Repatriates

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Repatriants are people, usually war refugees , displaced persons and prisoners of war , who are returned to their homeland (“repatriated”). The term repatriates was mainly used in connection with the population shifts immediately after the Second World War . The term is accordingly also criticized as a euphemism (glossing over). A more honest term is "displaced" or "expelled".

In the 20th century, after the wars in Europe, several repatriation commissions were set up to monitor the return of repatriants to their countries of origin. In some countries, repatriation hospitals have been established to provide ongoing medical and health care for military personnel. In the Soviet Union , some of the repatriates were viewed as traitors and were either killed or imprisoned in Gulag penal or labor camps .

See also

• Repatriation in Poland after World War II
• Situation in Czechoslovakia
• Late repatriates
• Displaced Person (Sections: Repatriation, Forced Repatriation)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Otto Langels: Expulsions after 1945: After the transfer of the eastern territories to Poland. Deutschlandfunk, March 14, 2020, accessed on March 24, 2020 (English).