Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Potsdam Conference (1945)
On the Refugee crises map as “The Potsdam Conference”
17 Jul–2 Aug 1945 — Truman, Stalin and Churchill (then Attlee) place German lands east of the Oder–Neisse line under Polish administration and, in Article XIII, accept “the transfer to Germany of German populations” from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, asking only that it be “orderly and humane”.
- When
- 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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- Cold War
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