Dear Richard , I have two children at primary school. The older one has been doing the Second World War as a topic and it’s all been quite jolly, dressing up as evacuees and so on. My own mother got out of Germany by the skin of her teeth; her grandparents were murdered at Birkenau. For as long as I can remember I knew at least something of what had happened to the Jews of Europe (among other persecuted communities). It inevitably cast a shadow over my childhood; and it made the sense my contemporaries had of it as a...