[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Post War Germany

[Helen Gillespie]

To the List,

For those of us whose families came to the US or Canada after the Second
World War, the following items might be of interest, especially if you
wondered about the politics, the military circumstances and conditions then
:

>From Archive.org a report on refugees, the displaced, (returning) prisoners
of war, and homeless foreigners in Germany put out by the German federal
Minister for Refugees dated 1953  (in German)

https://archive.org/stream/BundesministeriumFuerVertriebe
ne-VertriebeneFluechtlinge/BundesministeriumFuerVertriebene-
VertriebeneFluechtlingeKriegsgefangeneHeimatloseAuslaender19
49-52195360S.Scan#page/n0/mode/1up
<https://archive.org/stream/BundesministeriumFuerVertriebene-VertriebeneFluechtlinge/BundesministeriumFuerVertriebene-VertriebeneFluechtlingeKriegsgefangeneHeimatloseAuslaender1949-52195360S.Scan#page/n1/mode/1up>


A blog by Dr. Chris Knowles, a British historian, who has some very
interesting articles on the British occupation of Germany after the War.

http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/
germany-1945-1949-a-case-study-in-post-conflict-reconstruction


For those in the American occupied sector,  the military published
something similar but fairly technical because of its mostly military
nature - but obviously what the locals and the refugees had to deal with.

http://www.history.army.mil/documents/BorderOps/content.htm


Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-52 brief overview :
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/107189.htm
<https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/107189.htm>


NARA - The Seizure of European Records during World War II

http://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/17/the-seizure-of
-european-records-from-world-war-ii/

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/24/the-return-of
-captured-records-from-world-war-ii/


Helen