
Britain’s WW2 island internment camp
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Hutchinson Camp
Hutchinson camp is home to some of Europe's most accomplished artists and academics. The inmates form a cultural committee which they also call the camp university. They appoint heads of different disciplines, ahead of music, a head of games before scientific subjects. And then they draw up a weekly schedule of lectures, which is posted to a board in the camps over. There are world class musicians who have played for the prince of wales. Top flight lawyers and judges who have written extensive books on the law that have changed the way that the law er works. Even if it was anything but what the british officers are manning the camp, what do all these men make this miraculous environment?
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