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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Director General Fiorello LaGuardia with Polish Slave Labor Woman at Funk Kaserne Emigration and Repatriation Center near Munich, Germany, 1946. Hedwig Rademacher (seated) speaks with LaGuardia about her imminent return to Bojanov, Poland, on a repatriation train. Able to speak several languages, LaGuardia could speak with displaced persons of many nationalities, including Rademacher, who had been forced labor during the War. -Maxine RudeFiorello H. LaGuardia was an American Politician who was the three term Mayor of New York City 1933-1945. As mayor he was very open about his contempt for Hitler and the Nazi Regime and was vilified by the German press. He advocated for intervention prior to WWII by continuously speaking out about Nazi violations and contempt for Human Rights even when opinion in the US was one of anti-war and isolation. He was appointed Director General of the UNNRA in 1946 and remained until it ceased operation in 1947.

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