In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order Format:Paperback dark matter

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In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order Format:Paperback dark matterThe 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