Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Friedland transit camp (1945)
20 Sep 1945 — The British open a reception camp in farm buildings where their zone met the American and Soviet zones. Expellees, prisoners of war coming home and, for decades afterwards, ethnic German resettlers passed through it in their millions; it still receives newcomers today.
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- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- Expulsion of Germans after WW2 (chapter 2 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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