As seen in the May 1945 edition of Life Magazine, this map shows 9,000,000 foreign displaced persons in Germany, who they are, where they were when liberated by Allied forces and where they want to return.
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Displaced Persons crossing a bridge on the River Elbe at Tangermunde, which has been blown up by the Germans, to escape the chaos behind German lines caused by the approach of the advancing Russians, 1st May 1945
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Jewish youths rescued from Auschwitz show their tattoos on board the refugee immigration ship Mataroa at Haifa port, in what would later become the State of Israel, on July 15, 1945
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