Visited here with man gone wrong after a look on maps showed several buildings dotted about. It's on a farm and there is a lit of buildings. Most are in a bad state and once used for farming.
With the end of the war looming the country was preparing for an influx of prisoners from Germany and Italy. POW camps were erected around the country and Springhill was one of them. Surrounded by wire fences and four towers it had a complex of buildings in here. With a mixture of huts, some brick, some concrete and nissen huts as well. The prisoners slept in double and sometimes triple bunks. Also on the site was a cookhouse, dining hall, wash house, chapel and a recreation ground.
This was a low risk camp with the regular German army here, mainly privates and low NCO's.
The prisoners were often used in the fields for work. The regime at camps was relaxed a bit with not so much a threat anymore. They were not really let out as favour though as people think. Under the Geneva convention POWs could not be used for gainful work. So they were classed as displaced persons. After the war ended and POWs went home the camp turned in a polish resettlement camp in 1947. The camp actually continued till well in to the fifties. Here is a good link with some great old photos and in depth history.
Lots of the original fireplaces exist. It's one place I would like to go back for a better nosey.
With the end of the war looming the country was preparing for an influx of prisoners from Germany and Italy. POW camps were erected around the country and Springhill was one of them. Surrounded by wire fences and four towers it had a complex of buildings in here. With a mixture of huts, some brick, some concrete and nissen huts as well. The prisoners slept in double and sometimes triple bunks. Also on the site was a cookhouse, dining hall, wash house, chapel and a recreation ground.
This was a low risk camp with the regular German army here, mainly privates and low NCO's.
The prisoners were often used in the fields for work. The regime at camps was relaxed a bit with not so much a threat anymore. They were not really let out as favour though as people think. Under the Geneva convention POWs could not be used for gainful work. So they were classed as displaced persons. After the war ended and POWs went home the camp turned in a polish resettlement camp in 1947. The camp actually continued till well in to the fifties. Here is a good link with some great old photos and in depth history.
Lots of the original fireplaces exist. It's one place I would like to go back for a better nosey.
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