'I remember the feeling of insult': when Britain imprisoned its wartime refugees | Second world war

<strong>The long read</strong>: After giving safe harbour to thousands of people fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe, the British government decided that some of them could be a threat – and locked all of them up. For many, it was a betrayal on the part of their supposed liberators

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