45ers
The 45ers or DPs (from displaced persons) is the general name for those Hungarian emigrants who left the country as a result of the Second World War. According to Gyula Borbándi’s detailed definition, between 1939 and 1945 most of them: “a) were sent to Nazi Germany as foreign forced labourers; b) became German prisoners of war, c) survived Hitler’s concentration camps. These people were liberated by the Allies and saved from further suffering. The DPs were later supplemented by those stateless foreigners who did not intend to return to their country after coming to Germany under Nazism, or who fled from the Soviet communist rule.”