Border transit camp

Friedland camp

From 1945 border transit camps were collective accommodation for refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas and the Soviet occupation zone and later GDR .

The refugees were initially housed here before they were distributed to the receiving occupation zones and later to the federal states. The largest transit camp was the Friedland transit camp in Lower Saxony , through which 3.6 million refugees passed. There were also border transit camps in the Bavarian Hof-Moschendorf , Wiesau , Furth im Wald and Piding .

Until 1955, they were also stations for the German prisoners of war returning from the Soviet Union .

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