Category: #1 Displaced Persons

    During and after World War 2, millions of Europeans were pushed from their homes and countries for a vast array of reasons. Some simply wanted to avoid the fighting, ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe were fleeing the advancing … Continue reading →

World War II left Europe in shambles physically and biologically.  While whole towns and cities were physically destroyed so were families, children were the largest group displaced or without homes due to the death of their parents.  Eugene Kilischner estimated that “more than thirty million of the inhabitants of the continent of Europe have been transplanted … Continue reading “Populationism and The Value of Displaced or Orphaned Children”

Following the  mass destruction and loss of life caused by the Second World War Europe was faced again with another problem,the displacement of millions of Jews, Ukrainians, Yugoslavs,Poles, Czechoslovakians and other groups of European citizens. The reasons behind these citizens displacements were various. Some of the major reasons people fled their homelands were because of  religious, ethnic, … Continue reading “Dealing with Displacment”

Depicted as happy settlers, DPs were subject to relocation at the hands of the Allied powers

With millions of displaced persons aimlessly being relocated, ignored, or treated as test subjects, the question of nationalism’s importance post WWII was as important as ever. Jewish Holocaust survivors, children products of Germanization, and emigrants searching for a home free