Is German military history verboten? - by Katja Hoyer

Like many Germans, I also feel uncomfortable discussing German military history. I learnt about the horrendous crimes the Nazis committed and the complicity of the German people in those crimes, from a very young age. In that light, I find it deeply jarring to contemplate whether or not the outcome of the Second World War would have changed had Hitler not meddled in military strategy, which seems a question that keeps a great number of Brits awake at night.

Aviation historian Andy Saunders argues this needn’t be so. He was the founding editor of Iron Cross, the UK’s only magazine focusing entirely on German military history. It has run successfully since 2019, but when he first mooted the idea with publishers it was not without controversy.

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