20th January 2008
In my posting last week, I said the approach I intend to follow for my research on "’Winning the Peace’: The British in occupied Germany, 1945-1951" was to ‘Follow the People’.
Here is a list of people I think are interesting for one reason or another. I’ve written about some of them on this blog. I know very little about the others.
Senior officers
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Sholto Douglas
General Sir Brian Robertson
General Gerald Templer
General Alec Bishop
Politicians, administrators and diplomats
J B Hynd
Austen Albu
William Strang
Harold Ingrams
Christopher Steel
Noel Annan
Education advisers
Donald Riddy
Robert Birley
T H Marshall
Young men
John Seymour Chaloner
German speaking exiles who took British nationality to return to Germany to work for the Control Commission
Harry Bohrer
Michael Thomas
George Clare
E F (Fritz) Schumacher
How it really was 