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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones was born in Wales and grew up in the ancient town of Harlech. He attended the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then the Universities of Michigan, Harvard and Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD. He was active in anti-apartheid, anti-Bomb, anti-Vietnam War and pro-civil liberties campaigns and aimed at a career in politics, but then settled down to family life and scholarly pursuits. He was a Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now emeritus. He played rugby in Wales, England and America, and remains a keen fan, his other interests being opera, vegetable gardening, and snooker.
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A parable for our times? The counterproductive efforts of Hitler’s Germany secretly to subvert the United States

In 1938, Hitler described the United States as a “Jewish rubbish heap”. In the 1920s he had expressed a different view, thinking that the Aryan cream of Europe had crossed the Atlantic and built America into a great nation. He especially admired the technical achievement of Henry Ford. When he came to power in 1933, he decided to cultivate the US as a friend and ally.
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