7 Million Displaced Persons in Germany

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7 Million Displaced Persons in Germany

• Former concentration camp inmates

Liberation of KZ Dachau 1945
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Displaced Persons
Former forced laborers

• Liberated forced laborers receive food near
  Münster, Westfalen, 1945

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11.7 Million German Refugees
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German Refugees
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East German Refugees
Refugee Trek, January 1945
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My grandparents from Lodz
Erich Piltz, 1941
Karla, née Neumeister
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Die Flucht
January 1945
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Lodz to Brockel
January 1945
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Brockel
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German Refugees and Expellees 1945-1950

• 6,944,000 from the Eastern Territories
• 2,921,000 from Czechoslovakia
• 1,865,000 from other countries
• Total 11,730,000

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German Refugees and their offspring in 1966

• 10,000,000 in West-Germany (FRG)
• 3,500,000 in East-Germany (GDR)
• 500,000 in Austria and other countries

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Housing Problems

• Emergency Shelters for Refugees in Holzhausen,
  Saxony, 1945

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Selected Literature

• de Zayas, Alfred-Maurice. A Terrible Revenge. The
  Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans,
  1944-1950. Transl. By John A. Koehler. New York
  Martins Press, 1994.
• Marrus, Michael R. The Unwanted. European
  Refugees in the Twentieth Century. New York
  Oxford UP, 1985.
• Wyman, Mark, DP Europes Displaced Persons,
  1945-1951. Philadelphia The Balch Institute
  Press, 1989