By Sandro Contenta

Six decades ago, when the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established, uprooted Europeans were on the move. The end of the Second World War saw millions of them forced from their homes. Jews searched for safe havens. Poles, Czechs and others were transferred in or out of areas annexed by the USSR. An estimated 11.5 million Germans fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe.


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