European christian democrats in exile in the United Kingdom: Socially Isolated and Politically Marginal

• Autores: Wolfram Kaiser
• Localización: Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas / Wolfram Kaiser (aut.), Piotr H. Kosicki (aut.), 2021, ISBN 978-94-6166-422-8, págs. 29-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Spending time in political exile could be a lonely and frustrating experience, not least for continental European anti-fascist Christian Democrats in London during the 1930s and the Second World War. Few of them had a privileged role as politicians or officials in one of the nine governments-in-exile. The others swapped their actual or anticipated persecution by Nazi, fascist or collaborationist regimes, internment or possibly death, for a temporarily unclear legal status, difficult professional situation, relative social isolation, food rationing and generally poor living standards combined with the experience of the Blitz, or German Luftwaffe bombardments.