Austria. or Italy after December 22. 1945. and excludes persons who as persecutees fled to eastern European countries in 1946. 1947. and 1948. In 1946 most of them werc of Jewish faith. but since 1947 the fleeing of displaced persons from eastern Europe has changed in religious complexion. Increasingly the refugees are not racial outcasts. but political and religious dissenters from the regime now ruling most. if not all. the eastern European countries. including Soviet Russia. The largest number of the recent refugees are Catholics. who at the end of 1948 numbered nearly 49 percent of all displaced persons located in camps. and this proportion was similar among the outofcamp population. The percentages of displaced persons of other religious denominations run from roughly 18 percent for the Jewish group to 33 percent for the Protestant and Orthodox faiths combined. The reason the date in question is unrealistic.
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