Category: #1 Displaced Persons
Greek Displacement
In many ways history repeats itself, displacement has been echoed throughout the centuries. Following the end of the second World War, millions of people found themselves homeless, hungry and in search of refuge. In recent times we witnessed the images and footage of Syrians fleeing their home, devastatingly failing to reach the shores in …
Restoring Identity and Nationality
After World War Two, millions of people across Europe had lost their homes due to combat, capture, conscription, or outright removal throughout the war, including hundreds of thousands of children. These people, searching for their homes, wondering if they had homes to return to, were labelled as “displaced persons,” or DPs, and this also applied …
Displaced Persons
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 …
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 due to repatriation efforts started by Germany during the war. This was a reason for the problem that followed the war with the repatriation efforts started by the US and … Continue reading →
The Movement of Displaced Persons Across Europe
In the years following the end of World War II in Europe, the entire continent had to deal with massive efforts of reconstruction and reorganization to get the broken nations of Europe back on their feet. Many of the countries faced unparalleled damage to infrastructure and administrative institutions that made healing an even more … Continue reading →
Citizens as State Property: Displaced Persons Following WWII
Following the Second World War, nations across Europe sought to recover what property Nazi Germany had stolen from them: machines, gold, paintings, and even humans. While many Europeans displaced by WWII eagerly sought to return home, some citizens no longer wished to return to their home countries form before the war. However, following the war, …
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A Large Problem Facing a Post War World: Displaced Persons
After reading the first part of Cohen’s “In War’s Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in Postwar Order and Zahra’s “‘A Human Treasure’-Europe’s Displaced Children Between Nationalism and Internationalism, ” my understanding of the displaced persons epidemic that caused distress across the European continent is viewed with better understanding. I like how the Zahra article shows the …
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Displaced Persons
Two summers ago I spent the month of July travelling across the country, stopping at Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and ending up in Los Angeles. I was recovering from a second back surgery, and I felt that I needed to undergo a complete physical, mental, and spiritual recharge to get back on track. While in …
Displaced Persons
The reason that I chose this photo is because it exemplifies the role of children in the years immediately following the war and how they fit into the national versus international debate. As the caption states, this photo is from one of the Displaced Persons camps established after the war in which children would go …
Blog Post #1 Ethan Claybrook: Seizing Nationality
WW2 had reduced Europe to a melting pot. The war torn landscape of Germany and France held refugees of many nationalities and identities, all being coveted by the victorious Allied powers. Under the guise of international relief and working in the interest of human rights, the refugee question became the first battleground between the East …
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