Victims of Stalin and Hitler
Subtitle: the exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain
By: Thomas Lane.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Poles -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Balts (Indo-European people) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Political refugees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Baltic Sea Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Poland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Germany in 1945 was crammed with millions of people displaced by war, deportation, Nazi slave labour, and flight before the advance of the Red Army. Many of them, including Poles and the Baltic peoples of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, refused to return to their communist-controlled homelands. Simultaneously in Italy, the Middle East and Britain, there were more than 100,000 Polish military personnel under British command, along with their dependents. Most of these were survivors of the one and a half million Poles deported to Siberia by the Soviet security police.

Based on official documents and the words of the survivors and their children, this book describes the brutal uprooting of these people, their subsequent terrible experiences in the Soviet and Nazi forced labour camps and prisons, and their ultimate settlement in Britain."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-268) and index.