[PW] Re: NSF (Displaced Persons question)

[Graeme Rymill]

>Many thanks to Kevin W. Woodruff, who provided the answer to the NSF 
>question I was looking for

I find this thread very confusing. Kevin W. Woodruff helpfully suggested
that the acronym NSF stood for Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft. But
surely this was in response to the original question which suggested
this organization's activities involved concentration camps.  Once John
C. Sanders clarified that what was meant was Displaced Persons' camps
this changed the question totally.

My belief is that Displaced Persons (DPs) was a term used by the
Occupying Powers (particularly the U.S. and the U.K.) and not by the
Nazis. As the Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft was a Nazi
organization it seems impossible for it be involved in assisting DPs in
postwar Germany when this phrase came into use.

According to the one book the Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft or
National Socialist Women's organization "was founded in 1931. From 1936,
exclusively responsible for training the female leaders of the German
Women's organization. See also Deutsches Frauenwerk;
Reichsfrauenfuhrerin."

Source: Nazi-Deutsch = Nazi-German : an English lexicon of the language
of the Third Reich / Robert Michael and Karin Doerr ; forewords by Paul
Rose, Leslie Morris, Wolfgang Mieder  (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
Press, 2002)

So any link between this organization and any camps of any kind seems
unproven.
 

Graeme Rymill
University of Western Australia Library