 In 1945, the 7,500 or so remaining Germans in Bukovina were evacuated to Germany, ending (except for a very feeble number of individuals) a significant German presence in Bukovina, Romania after 1940.During the postwar era, the Bukovina Germans, as other 'homeland refugees', assimilated into the Federal Republic, Austria, or the German Democratic Republic ().Nonetheless, several ethnic Germans returned to Romania after the resettlement plan failed, most notably the Zipser Germans.