The League of Nations and the refugees from Nazi Germany : James G. McDonald and Hitlers victims 1. The Refugees from Nazism 1933 2. James G. McDonald in Berlin and Geneva 3. The High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany 4. The Lausanne Office December 1933 5. Pricking their Conscience : Winter 1933 34 6. A Peaceable and Just Solution 7. Plans and Illusions 8. Reckoning : Winter 1934 1935 9. Mission to Latin America 10. Disillusion : Spring and Summer 1935 11. Reform and Resignation 12. Postscript Greg Burgesss important new study explores the short life of the High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany from its creation by the League of Nations in October 1933 to the resignation of High Commissioner James G. McDonald in December 1935. The book relates the history of the first stage of refugees from Germany through the prism of McDonald and the High Commission. It analyses the factors that shaped the Commissions formation the undertakings the Commission embarked upon and its eventual failure owing to external complications. The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany argues that in spite of the Commissions failure the refugees from Nazi Germany and the High Commissions work mark a turn in conceptions of international humanitarian responsibilities when a state defies standards of proper behaviour towards its citizens. From this point on it was no longer considered sufficient or acceptable for states to respect the sovereign rights of another if the rights of citizens were being violated. Greg Burgess discusses this idea amongst others in detail as part of what is a crucial v. for all scholars and students of Nazi Germany the Holocaust and modern Jewish history