One of the many virtues of The Last Million is the author’s ability to make vivid sense of a bewildering moment. He clarifies without oversimplifying.

... a characteristically thorough and impressively researched account.

... insightful and eye-opening.

Nasaw does a masterful job of bringing to light the lasting individual and global consequences of policies and attitudes surrounding the last million.

Nasaw has done a real service in resurrecting this history, but what’s often missing are the personal narratives of the individuals who lived through this period. One has to turn to other forms — novels, plays, memoirs — to grasp the full human drama..

On July 23, 1945, less than three months after Germany’s surrender, Earl Harrison, the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, sat down at Bergen-Belsen with a survivor named Yossel Rosensaft.

... richly detailed.

... masterful.