What happened to a german soldier captured by the English in The Second World War?

Question

I am 14 and have to do an essay for school. I have goggled it and found nothing.

Answer 1

They went to POW camps which was based in England.



My second source under English Heritage.org stated that there has not been a great deal of written work or research for some unknown reason on the camps.  This was a good article.

Look at Wiki under List of World War II POW camps -- there is a long list of sites in Great Britian.  

For example, this blurb from Wiki  -- "Pingley POW (prisoner of war) camp is one of the few prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom that remains in good condition. Unlike the relatively nearby Eden Camp which is preserved as a WW2 museum, Pingley Camp lays in a semi derelict state in the grounds of Pingley Farm. It is situated on the outskirts of Brigg, Lincolnshire.

The camp was used to house mainly Italian prisoners of war, though Germans were also held there. After the war the camp was used as an emergency sheltered housing under the name Pingley Farm Hostel. The original buildings used (and constructed) by the prisoners are situated towards the rear of the site entrance and remain in bad condition. The brick buildings at the front of the site are in fairly good condition, and have post war modifications dating from around 1950 - 1980."

Answer 2

They went to a camp and were "re-educated". Although the food situation was not as good as for the prisoners of the Americans, most German PW were more inclined to speak well about the British. They got language programs, sport and entertainment, as well as political lessons in democracy. I know for a fact that some were made (allowed?) to work, but had to return to the camp every night.

An uncle of mine was working as a blacksmith in Scotland, he still went there every second year, until his death 5 years ago,  to visit the family of the blacksmith he worked for during his time as a prisoner of war. The other years some of the family would come to visit him in Germany. He had stayed on of his own free will for 3 years after July 1948, when the English allowed the last German prisoners of war to leave.