On 12 Mav 1940 the British Government interned 2,000 Germans and Austrians living in England. This was the start of a curious, occasionally comic, often painful and tragic experience for nearly 30,000 'friendly enemy aliens' who were eventually interned - some for a few weeks, others for the rest of the war. Eric Robson introduces some of their stories.
'It was the older people who really suffer for them it was a tion, and the irony was that Britain had no greater friends.' (SIR CLAUS MOSER)'
Interviewer Celia Thomson
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.45 pm