In her dissertation, Christina Wirth analyzes the different agents and practices that took part in categorizing people in transit between 1945 and 1951, including the individual’s agency and self-classification.
After the Americans left, the Jewish Relief Unit as well as the officials of the British Occupation Zone of Germany and the German major were responsible to take care of the DPs in Kaunitz. It will become apparent how the different agents tried to influence the categorization of these 800 women and how categorizations matter, since they are key for attesting political rights and influence to people in transit.
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