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Danny.
All Transit camps are basically the same, nothing much happens apart from meals and the occasional inspection or roll-call, while you wait for your posting to arrive. In fact, it must be much like being a POW, except that you can escape!
Tut! Tut!
POW Camps were not at all as you see them on TV, or a Harrogate Hotel!
I was stripped of my civilian suit (I had been on the run for some weeks) and given a Polish Cavalry Jacket and Breeches. The Jacket would not button across my chest, so I secured it with a piece of string. The breeches would not pull over my calves, so the German Sergeant cut them off to wear as shorts. A pair of ancient German army boots and a French army blanket, dated 1917, and almost transparent, was all I had until we were liberated in 1945. And the German winters went down to Minus 22 in unheated barrack rooms, with no glass in the windows. I never caught a cold!
Fredjhh.