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Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
#18 ‘Spies of the Kaiser’ - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
26 minutes Posted Sep 22, 2020 at 6:37 am.
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We look at anti-German hysteria in Britain 1906-1909. The British publishing phenomena of 1906 was The Invasion of 1910 (by Germans), serialised in the Daily Mail and marketed by men walking around London in Prussian uniforms. This chimed perfectly with the anti-German clique at the foreign office.