Episode 8: Enemy Aliens
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking
English - April 21, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHistory Religion & Spirituality Judaism kindertransport holocaust refugee jewish documentary testimony shoah history rescue germany Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Anti-German panic sets in and following Winston Churchill's edict to "collar the lot", all adult Germans and Austrians in the UK -- including Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport who were over 16 -- become "enemy aliens". Restrictions are imposed on their everyday lives, and many are sent to internment camps. Despite this hostility, many go on to join the British armed forces to fight against the Nazis from whom they had once escaped.