Young men at new style holiday centre, Butlitz

Mar. 27 Butlitz A Holiday to Remember!: A cross between a Butlins holiday camp and the dreaded Colditz prisoner of war castle in Germany is a new-style holiday centre for those who like to suffer. 24 prisoners: have willingly paid £30 for a weekend they'll never forget - 72 hours of cold, damp, hunger, humiliation, fear and misery inside the Butlitz holiday camp, housed in a former isolation hospital on Salisbury Plain. Steely-eyed Commandant of the camp is 41 year old Bob Acraman, a former paratrooper sergeant who proudly claimed to have given the unfortunate holidaymakers absolute hell'. Night Parades, punishment drills, Nazi music and speeches, sections in the cooler, barbed wire and lookout tears gave the inmates a taste of what it's like to be a prisoner of war. Some did manage to escape to the local pub on Saturday night. but were swiftly brought back to the camp. The authentically - uniformed Nazi staff were played by members of the Battle Re-enactment Association, a group who like to dress up as GIs, Tommies or SS staff at the weekends Picture shows: The prisoners line up for an early morning parade

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