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Essex,4 mins

VE Day - 70th Anniversary

Peter Holmes

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Essex based Historian Ivan Cooper tells the story of a Prisoner of War camp in Hatfield Heath during World War Two, which held Italians and German prisoners between 1940 and 1944. Also, Mick Saban, who remembers the camp as a boy, recalls how VE Day was celebrated on the camp in 1945.

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