Did you know that... the British ran some concentration and internment camps in colonial India during both the World Wars. See list below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#British-India British-India During both wars the British interned enemy nationals (mostly Germans), in 1939 including refugees from the Nazis as well as Germans who had acquired British citizenship, in India. Camps existed at: [edit] World War I * Ahmednagar, also for internees from German East Africa, Sections A abysmally overcrowded with more than 1000 inmates in "medically condemned" old barracks and B for privileged (read: moneied) prisoners and officers. Later in 1915 a Parole Camp was set up. * Diyatalawa (Ceylon) * Belgaum for women. Set up late 1915. March 1917: 214 inmates * Kataphar for families [edit] World War II * Ahmednagar (Central Internment Camp) inmates transferred to Dehradun February 1941. * Diyatalawa (Ceylon). Aliens from Ceylon, Hongkong and Singapore. Many German sailors, 756 of them sent to Canada in June 1941 (Camp 33); other males to Dehradun, females to Parole Camps, when camp was closed 23. February 194.2 * Deolali from Feb. 1941, later also transferred to Dehradun. 11. Aug. 1941: 604 Germans. * Dehradun main camp for males from September 1941. Sensibly separated in Wings 1: pro-Nazi, 2: anti-Nazi, 3: Italians. From this camp the SS mountaineer Heinrich Harrer escaped to Tibet. * Yercaud for females from Madras Presidency. Summer 1941: 98 inmates, closed late 1942. * Ft. Williams (Calcutta), army camp, closed early 1940, males were sent to Ahmednagar, females to Katapahar parole camp. * Camp 17 initially in Ramgarh (Bihar), from July 1942 at Deoli (Rajputana. For the surviving internees from the Dutch Indies. * Hazaribagh: in then Bihar; now in Jharkhand * Smaller Parole Camps at Naini Tal, Kodaikanal and Katapahar (near Darjeeling), were all closed by late 1942. Inmates transferred to (family reunions) to the camps near Poona: o Sātāra from May 1940 o Purandhar (lower Fort), initially for Jewish refugees, later also other Germans, many missionaries with families. In August 1945 116 Germans (45 children, 19 missionaries), 26 Italians (5 children), 68 other nationals (11 children)[37] Most internees were deported late 1946. Germans shipped to Hamburg were sent to the former Neuengamme concentration camp for de-Nazification.[8][38] Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490
