How political rivalries led to victimizing WWII refugees who had suffered most
In The Last Million, David Nasaw reveals the fate of people, “living, moving, pallid wreckage” in 1945, who refused to go home or had no home to return to.
BRITAIN’S THEN-PRINCESS ELIZABETH joins US president Harry Truman in Washington in 1951. The book says the Truman administration supported displaced Jews going to Palestine, but limited immigration to the US. (photo credit: REUTERS VIA US NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION)By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
