The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War, David Nasaw

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The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War, David Nasaw

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Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War

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David Nasaw

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• The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War

Publication

• New York, Penguin Press, 2020

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• ©2020

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-615) and index

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Contents

Introduction: "The war's living wreckage" -- PART ONE. INTO GERMANY. FROM POLAND, THE BALTIC NATIONS, AND THE DEATH CAMPS. 1. From Poland and Ukraine: forced laborers, 1941-1945 -- 2. From Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Western Ukraine -- 3. From the concentration and death camps -- PART TWO. "THE PLIGHT OF THE JEWS ... IS STRKINGLY DIFFERENT". 4. Alone, abandoned, determined, the She'erit Hapletah organizes -- 5. The Harrison Report -- PART THREE. THE LAST MILLION IN GERMANY. 6. The U.S., the UK, the USSR, and UNRRA -- 7. Inside the DP camps -- 8. "The War Department is very anxious" -- 9. "U.S. begins purge in German camps. Will weed out Nazis, fascist sympathizers and criminals among displaced persons," The New York Times, March 10, 1946 -- 10. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry issues its report -- 11. The Polish Jews escape into Germany -- 12. Fiorello La Guardia to the rescue -- PART FOUR. RESETTLEMENT. 13. The death of UNRRA -- 14. "Send them here," Life magazine, September 23, 1946 -- 15. Fact-finding in Europe -- 16. "The best migrant types" -- 17. "So difficult of solution": Jewish displaced persons -- 18. "Jewish immigration is the central issue in Palestine today" -- PART FIVE. AMERICA'S FAIR SHARE. 19. "A noxious mess which defies digestion" -- 20. "A shameful victory for [the] school of bigotry" -- 21. "Get these people moving" -- 22. "The utilization of refugees from the Soviet Union in the U.S. national interest" -- 23. The Displaced Persons Act of 1950 -- 24. McCarran's Internal Security Act restricts the entry of communist subversives -- PART SIX. THE LAST ACT. 25. "The Nazis come in" -- 26. The gates open wide -- 17. Aftermaths

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1144114772

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25 cm

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xi, 654 pages

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9781594206733

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2020016888

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