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Class portrait of school children at Schauenstein DP camp, about
1946  A displaced persons camp or DP camp is a temporary
facility for displaced persons threatened into forced migration.
The term is mainly used for camps established after World War II
in West Germany and in Austria, as well as in the United
Kingdom, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the
former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. Even two
years after the end of World War II in Europe, some 850,000
people still lived in DP camps across Western Europe, among them
Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs,
Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks.[1]  In recent
times, camps have existed in many parts of the world for groups
of displaced persons including for refugees in the Darfur region
of Sudan, and for Palestinians in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as
for Afghan refug