Shining a light on the ‘enemy aliens’ of the second world war

Peter and Leni Gillman offer an insight into Winston Churchill’s ‘collar the lot’ policy and say they found no evidence that it was driven by antisemitism when researching their book on the subject. The internment of 27,000 “enemy aliens”, principally German, Austrian and Italian, occurred mostly at the height of the fifth column scare that followed the fall of France ( Hodge recalls harrowing tale of how grandfather was interned by British, 9 August). Most were ref