The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People
Leo W. Schwarz
1949
For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of recuperation. I shared with others the deep emotional reverberations evoked by the plight of the displaced persons imbedded in the devastation of Occupied…
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