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Nazi fakes and fantasies

The Saucer and the Swastika

The Dark Myth of Nazi UFOs

SD Tucker

Amberley Books 2022

Hb, 320pp, £20, ISBN 9781398105386

“Myth” is one of those words we hear so often it’s practically a synonym for “untrue”. It’s “just a myth that [insert a common falsehood here]”, we often say. Yet myths can be much more, provoking strong beliefs, moving people to action. This is a brilliant history of how a myth can emerge from kernels of

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