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Ganghofersiedlung to Ulm, Ingolstadt and Amberg, September 1949

Ganghofersiedlung, Regensburg → Ulm, Ingolstadt and Amberg

The Ganghofersiedlung camp was dissolved in September 1949. The displaced people still there, mostly Ukrainians and a good 3,000 of them according to surviving name lists, were moved to camps at Ulm, Ingolstadt and Amberg, while others had already emigrated. The settlement was returned to the German population in October 1949.

September 1949

The camp is dissolved and about 3,000 mostly Ukrainian residents are moved to camps at Ulm, Ingolstadt and Amberg

Sources

Robert Werner, Die unbekannte Ukraine in der Ganghofer-Siedlung Regensburg

Wil Sadée’s 1946 letters, edited by Lucas van der Hoeven

October 1949

The settlement is returned to the German population

Sources

Wil Sadée’s 1946 letters, edited by Lucas van der Hoeven

Helmut Halter, Stadt unterm Hakenkreuz: Kommunalpolitik in Regensburg während der NS-Zeit

Yury Boshyk and Boris Balan, Political Refugees and 'Displaced Persons', 1945-1954: A Selected Bibliography and Guide to Research

Documents

Sources

Robert Werner, Die unbekannte Ukraine in der Ganghofer-Siedlung Regensburg

Wil Sadée’s 1946 letters, edited by Lucas van der Hoeven

Helmut Halter, Stadt unterm Hakenkreuz: Kommunalpolitik in Regensburg während der NS-Zeit

Yury Boshyk and Boris Balan, Political Refugees and 'Displaced Persons', 1945-1954: A Selected Bibliography and Guide to Research