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During the war there was an German internment camp in the next village Oakington and the German's were obviously allowed to come round the villages and went round the houses making rope soled sandels.
My mother would draw round our feet on a piece of paper and the German took the pattern and then he'd bring back the rope soled sandles for the three of us. My mother used to feel sorry for German POW's coming round the houses.

And then in the late 50's we were driving around in the car in Bavaria and we stopped in a very mountainous village for petrol and the German garage owner was absoultely delighted to hear english spoken and asked where we came from and so when we said 'Girton' he was over the moon to hear Girton because he had been a prisoner of war in Oakington, the neighbouring village. He hadn't minded imprisonment at all, better than being in the war.

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