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Hitler’s End | Neal Ascherson

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By Neal Ascherson
| Soundings from The New York Review
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. Three years after the end of World War II and almost fifty years after William Hughes Mearns wrote those lines, a man who wasn’t there was offered a chair. In 1948 officials in Munich arranged for Adolf Hitler to face a denazification tribunal. The judges considered the empty chair’s responsibility for the murder of millions, declared its nonoccupant a “major offender,” and confiscated part of his property.
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Soup at La Marmite

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By Neal Ascherson
| London Review of Books Verified
Just north​ of Oxford Street, at its eastern end, a dim entry called Newman Passage curves away from the plate glass and glitz into a silent Victorian alley. Wet cobbles gleam; the narrowing walls have survived slum clearance, redevelopment and the Blitz. In one sense, the Paris Commune of 1871 – the mightiest urban insurrection in history before the 1944 Warsaw Rising – ended up in Newman Passage. As the Commune foundered in defeat and slaughter, survivors fled abroad.
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Neal Ascherson | No Kings

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By Neal Ascherson
| London Review of Books Verified
‘If George comes to Chicago,’ the mayor said, ‘I’ll bust him in the snoot!’ The ‘George’ was King George V. The mayor in 1927 was Big Bill Thompson, who ran the city in cahoots with Al Capone. He was politically smart as well as corrupt and physically massive, and he knew how well the line would go down with the city’s working class, especially its Irish-Americans. Most Americans then still fancied they had opened the way to their shining independence by punching King George III in the snoot.
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