tation of the bombing raids.
At that point, G�ttingen was crowded with bombed-out refugees from other areas. Also, because the city had many well-equipped hospitals, those hospitals had to take care of up to four thousand wounded Wehrmacht soldiers and airmen during World War II. G�ttingen was also fortunate in that before troops of the U.S. Army arrived in G�ttingen on 8 April 1945, all of the Wehrmacht's combat units had departed from this area, hence G�ttingen experienced no heavy ground fighting, artillery bombardments or other major warfighting.
After the war the city and district of G�ttingen joined the administrative district (Regierungsbezirk) of Hildesheim. In a reform in 1973 the district of G�ttingen was enlarged by incorporating the dissolved districts of Duderstadt and Hannoversch M�nden.
On 1 June 2010, a World War II-era bomb exploded in G�ttingen while disposal teams were seeking to disarm it. The 500 kg bomb was found by construction workers building a new stadium. The bomb was the second found in a week, the first was disposed of safely. Three people were killed and six injured in the blast
