Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Traiskirchen refugee camp (1956)
On the Refugee crises map as “Traiskirchen”
Nov 1956 — Austria opens a reception camp for Hungarian refugees in former army barracks south of Vienna. It is still the country’s main reception centre for asylum seekers today, a reminder of how often Austria has stood at the edge of someone else’s crisis.
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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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