last million: Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War

A new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
Most would eventually be resettled in lands suffering from postwar labour shortages, but no nation, including the United States, was willing to accept more than a handful of the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. When in June, 1948, the United States Congress passed legislation permitting the immigration of displaced persons, visas were granted to sizeable numbers of war criminals and Nazi collaborators, but denied to 90% of the Jewish displaced persons.

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