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Old Photograph Watten Scotland
Old photograph of Watten located eight miles West of Wick, in Caithness, Scotland. The village is on The Far North railway line but trains stopped calling at the village in 1960. The railway station is now a private house. A military camp was built in Watten during World War II, in early 1943, and at the end of the war this became POW Camp 165. This had been described as the most secretive prisoner of war camp in Britain because many prominent Nazis were moved there from POW Camp 21 at Comrie in Perthshire. These prisoners included Gunter d'Alquen, Himmler's chief propagandist, leading U-boat captain Otto Kretschmer, dubbed the Wolf of the Atlantic, and SS-Sturmbannführer Max Wünsche, one of Hitler's top aides. The camp closed in 1948.
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