Название: Camp 165 Watten: Scotland's Most Secretive Prisoner of War Camp
Автор: Valerie Campbell
Издательство: Whittles Publishing
ISBN: 9781904445609
Год: PDF
Формат: 2008
Страниц: 133
Размер: 61,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
The camp held a number of prisoners such as Gunter d'Alquen, the journalist; Otto Kretschmer, the 'Wolf of the Atlantic'; and Paul Werner Hoppe, former commandant of Stutthof Concentration Camp in Poland. The history of its inception and creation are described, as is the daily life of the prisoners. Although some were allowed out of the camp to work on local farms others, who were labelled as 'black', denoting their high-risk status, were not. However, all of them had the opportunity to learn new skills or study the many varied courses that were on offer behind the barbed wire. Numerous escape attempts were made but all of the prisoners returned to the camp, either through choice or necessity.