Samantha K. Knapton is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Katherine Rossy, of Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World?: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

In light of the ongoing refugee movements today, Knapton’s thoughtful research offers an important contribution to displacement studies within the specific area she has chosen to examine.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroduction1. 'They say the British has the Ruins': The Post-War Situation in the British Zone of Occupied Germany2. 'A Paradoxical People': Understanding Polish Displaced Persons3. 'Little Poland' in Germany: Life in Polish Displaced Persons Camps4. 'There are always two sides to everything': Encounters between the British Military, Humanitarian Workers and Displaced Persons5. 'No special obligation... We did not take them to Germany': Repatriation and Resettlement of Polish Displaced persons6. Idleness Bred Apathy: Displaced Persons Left in the Camps7. From Displaced Persons to Homeless Foreigners: The 'Hard Core of DPs Left in GermanyConclusionBibliographyIndex

Samantha K. Knapton is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Katherine Rossy, of Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World?: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

In light of the ongoing refugee movements today, Knapton’s thoughtful research offers an important contribution to displacement studies within the specific area she has chosen to examine.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroduction1. 'They say the British has the Ruins': The Post-War Situation in the British Zone of Occupied Germany2. 'A Paradoxical People': Understanding Polish Displaced Persons3. 'Little Poland' in Germany: Life in Polish Displaced Persons Camps4. 'There are always two sides to everything': Encounters between the British Military, Humanitarian Workers and Displaced Persons5. 'No special obligation... We did not take them to Germany': Repatriation and Resettlement of Polish Displaced persons6. Idleness Bred Apathy: Displaced Persons Left in the Camps7. From Displaced Persons to Homeless Foreigners: The 'Hard Core of DPs Left in GermanyConclusionBibliographyIndex

Samantha K. Knapton is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Katherine Rossy, of Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World?: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

In light of the ongoing refugee movements today, Knapton’s thoughtful research offers an important contribution to displacement studies within the specific area she has chosen to examine.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroduction1. 'They say the British has the Ruins': The Post-War Situation in the British Zone of Occupied Germany2. 'A Paradoxical People': Understanding Polish Displaced Persons3. 'Little Poland' in Germany: Life in Polish Displaced Persons Camps4. 'There are always two sides to everything': Encounters between the British Military, Humanitarian Workers and Displaced Persons5. 'No special obligation... We did not take them to Germany': Repatriation and Resettlement of Polish Displaced persons6. Idleness Bred Apathy: Displaced Persons Left in the Camps7. From Displaced Persons to Homeless Foreigners: The 'Hard Core of DPs Left in GermanyConclusionBibliographyIndex