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When Hitler’s wonder woman popped up in Kensal Rise
PETER FROST looks back 80 years to a visit to Britain by a very nasty woman indeed
NAZIS TO THE CORE: Scholtz-Klink (left and below) at a Hitler Youth rally on 13 February 1939 alongside Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Baldur von Schirach, and Artur Axmann
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
EIGHTY years ago this month, on March 7 1939 as war clouds gathered over Europe, and just nine days before Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, German woman Gertrud Scholtz-Klink whom Adolf Hitler had described as the perfect nazi female landed at Croydon Airport.
When Hitler had come to power in 1933, he appointed long time nazi supporter Scholtz-Klink as Reich’s women’s “fuhrerin” and head of the nazi Women’s League.
Ironically, Scholtz-Klink had long argued against the participation of women in politics. “Anyone who has seen the communist women scream on the street and in parliament, realise that such an activity is not something which is done by a true woman,” she declared.
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