Not much though.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 1 December 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Does Ulrich’s book contain much stuff on the Liverpool Hitlers, or give any credence to the idea that Adolf went there on holiday when he was younger?
― Doran, Friday, 1 December 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
No mention of that + he also dismisses other things like one testicle, syphilis, mythical French girl called Charlotte he got pregnant and the Jewish grandfather.
― calzino, Friday, 1 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich guy repeated a lot of allied propaganda without question imo
― Illegal Ethiopian Dance Music (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
and is a total homophobic dick.
― calzino, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
well was, of course. A true product of his era I suppose.
I seem to remember him going especially into apoplectic rage over Röhm's homosexuality and any other Nazi gays, repeatedly.
― calzino, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
This album has grown on me. Even "Spent the Day in Bed" is alright to me now, it's really just the lyrics I don't care for. I think "Home Is a Question Mark" is a winner. It might be his worst LP, but there's some good stuff in there.
His new fixation on Israel is something. I'm guessing he played some shows there and liked the way he was received, so naturally he's got a song called "Israel" now, with lyrics like "they who reign abuse upon you / they are jealous of you as well". That was pretty much what I was afraid of when I saw the song title.
― JRN, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
Readers of this thread may also be interested to know that at the show in DC last night, he touted this album's #1 placement on the US and UK vinyl charts, while also saying that it went to #10 on the "US... other charts" (actually #20 on the Billboard 200, but #3 on the rock album chart, I've just learned).
― JRN, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
calz absolutely correct about Shirer -/I've.remembered his name now!
― Illegal Ethiopian Dance Music (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
wondering now if this dimension of the shirer book (pub.1960) was what was responsible for the rash of films in the early 70s stressing the sexual decadence of the third reich (the damned, the night porter etc), which mostly starred dirk bogarde and were lapped up by some of the punky foax SPM admired when young (punky foax often cheekily pro the queer-cult elements the film-makers were a lot more ambivalent abt)
― mark s, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Could well be the case, because there wasn't a lot of competition for Shirer's book, and as turgid as it is - it was still probably the most comprehensive guide to the Nazis going right into the 70's, unless I've missed something.
― calzino, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
yes, that's what i remember from the early 70s: grown-ups reading it and talking about it bcz it covered a lot of ground (not just sex) that was basically new to the general reading public
― mark s, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
I think it's v readable! it's just bollocks is all
― Illegal Ethiopian Dance Music (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
I read about a quarter of it and then audio-booked the rest and it is entertaining bollox. But to some extent all Hitler books are bollox and often over-reliant on Goebbels horrible diaries or like Shirer writing works of fiction really, which I think even Kershaw is guilty of to some extent. They just haven't got that nebulous Soviet archive that Stalin biographers have, which are so fucking massive they overwhelm some people.
*lol just spellchecked + Goebbels horrible Dairies almost submitted.
― calzino, Friday, 1 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
This week (or next), Moz dreams of number five....
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link