Estonians in transit camp in Germany

Most of the approximately 40,000 Estonians who ended up in the German Displaced Person camps fled with Nazi troops and officials after the Red Army reoccupied Estonia in the fall of 1944. By 1948, when the United States began accepting refugees, the plight of the Estonians, Poles, and Germans who ended up at Seabrook was framed in the context of the Cold War, and the need to assist refugees who could not return to homelands now controlled by the Soviet Union.From album by Vladmar Heitur entitled, "Eestlased Seabrookin: Esimesed Aastad alates 1949" (Estonians from Seabrook, First years starting from 1949), depicting Estonians in Transit camp in Germany awaiting emigration to the Seabrook Farms plant in the United States