The Myth of 1940
Angus Calder
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On 16 May 1940, when the German Army had just overwhelmed Holland, police swooped to arrest 3,000 men born in the Reich but now living in Britain. Some were billeted in the offices of the Tote organisation. Queuing for lunch, one detainee saw an army officer brandishing a revolver at a boy:
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Vol. 2 No. 20 · 16 October 1980 » Angus Calder » The Myth of 1940 (print version)
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