Voting enthusiasm

Norman Geras blogs about the enthusiasm among Iraqis living in Manchester for the January 30 Poll and transcribes part of an interview with an Iraqi Kurd (HA) on Radio 5 Live.

Lessons from History – the Nazi werewolves

In 1944 Heinrich Himmler formed the Nazi Werewolf guerilla movement. It fought the Allied armies inside Germany until 1947. It would be wrong to suggest a direct parallel to the Ba’athist component of the ‘Iraqi ‘resistance’ planned by Saddam. But these extracts from an article on the Werewolves in History Today October 2000 by Perry Biddiscombe (author of The Last Nazis), suggests many points of
comparison.