Public Schoolboys Steal ‘Historic Artefacts’
By Max Musson: Two Polish teenagers have been arrested for stealing items that belonged to British soldiers who died during the Battle of Waterloo and have been released with suspended sentences. The 17-year-olds were on a history trip to the famous battlefield with The Posen School, a private school near Warsaw that charges 50,000 Zloty a year in fees, when they were caught on Monday digging for items belonging to former British soldiers. Suspicious guards…
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
By Max Musson: There has been a mixed reaction to the recent broadcast on German TV of a three-part series entitled ‘Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter’ (‘Our Mothers, our Fathers’), depicting the effect that the Second World War conflict had on the lives of ordinary German citizens, and on the lives of five young Germans in particular. The five young friends are; brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm; a young nurse Charly; aspiring singer Greta; and her Jewish…