From Will Podmore
You quoted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as saying that the war in Syria was generating the “biggest displacement crisis of all time” (14 September, p 8). This is untrue.
In 1945, when the Nazi regime was defeated, the number of its former forced labourers exceeded 6 million. Another 4 million people were displaced by the war. Between March and September 1945, around 10 million refugees and displaced persons were repatriated.
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