On the grounds of the former prisoner of war camp Nuremberg-Langwasser Allied aid organizations operated a camp for foreigners, so called Displaced Persons who came to Germany during the war. After the majority of the here accommodated people the camp was named after the Latvian-Estonian border town of Valka. In the early fifties, under German administration, was the largest Bavarian camp for refugees from the Eastern Bloc countries. The picture shows representatives of groups of Displaced Persons (DP) from Arabia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Israel, Greece, Yugoslavia, Slovakia and Finland at a meeting.
