Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States & Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. As one of the victorious Allies, Britain had to help find a sol |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CONFRONTING THE JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS | 11 |
NONREPATRIABLE DISPLACED PERSONS IN GERMANY | 13 |
A Temporary Problem? | 15 |
Polish Displaced Persons Pressure the Western Powers | 24 |
Resettlement Options | 29 |
JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS IN BRITISH OCCUPATION ZONES | 32 |
Infiltrators from the East | 43 |
Polish Jews in the Aftermath of the War | 159 |
Summer and Winter of 19451946 | 161 |
Moscows Role | 167 |
The AngloAmerican Committee Visits Poland | 170 |
Summer of 1946 | 174 |
CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY COUNTRIES OF TRANSIT | 183 |
Between Poland and Germany | 185 |
Between Rumania and Austria | 193 |
Withholding Food Rations | 51 |
Separating German Jews from Jewish Displaced Persons | 56 |
COUNTERING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION | 60 |
Deportations to Cyprus | 66 |
Deportations Back to Ports of Embarkation? | 78 |
Ending the Mandate | 81 |
AMERICAN OPPOSITION | 87 |
JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS AND AMERICAN POLICYMAKING | 89 |
The Harrison Report | 90 |
Eisenhower Reacts | 92 |
CONFLICTING ATTITUDES | 98 |
AngloAmerican Negotiations | 102 |
Further Discords | 110 |
Respite for Whitehall | 115 |
Swayed by Electoral Considerations | 119 |
AMERICAN OCCUPATION ZONES OFFER ASYLUM | 134 |
Failing to Seal the Borders | 138 |
Change of Policy? | 143 |
Washington and Illegal Sailings | 146 |
THE SOVIET BLOC | 155 |
THE FLIGHT FROM POLAND | 157 |
THE BALKANS PORTS TO PALESTINE | 201 |
The Main Thrust | 202 |
Interim Sailing Base | 211 |
The Hunger Flight | 217 |
Final Sailing Base | 219 |
With Moscows Blessing | 227 |
ITALY AND FRANCE DELAYING TACTICS | 233 |
ITALY CONTRARY MANEUVERS | 235 |
The La Spezia Episode | 238 |
UNRRA and the JDC | 245 |
Confounding British Strategies | 249 |
FRANCE MANIPULATIONS | 257 |
Asylum for Jewish Refugees | 259 |
Quai dOrsay vs the Interior Ministry | 261 |
The Exodus Affair | 266 |
CONCLUSION | 276 |
NOTES | 285 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 343 |
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