A train on the way to the Valka camp
In the Nuernberg-Dutzendteich Station, located near the camp Valka, there is a train with refugees for the Valka camp. On the car of the train is written with chalk the shortened destination "Valka". 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.