Europe After the War; JPB on the Ground

Ben Shephard's The Long Road Home documents  jus post bellum issues arising in the efforts to manage mass migrations of displaced persons after WWII:

One heart-rending chapter deals with the efforts to reunite children with their mothers and fathers. On the face of it, this sounds like an incontrovertibly good thing, in particular for those infants who had been stolen from their families by the Nazis on account of their “Aryan” looks and reassigned to German foster parents. Yet was it right to wrench children away from their new families against their will, especially in cases when it was not clear that the true parents could be found or that they wanted their children back? U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration staffers divided on the issue, some feeling that the effort had to be made by way of atonement for the original wrong, and others skeptical that returning children to their birth countries was necessarily in their best interests.

Read the NYT review here.