Talk:Arthur Bryant

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So many people in Britain hate those who are successful. It is always easy to find a few (Roberts, Plumb) who will heap filth upon someone more successful than themselves. Roberts has heaped cheap 'Nazi' jibes on others before and has treated people with total disrespect. The best put-down to Roberts were the two letters published in The Daily Telegraph on 16 August 2003, from Daphne Guinness, and Lord Moyne. The fact remains that Bryant was an extremely popular historian and brought easily readable history to millions who might otherwise not have read it. We don't actually know that he specifically went to Germany to "celebrate Hitler's birthday". (Germany was a popular holiday destination, especially as the Reichsbahn offered special rates for foreign passport holders). Presumably he could have gone to the North Pole and still done that. My grandparents were in Berlin in 1936 and 1938 and visited the (old) Chancellery where they signed Hitler's birthday book. They were not Nazis but they thought it all rather thrilling. One tires of all this endless Nazi garbage. 81.131.143.196 18:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)