The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany : James G. McDonald and Hitler's Victims / Greg Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Greg, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 The Refugees from Nazism, 1933 13

2 James G. McDonald in Berlin and Geneva 29

3 The High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany 47

4 The Lausanne Office, December 1933 65

5 Pricking Their Conscience: Winter 1933-34 77

6 A Peaceable and Just Solution 89

7 Plans and Illusions 101

8 Reckoning: Winter 1934-35 117

9 Mission to South America 127

10 Disillusion: Spring and Summer 1935 135

11 Reform and Resignation 149

12 Postscript 161.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102555

ISBN:

9781474276610

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access