European studies

In Berlin is Ulrich Brackner.

He is a professor of European Studies at Stanford University in Berlin.

And in Ramallah is Mustafa Barghouti.

He is the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative.

And then there was one common printer.

Well, I mean, I was a history major in the in the European Studies guy, like for our end of like the year paper, like had a big heart on for microfiche.

And I had to go in and look at old English.

original sourced materials so not from books from like actual parliamentary notes on microfiche and he like got off on that and you had to have like 250 index cards of sourced material and so you had to go individually into microfiche i don't remember what i did the paper on all i remember is that the certain letters are different like the s at the beginning of a sentence looks like an f like in old english like yeah that's all i remember from it i don't remember what i did it had absolutely it's a it's a completely irrelevant way of sourcing material now

Everyone was desperate to establish that Adolf Hitler actually was dead, and then how he died.

That's Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies Emeritus at Oxford.

As a student, he knew Trevor-Roper in the 1970s.

What a gift for a historian to go and try and establish the facts.