John Ramsden: Don’t Mention the War

Notes

Introduction

Chapter One
‘An amiable, unselfish and kindly people’: Anglo-German perceptions before 1900

Chapter Two
‘When will Germany strike? Who Knows?’: 1890–1914

Chapter Three
‘When the English Learned to Hate’: 1914–18

Chapter Four
‘The Germans are unchanged’: good Germans and Nazis in the age of Adolf Hitler

Chapter Five
‘Don’t Let’s be Beastly to the Germans’: war and post-war the second time around

Chapter Six
‘Putting poor Germany on its feet again’: re-educating the Germans and the British after 1945

Chapter Seven
‘I tries ’ard, Brian, but I ’ates ’em’: normalising relations in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapter Eight
‘Hardy comes through’: Germans in British war films

Chapter Nine
‘Bert Trautmann’s helmet’: English soccer and the German problem

Chapter Ten
‘People to People there is a problem’