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Article: German-Speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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German-Speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945. Ed. by GISELA HOLFTER. (German Monitor, 63) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2006. vii+300 pp. 62 [euro]; $81. ISBN 97890-420-2033-7.
As Gisela Holfter establishes in her introduction to this collection of papers on German-speaking exiles in Ireland (from the Seventh Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies held in June 2004), Ireland has until now been terra incognita in Exile Studies. After an overview from Wolfgang Benz there follows an excellent paper by Dermot Keogh on Irish refugee policy, anti-Semitism, and Nazism at the approach of the Second World War, which shows clearly that, despite the admirable work of individuals ...