This came up on another website and I thought it would be of interest.The main lists start at page 17.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/p...-war-camps.pdf
This came up on another website and I thought it would be of interest.The main lists start at page 17.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/p...-war-camps.pdf
To remain ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child....Cicero
Thanks for the above link
In searching through it (for Cornish sites) came accross this link which is similar but also has a google map:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datab...-camps-uk#data
Research needed on the Scottish camps. Who fancies a challenge? If we all did the ones in our area, we could add to their info.
Do it safely, or not at all.
I live a few hundred yards away from one of those indexed. Nothing left to see now apart from a small hardstanding near the entrance to a field. Many were just huts on bricks on a couple of slabs. Easy to put up and easy to take down.
Some days you wake and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble
I know this is an old post, but I'm new to the site and stumbled upon this thread...
I live about 200yds (mtr) from Camp 165, Watten, apparently recorded as Scotlands most
secretive POW Camp. 'Camp 165 in Watten was the Guantanamo Bay of its day' and one section,
'Compound O' was the home for hard line Nazis who were brought to Camp 165 for re-education and interrogation. The inmates called Compound O “Little Belsen”. Inmates at Compound O included the likes of U-boat captain Otto Kretschmer, Hitler’s personal aide, Max Wunsche and Paul Werner Hoppe, commandant of Stutthof concentration camp where 85,000 people were murdered.
Info can be seen here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage.../2505310/.html
and here: http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind.../Camp165Watten
Little remains today, except for a tourist plaque detailing some of the above info, a small garden centre and a local service station (garage).
I'll head out tomorrow and take a couple of pics... ;-)
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sploring: It's like scuba diving, but above ground (mostly )
Only one listed in Pembrokeshire, not surprising given the militarization of the peninsula, but I'll try to check it out.
. . . be seeing you!
This is a very interesting thread.... Given me lots of ideas :)
Records library beckons....
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Any way of getting page 17 to open up direct? This pc is older than Noah's Ark and refuses to open long documents.
Last edited by Captain-Slow; 11th Nov 12 at 05:01. Reason: The r key is playing up
Thank you for this link!
It's useful and very interesting...
=)
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