Displaced Persons Research Links, N-P
Netherlands:
A Letter to Susan A Dutch forced laborer wrote to his daughter in 1983, 40 years after having been deported to Germany. "When someone asked a German if any people had been killed, he replied: no, mostly foreigners."
Niederländische Zwangsarbeiter in Deutschland http://www.der-loeffel-meines-vaters.de/main/geschichte-1-1a.php#top
Norway: The following listing is of a number of important contacts for information on WWII German soldiers, various units, matters of importance to familiy members or relatives, and details on MIAs and KIAs. It consists of the main organization, archives, groups, museums, governmental offices, etc, that should be contacted if you are searching for any of the above types of information. Included are archival contact addresses as well addresses for individual unit organizations and veterans groups. Addresses for Information and Research
"In the post-war era 122,671 German
citizens were arrested by the Soviet secret service in the Soviet occupation
zone. 756 were sentenced and executed. The Soviet military courts sentenced
thousands of persons to long-term detention in prisons or camps."
German Red Cross English Search
war archives in United Kingdom
About 100,000 Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian prisoners of war were kept by Nazi on the Norwegian soil during the war. Some 14,000 died here. more of the story and lots of POW links
A complete list of Russians repatriated in 1945.
Norway archives English page.
Norwegian page
How to trace relatives in Norway and Archives addresses
Norwegian DP in US military records
383.7 Norwegian Displaced Persons
383.7 Refugees and Displaced Persons (4 folders)
location: 290/55/11/03
for location to these boxed files write to:
War orphans Data base:
Email address: voegel@welfen netz.com
Search: http://www.krieggegenkinder.de/search.html
Map: http://www.krieggegenkinder.de/zeig_karte.html
Archives are inundated with children searching their fathers:
" The latest figures compiled by the Wehrmacht Information Office for War Losses and POWs (WASt) show that about 50,000 children in Holland were born to German soldiers - five times as many as previous estimates suggested - while the number in France is believed to exceed 200,000.
"Children born in the Netherlands and Norway were particularly welcomed by the Third Reich as they were of Aryan descent," said director of the WASt Peter Gerhardt.
" He added that the true number of children produced by German soldiers could be much higher because the Wehrmacht, the official name of the German armed forces between 1935-45, stopped counting in 1944." From article by ALLAN HALL in Berlin. For more information, see: http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=739&id=908612004
Ostarbeiters / OST
 Penal Camps for Hitler Youth:Dear Olga, I just found your fascinating and well done website. Thanks you for putting it together. I am looking for info about Hitler Youths who were detained and put into labor camps. That is young boys who rebelled. I read about it in Alfons Heck's book. Do you know where I can find more about that? Thanks Marga Dieter Photo from: www.hermes-press.com/ police_state.htm |
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Polish - German names / localities
Hello Olga,
For further reference, I have thousands of Polish and German family names in
my database, but more specific with Galicia area. I wouldn't be charging for
look-up but would appreciate covering the cost of printing. Database is mine
as well as what other have shared with me. If you could pass this infomation
unto your site, great. Darwin Wagner /
Saskatoon, Canada
Polish -Lithuanian Commonwealth
Pomeria
Genealogical Hints for Prussia and in Pomerania
"These uprooted masses wandered along the main roads; famished, sick and weary, often covered with vermin, seeking out some country in which to settle....."
"On 27th July 1945 a boat arrived at the west port of Berlin which contained a tragic cargo of nearly 300 children, half dead from hunger, who had come from a 'home' at Finkenwalde in Pomerania. Children from two to fourteen-year old lay in the bottom of the boat motionless, their faces drawn with hunger, suffering from the itch and eaten up with vermin. Their bodies, feet and knees were swollen - a well-known symptom of starvation." Joint Relief Commission of the International Red Cross
What happened to the Prussians?
Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html
