Comments on: The Germans are coming! http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:41:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Airminded · The Germans are coming! — II http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-75207 Airminded · The Germans are coming! — II Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:59:42 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=495#comment-75207 [...] few weeks ago, I wrote about American fears in 1942 that German spies were making patterns in fields, as signals to the location of nearby targets of military significance. At the time, I had this [...] [...] few weeks ago, I wrote about American fears in 1942 that German spies were making patterns in fields, as signals to the location of nearby targets of military significance. At the time, I had this [...]

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-74439 Brett Holman Tue, 20 May 2008 05:45:05 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=495#comment-74439 I suspect you're right about that. There's an excellent paper on this subject: Glyn Prysor, "The 'Fifth Column' and the British experience of retreat, 1940", <em>War in History</em> 12 (2005), 418-47. It does draw on post-war accounts of Calais (not Neave's though): some soldiers remained convinced that there were fifth columnists there, others were a lot more sceptical. I suspect you’re right about that. There’s an excellent paper on this subject: Glyn Prysor, “The ‘Fifth Column’ and the British experience of retreat, 1940″, War in History 12 (2005), 418-47. It does draw on post-war accounts of Calais (not Neave’s though): some soldiers remained convinced that there were fifth columnists there, others were a lot more sceptical.

]]> By: roGER http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-74422 roGER Mon, 19 May 2008 17:26:59 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=495#comment-74422 Airey Neave's book about the fall of Calais makes much of French "collaborators" and "fifth columnists" working with Germans to take the town. It shows that even highly intelligent and (presumably) level headed individuals believed there was a huge and active sabotage effort directed against them - as far as I can remember, no historian takes this view seriously today... Airey Neave’s book about the fall of Calais makes much of French “collaborators” and “fifth columnists” working with Germans to take the town.

It shows that even highly intelligent and (presumably) level headed individuals believed there was a huge and active sabotage effort directed against them – as far as I can remember, no historian takes this view seriously today…

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-74362 Brett Holman Sat, 17 May 2008 10:47:20 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=495#comment-74362 Thanks, it worked fine here in Aus. Splendid. Thanks, it worked fine here in Aus. Splendid.

]]> By: Lester Hawksby http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-74317 Lester Hawksby Fri, 16 May 2008 16:30:49 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=495#comment-74317 (apologies, not sure if people outside Britain can see the splendid video clip! so if not, I'm sorry for wasting your time) (apologies, not sure if people outside Britain can see the splendid video clip! so if not, I’m sorry for wasting your time)

]]> By: Lester Hawksby http://airminded.org/2008/05/13/the-germans-are-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-74316 Lester Hawksby Fri, 16 May 2008 16:24:11 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=495#comment-74316 Not quite on topic, but have you seen this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7404052.stm Not quite on topic, but have you seen this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7404052.stm

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