04.03.2024

Christina Wirth talks about "Displaced Person/Refugee" in the SFB1482 podcast "SONE/SOLCHE"

The new podcast "Displaced Person/Refugee" in the series "SONE/SOLCHE" of the SFB 1482 Humandifferenzierung is online. In it, IEG researcher Christina Wirth talks about her research project.

11.3 million people were considered "displaced persons" after the Second World War - survivors of the Shoah and extermination camps, people who were deported to perform forced labour, but also people who fled from the Red Army and perpetrators.
These were further differentiated into different categories until the term refugee emerged. The host countries also differentiated between them - above all according to their ability to work and their qualifications.

Christina Wirth is doing her doctorate in the sub-project "From "Displaced Persons" to "Refugees". Legal and bureaucratic human differentiation in the post-war period". She reports on what happened to the displaced persons after the war, on Ernest Mitchell, who fled from a death march and ended up in American captivity, and how descendants of survivors react to her research.