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Research carried out by the West German government found more prosaic reasons, such as marital problems, family estrangement, and the homesickness of those who had lived in East Germany in the past. [22] A number of Allied military personnel, including British, French, West German, and United States troops, also defected. [23]
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe, namely from the Middle East.An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum, [2] the most in a single year since World War II. [3]
According to a population census in 1950, around 12.5 million refugees and exiles from the eastern territories formerly occupied by the Nazi regime fled after the end of the Second World War, to the Allied [excluding Russia?] occupation zones of Germany and Berlin. 3 million refugees came to Germany from Czechoslovakia, 1.4 million from Poland, roughly 300,000 from the former Free City of ...
The influx of refugees in Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War was one of the biggest difficulties faced in Germany in the early post-war period. Per capita, the Province of Schleswig-Holstein of Prussia, later the state of Schleswig-Holstein, took in the second-most refugees and displaced persons from the former eastern territories of Germany between 1944 and 1947, second only to ...
The Problem of Refugees from Poland in Soviet-German Relations (September 1939 - June 1940). Journal of Russian and East European Historical Research. No. 1 (4). pp. 66–76. 2012. ISSN 2409-1413; Samuel Ettinger. Part Six. The Newest Period. Chapter Six. The Nazis' Rise to Power in Germany and the Genocide of European Jewry during World War II.
A total of 370,000 ethnic Germans from the USSR were deported to Poland by Germany during the war. In 1945 the Soviets found 280,000 of these resettlers in Soviet-held territory and returned them to the USSR; 90,000 became refugees in Germany after the war. [189] A refugee trek of Black Sea Germans during the Second World War in Hungary, July 1944
This posed many problems, the lack of provisions allowed for more asylum seekers than anticipated to be housed in Germany. [6] Germany would see an influx of refugees in 1956 due to Soviet intervention in the Hungarian uprisings. Moreover, the political shift caused by the Cold War caused Germany to adopt a more pragmatic asylum policy.
Marienfelde refugee camp, July 1958 Marienfelde refugee camp, July 1961 Contemporary view of the memorial's entrance. Marienfelde refugee transit camp (German: Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde) was one of three camps [1] operated by West Germany and West Berlin during the Cold War for dealing with the great waves of immigration from East Germany, especially between 1950 and 1961.