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The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War / by Nasaw, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate foreigners, and attempted to repatriate them to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the USSR. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained over a million displaced persons who either refused to go home or, in the case of many, had no home to which to return. They would spend the next three to five years in displaced persons camps, divided by nationalities, temporary homelands in exile, with their own police forces, churches, schools, newspapers, and medical facilities. The international community couldn't agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of fruitless debate and inaction, an International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from labor shortages. But no nations were willing to accept the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. In 1948, the United States, among the last countries to accept anyone for resettlement, finally passed a Displaced Persons Bill - but as Cold War fears supplanted memories of WWII atrocities, the bill only granted visas to those who were reliably anti-communist, including thousands of former Nazi collaborators, Waffen-SS members, and war criminals, while barring the Jews who were suspected of being Communist sympathizers or agents because they had been recent residents of Soviet-dominated Poland. Only after the passage of the controversial UN resolution for the partition of Palestine and Israel's declaration of independence were the remaining Jewish survivors finally able to leave their displaced persons camps in Germany."--
Subjects: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.; International Refugee Organization.; World War, 1939-1945; Refugees; Refugees; Jewish refugees; Political refugees; Jews; Humanitarianism; World War, 1939-1945;
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The new spymasters : inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror / by Grey, Stephen,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Espionage; Espionage; Intelligence service; Intelligence service; World politics; World politics;
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The living and the lost / by Feldman, Ellen,1941-author.;
'The Living and the Lost' is a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and the unexpected future. From the author of 'Paris Never Leaves You'. Book Club.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Refugees; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Cold War;
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The Berlin letters / by Reay, Katherine,1970-author.;
"Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Cold War; Letters; Fathers and daughters;
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Ice war diplomat : hockey meets cold War politics at the 1972 summit series / by Smith, Gary J.(Diplomat),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Marking the 50th anniversary of the Summit Series, here is the incredible story of an unlikely political stage - the hockey rink - where a Cold War, and the threat of nuclear retaliation, is no less important than a powerplay in minute zero. Discover a diplomacy mission like no other: caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and Russia, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a dangerous path. Smith was born in Ottawa, ON.
Subjects: Smith, Gary J. (Diplomat); Team Canada 1972 (Hockey team); Canada-U.S.S.R. Hockey Series, 1972.;
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Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization / by Scarborough, Joe,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War"--
Subjects: Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.; Cold War.;
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The living and the lost [sound recording] / by Feldman, Ellen,1941-author.; Kreinik, Barrie,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Barrie Kreinik."Millie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work. Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. Millie, works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing; she is consumed with rage at her former country and its citizens, though she is finding it more difficult to hate in proximity. David works trying to help displaced persons build new lives, while hiding his more radical nighttime activities from his sister. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, they suffer from conflicts of rage and guilt at their own good fortune, except for Millie's boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems much too eager to be fair to the Germans. Living and working in bombed-out Berlin, a latter day Wild West where drunken soldiers brawl; the desperate prey on the unsuspecting; spies ply their trade; werewolves, as unrepentant Nazis were called, scheme to rise again; black markets thrive, and forbidden fraternization is rampant, Millie must come to terms with a decision she made as a girl in a moment of crisis, and with the enigmatic sometimes infuriating Major Sutton who is mysteriously understanding of her demons"--Amazon.ca.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Cold War; Jews; Refugees; World War, 1939-1945;
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The dissident / by Goldberg, Paul,1959-author.;
"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cold War; Jews; Murder; Refuseniks;
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When we left Cuba / by Cleeton, Chanel,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Cold War; Cubans; Man-woman relationships; Revenge; Women spies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Spymaster : the life of Britain's most decorated cold war spy and head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield / by Pearce, Martin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-374) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Oldfield, Maurice, Sir, 1915-1981.; Espionage;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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