Der Krieg hört nie auf - Das Schicksal der Displaced Persons

original title:
Der Krieg hört nie auf - Das Schicksal der Displaced Persons
other titles:
The War Never Stops - The Fate of Displaced Persons
country / year of production:
Germany / 2001 (x)
original length:
45 min. , color
premiere:
19 December 2001, NDR
genre:
Documentary
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Thorsten Niemann
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plot synopsis:
This documentary deals with the destiny of nearly eleven million "Displaced Persons", people who were abducted from their home country. After May 1945 survivors returned from the concentration camps, from forced labour and from war prisons into the destroyed Germany. This film deals with the return of six Displaced Persons, with their rootlessness and their integration in the lost home country.
keywords:
liberation , deportation , exile , behind enemy lines , captivity , internment camps
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Angelika Eder. "Displaced Persons/'Heimatlose Ausländer' als Arbeitskräfte in Westdeutschland". In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 42 (2002).
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