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Island Refuge - Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich 1933 - 1939 (Hardcover)
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Island Refuge - Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich 1933 - 1939 (Hardcover)
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The acrimonious debate over the British policy toward refugees from
the Nazi regime has scarcely died down even now, some forty years
later. bitter charges of indifference and lack of feeling are still
leveled at politicians and civil servants, and the assertion made
that Great Britain's record on refugee matters is shabby and
unworthy of her liberal traditions. It has now become
possible to investigate the truth of these charges and to analyse
the reaction tin Britain to refugees from the Third Reich
throughout the eventful years preceding the outbreak of war. Based
on Government and private papers only recently released for public
scrutiny, this book is the first authoritative study of the British
response to a refugee crisis which posed many highly emotional and
contentious issues in both domestic and foreign policy, and proved
na acute irritant in Anglo-American relations. There were no
simple answers, no obvious or rapid solutions in a world which
frequently seemed to have no room for refugees and but scant
sympathy for their plight. Harassed by conflicting pressures form
home and abroad, all too aware that greater generosity to refugees
from Nazism might well inspire imitative mass expulsions from
Eastern Europe, Whitehall officials struggled to maintain an older
British tradition of political asylm while still avoiding, at a
time of massive unemployment, a sudden large-scale influx of
aliens. Initial caution, insensitivity and confusion gave way after
the Anschluss to a greater awareness of the critical need, and
ultimately to a large-scale modification, under the sheer pressure
of refugee numbers, of polices which had virtually hardened into
constitutional doctrine. Britain's record concerning refugees
from the Third Reich was a mixed one. Far less welcoming at first
than a number of countries, but ultimately more generous than many,
including the United States, Britain did grant asylum to a
significantly large number of refugees in the crowded months before
the outbreak of hostilities. The reasons for the dramatic turnabout
in British refugee policy emerge clearly from this dispassionate
and carefully documented study. Inland Refuge sheds definite
light on a largely unexplored and still highly controversial
episode in twentieth-century history. This title is part of
UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1973.
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2021 |
First published: |
1973 |
Authors: |
A.J. Sherman
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
293 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-35797-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-520-35797-3 |
Barcode: |
9780520357976 |
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