Month: September 2016

Post War Blog 2 In Jarvis’s article If He Comes Home Nervous, Jarvis gives us examples of how psychiatric help was just beginning to be…

For many veterans of World War II the trials and tribulations did not simply end with the conclusion of the war. The process of returning to a “life of normalcy” was a long and arduous road for a lot of … Continue reading →

Obviously, the most common theme among the readings is that of displaced persons, most notably the women and children who were largely left alone to essentially sort through the rubble of their lives that were obliterated during the war.  But something that I found particular interesting were the words of a social worker with the…

In history, we learn about the horrors of war. We learned in middle school and high school about the Holocaust and other genocides that have…

During World War Two, people were moved en mass between national borders, creating tens of thousands of people with unspecific homes. Many of these people were children, who could not remember from where they came.  This may have raised issues Continue reading Displaced Persons: Think of the Children, Would you?→

  The Devastation caused during the Second World War was apparent to all of the nations around the world. Children are taught regularly about the trauma induced upon the soldiers and civilians during the multiple military campaigns conducted in Europe and elsewhere. What is less likely to be taught however, is the emotional pain that […]

I have never had to move in my life, my family has been stationary in northern Virginia for over 20 years. So I have no idea what it must have felt like for the ethnic Germans after World War II ended when they had to pick up what they could carry and move out of […]

Post World War II Europe was always a nightmare being prepared for. President Roosevelt and his wife both understood that the destruction that was taking place in Europe would bring years and years of headache and hardship for the bystanders…. Continue Reading →

The Second World War left Europe in ruins and millions of people with out homes or hundreds of miles from their homes. Franklin D. Roosevelt predicted such an outcome in 1939. FDR stated the end of the war would bring about “the problem of the human refugee”(Cohen, 1). In 1943, two years prior to the … Continue reading “The DP Question Adding Pressure to the Cold War”

On July 30, 1941 Joseph Stalin signed an agreement with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and the exiled Polish government to secure the release of Polish prisoners within the Soviet Union. Stalin would help the Polish government to form an army in order to help fight Hitler’s armies. With the release of over 250,000 people, two … Continue reading “Displaced Persons: Polish People from the Soviet Union”