A Brush with Our Darkest Hour ; From a Near-Forgotten Episode in Merseyside's Wwii History, Starkly Vivid Pictures Have Emerged to Be Shown in Liverpool. Peter Elson Reports
Daily Post › February 11, 2004
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SUCH has been the stability of postwar Europe that it is almost impossible to imagine the staggering upheaval to millions of people's lives during the period before war brokeout.
It is almost beyond our belief that individuals who formed the backbone of their home countries had to flea to escape imprisonment and death.See the full content of this document
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A Brush with Our Darkest Hour ; From a Near-Forgotten Episode in Merseyside's Wwii History, Starkly Vivid Pictures Have Emerged to Be Shown in Liverpool. Peter Elson Reports
The plight of just two such men, who were artists from Germany and Austria,are featured in an unusual exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. In spite of having escaped from the Nazi regime to the haven of England and settled into jobs and family life here, fate had a further blow to unleash. Several years after their arrival in Britain, ...
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