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Parkin, Simon, author.
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Midgley, Peter, 1921-1991.
Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man) -- History.
Jewish refugees -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Isle of Man.
Noncitizens -- Isle of Man -- History -- 20th century.
Germans -- Great Britain -- Forced removal and internment, 1940-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain.
Isle of Man -- History -- 20th century.
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The island of extrao...
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The island of extraordinary captives : a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp / Simon Parkin.
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Parkin, Simon, author.
New York : Scribner, 2022.
Subjects
Midgley, Peter, 1921-1991.
Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man) -- History.
Jewish refugees -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Isle of Man.
Noncitizens -- Isle of Man -- History -- 20th century.
Germans -- Great Britain -- Forced removal and internment, 1940-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain.
Isle of Man -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781982178529 (hardcover) :
1982178523 (hardcover) :
Description:
viii, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Contents:
Barbed-wire matinee -- Five shots -- Fire and crystal -- The rescuers -- Sunset train -- The basement and the judge -- Spy fever -- Nightmare mill -- The misted isle -- The university of barbed wire -- The vigil -- The suicide consultancy -- Into the crucible -- The first goodbyes -- Love and paranoia -- The heiress -- Art and justice -- Home for Christmas? -- The isle of forgotten men -- A spy cornered -- Return to the mill -- The final trial.
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"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, tens of thousands of German and Austrian Jews escaped and found refuge in Britain. Once war broke out in 1939, the nation turned against them, fearing that Nazis had planted spies posing as refugees. Innocent asylum seekers thus were labeled "enemy aliens" and ultimately sentenced to an indefinite period of internment. When Peter arrived at Hutchinson Camp, he found one of history's most astounding prison populations: renowned professors, composers, journalists, and artists. Together, they created a thriving cultural community, complete with art exhibitions, lectures, musical performances, and poetry readings. The artists welcomed Peter as their pupil and forever changed the course of his life. Meanwhile, suspicions grew that a real spy was hiding among them-one connected to a vivacious heiress from Peter's past. Drawing from unpublished first-person accounts and newly declassified documents from the British government, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin tells the story of this unlikely group of internees. The Island of Extraordinary Captives brings history to life in vivid detail, revealing the hidden truth of Britain's grave wartime mistake and showcasing how hope and creativity can flourish in even the darkest of circumstances"-- Provided by publisher.
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