Chapter Ten
'People to People there is a problem'
1. Germany's foreign minister Joschka Fischer made this observation during a
visit to London in October 2004; The Times, 21 October 2004.
2. John Mander, Our German Cousins (John Murray, London, 1974), 3, 5, 26-34; Angela Merkel, 'Shaping a Free Europe Together', in Hartmut Mayer and Thomas Bernd Stehling, eds, German-British Relations, and the 'Spirit of Cadenabbia' (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, 2005), 13; The Times, 21 October 2004; Daily Telegraph, 11 May 2005.
3. I have myself questioned groups of students about their self-identity since about 1990.
4. Adrian Thrills, You're Not Singing Anymore (Ebury Press, London, 1998), 15.
5. Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (Pimlico, London, 1992); Mark Connelly, We Can Take It: British Memory of the Second World War (Longman, London, 2004), 245, 267-8, 274; Sunday Times, 13 July 2003.
6. Guardian, 5 May 1995; Observer, 21 February 1999; Sunday Times, 13 July 2003.
7. Craig Gabell, Frederick Forsyth: A Matter of Protocol (Robson, London, 2001), 24, 27, 48-52, 54-5.
8. Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File (Hutchinson, London, 1972), 6, 66, 82, 100-1, 136-7, 266; The Times, 24 March, 24 April, 28 September, 20 November 1972, 2 October 1975, 12 August 1977, 30 December 1979, 22 September 1981.
9. Len Deighton, Berlin Game (Grafton, London, 1984), 98, 102, 103, 109, 120, 130, 131, 139, 142, 146, 218, 308; Len Deighton, Mexico Set (Grafton, London, 1984), 71, 158, 215, 220-1, 240-1, 331, 376; Len Deighton, London Match (Grafton, London, 1986), 4, 6, 43, 50-1, 54, 96, 134, 200, 312 340-1, 368.
10. Len Deighton, Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899-1945 (Hutchinson, London, 1987), v, 432-3, 476, 533.
11. Len Deighton, Spy Hook (Grafton, London, 1989), 52-3, 76, 80-1, 103, 251, 256-7; Len Deighton, Spy Line (Grafton, London, 1990), 55-6, 177, 198-9; Len Deighton, Spy Sinker (Grafton, London, 1991), 192, 212.
12. Len Deighton, Faith (HarperCollins, London, 1994), 8, 18, 24, 32, 36-7, 218-19, 312; Len Deighton, Hope (HarperCollins, London, 1996), 70, 87, 89-90, 99, 122-3; Len Deighton, Charity (HarperCollins, London, 1996), 10-11, 64-5, 90-1, 177, 184-5, 224, 242, 245-6, 248.
13. John M. Reilly, ed., Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers (2nd edn, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1985), 19, 332, 495, 577, 592, 853.
14. Victor Canning, The Whip Hand (Companion Book Club edn, London, 1965), 1-2, 54, 59, 69, 74, 83, 94, 130-3, 154, 168, 199-207, 211, 216, 217-19, 222; The Times, 28 October 1967.
15. Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed (Penguin edn, London, 1998), 5, 7, 367-83; Writer's Journal, March-April 2000; www.mysteryguide.com/bkHigginsLanded.html.
16. Higgins, Eagle Has Landed, 72-3, 144-5, 184, 206-7.
17. Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Flown (Penguin edn, London, 1998), 6, 124, 180, 246-7, 252, 314.
18. Robert Harris, Fatherland (Arrow, London, 1992), 1, 12, 215, 322, 337, 386.
19. Harris, Fatherland, 24-5, 79, 86-7, 108, 198, 201.
20. Independent, 4 and 29 December 1993, 24 November 1994, 26 September 1995; The Times, 14 July, 27 December 1993, 31 August 1995, 18 May 1996, 25 January, 31 October 2000, 14 March 2002, 31 July 2004; Observer, 27 November 1994, 10 October 2004; Guardian, 5 September 1995, 20 August 2001; Daily Telegraph, 10 June 1997; Sunday Telegraph, 26 June 1994.
21. Gavriel Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005), 2, 10-11, 15.
22. Rosenfeld, World Hitler Never Made, 30, 35, 42-4, 46-58, 62-5; Sheridan Morley, ed., Noel Coward Collected Plays, vol. VII (Methuen, London, 1999), 9-13, 162-3, 203.
23. Rosenfeld, World Hitler Never Made, 56-8; Kevin Brownlow, How It Happened Here (Secker & Warburg, London, 1968), 8-9, 11, 13, 31, 43, 51, 58-9, 116, 118, 144.
24. Brownlow, How It Happened Here, 14, 102, 164, 174-5; Rosenfeld, World Hitler Never Made, 67-8.
25. Rosenfeld, World Hitler Never Made, 65-7, 72-7, 82-94; Len Deighton, SS GB (Arrow, London, 1978), 196-7, 227, 237, 243, 271-2, 291, 368.
26. John Brason, Secret Army (BBC, London, 1977), 7, 187-91, 219; John Brason, Secret Army Dossier (BBC, London, 1978), 28, 143, 191-2, 199, 221; John Brason, Secret Army: The End of the Line (W. H. Allen, London, 1979), 7, 15.
27. Brason, Secret Army: End of the Line, 30, 37-9, 60-2, 71-4, 88-9, 92-5, 107-8, 120-35.
28. John Brason, Kessler (BBC, London, 1981), 5, 20, 25, 28, 33-5, 41, 52-4, 60, 68, 75, 103, 132, 146, 192-8.
29. www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/a/alloallo_7770250.shtml; Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, 'Allo, 'Allo (Samuel French, London, 2000), 10; Complete War Diaries of René Artois (BBC, London, 1991), unpaginated.
30. Garry Berman, Best of Britcoms, from Fawlty Towers to Absolutely Fabulous (Gazelle, Lancaster, 2000), 1, 12, 8-9, 40-2; Jonathan Margolyes, Bernard Manning (Orion, London, 1996), 9, 31, 32, 139; Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Dad's Army, Walmington Goes to War: The Complete Scripts of Series 1-4 (Orion, London, 2001), 49, 67, 71-2; www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/t/tilldeathusdopar_7776335.shtml; Connelly, We Can Take It, 294.
31. Berman, Best of Britcoms, 14-16; Fawlty Towers, Fully Booked (BBC, London, 2001), 42-3, 46-7, 80, 83-4, 99, 158-61, 192; Robert Gore Langton, John Cleese (Essential Books, London, 1999), 76-7.
32. Connelly, We Can Take It, 292-3; Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1997.
33. Michael Paris, Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture (Reaktion, London, 2000), 224, 230-3, 236; Connelly, We Can Take It, 237-41; Observer, 21 February 1999.
34. Reginald Smythe, The Maniac's Guide to the Biggles Books (Ventos, Birmingham, 1993), 7-8, 19, 45-55, 100-35; Peter Beresford Ellis and Jennifer Schofield, Biggles! The Life Story of Capt. W. E. Johns (Veloce, Godmanstone, 1993), 21, 50, 71, 93, 134, 144-5, 177, 231, 235; W. E. Johns, A Biggles Omnibus (Cresset, London, 1994), 210; W. E. Johns, The Best of Biggles (Chancellor, London, 1985), preface; W. E. Johns, Biggles Defies the Swastika (Red Fox, London, 1992), 191; W. E. Johns, Spitfire Parade (Red Fox, London, 1993), 4.
35. John Farman, The Complete Bloody History of Britain, without the Boring Bits (Ted Smart, London, 1999), 114, 127, 132, 137-8, 144-5, 149-51, 154, 156-7, 161, 394.
36. The Times, 13 and 19 October 1999.
37. Daily Telegraph, 29 October 1999, 31 December 2002; Guardian, 9 December 2002; The Times, 9 October 2003.
38. Guardian, 26 October 2004.
39. Daily Telegraph, 14 June 2004, 11 May 2005; Sunday Telegraph, 8 May 2005.
40. John Slater, Teaching History in the New Europe (Cassell, London, 1995), 6-7, 19-22, 26-8, 118; E. H. Dance, The Place of History in Secondary Teaching (Harrap, London, 1970), 31-2, 39; Stanley Smith, Towards World Understanding: Bias in History Textbooks and Teaching (Library Association, London, 1962), 16-17; Peter Harris, Teaching History in Schools (National Book League, London, 1979); John Fines, A Survey of A-Level History (Historical Association, London, 1984), 3, 5-6, 9-10, 15, 21, 25.
41. Volker Bergahn and Hanna Schissler, eds, Perceptions of History (Berg, Oxford, 1987), 29-32, 61-5, 68-9; William E. Marsden, The School History Textbook (Woburn Press, London, 2001), 46-7, 55-6, 90, 130.
42. Bergahn and Schissler, Perceptions of History, 2-4; Peter Lee et al., The Aims of School History (Institute of Education, London, 1992), 16-19; John Slater, The Politics of History Teaching (Institute of Education, London, 1989), 4-5, 12; Marsden, School History Textbook, 130, 163; Richard Aldrich, ed., History in the National Curriculum (Institute of Education, London, 1991), 3, 13, 32.
43. Marsden, School History Textbook, 150; Richard Maples and M. A. Wright, Modern British and European History (Letts, London, 1984), 66, 74, 109-10, 113-16, 135; Andrina Stiles, The Unification of Germany (Arnold, London, 1986), 99, 101; David Weigall, A Level European History (Letts, London, 1992 edn), chapters 7, 12, 14 and 15; Keith Crawford, 'History Textbooks and the Construction of National Memory: A Comparative Analysis of Teaching the Second World War', Curriculum, 21, 1 (2000), 27-36.
44. Rachel Wright, World War II (Franklin Watts, London, 1994), 12-15; Dennis Hamley, Flying Bombs: A Tale of Wartime Bomb Disposal (Franklin Watts, London, 1998); Penny McKinlay, Escape from Germany: A Tale of Wartime Refugees (Franklin Watts, London, 1998), 5-12, 62-3; Marsden, School Textbook, 150.
45. Roslyn Cruse, Sun-sation: The Inside Story of Britain's Best-Selling Daily Newspaper (Angus & Robertson, London, 1989), 7-8, 10, 32, 42, 75, 112, 118-19, 122; Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie, Stick It up Your Punter: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990), 202-5.
46. Chippindale and Horrie, Stick It up Your Punter, 260-1, 440-2; The Times, 23 March 2000; Observer, 26 March 2000; Daily Mail, 20 September 2001; Thomas Kielinger, Crossroads and Roundabouts: Junctions in German-British Relations (Foreign Office, London, 1997), 4, 6, 21; Karen Herrmann et al., eds, Coping with the Relations: Anglo-German Cartoons from the Fifties to the Nineties (Goethe Institute, London, 1993), 149.
47. Paris, Warrior Nation, 222; Piers Morgan, The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade (Ebury Press, London, 2005), 126-31; Herrmann, Coping with the Relations, 151; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 June 1996.
48. John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, vol. II: The Iron Lady (Cape, London, 2003), 257-8, 304, 632-4; George Urban, Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher (I. B. Tauris, London, 1996), 82-3, 99, 103-4; Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, London, 1993), 61, 94, 552, 759, 769; Douglas Hurd, Memoirs (Little, Brown, London, 2003), 382-4; Spiegel, 19 February 1990; Douglas Hurd, 'The German Unification Process', in Mayer and Stehling, Anglo-German Relations, 152.
49. Wolfram Kaiser, Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration, 1945-63 (Macmillan, London, 1996), 214, 222-3, 225, 813; Urban, Diplomacy and Disillusion, 124, 133-4, 136, 141-2, 147, 150; Hurd, 'German Unification Process', 147, 149; Campbell, Iron Lady, 636-7, 639; Thatcher, Downing Street Years, 755, 783, 789-91; Kielinger, Crossroads and Roundabouts, 216.
50. Urban, Diplomacy and Disillusion, 99, 151-2; Kenneth Baker, The Turbulent Years (Faber, London, 1993), 348-9, 358-9; Campbell, Iron Lady, 635; Nicholas Ridley, My Style of Government (Hutchinson, London, 1991), 156, 223, 224, 227; Hurd, Memoirs, 386; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 and 14 July 1990; Kielinger, Crossroads and Roundabouts, 6-7; Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1990.
51. Baker, Turbulent Years, 351-2; Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon, eds, The Major Effect (Macmillan, London, 1994), 284-5; John Major, Autobiography (HarperCollins, London, 1999), 122, 153, 323, 329-37; Anthony Seldon, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997), In Office 47, 164, 310, 314, 323, 338; Sarah Hogg and Jonathan Hill, Power and Politics: John Major in No. 10 (Little, Brown, London, 1995), 76-7; Norman Lamont, In Office (Warner Books, London, 1999), 36, 153, 216, 244, 254, 259, 279, 283, 387; Zeit, 20 July 1990; Süddeutscher Zeitung, 23 October 1992.
52. Seldon, Major, 349, 393, 552; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 July 1990; Images of Germany: United Germany in Cartoons Abroad (Stifftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1994), unpaginated; Spiegel, 16 July 1990.
53. Independent, 18 October 1999; Travel Trends, 2003 (Stationery Office, London, 2003), tables 3.09 and 3.10; Fakten und Zahlen zum Deutschen Reisemarkt, 2005 (Deutscher Reisebüro und Reiseveranstalter Verband, Berlin); The Times, 16 May 2005.
54. Jürgen Krönig, 'The Mass Media in the Age of Globalisation: Implications for Anglo-German Relations', Reuters Lecture, University of Kent, 29 April 1999.
55. Daily Telegraph, 9 February 1994, 10 January 1997, 27 July 2005; Guardian, 18 November 1996; The Times, 4 July 2003; The Economist, 20 February 1999.
56. Daily Telegraph, 4 January 2005.
57. Dave Bowler, Three Lions on the Shirt: Playing for England (Orion, London, 2000),141, 303; Peter Beck, '"The Relevance of the Irrelevant": Football as a Missing Dimension in the Study of British Relations with Germany', International Affairs, 79 (2003), 401; Sun, 2 September 2001; Daily Mirror, 5 September 2001; News of the World, 2 September 2001; Mail on Sunday, 2 September 2001; Daily Mail, 1 September 2001.
58. Simon Barnes and Guardian correspondent quoted in Beck, 'The Relevance of the Irrelevant', 390-1, 407; John Motson quoted in Private Eye, 7 September 2001.
59. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 December 1999; Krönig, 'Mass Media', 14-15; Daily Telegraph, 5 September 2001; The Times, 8 September 2001.
60. Herrmann, Coping with the Relations, 89.