[Tim O.]

It is very hard to understand the situation back then viewed through modern eyes and the perspective of the history we were all taught. My mother's family had a German governess before the war and the services of a German POW to do their gardening during the war. My mother's cousin was engaged to a Luftwaffe pilot before the war and he was killed in action later. My father was a youth in Birmingham (UK) and remembered the incendiaries falling in his garden and onto his roof; also a parachute mine swinging on the power cables. Dad always hated the Germans and Mum always liked them, despite her being in London nursing during the Blitz. Things were not as clear cut as the histories suggest!

Best wishes
Tim O.