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Bad Nenndorf is a small town in the district of Schaumburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Its population is 10,210 (2005). It is situated approx. 12 km east of Stadthagen, and 25 km west of Hanover. It is the alleged site of a post-WWII British interrogation centre.
Bad Nenndorf is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Nenndorf, which consists of the following municipalities:
- Bad Nenndorf
- Haste
- Hohnhorst
- Suthfeld
Concentration camp
In 2005, British newspaper The Guardian published an article based on recently released Scotland Yard documents, that Britain had run a torture centre in Bad Nenndorf. This was run by a War Office department called the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC), and its original remit was the imprisonment of members of the Waffen-SS.
However, from 1945 to 1947 the centre was used to interrogate German prisoners, many of them communists, but also including major figures of industry and land owners. Allegedly torture included deprivation of food and sleep, exposure to extreme cold, and threats of unnecessary surgery.
The NDR reported on British post-war activities in Bad Nenndorf. In Great Britain The Guardian provocatively showed pictures of allegedly emaciated German prisoners.
The Guardian (regarding torturing German Communists) wrote: Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically starved, as well as beaten, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme cold, were considered too shocking to be seen.
Meanwhile German politicians demanded an apology from Britain. The German newspaper Die Zeit claimed that there were other concentration camps such as Bad Nenndorf, but provided no proof to this charge.
References
- The Guardian on a British Concentration Camp on German Soil
- http://www3.ndr.de/ndrtv_pages_std/0,3147,OID2247368,00.html
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1745662,00.html
- http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/data/panorama_060420_bad_nenndorf.pdf
- http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/14/bad_nenndorf
- http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/14/bad_nenndorf
External links
- "The Guardian: The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons", by Ian Cobain, The Guardian, December 17, 2005
- "The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden" by Ian Cobain, The Guardian, April 3, 2006, retrieved April 3, 2006