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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space. Most refugees are herded into dirty, former Nazi camps, like...
West Germany is desperately short of housing (it needs an estimated 8,000,000 two-room apartments). More than a third of the West Germans live in close, degrading quarters, whole families cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow bitter in the stifling intimacy of want. Among the demoralized, cheap vice grows weedlike and ugly. In bomb-battered Essen, one of the first businesses to recover was the red-light district: harlots' row was rebuilt while the rest of the city lay in rubble...
Many less fortunate newcomers, officially labeled by the refugee administration as "that group of persons which is not to be harbored in the Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...
...Bombay WSSF funds go toward establishing student hostels in which the refugee students may live while attending the universities. Because of the expenses these refugees had to bear during migration and resettlement, many require financial aid to be able to afford even the barest necessities of existence...
...again the Council promises that this will be the College's only solicitation this year. Emergencies forced the Council to break this pledge the last two years. It is hoped and expected that the new arrangement of converting unallocated money into a reserve fund will enable the Council to live up to its promise...