William Brittain (British Free Corps)

William Charles Brittain (known as 'Carl') was a lance-corporal of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment who was serving in No.

[1] During the Second World War he became a member of the "staff" at the PoW "holiday camp" in Genshagen, Berlin in mid-1943[2] and later a Rottenführer[3] in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps.

In February 1945 while in Dresden, he said he "had long since lost his enthusiasm for the unit and was planning to escape".

During a conversation with his girlfriend, a Norwegian nurse, he boasted of his plans and also claimed that he had foreknowledge of the bombing raids.

Shocked by this, she denounced him almost immediately to the Gestapo and the BFC were arrested en masse.