May 18, 2010 by Matt Horner | No Comments
Matthias Sindelar was one of the greatest footballers of his generation. Tall, blond, and athletic, Sindelar could have been a creation of Goebbels’ master race propaganda machine. However, the Austrian’s mysterious death, at the age of just 35, left many people questioning whether the player nicknamed ‘the Paper Man’ had been the victim of a [...]
May 7, 2010 by Diana Horner | No Comments
Dick Seaman, British racing car driver, died during the Belgian Grand Prix, on 25th June 1939, 66 days before Great Britain finally declared war on Germany. Adolf Hitler, a fan of the Mercedes Benz driver who drove with a Swastika on his car, sent a lavish wreath to the funeral.
May 3, 2010 by Diana Horner | No Comments
One chapter in the recently published book ‘Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported’, by John Simpson, drew the excited attention of journalists around the world. ‘Blue shirts and blitzkrieg? It’s just not cricket’ ran the headline from Ben McIntyre, in the Times Newspaper (18.03.10). Simpson refers in his book, to an incident reported [...]