‘I remember the feeling of insult’: when Britain imprisoned its wartime refugees | Second world war

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  1. I tried to post a link to the actual book and a precis. But it was taken down.

    Wonder why we have so many articles from the same sources?

    Edit: legit press release – taken down. Press release disguised as an article in a newspaper. Fine.

    One of the points from that meta thread a while ago was that we only discussed news in here.

    But if any mention of something new culturally is going to get taken down, of course it will stay the same.

    Meanwhile someone has posted the youtube link from his band with 1 subscriber, but that’s marked as culture?

  2. My mother’s response:

    >“Very interesting and some things I did not know. Papa (Mummy’s father ) was imprisoned on the Isle of Man during the first world war for the same reasons and my Daddy above the Arctic circle in Canada.

    >They had lectures from Herman Bondi ( who invented Radar ) and Daddy studied maths under him. There were the usual string quartets and sundry Italian waiters. Daddy thought it perfectly understandable that he was interned but he was never a whinger.

    >He did say how perishingly cold it was . They slept on boards placed over a railway line. He managed to acquire two down sleeping bags one surely too short for him ( nearly 6 ft 5 ) .

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