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Introduction: "The war's living wreckage"

PART ONE. INTO GERMANY. FROM POLAND, THE BALTIC NATIONS, AND THE DEATH CAMPS. 1. From Poland and Ukraine: forced laborers, 1941-1945

2. From Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Western Ukraine

3. From the concentration and death camps

PART TWO. "THE PLIGHT OF THE JEWS ... IS STRKINGLY DIFFERENT". 4. Alone, abandoned, determined, the She'erit Hapletah organizes

5. The Harrison Report

PART THREE. THE LAST MILLION IN GERMANY. 6. The U.S., the UK, the USSR, and UNRRA

7. Inside the DP camps

8. "The War Department is very anxious"

9. "U.S. begins purge in German camps. Will weed out Nazis, fascist sympathizers and criminals among displaced persons," The New York Times, March 10, 1946

10. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry issues its report

11. The Polish Jews escape into Germany

12. Fiorello La Guardia to the rescue

PART FOUR. RESETTLEMENT. 13. The death of UNRRA

14. "Send them here," Life magazine, September 23, 1946

15. Fact-finding in Europe

16. "The best migrant types"

17. "So difficult of solution": Jewish displaced persons

18. "Jewish immigration is the central issue in Palestine today"

PART FIVE. AMERICA'S FAIR SHARE. 19. "A noxious mess which defies digestion"

20. "A shameful victory for [the] school of bigotry"

21. "Get these people moving"

22. "The utilization of refugees from the Soviet Union in the U.S. national interest"

23. The Displaced Persons Act of 1950

24. McCarran's Internal Security Act restricts the entry of communist subversives

PART SIX. THE LAST ACT. 25. "The Nazis come in"

26. The gates open wide

17. Aftermaths

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

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Index.