Refugees from Nazi Germany and the liberal European states /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12913330
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Other authors / contributors:Caestecker, Frank, editor.
Moore, Bob, 1954- editor.
ISBN:9781845457990
1845457994
9781845455873
1845455878
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust within the historiography of Europe and the Second World War, the issues surrounding the flight of people from Nazi Germany prior to 1939 have been seen as Vorgeschichte (pre-history), implicating the Western European democracies and the United States as bystanders only in the impending tragedy. Based on a comparativ.
Other form:Print version: 1845455878
Print version: 9781845455873
Table of Contents:
  • Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I.1: International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National Socialism; Chapter I.2: The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of Rassenschande; Chapter I.3: Unwilling Refuge; Chapter I.4: Dwindling Options; Chapter I.5: The 1930s; Chapter I.6: Shanghai; Chapter I.7: Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi Germany.
  • Chapter I.8: American Refugee Policy in the 1930sChapter I.9: Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe?; Chapter II. 1: The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933; Chapter II. 2: Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 19331937; Chapter II. 3: The Deepening Crisis; Chapter II. 4: From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938August 1939; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes.