12 memorable photos of how people fled to the Middle East in the 40s

Today, Europe is seriously suffering from the migration crisis. An adequate solution to the very sad and tragic situation, alas, is not visible in the short term. It seemed interesting to us at TravelAsk that a little over 70 years ago, people already ran along the same roads towards their salvation. True, then they moved in the opposite current direction - to Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The fact is that during the Second World War, special camps were located here, in which refugees were received and provided with proper assistance. Thousands of people from Europe have found shelter and protection on these lands.

Let's see how it was.

Refugees make their way over the bridge blown up by the Germans across the Elbe. May 1, 1945, Tangermünde

These people are residents of the Polish city of Lodz, forcibly sent to work in Germany. At the train station in Berlin, they expect evacuation to their homeland by the British military. December 14, 1945

A man on a bicycle pulls a pram. France, August 7, 1944

Refugees on the streets of the Belgian city of La Gleize awaiting evacuation. January 2, 1945. US troops recaptured La Gleize from the Germans during the Ardennes operation

A Belgian family is sent from an occupied country to France. C. 1940

Germans deprived of home. September 26, 1945

The Portuguese ship Serpa Pinto was stopped by a German submarine near Bermuda. Submarine officers refused to flood the ship and allowed him to continue moving after orders received from Berlin. Photo of the passengers of the ship after arriving in Philadelphia, May 31, 1944

Refugee camp in Germany. March 1945

French refugees return to their homes in Saint-Pois after the Germans were expelled by US forces. August 10, 1944

Large group of refugees leaving Paris before the German invasion of 1940

Belgian refugees fleeing the German army (offensive in the Ardennes), January 1945

A crowd of refugees behind barbed wire awaits the opportunity to cross the border to get into neutral Liechtenstein. Customs carefully checks each of them. May 18, 1945

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