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From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators in flight from the Red Army overwhelmed Germany. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate refugees and attempted to repatriate them. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained more than a million displaced persons left behind in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to.
The international community could not agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of debate and inaction, the International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages. By 1952, the Last Million were scattered around the world. As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future, they carried with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, aclaimed historian David Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and, with profound contemporary resonance, shows us that it is our history as well.
Story Locale: Europe, America,
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators in flight from the Red Army overwhelmed Germany. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate refugees and attempted to repatriate them. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained more than a million displaced persons left behind in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to.
The international community could not agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of debate and inaction, the International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages. By 1952, the Last Million were scattered around the world. As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future, they carried with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, aclaimed historian David Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and, with profound contemporary resonance, shows us that it is our history as well.
Story Locale: Europe, America,
From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators in flight from the Red Army overwhelmed Germany. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate refugees and attempted to repatriate them. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained more than a million displaced persons left behind in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to.
The international community could not agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of debate and inaction, the International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages. By 1952, the Last Million were scattered around the world. As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future, they carried with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, aclaimed historian David Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and, with profound contemporary resonance, shows us that it is our history as well.
Story Locale: Europe, America,
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators in flight from the Red Army overwhelmed Germany. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate refugees and attempted to repatriate them. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained more than a million displaced persons left behind in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to.
The international community could not agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of debate and inaction, the International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages. By 1952, the Last Million were scattered around the world. As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future, they carried with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, aclaimed historian David Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and, with profound contemporary resonance, shows us that it is our history as well.
Story Locale: Europe, America,
Über den Autor
David Nasaw is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, and History Today; The Patriarch, a New York Times "Five Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year"; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" and the winner of the American History Book Prize; The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He was the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and the president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, he was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.” Nasaw’s newest book, The Wounded Generation, will be published by Penguin Press in October 2025.
Zusammenfassung
TERRIFIC TRADE RECEPTION: The NYT wrote "One of the many virtues of 'The Last Million' is the author's ability to make vivid sense of a bewildering moment…s his calmly passionate book makes plain, however, one would need to be willfully covering one's eyes not to see how then bleeds into now" and [...] called it "insightful and eye-opening."
NATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE: Nasaw was interviewed for Fresh Air, featured on the NYTBR podcast, widespread reviews all praised him for his work in bringing this story to life.
MASTER HISTORIAN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: David Nasaw is a magnificent biographer and historian, whose studies of Andrew Carnegie, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Kennedy were received with popular praise and critical acclaim. THE LAST MILLION will be no different.
SIGNIFICANT YET RARELY TRAVERSED HISTORY: For millions of people across Europe and the USSR, the end of WWII was only the beginning. Unable to return home, Jewish survivors, political prisoners, forced laborers, and others were for years contained in displaced persons camps. It is more than time to write their rarely discussed history and to recognize that it is our history as well.
MODERN DAY RESONANCE: More than seven decades later, we find ourselves in a similar place, but now the White House is adamantly opposed to admitting immigrants. History repeats itself, but Nasaw proves it is imperative we be on the right side of it.
NATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE: Nasaw was interviewed for Fresh Air, featured on the NYTBR podcast, widespread reviews all praised him for his work in bringing this story to life.
MASTER HISTORIAN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: David Nasaw is a magnificent biographer and historian, whose studies of Andrew Carnegie, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Kennedy were received with popular praise and critical acclaim. THE LAST MILLION will be no different.
SIGNIFICANT YET RARELY TRAVERSED HISTORY: For millions of people across Europe and the USSR, the end of WWII was only the beginning. Unable to return home, Jewish survivors, political prisoners, forced laborers, and others were for years contained in displaced persons camps. It is more than time to write their rarely discussed history and to recognize that it is our history as well.
MODERN DAY RESONANCE: More than seven decades later, we find ourselves in a similar place, but now the White House is adamantly opposed to admitting immigrants. History repeats itself, but Nasaw proves it is imperative we be on the right side of it.
Details
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Jahrhundert: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143110996 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143110993 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Nasaw, David |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 212 x 139 x 37 mm |
| Von/Mit: | David Nasaw |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 14.09.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,62 kg |
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