The arrival in France of 55 Leader Heinrich Himmler and his dreaded Gestapo agents behind Adolf Hitler's armed legions set thousands of Europe's wearied refugees and exiles on the march once again. Long the traditional sanctuary of the hunted, defeated and homeless, France had suddenly become a huge trap for hordes of domestic and foreign anti-Nazis.
Crowded aboard a little Indian tramp ship built to carry 180, nearly 1,500 refugees from Bordeaux landed safely in England, among them the Baron & Baroness Robert de Rothschild and French Dramatist Henry Bernstein, fleeing Nazi anti-Semitic...
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