Bob Moore is Professor of Twentieth-Century European History at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the History of the Second World War, and specifically on the Holocaust, the Netherlands, and Prisoners of War. He is currently completing a book about the rescuers of Jews in Western Europe during the Nazi occupation.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction
Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore

PART I: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSES OF POLICIES TOWARDS THE REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANY

Chapter 1. International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National Socialism
Susanne Heim

Chapter 2. The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of Rassenschande
Lone Rünitz

Chapter 3. Unwilling Refuge: France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933-1939
Vicki Caron

Chapter 4. Dwindling Options: Seeking Asylum in Switzerland 1933-1939
Regula Ludi

Chapter 5. The 1930s: The End of the Latin American Open-door Policy
Patrick von zur Mühlen

Chapter 6. Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate Jews
Steve Hochstadt

Chapter 7. Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi Germany
Aviva Halamish

Chapter 8. American Refugee Policy in the 1930s
Bat-Ami Zucker

Chapter 9. Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe?
Claudia Curio

PART II: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF LIBERAL STATES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE FLIGHT FROM NAZI GERMANY
Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore

Chapter 9. The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933
Chapter 10. Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 1933-1937
Chapter 11. The Deeping Crisis: March 1938-October 1938
Chapter 12. From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938-August 1939

Conclusion

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index