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The accidental captives : the story of seven women alone in Nazi Germany / Carolyn Gossage, with the co-operation of Peter Levitt.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D805.G3 G677 2012

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    In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. The passengers were pulled from the waters and transported to Nazi-occupied France, where the majority, as (at that time) neutral citizens of the United States, were released and returned home. News of their fortunate escape soon broke and the story became an overnight sensation. Yet amidst the excitement generated by the captives' release, the fate of those left behind was all but forgotten. Among these unlucky few were seven Canadian women, whose remarkable wartime journey was only just beginning. Interned in German detention camps as 'enemy aliens', they were eventually moved to Berlin, to await repatriation. But - due to a bureaucratic mix up - when they arrived in Berlin, this small group of women found themselves alone, stranded in the heart of Hitler's Germany.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Gossage, Carolyn, 1933-
    Published
    London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012
    Locale
    Canada
    Germany
    Other Authors/Editors
    Levitt, Peter.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9781848859913
    1848859910
    Physical Description
    xiii, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

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