Political exile and exile politics in Britain after 1933 / edited by Anthony Grenville and Andrea Reiter.

• Superior document: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Grenville, Anthony.; Reiter, Andrea.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Political Exile and Exile Politics in Britain after 1933 brings together a number of scholarly essays that shed light on a hitherto neglected aspect of the experience of German and Austrian refugees in Britain – their political activities in their country of refuge and how these were viewed (and used) by the British government and its Secret Service. This volume does not claim to be exhaustive. However, it offers a range of case studies on various issues concerning political exile and the possibility of the continuation of political engagement in exile, even in the internment camps. Most of the contributions in this volume are based on archival material that has never been used before possibly because, like the MI5 files on Karl Otten which have only recently been declassified, researchers have not been able to access them. Predictably, the majority of these essays show the political activities of men. The efforts of women which constitute the focus of three contributions therefore are all the more noteworthy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Eleanor Rathbone: MP for Refugees / Susan Cohen -- Wissenschaft im Exil: Die Association of Austrian Engineers, Chemists and Scientific Workers in Great Britain / Wolfgang L. Reiter -- Der politische Weg Walter Wodaks: Von der Linksopposition über die KPÖ und das London-Büro zur SPÖ. Ein biographischer Beitrag zur Geschichte des österreichischen Linkssozialismus im britischen Exil / Bernhard Kuschey -- The German Human Climate and Its Opposite: Otto Neurath in England, 1940-45 / Günther Sandner -- Women’s work: Rita Hausdorff in British Exile / Charmian Brinson -- Beyond Dachau: Irmgard Litten in England / Marian Malet -- Finding Refugee Voices / Tony Kushner -- Die politischen Beziehungen zwischen dem britischen Kriegsgeheimdienst SOE, dem österreichischen Exil und dem Foreign Office / Peter Pirker -- ‘Die geschworenen Feinde des nationalsozialistischen Deutschland’: the Aspirations and Activities of Socialist Politicians Interned in Huyton in 1940 / Jennifer Taylor -- Flying and Spying: Claud W. Sykes, MI5 and the ‘Carl Otten Group’ / Richard Dove -- Contributors -- Index.