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His Majesty's Loyal Internee - Fred Uhlman in Captivity (Paperback)
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His Majesty's Loyal Internee - Fred Uhlman in Captivity (Paperback)
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In May and June 1940, when the war seemed to be going badly for
Britain, thousands of German and Austrian refugees from Nazi
oppression were rounded up and put into internment camps on the
Isle of Man and elsewhere. Fred Uhlman, a Jewish refugee from
Stuttgart, a lawyer and an artist, was one of them. Uhlman, who was
deeply affected by the experience, set out to record it in word and
image. This volume reproduces his original internment diary from
1940 alongside another version of the same text from 1979, compiled
retrospectively. These texts are complemented by sixteen haunting
drawings and linocuts that Uhlman produced during internment. The
volume also contains the letters, highly moving personal documents,
exchanged to and from the internment camp between Uhlman and his
wife Diana; correspondence between Uhlman and his disapproving
aristocratic father-in-law Lord Croft; and documents from the daily
life of Hutchinson Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man, where Uhlman was
held for seven months. Chapters on Uhlman's biography and on his
artistic and literary output set his writings and drawings within
the wider context of his life and work. In addition, a chapter
outlining the internment crisis of 1940 also sets out to recreate
the extraordinary cultural and intellectual life that the internees
managed to make for themselves in Hutchinson Camp, in particular
the activities of the sizeable group of artists, such as Kurt
Schwitters, who happened to find themselves there.
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