THERE are “eerie echoes” of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power playing out in far- and extreme-right protests on the streets of Scotland, an expert in the Nazi leader has said.
Professor Thomas Weber, a German-born University of Aberdeen historian known for his books on Hitler, said he suspected that extremist groups in Scotland had been “studying how the far right managed to get majority support in Europe in the inter-war years” because they are “really following the playbook”.
