Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Equalisation of Burdens Act (1952)
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14 Aug 1952 — The Bundestag passes the Lastenausgleich law: owners of property that survived the war pay a levy of half its 1948 value, spread over thirty years, into a fund compensating expellees and bombed-out citizens. By 1986 it had paid out more than 130 billion marks, one of the largest transfers of wealth in West German history.
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- Turning point
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- Expellee integration in West Germany (chapter 6 of Refugee crises)
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- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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