This paper looks at some of the German-speaking women exiles - political, intellectual and racial - who took refuge in Britain between 1933 and 1945 and the reception and conditions they experienced there, both before and after the outbreak of war. This includes a discussion of the changing employment for women as well as the internment of women in wartime. In addition it considers the policy of the refugee organisations (principally the Freier Deutscher Kulturbund and the Austrian Centre) towards their women members and the provision for women readers in the German-language exile press (in particular Die Zeitung, Zeitspiegel and Die Frau/Frau in Arbeit). Finally the article examines some of the factors that determined women refugees' choice either to return 'home' at the end of the war or to remain in Britain. © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998.

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