Book shelves in Zurich Airport

Just spotted @mauricejcasey.com book on sale in Zurich Airport

Ah that’s amazing, thanks for sharing Martin!

"Nazi Intrigue in Kerry" by T. Ryle Dwyer Clipping found in The Kerryman (Kerry North ed.) published in Tralee, Kerry, Ireland on 4/1/1988. "Nazi Intrigue in Kerry" by T. Ryle Dwyer

www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

Wild side gig for that cattle inspector too

Going through digitised NARA files and learned the OSS (forerunner to the CIA) believed there was a “Nazi spy center” operating in Tralee in 1942. Anyone know of any corroborating sources/reading on this?

This was a disastrous form of leftist anti-establishment politics, one that failed to recognise that in times of grave crisis the enemy of my enemy is often no friend at all.

In Germany in 1931, a referendum campaign was launched by a revanchist far-right organisation that in essence delegitimised the Weimar Republic. It was backed by the German Communists because it took aim at their nemeses the Social Democrats.

I spend my work hours in the documentary evidence of the left as it faced the challenge of the far right in the 1930s. One moment I have thought a lot about over the past week (bear with me) is the 1931 Prussian Landtag referendum.

This is excellent and helped me clarify what I have been grasping towards as I've tried to make sense of the last week in Ireland and the left's response.

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people

“Immigrants could be found in every corner of the Irish Free State at that time.”

Excited for this release - and grateful it’s not paywalled, unlike its UK counterpart

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

BBC Audio | Illuminated | The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin The Alpenpost: both a love letter to a distant father and a chronicle of European darkness

For anyone who has read @mauricejcasey.com's "Hotel Lux", this is a wonderful spin-off of an anti-Nazi resistance network and the family at its heart, told through a newspaper crafted by two young girls.

The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

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A children's birthday message with the same anti-Nazi greeting

It's the kind of defacement that could be performed quickly: picture a resister, constantly watching over their shoulder, achieving this in a couple of motions. Yet its message was unmistakable.

So simple a child could do it. In at least one case I've found, children did.

The ISK was instructing sympathisers how to simply and quickly transform Nazi iconography into a condemnation of the regime.

Using four lines - one up, one across, one diagonal, one down - the Swastikas placed everywhere could be transformed into a warning: Nazis, your day is coming.

The flyer declares (roughly translated): with heart and hand we will put the Nazi shame on every wall.

"Und zwar so" - Just like this:

Anti nazi slogan and a Swastika hanging from a gallows in a simple line drawing

Graphic Design for Antifascists:

In 1936, the Gestapo encountered this flyer smuggled into Germany by the ISK, an anti-Nazi network.

The Gestapo noted that the image was a calling card of this underground group.

Behind it lay some clever design thinking 🧵 1/

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Mad axemen, violence and another bloody big hit The gory history of the Vikings as recounted by Iain Glen makes for a thrilling podcast saga

"A riveting, charming documentary... I could see it winning awards."

ICYMI: Patricia Nicol reviewed The Alpenpost in the Sunday Times:

www.thetimes.com/article/8e87...

Thanks so much to Patricia Nicol for this wonderful review of our Alpenpost documentary today in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Nice little shout out in a rundown of cultural highlights in today’s @theguardian.com !

Very cool to see our documentary received shout outs in the Saturday and Sunday Times! Thanks to everyone who has listened and got in touch - it has been lovely to hear from you.

The Cold War and the Soviet KGB's Same-Sex Entrapment Operations in the 1950s and 1960s: The Perpetrator in Focus In August 1963, The New York Times informed its readers that a U.S. citizen had been arrested in the USSR.1 According to the newspaper, the Soviet travel agency Intourist had announced that Bernard L....

This is a fascinating work of queer history by Irina Roldugina that tells the story of KGB entrapment schemes.

Academic research that could be made into a Cold War thriller: direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

The BBC visited the IISG for a podcast about Edo Fimmen, a Dutch anti-fascist activist and union leader who led the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation.

The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 8 March · 32m

Just in time for your morning coffee, my radio doc "The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin" is now available wherever you get your podcasts.

I would love if you gave it a listen 🙏

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"A true story so remarkable it could easily become a film"

Lovely write up from Anna Jones in the Radio Times!

The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 8 March · 32m

Just in time for your morning coffee, my radio doc "The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin" is now available wherever you get your podcasts.

I would love if you gave it a listen 🙏

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

TODAY at 19:15!

Announcement of international socialist women's meeting in Copenhagen in 1910.

At the International Socialist Women's congress at Copenhagen in 1910, it was decided to institute an International Women's Day, much in the spirit of the International Workers' Day. What is little known is that the Indian revolutionary Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama was present at the meeting in Copenhagen.

Thanks to Áine Toner of the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk for speaking with me about the Alpenpost!