It may have passed into farce as huns disguised as nuns, but the German Brandenburger commandos did operate extensively in civilian and foreign military clothing.
I understand it was a real fear and not just a flight of fantasy. (It exists in American films of the time, too, although there it shades over into the kind of ethnic paranoia that brought you the Japanese-American internment.) I just think Went the Day Well? carries it to the point of uncanny valley, and that interests me in part because it's not found in the original short story at all.
ETA: You have to presume "Went the Day Well" is a very conscious source for Deighton's "The Eagle Has Landed".
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I understand it was a real fear and not just a flight of fantasy. (It exists in American films of the time, too, although there it shades over into the kind of ethnic paranoia that brought you the Japanese-American internment.) I just think Went the Day Well? carries it to the point of uncanny valley, and that interests me in part because it's not found in the original short story at all.
ETA: You have to presume "Went the Day Well" is a very conscious source for Deighton's "The Eagle Has Landed".
I have not read that! Recommended?
Relatedly, have you seen The One That Got Away (1957)?