WI after WWII the DPs got their own state?

After WWII there were several millions of DPs (Displaced Persons) in Europe. Former Eastern European POWs, forced workers and nazi & allied auxilliaries that did not want to return to their Soviet controlled homes.

OTL most of them were forcefully repatriated and the remainder was distributed among the western nations.

What if they had been resettled as a bulk instead?
Either on some former German territory (the polish exile army had an autonomous territory in the Emsland for a time) or one of the African colonies (Kenya?).
 
Well, I did devise an "America annexes Japan after WWII" scenario (basically Japanese bioweapons get loose in Japan itself and cause a Black Death during the late stages of the war) and the U.S. could settle the DPs there.

However, one reason the U.S. sent a lot of them back was because Stalin had U.S. POWs and was using them as bargaining chips.

Maybe the U.S. makes some other deal or makes enough threatening atomic noises, Stalin will return the POWs anyway.

(Assuming he actually did in OTL. Someone wrote a book claiming Stalin kept a lot of them.)

Of course, he wouldn't want them in Japan, especially the ones who were anti-Communists.
 
In a much-earlier discussion about the Betrayal of the Cossacks, I suggested sending them to South Africa. I figured since they're non-Afrikaners, they'd align politically with the Anglo-Africans and prevent the establishment of apartheid.

(The apartheidniks were largely Boers and really particular about that.)

CanadianGoose, an actual Russian and Red Army vet, said that a lot of the DPs were very uneducated people who'd never seen a black person before and upon seeing them for the first time, though they were demons. He didn't think the scenario would work.
 
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I don't think it would be very feasible. A lot of these people are sure to come from states like Hungary and Romania, and would be on each others throats given time. There's way too much ethnic diversity in such a state that Europe is not accustomed to, unlike the United States, and even in such a dire situation, not many refugees are going to look past their ethnic lines when it played a large role in the years of WWII.

I could see them being offered opportunities in America, or being settled somewhat in British possessions.
 
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