On the same day the secret SD report on the people’s mood began with ‘the chief question which stirs the whole German population: “When will the real war against England start, and how long will it last?” ’[31] To judge by these reports the people had been growing ever more impatient for ‘retaliation’ against England, seen as the instigator of the war; rumours about peace negotiations through the mediation of the Duke of Windsor in Spain had been circulating since at least the first week in July, to the dismay of ‘the overwhelming part of the population’ who wanted to see England brought to
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