THE DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS IN GERMANY - Field Marshal Montgomery being welcomed at the Polish Displaced Persons camp by a camp leader. Generals Richard Hull, the CO of the 5th Division, and Brian Horrocks, the CO of the 30th Corps, are both in the middle left. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visited a number of DP camps in Germany during his inspection tour of the 5th Infantry Division. The first visit was to a refugee camp in Friedland in Lower Saxony, where large numbers of German refugees streaming over the border into the British occupation zone. Here a camp was established to give medic
THE DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS IN GERMANY - Field Marshal Montgomery being welcomed at the Polish Displaced Persons camp by a camp leader. Generals Richard Hull, the CO of the 5th Division, and Brian Horrocks, the CO of the 30th Corps, are both in the middle left. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visited a number of DP camps in Germany during his inspection tour of the 5th Infantry Division. The first visit was to a refugee camp in Friedland in Lower Saxony, where large numbers of German refugees streaming over the border into the British occupation zone. Here a camp was established to give medical aird, food and clothing to them, and to move them westwards for shelter and next morning he visited a Polish Displaced Persons camp at Clausthal-Zellerfeld in Lower Saxony where a large gathering of DPs greeted him in true Polish custom. On the last day Marshal Montgomery visited another DP camp near Brunswick, the Herman Goering Reichswerkes, and the Voightlander Camera works to complete the tour, British Army, British Army, 5th Division, Montgomery, Bernard Law, Horrocks, Brian Gwynne, Hull, Richard Amyatt
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