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Nazis succeeded in fake notes plan

Nazi forgers succeeded in flooding Europe with fake British bank notes, “destroying” confidence in the UK currency, according to secret MI5 files. Papers released by the National Archives show that by the end of the Second World War the forgeries were so rife, British bank notes would not be accepted on the Continent. The Germans [...]

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How Britain’s migrants sewed the fabric of the nation

History shows it’s hard to pick out which migrants will be good for the UK. It is risky for the state to try Immigration minister Damian Green last week said Britain did not need any more unskilled workers or family dependents; instead it should accept only migrants of substance. “We want only the brightest, top of the [...]

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Man accused of involvment in war crimes wins human rights claim

He looked like an innocent refugee, fleeing the ethnic tensions of former Yugoslavia for the safety and security of Britain. But when Dejan Tolic claimed asylum after coming to the UK in 1999, he made a surprising admission: he told the Home Office that he had been a member of the White Eagles, a Serbian [...]

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Obama Channels Brits’ retreat from Nazi Germany

“We shall have to give up certain of our toys — one is ‘Britannia rules the waves,’” then-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the London Daily Herald in 1935, in a causal casting off of the idea of England’s unchallengeable force at sea. Thus was that era’s “strategic reassessment” — the Anglo-German Naval Agreement — sold [...]

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