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Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990

Refugee crises timeline and maps

Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 23 dated maps and 63 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Refugee crisis in Europe after WW2
CHAPTER 1 · 1945
Expulsion of Germans after WW2
CHAPTER 2 · 1945
Polish population transfers
CHAPTER 3 · 1947
Displaced persons camps after WW2
CHAPTER 4 · 1947
1951 Refugee Convention
CHAPTER 5 · 1951
Expellee integration in West Germany
CHAPTER 6 · 1956
Fall of Saigon and the 1975 exodus
CHAPTER 7 · 1975
Re-education camps and Hoa exodus
CHAPTER 8 · 1978
Vietnamese boat people
CHAPTER 9 · 1979
1979 Geneva conference on refugees
CHAPTER 10 · 1979
Comprehensive Plan of Action
CHAPTER 11 · 1989
Europe and Indochina refugee crises
CHAPTER 12 · 1990

Refugee crises maps by year

MAY 1945AUG 1945APR 1947JUL 1947FEB 1948MAY 1948OCT 1949JUL 1951MAY 1952NOV 1956AUG 1961NOV 1990JUL 1954APR 1975DEC 1975MID-1978JUN 1979JUL 1979OCT 1979JAN 1981JUL 1982JUN 1989DEC 1989

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Battles, events and sites of memory

● Ban Vinai refugee camp● Berlin Airlift● Breslau becomes Wrocław● Bridge at Andau◆ Brno death march● Cap Anamur rescue ship● Charter of the German Expellees◆ Choeung Ek● Communist coup in Czechoslovakia● Communist takeover of Laos● Crackdown on trade in Cholon● Cyprus internment camps● DP emigration from Bremerhaven● Documentation Centre for Displacement● Equalisation of Burdens Act● Evacuation of East Prussia● Evacuation of Finnish Karelia● Evacuation of Long Tieng● Expulsion of Germans from Hungary● Fall of Saigon● Feldafing DP camp◆ Forced evacuation of Phnom Penh● Forced labour in the Ruhr● Friedland transit camp● Galang refugee camp● German surrender at Karlshorst● German–Polish Border Treaty● Hai Hong refugee ship● Hoa exodus via Friendship Pass✕ Hungarian Revolution● International Tracing Service● Istrian exodus● Khao-I-Dang refugee camp◆ Kielce pogrom◆ Liberation of Bergen-Belsen◆ Lidice massacre● Lwów becomes Lviv● Magazzino 18● Marienfelde reception centre◆ Massacres of Poles in Volhynia● New Economic Zones● Operation New Life● Operation Vistula● Orderly Departure Program● Palestinian refugees in Gaza● Philippine Refugee Processing Center◆ Piracy at Ko Kra● Potsdam Conference● Pulau Bidong refugee camp● Refugee Convention◆ Refugees forced back at Preah Vihear◆ Repatriation of Cossacks at Lienz● Repatriation of Vietnamese boat people● SS Exodus✕ Sino-Vietnamese War● Site 2 refugee camp● Traiskirchen refugee camp● Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong◆ Vietnamese re-education camps● White Buses● Whitehead Detention Centre● Wildflecken DP camp● Yalta Conference

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