TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carol Roberts
AU  - Eve Rosenhaft
PY  - 2025
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2633-108X
SN  - 9781803748528
TI  - Ronald Roberts, the Lad Who Outwitted the Nazis
T2  - From Weimar Germany to Windrush Britain
DO  - 10.3726/b22479
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1505920
N2  - This book documents the extraordinary life of a man who was both a Black German and a British Empire national.    Ronald Roberts was born in Germany in 1921. As the son of a Barbadian father and a white mother, Roberts suffered racial persecution in Nazi Germany and spent the Second World War interned in a civilian camp as a British national. After the war, he made a new life for himself working with the British military in occupied Austria and finally settled in a postwar Britain that was barely coming to terms with its own colonial legacy. His experiences along the way are a record of endurance, inventiveness and the stubborn refusal to ‘go under’ in the face of persistent racism.   Roberts’ prison and camp letters to his parents (a unique source) and his postwar testimony are reproduced here, along with a short biography by his widow. His story is richly illustrated with family photos and documents, and an introduction and explanatory notes provide readers with critical and historical context. 
KW  - Black European, Black German / Afro-German, Black British, mixed heritage, Nazi persecution, civilian internment camps, escape narrative, World War II
LA  - English
ER  -