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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.
About 300 refugees formed a police force to maintain order in the camp. [6] [11] [12] Almost 900 children were born in the camp and more than 12,000 of the inhabitants were children below the age of fourteen. [6] The camp was subsequently dissolved and the last refugee transport left to Germany on 15 December 1948.
Berlin-Oranienplatz - Asyllager (Asylum Seekers' Camp) - geo.hlipp.de - 41463 Meeting space at the centre of the occupied square Collaborative situgraphy at the O-Platz. The "OPlatz" (Oranienplatz) movement was a pro-immigration protest movement that worked for an open-arms policy in the admission of migrants and refugees into Germany and in specific opposition to the third Dublin agreement ...
Friedland refugee camp in Germany hosted refugees who fled from the former eastern territories of Germany at the end of World War II, between 1944 and 1950. Between 1950 and 1987 it was a transit centre for East German (GDR) citizens who wanted to flee to West Germany (FRG).
Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp was a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II, in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. It was in operation from the summer of 1945 until September 1950.
In September 1945, the Control Commission for Germany - British Element (CCG/BE) built a camp in Friedland, near the American and Soviet occupation zones. The camp was designed as the first way station for refugees, evacuees, and returning soldiers. Starting in 1947, the camp was administered by the federal state of Lower Saxony.
Contact between Danes and the refugees were very limited and strictly enforced. About 17,000 died in the camps due to injuries and illness resulting from their escape from Germany or poor camp conditions. [71] Known camps were Dragsbæklejren – a base for seaplanes, later converted into an internment camp for refugees. It is now used by the ...
In June 1945, the camp was appropriated by the US Army administration of postwar Germany's American sector, for the purpose of housing international refugees. The camp's initial population comprised refugees of Jewish, Yugoslavian, Hungarian, and Baltic origin.