In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order, Gerard Daniel Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 248 pp., hardcover 34.95
The Second World War left approximately eight million displaced persons (DPs) in Europe; these included former foreign workers, slave laborers, prisoners of war, and concentration camp inmates. Between spring and fall 1945, approximately six to seven million were repatriated, leaving about 1.2 milli...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 129-131 |
| Review of: | In war's wake (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Rapaport, Lynn)
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| Summary: | The Second World War left approximately eight million displaced persons (DPs) in Europe; these included former foreign workers, slave laborers, prisoners of war, and concentration camp inmates. Between spring and fall 1945, approximately six to seven million were repatriated, leaving about 1.2 million stateless. In 1946 the United Nations created the International Refugee Organization (IRO) to care for this “last million,” many of them Holocaust survivors or anti-Communist refugees living in DP camps from western Germany to Sicily. Daniel Cohen's meticulously researched new volume focuses on the policies that emerged out of the practical and political dimensions of resettlement. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu016 |