Gathers first hand accounts of Germans who risked the uncertainty of exile in the United States. Culled from both published and unpublished sources (including interviews, oral histories and letters) these excerpts include people who emigrated owing to political reasons and those who were forced to flee because of "racial issues". They include writers such as Thomas Mann. Hannah Arendt and Peter Gay. Includes a letter by Einstein, Toscanini and others to Roosevelt protesting these new immigrants being categorised as "aliens of enemy nationality".