A Defining Decade?: Swastikas, Eichmann and Arson in 1960s Britain

Nigel Copsey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55932-8_15

A Defining Decade? Swastikas, Eichmann and Arson in 1960s Britain

Nigel Copsey

SSSHL Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Late on Christmas Eve, 1959, a memorial stone to victims of National Socialism in Cologne was defaced. Black paint was smeared over the second sentence of the inscription “Here lie seven victims of the Gestapo. This memorial recalls Germany’s most shameful period 1933-1945”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust
Editors	Tom Lawson, Andy Pearce
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Chapter	15
Pages	303-324
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030559328
ISBN (Print)	9783030559311
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55932-8_15
Publication status	Published - 20 Jan 2021

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