04083nam 22006611a 450 991015484410332120200514202323.01-4742-7664-41-4742-7662-810.5040/9781474276641(CKB)3710000000903392(PQKBManifestationID)16537436(PQKBWorkID)15063750(PQKB)25076337(MiAaPQ)EBC4713936(MiAaPQ)EBC6159839(OCoLC)954203946(UkLoBP)bpp09260201(ScCtBLL)3260305b-a9c2-498e-9951-7d5c1030ab08(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32679(PPN)226321258(EXLCZ)99371000000090339220161128d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe League of Nations and the refugees from Nazi Germany James G. McDonald and Hitler's victims /Greg BurgessLondon ;New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc20161 online resource (239 pages) illustrations, tables, photographsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-350-06712-1 1-4742-7661-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 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 "--Provided by publisher.Jewish refugeesGermanyHistory20th centuryPolitical refugeesGermanyHistory20th centuryDiplomatsUnited StatesBiographyJewsPersecutionsGermanyHistory20th centuryPolitical persecutionGermanyHistory20th centuryGermanyPolitics and government1933-1945GermanyEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryJewish refugeesHistoryPolitical refugeesHistoryDiplomatsJewsPersecutionsHistoryPolitical persecutionHistory943/.004924009043Burgess Greg1957-511548UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910154844103321The League of Nations and the refugees from Nazi Germany1905242UNINA