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Life of refugees after the Second World War 2010 Documentation of the life of millions of refugees after the Second World War using archive recordings and personal stories Reports from the most recently occupied state of Schleswig-Holstein Cramped conditions in barracks, corrugated iron (Nissen) huts, barns, attics Lack of food, medicine, thermal insulation, sanitary facilities Diseases spread, but epidemics were prevented Often annoying vermin (fleas, lice, bedbugs) Help yourself by improvising Cohesion and solidarity among the refugees Camp children at the time report on their experiences with the locals At the beginning of the 1950s, younger people moved to North Rhine-Westphalia to work Burden equalization due to lost property in the eastern territories