Collection GB 1556 WL 838 - Kraschutski, Heinrich Richard Albrecht (fl 1939-1945)

1 folder

GB 1556 WL 838 1944 collection 1 folder Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees

British Foreign Office

Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, was commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-Nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at Palma. When the Franco coup succeeded in Majorca the Royal Navy brought most anti-Nazi exiles to safety but local German Nazis managed to prevent the rescue of Kraschutski, who was forbidden by the Spanish police from embarking. After 1940 any trace of Kraschutski was lost until early 1944 when he was discovered to be in a Spanish jail.

Jewish Central Information Office

Copies of correspondence, 9 Feb 1944-4 Jun 1944, between the Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees and the British Foreign Office regarding the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski and documenting the attempts made to effect the passage of Kraschutski into safe hands.

Original order

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

English

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Most of the originals of these copy letters are at The National Archives. They bear the Foreign Office class mark.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Mar 2008 Wars (events) Civil and political rights Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees Europe Foreign Office x Foreign and Commonwealth Office Human rights Kraschutski , Heinrich Richard Albrecht , fl 1939-1945 , German pacifist Migrants Political prisoners Refugees Spain Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Jewish Central Information Office

Copies of correspondence, 9 Feb 1944-4 Jun 1944, between the Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees and the British Foreign Office regarding the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski and documenting the attempts made to effect the passage of Kraschutski into safe hands.

Original order

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

• anglais

• latin

English

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais