| Displaced Person (DP) - DPs from World War II included millions of former slave laborers and thousands of Jewish survivors of Nazi camps who could not or did not want to return to their former homes in Germany or eastern Europe.
"All they wanted to do was get out and go home. And a lot of them did get out...The gates were wide open then, and a lot of them were confused. They didn't know what to do. Some of them couldn't walk and they were looking for direction, but there was no direction we could give them at all. Our job was to move on." -- Miguel Montesinos describing the liberation of Dachau. Links: |
