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Autore |
Burgess Greg <1957-> |
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Titolo |
The League of Nations and the refugees from Nazi Germany : James G. McDonald and Hitler's victims / / Greg Burgess |
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London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-4742-7664-4 |
1-4742-7662-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, tables, photographs |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jewish refugees - Germany - History - 20th century |
Political refugees - Germany - History - 20th century |
Diplomats - United States |
Jews - Persecutions - Germany - History - 20th century |
Political persecution - Germany - History - 20th century |
Germany Politics and government 1933-1945 |
Germany Emigration and immigration History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. The Refugees from Nazism, 1933 -- 2. James G. McDonald in Berlin and Geneva -- 3. The High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany -- 4. The Lausanne Office, December 1933 -- 5. Pricking their Conscience : Winter 1933-34 -- 6. A Peaceable and Just Solution -- 7. Plans and Illusions -- 8. Reckoning : Winter 1934-1935 -- 9. Mission to Latin America -- 10. Disillusion : Spring and Summer 1935 -- 11. Reform and Resignation -- 12. Postscript. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Greg Burgess's important new study explores the short life of the High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany, from its creation by the League of Nations in October 1933 to the resignation of High Commissioner, James G. McDonald, in December 1935. The book relates the history of the first stage of refugees from Germany through the prism of McDonald and the High Commission. It analyses the factors that shaped the Commission's formation, the |
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undertakings the Commission embarked upon and its eventual failure owing to external complications. The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany argues that, in spite of the Commission's failure, the refugees from Nazi Germany and the High Commission's work mark a turn in conceptions of international humanitarian responsibilities when a state defies standards of proper behaviour towards its citizens. From this point on, it was no longer considered sufficient or acceptable for states to respect the sovereign rights of another if the rights of citizens were being violated. Greg Burgess discusses this idea, amongst others, in detail as part of what is a crucial v. for all scholars and students of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and modern Jewish history "-- |
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