Month: September 2017
Displaced Persons
Good evening everyone, I just finished up reading several articles about displaced persons post WWII. It really opened my eyes to the fact that there was still a lot of hardship left to deal with after the horrific effects of the war. I was able to gain a broader perspective on how the post war …
Displaced Persons
After World War Two, many people found themselves with no home, no family, and in some cases no country. They had only what they could carry and what they could find. This was the great migration that was forced on so many Europeans after the war, as many displaced peoples were slowly moving back to their …
Displaced Europeans
Wars have always been a cause of massive displacement among people, none more so than World War II. Europe had many people who were displaced…
The European Jigsaw Puzzle
After the Second World War, Europe was in shambles. Now that the War was over, the question was how to rebuild it? Throughout the rebuilding process that followed, many men, women, and children found themselves in foreign lands. These people, not having anywhere to call home anymore, were bounced around from place to place and …
Should DPs Be Forced to Return to Their Country of Origin?
In the wake of World War II, arguably one of the most paramount issues was refugees and displaced people (also known as DPs, an abbreviation coined in United States while preparing to reconstruct after the war) in Europe. Millions of individuals were forced to leave their homes and countries of origin in order to escape …
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Displaced Persons CJackson
Christopher Jackson Displaced Persons The common theme for these articles involves people being displaced. This displacement was a result of war and the after affects. War has always been troublesome in the past and even to this very day. These articles however focus on the after math of World War II and its effect on …
Hello!
Greetings fellow classmates! My name is Dalton Ragland. I am currently a Junior majoring in History. I am also planning on receiving my Master’s in Secondary Education through the Graduate School here at Virginia Tech. I am from a rural area know as Nelson County located between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. I took Professor Gitre’s WWII …
#1 Displaced Persons
Home. It is such a important concept of the human experience. Sure some people can exist as nomads but for the the majority of us we need a place to call our own. After the extremely divisive political conflicts of World War II many people did not ideologically belong anymore to […]
Displaced persons
Boys in postwar Berlin are served a ration of gruel (flour and milk) What I found most intriguing about the readings was Germany’s reaction to the aftermath of the war and their interpretations of the cause of their plight. For many Germans, a sense of victimization pervaded their minds as they looked over the … Continue reading →
Inroductions
Hey, everyone. I am Zachary Hubbard, a history major and an Appalachian studies minor. I am a senior here at Tech and the Corps of Cadets and want to work with the Park Services when I graduate. I enjoy hiking and being outside the most and when the weather is bad I watch TV and play …
