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‘Hitler shook the tree and we collected the apples’
Why did artists fleeing from
Nazi Germany settle in NW3?
Dan Carrier talks to historian Monica Bohm-Duchen about
this community in exile
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Ex-comrades everywhere... - LORD Denis Healey, a former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, was once asked which was the biggest party in the House of Lords. > more
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