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The exodus of men, women and children fleeing from the Nazi regime
was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen. It
sparked an international refugee crisis that changed society and
continues to shape our culture and community today. The years
between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi era in Germany, and the war years,
1939 to 1945, were a time of destruction, upheaval and misery
throughout Europe and beyond. Displacement and death, whether in
war or civilian life, became everyday experiences, for young and
old alike. Families were torn apart by enforced emigration or
deportation. Parents were separated from their children, husbands
from wives, brothers from sisters. Interned in camps that spread
across the globe from Shanghai to the United States of America to
the Isle of Man, they became strangers in a foreign land and often
the only link they had to their former lives were letters exchanged
with friends and family. These scarce postal communications,
therefore, assumed huge significance in the lives of both sender
and receiver, one that is hard to imagine today in the age of
instant communication. Fleeing from the Fuhrer is an unusual
collection of correspondence that shows the incredible nature of
this worldwide emigration and the indomitable spirit of these
refugees. Each postcard, envelope and item of ephemera tells its
own unique story and is reproduced in full colour, making this a
fascinating resource for anyone wanting to understand this poignant
part of our international history.
Yvonne Kapp, best known today for her biography of Eleanor Marx,
was a remarkable woman whose life spanned virtually the entire
twentieth century. Time Will Tell charts her life: 'enfant
terrible' in London, the literary editor of Vogue in France in the
late 1920s, work for anti-fascist refugee committees in 1930s'
London, research for the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the
British Medical Research Council, then, in her later years, work as
a translator and a biographer. Kapp is a gifted writer on the
details of family life and a fine recorder of shifting political
and cultural patterns. Accounts of the many encounters she had with
various important figures-Quentin Bell, Rebecca West, Paul Robeson,
John Heartfield, Melanie Klein and Herbert Morrison, to name only a
few-are expertly woven into the fascinating story of her own life.
This is the autobiography of a woman who took issue with the
dominant political movements of her age, with Fascism and with
Communism, while at the same time reflecting on the changing
cultural and political climate in Britain during her lifetime.
This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto
remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British
security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain
fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the
personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political
refugees during the 1930s and 1940s - which have only recently been
released into the public domain - this study also fills a
considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of
absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it
is both a study of MI5 and of the political refugees themselves.
The book will interest academics in the fields of history,
politics, intelligence studies, Jewish studies, German studies and
migration studies; but it is also accessible to the general reader
interested in Britain before, during and after the Second World
War. -- .
New essays on the influence of politics on 20c. German culture, not
only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the
effects are less obvious. The cultural history of 20th-century
Germany, more perhaps than that of any other European country, was
decisively influenced by political forces and developments. This
volume of essays focuses on the relationship between German
politics and culture, which is most obvious in the case of the
Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, where the one-party
control of all areas of life was extended to the arts; these were
expected to conform to the idealsof the day. But the relationship
between politics and the arts has not always been one purely of
coercion, censorship, collusion, and opportunism. Many writers
greeted the First World War with quite voluntary enthusiasm; others
conjured up the National Socialist revolution in intense
Expressionist images long before 1933. The GDR was heralded by
writers returning from Nazi exile as the anti-fascist answer to the
Third Reich. And in West Germany, politicsdid not dictate artistic
norms, nor was it greeted with any great enthusiasm among
intellectuals, but writers did tend to ally themselves with
particular parties. To an extent, the pre-1990 literary
establishment in the Federal Republic was dominated by a
left-liberal consensus that German division was the just punishment
for Auschwitz. United Germany began its existence with a fierce
literary debate in 1990-92, with leading literary critics arguing
that East and West German literature had basically shored up the
political order in the two countries. Now a new literature was
required, one that was free of ideology, intensely subjective and
experimental in its aesthetic. In 1998, the author Martin Walser
called for an end to the author's role as "conscience of the
nation" and for the right to subjective experience. This is the
first book to examine this crucial relationship between politics
and culture in Germany. William Niven and James Jordan are readers
in German at the University of Nottingham Trent.
The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians
seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached
Britain by the outbreak of World War II. It soon developed into a
comprehensive social, cultural and political organisation with a
theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. A Communist-influenced
organisation, it also followed a distinct political agenda. In the
first book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees
in Britain, Out of Austria assesses and evaluates the Austrian
Centre's activities and achievements, while also examining the
Austrians' often fraught relations with their British hosts. It
gives a fascinating insight into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who
became the Centre's Honorary President during his final months and
the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year-old, and sheds
light on the interaction of politics and culture against the
background of exile in wartime Britain.
Berthold Jacob war einer der bekanntesten deutschen Journalisten
und Pazifisten der Weimarer Republik, der als Anti-Nazi und Jude
schon 1932 Zuflucht in Strassburg fand. Im Marz 1935 wurde er durch
die Gestapo uber die schweizerisch-deutsche Grenze entfuhrt und in
Berlin verhaftet, was internationales Aufsehen erregte. Mit einer
grundlichen Einfuhrung versehen, enthalt der vorliegende Band
bisher unbekannte und unveroeffentlichte Briefe und andere
Dokumente, die eine detaillierte Chronik der Bemuhungen der Freunde
im Exil entwerfen, Jacob aus seiner Berliner Haft zu befreien.
Zugleich wirft das Buch ein neues Licht auf die schwierigen,
nervenaufreibenden Lebensumstande antinazistischer Exilanten in den
Emigrationslandern Europas.
The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians
seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached
Britain by the outbreak of World War II. It soon developed into a
comprehensive social, cultural and political organisation with a
theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. A Communist-influenced
organisation, it also followed a distinct political agenda. In the
first book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees
in Britain, "Out of Austria" assesses and evaluates the Austrian
Centre's activities and achievements, while also examining the
Austrians' often fraught relations with their British hosts. It
gives a fascinating insight into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who
became the Centre's Honorary President during his final months and
the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year-old, k and
sheds light on the interaction of politics and culture against the
background of exile in wartime Britain.
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