"A group of more than 1,000 Italian prisoners of war began to arrive in Orkney 70 years ago.

Captured on the World War II battlefields of northern Africa, they were about to spend the next three years of the war living in small isolated camps.

They were brought to the islands to provide labour to build a defence barrage called the Churchill Barriers.

The Italian Chapel was created from two small Nissen huts and it is for this that they are remembered today."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17140193

"School children in Clackmannanshire are hoping to solve the mystery of a wall apparently built by German prisoners of war in the 1940s.

The stone construction in Sauchie is known as the "German wall" - but the council said it had no records of Germans being held prisoner nearby."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-12620094

"HIS fair hair blackened with boot polish and soot disguising his pale face, Gunther Pluschow looked like any other worker wandering the docks after a hard day’s graft.

But unbeknown to the throng of filthy East Enders milling around him, the 28-year-old was a German prisoner of war – and he was about to make history as the only one to ever escape these shores and make it home.

Now the details of his incredible exploits during the First World War have emerged for the first time, 94 years after he fled his PoW camp near Derby."
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/11/amazing-story-of-gunther-pluschow-the-only-german-pow-to-escape-britain-and-flee-home-to-fatherland-115875-22914085/#ixzz1Dx6trtLn