== Fled/went ... to the UK in WWII? == 

 Hi, 

 aren't there enough synonyms in English to formulate this better? 
 "Escape" offers itself, a little less inglorious than "fleeing", isn't it? 
 "Went into/ joined the monarch in exile"? (The NO GOvernment styled itself "eksilregjeringen", IIRC). 
 If English had been German, I'd have written something like " ... sich dem Zugriff der deutschen Besatzungsmacht (or something) entzogen ...", i.e. "avoided" (?) capture by the (xxx) by going ..." (?).  Since not a native speaker, I don't know how to put this right. Perhaps someone could assist. TiA, if so. 

 T