A film that might just teach us something
On a long-ago childhood holiday in Jersey, I was astonished to learn that part of our country had been under nazi occupation, because we were too weak to defend it. Worse, some of the inhabitants had behaved just as badly as in the rest of Europe. I am glad that the film another Mother’s Son will make more people aware of this grim episode.
It might mean that fewer British people sneer loftily at the French for what they suffered. It might even mean they once again take our neglected defence seriously.