Displaced Persons – Between Liberation and a New Beginning

2025/12/01 by Sarah Grandke, William Connor
#Anti-Semitism #Anti-Slavic racism #Anti-communism #Austria #Canada #Displaced Person (Second World War and post-war Germany) #German Reich #Germany #History #Migration (human) #Poland #Postwar period #Refugee #Republic of Poland #Soviet Union #United States of America

paper · doi:10.25355/pvfh-7814

Abstract

Over eleven million people were considered displaced persons in 1945. Those who did not return immediately lived mainly in DP camps in the western occupation zones of Germany and Austria. How did they experience this time of uncertainty?

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