Speakers: Daniel Snowman, Michael Gee, Anna Nyburg, Uwe Westphal

Nineteenth century Berlin was the creative centre for fashion and ready-to-wear clothing. Berlin’s clothing companies made modern apparel and developed new designs that were sold not only throughout Germany, but worldwide. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, the city’s mainly Jewish clothing industrialists were robbed, displaced or murdered, while their companies were ‘Aryanized’. What happened to those who escaped to Britain – and how did they revolutionise fashion in the UK? Social historian Daniel Snowman is joined by Michael Gee, Anna Nyburg and Uwe Westphal.