Eden Camp War Museum Malton North Yorkshire England. World War 2 Prisoners Hitler

Eden Camp War Museum Malton North Yorkshire England. Eden Camp Modern History Museum is a family owned and run business that started over 30 years ago. Covering World War 2 and other Wars in other parts of the world and past. Camp’ and its first residents, 250 Italian prisoners. Large area of tented accommodation and could house around 1200 prisoners at any one time. The Italian prisoners gave way to German POW in the summer of 1944, with the successful Allied invasion of Normandy. The German prisoners, like the Italians before them, were mainly put to work locally in agriculture and they lived in the huts at Eden Camp until 1948, when they were finally released, 3 years after the war had ended.