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Ganger POW Camp, Romsey
 Ganger Camp, Romsey was camp No 41 After the war the camp was used as temporary housing by the local Romsey & Stockbridge Council and the huts were eventually replaced with new houses.
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Those known to have been held in or employed at Ganger POW Camp, Romsey during the Second World War 1939-1945. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
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Hitler Youth to Church of England PriestGeorge Gebauer
This remarkable autobiography, written in the 70th anniversary year of his capture shortly after D-Day in World War II, is a valuable piece of social history, which would have been lost if it had not been recorded. It covers his early years in East Berlin under the Hitler Regime; indoctrination into the Hitler Youth; conscription into the German Army; resulting in his capture by the Americans at the age of 18½. His time as a Prisoner of War continues from immediately post capture; travelling through England; the transatlantic crossing to New York; is followed by his journey to the western seaboard of the USA. His life and treatment in the three POW camps in the U.S.A. are described. His repatriation back to England to a POW Camp in Romsey follows when the integration process into the British way of life began. The book then continues with his marriage to the daughter of the Farmer, who owned a smallholding; his exploits of becoming a Farmer; his Discharge from being a POW; and how he b
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