The liberation of the camps the end of the Holocaust and its aftermath /

520 Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimagina...

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Main Author: Stone, Dan, 1971-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Physical Description: 277 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: explaining liberation
  • Liberated by the Soviets
  • The Western allies
  • Out of the chaos
  • Displaced persons or betrayed persons? life in the DP camps
  • Transitions: DPs in a changing world
  • Conclusion: the sorrows of liberation.