Holzminden internment camp

The camp contained approximately 120 huts, and was surrounded by a perimeter fence dominated by watchtowers.

[3] In November 1916 the camp received 300 civilians from northern France, followed by another 600 in January 1918: many of these were members of local elites, who were effectively being held by the Germans as hostages.

[4] A small number of British internees were also held, including five stewardesses from the Great Eastern Railway ferry SS Brussels.

They developed their own communal facilities, including a "university", chapels, a school for the children, a café, and a photographic studio.

[7] Targeted deportations, such as that of hundreds of prominent citizens from northern France to Holzminden between November 1916 and April 1917, were probably designed to discourage acts of resistance in the occupied regions, and to strengthen the Germans' hand in negotiating civilian exchanges.