PositiveThe New YorkerA reminder of just how much the Good Friday Agreement accomplished ... It’s hard to render an episode in a centuries-old struggle as a caper story, but Carroll lets in just enough history to pull it off, mostly.
David Nasaw
MixedThe New YorkerOn July 23, 1945, less than three months after Germany’s surrender, Earl Harrison, the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, sat down at Bergen-Belsen with a survivor named Yossel Rosensaft ... The State Department had sent him as a special emissary to investigate the conditions in the camps that were hastily being organized to shelter \'displaced persons,\' or D.P.s, and to report back \'with particular reference to the Jewish refugees\' ... What Nasaw calls \'the Last Million\' were the \'non-repatriable\' remnant who refused to leave or had nowhere to go ... There is something of a lacuna in Nasaw’s book where one might expect them to be, given that they were, by many definitions (although not necessarily the one used by the occupying forces) displaced persons, too. Nasaw notes the phenomenon, observes that many ethnic Germans had collaborated with the Nazis, and reports that there was \'little debate and no dissension\' about the expulsion when it came up at Potsdam. Otherwise, the expellees remain at the margins of his story.
