ADOLPH HITLER

My part in his downfall.
(with apologies to Spike Milligan)

Just like Spike, Albert Folens, who made a modest contribution to the defeat of Hitler, could have chosen the above title for his book.

But he died before the book was written and the author, his daughter, chose a genuinely more inspirational title for her book: Albert and Juliette – Love, Loss, Liberty.

The seeds of the earlier title are actually in the content of the book which, inter alia, charts Albert's wartime experience in detail. It reveals how, unlike an earlier perception of him as a traitor and collaborator, matters for which he was given a ten year prison sentence, he was effectively operating against a German victory, cooperating with the Flemish Resistance and protecting Flemish authors.

It is a matter of regret that he did not live to see his name cleared in his daughter's marvellous book. But it may be some consolation that he was dead by the time RTÉ and the "informed journalist and author of the highest integrity" besmirched his name across the nation without a single shred of evidence.

Now that his daughter has definitively cleared his name, the day of judgment is hopefully at hand for his detractors, or at least those that are still around and not already condemned in the afterlife.(Hell is not hot enough etc.)

DE MORTUIS NIHIL NISI BONUM
(quoted by journalist Senan Molony, in my presence, on 16 June 2016, the same day that MP Jo Cox was murdered in West Yorkshire.)
The book is available to readers in Europe here, and to those outside Europe, and particularly in the USA here