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The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West After World War II

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The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West After World War II - Plakans, Andrejs
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The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944-45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world. The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a description of their lives in 'displaced person' camps in post-war Germany, dispersion in the 1949-1951 years, resettlement in new host countries in Europe and overseas, strategies of adaptation to the new circumstances, organizational ...

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The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West After World War II 2021, Brill Schoningh, Paderborn

ISBN-13: 9783506760289

Hardcover