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The reuniting of families in Europe during and after the Second World War (III)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

H. G. Beckh
H. G. Beckh*
Affiliation:
former ICRC delegate for Europe
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During “Operation Link”, which was actively led by the ICRC as part of the overall family reunification operation, some 47,000 Germans and “ethnic Germans” (Volksdeutsche) were transferred from Poland to the Federal Republic of Germany by the end of 1949. This operation was focused on family separations that were a direct result of the war.

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Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 22 , Issue 227 , April 1982 , pp. 71 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1982

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References

page 71 note 1 See the first two articles in the International Review of the Red Cross, 07–08 1979 and 05–06 1980.Google Scholar

page 71 note 2 The parallel operation for transfer from Poland to the German Democratic Republic could only be estimated at between 36,000 and 40,000 persons.

page 73 note 1 The estimated number of family reunifications that took place between Poland and the German Democratic Republic, mentioned on page 71, is not included.

page 74 note 1 Their numerous missions to Belgrade were supported especially by Dr. Milosevic, Prof. J. Patrnogic and other colleagues of the General Secretariat.

page 76 note 1 After the outbreak of the war in 1939, which made it impossible to present the 1934 Tokyo draft for revising the Geneva Convention of 1929 to a diplomatic conference, the ICRC endeavoured to improve the status of civilians in times of war by extending the provisions of the Convention of 1929 on the treatment of prisoners of war to civilian internees.

page 79 note 1 Large numbers of people emigrated from Romania to Austria and other countries, but the author does not have exact figures.

page 79 note 2 Kulischer, E. M., The Displacement of Population in Europe, Montreal, 1943.Google Scholar

page 79 ntoe 3 Toronto, 1952; New Delhi, 1957; Vienna, 1965.

page 82 note 1 The author of this article (Editor).