Tag: Hitler

  • The new appeaser of 2025

    On the 30th September 1938, Neville Chamberlain arrived at Heston Aerodrome near London with an agreement he’d just signed with a Mr A. Hilter in Munich, Germany. He waved the paper to a jubilant crowd saying, “it is peace for our time.” Great Britain had agreed alongside France, Italy and Germany to annexe part of…

  • Agent Sonya: the woman who nearly killed Hitler

    Agent Sonya: the woman who nearly killed Hitler

    I listened to a terrific podcast this week from Stories of our times called Agent Sonya: the Soviet spy who came in from the Cotswolds. It’s about a German woman called Ursula Kuczynski who spied on Nazi Germany for the Russians in the 1930s and 1940s. She was Jewish and soon had to flee Germany.…