ABSTRACT

Wilton Park was once a secret camp for interrogating enemy generals during World War II. But it took on its true, unique role in 1946 as a training centre for German prisoners-of-war. This volume tells of its history and the extraordinary life of Heinz Koeppler, its founding father.

chapter 1|10 pages

Behind Barbed Wire

chapter 2|11 pages

A European Education

chapter 3|5 pages

POW Camp 300

chapter 4|17 pages

Captive Audience

chapter 5|13 pages

Nissen-Hut University

chapter 6|18 pages

From the Waste Land

chapter 7|21 pages

Sheets and Dances and Tough Talk

chapter 8|20 pages

The Captains and the Kings Depart

chapter 9|26 pages

Teach the Free Man

chapter 10|17 pages

Goodbye to All That?

chapter 11|10 pages

Aspiring Dreams

chapter 12|17 pages

Stately Home

chapter 13|38 pages

Threat

chapter 14|18 pages

New Look

chapter 15|9 pages

New World

chapter 16|11 pages

Democracy in Aristocratic Dress

chapter 17|8 pages

Headhunting

chapter 18|7 pages

Warden Emeritus

chapter 19|10 pages

New Regime

chapter 20|8 pages

Where There’s a Will

chapter 21|22 pages

Most Unkindest Cuts

chapter 22|22 pages

Ructions and Resignations

chapter 23|21 pages

New Broom

chapter 24|14 pages

Forty Years On

chapter 25|9 pages

Luxury

chapter 26|23 pages

New Status

chapter 27|2 pages

Continuity