German Refugees in the SBZ and GDR: Admission and integration of displaced and fled Germans in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the German Democratic Republic

How could a small-sized country destroyed by war assimilate 4 million destitute people? What was the character of the large amounts of difficulties each group had to overcome? An interesting as well as sound and informing outline about the hardships of one of the worst historic refugee crises - based on contemporary primary and modern sources.