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By 1944, the tides of war had shifted in Europe and Asia. The Nazi armies were in full retreat on both eastern and western fronts. So were the Japanese forces in the Pacific: by the end of 1944, the Americans had reached the Philippines and were bombing Japanese positions in southern China.
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Dr. Samuel Didner was a refugee from Graz, in Austria. His story is featured in James R. Ross, Escape to Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China (New York: Free Press, 1994).
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Hochstadt, S. (2012). The End of the War. In: Exodus to Shanghai. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006721_6
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