Association of displaced persons

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Demonstration by associations of expellees in Bonn (1951)

Associations of displaced persons are associations that represent the interests of people who have had to leave their homes due to forced flight or displacement . The descendants of displaced persons and those not affected can also become members of the associations.

A compatriot of German-speaking expellees has nothing to do with the Landsmannschaft student union .

National

Initially only active at the municipal level, from the summer of 1948, after the coalition ban of the British and French occupying powers was relaxed and finally lifted, they formed supraregional associations. The first regional association is the "Notgemeinschaft der Ostdeutsche", which was founded at the beginning of June 1945. The associations of expellees are organized in the German umbrella organization Bund der Vertrieben (BdV) and in the Austrian Association of German Old Austrian Landsmannschaften in Austria (VLÖ).

Germany

Austria

Displaced persons monument on the Pöstlingberg in Linz

Bosnia and Herzegovina

After the Balkan Wars , numerous associations of expellees were founded. These were organized in the coalition for return .

See also

literature

  • Matthias Müller: The SPD and the associations of expellees 1949–1977. Concord, alienation, discord (= politics and history . Vol. 8). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11786-1 .
  • Samuel Salzborn : Home without borders. History, present and future of the displaced persons' associations (= Antifa edition ). Elefanten Press, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88520-770-2 .
  • Samuel Salzborn: Homeland Law and Ethnic Struggle. Foreign policy concepts of the associations of expellees and their practical implementation . With a foreword by Wolfgang Kreutzberger, Offizin, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-930345-28-5 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Displaced persons association  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzborn, Samuel: Borderless home. History, present and future of the distribution associations . Elefanten Press, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88520-770-2 , p. 55 .
  2. See Bärbel Bohley : Coalition for Return. Final report on my work from December 1st, 1997 to December 1st, 1998 in Bosnia. In: baerbelbohley.de. Retrieved March 7, 2012 . General a. D. Jovan Divjak arrested in Vienna. In: balkan24. March 4, 2011, accessed on March 7, 2012 (with a list of Bosnian displaced persons associations, on the case of Jovan Divjak , Sarajevo's Bosnian defender).