P.G. 136
Bologna
Bologna
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from http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/european-camps-british-commonwealth-prisoners-of-war-1939-45:
On 8 September 1943, the day of the Italian Armistice, the gates at the Bologna POW camp were thrown open and those inside invited by their guards to break for freedom. An order, however, was almost immediately received from British HQ that none of the PoWs were to leave the camp – and would be considered deserters if they did so – but to await “liberation” by the Allied army a few days later when it reached Bologna.
A few hours later the German army arrived at the camp and the inmates were marched to trains that were to take them to Germany. The following morning, one of those trains stopped outside the station of Modena and a number of the PoWs – in a variety of ways – took leave of the train and scarpered into the surrounding undergrowth. On that morning many were hidden by local Italian families and the ‘Modena Escape Route’, commenced which eventually helped some 250 escaping POWs.
This camp is recorded under WO224/10 in the UK national archives.
NAMES
(Please email names to powsitaly@outlook.com)
C.W.J. Langley
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from http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/european-camps-british-commonwealth-prisoners-of-war-1939-45:
On 8 September 1943, the day of the Italian Armistice, the gates at the Bologna POW camp were thrown open and those inside invited by their guards to break for freedom. An order, however, was almost immediately received from British HQ that none of the PoWs were to leave the camp – and would be considered deserters if they did so – but to await “liberation” by the Allied army a few days later when it reached Bologna.
A few hours later the German army arrived at the camp and the inmates were marched to trains that were to take them to Germany. The following morning, one of those trains stopped outside the station of Modena and a number of the PoWs – in a variety of ways – took leave of the train and scarpered into the surrounding undergrowth. On that morning many were hidden by local Italian families and the ‘Modena Escape Route’, commenced which eventually helped some 250 escaping POWs.
This camp is recorded under WO224/10 in the UK national archives.
NAMES
(Please email names to powsitaly@outlook.com)
C.W.J. Langley