Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe were camps established after World War II in Germany, Austria, and Italy, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. A "displaced persons camp" is a temporary facility for displaced persons, whether refugees or internally displaced persons. Two years after the end of World War II in Europe, some 850,000 people lived in DP camps across Europe, among them Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks. At the end of
DP World officially merged with the Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) to form DP World. The rapid expansion through acquisition continued in March 2006 when DP World purchased the fourth largest ports operator in the world, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) for £3.9 billion ($7 billion). The ownership of various U.S. ports by DP World (which had been acquired as part of the P&O deal) was seen as by many in the United States even though it was supported by the U.S. president of the time (George W. Bush); the US ports were sold shortly afterwards. P&O operated major U.S.