IF it had not been for the United States Hitler would have eventually invaded Britain in the 1940s and I, as a 20-year-old British male citizen, would have died more than 50 years ago in a Nazi slave-labour camp.

It is now payback time.

Terence L Squires,

Turners Croft,

Heslington,

York.

Updated: 10:41 Monday, September 17, 2001