In War's Wake Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order

Name: In War's Wake Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
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ISBN: 9780195399684

ISBN-10: 0195399684

ISBN-13: 9780195399684

Edition: 2011

Authors: Gerard Daniel Cohen

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The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought this dramatic episode top a close. Yet in September 1945, the number of displaced persons placed under the guardianship of Allied armies and relief agencies in occupied Germany amounted to 1.5 million. A costly burden for the occupying powers, the Jewish, Polish, Ukrainian, Yugoslav and Baltic DPs unwilling to return to their countries of origin presented a complex international problem. Massed in refugee camps stretched from Northern…

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List price: $47.49
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.12" wide x 0.12" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction: The Last Million



The Battle of the Refugees: Displaced Persons and the Making of the Cold-War West



"Who is a Refugee?": From "Victors' Justice" to Anti-Communism



Care and Maintenance: The New Face of International Humanitarianism



Displaced Persons in the "Human Rights Revolution"



Surplus Manpower, Surplus Population



Extraterritorial Jews: Humanitarianism, Philosemitism, and the Advent of Jewish Statehood


Epilogue: The Golden Age of European Refugees, 1945-60


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