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Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America
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Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America

by Carl Wittke. 384 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Carl Wittke

Publisher:

   University of Pennsylvania Press

Place of Publication:

  Philadelphia  

Publication Year:

  1952
Subjects:   Political Refugees, Germans--United States
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Latin American States and Political Refugees
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Subjects: Political Refugees--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--Latin America
...prohibited for political crimes, except...for asilados or refugees. Chile...military order, or political crimes. The...Act of 1944, refugees could receive...for legal and political protection of refugees and granted the...
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The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence - Vol. II
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States and International Migrants: The Incorporation of Indochinese Refugees in the United States and France
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Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States & Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948
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Different Paths to Mass Consumption: Consumer Credit in the United States and West Germany during the 1950s and '60S
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