Table of Contents
Map ix
Author's Note xi
Introduction: "An Enormous Deal of Kindness" 3
1 Feeding the War Machine: Foreign Labor in Germany, 1940-1945 13
2 Food and Freedom: Preparing for the Aftermath of War, 1940-1943 33
3 "The Origin of the Perpetual Muddle": Experience with Relief, 1943-1945 43
4 "Half the Nationalities of Europe on the March": Germany, 1945 62
5 The Psychological Moment: Repatriating the Refugees, 1945 78
6 The Surviving Remnant: Jewish DPs, 1945 97
7 "Feed the Brutes?": German Refugees, 1945 120
8 Dollars or Death: UNRRA in Germany, 1945 138
9 "You Pick It Up Fast": Wildflecken DP Camp, Germany, 1945 165
10 "Even if the Gates Are Locked": Jewish DPs, 1946 180
11 "Skryning": Repatriating DPs, 1946 203
12 "Save Them First and Argue After": La Guardia and UNRRA 229
13 "We Grossly Underestimated the Destruction": The Food Crisis in Europe in the Winter of 1946-1947 and Washington's Response 248
14 "Dwell, Eat, Breed, Wait": Life in DP Camps, 1947-1950 271
15 "The Best Interests of the Child": Child Search in Germany, 1945-1950 305
16 "Good Human Stock": Resettling DPs, 1947-1950 328
17 "We Lived to See It": Jewish DPs and the Creation of Israel, 1947-1949 349
18 Americas Fair Share: The United States and DPs, 1947-1950 368
19 Legacies: How DPs Made New Lives 384
Notes 415
Bibliography 453
Acknowledgments 471
Index 47