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Images - German Expellees and their New Neighbors
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1.   Emergency Accommodations in "Nissen Huts" in Hamburg (1946)
"Nissen Huts," named after their English designer P. Nissen, were used after 1945 as emergency quarters for Germans who had been bombed out of their homes and for refugees and expellees as well.....
Emergency Accommodations in "Nissen Huts" in Hamburg (1946)
2.   A Family of Expellees from the Sudetenland in Southern Germany (1948)
Along with Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony, Bavaria was one of the major landing points for expellees. A total of 1.938 million expellees were living in Bavaria in 1949; they represented 21 percent....
A Family of Expellees from the Sudetenland in Southern Germany (1948)
3.   Family of Expellees at Camp Benthe near Hannover (1950)
Like Schleswig-Holstein and Bavaria, Lower Saxony was also a major "expellee state." The 2.217 million expellees and refugees who were living there in 1950 accounted for almost one-third of the state’s....
Family of Expellees at Camp Benthe near Hannover (1950)
4.   Federal Minister for All-German Affairs Jakob Kaiser at the Second Federal Meeting of Silesians in Munich (September 16, 1951)
On September 16, 1951, the Second Federal Meeting of Silesians concluded with a mass rally of 100,000 people on Königsplatz in Munich. Federal Minister for All-German Affairs Jakob Kaiser (CDU) delivered....
Federal Minister for All-German Affairs Jakob Kaiser at the Second Federal Meeting of Silesians in Munich (September 16, 1951)
5.   "Resettlers" from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the GDR (January 1957)
In the German Democratic Republic, in contrast to the Federal Republic, the subjects of flight and expulsion were suppressed in the public discourse. In SED diction, refugees and expellees were called....
"Resettlers" from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the GDR (January 1957)
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