And this nostalgia for a particular, and peculiar, version of our history long preceded Brexit. There were some sound reasons for voting to leave the EU – although the campaign was rarely fought on them, and wasn’t won because of them. They weren’t called “the allies” for nothing.) Referring to the popularity of films such as Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, Peter Ammon said: “History is always full of ambiguities and ups and downs, but if you focus only on how Britain stood alone in the war, how it stood against dominating Germany, well, it is a nice story, but does not solve any problem of today.” (If the second world war taught us anything, it was that you couldn’t stand alone. So when the outgoing German ambassador to Britain claimed this week that Brexiteers were fixated on the second world war, he was on to something. “Any talk of German reunification is anathema to her.” At one point it got so bad that the former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd claimed: “Cabinet now consists of three items: parliamentary affairs, home affairs and xenophobia.” “She seems to be obsessed by a feeling that German-speakers are going to dominate the community,” Wright writes.
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