Camp 020
Camp 020 at Latchmere House in south London was a British interrogation centre for captured German agents during the Second World War.[1] It was run by Lieutenant Colonel Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens.[1][2] Although other wartime interrogation centres were alleged to have used torture to extract confessions, Robin Stephens denied claims that torture had been used at Camp 020.[2]
In 2012 Ian Cobain in the book Cruel Britannia claimed that documents obtained at the National Archives proved that torture methods had been used at Camp 020 to extract information from German prisoners of war and that 30 rooms there had been turned into cells with hidden microphones, further that there were mock executions and several inmates were brutalised by the guards. Members of the British Union of Fascists had been held at Latchmere House during this period.[3][4] They included the environmental pioneer Jorian Jenks.
A German inmate claimed he was told by a British officer that "We are not bound by any rules or regulations. We do not care a damn whether you leave this place on a stretcher or in a hearse."[3]
There was a Reserve Camp, Camp 020R, at Huntercombe, which was used mainly for long term detention of prisoners.[5]
Inmates
Known wartime inmates included:
- James Larratt Battersby
- Hugo Bleicher
- Gösta Caroli
- Eddie Chapman
- Josef Jakobs
- Werner von Janowski
- Christiaan Lindemans
- Karel Richard Richter
- Wulf Schmidt
- Duncan Scott-Ford
See also
References
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- ↑ Hoare, Oliver, Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi Spies – The Official History of MI5's Wartime Interrogation Centre, PRO 2000 ISBN 1-903365-08-2.
