On 22 December 1939 over 1,000 sailors from Admiral Graf Spee were taken to Buenos Aires and interned there;[47][42] at least 92 were transferred during 1940 to a camp in Rosario, some were transferred to Club Hotel de la Ventana in Buenos Aires Province and another group to Villa General Belgrano, a small town founded by German immigrants in 1932. Some of these sailors later settled there.[47] After the war many German sailors settled permanently in various parts of Uruguay, some returning after being repatriated to Germany
