Abstract
In August 1946 an article in Picture Post drew attention to the sufferings of Germans in the aftermath of the Second World War (Jacobson 1946). It prompted this response from Mrs Jackson, a reader in Redcar, Yorkshire:
This chapter forms part of a wider project on ‗Englishness and Europe, 1939–65‘; I would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust for the award of a Research Fellowship, during which this chapter was researched and written.
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Webster, W. (2011). From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945–54. In: Spiering, M., Wintle, M. (eds) European Identity and the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306943_6
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