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Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948 : British immigration policy, Jewish refugees, and the Holocaust

Title
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948 : British immigration policy, Jewish refugees, and the Holocaust / Louise London.
Author
London, Louise.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Description
xiii, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Whitehall and the Jews is the most comprehensive study to date of the British response to the plight of European Jewry under Nazism. It contains the definitive account of immigration controls on the admission of refugee Jews to the United Kingdom, and reveals the doubts and dessent that lay behind British policy."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • Jewish refugees > Great Britain
  • Jewish refugees > Government policy > Great Britain
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, British
  • Public opinion > Great Britain
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Jewish refugees
  • Jewish refugees > Government policy
  • Public opinion
  • Public opinion, British
  • Einwanderungspolitik
  • Flüchtlingspolitik
  • Juden
  • Jewish refugees > Great Britain > 20th century
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > International reaction
  • Geschichte 1933-1948
  • GENOCIDE
  • GOVERNMENT POLICY
  • HISTORY
  • HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
  • IMMIGRANTS
  • IMMIGRATION POLICY
  • IMMIGRATION
  • JEWS
  • NATIONAL SECURITY
  • PERSECUTION
  • UNITED KINGDOM
  • Great Britain > Emigration and immigration
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Juden
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-303) and index.
Contents
2 Immigration control: law and administration 16 -- 3 Control without visas: the first five years of refugee immigration, 1933-1938 25 -- 4 New restrictions after the Anschluss, March to October 1938 58 -- 5 From Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war, November 1938 to September 1939 97 -- 6 Refugees from Czechoslovakia 142 -- 7 War-time policy: 1939-1942 169 -- 8 Response to the Holocaust 191 -- 9 Post-war decisions 252 -- Appendix 2 Home secretaries and Home Office permanent under secretaries, 1906-1950 295.
ISBN
  • 0521631874
  • 9780521631877
LCCN
99024282
OCLC
  • ocn122960941
  • 122960941
  • SCSB-14409796
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library