Machine generated contents note: The Inner World of the Refugee -- Defining Refugees -- Writing Refugees -- Historians and Refugees -- The Great Journey: Transformative Movement and the Second World War -- pt. 1 The Midnight Of The Century -- 1.The Retirada: Spanish Republican Refugees, 1939 -- The Refugees' War -- Images of France -- Organizing the Retirada -- The French Reception: Watching the War -- The French Reception: Organizing Welfare -- The French Reception: The Spanish Experience -- The French Reception: Controlling the Flood -- Conclusion -- 2.At the Limits of the Nation State: French Evacuations, 1939-1940 -- Planning Evacuation -- Evacuation in Wartime -- Preparing for the Evacuees -- Evacuation Stories -- Reception and a New Life -- Alsace and Lorraine after the Evacuation -- Conclusion -- 3.The Exodus: French Internal Refugees, 1940 -- The Broken Hinge -- May 1940 -- Soldiers and Civilians: Encounters on the Road -- Images of the Crowd: The Mindless Underworld -- Making Sense of the Exode -- Solidarity on the Road -- Conclusion -- 4.After the Exodus: Return, Expulsion and Escape -- The Challenges of Return -- Returning Home -- Other Journeys: Continuing Southwards -- Other Journeys: V̀isa: A Hundred-Act Vexation' -- A Second Exode? The Expulsions of Alsatians and Mosellans -- Conclusion -- pt. 2 False Dawn -- 5.Lessons Unlearned: Wartime Debates and the Creation of UNRRA -- Ending Another War -- Neutrality and Commitment: the Red Cross and UNRRA -- Planning UNRRA -- Criticizing UNRRA, Defending UNRRA -- Recording UNRRA: Beyond Bureaucracy -- Joining UNRRA -- UNRRA at Granville -- Zones and Organizations -- Conclusion -- 6.Into Darkest Germany -- Travelling into Germany -- Finding the Camps -- Documents and DPs -- The Status of the Relief Worker -- Frauleins, Girls and Ladies: Women Relief Workers -- Requisitioning, Scrounging and the Black Market -- Helping the People Help Themselves -- Dedication and Commitment -- Conclusion -- 7.In the Camps -- The Politics of Empathy -- The Politics of Critique -- A Liberation that was not a Liberation -- DPs and Nationality -- Protests, Initiatives and National Resurgence -- DPs and Relief Workers -- Conclusion -- 8.Other Paths: Returning to Nationhood -- Returning to Poland -- R̀eturning' to Israel -- Conclusion.