Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Wildflecken DP camp (1945–51)
On the Refugee crises map as “Wildflecken”
1945–51 — A former Wehrmacht training ground in the Rhön hills becomes the largest Polish DP camp, holding about 20,000 people at its peak, many unwilling to return to a Poland now under communist rule. The UNRRA worker Kathryn Hulme described it in her memoir The Wild Place (1953).
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Displaced persons camps after WW2 (chapter 4 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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