The refugees from Hitler's Germany interned by Churchill
Dave Hannigan, author of Barbed Wire University, on a remarkable WWII story
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British WW2 prison camp where every inmate was a genius
There were among 1,200 inmates of British POW 'P camp' (pictured), known as 'Hutchinson' because it had been built on Hutchinson Square in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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Festival of Britain: The 1951 Exhibition In Pictures
Published: May 1, 2021 at 7:59 am In 1949, with much of Britain still showing the visible scars of the Second World War, and a decade of rationing and austerity, the Labour government, under Prime Minister Clement Attlee, decided that British spirits needed a boost. Their solution to the gloom of postwar Britain was a Festival of Britain – a national exhibition that would focus on the nation’s achievements in design, technology, industry, science and the arts, and promote a feeling of recovery. Advertisement In just 22 months, with a budget of £12m – mostly funded by the gove...
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