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Refugees and displaces people 1945

As a result of the Second World War, up to 60 million people in Europe lost their homes, including more than 10 million Germans. Many of them fled west in the last winter of the war from the approaching Red Army, and after the end of the war the displacement of German minorities from Eastern and Central Europe began.

Expellees from Sudetenland

30.11.1999 - A refugee train with Sudeten Germans has arrived at the transit camp in Wiesau. The food is brought to the camp on a rail car. (undated picture)
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Displaced persons from Sudetenland

30.11.1999 - A refugee train with Sudeten Germans has arrived at transit camp Wiesau. The baggage is brought to the camp via railway.
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First resettlers from Czechoslovakia

30.11.1999 - The first 350 of 20,000 resettlers from Czechoslovakia have arrived on German ground.
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Post-war era - refugees

30.11.1944 - A woman is pushing a buggy, with her whole belongings in it and her little son sitting on it, towards the west, in the turmoil of the post-war era.
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Post-war era - refugees

30.11.1999 - Refugees, after the end of the Second World War, with buggy and baggage, in front of Frankfurt am Main central station.
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Post-war era - refugees

30.11.1944 - Refugees are waiting for their transport, in Berlin, 1945.
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World War II - Refugees

30.11.1944 - Refugees leave the disputed city of Aachen in the last weeks of World War II.
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Post-war era: expellees from Sudetenland

30.11.2002 - A refugee train with Sudeten Germans has arrived at transit camp Wiesau. (Undated).
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Post-war era: expellees

30.11.2002 - Catholic nons guide expellees to a refugee camp. (undated)
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Post-war era - displacement of Germans from Poland

30.11.2002 - Displaced people from Poland arrive in Germany.
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Post-war era - homecomers

30.11.2002 - Very emaciated women are standing in line for a bowl of hot soup, in a camp for homecomers. (Undated picture).
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Post-war era 1945 - refugees

01.01.2000 - A refugee camp in Schleswig-Holstein, 1945. +++(c) dpa - Report+++
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Post-war era - camp

01.01.2000 - A brassard indicated one of the policemen of Bebra camp. All refugges are registered by the police and provided with valid identity cards. Picture from 1946. +++(c) dpa - Report+++
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Post-war era - refugees

01.01.2000 - Refugees from Silesia and Sudetenland have found accommodations in the barracks of a former labor camp in Hunstadt, which were made habitable by an initiative of the villagers. Und...
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German refugees in Denmark

01.01.2000 - Young women are digging a piece of land next to the barracks of the camp, in 1945. About 18,000 German refugees live in Klövermarken camp at the gates of Copenhagen.+++(c) dpa - Re...
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Post-war era - refugee camp Allach

01.01.1900 - Women prepare meals at a table in the refugee camp Allach in 1948.+++(c) dpa - Report+++
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Escape and displacement after World War 2

07.05.2015 - German refugees as a result of the 2nd World War; horizontal format 135 x 115 mm, Graphics/Editing: A. Brühl
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Post-war era - camp for refugees in Bebra

06.01.1946 - An attendant with white brassard (front, r) accompanies newly arrived refugees, in January 1946, through the refugee camp in Bebra.
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Historic chart: refugees

11.07.1949 - The "drawing illustrates where and in what strength the stream of refugees distributed within the West German reception area " ( from the original ).
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End of World War II - Refugees

01.06.1945 - Refugees are on their way to Brandenburg and cross a provisional bridge in the summer of 1945. They carry their personal belongings and have a piece of white cloth around their arm...
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Third Reich - German refugees from Poland 1939

22.08.1939 - Propaganda text of the National Socialist report on the back of the picture: 'Escaped from the regardless Polish terror. Five children who escaped from Poland without their parents...
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WW II - refugees 1945

01.04.1945 - Refugees from the East of the German Reich (German Empire) sit on a carriage with all their belongings on their way to Berlin in April 1945. (Flaws in quality due to the historic p...
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WW II - refugees 1945

01.01.1945 - Refugees from the East of the German Reich (German Empire) around 1944/1945. Place and date unknown. (Flaws in quality due to the historic picture copy) Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitg...
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WW II - French Refugees 1944

13.07.1944 - Thousands of French cilivians flee from bomb raids and combat action or are forced to leave their houses on German order after the attack of the western Allies on German-occupied n...
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Nachkriegszeit - Hamburg 1947

01.01.1947 - In vielen deutschen Großstädten wie hier in Hamburg im Jahr 1947 herrschte nach dem Krieg akute Wohnungsnot. Um der Bevölkerung und den Flüchtlingen ein bescheidenes Dach über dem...
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Flüchtlingstrecks

01.01.2000 - Flüchtlingstrecks fliehen vor der Front des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Osteuropa (undatiertes Archivbild aus dem Jahr 1945).
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Nachkriegszeit - Sudetendeutsche

01.01.2000 - Essensausgabe. Im Durchgangslager Wiesau in Bayern ist ein neuer Zug mit Sudetendeutschen Aussiedlern angekommen.
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Post-war years: German refugees in Berlin

15.12.1945 - War refugees walking through Berlin with their whole belongings on 15th December 1945.
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