The changing face of German history | People & Politics

The Friedland border transit camp in the German state of lower Saxony was set up exactly 65 years ago. It was initially a temporary home for prisoners of war and expellees from the eastern territories.Through the decades it housed refugees from communist East Germany, and was later the first stopping off point in Germany for ethnic Germans arriving from Russia and, more recently, for Christian refugees from Iraq. We examine the camp's past and look back at the changing face of German history.