history · 26 September 1946 · 78 years ago
The British Element of the Control Commission for Germany established a collection center for German refugees in the municipality of Friedland about 12 kilometers south of Göttingen in central Germany. This facility would be taken over by the East Germans in 1947, and between 1952 and 1987 it was used as a transit camp for about 1,400,000 people from the Soviet Union, the majority of whom were German prisoners of war and ethnic Germans whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe prior to WW2.
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