Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Forced labour in the Ruhr (1944)
Aug 1944 — The Reich’s labour offices count about 7.6 million foreign civilian workers and prisoners of war, roughly a quarter of all workers, most of them brought by force from Poland and the Soviet Union. In the Ruhr they dug coal and built weapons; in May 1945 they became the core of the DP problem.
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- Refugee crisis in Europe after WW2 (chapter 1 of Refugee crises)
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- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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