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(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)
The Daily Mail has a shameful history of anti-Semitism.
In the 1930s, the newspaper supported Hitler as well as Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Facists.
Here’s Lord Rothermere – the original owner of the Daily Mail and great-grandfather of the present owner – with a good friend of his:
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And here are extracts from an exchange of letters between the Mail’s owner and Hitler:
Adolf Hitler letter to Lord Rothermere (7th December, 1933)
I should like to express the appreciation of countless Germans, who regard me as their spokesman, for the wise and beneficial public support which you have given to a policy that we all hope will contribute to the enduring pacification of Europe. Just as we are fanatically determined to defend ourselves against attack, so do we reject the idea of taking the initiative in bringing about a war. I am convinced that no one who fought in the front trenches during the world war, no matter in what European country, desires another conflict.
Lord Rothermere, telegram to Adolf Hitler (1st October, 1938)
My dear Fuhrer everyone in England is profoundly moved by the bloodless solution to the Czechoslovakian problem. People not so much concerned with territorial readjustment as with dread of another war with its accompanying bloodbath. Frederick the Great was a great popular figure. I salute your Excellency’s star, which rises higher and higher.
But the Mail and its owner were not only supporters of Hitler – in the 1930s the newspaper was also itself openly and rabidly anti-Jewish.
Here’s an article showing what the Mail thought about Jews just one year before Britain was at war with Germany:
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And of course, we all know the Daily Mail wrote a detailed article praising the UK’s version of Hitler’s Nazi Party – “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”.
But there’s more. The Daily Mail serialised the anti-Semitic hoax ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion‘ – a good ten years or so after it had been revealed to be a forgery.
Unfortunately though, this is not all in the newspaper’s past.
Just three years ago, Lord Rothermere’s newspaper supported another far-right European anti-semitic party – the Front National in the 2012 French elections.
And as recently as this month, the Mail wrote an article praising a rising far-right fascist group in Germany whose leader likes to dress up as Hitler.
Are we really to believe that the present Lord Rothermere – like his relatives – doesn’t realise how anti-semitic those parties are?
It’s high time – especially on Holocaust Memorial Day – that the Daily Mail apologised to the British people for its long-standing support of Hitler, Fascism and anti-Semitism.
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sdbast said:
Reblogged this on sdbast.
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sdbast said:
Reblogged this on sdbast.
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clive said:
Agree with you Tom 100%
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clive said:
My family rowed on the river Lea as they were boat builders until 1970 when the last one died. Before WW2 they weren’t allowed to row at Henley with the amateurs because they built boats.
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PartTimer said:
Clive – Times have changed so much since then, and for the better. The idea of a rowing club which refuses Jews (or other religions) would be unthinkable now.
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bobchewie said:
The faily hate should just apologize for being the faily hate
And for being shite too
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bobchewie said:
@part timer irreapective of the daily hate intentions the fact is that Leon Brittan was a paedo ..it was in other publications that are known not to be anti semitic
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PartTimer said:
bobchewie – Which is exactly why I posted links from both Mail and Indy. My point was about the hypocrisy of attacking only certain publications.
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bobchewie said:
@faily hate today Crackdown on more workshy
How many crackdowns is that now till they are all cracked and down ?
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bobchewie said:
@pt er you do know that holocaust was connected to that WW2 thing that had that Hitler bloke involved in that stuff ? Ie the guy that Rothernere was a fan of
Just checking …
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beastrabban said:
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beastrabban said:
Clive – I don’t know if you saw it, but a little while ago there was a documentary on Channel 4 looking at the sporting rules governing the Olympics and other similar events. According to that documentary, they were deliberately set up to keep the hoi polloi – that is, the working classes from mixing with the respectable upper and middle classes. The film explicitly mentioned rowing as a case in point. They really didn’t want to accept the professional boatmen, who’d ferried people up and down the Thames for centuries. They were barred because they would obviously beat the middle class amateurs, who couldn’t be shown to lose to the workers. the documentary even included letters complaining about middle class men having the embarrassment of sharing a changing room with the workers.
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concernedkev said:
On Holocaust memorial day it is no accident that the Daily Heil is spouting garbage about “workshy”. That is what the Nazis called the mentally ill and disabled who were made to wear an inverted black triangle. They were some of the first to be signalled out for brutality and extermination. Ian Duncan Smith doesn’t have death camps he has designed things so that his victims die quietly at home or kill themselves either way without trace. Do not expect an apology some time soon.
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concernedkev said:
Partimer http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5464/leon-brittan-was-under-met-probe-over-claims-of-child-sex-abuse
Read this another version non anti-Semitic coverage. Do not insult Jewish people by making the link. Think before blogging
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overburdenddonkey said:
millions of people were brutally treated and murdered because instead of the likes of hitler healing from their pasts, they tried to exterminate it…when will we ever learn…where have all the flowers gone…
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bobchewie said:
@Tom Pride FYI known fixer Hired Gun
DAVID ROSE has been pushing the ” anti semitic ” angle …
That says a lot mate eh ?
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Gary said:
Looking at the photo, he DOES look a little bit embarrassed to be seen with Lord Rothermere…
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adolph hitler said:
how dare you compare us with the daily mail.
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bobchewie said:
Its called muddying the waters …
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overburdenddonkey said:
it is very important to remember that is was not only jewish people who were brutally treated and slaughtered…and that genocide is not infrequent..behaviourism does not prevent genocide…
the curative answers lie in the childhood histories of these very manipulative people who overt to become tyrants/dictators…
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