Changing Countries: The Experience and Achievement of German-Speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain from 1933 to Today.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Changing Countries: The Experience and Achievement of German-Speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain from 1933 to Today. Ed. by MARIAN MALET and ANTHONY GREENVILLE. London: Libris. 2002. xx+259 pp. [pounds sterling] 29.95. ISBN 1-870352-61-0 (hbk).

'I didn't know I was Jewish until I was told so by the Nazis,' remarked Elisabeth Rosenthal, one of the refugees interviewed in Changing Countries (p. 166), who only became properly conscious of her Jewishness as a result of Nazi persecution. This book shows how productive oral history can be, particularly in...

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