May 3, 1945
On 3 May 1945 British forces entered the city of Hamburg after overcoming the last desperate defence of the beleaguered German army in northern Germany. Hitler had already shot himself in Berlin, and the European war was all but over.
Victory brought with it enormous challenges as the Allies attempted to deal with millions of people displaced by the war – liberated prisoners, former slave workers and survivors of concentration camps. These were people who had been wrenched from their homes and incarcerated, or put to work in the factories of the Third Reich. The Allies called them Displaced Persons (DPs) and set up a network of camps to house and feed them ...
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