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The Beginning of the Problem

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World War Two was drawing to a close. The “blonde beasts” who had triumphed in 1941 were fleeing backwards before the vengeful Red Army coming from the east and the north, and the Allies pushing inexorably from the south and west. The Axis had clearly lost the war. With each retreat, the extent and nature of Nazi crimes became ever clearer and irrefutable.

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Davidson, A. (2015). The Beginning of the Problem. In: Migration in the Age of Genocide. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21849-6_2

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