Livingstone and the Hitler Comments

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone suspended by Labour after Hitler comments saw him accused of anti-Semitism.

In fact, Ken Livingstone is absolutely correct. Ken has done a great deal to counter discrimination against ethnic minorities.  Poor timing perhaps, but inaccurate comments no. 

The Final Solution was the last resort solution as countries had refused mass immigration by the Jewish population (sounds familiar) which includes the UK with Churchill as leader. 

The Nazis started the Work Programme. The Nazis did a lot of bad things however they had many fans in the British upper classes.  

According to Wikipedia the Cliveden Set were a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals politically influential in pre-World War II Britain, who were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. The name comes from Cliveden, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, which was then Astor's country residence.

The "Cliveden Set" tag was coined by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for the e Communist newspaper The Week. It has long been widely accepted that this aristocratic Germanophile social network was in favour of friendly relations with Germany. The flight of Rudolf Hess has never been properly explained but many felt that he came to the UK to seek support from Nazi sympathizers to get help tp broker a peace treaty with Germany. As such his plans having gone wrong he was whisked away from contact with the public. 

Other sympathisers with Germany were Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950) was an English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. Norman was a close friend of the German Central Bank President Hjalmar Schacht, who was a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and served in Hitler's government as President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. As such, Schacht played a key role in implementing the policies attributed to Hitler. Norman was also so close to the Schacht family that he was godfather to one of Schacht's grandchildren. Both were members of the Anglo-German Fellowship and the Bank for International Settlements. 

During the war the Germans and the British met regularly at the Bank for International Settlements. Incredibly Montagu was helping the Nazis well into the war and his activities caused President Roosevelt to write to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 

One of the mistakes the Jews made was to announce they were waging 'economic war' against the Nazis in 1933 with an economic boycott. 

Long before the Hitler government began restricting the rights of the German Jews, the leaders of the worldwide Jewish community formally declared war on the "New Germany" at a time when the U.S. government and even the Jewish leaders in Germany were urging caution in dealing with the new Hitler regime.

The war by the international Jewish leadership on Germany not only sparked definite reprisals by the German government but also set the stage for a little-known economic and political alliance between the Hitler government and the leaders of the Zionist movement who hoped that the tension between the Germans and the Jews would lead to massive emigration to Palestine.

This is perhaps what Ken was refering too.