Both of these books are critical of the government's immigration policy, reserving their harshest judgements of the internment of refugees as enemy aliens in 1940. (4) Yvonne Kapp and Margaret Mynatt's, British Policy and the Refugees 1933-1941, (5) was written in 1940, though not actually published until 1997. This book has since been reprinted, with a new introduction in which the author did not back down from his position of 48 years earlier. The internment of the refugees in 1940 prompted the publication of another Penguin critical of government policy, François Lafitte's, The Internment of Aliens. Critical of the government handling of the refugee crisis, this work suggested that the refugees should be permitted to seek employment as this would both relieve them from having to accept charity and enable them to make a contribution to the British economy.
Norman Angell's and Dorothy Thompson's You and the Refugee appeared as a Penguin Special in 1939. Other contemporary works were published covering the subject. Bentwich was well placed to comment on the movement of Jews into Britain because of his personal involvement. An Account of British Jewry's Work for Victim of Nazi Oppression, (3) an insightful work that remains relevant today. He followed this up in 1956 with They Found Refuge. As early as 1936, whilst the migration of Jews was still underway, Norman Bentwich published The Refugees from Germany, April 1933 to December 1935, (2) covering the first wave of arrivals. The historical investigation of Jewish immigration into Britain began with the opening of government archives in the 1970s, though prior to this many contemporaries wrote their accounts of the movement of European Jews to Britain. Virtually every country that witnessed the entry of Jews in the 1930s has had its experiences discussed in at least one book. The flight of Jews out of Nazi Germany has been the subject of much attention.
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