Category: #1 Displaced Persons

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 …

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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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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 …

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        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 […]

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 →

At the end of World War II countless lives had been uprooted, vast numbers of people were homeless and looking for new places to live. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear displaced persons in context to post WWII is the foundation of Israel. The event that stands out to me is … Continue reading “Displaced Persons”

Blogging is certainly not a strong point for me in my academic career, so I need to work on it in order to contribute better to the field because it allows us to communicate our thoughts more freely and casually than formal papers only shared between student and professor. The displaced persons situation in Europe … Continue reading “Displaced Persons Blog Post Parker Manning”

When discussing World War II many people associate the post war period with the Marshal Plan and as an economical recovery however that is only one part of the post war recovery period.  Another major controversial part of the post war recovery was dealing with displaced children. Children have been displaced since their was a … Continue reading “Displaced Persons”

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…