This seminar reconsiders Germany’s history in the twentieth century, seen in parallel with Britain’s from a contemporary Anglo-German perspective. It relates findings from personal experience of life in Germany from the 1950s to the 1970s as well as insights from private memoirs and interviews to the existing historiographical knowledge of the diverging paths of the two countries.
Marcus Ferrar, a former Reuters journalist, was born British to a German mother. He served as a correspondent in East Berlin and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, before he managed Reuters’ European media business. His publications include The Budapest House (2013), A Foot in both Camps (2012) and Slovenia 1945 (2005, coauthored with John Corsellis).