Germany on Their Minds: German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938-1988

by Anne C. Schenderlein

Book Overview

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with Germany, the circumstances of the Second World War and the postwar era meant that engagement of some kind was unavoidable-whether direct or indirect, initiated within the community itself or by political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800737262
• ISBN13: 9781800737266
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"