Exile Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Günter Berghaus

Critical Essay by Günter Berghaus

SOURCE: Berghaus, Günter, “Producing Art in Exile: Perspectives on the German Refugees' Creative Activities in Great Britain.” In Theatre and Film in Exile: German Artists in Britain, 1933-1945, edited by Günter Berghaus. Oxford: Oswald Wolff Books, Berg Publishers, 1989.

In the following essay, Berghaus traces the contributions of noted German artists living in exile in Great Britain after 1933.

Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 a number of laws were passed which enabled the Nazis to assume total control over the German population: a Law for the Reconstruction of the Civil Service (7 April), a Denationalization Decree (14 July), a Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour, and a Reich Citizenship Law (13 September: the so-called Nuremberg Laws) and a Law for the Establishment of a Reich Cultural Chamber (22 September), to name just a few. A few weeks after Hitler's seizure of power the...
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