22 APRIL 1995, Page 27

What if?

Sir: The widespread, often vicious anti- Semitism in this country in the Thirties and Forties, exemplified, for example, by the popularity of 'Sapper's' novels, became unrespectable only after the revelations of the Holocaust, though it briefly surfaced again after terrorist activities in Palestine in 1946. Anne Applebaum overlooks concen- tration camps in her article ('What did you do in the occupation, Daddy?', 8 April). There would have been no need to deport the Jews as there would have been a host of volunteers to murder them here.

Alan Gilston

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