1/ Do you know, that in 1945 post-war West Germany there were displaced-persons camps, or DP camps? Here is a thread explaining why these camps became important centres of Ukrainian culture and publishing. [Full article: chytomo.com/en/german-dp... ] - ThreadSky

chytomo.bsky.social • 10 days ago

1/ Do you know, that in 1945 post-war West Germany there were displaced-persons camps, or DP camps? Here is a thread explaining why these camps became important centres of Ukrainian culture and publishing. [Full article: https://chytomo.com/en/german-dp-camps-after-world-war-ii-and-ukrainian-publishing/ ]

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chytomo.bsky.social•10 days ago

2/ The largest Ukrainian DP camps were located in Munich, Augsburg, Mittenwald, Regensburg, and Bayreuth (American zone of occupation), in Hanover and Heidenau (British zone) and Stuttgart (French zone).

chytomo.bsky.social•10 days ago

3/ Experts estimate that in less than five years — between 1945 and 1949 — about 800 titles of fiction were published. Only 20% of them were reprints of pre-war books, while all the rest were new publications.

chytomo.bsky.social•10 days ago

4/ At the time, Germany was probably the best place for publishing Ukrainian literature. Despite poverty and a collapsed economy, the society here enjoyed relative freedoms which did not exist in the Ukrainian SSR. Ukrainian emigration, politically and culturally, took full advantage of this

chytomo.bsky.social•10 days ago

4/ Journalistic texts and essays were written in Germany — genres that were not developed in the Soviet Union. Like “Why I Am Not Going Back to Soviet Union” by Ivan Bahriany. It reflected the stance of many refugees from Ukraine https://medium.com/@whatisrussiaorg/why-i-am-not-going-back-to-soviet-union-by-ivan-bahrianyi-dbe9e5981eb1

chytomo.bsky.social•10 days ago

5/ In Germany, some of the most important texts of Ukrainian literature were written, and those texts are now part of the school curriculum. They are the classics. In the USSR, these works would never have been allowed to be printed. [Full article: https://chytomo.com/en/german-dp-camps-after-world-war-ii-and-ukrainian-publishing/ ]

chytomo.bsky.social•10 days ago

6/ There is one novel that has already been published in Germany and was extensively praised by German readers — an adventure novel called “Tiger Trappers” by Ivan Bahriany, about a Ukrainian who escapes from the Gulag. [Full article: https://chytomo.com/en/german-dp-camps-after-world-war-ii-and-ukrainian-publishing/ ]

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