Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 224 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781474276627
,
9781474276634
Content:
"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 volume for all scholars and students of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and modern Jewish history "--
Content:
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 207-215
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474276610
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Burgess, Greg, 1957 - The League of Nations and the refugees from Nazi Germany London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 ISBN 9781474276610
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
McDonald, James G. 1886-1964
;
Völkerbund
;
Deutschland
;
Flüchtling
;
Geschichte 1933-1935
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Author information:
Burgess, Greg 1957-
