The Pied Piper
Bill Bingham offers a personal reflection on the referendum
In 1957 I received a small brown envelope that contained my call-up papers to join the British army as a national serviceman. I was eighteen years of age. After some training I was sent to Bavaria to intercept Communist military transmissions. It was very interesting work, especially since we knew that ‘the enemy’ was doing exactly the same thing to us! Bavaria is a most beautiful part of Germany and it amazed me to think that Adolf Hitler had once managed to persuade this very ‘Catholic’ region to follow his cruel and insane ideas.
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