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The Professional School Darmstadt 1947-48
Displaced Persons
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Displaced Persons
The term "DPs" was an administrative category of the Western Allied forces that comprised all people who because of the Second World War and its implications, were expelled from their homeland, had fled to the West from the Soviet influence or had been deported by the Nazis.
The definition included:
- People that had had to perfom forced labour in Germany factories during the was
- Prisoners of war, former concnetration camp inhabitoants or East Europeans that had either voluntarily looked for work in the GErman economy before the war or tried to stay ahead fo the Sovier Red Army in 1944. (The term does not include the additional many millions of German fugitives and expellees like the Silesians (Schlesier) and Sudetendeutsche who as a consequence of the Second World War were forced to leave their homeland).
- The Jewish survivorsrepresented a rather small group among these DPs, but, because of their persecution during the Nazi regime, needed particular help. They called themselves "She'erit Haplejta", "The Saved Few", according to a biblical term from the Book of Ezra(9,14:9,15)
(Excerpt form Course Description: After the Holocaust:Jews in Germany by Dozent: Dr .Cornelia Wilhelm)
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