Displaced Persons (DP) Camp (post-1945)

In the houses Im Kreise 22 to 25 lived after 1945 many Jüdische DP.

After the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945 by Bite troops, in May 1945 there lived in the Celle Heidekaserne about 1000 Jewish so-called Displaced Person (DP).

American troops liberated about 42,000 displaced persons when they entered Hanover on April 10, 1945: civilian forced laborers, prisoners of war, concentration camp inmates. These displaced persons (DPs) had to be cared for, registered, and repatriated to their home countries. The Jewish DP community in Hanover, which at times had more than 1,200 members, was the largest in what is now Lower Saxony after Bergen-Belsen. One of its three large camps ("Camps") was located far outside the city center in the district of Vinnhorst on the Mittelland Canal.

The Düppel Center was on the height of Potsdammer Chaussee 87, where the last building in its original state is located. There is a commemorative plaque on the house wall and an information board at the nearby bus stop. It was opened on January 12, 1946 by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)