Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Marienfelde reception centre (1953)
14 Apr 1953 — West Berlin opens an emergency reception centre for refugees from East Germany. Refugees were registered, screened and flown out to West Germany; about 1.35 million people had passed through it by 1990.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Expellee integration in West Germany (chapter 6 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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