April 26, 2024
LOVELY & VERY RARE !!! PRISONER of WAR - PERTHSHIRE - CULTYBRAGGAN CAMP TOKEN
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ANCIENT NUMISMATIC COINS THIS IS A LOVELY and VERY RARE !!! WORLD WAR II - PRISONER of WAR - CULTYBRAGGAN CAMP in PERTHSHIRE - SCOTLAND - CULTYBRAGGAN BEING NOTORIOUS AS HOUSING THE MOST FANATICAL AND HARDLINE WAFFEN SS SOLDIERS . THE COUNTER STAMPED of " POW / C 0 C " IS STRUCK ON AN EARLY 18th CENTURY LOTHIAN EDINBURGH HALFPENNY TOKEN . Named PoW camp No 21, built in 1941 to house 4,000 Category A prisoners, Cultybraggan was a 'black camp', holding those considered the most committed and fanatical Nazi PoWs, mainly young Waffen-SS , Fallschirmjäger and U-boat crew. [5 ] Army, Navy, Air Force and SS prisoners were held in separate compounds, as were the officers. An additional camp was located at Cowden, two miles distant. [1 ]Ringleaders of the Devizes plot — to break as many as 250,000 PoWs out of camps across the country in 1944 and attack Britain from within — were sent to Camp 21 at Comrie. These included Feldwebel Wolfgang Rosterg, a known anti-Nazi who was sent by mistake. He was lynched, and five of the prisoners were hanged at Pentonville Prison for his murder, the largest multiple execution in 20th-century Britain. . . ANCIENT NUMISMATIC COINS ( ANC ) GUARANTEES ALL COINS TO BE 100% AUTHENTIC AND GENUINE AND OFFER A LIFE TIME GUARANTEE . IF ANY COIN IS FOUND TO BE NON AUTHENTIC WE WILL OFCOURSE OFFER A FULL REFUND UPON
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