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unusual facts about Allied Occupation Zones in Germany



Eschwege displaced persons camp

The displaced persons camp of Eschwege, a former German air force base in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone, became a displaced persons (DP) camp in January 1946.

Gau Eastern Hanover

In 1946 the Control Commission for Germany - British Element (CCG/BE) reconstituted the Province of Hanover as the State of Hanover and later the same year it merged with three smaller neighbouring reconstituted German states to form the new state of Lower Saxony within the British Zone of Occupation.

Hedy Epstein

After the war, Epstein worked with the Allied occupying forces in Germany, including working on the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg.

Richard Colvin Cox

The following year, Cox served in the Sixth Constabulary Regiment of the United States Army, situated at the time in Coburg, Germany.

Sender Freies Berlin

In the post-war four-power occupation of Germany, the British Control Commission appointed Hugh Greene to restart German broadcasting in the British Zone.

Viktors Arājs

After that he worked as a driver for the British armed forces under the British military government in Delmenhorst, then in the British Zone of Occupation.


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