Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 19331938

Julius George Stephen Fein examines the French response to the large number of German refugees between 1933 to 1938. Fein demonstrates how the Quai dOrsay sought a compromise between the Republican canon which said France must help the persecuted and the factors which limited its willingness to accept refugees, including economic depression, anti-Semitism, anti-German sentiment, and mass unemployment.