Arrested as an 'Enemy Alien'

27th June 1940: In Britain, thousands of foreign nationals are arrested and detained in internment camps

Many German Jews who had only recemtly escaped from Nazi Germany now found themselves detained by the British.

The invasion scare in Britain was to affect every corner of public life. Measures were now taken to detain anyone who might be a Nazi spy or a ‘fifth columnist’. It was widely believed that residents of France and the Low Countries sympathetic t…