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- This highly stylised drama examines how morality is distorted by the politics of war, government and commercial interest. Each character represents an attitude or moral standpoint as they struggle to come to terms with the new post war priorities.
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Close To the Enemy resonates with the moral dilemmas of the times in which we live now through the perspective of post WWII Britain. It is beautifully crafted and thought provoking in a style not dissimilar to Dennis Potter.
- Towards the end of the war the Americans, Soviets, and the British had started snatching German ‘talent’ off the streets – not just scientists, but perfume makers and fizzy drink inventors, anyone that could be useful to them in the build up to the Cold War.
- Frank Whittle needed just £5 to renew his patent for the development of the jet engine but was refused the funding, this financial boost would have put Britain ahead technologically.
- The British government faked the deaths of German war criminals to enable them to continue working for the government and industry. The British Secret Service withheld their files on German War Criminals for many decades and therefore denied successive German governments the evidence needed to prosecute many people guilty of war crimes because they didn’t want a light shone on their intelligence methods and how they had obtained the information.
- During the war, German prisoners were held in stately homes and questioned, this continued in London’s West End hotels after the war.
This highly stylised drama examines how morality is distorted by the politics of war, government and commercial interest. Each character represents an attitude or moral standpoint as they struggle to come to terms with the new post war priorities.
Summary. Just after World War II ends, Dieter Koehler, a German engineer who specialised in jet aeroplane technology, is seized along with his young daughter Lotte by T-Force. They are taken to Great Britain and detained, where Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned the task of getting Koehler to co-operate with the British government.
