CultyBraggan German P. O. W. Camp, Scotland from the Air.

Подписаться 131

Просмотров 2,1 тыс.

50% 1

Built in 1941, PoW camp No 21 at Cultybraggan was designed to hold some 4,000 Category A prisoners. Considered to be the toughest, most committed and fanatical Nazi PoWs, these men had been classified as 'Black' by the British authorities. Many had been captured from the SS and the Afrika Corps. The camp had five separate compounds; one each for the Army, Navy, Air Force and SS prisoners, and one for officers. There was an associated camp two miles away at Cowden, now a housing development in Comrie. (Wikipedia)

Опубликовано:

31 авг 2015

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 9

@baphomet66and6 3 года назад

Visited it 10th May 2019. Pissing doon rain day. That marred my visit to it. Plus my squelchy walk back to Comrie. It would be good if they got more businesses to inhabit the huts. And a cafe for sodden visitors.

@amc3 2 года назад

Really have to visit this remarkable place, have visited camps in Germany, South Korea and Poland, but never in my home country. Respect to the former German prisoner who donated £110,000 to the community as a thank you for how well he was treated there. Not every German was a Nazi, not every German was in the SS, most had no option but to take up arms for Hitler. Have a journalist friend in Berlin, Austrian born, his Grandfather ignored his first call up papers, he was 25 with a wife and 5 young children with no interest in war. 2 months later, he was forced to join up, his role, Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, he never returned.

@jocktamson275 2 года назад

It is quite a remarkable place, thankfully they haven't flattened it and built a housing estate on it and are now leasing out the huts to local businesses. Many Councils and councillors have a lot to answer for by just seeing money in their coffers and destroying something that is of historical or local importance, thankfully Comrie have had a bit of foresight in preserving the camp for the future.