Description:A photograph of the reverse of a postcard sent by a German Prisoner of War named Ebermann who was based at a Working Camp at Peak Dale, near Stockport. Brocton Camp was the Parent Camp for a number of other sites across the Midlands and north-west.
The Prisoners of War at Brocton Camp were treated very well by the Commandant, considering what a difficult job it must have been. He was just as strict with the POWs as he was with the staff that guarded them. There were obviously some confrontations and complaints and he made sure there were no idle hands and those that were fit to work did some. The Camp was very well organised, the POW's well fed considering the restrictions at a time of War and they were even paid for work they carried out. Correspondence was allowed between them and relatives abroad as can be seen by the postcards address and interestingly it shows the scale of responsibility that Brocton had. The Commandant was oversaw scores of Camps in the counties of Derby, Nottingham, Chester and Leicester which were either transit, agricultural, officer or civilian working Camps.