'An amiable, unselfish, kindly people' : Anglo-German perceptions before 1900 -- 'When will Germany strike? : who knows?' : 1890-1914 -- 'When the English learned to hate' : 1914-18 -- 'The Germans are unchanged' : good Germans and Nazis in the age of Adolf Hitler -- 'Don't let's be beastly to the Germans' : war and post-war the second time around -- 'Putting poor Germany on its feet again' : re-educating the Germans and the British after 1945 -- 'I tries 'ard, Brian, but I 'ates 'em' : normalising relations in the 1950s and 1960s -- 'Hardy comes through' : Germans in British war films -- 'Bert Trautmann's helmet' : English soccer and the German problem -- 'People to people, there is a problem' .