Koop Vandaag Don’t Mention The War. The British and the Germans since 1890 – Ramsden, John

The Times decided in 1891 that ‘Germany does not excite in any class among us the slightest feeling of distrust or antipathy’ – the zenith of a century in which Britons admired German culture and our monarchy was closely involved with Germany royalty. Yet twenty-five years later began the era of world wars in which Britain and Germany were twice pitted against each other. After 1945, it seemed that Britain would learn to co-exist on happier terms with newly democratic Germany, yet persistent memories of 194…