Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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This Nazi era drama, it is available free to download NOW. The cover image shows Karl Kaufmann, Gauleiter of Hamburg, and husband of the woman on whose life the character of Lise is based in the book, riding with Hitler in his Mercedes in the 1930s, at the height of the Nazi consolidation of power.

Lise Bauer is born in Africa in 1906, brought to England by her parents from where she is expelled with them in 1914, because her father is an East Prussian. They settle in America and become Americans, but return to Europe in the 1920’s. Here Lise is involved in the rise of the Nazi party, marries one of Hitler’s closest associates and later has a relationship with Hitler himself, before divorcing her husband and marrying an English friend of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. She settles again in England with the consent of the security services and she and her husband establish a cell to act as a secret communication channel between Hitler and Churchill at the critical period of WWII.
The novel offers a new view of Hitler’s sexual relationships, a plot to overthrow Churchill and the flight to Scotland by Rudolf Hess. Using historical characters often portrayed in a new light, this dramatic account challenges the accepted view of recorded history. 

Compared to its present format Yes. It has reached its high water mark. There will be no advance to federalization. Whatever its political class hopes for and whatever the insular Brussels declares, there is now no longer a majority among the European people for ratification of any further loss of sovereignty. But it is worse than that. There is a majority for Brussels having a good deal less and nation states having a good deal more.

I have had suspicions ever since the Brexit vote that, like a spider’s web, you could not detach a member, and a key leading power at that, and not damage the whole thing to the point where it starts to lose tension and unravel. I have no doubt the EU cannot sustain both the loss of GB and the loss of whole-hearted support from Washington.

Now the questions have been asked they will not go away. Moreover what this blog said long ago, is now being said by the man who will be the President of the US before the week is out. The EU has become Germany’s vehicle for economic hegemony. Trump speaks not to politicians but to the people. And the people listen.

This does not mean an implosion. Nor does it mean chaos, at least one hopes not. But what it does mean is that as Britain negotiates its exit, the EU itself will have to reform to survive or else Italy and France will follow, spurred on by some rather unsavoury political echoes from right wing political movements in the newer Eastern members. The natural synergy between the membership has been lost because it has become too big. The economic shared interest has been shattered by Germany’s control of the Euro. Once again Germany has used its power with a, perhaps unintentional, heavy hand. We are also again at a point where German power has expanded too far south and east and ground to a stop. This time it is soft power, but soft power still damages weaker populations.

It will all be peaceful and the supreme lesson has been learned that all the countries of Europe, west and east, can live together as neighbours. But all living in the same house does not work. Especially after one moves out, leaving Germany as the landlord. This is not a criticism of Germany. It is just too good at everything for everybody else to keep up.