"Totally un-English"; Britain's internment of 'enemy aliens' in two world wars.9042016582 "Totally un-English"; Britain's internment internment, in international law, detention of the nationals or property of an enemy or a belligerent. A belligerent will intern enemy merchant ships or take them as prize, and a neutral should intern both belligerent ships that fail to leave its ports within a of 'enemy aliens' in two world wars. Ed. by Richard Dove. Editions Rodopi 2005 209 pages $57.00 Paperback The yearbook of the research centre for German and Austrian exile studies; 7 D805 England interned in·tern also in·terne n. 1. a. A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training. b. about 30,000 German nationals in the Great War. In World War II England did it again, interning about 28,000 Germans and Austrians, mainly Jewish refugees In the course of history, Jewish populations have been expelled or ostracised by various local authorities and have sought asylum from antisemitism numerous times. The articles History of antisemitism and Timeline of antisemitism contain more detailed chronology of anti-Jewish . Were these acts in themselves "un-English?" This collection of 13 papers includes an introductory summary and a survey of this neglected study. Great War papers describe civilian, military and naval internees, the material cultures and musical distractions of those interned on the Isle of Man Noun 1. Isle of Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea Man British Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic , and civilian internment in Scotland. Those on World War II include the stories of women in the Rushen camp, an internment camp musical revue revue, a stage presentation that originated in the early 19th cent. as a light, satirical commentary on current events. It was rapidly developed, particularly in England and the United States, into an amorphous musical entertainment, retaining a small amount of , politics in journals in 1940, the internment of Italians, the transition to internment in Canada, Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre, and methods of adapting history in a television show which dramatized the deportation of Jews to Australia and their interment there. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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