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I was on my way to Toronto and I took a pit-stop to this location. Apparently it's a WW2 Nazi POW Camp (any one can correct me if I'm wrong here)
Cool place to visit, I got too cold to even try out the big building, I'm sure I'll succeed going back on my forthcoming stop to Toronto, once the climate warms up to us.
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Great to see this place still standing, but holy graf batman! Loving the wide-angle work here.
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Pretty cool... no pun intended.
Does anyone know the history of this complex? Interested in WW2 German POWs, I know some were in Canada.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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http://www.camp30.ca/
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Thank you, yokes. The U-boat ace 'Silent' Otto Kretschmer was imprisoned here. He led a revolt while held here and tried to escape via tunnel as well.
http://www.uboat.net/articles/47.html
I was literally reading about him last night. What an interesting and well timed thread
Here's another link to one of the few battles fought on Canadian soil during WW2. U-boat captains and crewmen were generally not hard core Nazis but we're mistaken as such by the allies because they were elite units and fiercely loyal to each other. Most fought with honor and spared victims when possible as was the case with Otto.
I'd say these POWs got a bum rapp. Silent Otto wasn't released until 1947, long after the war ended. He committed not war crimes during his service to Germany.
https://oshawarem...le-of-bowmanville/
Horst Elfe was the other U-boat commander responsible for the revolt. Here's the interaction report for his boat's survivors.http://www.uboatar.../U-93A/U-93INT.htm
More about U-93 and her commander:http://ww2images.b...m-of-u-93.html?m=1
[last edit 2/17/2016 6:47 PM by blackhawk - edited 3 times]
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Posted by blackhawk
Thank you, yokes. The U-boat ace 'Silent' Otto Kretschmer was imprisoned here. He led a revolt while held here and tried to escape via tunnel as well.
http://www.uboat.net/articles/47.html
I was literally reading about him last night. What an interesting and well timed thread
Here's another link to one of the few battles fought on Canadian soil during WW2. U-boat captains and crewmen were generally not hard core Nazis but we're mistaken as such by the allies because they were elite units and fiercely loyal to each other. Most fought with honor and spared victims when possible as was the case with Otto.
I'd say these POWs got a bum rapp. Silent Otto wasn't released until 1947, long after the war ended. He committed not war crimes during his service to Germany.
https://oshawarem...le-of-bowmanville/
Horst Elfe was the other U-boat commander responsible for the revolt. Here's the interaction report for his boat's survivors.http://www.uboatar.../U-93A/U-93INT.htm
More about U-93 and her commander:http://ww2images.b...m-of-u-93.html?m=1
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They used to do open doors there, and a legal trail is opening up surrounding the place. But buildings will be 'off limits'
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Pretty cool, the big building looks remarkably like a school with its red brick and single story construction.
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