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Political Survivors - The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Hardcover)
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Political Survivors - The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Hardcover)
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In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French
intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon
fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as
a "hallucinatory repetition" of Nazi Germany's most terrible crime.
In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what
followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance
from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the
continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the
world. The International Commission against the Concentration Camp
Regime brought together those originally deported for acts of
anti-Nazi political activity who believed that their unlikely
survival incurred a duty to bear witness for other victims. Over
the course of the next decade, these pioneering activists crusaded
to expose political imprisonment, forced labor, and other crimes
against humanity in Franco's Spain, Maoist China, French Algeria,
and beyond. Until now, the CIA's secret funding of Rousset's
movement has remained in the shadows. Kuby reveals this clandestine
arrangement between European camp survivors and American
intelligence agents. She also brings to light how Jewish Holocaust
victims were systematically excluded from Commission membership - a
choice that fueled the group's rise, but also helped lead to its
premature downfall. The history that she unearths provides a
striking new vision of how wartime memory shaped European
intellectual life and ideological struggle after 1945, showing that
the key lessons Western Europeans drew from the war centered on
"the camp," imagined first and foremost as a site of political
repression rather than ethnic genocide. Political Survivors argues
that Cold War dogma and acrimony, tied to a distorted understanding
of WWII's chief atrocities, overshadowed the humanitarian
possibilities of the nascent anti-concentration camp movement as
Europe confronted the violent decolonizing struggles of the 1950s.
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