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The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal (Paperback)
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal (Paperback)
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'Extraordinary yet previously untold true story . . . meticulously
researched . . . it's also taut, compelling, and impossible to put
down' Daily Express The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the
early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit
roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having
endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the
rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport
to safety - here the aspiring artist was, on a ship bound for the
Isle of Man, suspected of being a Nazi spy. What had gone wrong? In
May 1940, faced with a country gripped by paranoia, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German and Austrian
citizens living in Britain. Most, like Peter, were refugees who had
come to the country to escape Nazi oppression. They were now
imprisoned by the very country in which they had staked their
trust. Painstakingly researched from dozens of unpublished
first-hand accounts and previously classified documents, The Island
of Extraordinary Captives tells, for the first time, the story of
history's most astonishing internment camp and of how a group of
world-renown artists, musicians and academics came to be seen as
'enemy aliens'. The Island of Extraordinary Captives is the story
of a battle between fear and compassion at a time of national
crisis. It reveals how Britain's treatment of refugees during the
Second World War led to one of the nation's most shameful missteps,
and how hope and creativity can flourish in even the most
challenging circumstances.
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