Fourteen to fifteen million Germans were made homeless by wartime destruction.

Evidence

Germany in 1945 was a place where no one would want to be. Survivors, isolated soldiers and displaced persons of all kinds roamed the cities and countryside. Refugee organisations struggled to help people get home, and occupying forces tried to impose order amid near-total loss of infrastructure. Heaps of rubble often stank of dead bodies buried inside. People searched for food, grew vegetables in makeshift allotments, and cooked on open fires. Besides those killed, around fourteen to fifteen million Germans had been made homeless by firebombing and general destruction. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 557

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Two world wars plus local conflicts produced unprecedented mass homelessness and rootlessness. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 5

Broader Connections

• Two world wars plus local conflicts produced unprecedented mass homelessness and rootlessness. #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 5