Refugees From Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States

Frank Caestecker read history at the University of Ghent and worked as an eligibility officer for UNHCR and the Belgian asylum institution. He completed his graduate studies at the European University Institute in Florence and is now affiliated to the University of Ghent and the University College Ghent, focusing his research on alien policy in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries and the influence this policy has on migration dynamics. Bob Moore is Professor of Twentieth-Century European History at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the History of the Second World War, and specifically on the Holocaust, the Netherlands, and Prisoners of War. He is currently completing a book about the rescuers of Jews in Western Europe during the Nazi occupation.

"The noteworthy strengths of this work are its transnational and comparative perspective and its nuanced analysis of the disparate practices of refugee policy below the level of discourse and official decision-making. [It] provides a thoughtfully critical examination of the controls used by officials in western Europe to manage the migration from the Third Reich and to withstand the pressures on their frontiers during the refugee crisis of 1938/39." * German History "This is a thoroughly well-researched and organized book. " * American Historical Review

• List of Tables and Graphs List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore PART I: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSES OF POLICIES TOWARDS THE REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANY Chapter 1. International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National Socialism Susanne Heim Chapter 2. The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of Rassenschande Lone Runitz Chapter 3. Unwilling Refuge: France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933 - 1939 Vicki Caron Chapter 4. Dwindling Options: Seeking Asylum in Switzerland 1933 - 1939 Regula Ludi Chapter 5. The 1930s: The End of the Latin American Open-door Policy Patrick von zur Muhlen Chapter 6. Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate Jews Steve Hochstadt Chapter 7. Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi Germany Aviva Halamish Chapter 8. American Refugee Policy in the 1930s Bat-Ami Zucker Chapter 9. Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe? Claudia Curio PART II: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF LIBERAL STATES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE FLIGHT FROM NAZI GERMANY Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore Chapter 9. The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933 Chapter 10. Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 1933 - 1937 Chapter 11. The Deeping Crisis: March 1938 - October 1938 Chapter 12. From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938 - August 1939 Conclusion Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index