Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking
Episode 8: Enemy Aliens
Anti-German panic sets in and following Winston Churchill's edict to "collar the lot", all adult Germans and Austrians in the UK -- including Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport who were over 16 -- become "enemy aliens". Restrictions are imposed on their everyday lives, and many are sent to internment camps. Despite this hostility, many go on to join the British armed forces to fight against the Nazis from whom they had once escaped.
Anti-German panic sets in and following Winston Churchill's edict to "collar the lot", all adult Germans and Austrians in the UK -- including Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport who were over 16 -- become "enemy aliens". Restrictions are imposed on their everyday lives, and many are sent to internment camps. Despite this hostility, many go on to join the British armed forces to fight against the Nazis from whom they had once escaped.