disrespect coloured people. I worked with them for many years, I have them as neighbours, and they are in my extended family. I don't use offensive language when referring to black or brown people, and although I believe in Jesus Christ, I respect all religions and I probably have more in common with Jews or Muslims than with atheists.

The system of enforced multiculturalism under which we live has not improved race relations. The majority white population will not love Blacks and Asians under duress, and promoting them over the native population is bound to cause resentment. The latest fiasco concerns the RAF choosing black and female recruits for pilot training. In the event of a future war our skies would be defended by black women while white men mend the runways. Very different from the image of our young fighter pilots sprinting to their aircraft during WW2.

The obvious answer is to treat everybody equally. To put blacks before whites is just as wrong as putting whites before blacks.


                         Commander Alison Heydari
 
Police officers should be promoted on merit, not according to quotas of race and gender. It would be illegal to found an organisation called the National White Police Association, and it should be illegal for the National Black Police Association to exist.

Non-whites are about ten percent of our population but they seem to be ninety percent of the actors in TV commercials.
Such blatant propaganda is insulting to all races. Beds are not softer and gas boilers are not more efficient when advertised by black men.

The British people were never asked if they wanted millions of Asians and Africans, but they are here now and only the most optimistic fantasists believe that mass repatriation is possible. We must coexist on the basis of fair play; not positive or negative discrimination.

The following email was received from my friend Jeff Wallder.

I have come to the conclusion that the police force, fire brigade and English cricket are all institutionally racist as Black members of the race relations industry claim. I have come to the conclusion that all White people are racist (as alleged) and that even White people trying hard not be racist are in fact racist.

I have also come to the conclusion that all Black people are racist, in fact everybody in the world is racist.

This does not stop us from befriending and helping each other as we see in our daily lives. But when something happens like a White policeman, either American or French, murdering a Black person everybody closes ranks and it becomes Black v White. Violence follows. Black lives matter (but by innuendo White lives matter a lot less).

This is part of the DNA of all persons to put their own race first when it comes to the crunch. This is why everyone is racist. We cannot escape from it.


Sam Dickson on "The Special Relationship"



On July 4 (American Independence Day) Sam Dickson commented on President Joe Biden's veto of Ben Wallace as head of NATO, and Winston Churchill's wartime acceptance of President Roosevelt's damaging terms for Lend Lease. Sam's emails on this subject are too long for this blog but here are his main points:

When the Soviet government collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disbanded, NATO should have been abolished too. But knowing the intense hostility towards Britain and towards the British Empire that has animated the ruling clique in America for generations, I have witnessed first hand the use of Ireland as a means to batter away at Great Britain.

I can well imagine Biden doing something like this based on the System's desire to pander to that element of the Irish community that still wants to get even with Cromwell.

As you know, Roosevelt hated Great Britain and wanted to destroy the British Empire. And he carried out his purpose very effectively by economically wrecking Britain by requiring the self-reverential Churchill to take down the Imperial Preferences tariff barrier to US competition while the US kept its tariff barriers in place, by denying Britain any machine tools or petroleum drilling equipment and limiting Lend Lease to guns and ammo.

Dropping the Imperial Preferences was a condition Roosevelt imposed from the very beginning of Lend Lease. He insisted on it at the conference on the ship that led to the Atlantic Charter. 

This spelled doom for Britain as an industrial power. And Roosevelt nailed down the lid of the coffin on Britain's economy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941. 

Before the year was out Roosevelt ordered that all shipment of machine tools and petroleum equipment to Britain were to cease immediately. Britain could only get armaments and food.
The results of this policy and the intent behind it are obvious. Churchill protested but caved, as he always did.

Conditions after ruinous conditions were imposed on Britain for Lend Lease throughout the war. Never was a single condition imposed on Stalin and the Soviet Union for Lend Lease. The US never attempted to extract the slightest concession from Stalin such as a concession to respect Poland's independence and recognize its government in exile in preference to the Soviet/Jewish/Polish "Lublin Government" the Reds had created. 

Lend Lease to Britain ceased upon the German defeat but the US went on showering gifts upon the Soviet Union even after Japan surrendered.

The Truman administration in 1951 - while our army was fighting the Communists in Korea and the phoney Cold War was supposedly at its zenith - forgave 98.5% of the war debts of the Soviet Union and allowed Stalin to discharge his debts for 1.5 cents on the dollar.

The US never made the slightest concession to Britain on its war debts but instead required that the debts be paid with interest to the penny. Britain did not pay off her debt until around 2006.

Contrary to the observant believers in Churchill as the brave genius whose gifted leadership saved Britain, the notes of those who worked with him are full of severe criticism of his role as Prime Minister. In one incident that most clearly sticks in my mind is when the Cabinet tried to have a discussion on what Britain would do after the Germans were defeated. This took place, I think, in 1943 when it was obvious that Germany was going to be defeated.

The Cabinet members very sensibly wanted to deliberate on how Britain was to deal with a very changed post-war situation in which the Soviet Union would be garrisoning Central and Eastern Europe and there would be no continental nation with enough military power to thwart Stalin in the slightest.

When the members of the Cabinet tried to initiate a discussion on this subject (one that any reasonably intelligent teenager would understand and that a grown up should be thinking about), Churchill angrily shut them down and prohibited any inquiry into the subject.

Churchill said there was never to be any discussion about what would be done after the war ended. He issued a fatwa along these lines: "We are ONLY concerned with defeating Hitler. That is my ONLY goal. We will never discuss anything about what happens when the war is over." And so it was.

I think the lustre and glow of the Churchill apple are slowly beginning to fade. It takes remarkable stupidity to look at Britain's condition now and not connect the dots of Churchill's central role in destroying the country.

All that mattered to Churchill was his place in history. To the extent that he had any patriotic sentiments they seem merely to have come from his considering Britain to be a stage upon which to write his glorious story.

Contrary to what the Labor Party leader said when Churchill died, Churchill most emphatically was NOT "the greatest Englishman in history." He was the worst Prime Minister our Anglo-Saxon people have ever endured.

Anti-National Front Exhibition



Charing Cross Hospital is staging a political exhibition on the 1977 Lewisham anti-NF riot. This is a waste of taxpayers' money at a time of crisis in the NHS. Make your feelings known by emailing the Imperial College NHS Trust at:             ichc-tr.complaints@nhs.net

Alan Wells


Despite medical issues effecting himself and his wife, Alan Wells managed to attend a recent meeting of old comrades.
Most Union Movement supporters are in their seventies and eighties, we can remember things that happened in the sixties, but Alan was born in 1935 so he can go back to the fifties. There are plenty of books about the old days but it's good to hear it from an eye witness. Alan wrote for 'Comrade' under the name Terence Pitcher. His article on The Zinoviev Letter appeared in NR # 199, May 2023.

Cable Street and Lewisham

Read the truth about the historic battles of Cable Street and Lewisham. Stephen Maggs - thehistorybox@icloud.co.uk

European Outlook -  https://europeanoutlook.blogspot.com 

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