Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry the Nazis, and the Road to World War II. (Book Review)

From: History Today | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Making Friends with Hitler Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War. Ian Kershaw Allen Lane 512pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0713997176

AMONG THE OBJECTS ON DISPLAY at Mount Stewart, the National Trust-owned mansion in County Down, is a figure of an SS Standard Bearer. This unusual piece of porcelain, about eighteen inches high, stands on the mantelpiece of the Castelreagh Room, the study of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry who left this exquisite house and all its treasures to the Trust. The porcelain statue was made at the infamous Allach Porcelain works at Dachau which ...

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