The First World War generated population displacements of an unprecedented scale, of more than 12,000,000 civilians, (later exceeded by those of the Second World War which reached 60,000,000).[1] The director of the civil affairs office of the Red Cross wrote at the end of the war that: “There were refugees everywhere. As if the whole world had to move or was waiting to do so”.[2] Refugees were generated throughout all the territories affected the war, from Belgium and France to Italy, Austro-Hungary, Russia and Serbia.[3] Numerous refugees also appeared as a consequence of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire during that period.[4]

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  1. ↑ Cochet, François; Porte, Rémy (2008). Dictionnaire de la Grande guerre 1914-1918 (in French). Paris: R. Laffont. p. 385. ISBN 978-2-221-10722-5. OCLC 470986430.
  2. ↑ La Première Guerre mondiale. Volume III, Sociétés (in French). Jay Murray Winter, Annette Becker, Historial de la Grande guerre. Centre de recherche. Paris: Fayard. 2014. p. 237. ISBN 978-2-213-67895-5. OCLC 895185666.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ↑ "Refugees | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)". encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  4. ↑ Gatrell, Peter (2008-03-01). "Refugees and Forced Migrants during the First World War". Immigrants & Minorities. 26 (1–2): 82–110. doi:10.1080/02619280802442613. ISSN 0261-9288. S2CID 143755412.
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