This is an original perspective on the experience of refugees and
relief workers. The period of the 'long' Second World War
(1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60
million people either fled or were forced from their homes. This
book considers the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in
1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in
1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the
forces of Hitler's Third Reich. Throughout this period state and
voluntary organisations were created to take care of the homeless
and the displaced. National organisations dominated until the end
of the war; afterwards, international organisations - the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International
Refugee Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an
international problem. Using case studies of displaced people and
of relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at
the centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making
the work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second
World War.
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