During the first winter in the DP-camps in Germany, 1945-46, it seemed that the main task of a psychologist would be to find out why wartime experiences, culminating in the loss of homeland, had not done very much harm to these people. The morale was quite high, and was praised even by foreign observers. Despite some minor maladjustments, reaching more into the comic side, there were neither serious complaints about misbehavior nor a feeling that something more serious would break out. The misery was believed to be terminated. However, time passed but no end of camp life was in sight. Christmas of 1945 was believed to be the last in the camps, yet Christmas 1946 found the refugees still there and with no outlooks for either returning to a liberated homeland or for emigration. The few posters on the camp's bulletin board announcing the number and kind of emigrants wanted, led one to the conclusion that refugees would be found in the camps until the end of this century, the births making up for the negligible number departing. No wonder that since the summer 1947, after two years in the camps, more serious symptoms became conspicuous. It was surprising to note how almost everybody showed at one time or another a behavior that had to be classified as neurotic.