Peace Problems - The Displaced Person Camps after WW2
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Peace Problems - The Displaced Person Camps after WW2
With Claire E. Aubin
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Joining us today is American historian Claire E. Aubin to talk about Displacement Camps in Europe after the end of WWII. Claire is in her third PhD year at the University of Edinburgh and has also studied in Moscow. She is a member of the British Association for Holocaust Studies.
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An estimated 11 million people were classified as "displaced" from their home countries at the end of the war and even 2 years later some 850,000 of them lived in "DP" camps across Europe. Among them were Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians, Hungarians and Czechoslovaks. Claire will talk about how the camps functioned, the difficulties with repatriating refugees to countries that were either in ruins - both financially and literally or had been occupied by the Soviet Union. She will also talk about the huge problems of providing food, medicine and education to these thousands of refugees - all of whom had survived the war but now faced another struggle - a postwar Europe at peace but broken.
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Hi Claire, Thanks for the great presentation. I spent 4 years at the Wentorf DP camp before immigrating to the USA. I love America and a proud American. I will forever be thankful to this country for taking us in when we had lost all. I wish everyone recognized how blessed they are to live here. Can you send me the full slide of the cartoon that shows that it was easier to go through an eye of a needle than to get screened to immigrate to the US? Thanks
I'm not sure Claire will see this, but she's easy to find on Twitter
@@WW2TV Hi, thank you for that information. Hmm, I have never used Twitter.
An outstanding show! Claire gave an excellent overview of an over looked and under studied topic. Her use of films from the DP camps really brought to life the experiences of these people.
Yep, she was really really good. Although I had known in advance she would be
What a terrific presentation! Found it really interesting, heartbreaking at times and also incredibly uplifting! Thank you so much
Thanks Cheryl. As the weeks go by I want to tackle more and more human interest stories
Excellent show, war is so often romanticized, the aftermath and recovery gets so much less attention but is often just as historically important as the war itself. I'd like to see topics like this get more coverage.
Thanks Vince. I definitely want to do more human interest shows. Indeed Resistance week coming up in May will have some great stories
This was such a good video, really amazing with all the details. My mother spent almost 2 years in an Austrian DP camp. She said they nearly froze and starved and many were very sick. It was in a big empty building and people slept on mats on concrete. She said that planes would fly over and dump the delousing powder on everyone and they were mainly eating rendered meats when available but my uncle developed tapeworm that nearly killed him. It's so important for people to realize what war does to us all.
Thank you for this video. My father worked as a doctor in an UNRRA camp in Austria after the war he met and married my Mom who was a Belgian nurse. He didn’t speak much about it other than the dangers going through Russian controlled areas.
Well done Claire and Paul. I'm a tactics guy but in a past life studied Afghan refugees, DPs, etc. Claire's work gives a great insight into the birth of UNHCR and a fantastic kids party photo too! ✌
Paul
Another great program ! You and your guests present exceptional shows! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is exactly the type of topic that needs to be further researched and discussed. The aftermath of the war is usually overlooked. A very thought provoking and well researched interview. Claire is awesome and the post- war plight of Jewish survivor's and their ability to restore themselves is almost a miracle in looking at how they finally succeeded in Israel and America. Its the power of spirit, community and the will to live.
Claire, there's an amazing out-of-print book which you may already be aware of (if not, check library in NYC or London) called "A Wild Place", about Wildflecken in Bavaria, written by a UNRRA nurse/social worker from St Louis. Amazing read.
I expected this video to be more sad than anything else. As it turned out, for the survivors, the DP camps were actually a good place, a safe place where life went on. Obviously the reason they were there was because of the Holocaust, a terrible thing, but they'd survived and were starting to rebuild their lives. This was actually an uplifting subject about people who largely got on with life after surviving something terrible.
Thankyou for that Claire & Paul - really fascinating talk/intro and a huge subject to dig into. Find these human stories of the war and it’s aftermath interesting. Man, imagine being able to publicly worship, openly, with friends or celebrate cultural traditions and heritage after years of having it oppressed in an attempt to eradicate it entirely.
Huge rabbit hole on the issue of migrating to Palestine too, given the situation in the then British Mandate for several years following 1945 (see the Exodus ship story as one sorry episode from that story).
Yep, I nearly went down the Exodus rabbit hole. I'd watched the Paul Newman film over the weekend
I lived with my parents in the D.P. camp at Braunau am Inn. I'm trying to find its location. I also remember that my mom claimed that I was actually born in a facility across the street from the birthplace of Adolph Hitler. I'm trying to find the actual location of the place on a map. Can you offer me any clues? We were Catholics, if that matters. Thanks for all that you all are you doing!
My mother was from Estonia and lived in a DP camp in Germany for two years. Her mother and an aunt were nearby. My aunt would make milk soup which was her favorite for the rest of her life ( just milk warmed up basically, yuck). She was an amazing woman. Many of the people who were in the camp with my mother were her friends for life. She died at 94 here in the USA in 2020 and would never talk about the war nor the camp.
An outstanding show as always Claire and Paul very interesting
Excellent. ( one comment to all speakers including myself,how often we use “um” it should be an official punctuation mark,
Do any records of the people within these camps survive? My grandfather was a Yugoslav DP who fled to Italy, but I can't seem to find any documents relating to his presence there.
Yes of course, hundreds of thousands passed through so there are lots of memoirs. They often appear in the final chapters of Holocaust survival stories
@@WW2TV Ah sorry, I meant as in official camp records with lists of the internees. For Yugoslavs in Italy, I'm not sure these lists/indexes exist.
Ah Gotcha. Records exist for some camps and countries. Here is some info for Germany www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=31242
My Mother was on of the first DPs brought to UK from the British Army run Camps in North Germany, there is footage of there ship arriving at Tilbury hear n RUclips, Red Cross found her sister in the Ukraine in the 1960s
Do you deal with DPs who were victims of slave labor camps or were used as slave labor on farms?
I wish you would of dated and listed the locations of each picture and video
Missed the mark there.
That’s a very important part of the story yet I don’t any info other then general of each one
I always try to see my family as does everyone who watched this
Sorry about that, but the issue is a lot of the photos are unlabelled in the archives, plus this show was to give an overview for people unfamiliar with the DP camp system
I bet “spying in the DP camps” would be a fascinating subset.
My mother was from pomer…and along with my grandmother her mother and sister …walked to Berlin…my aunt was forced into one of those camps because she couldn’t prove who she was…I have a lot of questions …my grandfather was a hi ranking soldier at that time …I just found out he was alive all this time…my mother came to USA through Ellis island …we never spoke of what happened to her ….I have years of mail …in German …wish I could understand more ….I reallly have no idea who I am ….all this I found out after everyone that could have answered these questions have passed away…I’m literally the last one standing
We are not German …we are Prussian … I’ve never met one…I would imagine there are not a lot left…
My mother spoke of her baby brother died during passage to Berlin…they carried him for days because the ground was frozen ….how sad…I’m named after him. Michelle Rene …hew was Michael Rene
I look at the photos and wonder if that’s my family…..my mother s family was very wealthy before the attack on their lands ….I may never know…I have pre war photos that are amazing with my grandfather in uniform ….I do know he deflected to catch up with his family …
Thanks for sharing your family story
Paul, I see on your Twitter feed that you are looking for a British expert on something for Medics and Hospitals week. To fill this gap I would suggest you contact the East Grinstead (Hospital) Museum to see if they can provide someone to talk about the Guinea Pig Club (AKA McIndoe's Army) if that fits your agenda. The author of a few books on the subject (Edward Bishop) passed on quite a number of years ago, so that avenue is out.
Thanks mate, actually i think I have 6 shows all set for that week now - which is great. But there will be a second week in the future
@@WW2TV OK that's fine. Did you get someone to cover the Ploesti Raid? Some people (i.e. Americans) might take offence to it being called a disaster, but I think it definitely qualifies, at least within the limitations of your theme week.
I have Luke Troxhal to talk about bombing Romania in Strategic bombing week.
Oh and when are you going to come on and talk about a subject?
@@WW2TV Probably never, unless I get a sudden inspiration to do a research project (I don't think you should pass yourself off as a historian in any way unless you are willing to do the work of chasing down primary sources). I'm just an amateur. I do have an academic background, but it is not in history or war studies.
VG presentation and lots of info but please stop the annoying creaking vocal fry Claire. Very hard to listen too.
People have different voices, that's just life. Claire's voice is clear and her style easy to listen to
Nice niche topic. Strarted a bit hard, but compared to the holocaust week (which I started around 7 oktober, so that whas a bit.... how can I say, it felt like we have learned nothing) it whas a lighter topic. In the end it whas more uplifting. Very interesting!
There was just so many German pows