HIST 215 Lecture : April 10
22 Apr 2012
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1/ physical devastation: cities spared: oxford, prague, paris were not to be bombed/shelled, destroyed: berlin and most other german cities, warsaw, budapest, 2/ continuing allied co-operation: the united nations: tehran conferences, dumbarton conference. 3/ post-war settlement: potsdam, july 1945: status quo ante. Germany divided into 4 occupation zones, with plans to de- 4/ the refugee crisis and forced population movements: a continent of displaced persons merriman. Spring 1945: 20m on the move: continuity with wartime trends. Between them, hitler and stalin uprooted, transplanted, expelled, deported and dispersed some 30 million people in the years 1939-1943. With the retreat of the axis armies, the process was reversed. Ethnic germans, balts, poles, ukrainians, cossacks, hungarians, etc escaping the soviet army had association with the third. Reich and had reasons to fear the army. Last dp (displaced persons) camp closes in 1957 in bavaria: population exchanges and transfers/resettlement: turks from.
