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Last Day: Photographs of Displacement 1945

Hosted by the Consul of the Berlin Arts & Music Enthusiasts Group
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Sun 18 Jan 14:30 - 16:00

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In early Protected content , in the freezing winter, millions of Germans were being displaced. On 21 January, a refugee trek left Lübchen in Lower Silesia to escape the approaching Red Army: about Protected content , mainly women, children and old people.

On this trek were two professional photographers, Hanns Tschira and Martha Maria Schmackeit, who documented this month-long journey in about Protected content . The Protected content exhibits this unique set of photographs for the first time in its entirety.