In War's Wake
Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 December 2011
- ISBN 9780195399684
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 241x155x20 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 halftone 0
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Short description:
After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich, legions of people who fled the advancing Red Army, and many thousands uprooted by the sheer violence of the war. This book argues that postwar international relief operations went beyond their stated goal of civilian "rehabilitation" and contributed to the rise of a new internationalism, setting the terms on which future displaced persons would be treated by nations and NGOs.
MoreLong description:
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 Germany to Sicily, the DPs had become long-term asylum seekers.
Based on the records of the International Refugee Organization, this book describes how the European DP crisis impinged on the shape of the postwar order. The DP question directly affected the outbreak of the Cold War; the transformation of the "West" into a new geopolitical entity; the conduct of political purges and retribution; the ideology and methods of modern humanitarian interventions; the appearance of international agencies and non-governmental organizations; the emergence of an international human rights system; the organization of migration movements and the redistribution of "surplus populations"; the advent of Jewish nationhood; and postwar categorizations of political and humanitarian refugees.
[Cohen's] monograph is a model of the genre of international history: a thoroughly researched, transnationally focused, clearly presented study that amalgamates political, social and intellectual approaches into a convincing and far-ranging analysis that is relevant to many key aspects of the post-1945 period, in Europe and beyond.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Last Million
The Battle of the Refugees: DPs and the Making of the Cold War West
"Who is a Refugee?": From 'Victors' Justice' to Anticommunism
Care and Maintenance: The New Face of International Humanitarianism
Displaced Persons in the "Human Rights Revolution"
Surplus Manpower, Surplus Population
Extraterritorial Jews: Refugee Humanitarianism and the Advent of Jewish Statehood
Epilogue: The Golden Age of European Refugees, 1945-1960
Notes
Sources and Further Reading
Index
