- 2- classes, which, however, sometimes overlap, namely, (i) those who had to flee for political reasons; (ii) those who were the victims of religious persecution, e.g. Protestants and Catholics; (iii) the Jews as defined by the Nurenburg Laws. y far the most numerous, and probably accounted for ninety p orces responsible for this problem, then there has been very 3. Movement of Populations. fighting in the field or on the seas, there will be numerou (a) those who have left their own country on account of political, racial or religious persecution, either before or during the war, and have obtained temporary asylum in other countries; (b) those transferred from one area to a different area, in another country, on a basis intended to be permanent, e.g., Germans from the Baltic States transferred to former Western Poland; (c) persons forcibly deported to places outside their own countries, e.g. Jews from Germany to Eastern Poland; (d) those who have fled from war zones to places outside their own territory; (e) persons employed on labour outside their own country; (f) prisoners of war. There will be great physical distress in most of the countri |