Gay oppression
Nazi oppression of minorities is well known. Gays were among those deemed to be unworthy of living in the Third Reich. On 26 October 1936 the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, created the Reich Central Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality within the secret police. The Nazis didn’t invent the secret police and they weren’t the first to […]
War torn
The lines between left and right have become blurred. But the ideological divide in the thirties was distinctive. Stalin in the Soviet Union and Hitler in Germany were at each end of the ideological continuum. Diana Mosley and Unity Mitford’s friendship with Adolf Hitler made them famous. Sister Jessica’s Communist party membership made her notorious. […]
What’s beneath
Germany’s fragile political situation in the 1920s and early 1930s was staple reading when I was researching for my novel, Flight to Freedom. The Republican candidate in the United States election for President has a lot in common with the National Socialist Workers Party candidates for President of Germany in 1932. Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler’s similarities […]
Adam and Adam
Self-esteem is the panacea of our age. If we believe in ourselves, our beauty and uniqueness, we will lead the kind of life we want. Nothing will stop us. That’s been the dominant theory in psychology for the past three decades and it hasn’t worked. Almost 10 percent of Australians take an anti-depressant medication every […]