1st November 1947
Latvian Displacement
'Camp Post/ Hanau 24+76', issued for the Baltic Philatelic Exhibition (1st - 3rd November 1947). Ref: 1.11.1947 - 14/76
Latvian displacement from 1944
'With the USSR Red Army approaching the eastern border of Latvia in the summer of 1944, an extensive refugee flow of Latvian population started westwards. People ran from the Bolshevik terror and likely repressions and additionally the refugee flow was due to the approaching frontline and warfare. Many Latvian people were coercively evacuated by the Nazi occupation authorities. The number of refugees in Germany was increased by the workers sent there during Nazi occupation, prisoners and concentration camp captives, as well as the Latvian soldiers transported to Germany.
At the beginning of 1945 there were 171 000 residents of Latvia in the German Reich.'
From: Camps in Germany (144-1951) for refugees from Baltic countries (link to web site)
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