Oh man.
Great books, Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God.
Unfortunately, you're the only person I know besides myself who's read them.
Great books.
Mom tells me that the USA were in fear of Germany when she was in High School. Must have been mid 1930's when her school was let out to watch one of the Zeppelin fly over and she never forgot the big swastika on the back.
Such a sight the huge behemoth that seemed to just float in the sky. All was very quiet, no talking just a couple hundred kids watching in amazement endear. Traffic came to a standstill and factory's and shops let people out to watch this display of might and power. Very unsettling for those on the East Coast.
It may have been the fact that the craft made no noise in a time everyone and his brother were building in barns and sheds these small airplane's that sounded like a chain saw does today, It was the size and the stealth that impressed them.
Then New Jersey when the zeppelin blew up due to lightening at its teather, [ OH the Humanity ], that we relaxed and knew that that we had no fear of these silent sky flyer's. They were not invincible.
Onward into Moms history, Every one went to the movies at that time, Mom had married Dad in 1938 and I was far into their future. Most entertainment for young married was the movies and Holleywood came in with the Defence department to show before the movie a World event program of what was happening outside the USA.
The Major thing Mom has a problem with are the films before we entered the war of Hitlers audience of screaming adoring young woman. This man was a chubby male, losing his hair with a face like Charlie Chaplin. Hitler was no Elvis so why the appeal to the young woman ??????
Of all the good looking and wealthy German males, why did this runt send the girls into a frenzy ?????