British Policy and the Refugees, 1933-1941 / Edition 1

by Yvonne Kapp, Margaret Mynatt

Overview

In the summer of 1940, with much of Europe under German domination, British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or deportation of those who had fled Nazi oppression. This volume, written the same year, is a critique of government policies of the day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714647975
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1997
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

British Policy and the Refugees makes an important contribution to a little known page of wartime history. Mary Johnstone, New Times June 1998



Jewish Book World

"An important addition to the literature on refugees."



Labour Research, Nov 97

"It provides a uniquely close-up view of what took place, but was, through the ensuing years, rejected by one publisher after another. Now at last it has appeared. Better late than never."



"A contemporary, inside and expert analysis of the treatment of and attitude to "political" and "racial" refugees in Britiain at the start of the war. It makes a valuable contribution both to the history of refugee policy at the time, as well as to an understanding of the overall development (or lack of development) of British attitudes over time to refugees, foreigners and Jews. These pages, written more than fifty years ago, bear witness to how little policy and rhetoric have changed in the intervening time, in a way no modern writer could hope to.

Editorial Reviews

Written by two Communist refugee women in the last half of 1940, but not published until 1968, this book chronicles the impact of British policies on the countless refugees who fled to Great Britain from Hitler's Germany and other European countries prior to WWII. The authors look at the exodus from the refugees' home countries, the refugees' relationship with the British public, the revoking of the right of asylum, and the internment of many refugees, especially those who spoke German. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Paper edition (unseen), $19.50. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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