‘Please Tell the Bishop of Chichester’: George Bell and the Internment Crisis of 1940
This article examines George Bell's charitable work for internees, principally German and Austrian refugees interned in 1940 as enemy aliens (though also interned members of the British Union of Fascists, imprisoned for their political views at much the same time). The internees in whose wellbe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2008
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2008, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-299 |
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| Summary: | This article examines George Bell's charitable work for internees, principally German and Austrian refugees interned in 1940 as enemy aliens (though also interned members of the British Union of Fascists, imprisoned for their political views at much the same time). The internees in whose wellbeing Bell took a particular interest included the group of 'non-Aryan' pastors whom Bell had brought to England shortly before the war. The paper also considers Bell's attempts to improve the lot of the thousands of men who, at the height of the internment crisis, were deported to Canada and Australia, his support for the refugee organisations in their efforts on behalf of their interned and deported members and, finally, his preparedness to align himself with unpopular causes even at some considerable cost to himself. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/kize.2008.21.2.287 |