Cultybraggan Camp in Comrie (Scotland), which served as a POW campduring WW2. The second photo
Cultybraggan Camp in Comrie (Scotland), which served as a POW campduring WW2. The second photo shows Nissen huts.The camp was built in 1941 as a “black camp” to house 4,000Category A prisoners – committed and fanatical Nazi POWs, mostlyyoung members of the Waffen-SS, Fallschmirmjäger, and U-boat crews. There were separate compounds for Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine andSS POWs, and also for officers.The Devizes Plot was formulated by German POWs to break as many as250,000 POWs out of camps across the country in 1944, and attackBritain from within. The ringleaders of this plot were sent toCultybraggan. However, the anti-Nazi Feldwebel Wolfgang Rosterg wassent there by mistake, and he was lynched by fellow prisoners. Fivemen were hanged at Pentonville Prison for his murder, the largestmultiple execution in Britain that century. -- source link
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