Hitler's Munich Man by Martin Connolly & Martin Connolly

Author:Martin Connolly & Martin Connolly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: 9781526707093
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2017-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

When pressed as to whether he had ever praised the Nazi system he responded, ‘I have often said it had many good points and so it has.’ One can only conclude that Domvile considered Nazi Germany was not the anathema that the British Government believed it to be.

This is further confirmed when Domvile makes an unguarded reaction to a question about his visit to the Dachau concentration camp. Asked if he preferred to be in Dachau or Brixton, his quick response was, ‘Dachau’. He then retracted this saying that it was unfair ‘because I have been very well treated at Brixton’. In other words, he may not be so well treated in Dachau, which puts a different slant on his comments earlier about how wonderful Dachau was. Asked if Jews were the main population at Dachau, Domvile said there were four categories including hardened criminals.

The committee then appears to be a little unprepared for the next area of concern about Domvile. He had written an article for a Berlin newspaper in which the Government claimed he had given the impression that he supported the return of the Colonies to Germany. This, the Government argued, had given the Germans the idea that a high ranking naval officer was reflecting Britain’s view on the matter. The problem was that the committee had not seen the article and did not have a copy of it. They asked Domvile if he could give them a copy. He at first said he could not remember the article, yet he remembered that a translation into German was done before it was sent. When asked who confirmed the translation, Domvile replied that it was Carroll. The secret service had underlined this fact as important and the suspicion that Carroll may have manipulated the article. Domvile continues to come across as a bumbling fool who professes he cannot remember anything about the article written three years previously. Was this an act or does this reflect Domvile’s real character?

The committee then turned to examine his preface to The Case for Germany’. Again, he comes across at worse as a fool or at best totally naïve or perhaps he was simply lying. Put to him, that the book was being used as propaganda by Nazi Germany, he denied knowing that would be the case. He stated he had not read the book and that he had only written ‘a little preface’. As we have noted, Domvile was present at a meeting where Laurie launched the book and spoke of it. His final statement on this point was interesting,

‘It was written for consumption in England. It was written with the object of the whole of the Link, to explain the German case, as Professor Laurie saw it, and my preface merely said that he was one of those who had been working for Anglo-German friendship and I did not pretend to have read the book.’

Bearing in mind that the book was extravagant in praise of Hitler and the Nazi system, he

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