Cruel World Signed and 1st edition

Hardcover by Lynn H. Nicholas. The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web.Once the war began, "Nordic"- looking children were kidnapped from families in the conquered lands and subjected to "Germanization." Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of "bad blood" children Jews, gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians- were separated from their families and condemned to forced migration, slave labor, suggested experiences, starvation and mass execution. At the end of the war uprooted children of every origin wandered through the bombed out cities and countryside some having been taken from home such a young age that they did not know where they had come from or even their own names. Millions surged in to and out of DP camps Exploited by political and religious groups while the Allies and fledging United Nations tried mightily to put families back together and find new homes for orphans. Isbn 0-679-45464-0 Inside is clean and white half inch tear on top dustcover and wear on edges of the dustcover.