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For several months before World War II, hundreds of persecuted Jews, mainly from Nazi-occupied Vienna, tried to escape to Northern Ireland. They had learned of a Stormont job-creation scheme to tackle the regions chronic unemployment by offering financial support to skilled professionals.Almost all applicants were rejected, and more than 125 of these men, women and children were murdered in the Holocaust.Based on extensive archival research, unpublished family memoirs and letters, and interviews with survivors and their descendants, this extraordinary book describes the applicants desperate efforts to save their families and themselves, and highlights the tireless work done by committed Northern Irish people to rescue them. It also explores how the small numbers of refugees admitted made a major contribution to Northern Irelands economic, social and cultural life that continues to this day.

El camino de Alemania hacia su hundimiento, narrado de manera vibrante, a través de un mosaico de vidas cruzadas, de pequeñas y grandes historias entrelazadas.A comienzos de 1943, Alemania vive horas cada vez mas sombrias: en Stalingrado ha sido aniquilado un ejercito entero y el ministro de propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, insta a la poblacion a la guerra total. Mientras la gente intenta evadirse con la frivolidad de los desfiles de moda, los estrenos de cine y las veladas en los cabarets, debe padecer tambien la crudeza de los bombardeos nocturnos; a su vez, los judios que aun no han sido deportados ven su existencia diaria cada vez mas acorralada. En Berlin, el joven y prodigioso pianista Karlrobert Kreiten llena las salas de concierto y tiene ante si un brillante futuro como interprete. Sin embargo, tras un casual comentario critico sobre el curso desastroso de la guerra y la salud mental de Hitler, Kreiten es denunciado ante la policia. Le aguardan meses de duros interrogatorios a manos de la Gestapo. Oliver Hilmes traza en esta obra un fascinante mosaico de Alemania y de los alemanes a lo largo del año 1943, y entrelaza historias de valor y resistencia, mezcladas con el relato de traiciones entre vecinos y actos de violencia inusitada. Y mientras muchos fantaseaban con una milagrosa victoria final y seguian ciegamente al Fuhrer, otros, como los heroes de la Rosa Blanca, no dudaron en arriesgar y perder su vida oponiendose a la dictadura. Centrada en el tragico destino del pianista Karlrobert Kreiten, Vidas ante el abismo recoge asimismo la voz de testigos como Victor Klemperer o Thomas Mann.

Este libro recopila el testimonio de cientos de combatientes de los cuarenta y cinco mil que formaron parte de la División Azul entre 1941 y 1943. Cada uno de estos relatos expone con una honestidad y una crudeza conmovedoras las terribles condiciones en que lucharon contra el comunismo sovietico, la espantosa crueldad de los combates, el dolor por las heridas y por la perdida de los camaradas, pero tambien la lealtad a los compañeros y la conviccion con que afrontaron sus penurias.Una de las singularidades de la Division Azul fue el alto nivel educativo de sus integrantes. No es sorprendente que muchos escribieran diarios durante la campaña de Rusia usados despues en bastantes ocasiones para redactar libros de memorias, articulos y novelas, aunque solo un puñado de estos textos llegaron a ser accesibles al gran publico.A lo largo de mas de cuarenta años de investigacion, el autor de esta obra, uno de los mayores expertos en el tema, ha recopilado testimonios escritos por mas de cuatrocientos veteranos de aquella unidad, de los que aqui se recogen mas de doscientos. Y, no menos importante, ha comprobado que cada uno de ellos es fidedigno contrastando esos textos personales con diarios de operaciones, expedientes, informes y cartas.A traves de sus palabras el lector va a poder conocer desde la intimidad del soldado la historia de la mas singular campaña militar española del siglo xx.

Underpinned by rigorous academic research, (Martin Cawthorne) has crafted a highly readable narrative which brings to life the characters, events, the dilemmas facing the authorities and the enduring resilience of the Royal Hospitals Pensioners. General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, KCB, OBE, DL, Governor, Royal Hospital ChelseaIn May 1938 a confidential meeting was held between Officers of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and government departments responsible for civil defence planning. All participants agreed that, should war come, the 500 Chelsea In-Pensioners residing at the Royal Hospital should be evacuated to a place of safety outside London. However, toxic politics and complex logistics meant that, on the outbreak of war in September 1939, only fifty were evacuated, to a country house in Herefordshire. The remainder, many carrying physical and psychological scars from the First World War, sought sanctuary in hastily constructed air-raid shelters and awaited their fate.Using recently uncovered archive material, some stored for decades in an attic at the Royal Hospital, Martin Cawthorne chronicles the story of Chelseas old soldiers, once more in the line of fire as they faced the horrors of the London Blitz.

As German forces took control of their country, a group of young Belgians conceived an audacious plan to smuggle downed Allied airmen and other evaders from Belgium, through France and over the Spanish border. So began the Comet line. Many incredible escapes followed, from safe houses in Brussels, along hazardous train journeys via Lille to Paris, to goat paths through the Pyrenees mountains, evading both German and Spanish border patrols. In this gripping new study, Alexander Stilwell reveals the personalities and motives of the Comet line founders, the British intelligence organisation (MI9) that supported it, the campaign by the Gestapo to destroy it, and the work of the Nazi collaborators who infiltrated the Comet line with disastrous results. Above all, this is the story of the incredibly brave civilians who risked their lives to help Allied airmen and other evaders to escape from occupied Europe.

England is my home, and if someone asks me what I am German, Norwegian, Jewish or British I answer, "Im an Englishman."In 1934, aged just 16, Louis Hagen was sent to Lichtenberg concentration camp after being betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid. Mercifully, his time there was cut short thanks to the intervention of a school friends father, and he escaped to the UK soon after. The Life of Louis Hagen follows his adventures across the globe and the characters he met along the way, from the founder of the NHS to a Nobel Prize winner to one of the earliest animated-film directors, all told in lively and unflinching detail.Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 were captured a bloody disaster in more ways than one. Arnhem Lift is Hagens breathtaking and frank account of what it was like in the air and on the ground, including his daring escape from the German Army by swimming the Rhine. Indeed, it was so honest that Hagen found himself banished to India by his shocked commanding officer soon after its initial publication in 1945.Suddenly an Englishman is the complete story of the remarkable Louis Hagen, a German Jew who survived a concentration camp to become a decorated glider pilot in the British Army Air Corps. His first book, Arnhem Lift, was the earliest published account of the Battle of Arnhem while his accompanying autobiography remained unpublished until now.