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Transcription for "Ernst Meyer"
I come to a camp then which was in Knutsford in Cheshire, we were taken there in lorries and that camp I didn’t imagine a camp like that either, that was tidy barracks like in an army camp anywhere like that completely run on strict military lines. The camp internally was run by Germans. Each one had a Sergeant or some NCO in charge of the barrack which was about 50 people in there, the cookhouse was run by Germans the cooks were all Germans in white hats. There was an orchestra in our camp, there were choirs there were educational courses, everything was run from there. The food was marvellous and every morning was roll call on the sports arena which was about 50 yards from the barbed wire. There were look out towers or guard towers which were manned by Poles I don’t know whether that was done on purpose because there was no love lost between Poles Germans and but as such I never come in touch with any guards from the outside. The roll call, well what I remember from that, the interpreter who was a German Jew who spoke perfect German, he was a Captain in the English army so he must have been a Jewish immigrant or something like that from before, he was the interpreter. I remember the 8th of May I was 19 years old and it was announced that Germany had unconditionally surrendered and half the camp shouted hurray and there were quite a few, I was one of them, who I just burst into tears, I couldn’t understand after almost six years of fighting the whole world Germany should now have lost the war. |
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