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A protest by displaced persons

Displaced persons protest the forced return to Germany of passengers from the refugee ship Exodus 1947. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is hanged in effigy. Photograph taken by Henry Ries. Hohne-Belsen, Germany, September 7, 1947.

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Displaced persons protest the forced return to Germany of passengers from the refugee ship "Exodus 1947." [LCID: 37201b]

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