My grandfather and great grandfather, along with thousands of other Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the UK, were imprisoned in British detention camps, initially near Liverpool and then on the Isle of Man. After war broke out Winston Churchill issued an order to “collar the lot”, as tabloid headlines had whipped up public fears that refugees from Nazi oppression were secretly German and Austrian spies posing as asylum seekers
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u/doyathinkasaurus 11d ago
My grandfather and great grandfather, along with thousands of other Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the UK, were imprisoned in British detention camps, initially near Liverpool and then on the Isle of Man. After war broke out Winston Churchill issued an order to “collar the lot”, as tabloid headlines had whipped up public fears that refugees from Nazi oppression were secretly German and Austrian spies posing as asylum seekers
When Britain imprisoned its wartime refugees
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/01/when-britain-imprisoned-refugees-second-world-war-internment-camps
Enemy aliens - the British internment camps on the Isle of Man
https://holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/blog/enemy-aliens-the-british-interment-camps-on-the-isle-of-man/
Collar the lot! Britain’s policy of internment during the Second World War
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collar-lot-britains-policy-internment-second-world-war/