Wilhelm Hollitscher was the model for Hugo Dachinger’s painting on a copy of The Times in 1940. Image: National Museums Liverpool INTERNMENT during the Second World War saw thousands of people rounded up and locked behind eight-metre-high barbed wire fences – an indiscriminate action of blanket arrests based on a person’s origin rather than action. One man interned was a refugee from the Nazis, Wilhelm Hollitscher – and during confinement, he kept a detailed diary. The discovery of this diary, in the archives of the Weiner Library in Bloomsbury, has prompted a new book telling the story of life in a internment camp.