Why Baddiel is ready to go to war with Germany

DAVID BADDIel may be gearing up for a legal battle against the German government.

The 57-year-old comedian’s grandfather, ernst Fabian, owned

a successful brick factory in east Prussia, which was occupied by Germany. It was confiscated by the Nazis and blown to smithereens by the Russian army.

‘They were a very rich family at the time, they had servants, a thriving business in 1933,’ Baddiel tells me. ‘I actually wrote to Russia about it and they told me to f*** off, and that’s fair enough because it was in Germany at the time. It’s a weird situation.’

Promoting his book, Jews Don’t Count, at Cliveden literary Festival, he tells me: ‘I’m putting it out there, if any lawyers are interested in taking this on they should get in contact.’