| Huscarle | 31 May 2014 9:40 a.m. PST |
Interesting little article on Axis POWs in Scotland, I didn't realise how long repatriation could take, "there were prisoners out working in the area right up to almost 1960, before the last one was repatriated back to Germany."
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 Legion 4  | 31 May 2014 10:23 a.m. PST |
Wow ! I didn't know that either ! |
| Old Smokie | 31 May 2014 10:34 a.m. PST |
I used to live in the village Comrie, my wife's grandfather was a German POW married a local girl and the rest is history, quite few did stay, the villagers were unhappy that certain ones had stayed on, for some rather obvious reasons |
| Tin Soldier Man | 31 May 2014 10:36 a.m. PST |
That's because it's wrong, the last POWs in Britain were sent back to Germany in 1948. There were those who decided not to go back, but that's a different issue. Good old BBC. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. |
| morrigan | 31 May 2014 11:25 a.m. PST |
How do you know that is correct Tin Soldier Man? |
| 79thPA | 31 May 2014 11:25 a.m. PST |
^^^ Agreed. There may have been former POWs there in the 1960s, but all repatriation was done by 1948. |
| Tin Soldier Man | 31 May 2014 12:15 p.m. PST |
Well, you can actually find if on the BBC web site here: link But it is a generally known fact and can be checked in the National Archives at Kew which has full details of the Prisoner of War Information Bureau, the official British body which communicated with the international Red Cross in Geneva. The body was shut down in 1948 when the last German POW was repatriated. Around 25,000 German POWs elected to remain in Britain as free men and British citizens, largely because their homes were in the East or in lands given to other nations. But they were not POWs. They were free. |
| Black Bull | 31 May 2014 3:26 p.m. PST |
That's a quote from a member of the group putting on the march so blame him not the BBC. |
| Old Smokie | 01 Jun 2014 3:34 a.m. PST |
should have also mentioned that there were two POW camps in Comrie not just one, if I remember correctly Cultybraggan 1 and Cultybraggan 2 (names may be wrong) opposite each other on the road, the other one has long since been demolished |
| uglyfatbloke | 19 Jun 2014 2:02 a.m. PST |
It was a miserable place in he 1960s/70s….can't imagine it was any better in the 1940s. |
is back from Council of Five Nations.
