The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons From World War To Cold War

"After WWII, more than a million Eastern Europeans — concentration camp survivors, forced laborers and even Nazi collaborators — ended up in American and British-run refugee camps in post-fascist Germany. They stayed for as many as five years, as the former Allied powers turned their backs on the most vulnerable. The U.S. let in thousands of war criminals but often refused Jewish refugees due to blatant anti-Semitism. David Nasaw’s engrossing, infuriating and meticulously researched book shows the heartlessness with which the West dealt with refugees, a dehumanizing pattern that continues today in the U.S. and the EU. Nasaw also acknowledges, though incompletely, that some of those refugees went on to force out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, creating another refugee crisis."