12/12/07 - Newell Green
Newell Green, author and ‘researcher’ of The Hitler Papers visited Whitegrove Library on the 12th December 2007
An enraptured audience witnessed local author, Newell Green talk about his forays into writing and revealing secrets of his recent ‘acquisition’ from a car boot sale, The Hitler Papers.
The Hitler Papers is a gentle parody on Hitler’s Nazi regime against the Allies and captures the humour of that dark time. Likened to a cross between Spike Milligan, Carry On… and Allo Allo-style humour, Newell Green revealed some of the secrets contained within the Papers and delighted the audience with tales of exploding toilet rolls and how Hitler planned to invade Russia via England, the USA and China. Authenticated and perforated by Newell Green The Hitler Papers is written in English but with a German accent.
Mr Green’s wild explanations are no less extraordinary than Stern and the Sunday Times Hitler Diaries of some twenty five years ago, which turned out to be forgeries. Certainly it can be argued that the the Green Papers are more authentic in the accuracy of that essential element which kept morale high and George Formby in the flicks; namely humour.
Equally as interesting was Newell Green’s description of how the book came to be published. Between the publisher, paper, binding and artwork, The Hitler Papers can truly be claimed to be an international collaboration.
Being so jam-packed with essential information, Mr Green’s current book had to be edited down, so we can eagerly await a further volume with Mr Hitler taking on the role of an agony aunt. Indeed by the end of Newell Green’s articulate and persuasive comic apology, you could easily be swayed into thinking that all you had heard about the war was not true. Maybe this is what history is all about.
Like a Barnes Wallis spinning top, you can’t keep a revisionist historian down and Mr Green is also researching the ‘true’ history of that nemesis of Victorian London, Jock the Ripper (from north of the border).
Complementing this grand event was a feast of savoury ration-friendly delights including Marguerite Patten inspired flap-jacks (Vegan-friendly) and 1940s-style bread pudding (with secret ingredient). War-time music also entertained the audience by luminaries such as Bud Flanagan and Our Gracie.
The ease and eloquence in which Mr Green answered audience questions, interspersed with humorous anecdotes about aspects of the war, which are so often overlooked but no less true and essential, produced a rapturous round of applause for the author. Whitegrove Library had been fuelled with a most colourful talk from Newell Green.
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