Old Wine in New Bottles? UNRRA and the Mid-Century World of Refugees
Year: 2017

By the end of the Second World War, millions of people had been forcibly displaced from their homes. Malcolm Proudfoot, who served in the headquarters staff of the Allied Supreme Command in Germany, estimated in 1945 that over 60 million Europeans were involuntarily moved during the war and the immediate post-war period. In addition, around 13 million ethnic Germans were being expelled from countries in Eastern and Southern Europe. 2 Th e numbers of uprooted people created by the war exceeded th