Title A matter of intelligence : MI5 and the surveillance of anti-Nazi refugees, 1933-50 / Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove

Published Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2014 [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (vi, 254 pages)) Contents 1. Defending the realm : MI5 in the making -- 2. Liddell in Wonderland : M15 and the Prussian Secret Police -- 3. The undesirables : political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933 -- 4. The mysterious case of Dora Fabian -- 5. Nazi spies and the 'Auslandsorganisation' -- 6. No more peace : Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament -- 7. Flying and spying : Claud W. Sykes, MI5 and the 'Primrose League' -- 8. 'The Red Menace' : keeping watch on the Communists 1933-39 -- 9. 'Peace for our time' -- 10. 'A state of confusion which at times amounted almost to chaos' : MI5 1939-41 -- 11. The internment of 'enemy aliens' -- 12. 'The largest Communist sideshow in London' : the Free German League of Culture -- 13. The Austrian Centre -- and 'the great Eva' -- 14. 'About the most dangerous of all these organisations' : the Czech Refugee Trust Fund -- 15. Whispers and lies : the informers -- 16. Friends in need : British supporters of the refugees -- 17. Red alert : keeping watch on the Communists -- 18. 'Tube Alloys' : the British atomic bomb project -- 19. The spy who was caught : the case of Klaus Fuchs -- 20. The spy who got away : the case of Engelbert Broda -- 21. Parting company Summary This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political refugees during the 1930s and 1940s which have only recently been released into the public domain this study also fills a considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it is both a study of MI5 and of the political refugees themselves. The book will interest academics in the fields of history, politics, intelligence studies, Jewish studies, German studies and migration studies; but it is also accessible to the general reader interested in Britain before, during and after the Second World War Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index Notes Print version record Subject Great Britain. MI5 -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Great Britain. MI5 fast Subject Austrians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Germans -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Political refugees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Great Britain POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Austrians Germans Intelligence service Political refugees Refugees Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Dove, Richard, 1938-2022, author ISBN 9781526110473 1526110474

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