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Indlæser... The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World Waraf Ben Shepard
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This book by Ben Shephard is an impressively researched account of the successes and failures of the UNRRA programs that were put in place by the allies (often hindered by the Soviet Union) to deal humanely with the millions of people displaced during and immediately after WWII. The human stories it covers range from the many nationalities brought into Germany to do war work, through how the Eastern Europeans were received in their new homes after the war in Britain, the US, Canada and Australia to the way members of the the Jewish "surviving remnant" were treated as political pawns in both Israel and the US. The 200.000 European Jews who arrived in Israel during the first two years of the State's existence received very little psychological help or sympathy for what they had been through. In spite of the good intentions of the mainly American and British workers UNRRA was very badly organised in the first couple of years. Many of the displaced people felt humiliated by the way they were treated and continually moved around in the camps set up in Germany. After the traumas of the Soviet-German division of Europe, the atrocious sufferings during the war, the attempted genocide of the Jewish people and the mass killings of Poles, Russians and other "inferior peoples" the survivors found they were often considered as something less than human: DPs. The book provides good information about the relationship between the DPs and the birth of the State of Israel and also explains how so many Nazi collaborators got into the US after the war. This book is a detailed account of all sides and aspects of the refugees of WWII IN Europe. The complexity of dealing with the displaced and those who fled the Soviet-controlled areas is provided in detail from official sources as well as personal accounts of some of the people who worked with the DPs. It was a huge undertaking to deal with the problem and sometimes force was used to move Eastern Europeans back to their home countries. The author portrays the prejudices and misunderstandings of culture and experiences that influenced the judgments of the administrators and people who worked with the DPs. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of the First World War, planners had begun the futile task of preparing themselves for a civilian health crisis that, due in large part to advances in medical science, would never come. The problem that emerged was not widespread disease among Europe's population, as anticipated, but massive displacement among those who had been uprooted from home and country during the war. Displaced Persons, as the refugees would come to be known, were not comprised entirely of Jews. Millions of Latvians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs, in addition to several hundred thousand Germans, were situated in a limbo long overlooked by historians. While many were speedily repatriated, millions of refugees refused to return to countries that were forever changed by the war, a crisis that would take years to resolve and would become the defining legacy of World War II. Indeed many of the postwar questions that haunted the Allied planners still confront us today: How can humanitarian aid be made to work? What levels of immigration can our societies absorb? How can an occupying power restore prosperity to a defeated enemy? Including new documentation in the form of journals, oral histories, and essays by actual DPs unearthed during his research for this illuminating and radical reassessment of history, the author brings to light the extraordinary stories and myriad versions of the war experienced by the refugees and the new United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration that would undertake the responsibility of binding the wounds of an entire continent. Remarkably relevant to conflicts that continue to plague peacekeeping efforts, this work tells the epic story of how millions redefined the notion of home amid painstaking recovery. It is a reassessment of World War II's legacy that evaluates the unique challenges of reconstructing an entire continent of Holocaust survivors and starving refugees, in an account that draws on memoirs, essays, and oral histories to discuss lesser known aspects of the massive postwar relief efforts. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.53086History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Culture Studies Immigrants, refugees, exiles in World War 2LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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