They condemn him [Adolf Hitler] for persecuting the Jews, but he has not shown half the ferocity which Cromwell showed towards the Irish Catholics-as for instance, in the siege of the fortress of Drogheda and the burning alive of its inmates. (David Lloyd George)

They condemn him [Adolf Hitler] for persecuting the Jews, but he has not shown half the ferocity which Cromwell showed towards the Irish Catholics-as for instance, in the siege of the fortress of Drogheda and the burning alive of its inmates.

David Lloyd George

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