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marian malet & anthony grenville (eds)

Changing Countries

The Experience and Achievement of German-speaking Exiles for Hitler to Britain from 1933 to Today

So we went, changing countries more often than our shoes’ – Brecht

A chronologically structured and thematic study based on interviews of eleven men and twenty-three women – six of whom are not Jewish – who came to Britain as refugees from Nazism.

Shows the complex realities of the experiences of ordinary émigrés – quite different from those who became famous’ – Anne Karpf, author of The War After

A most interesting and readable book, a well-balanced scholarly work which will also appeal to a general readership’ – German Historical Institute Bulletin

This book shows how productive oral history can be … invaluable and deeply moving’ – Modern Language Review

Marian Malet retired as Deputy-Director of the Diplomatic Language Centre in London. Anthony Grenville is Senior Researcher at the University of Bristol. Both are leading members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at London University

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