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Object description
German civilian businessman in Germany, 1933-1937; refugee in London, GB, 1937-1940; internee in Kempton Park Racecourse Internment Camp and Warth Mill Internment Camp, Bury in GB, 5/1940-6/1940 and Onchan Internment Camp, Douglas and Rushen Internment Camps, Port Erin, Isle of Man, 6/1940-7/1941
Content description
REEL 1 Aspects of period as businessman in Germany, 1933-1937: employment prior to Nazi takeover and subsequent problems; dismissal from employment, 1937; taxing of emigrants by Nazi regime. Aspects of period as refugee in London, GB, 1937-1940: legal emigration to GB, 12/1937; business contacts in London; attending tribunal on outbreak of Second World War, 1939; reason for classification as Category B 'enemy alien'; description of arrest and subsequent treatment, 5/1940.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of period as internee in Kempton Park Racecourse Internment Camp, GB, 5/1940: arrival at camp; lack of communication with outside world; living conditions; receiving information that wives had been classified as Category B 'enemy aliens'. Aspects of period as internee in Warth Mill Internment Camp, Bury, GB, 6/1940: train journey to camp; living conditions in former cotton spinning mill; effects of internment on internees and treatment by military personnel. Recollections of period as internee in Onchan Internment Camp, Isle of Man, GB, 6/1940-6/1941: transfer to camp; choose of accommodation; organisation of daily routine; character and background of fellow internees.
REEL 3 Continues: receiving news of internment of wife Herta and daughter Renate; attitude towards camp university; recreational activities; relations with military personnel; reasons for rejection for military service with Pioneer Corps; medical operations in Noble's Hospital in Douglas, 3/1941-4/1941; visit by wife; initial reunion with wife at Port St Mary, 2/1941; hospital visitors; air raid alarm in hospital. Aspects of period as internee in Rushen Internment Camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, 6/1941-7/1941: transfer to mixed camp, 6/1941; accommodation with family; atmosphere in camp; financial arrangements.
REEL 4 Continues: description of release procedure, 7/1941; attitude towards prospect of deportation; attitude towards British Government's release policy; attitude to British Government's internment policy; reaction to release, 7/1941; attitude towards period of internment.