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The right of asylum for victims of political persecution is a basic right stipulated in the Constitution of Germany.In a wider sense, the right of asylum recognises the definition of 'refugee' as established in the 1951 Refugee Convention and is understood to protect asylum seekers from deportation and grant them certain protections under the law.
The German capital is expanding a temporary refugee shelter at a former airport to accommodate 3,600 Ukrainians, as it struggles to put up more civilians fleeing Russian attacks on vital ...
Homelessness in Germany is a significant social issue, one that is estimated to affect around 678,000 people. [1] This figure includes about 372,000 people that are accommodated (in refugee shelters, etc.) by public services, e.g. by the municipalities. [2] Since 2014, there has been a 150% increase in the homeless population within the country ...
According to a population census in 1950, around 12.5 million refugees and exiles from the eastern territories formerly occupied by the Nazi regime fled after the end of the Second World War, to the Allied [excluding Russia?] occupation zones of Germany and Berlin. 3 million refugees came to Germany from Czechoslovakia, 1.4 million from Poland, roughly 300,000 from the former Free City of ...
The actual final number was 1.1 million; [48] Germany spent about €16 billion (0.5% of GDP) on processing and housing refugees that year. [ 49 ] Most of the refugees entering Western and Central Europe around this time came by land via the so-called "Balkan route."
Marienfelde refugee camp, July 1958 Marienfelde refugee camp, July 1961 Contemporary view of the memorial's entrance. Marienfelde refugee transit camp (German: Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde) was one of three camps [1] operated by West Germany and West Berlin during the Cold War for dealing with the great waves of immigration from East Germany, especially between 1950 and 1961.
The International Refugee Organization resettled over 1 million refugees between 1947 and 1951. They were scattered throughout Europe after World War II. (Most of the German refugees were incorporated into West and East Germany). 80% of them were resettled outside Europe. [4]
The influx of refugees in Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War was one of the biggest difficulties faced in Germany in the early post-war period. Per capita, the Province of Schleswig-Holstein of Prussia, later the state of Schleswig-Holstein, took in the second-most refugees and displaced persons from the former eastern territories of Germany between 1944 and 1947, second only to ...