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During the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945, many thousands of people were persecuted, including slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews.
A is for Adolf: Teaching German Children Nazi Values
The following is an online version of an exhibition on display at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from 25 January 2016 to 28 February 2016.
Dilemmas, Choices, Responses: Britain and the Holocaust
The Wiener Library exhibition Dilemmas, Choices, Responses: Britain and the Holocaust considers British responses to the Holocaust and the Nazis’ antisemitic persecution.
A Bitter Road: Britain and the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s and 1940s
Ongoing violence and upheaval in Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and Sudan today has created an upsurge in the number of refugees fleeing conflict, in what is commonly referred to as a refugee ‘crisis’.
Science and Suffering: Victims and Perpetrators of Nazi Human Experimentation
Under the Nazis, medical research supported a new vision for a ‘racially pure’ Europe. Science and Nazi ideology worked together to shape this new world.
London 1938: Defending ‘Degenerate’ German Art
2018 marks the eightieth anniversary of the Twentieth Century German Art exhibition, held in the New Burlington Galleries in central London between June and August 1938.
The Perfect Hideout: Jewish and Nazi havens in Latin America
During the 1930s and 1940s, Latin America became a perfect place for exiles from Europe to find shelter, not only Jews fleeing persecution during the war, but for Nazis escaping prosecution as war criminals.
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
Gerty (Gertrud) Simon (1887-1970) was a German-Jewish photographer renowned in the 1920s and 1930s for her portraits of important political and artistic figures in Weimar Berlin and interwar London.