Month: December 2022

Pelé, dead at 82, was the world’s greatest footballing hero — ever. But the great Brazilian, known to many as ‘The King’, was not free from political controversy.

30 December 2022 By Paul Martin

Pele was fascinated when I asked for an interview.  He must have given thousands before mine, but this was different.  “You mean we’ll be talking directly on the Internet?” he gasped.  In 1997 that was not just a novelty, it was historic.   It was the first time any event had been internetted live.

Hitler’s comrade-in-arms still has a Nazi helmet on his grave. Will it be removed?

6 December 2022 By Paul Martin

The helmet on Hermann Kriebel’s grave (Dirk Walter) By Paul Martin. A small German town is refusing to remove a steel helmet that remains on top of a Nazi general’s grave. Hermann Kriebel headed the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party , whose ‘Storm Detachment’ launched vicious attacks on Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938.   Kriebel […]