Prisioner of War

Fühlsbüttel

It was south of Hamburg, in the Elbe River, where a British patrol intercepted father and his co-workers.  The little team was first taken to Fühlsbüttel, an ex-concentration camp.  Father and his team were not held as POW's for very long.  It did not take much interrogation for them to figure out that what they had on their hands were some very hungry teenagers, all of superior intelligence and scared beyond belief of the Americans.

From what I can piece together, they managed not to divulge their roles or knowledge of German weaponry.  And thinking about it, why would some scrawny youths have even been suspected of having designed the most terrifying weapons of the war!  Theirs was the tale of college students fleeing the bombing of Dresden and their long walk to Hamburg.  With the destruction of Dresden, so went the University records and naturally they knew they could bluff anyone on that account.

The British, satisfied they were dealing with non-combatants, transferred the youth to an various ex-concentration camps in the region outside of Hamburg.  These camps were used for the repatronization of undocumented Germans, which of course father and the team were considered.  Father was sent to a camp named Wöbbelin and from this camp, came some very interesting changes in my father's life.....