'Collar The Lot!': How Britain Interned And Expelled Its Wartime Refugees
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In the turbulent summer of 1940, Winston Churchill issued a sweeping order that would upend the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people: Collar the lot! — a directive that led to the mass internment and deportation of enemy aliens living in Britain, many of whom were Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution. 'Collar the Lot!': How Britain Interned and Expelled Its Wartime Refugees chronicles one of the most troubling and least-examined chapters of British wartime history, detailing how fear, xenophobia, and bureaucratic paranoia turned victims of fascism into prisoners of the very democracy they had sought for sanctuary. Peter and Leni Gillman reconstruct the human cost of this policy with meticulous research and urgent moral clarity, drawing on personal testimonies, official records, and the harrowing story of the ill-fated troopship HMT Dunera. A landmark work of investigative historical narrative, the book argues compellingly that wartime hysteria can corrupt even the most celebrated liberal traditions, raising uncomfortable questions about civil liberties, state power, and the treatment of the vulnerable in times of crisis. The Gillmans write with a journalist's precision and a humanitarian's empathy, producing a text that reads as both a damning indictment and a solemn memorial. Decades after its first publication, this remains an essential and deeply unsettling account — one that resonates far beyond the confines of the Second World War and asks what it truly means for a nation to call itself free.
Author: Peter And Leni Gillman
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Quartet Books
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the turbulent summer of 1940, Winston Churchill issued a sweeping order that would upend the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people: Collar the lot! — a directive that led to the mass internment and deportation of enemy aliens living in Britain, many of whom were Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution. 'Collar the Lot!': How Britain Interned and Expelled Its Wartime Refugees chronicles one of the most troubling and least-examined chapters of British wartime history, detailing how fear, xenophobia, and bureaucratic paranoia turned victims of fascism into prisoners of the very democracy they had sought for sanctuary. Peter and Leni Gillman reconstruct the human cost of this policy with meticulous research and urgent moral clarity, drawing on personal testimonies, official records, and the harrowing story of the ill-fated troopship HMT Dunera. A landmark work of investigative historical narrative, the book argues compellingly that wartime hysteria can corrupt even the most celebrated liberal traditions, raising uncomfortable questions about civil liberties, state power, and the treatment of the vulnerable in times of crisis. The Gillmans write with a journalist's precision and a humanitarian's empathy, producing a text that reads as both a damning indictment and a solemn memorial. Decades after its first publication, this remains an essential and deeply unsettling account — one that resonates far beyond the confines of the Second World War and asks what it truly means for a nation to call itself free.