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1.   The Harrison Report (September 1945)
This report by lawyer and civil rights activist Earl G. Harrison for the American President Harry S. Truman from the summer of 1945 painted a rather grim picture of the situation of Jewish and Eastern....
2.   Alfred Döblin on the German Population (1946)
Writer Alfred Döblin left Germany in 1933, emigrating first to Switzerland, then to France (where he was granted citizenship in 1936), and finally to the U.S. In November 1945, he returned to Germany....
3.   The City Director of Haltern on the Housing of Displaced Persons (December 16, 1946)
Under Allied policy, foreign refugees and expellees were housed in camps on German soil but were not subject to the German authorities. This led to tensions. At the end of 1946, the city director....
4.   Residents of the Kabel Neighborhood of Hagen to the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia: Request for the Vacation of Residences Confiscated for Displaced Persons (January 2, 1947)
At the beginning of 1947, the residents of the Kabel neighborhood of Hagen approached the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and demanded the return of the residences and gardens that had....
5.   Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, "People on the Train" (September 18, 1947)
In this article, published in Die Zeit in September 1947, the journalist Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who herself had fled to West Germany in 1945 from her homeland in East Prussia, describes the....
6.   Newspaper Commentary, "Where Clay is Wrong" (October 5, 1948)
In the fall of 1948, the military governor of the American zone, Lucius D. Clay, rejected German....
7.   Ulrich Scheuner, Remarks on the Legal Status of "Displaced Persons" in Germany (December 14-15, 1948)
In his capacity as an expert advisor to the Länderrat [Council of States], the conservative state law theorist Ulrich Scheuner argued against granting national minority status to foreign refugees....
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