Hello-

I was looking at some information for the first officers at Grizedale POW Camp. I have some information and a couple of questions.

October 1939 – officers of U-39, commanded by Korvettenkapitän Gerhard Glattes and U-27, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Johannes Franz.

Q - were there 4 officers on each of these 2 U-boats?

21 November 1939 – twenty-one officers – mostly from U-boats. The camp soon gained the nickname of ‘U-boat hotel’.

A memorandum regarding ‘German Prisoners of War in Great Britain’ on 18 December 1939 described the prisoners at Grizedale. Part of it stated:

“At the officers’ camp the inmates are obviously cowed by the Senior Officer (one of the chief submarine Commanders in Germany). When he is present they are all dumb and reply to questions only with head shakes."

Q - Who was the Senior Officer December 1939? (Glattes?)

The memorandum continues:

"On a recent occasion, an officer, the only survivor of an engagement, who arrived in the camp alone, was so severely shunned and made the object of such unpleasant remarks by his fellow captives, who believed him to be a spy, that he appealed to the British Commandant for protection."

Q Does anyone have any information about this incident?

Best wishes and thank you all.