History: Burying the Ghosts: one "lucky" woman's story of escape from Nazi Germany

The course will show how it was necessary to alter attitudes amongst children and adults through propaganda and education prior to introducing the anti-semitic legislation that denied the Jewish population their human rights. The talk demonstrates the process of 'othering', with those attitudes even expressed in the UK. PART 1 The rise of fascism in Germany 1933 onwards, focusing on anti-semitic legislation between 1934 to 1938 Jewish denial Paperwork and emigration PART 2 Britain’s attitudes to Jewish immigration Wartime Britain Work for the female Jewish immigrants: domestic service and factory work Enemy Aliens The Black Market/Crime and punishment/The magistrates’ court Rudolf Hess and the psychiatrist By the end of the course attendees will have understood the creeping incremental use of propaganda and education to facilitate legislation that led to the mass destruction of European Jews; the experience of wartime immigrants and the underside of wartime London.