I've just read an interesting article by Brian Sewell (not a favourite rent-a-gob of mine by any means) on this issue and there was a very interesting point in there...
"(...)and I have little doubt that had these islands been occupied by Germans for half a century, depriving us of land, water, medicine, education, self-government and the wherewithall to develop a self-sufficient economy, with half our populaton driven into exile, the other half in dire povery, we too would by now be just as angry and resentful, just as likely to resort to acts of ghastly recklessness."
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