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German Prisoners of War in Canada

Paul Heiland, Ian Gabbert, Christian Hallensleben

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The aftermath

The German prisoners

• were released and returned home in 1945
• many of them came back
• win-win situation
• 2016 10% of the population reported german origins in Canada

Canada before and during World War 2

• 37.000 German prisoners (about 3.4 Million soldiers were detained in the USSR)
• 25 camps
• not comparable to prisoners
• got a wage for their compulsory labor
• were all released in 1945

Sources

• struggle for independence
• many immigrants, also from Germany
• tried to differ from Great Britain
• joined the war 9 days later

• Mark Zuehlke; C. Stuart Daniel (2006). Canadian Military Atlas: Four Centuries of Conflict from New France to Kosovo. Douglas & McIntyre
• http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/readings/CanadaandJewishRefugeesinthe1930s.html
• https://www.johanneum-hamburg.de/index.php/schola-nostra/schule-mit-geschichte/beruehmte-alumni/59-gerhard-herzberg
• https://www.kanadaspezialist.com/2010/07/04/kanada-vergessene-kriegsgefangenen-lager/3213/
• Jean Barman (2007). "The" West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. University of Toronto Press. pp. 346
• http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/readings/CanadaandJewishRefugeesinthe1930s.html

• Canada before and during World War II
• german prisoners
• aftermath

Gerhard Herzberg

Japanese civil Prisoners

• studied in Hamburg at the Johanneum
• immigrated to Canada 1935
• won the Nobel Prize in 1971

• after Pearl Harbour: ousted and detained the Japanese minority
• 22.000 civilians
• bad conditions
• official apologize in 1988