![]() These D.P.s shared little besides having just lived through one of the most traumatic periods in modern history and finding themselves homeless in its wake. Their ranks included, among others, Jewish concentration camp survivors Polish forced laborers and Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Nazi collaborators. Nasaw knows this better than anyone and deploys that epithet to contain the chaotic scramble of 1,038,759 displaced Eastern Europeans who found themselves stranded in Germany after the spring of 1945. ![]() ![]() The tidy title of David Nasaw’s “The Last Million” belies the mind-boggling mess that is its subject. THE LAST MILLION Europe’s Displaced Persons From World War to Cold War By David Nasaw
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