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Last Updated: Friday, 29 April, 2005, 10:20 GMT 11:20 UK
War internees revisit German camp
People from Jersey who spent most of World War II at a civilian internment camp in Germany have revisited the camp in the Bavarian town of Bad Wurzach.

The 18 former internees from Jersey and their families have been commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by French forces in 1945.

The group spoke to schoolchildren and laid wreaths at a cemetery where people who died at Bad Wurzach are buried.

The group from Jersey is due to fly home on Friday.

A total of 618 islanders, of British heritage, were imprisoned at Bad Wurzach from the autumn of 1942 to April 1945.




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