JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post 
I’ve seen figures supporting 20 million people being “displaced” in the month following the end of WWII. That figure has always seemed very low to me, considering the destruction and ravage–I thought that there might be half that number in the USSR alone. In any event, “displaced” seems like such a polite word for something that is anything but that. In browsing a volume for the second half of 1945 I found a photograph with a picture within it of something that might characterize what being “displaced” might actually be–and this is a more “civilized” displacement of a man on a train, not one of the hundreds of thousands of concentration camp survivors, who were considered to be “displaced persons” as well. That “DP” tag has always rung wrong with me.
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