1939 to 1947
During World War Two, ‘enemy A foreigner, someone who has come from another country.’, including Germans and many members of the large Italian community, were again Detained in a camp or prison, usually in the case of 'enemy aliens' in time of war.. Some were sent by ship to Canada. However, after a German submarine sank one of the ships, the Arandora Star in 1940, most were freed.
Just as in World War One, during World War Two large numbers of colonial troops fought for Britain. The merchant convoys had a large proportion of African, Arab and Indian seamen, many of them from port cities such as Cardiff and Liverpool.
After the Nazi invasion of Poland and during World War Two, some 160,000 Polish A person living outside their own homeland as a result of war, famine or persecution. arrived in Britain and many Poles served in the Allied armed forces. After the war, the 1947 Polish When people are moved from where they live and settled somewhere else. Act allowed them to stay and be joined by their families.
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