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WW2 photos of Regensburg DP Camp in Germany


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Here are 3 photos I acquired at the flea market from the same dealer last Saturday. One of them is identified as Regensburg, Germany. It is an aerial shot taken by the 14th. Liaison Squadron and shows the "German PW's Enclosure". I THINK this is the Displaced Person Camp at Regensburg. Between 1945 and 1949, Regensburg was the site of the largest Displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. At its peak in 1946–1947, it housed almost 5,000 Ukrainian and 1,000 non-Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons. The aerial photo appears to show a huge mass of people, but it is too small (and slightly blurred from movement of the aircraft) to really identify people.

 

The other 2 photos are just snapshots and unlabeled, but I am guessing they also show the Regensburg Displaced Person Camp. I believe that because the dealer got all the photos from the same person in the 14th Liaison Squadron and the top language on the sign marking the electric fence is English...so it was probably after the war when the Allies took over.

 

If anyone can confirm or disprove these ideas please let me know.

 

Paul

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The first Photo clearly is of a different camp then the other two or at least of a different area of the camp ( the barracks or buildings are not shown in Aerial photo)? The Photo states the photo is of a German PW camp. This first photo maybe a possible photo of the controversial Camps called by some as "Eisenhower's Death Camps" set up at the end of the war. A thought only -but something to research??

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I agree with Renegade. Definitely looks like pictures of two different places. The first photo looks like a German PW camp, and is labelled as such, and the second & third pictures look like they could be a DP camp.

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I have no information except what I put in my first post. I asked "If anyone can confirm or disprove these ideas please let me know." So feel free to express you opinion. With the limited info I have and absolutely nothing in the snapshots to identify the location I can only go with the fact that they were the property of the same person, so perhaps they were of the same place.

 

The aerial photo and the snapshots were probably taken at different times. So they may or may not be the same place. From what I have read on line the German POW Camp (holding Allied prisoners) at Regensburg was small and the aerial photo seems to show a huge number of people. After the war ended captured German Prisoners held in the Allied camps were designated disarmed enemy forces, not prisoners of war. So the phrase "German PW's" on the photo is confusing.

 

So take your choice.

 

Paul

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