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In 1923, Earl Grant Harrison earned his LLB.

From 1940 to 1941, Earl Grant Harrison served in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, as Director of Alien Registration in the United States Department of Justice.
From 1942 to 1944, he served as the United States Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization.

From 1945 to 1948, Earl Grant Harrison served as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

President Harry S. Truman sent Earl Grant Harrison to Europe to investigate the DP camps.
He was shocked by the conditions and reported:
"As things stand now, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them. They are in concentration camps, in large numbers under our military guard instead of SS troops. One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy."
Earl G. Harrison found that the DPs overwhelmingly wanted to go to Palestine.

On August 3, 1945,
Earl Grant Harrison submitted his preliminary Harrison Report, which set the basis for American policy toward Jewish DPs, to President Harry S. Truman.
He recommended that 100,000 Jews be allowed to enter Palestine.
President Truman presented the recommendations to Prime Minister Clement Atlee, Britain demurred, fearing repercussions
In response, Britain convened a joint United States-United Kingdom committee, the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, to investigate the status of DPs.

President Harry S. Truman, following the Harrison Report, which was released to newspapers on September 30, 1945, called for major changes to the treatment of Jews in the DP camps. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, complying with President Truman’s request, implemented changes in the camps, making them more humanitarian.
Jews became a separate group in the camps, so Polish Jews no longer had to live with other Poles, and German Jews no longer had to live with Germans, who, in some cases were operatives or even guards in the concentration camps.
DP camps were established throughout Europe, and those in Italy served as congregation points for refugees fleeing to Palestine.
When conditions in the camps improved and all-Jewish DP camps had been, he closing of concentration camps, the care of DPs was transferred to UNRRA.