In the Children’s Best Interests: Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952

"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both…Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book."

Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College, European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018

"This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth."

Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019

"Looking at a wide range of sources across several languages, Taylor keeps track of the multitude of bureaucratic agencies and sub-agencies across two continents. In the Children’s Best Interests is rich in human stories, and Taylor does a fine job in tracing the shifting contours of refugee relief, keeping it embedded in the political context of postwar Europe."

Adam Seipp, Department of History, Texas A&M University

"In the Children’s Best Interests is a solid marvellously documented narrative on the debates, struggles, and policies that shaped the lives of these children after the war."

G. Daniel Cohen, Department of History, Rice University