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kuepper

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

This is Wikis list of POW camps.

Maybe one was closer than Eden Camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_the_United_Kingdom

Yes but NRO told me anything of relevance would be here https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/county-record-office


but they didn't have anything. I also contacted local parish councils also to no avail.

Grumpelstiltskin

According to Eden Camp website it looks as though it held German POWs at the time.




The History of Eden Camp
In early 1942 the War Office identified and requisitioned a plot of land on the outskirts of Malton with the view of building a camp to accommodate Italian and German prisoners of war captured from the battlefields of Africa and Europe.
A small contingent of British Army personnel, led only by a Corporal, arrived at the site and set about constructing a temporary camp for the arrival of the first prisoners. This simple camp became the home for the first influx of prisoners, approximately 250 Italian P.O.Ws, who were tasked with creating a more permanent camp. Near the end of 1943 the Italian prisoners moved out and the camp was used as billets for Polish forces who were amassed in preparation for the invasion of Europe. From mid 1944 until 1948 the camp housed German prisoners. It was then used to provide accommodation for displaced persons, and later as an agricultural holiday camp and as a Ministry of Agriculture depot.

kuepper

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

According to Eden Camp website it looks as though it held German POWs at the time..

Of Course "Germany" had different boundaries in 1939 to now and the "German" army included conscripts and volunteers from occupied lands and beyond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Germans_in_the_German_armed_forces_during_World_War_II