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Author Seipp, Adam R., author.

Title Strangers in the wild place : refugees, Americans, and a German town, 1945-1952 / Adam R. Seipp
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : map
Contents The wild place, 1933-1945 -- The seigneurs of Wildflecken, 1945-1947 -- Keeping refugees occupied, 1945-1948 -- These people, 1947-1949 -- A victory for democracy, 1949-1952
Summary In 1936, the Nazi state created a massive military training site near Wildflecken, a tiny community in rural Bavaria. During the war, this base housed an industrial facility that drew forced laborers from all over conquered Europe. At war's end, the base became Europe's largest Displaced Persons camp, housing thousands of Polish refugees and German civilians fleeing Eastern Europe. As the Cold War intensified, the US Army occupied the base, removed the remaining refugees, and stayed until 1994. Strangers in the Wild Place tells the story of these tumultuous years through the eyes of these v
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp)
SUBJECT Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp) fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
Refugee camps -- Germany -- Wildflecken -- History
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Refugee camps
Refugees
Germany -- Wildflecken
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012051727
ISBN 9780253007070
0253007070