Tag Archives: Benito Mussolini

The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025

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Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025

Augusto Pinochet | AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE

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The Legacy of Nazi Relations in the Arab World

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 June 2024

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The First Proxy War of the Cold War in Greece

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 September 2023

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The American Crackdown on Nazi Supporters During the Second World War: A “Brown Scare”?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 August 2023

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“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading

General Franco’s Intentions in the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2021

Writing recently about the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco at Hendaye on 23 October 1940, where the Führer tried to enlist Spain into the Axis, I concluded, drawing on Franco: The Man and His Nation by George Hills, a former BBC journalist and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society:

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