I rather liked Blackpool in the 1980s: a packed Winter Gardens generated a tension and atmosphere that these ghastly conference centres can’t replicate. Plus the trams, grim bed and breakfasts, and o… (View Post)

One final final comment. I was ‘correcting’ both of you. Read my short but perfectly formed post again. (And incidentally the only Reichsfuehrer was Himmler. Hitler was simply the Fuehrer). I fear a … (View Post)

No, Goebbels was the last Reich Chancellor and Doenitz the final President (Hitler had revived the Office in his testament). Only on pb as they say. (View Post)

Hey Ho, I guess it could have been worse. (View Post)

He was indeed taken for a fool. (View Post)