Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
German surrender at Karlshorst (1945)
On the Refugee crises map as “The surrender at Karlshorst”
8 May 1945 — In a requisitioned officers’ mess in Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany’s commanders sign the unconditional surrender. With that signature the millions of foreigners inside the defeated Reich stopped being forced workers and prisoners and became “displaced persons”, waiting to be counted, fed and sent somewhere.
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- Turning point
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- Refugee crisis in Europe after WW2 (chapter 1 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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