Abstract
This paper addresses one facet of a study exploring the extent to which escapees from, and survivors of, Nazism were influenced in their career choice by their early-life traumas. The particular focus is on those who subsequently became influential figures in the emergent field of development studies. Many intellectual and activist refugees from Nazism arriving in the United Kingdom received assistance from the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL). Use of the Society's still-underutilised archive, in combination with ethnographic research and analysis of their writings and other secondary sources, throws new light on this traumatic period and its influence on the escapees' later lives. The paper also identifies the constrained advocacy role of the SPSL and contributes to ‘memory work’ about this period. A key conclusion relates to the serendipity and the complex interplay of structure and agency even under the most extreme conditions.
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