The Dark Charm of Adolf Hitler
Daily Express, 29 September 2012 It is one of history’s great conundrums. How could Adolf Hitler, a figure so patently absurd - a megalomaniac with a comical moustache - have so enthralled millions that they slavishly followed him into the abyss
In Defence of a Maligned State
Jewish Chronicle, 28 September 2012 Hungary, the country of my birth, gets a fairly bad press in the anti-Semitism stakes. Naturally, the rise in recent years of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik Party - blatantly no friend to Jews or Gypsies - hasn’t
Bravest Animals of War
Daily Express, 18 September 2012 An award ceremony will take place next month at Wellington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace. The award is for ‘conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while serving in military conflict’. It is being bestowed posthumously, as
The Jewish restaurant yards from Hitler’s ex-HQ
Jewish Chronicle, 7 September, 2012 Of all the cities in which a Holocaust-surviving Jew might choose to open a restaurant - a mere 15 years after the end of the Second World War - you’d think the least appealing option