{"id":2002,"date":"2020-09-10T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2020-09-10T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:30:53","slug":"review-kill-the-fuhrer-section-x-and-operation-foxley-by-denis-rigden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-kill-the-fuhrer-section-x-and-operation-foxley-by-denis-rigden\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Kill the F\u00fchrer: Section X and Operation Foxley, by Denis Rigden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The revelation in the late 1990s that the British had seriously considered assassinating Hitler was a journalistic bombshell.  Very quickly, the National Archives (then the Public Records Office) published the entire <em>Operation Foxley<\/em> dossier with an introduction by Mark Seaman.  Denis Rigden&#8217;s book, written one year later, unfortunately, has little to add to that story &#8212; and is padded out with much extraneous information after running out of things to say about <em>Foxley.<\/em>  Do we really need to know how well or how poorly the young Hitler performed in school?  Or that he was lucky to have wound up with the name &#8216;Hitler&#8217; rather than Schicklgruber, which the author finds amusing.  The one truly interesting revelation &#8212; for this writer, at least &#8212; was the close cooperation between Section X, which was the part of the Special Operations Executive which dealt with Germany, and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF).  Surely there&#8217;s a book there waiting to be written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revelation in the late 1990s that the British had seriously considered assassinating Hitler was a journalistic bombshell. Very quickly, the National Archives (then the Public Records Office) published the entire Operation Foxley dossier with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}