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Mass detective operation im befreiten Deutschland: UNRRA und die Suche nach den eingedeutschten Kindern nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Author

Verena Buser

Bibliography

HISTORIE. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Folge 8, 347-360

Abstract

After the end of the Second World War the UNRRA was confronted with a mass atrocity which was conducted in the name of German social work: The kidnapping of children from Poland /at least 20 000) but also from the Netherlands or Belgium. The paper explores the challenges and steps wo trace these children of which only a minority was found in the end.