The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler's Victims

Dr Greg Burgess (Deakin University, Australia)

The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler's Victims
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 October 2016
Pages
240
ISBN
9781474276610

The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler’s Victims

Dr Greg Burgess (Deakin University, Australia)

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Greg Burgess’s important new study explores the short life of the High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany, from its creation by the League of Nations in October 1933 to the resignation of High Commissioner, James G. McDonald, in December 1935.

The book relates the history of the first stage of refugees from Germany through the prism of McDonald and the High Commission. It analyses the factors that shaped the Commission’s formation, the undertakings the Commission embarked upon and its eventual failure owing to external complications.

The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany argues that, in spite of the Commission’s failure, the refugees from Nazi Germany and the High Commission’s work mark a turn in conceptions of international humanitarian responsibilities when a state defies standards of proper behaviour towards its citizens. From this point on, it was no longer considered sufficient or acceptable for states to respect the sovereign rights of another if the rights of citizens were being violated. Greg Burgess discusses this idea, amongst others, in detail as part of what is a crucial volume for all scholars and students of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and modern Jewish history.

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