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1940.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

A time I well remember, living close to the City of London at the time, and the reason for my evacuation to the Countryside with thousands of other Children, to avoid the daily and nightly Blitz.

Its not easy to forget, that twice during the past Century, the Germans/Huns were our deadly enemy.
(Even the Romans had problems with them... ;)...>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns).

Paul.

I often rather wondered why 'Hun' was applied to mainland Germans. I once commented to a displaced (former Hitler's Youth) German that the original English language came from his;
"No," he replied, "Ours came from yours!"
The area now called Lower Saxony was the pre-England 'Saxony' -- renamed after a post-England migration inland created an area dubbed 'Upper Saxony'. The Angles were located in a hook -- or 'angle' -- of land in the more modern area of Schleswig-Holstein, to the south of mainland Denmark (the Jutland peninsula -- the original Jute-land). In that sense, the first 'viking' invasions were quite before the Dane, Norman or Nazi German ones (hopefully you can but, perhaps, you kent follow that?).

8-)

We "Fosberys" pre-dated all those invaders from the North Sea by quite a few hundred years....
"FOSBURY CAMP - near Tidcombe in Wiltshire. In the Hundred of Kynewardston.
A Bivallate Iron Age Camp - 1st century B.C. - Built as a defensive camp against or by the Belgae during their advance into Britain from Gaul*."
http://fosbery.tripod.com/

Bury: An Iron-Age Hill Fort.
Fosbury/Fosbery: The Keepers of the Hill Fort.

King Bill and the Normans got us in the end... ...(King Harold got it in the eye)... ...!

Paul L. Fosbery Esq. Lord of the Manor.

* Our Doug: "Hagar the Horrible"... ...!

But don't forget the Germans also donated one of their most important words to we poor Brits, BEER