Zuflucht für Prominente : die Tschechoslowakei und ihre Flüchtlinge aus NS-Deutschland und Österreich

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This article provides the first thorough analysis of official Czechoslovak refugee policy in the 1930s. Combining both the perspective of the state officials and the varied perspectives of the refugees themselves, it offers a rich and differentiated picture of the approach of the Czechoslovak state to refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria. It focuses primarily on the experiences of ‘ordinary’ refugees, people without connections to the Czechoslovak elite. Their voices, neglected in other research so far, considerably change the otherwise positive image of Czechoslovakia as a refuge for people fleeing Nazism. Based on many hither to unknown archive sources from the Czech Republic, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, and Austria, the book reveals that the circumstances in which the refugees (mostly Jews) found themselves in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s was, as in other European countries, characterized mainly by the despair of the refugees and the restrictive policy of the state. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Kateřina Čapková, 1973-

Typ dokumentu

Články

Fyzický popis

Ilustrace.

Publikováno v

Stifter Jahrbuch. -- ISSN 0932-2701. -- Sv. 29 (2015), s. 143-160

Témata

elity

emigrace

exil

30. léta

nacistické Německo

Československo

Německo

Rakousko

1918-1945

studie

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